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Evening star., 1936-04-10
Ethiopia Recommended
As Sanctuary for Saints

To the Editor of The Star:
One of the Ethiopians' foremost saints
is st. Abbo. This future saint was
originally DIR. Peter Heyling of Lubbock,
Germany. Ammo Domini 1928, during the
turmoils of the Thirty Years War, he
left his native town, never to return.
Travelling all over the Near East, he
finally wound up in Egypt. There he
studied deeply in the Coptic monasteries
and acquired the Amharic language. He
then penetrated into Abyssinia as Secre-
tary to an archbishop. Finding favor
with the Negus Fastilidas, he married the
boss daughter and became prime min
lister, The fame of his learning filled the
land. But in the end he became sated
with the savage Splendor of the court.
Going off into the wild country of the
Schoa Yalla, he settled down as hermit.
Pilgrims came from near and far to pray
with the holy man. The neighborhood
abounded with lions, but they never
touched him. He died in the odor Of
sanctity and DR.. Peter Heyling became
Saint Abbo.
In Amharic pictures the doctor is al
ways depicted as standing on his head.
This posture, according to the Abyssini-
ans, is a proof of his unexampled sane
tity. It was gift of God. May he rest
in glory!
There are people in Europe right now
who wouldn't mind 1t a bit If DR.. Adolf
Hitler also decided to 60 off into the wild
country of the Schoa Yalla in order to
become a saint. And there is always the
off chance that the lions might eat Saint
Adolf just by mistake. FRED VETTER.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The New Literature

The New Literature.
We now depend on Literature
To make our happiness secure.
The punster, once considered crude,
CompoSes titles for our food.
Athletes acquire their best renown
When they as wits have come to town
The statesman is most liked who quotes
The largest stock of anecdotes,
And poetry is made the means
OF praising Goldfish, ham and beans.
A phrase cosmetics will impress
With sentimental loveliness.
Hard travelling is made to seem
The magic of an Orient dream.
Life's brevity is not so sad,
Described in an insurance ad.
Although play may not amuse.
Genius will shine in the reviews.
The world grows glorious, truth to tell.
As Literature makes all seem well!
Evening star., 1936-04-10

spurred Shanks on to its solution. For
seventeen years, unaided, he toiled day
and night to restore the ancient peace
of the holy shrine. The labor was
arduous, but the laborer was not dis
mayed. Stone by stone, he re-assembled
the beautiful arches, the tracery Of lovely
windows, the carved iconographic details
of cast-down spandrels and pinnacles.
Three thousand barrows Of earth were
needed to fill the yawning pit of the de.
molished nave. But it was filled in time
and over it the cobbler laid a verdant
lawn from narthex to apse. Vines and
flowers were planted around the bat
tered walls, and before his death, in
1841, Shanks had the satisfaction Of
knowing that he had not dreamed in
vain.
Today the pilgrim to the venerable
pile sees the caretaker's epitaph inscribed
on a bronze tablet set in the porch by
direction of Lord Cockburn, but for his
monument the word applied to Sir
Christopher Wren at st. Paul's, London,
may be repeated: "Circumspice."
Men, it seems, have only to open their
hearts and the Gentle Caretaker Of the
Kingdom of Glory will come in.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
John Shanks.

