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Evening star., 1936-04-19
A HIGHWAY EXPERIENCE
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES e. FREEMAN D. D, IL D. D. c. L.
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

"They drew nigh unto the village,
whittier they went" such brief state
ment might be written of almost any
travellers. The ultimate point of desti-
nation for every man is his home. He
may travel wide and far, but always
with the thought in mind that finally he
shall come to the point in the road that
leads to the well-worn, familiar path
that has at its end, his home.
It is interesting to note the change in
mental attitude when this turning point
is reached. The mind naturally revertS
to things more intimate and personal
and to ties that are cherished and differ
ent from those that relate to the out
side world. Probably most Of our better
reflections, yes, of our deeper thinking,
begins with the homeward trek. No
matter what the experiences OF the
world may be we reserve to the home
stretch those thoughts that concern lifes
deeper meaning and its more vital
issues.
One of the Strikingly human elements
that constitutes part Of the first Easter
story has to do with such an incident as
we have in mind. Two travellers on an
open highway were following road
that led to a little village where their
home stood AS they walked along they
were discussing events of the day that
had confused and bewildered them.
These two men were related to each
other by common communal interest,
they had been humble followers OF
new teacher whose brief life had been
brought to a sudden and tragic end. We
are told that, as they communed TO-
gether they we're sad. The events OF
recent days had brought disappointment
to their hopes. They were facing home
ward bearing their problems with them.
Suddenly, on the open road, they were
accosted by one who seemed as stranger
to them. Into their conversation He
Immediately entered seeking by ques-
tions to draw from them the occasion
for their. deep concern. He even sought
to make evident to them the logic OF
recent events as it affected their chosen
leader. They we're unresponsive to His
argument and not until at length their
journey ended and their home entered
was there disclosed to them the purpose
of the strangers argument and His iden-
Evening star., 1936-04-19

tity and with it the dissipation of their
fears and apprehensions.
1t was at their evening meal as the
stranger of the highway broke bread
with them that He was revealed and the
mighty problem that depressed them
solved. We read the significant state
ment: "AS He sat at meat with them
their eyes were opened and they knew
him." In that moment the great Ques-
ton that had saddened them found its
solution.
There is something finely human and
characteristic of life's experience about
this whole incident. 1t brings a pro-
found truth that has to do with a most
vital question within the range of our
understanding and fits it into a situa-
tion that above all others is utterly ia
miliar to us. Out on the open highway
of life, with its strange and confusing
experiences we accumulate a vast num-
ber OF problems and unanswered ques-
tions for which we can find no answer.
1t is when we pass into more reflective
mood, when we get away from the
worlds noises and conflicting opinions
and are facing homeWard, that we begin
to feel the relaxation that comes from
OSiioC Vi IllC llCdIIlCoS VI UlU dIlu
familiar scenes and the place where we
do our best and most consistent think
ing. 1t was in recognition of this that
Jesus sought for the revelation of His
greatest truths the more intimate scenes
Of mans daily life.
AS we prosecute lifes journey we find
that more and more it is amid homely
scenes and in contact with the intimate
things of our daily habit that we get
our clearest and best interpretations of
lifes purpose and our truest vision of
its ultimate objective. Thus it was that
Christ on repeated occasions sought men
in the places of their retirement and
amid scenes that were homely and COM
monplace. 1t is on the road home
ward, when tired with the days toll
and harassed by its confusions that we
find ourselves receptive to all that con-
Germs our better nature. 1t is after the
crowding events of the day are put
away from us and we shut the door
that is the gateway to our dearest and
most refreshing associations that we
have fellowship with Him who is life'S
best and truest Interpreter.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

variety Of speeding motorist and speed
ing motorist who happens to be men,
ber of Congress. But the law does ap-
parently recognize difference between
an out-oftown motorist, driving on a
State license, and one who drives on a
District of Columbia license. In the
latter case the license may be revoked.
In the case of a driver holding State
license, the local authorities may suspend
or revoke his privilege to drive in the
District of Columbia, although lacking
authority to revoke his State license.
Interest now centers on whether the
gentleman who told police he was Rep
resentative Zioncheck of the State of
Washington is going to lose his privilege
of driving in the District of Columbia.
There IS no good reason why ne should
retain it.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

