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Evening star., 1936-10-27

be in chains to such political groups as
momentarily come into control Of So
ciety. Thus, writer's today are required
to do what they would have been pun
ished for daring to attempt in the time
when Emperor william II ruled the
Reich.
of letters in \ totalitarian community?
The answer is: Steady decline to . final
vanishing point. Such is the verdict Of
history in scores Of different instances.
Sparta, for example, left no literary
monuments. Her energies were concen-
trated upon war and preparation for
war. She trained the bodies Of her
youth, deliberately refused to cultivate
their minds-and she persisted for her
fault. DR.. Goebbels knows the lesson
of her destiny, but he ignores it. Rather
than concede the universal and elemental
truth, he argues for an A. A. A. which
would "plow under" the fruits OF all
such genius as did not conform to the
NaM pattern. The ghost Of Goethe, the
restless shade of Schiller, the wrath Of
Emmanuel Kant and the unquiet names
of Richard Wagner cry "Shame!" in
protest against such sophistry and nom
sense.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
DeplOres Bad Condition
OF Drinking Fountains
To the Editor Of The star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
May bring up . subject that Is caus-
ing concern to . great number of our
good citizens? mean the unsanitary
condition that the public drinking foun.
tains are in.
Particularly in the downtown area do
We find these public conveniences in .
pathetic state of disregard for the health
Of those using them. The great giver Of
all good things has been bountiful In His
provisions for the creatures. Pure. clean,
wholesome water Is abundant In this
area. Does 1t not seem quite . pity,
therefore. that we do not see that this
great gift Is made available ut all times
and to all people?
Rest assured that other and less de-
sirable beverages are always readily
available. Yes. and strict laws are en-
acted to guard against dangers from
filth. In particular, 1 would point out
the drinking font in front Of the main
Public Library: also the one on Penn
sylvania avenue near Thirteenth street.
These are both unsa anitary to dangerous
degree. Is there lack of sanitary drink
ing fountains in our Capital City? Are
there no funds available to enable ua
to safeguard the health Of our water
loving citizens?
ROBERT FELTWELL.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
Literature in Chains.

Dictators always fear freedom of
thought and of expression. Napoleon
summarized their attitude in the remark:
"Never make an enemy of q writing
man." But DR.. Paul Joseph Goebbels,
minister of propaganda for the Hitler
regime in Germany, probably never has
paused to consider the Corsican's angle
Of approach to the problem. His per-
sonal and ofiicial preference appears to
be for the Caesarian method. The Cars
Of Russia peopled Siberia with poets and
philosophers in the interest of the same
policy.
For specious reasoning it would be difii-
cult to surpass DIR. Goebbels' sentiment:
"Just as q soldier cannot be permitted
10 shoot or strike when and how he
pleases and q farmer cannot be per-
mitted to sow and reap whatever and
whenever he chooses, q writer, too, has
no right to disregard the boundaries
of popular welfare in order merely to
express his individuality"
That means, If it means anything, that
authors must be the slaves Of the state,
the helots of the ruling class, the chattels
Of the prevailing system regardless Of
Its character. Literature, in dns, must
Evening star., 1936-10-27
One-Sided Price Fixing.