Few Americans, it may be supposed,
have heard the story of John Shanks;
but Good Friday, perhaps, provides occa-
sion for its recital. The man was
"drouthy" cobbler, besotten and ire
sponsible, meritoriously unpopular with
his neighbors. But in 1924 an event
occurred which changed the whole
tenor and temper of his life. He was
appointed caretaker of the ruins of
Elgin Cathedral, custodian of the broken
frame of what in the Middle Ages had
been the noblest church in Northern
Europe. The town fathers accepted his
application because by so doing they
believed they could get rid" of q
human nuisance"
But Shanks' neighbors, as they later
said, "reckoned without God" No
sooner had the ne'er- -do-weel taken up
his residence in the neglected cathedral
close than the very atmosphere Of the
place began to work its miracle upon
his soul. by a species of inspiration"
writes a contemporary historian, "this
man conceived the notion of restoring
the sacred scene" 1t was a Trojan task.
The site was Uttered with the debris Of
centuries of decay, especially by the far
flung remnants of the Great Tower
which had collapsed in I'LL. Moreover,
the townspeople had been accustomed
to use the churchyard as a dumping
ground for rubbish. The entire plot was
overgrown with noxious weeds.
Yet the challenge Of the problem
Evening star., 1936-04-10
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Well, what Of the song birds in the
garden at this time?
We have cut down the number Of
feeding stations from three to one.
The sparrows, the cardinals, the turtle
doves and the pigeons have It'll
The lordly robins do not mingle with
any Of these birds, but pursue their
steadfast search for worms.
Such large, fat robins have never been
seen before. They are almost as large
as the pigeons, or the purple grackles,
which occasionally sample the grain in
the feeders.
1.-THE five faithful" we call the pigeons,
three of them blue and white, one tan
and white, the other very dark al-over
brown.
For all of its size, pigeon is one Of the
most graceful of the larger flyers.
Its take-of is rather clumsy, but once
in the air it wings its way with every as
surance Of getting to its destination
speedily.
House tops. tree tops, these are favorite
perches Of these birds.
They peer from ridge poles in all di-
rections, but mostly our way In the dl-
rection Of the one remaining feeder.
A huge flock of pigeons is undesirable;
four or five are Just about right.
AS feeder visitors they serve a useful
purpose in cleaning up the larger morsels
which the squirrels push of onto the
ground.
The squirrels, then, are still present?
Very much so!
Not a day goes by without the visit
from two or more of these rodents.
They occupy the feeder for two or
three hours every morning. They are
seen seldom in the afternoon. Just why
this is we do not know.
Every yard, no doubt, has its problems.
when it comes to feeding the wild birds.
The squirrel is an ever-present problem
with many. Its impudent zest in life
makes it CHEEKY visitor, but that does
not remove its liabilities.
The latter consist largely Of wasting
grain placed in the feeders; If it were
not for these rodents one would not be
forced to purchase half the amount over
period Of three or four months.
The ideal feeder, then, would be one
which would be squirrel-proof.
1t also would be so constructed that
the birds could not scatter much seed
on the ground.
If these two requirements could be
met the cost of feeding the wild birds
all day long all Winter long would be
reduced considerably.
The ideal feeder, we believe, would
consist of an oblong box at least 36
inches long and foot square. This to
be placed on legs at least feet high.
Beneath the box, which would be con-
structed inside to throw the grain for
ward through small slit the entire
length, would be an extending shelf,
which would be far enough out to catch
such grain as the birds would drop from
their bills.
Beneath this shelf would be a large
metal cone, inverted. to keep the squir-
rels from climbing up.
The birds would sit along the entire
front bottom edge of the seed hopper, on
an extended shelf, with ledge of per-
haps 2 inches.
An extended roof would come out be-
yond the greatest extension of the lower,
or catching, shelf.
Evening star., 1936-04-10