increase in business. Yet that Is their
lob. The President is making 1t harder
by show of interest in economy now
that Congress has laid the groundwork
for an unprecedented outpouring OF
Federal funds during the remaining
months of this year.
But why is it that the Democrats ex-
pect to be able to ride back to power
on a wave of improving business when
the unemployed problem will still be
unsolved? The answer is that they count
on using combination of hope and fear.
Large numbers of unemployed, farm
ers and workers will be appealed to on
the basis of the improvement shown
during the years since 1882, with the
promise that this improvement will be
continued if New Deal policies are con-
tinued.
Just as definite an appeal will be made
to fear over what would follow return
to power of the Republicans. Unem-
ployed will be told that the opposition
would turn them over to the Red Cross
or the Army to be fed. Farmers would
be reminded of the days when tariffs
) were rugged against them. Young peo-
pie, making up an important percentage
of the voters, will be told that Repub-
licans offer them little that is new.
Those who want to beat Mr.. Roosevelt
this Fall are going to need to think hard
and fast. Their job is complicated by
the difficulty of convincing people that
the country is riding for a fall when
business signs most likely will be
pointed upward.
The President and his strategists are
banking on plus signs on the business
maps to give them q November victory.
(cepyrisht, 1850
Evening star., 1936-04-19
Turkey Moves In.

Without waiting for the generally as
sured favorable replies to her recent re-
Quest to rearm the Dardanelles, in viola
ton of the treaty of Lausanne, Turkey
has reoccupied the demilitarized zone.
On Friday troops were sent into strategic
positions in the straits area. Turkey
thus Joins Germany and Austria in defy
ing restrictive postwar pacts. Bulgaria,
alone among the allied Central Powers,
has yet to flout the peace terms imposed
upon them. 1t is now expected that
she, too, by establishing conscription or
increasing the size of her army, will
follow the leads of Berlin and Vienna
and proclaim her military independence.
Turkeys action takes all Europe, in
cluding the League and the Lausanne
signatories, completely by surprise. Mus
tapha Kemal Ataturk's intention to for
tify the DardanelIes was we'll known. He
was in possession of private word from
the powers chiefly concerned that they
no longer have serious objections to such
plans When it was announced that the
Ankara government had sought official
assent to carry out the Dardanelles ar
rangements chorus of praise was forth
coming for Turkeys action in refraining
from unilateral denunciation of treaties,
on the German and Austrian models,
coupled with every indication that re-
fortifcation would be formally sane
toned in due course.
The Turks postwar record has earned
for them universal commentator and
friendship abroad. Along with enlight-
ened reforms at home. designed to pro-
mote economic and cultural progress the
republics foreign policy has been marked
by an earnest desire for cordial rela-
tions with all of Turkeys neighbors.
especially her traditional foes among the
Balkan states, and by willingness to
cooperate at all points for interna-
tional peace. Various treaties giving eff
feet to that program were concluded.
Nowhere, with the single exception of
Italy, was there any disposition to with
hold the restoration of Turkeys Sow
ereign rights at the DardanelleS.
1t has yet to be revealed what pre-
cipitated Ankara's abrupt decision to
act in advance of the consent asked only
q day or two ago. When Turkey made
her request it was indicated that, in view
of the critical international situation re-
eultant from the Italo-Ethiopian conflict
and Germany's action in the Rhineland,
she felt that she had no time to lose
in taking sef-defense measures at her
most vulnerable point"-the juxtaposi
ton of the Mediterranean and the Black
Seas. 1t can only be that the Turks sud-
denly convinced themselves that condi-
tions had become even more acute and
that not another day could safely be al
lowed to elapse before taking matters in
their own hands. The example of delay
and helplessness which Old World states
manship has given in the African war
mess undoubtedly aggravated Turkish
impatience. Whatever the impelling
motive, the Dardanelles episode adds one
more to distracted Europes crises,
though there is only the slendereSt pos
sibility of any attempt to alter the ac-
complished fact. 1t knocks almost the
last prop from under the bankrupt
European postwar treaty structure.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star