Hearings before the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration on the farmers
petition for an increase in the price they
receive for the milk supplied the WASH
ington market continue to emphasize the
one-sidedneSs of q law that fixes only
one end of the milk price structure. That
is the farmers end. The A. A. A.. under
the law, has power to fix prices paid the
farmer and the farmers have been buSily
at work producing the evidence upon
which they base their claims for an in
crease. If the evidence impresses the
milk-marketing agreement oficials in
the A. A. A, the price paid the farmer
will be increased. But as for the price
charged the consumer-nature, as here
tofore, is permitted to take its course.
The result is as one might expect.
According to the people who buy the
milk direct from the farmer, the dis
tributors, there is only one way to obtain
the extra penny a quart that the farmers
demand, and that is to take it out Of
the pockets Of the consumer. The dis
tributors contend that their margin Of
profit is now so small that the additional
price demanded by the farmer would
apparently eliminate it altogether. Their
only alternative Is to pass it on to the
consumer, according to what they tell
the A. A. A.
They may be right or they may be
wrong. Evidence in regard to the JUS
tice of the spread of prices between the
farmer and the consumer in Washington
seems to be matter Of opinion, rather
than of fact. The point Is that the same
agency which has power under the law
to determine the weight Of evidence re-
garding the price of milk paid the
farmer should also have power to sift
and determine the weight of the evi-
dence regarding the price charged the
consumer. In other words, If the A. A. A.
finds that the farmers contentious are
correct and that the farmer is JUSTIFIED
in demanding a higher price, the A. A. A.
should also have authority to determine
whether the increased price can in JUS
tice be passed on to the consumer.
But there is no such authority. In
consequence. the farmer may be given
more money for his milk. At the same
time, the A. A. A. may be convinced
that the additional cost should be abb
sorbed by the distributor instead of
being passed on to the consumer. But
even If so convinced, the A. A. A. has
no authority to do anything about it.
The consumer is protected by counsel"
but the tribunal before which the con-
sumer's case is presented has no author
ity to protect the consumers interest.
Price fixing is . risky business under
all conditions. When the price-n
authority extends to only one end Of the
price structure q basic weakness of the
law is revealed.
Evening star., 1936-10-27

lysine left in the diet-that is, by adding
more and more Of the specially treated
milk powder in place of the ground
wheat. When this was increased to 20
per cent, as was to have been expected
from the theory, the rate of cancer
growth was slowed down still more and
in some cases an actual repression was
obtained. However, the animals also
lost weight and they all died prematurely
even sooner than If the cancer had
been left to kill them with its normal
growth.
the diet was increased to so per cent
the effects on the cancers were still more
marked, but all the animals died in q
few days, obviously from malnutrition
Some lysine in the food apparently is
necessary for life of adults-that is, for
the normal replacement of body cells.
Then the two Public Health Service
pharmacologists attacked the same
problem from another approach. There
was small amount Of lysine in the
ground wheat. Wheat contains two
proteins. sliadin and glutenin, which
constitute large part of its food value.
Most OF this particular amino acid is con-
centrated in the glutenin. They pre-
pared two diets, In one Of which the
protein requirements were fulfilled by
gliadin and in the other by glutenin.
They found, as they expected, that
on the glutenin diet both the normal
growth Of young rats and the ordinary
rate Of cancer growth were maintained.
On the gliadin diet both were strongly
inhibited.
Regardless Of diet, they point out, q
malignant tumor Is bound to get q GER
tain amount Of lysine-perhaps enough
to maintain itself In status quo. This
amino acid is q normal constituent of
all cells. 1t Is released in the blood
stream when the cells disintegrate. The
tumor cells can obtain some of it by in
vading normal tissue and stealing It.
Or the tumor can, to . certain extent,
feed itself by utilizing the lysine of its
own disintegrating cells. This apparently
Is not enough, however, to enable 1t to
grow.
Drs. Voegtlin and Thompson are con-
servative sin their deductions from the
experiments. So far as has been demon
Strated, they stress, this inhibition of
malignant tumor growth applies only to
this particular type Of cancer in mice.
It may or may not apply to other mouse
tumors and 1t is not known whether 1t
would work with other animals. Nutri-
ton requirements vary greatly from
species to species.
1t is, the Public Health Service report
Of the work stresses, step in the direc-
ton OF q better understanding of the
mechanism Of cancer rather than an
advance toward cancer therapy.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
Expert Opinion.

Thomas Hart Benton Is painter. He
has "the seeing eye" Little things rs
well rs things not little lie within the
range Of his perception and understand
ing. 1t has been his business in life to
exercise q visual and an interpretatiye
faculty. And he has won q large meas
ure OF fame for his capacity to compre-
hend the American scene. Thus, 1t may
be claimed for him that he is competent
to form an expert opinion of current
events in the United States. He is, in
controvertibly, witness whose testimony
should be worth hearing.
And the evidence he offers is inter-
esting for the vigorous style in which it
Is expressed. He Is weary, he says, of
'interminable talk and Communist in
tellectuals' in New York. The twenty.
four years he spent in the metropolis
were 'far too many" and he is going
back to Missouri, the home of his youth.
Don't get the idea," he explains to re-
porters, that I have any hatred for
Communists used to be one of them
myself" But "they are annoying, like
a mosquito, and they keep me talking
too much for my own good. I'm sick
Of them, their talk and their views, which
are not based on anything except re-
ports. My main quarrel with this New
York group Of radical intellectuals is
not their social .objectives 80 much as
their dogmatic, rational beliefs. They
twist reality"
Mr.. Benton objects to "the Marxist
slant ut everything" He calls attention
to the fact that the great Socialist
philosopher "built up" his idea" In
lsls. How can 1t be valid In every sol-
Evening star., 1936-10-27
Incident Musicale.