lently at sanctions as having failed of
their purpose and thunders that moth
ing will now restrain him from attain
ment of the Fascist goal. This he de-
scribes as "the complete annihilation Of
the Ethiopian armies, which cannot be
avoided or delayed" Thereby alone, he
declares. Italy's campaign objective-the
security of her colonies-can be achieved.
II Duce asserts that the accomplishment
Of his purpose "is not far distant"
The specific cause Of the Anglo French
breach concerns sanctions. Foreign
Secretary Eden wants a definite pledge
from Italy Immediately and uncondi-
tionally to stack arms and open peace
negotiations. Britain reserves the right
to demand further sanctions If MuSso-
lini assumes either a negative or pro-
crastinating attitude. Foreign Minister
Flandin, with an eye single to Fascist
support of strong-arm League tactics
toward Germany in the Rhineland. is
urging abandonment of sanctions as an
inducement to Italy to stand on her
present military position in Ethiopia and
discuss peace under League auspices.
Matters are complicated by British in
sistence that the League examine Adds
Ababa's charges that Marshal Badoglio
has been subjecting the Ethiopians to
ruthless poison gas attacks in violation
Of international law. France and Brit
ain remain in disagreement, too, over
Hitler's European peace proposals. Eden
would consider them on their merits.
France, having offered, in their stead,
her own elaborate UNITED States OF
Europe" collective security program, holds
that the NaA proffer is unbeatable as
long as the Reich refuses to pledge non
fortification of the Rhineland.
If Mussolini insists upon imposing
peace of military subjugation upon Halle
Selassie, regardless of the League, the
British reveal readiness once again to
urge oil and shipping sanctions. The
French are adamant in opposition to
such a recourse. They clearly place far
more stress upon effecting q united
European front against Germany, in
elusive of Italy, than upon decent terms
for Ethiopia. The entire situation Is
muddled and muddied to degree al
most unparalleled even in Geneva's tor
tuous history, with the two relationships
of Rome and Berlin jockeyed into posi-
ton whereby they seem likely to be the
chief beneficiaries of the state of affairs
which has arisen, with its immeasurable
possibilities for trades, intrigues and COM
promises, based, as usual on these high
diplomatic occasions, not on the general
welfare, but on what is most profitable
in the selfish interest Of individual pow
ers. The one ray of satisfaction in the
whole sordid business Is the continued
prevalence of Europe's repugnance to
the idea of war and the fair certainty
that while diplomats wrangle and hag-
gle the guns will not go of. But through
the vista of their devious Vaccinations
looms the grim probability that Ethi-
opia is cast for the role of the goat.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Mice, the Price of Bacon
And s'Planned Economy.''
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Whoever writes your daily feature on
household hints under the title, my
Neighbor Says" must be an incurable
optimiSt. The other night MY Neigh
Dor" said: "a little flour on piece Of
bacon will catch mice very quickly" Yes,
and humming birds tongues are said
to make delectable stew and diamonds
make a good substitute for gravel when
building a driveway. I can see no hope
OF any bacon coming into my home until
we get over the effects Of paying farmers
Tor not raising the noble animals that
supply this epicurean treat. II should
inadvertently and Unexpectedly be
blessed with a windfan Of bacon would
like to see any mouse get crack at it.
He would certainly have to fight me for
1t. do like to go into the stores though
and look at the neat little half-pound
packages Of this product of the aristo-
cratic hog. Sometimes while engaged
in this tantalizing pastime am seized
with a wild, reckless impulse to cast
discretion to the winds and enter into
negotiations for the purchase of a whole
pound of it and 60 on a bacon orgy.
Then the neat little price sign obtrudes
lIoCl1 upOll lily ol6Ait ulIu 1 AhuttCly oC
yourself, boy, be yourselfl" Mouth wa
tering, I sadly leave the shop. I then
get to thinking about the hog farmer
who was paid over 100000 by our mu-
nificent but somewhat dizzy New Dealers
for not raising hogs for two years. OF
course, I can't vote, but I'm inclined to
believe several million people who can
vote are going to be thinking along the
same lines next November.
Since writing the above an opportunity
has been presented to me to have my
Unsuitable craving for mess of bacon
satisfied. I have made friends with q
family over in Virginia that is on relief
and they tell me to come over most any
morning and they will give me all the
bacon I can eat. 1t Is big family and
the whole connection can vote. did
think of asking these folks to lend me
a small piece of bacon to use as bait
for my mouse traps. I am not going
to do that. I am going to let my mice
propagate and accumulate, because II
we have five more years like the past
three, some bright college professor may
conceive the idea Of paying people for
not catching mice. II this happens I
want to have enough mice on hand to
insure me of making big money for not
catching them. Silly? It's no more
cockeyed than some Of the things that
have already been done under the title
of planned economy"
S. H. MUMFoRD.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Put Those on Relief to
Work Making Usable Goods
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
If higher taxes are objected to, why
not set the unemployed to work, not at
raking leaves but at making manufac-
tured goods for use? OF course business
objects to the loss Of that market, but
how unreasonable 1t is to make such an
objection. They furnish the most
meager market. and that little is main
tanned by taxes.
To pay taxes to the Government, in
order to buy goods for relief, in order to
pay the money back to business from
which the taxes come-what good does
that do?
Some say, or really think, we might
save the taxes by saving the expenditure,
by cutting off relief. How silly! Relief
must be given, or else there will be
trouble. People have got to eat. Only
this way they do not eat enough, and
even then 1t costs too much. If they
could be set to work producing for use
the relieves could live better and the
relief would cost only half as much.
- WILLIAM g. LEE.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Rubbishy Facts Are Poor
Substitute for Vital Ideas
To the Editor Of The Star:


I deplore a growing tendency on the
part of newspaper columnists to cite long
lists of short, unrelated facts about the
height of the Washington Monument,
blackstrap molaSses, the colorS Of movie
actors ties, the breakfasts of movie act
resses or the like.
All this material is slightly diverting
Ito morons), but it is not as instructive
as the primer we learned in kinder
garten, nor as uplifting and inspiring
as the croak of bullfrog. 1t goes in one
ear and out the other. People read it
because people read anything and every
thing nowadays. Reading has become
fixed habit, often a bad habit. People
do not seem to care much what they
read so long as they scan certain
number of columns of print every day.
Not facts, but the Interpretation Of
facts develops intelligence. The inter-
pretations of facts are called ideas. 1t
is a fact that the American Indian is
not progressive. 1t is also fact that
the American Negro is progressive. These
facts in themselves mean little or moth
ing until we combine them, and by think
ing about them, or by sudden revela-
ton of truth we discover the reason or
Interpretation of these facts, and find
it in the idea that the Negro is progress
sive because persecution has strength
ened him and thrown him upon his own
resources, and that the Indian is not
progressive because he has been taken
care of and coddled by paternal Gov
ernment.
Facts are the raw materials from which
ideas are constructed. Boards lying on
the ground do a man no good. But they
give him warmth and shelter when they
are built into house. But subStan-
tial house cannot be built of dead leaves
and rubbish. Neither can vital ideas be
constructed from rubbishy facts.
CHARLES HOOPER.
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Ethiopia the Goat.

Nothing could more graphically por-
tray current discord in European coun-
sells than the maneuvers at Geneva in
connection with the Italo- Ethiopian
War. Great Britain and France occupy
widely divergent positions on the prob
lem of ending hostilities in East Africa.
While their irreconcilable viewpoints
keep the League a house bitterly d.
vided against itself, Mussolini rails trucu.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Forest Music.

Forest Music.
A cardinal is building in the woodland.
I heard his liquid whistle just today
And glimpsed fash Of scarlet in the
sunlight
AS with tiny twig he few away.
And as plunged still farther In the
forest
There came a deep-toned bell note.
silver clear;
A thrush was singing once again In
twilight.
The song birds and the Spring are
really here!
Evening star., 1936-04-10

The King Of England desires funds for
a royal household but is sufficiently dem
ocratic to indicate that what he intends
to do with them. if anything. is at pres
ent nobody's business.
Evening star., 1936-04-10

Amateur theatricals find encourage
ment to an extent that in some sections
transforming has left path like that Of
an art tornado.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
April Day.


A CLINT of smiling.
And a breath of song!
All care beguiling-
Not for very long
The sunshine makes its way
Into an April day.
Clouds dark with sorrow
Bid us keep good cheer.
Rainbow tomorrow
May be drawing near.
Through life must tear drops stray,
As through an April day.
ITO be lonely" said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown, sis a penalty when the
men about you are good and a privilege
when they are not"
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Precari0us Peace.

Hail to the man who will contend
For Peace because it's right!
But don't be so in earnest, friend,
That you may start fight.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
ReYersing q Rule.

ntVcTSIHS y Nuics
"A woman always has the last word"
remarked the cynical citizen.
"Not in our house." replied Mr.. Meek
ton. st make it a point to see that
Henrietta has the first word SO that ]
can agree as intelligently as possible"
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Watching the War.

dlCHIHH IHt W at.
From the Lincoln State journal.
It wouldn't be so bad if the Italians
would capture Ethiopian towns that are
on the map. Unless they change their
practice a lot of people will lose track
of the war.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Why Not Both.

"a man isn't always useful and i'm
portant because he has roll-top desk"
mo-" agreed Senator Sorghum; much
depends on whether he keeps his mind
on it or his feet"
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Creetings!