tention to proposal for the establishment
of an interesting collection
Military of military and naval SOU
Museum Venirs at the Capital:
The project for a ma
tional military and naval museum in this
city deserves Encouragement. The fact
that Washington has already so many
valuable collections of various sorts is an
argument favorable rather than adverse
to the multiplication of places for their
exhibition. Next in importance to the
possession of articles of public interest is
the obtaining of quarters adequate for
their proper classification. Anything
which is really Of value as an object of
historical or scientific study is vastly
more useful if grouped with other objects
of the small class so that the details of
likeness and contrast will be manifest at
glance. AS it is now. we have thou
sands of relics, models. etc, scattered
through the city in spots where their
presence is unknown to many of the
persons who would be most profted by
them and which. in their comparative
isolation. excite only languid and pass
ing interest in the minds OF the tourists
who stumble upon them. Such are the
fine old cannon of the earliest history of
the country at the Navy Yard, the
trophies of arms now housed in the Ma
tional Museum, the flags in the War
Department, the destructive devices in
the Ordnance Museum, etc. Most of
these things now occupy valuable space
in department buildings already too
cramped. If brought together under one
roof they would occupy no more room
than they do at present and the room
they would release would be most well
come to the crowded bureaus.
The announcement, moreover, that
the Federal Government had set apart
in Washington an appropriate place for
the exhibition of martial relics would
solve doubt that has veXed good
many minds in all parts of the country
since the Civil War. Citizens who own
quaint firearms, swords and knives, odd
bits of camp furniture picked up by
soldiers, saddles, spurs, homemade flags,
uniforms of independent troops, and the
like. have been puzzled to know what to
do with them. If left to lie around a
private dwelling there was good chance
of their being lost or stolen. If pre-
sented to local society they would be
seen by only handful of people. If pre-
sented or sold to a professional show
man they would be liable to be mixed up
with false relics or given some fabulous
association of their own and, after few
years service in dusty case, find their
way to a Junk shop. But the establish
ment of a museum under Government
auspices, devoted exclusively to articles
of historical or scientific value connected
with the art of war, would provide
refuge for a mass of material now sub
ject to the hazards of private ownership
and unavailable to the historian, who
could turn them to so excellent account
in his work. The expense of such a
museum would be trif1ing as compared
with the service to be derived from it.
It is bound to come one day, and the
sooner it is provided the more valuable it
is likely to be-
Evening star., 1936-04-19

is interested in the problem and is urg-
ing that it be included in the legislative
program to be submitted to the next
session of Congress. To him q District
flag, if not political and fiscal equity for
the District, is subject worthy of at
tention at the hands Of the House and
the Senate. 1t goes without saying that
the citizens of Washington should sup
port his suggestion.
Meanwhile. the pageant of banners at
the Cathedral will be incomplete. It
should be. and providentially will be,
amended in harmony with justice.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Busy Life.

Busy Life.
Again does April bring the call
To golf and fishing and base ball:
And tennis. too, and cards, which may
Please in less athletic way.
Attainment now we swiftly seek
A 5-hour day, a 5-day week
And some assure us that they can
Build nations on 5-year plan!
We play each slight or serious game.
Repose but little time can claim.
We plan for pleasure or for strife
And sigh, This is a Busy Life!"
Evening star., 1936-04-19

France is becoming almost as much
concerned about the English Channel on
the left hand as it is about the Rhine on
the right. The Channel may become the
scene of some apprehension, without
beautiful Lorelei phantoms to give poetic
relief. Geographically, France might
almost as we'll be an island and con-
template ocean shore as the least perilous
of its water frontages.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
Blooming April.

Blooming April.
Little yaller posy,
Peekin' round the tree!
Evenin' sky is rosy
Where storm cloud used to be.
Life is worth the livin'
When the frost is done
And the flow'rs are givin'
limitations of the sun.
Little yaller posy,
Peekin' round the tree.
Makes the world seem cozy
Once again for you and me.
April so beguilin'
Says, "Just give us room!
You'll find the twilight smilin',
Teachin' even clouds to bloom!"
Jud Tunkins says existence would be
easier if a man were as willing to do
without sleep in the morning as he was
the night before.
pride is a fine thing" said Hi Ho,
the sage of Chinatown, provided it
makes a man willing to labor to be
worthy of his own good opinion"
Evening star., 1936-04-19

The world has grown peculiarly demo-
cratic. When a Chicago publisher runs
for a presidential nomination he may
have to pay attention to what one Of
his own columnists may think of him.
This happened to Mr.. Knox, who did not
resent an adverse reportorial opinion of
the prospects of the boss" Whatever
may be happening to the press, the typ
ing machine is still free.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
Expedient Democracy.