WaSnlngtOn8 love OF music was con.
vincingly demonstrated last evening,
when an audience which filled Constitu-
tion Hall to its doors patiently waited
more than two hours for the privilege Of
hearing Fritz Kreisler work magic with
his violin. A train wreck delayed the
masters appearance, but he kept faith
with his public and 1t kept faith with
him. Meanwhile, artists hurriedly re-
cruited by the National Broadcasting
Company entertained with credit TO
themselves and, less directly but not
less notably, to their teachers. One Of
the substitutes was 2 young man who Is
earning the money to pay for piano
lessons by acting Is an usher In the
auditorium. The whole story Of the
occasion is rife with the drama Of quick
ened human interest.
And there Is q helpful lesson in the
incident which ought not to be missed.
The Nations Capital should set an ex-
ample In appreciation of every enter
prise which represents the cultural
ideals of the Nation. If the intangible
but deeply authentic spiritual values of
the United States are not applauded In
Washington, where can it be expected
that they will be? The District Of Co
lumbia was regarded by its founders not
merely rs . center of the legislative,
executive and judicial branches Of the
Government; 1t likewise was visioned
as an Athens of the New World In
which the soul of the American race
would be manifested. George Washing
ton and Thomas Jefferson. differing on
many other objectives, were in har-
monious agreement in that hope.
Their dream, 1t seems, is coming true.
Last evenings experience Is proof Of 1t.
The audience waited, the management
met the emergency courageously. the
substitute musicians were worth hearing
and, finally. Mr.. Kreisler kept his ap-
pointment. Everything considered, 1t
was an event deserving to be remembered.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
distance at which the base Of the bulb 4

distance at which the base Of the bulb Is
set.
Every home garden. no matter how
small, should have at least few tulips,
narcissus, crocus and hyacinth. These
constitute the irreducible minimum; half
q dozen of each will be better than none
at all.
Now Is the time for planting them, Of
course. Every one knows this, but, like
50 much other common knowledge, often
1t needs to be brought to mind ut pre-
cisely the right time.
Newcomers to the fascinating garden
game need to be told. above all, because
many Of them do not stop to think
until 1t Is too late-that II they want
tulips in their yard next Spring they
must put them in during October or No
vember. While at times December will
do, 1t is not every December which will
be 50 accommodating.
It Is best to get your tulip bulbs in
hand and keep them in the pantry, not
too warm, until some pleasant, crisp
Autumn afternoon when the sun Is shin
ing brightly.
Then planting them, II one does not
have too many, will become . sport
rather than q task. Be careful to make
the bottom of the hole nat across, 50 that
the base Of the bulb rests down firmly,
leaving no air pockets beneath. A
Sprinkling Of sand along the bottom will
help secure good drainage.
The Spring blooming crocus Is the
real, the genuine crocus. 1t must be put
in the ground in the Fall. The so-called
Autumn blooming crocus" is not q cro-
Gus at all, but a colchicum, which Is some
thing else. Many of these latter may be
seen In bloom now, giving JOLLY note to
the changing sward.
A few tulips, let US repeat, are vastly
better than none at all.
Why, the very history OF tulips Is an
amazing thing. 50 essentially American
in spirit. although Dutch all the way
throughl
The famous tulip mania of long ago
was q stock-gambling scheme, in essence.
A single bulb would be sold time after
time, never changing hands, Of course,
but losing and making q lot of money
for somebody.
The one who bought bulb of a new
variety did not want to handle 1t, and
never expected to handle it; all he de-
sired was to sell 1t to somebody else at a
profit to himself, and then let the "other
fellow" struggle with it..
The fast worker, the essentially shrewd
trader. made q mint Of money, whereas
the slow man, the real gardener. perhaps,
lost his all, often his house and all else
he owned.
Fortunately the tulip mania" has
taken a new and better form to-day,
simply that Of q universal love of the
matchless colors of this favorite flower.
Its very time Of blooming, in Spring,
endears 1t to most people. Then the vivid
contrast Of the bright petals with the
turning green landscape Is something
once seen never forgotten.
One should not merely accept tulips,
but actually become interested in them
by purchasing a few bulbs and putting
them into the earth at this time, even II
only half u dozen in . small outdoor
flower box.
Even three bulbs in q big flower Dot
will do. That Is another fortunate thing
about the tulip-numbers have very little
to do with its beauty, really. Few blooms
are more rarely beautiful. one by one,
each for itself, than this.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
Empty Whisky Bottles
Make Streets UnsightIy