From the South Bend Irlpune'
DR.. Einstein stopped playing bridge
because it called for too much brain work
and could not be classified as recreation.
Howdy, pal.
Evening star., 1936-04-10

Jud Tunkins says he enjoys grand
opera because his family likes for once
to sit quiet and let other people holler
about something supposed to be going
wrong.
Evening star., 1936-04-10

"Flattery hab great power" remarked
Uncle Eben. "De man dat 'grees Wit
everybody dat talks ter i'm gifts er reppi-
tatiou foh beiu' monst oN WISE"
Evening star., 1936-04-10
Member Of the Assoeiated Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled %
the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited IN this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication OF special dispatches
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1936-04-10

A Puzzle for Pedagogs.
From the Flint Journal
In New York City teachers may talk
against war but cannot teach pacihsm.
Like swimming without getting wet.
Evening star., 1936-04-10

Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
Evening star., 1936-04-10

Eisht Final and sunday stsr----79e per month
Night Final T n. and ~ eseS Is' molth
Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Na.
tional 6000.
Evening star., 1936-04-10

@. How many colleges have conferred
honorary degrees on President Roose-
velt?-E. r. w.
A. The President now holds honorary
degrees from 16 institutions.
Evening star., 1936-04-10
ANSWERS TO.
QUESTIONS
BY Frederic ]. Haskin.

reader can get the dns,cer to any
question OF fact by ,0rttinp The Washing.
ton Evening Star Information Bureau,
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-03-28

After raising a fog and declaring
that he would not allow any Mig
gers to cross the Threshold of his
building, Frank Bather, white own
err and manager of the Penburn
Apartment at 212 E. Warren, final
ly changed his attitude last Sun
day afternoon, and the colored and
white guests Of one Of his tenants
were permitted to enter.
The incident occurred Sunday
afternoon, when Mrs. Marian Terry,
a nurse who had been employed at
the Children's Hospital, invited a
group of friends to stop at her a.
partment in the Penburn Building
and have lunch, after attending
a meeting at Scott A. M. +. Church
and before going to debate in the
evening at Bethel A. NJ .E. Church
When the party, in company with
Mrs. Terry, reached the apartment
they were abruptly stopped at the
door by Bather who told them they
could not enter. He also ordered
Mrs. Terry to move from her apart
ment. A policeman was called
who listened to both sides OF the
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1936-03-28
...EDITORIALS
EDITORIALS


Pending before the House of Representatives is the
BankheadJones bill aimed to wipe out the dastardy Ell
fecs of farm tenancy and sharecroppng Already this
has passed the Senate If congressman is in
formed by wire letter that enough of his constituents
favor of this definitely forward step leading to the
culturists it will become matter of political expedency
to vote for the measures
In brief the Bankhead-Jones bill would minimize ex-
potatOn of farm tenants and sharecroppes by lending
to these tenants with which to by small farms OF
their own The land purchased would have to meet gov
approval and it would be stocked with materials
including farm animals necessary for its upkeep and
ducon Repayment to the government would be a long
scale of small amounts at stated intervals and with
exceedingly low interest rates. These farms would be SUI
pervsed by special federal bureau of trained agrcut
lists who would thus help each purchaser utilize his land
his best advantage giving advice and personal AID TO
this ,
This problem is not confined to the South Every agr-
cultural section of the country has some tenancy 1t ranges
from per in the New England states to better than
As per in the Midwestem corn belt and to high OF
more than rs cent in parts of the cotton area IN
Dixie Between 1920 and 1880 there general in
crease of per in the number of tenants throughout
the nation and according to preliminary hgres OF the
1885 rural census number is still increasing "A large
percentage of these are Negroes
This bill sponsored by Senator Bankhead of Ala, is
the best solution yet offered to the evils of the big panta-
ton huge farm system under which black ana Whte
rural workers sweat and die after of exploitation
during which they seldom, if get out OF debt while
png up still wealth for the already rich is no
secret that Dixie cotton tenancy is on the verge OF col
apse and the nation faces serious economic crisis leading
to possible violence and boodshed unless remedy soon
applied That remedy is the Bankhead-Jones bill.
May we suggest you contact your congressman today
by either wire letter and his support OF the Bank
head Jones bill?