To the Editor of The Star:
I would like to call attention to the
latest nuisance in our midst-the throw
ing away of whisky bottles. The Judge
who sentenced every drunken driver to
visit the morgue devised . punishment
to 1T the crime. This city is Uttered
with whisky bottles. They are deposited
with charming candor at the foot Of
trees or on grass plots. Now the motorist
who has just finished the contents of .
bottle has most obviously been drinking
and may not be in . condition to drive.
How simple, therefore, II q vigilant police
ofhcer arrested the owner Of the bottle
before he had time to involve himself
in an accident!
And how are We to be rid Of the bottles
thus scattered up and down the streets?
I counted five on one corner alone.
Why are these people allowed to leave
them about? Shall We have tomato
cans and orange skins presently? Added
to the ice cream containers and litter
Of newspapers? Is nothing to be done
to make the American citizen take pride
in clean streets and help to keep them
80? MARGARET L. HAYES.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
Articles on Penal Problems
Approved by Welfare Board

To the Editor Of The Star:
The Board of Public welfare, ut its last
meeting, voted ofiicially to thank you for
the splendid series Of articles which you
carried some time ago on the problems
of the District penal institutions. The
board was of the opinion that this was
the most constructive series Of articles
that had ever been prepared and pub
lished on the penal institutions from
the points Of view Of understanding Of
the problem involved, competence In
writing and conspicuous placement in
presentation. The board feels that this
series has been OF inestimable value in
creating community comprehension Of
the problems which face these institu-
tions and that the articles are splendid
example OF constructive journalism with
. civic purpose.
FREDERICK w. McREYNOLDs,.
Chairman, Board Of Public Welfare.
Evening star., 1936-10-27
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES TRACEWELL.

Don't get some Fall-planted things too
deep in the ground.
Shallow planting is the rule for the
peony and iris, two OF the most beautiful
OF the Spring blooming flowers.
More trouble, including shy blooming.
Is caused by deep planting Of these than
through all other causes put together.
There is still time to put In roots OF
the peony, but whenever this Ii done the
main thing to keep in mind Is that they
must be placed with the "eyes" just below
the surface of the soil.
Violation of this rule commonly results
In very little bloom or none ut all. The
worst thing Is that . peOny planted too
deeply will seldom bloom in the years to
come. 1t may grow beautifully enough, in
80 far as the foliage is concerned, but
there will be few If any of the gorgeous
blossoms which distinguish this old
favorite.
The way to plant peonies is to dig q
shallow hole, but . wide one, and across
the mouth Of this hole place stick.
Then put the root into the hole and
spread 1t out, holding 1t in place, as 1t
will be when earth Is put around 1t.
The stick will show this level; the
"eyes" ought to come just below 1t. Some
allowance must be made, Of course, for
settling.
1t will be better for the eyes to be
just at the soil than inches down after
all the earth IL in.
Holding the root in place. one pours
earth In around 1t, packing it down
firmly. but not with the feet.
Then the planting Is watered, but not
drenched. This will give the dry root its
first start Of life after dormancy.
Usually this watering will settle the
soil q bit. 1t is not good practice to
attempt to pull the root higher. II the
"eyeS" are too much out Of the ground.
then little more earth should be placed
over them.
In attempting to keep them just below
the surface they may come too high
above it, especially after several months.
but the greatest danger lies In getting
them too deep.
This Is the one point on which most
amateurs fall down. Even the experienced
gardener at times gets an unjustifiable
fear Of freezing and thinks that maybe
he should plant them slightly deeper.
He should not. 1t Is the one thing
which will make his pe0nies q failure
The beautiful German, or bearded. iris,
In its hundreds Of varieties, Is another
thing to be given shallow planting.
The rhizomes had better be placed with
part Of them actually sticking out OF the
ground than too deep. 1t is coming to be
believed that this shallow planting also
helps prevent various root diseases and
that from almost every standpoint there
Is everything to be gained from merely
placing the rhizome Just beneath the
soil.
Tulips and other Fall-planted bulbs
must 60 to the depth which experience
has found best.
Even with them, however, there Is no
need to plant them deeper than neces-
sary.
Tulips, for instance, and all the other
so-called Dutch bulbs, do best at the
precise depths the years has found right.
With the tulip, this is about to 8
inches. Other bulbs vary from z to 9
inches, with some lilies going even deeper.
The humble but lovely little crocus does
best at or inches below the surface of
the soil. The total depth, Of course, Is the
Evening star., 1936-10-27
Proposed Transit Service
Changes Will Benefit All

To the Editor Of The Star:
1t seems to me that those Of Us who
have been agitating for better and more
rapid street car service In the District
of Columbia should support the Capital
Transit Co.'S petition to the Public Utili-
ties Commission, which asked permission
to abandon Takoma trolley service via
Fourteenth street and Colorado avenue
northwest over Kennedy street, and for
the legal right to reroute the Tak0ma
Park and Chillum Heights bus lines.
1t Is my contention that an elimination
Of these routes will allow the transit
company to speed up its service. That Is
q thing of prime importance to the
committing public. As for Kennedy
street, residents there should be only too
glad to see the car tracks 20. There
is nothing so dsstardly to property values
of beautiful street than rails and trolley
cars running through 1t. Is 1t not ap-
parent that property along this fine
thoroughfare will be strengthened in
value with the completion Of the con-
templated change? An improved bus
shuttle line would suffice for the most
painstaking and discriminating COM
muter. As the transit company has
pointed out, . shuttle bus will connect
the other operating lines without loss OF
time to passengers. Kennedy street IL
too narrow q street for both automobile
and trolley trafac ut the present time.
That, too, should be taken into considers
ton by those who protest the transit
company's recent petition.
Transit CO., = reader suggests that busses
h.Aa hi 4..a, 20 tNsH
system Of the city. He attempts to point
out that the life Of 4 bus Is short. The
life of any movable thing for that matter
Is short, whether It's railway cars, busses
or human beings. II these things are
kept well oiled. creased and in all-around
repair they will not fall down. But
busses can be replaced by new busses.
So what? He also asks: why are people
still driving their cars downtown and not
riding the street cars in the city?" His
question Is rather long and ambiguous
so have condensed 1t.
People are driving their own cars be-
cause they believe 1t is easier and more
comfortable and, possibly, because they
think it Is cheaper to ride their own
automobiles to business than it is to ride
in q street railway car. When in reality,
and I think most automobilists have
found 1t to be true, it Is cheaper to ride
by street railway car than to drive their
own automobile. I do agree with the
reader that the transit company should
purchase new equipment and keep in
good repair the most modern ones. Those
that are obsolete should be junked. The
day OF modernization has come. 1t took
railroad executives long time to wake
up to the fact that they could hold, and
increase their passenger trafic only by
improving their equipment and service
and by making the transportation
charges attractive. Perhaps the Capital
Transit Co. will heed, but meanwhile lets
support them when they are trying to
give us better service in another way.
FREDERIC @. FROST.
Evening star., 1936-10-27

dinged detail today?" The question Is .
challenge which revolutionists ought to
face. Instead, they dodge behind the
MARKHAM dogmas-a body Of belief which
is "outworn historically"
But Mr.. Benton makes Z further point
which the radicals ought to try to COM
prehend. "You can't impose imported
ideologies On people," he warns them.
Social revolution has got to come from
the grass roots. But the way the Com
munist intellectuals are going shout 1t
never! Communism Is . joke every
where in the United States except New
York"
1t would seem to follow that those
expedient PHILOSOPHERS which would COM
promise with communism also are jest.
The notion that the way to head on
radicalism most effectively Is by imitat-
ing 1t is commensurately ludicrous.