DO you think the custom of shaking
hands with the masses will ever be
abandoned?" asked one statesman.
1T may be-" replied the other. But
if it is, it will be abandoned just after
an election and never just before"
Evening star., 1936-04-19

News from Maine that Federal relief
has been imposed on by fish racket is
depressing. Fishing may be hard and
disappointing work. Perhaps the safest
way to fish is to occupy steamer chair
on the deck and read Ike Walton's book
on the subject.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

Abyssinians are reported to be turning
machine gun equipment into plowing ap-
paratus. with benign permission for the
natives to plant potatoes as they will, This
at least represents distinct advantage
in the agricultural situation.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

Base ball carries with it an element of
social distinction. The greatest players
have had less enduring fame than that
of men who have been entitled to the
distinction of tossing in the ball to open
the season.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
Makeup.

"All the worlds stage" said Mr..
Stormington Barnes.
Yes" replied Senator Sorghum
About the only important distinction
to be noted is that some of us have to
make up our minds instead of our
faces"
Evening star., 1936-04-19

Debate arises between representatives
of the Ickes and the Hopkins schools of
relief. If brains always agreed philoso-
piers would have had nothing to debate
about.
Evening star., 1936-04-19

One of the things that will surprise
posterity is the fact that professional
brain truster could write book that
would sell for So in the open market.
Evening star., 1936-04-19
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Evening star., 1936-04-19
JOY of Inaccuracy.

Joy Of Inaccuracy.
I'll try to shun the thought of gloom
And sing little song,
Remembering how the flowers bloom
And not how crops 60 wrong.
The future frequently we say
Will cause us some distress.
But when I prophesy that way
I hope I miss my guess.
IT like to feel dat rs boss in my own
home" said Uncle Eben. $50 it's un-
derstood I kin talk as loud as I feels
like so long as I don't insist on havin'
nay own way"
Evening star., 1936-04-19

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X
The argument of Republicans and of
business leaders is that if the President
only would stop interfering with business
it would quickly return to a condition
of prosperity that would enable the un-
employed to find work.
A sharp skirmish is going to be fought
around that point in the months ahead.
Mr.. Roosevelt is arming himself with
ammunition to do battle over the issue.
The Democrats are getting ready to
make heavy use of industrial profit fig
ures. AS compiled by the National City
Bank of New York, returns from 2,010
representative corporations show 1885
profits of $2541 ,138, 900 against $1,787,-
14l 900 for the same corporations year
ago. This represented a gain of AZ per
cent. It followed a gain of 318 per
cent between 1888 and 1884. The cor
porations studied showed return on
their net worth of 81 per cent, against
3.5 per cent in 1884.
When individual business men attack
the Government, as they have done re-
Gently in annual reports, Government
officials are quick to call attention to
the clash between their complaints and
the figures on their balance sheets, show
ing profits better than at any time since
1929
Business men see these profits as tenn
porary-the result of activity stirred up
by huge Government spending-and
their concern is over the future when
the Federal Government is forced to
retrench and def1ate
Still, as New Deal enemies are finding
out, there is real difficulty in selling
the masses Of the people on the dangers
of spree in spending when that spend
ing Is responsible for Q very pleasant
Evening star., 1936-12-09
CAROLS ST0BE SUNG.
BY ESQ CHILDREN
Council of Social Agencies to
Present Program at
Library of Congress.

Children are rehearsing Christmas
carols in many groups for the nassed
sing at the Library Of Congress Mon
auspices of the Council of Social
Agencies Recreation Committee, Of
which Miss Mary Edith Coulson is
secretary.
The children are being trained
under direction of experts employed
on the part-tine staff furnished Com
munity Chest agencies and by musi-
cal directors Of other organizations.
Taking part in the singing at the
library will be more than $50 children,
including As from st Joseph's Home
and School, 81 from the Community
Centers, "a from Neighborhood
House, 10 from the Georgetown Chill
dren's House. 10 from the E street
Y. w. C. A., 10 from the Christ Child
Society, 80 from Friendship House,
80 Girl Scouts, 35 Girl Reserves and
so from the Fairgrounds department
Of the public schools.
The children are being trained by
Miss Mary Burnett of the Y. w. c. A.,
Hugh Riley of the part-time staff,
Mrs. Anne P. McGuffey, Miss Mar
garet Cross of the part-time staff,
Miss Margaret Wright OF Neighbor-
hood and Mrs Sonia Gadella. They
will be led by Miss Jessie Olin of the
part-time staff. The United States
Marine Band Orchestra will furnish
the accompaniment.
A group of colored children will
hng at the National Museum Audi
torium Friday afternoon, December
78, at o'clock. This group of about
rs will be led by Mrs s. w. Olden
and Alfred johnson Of the music
department of the public schools.
The children are from the Wormsley
and Phillips Schools and will be ac-
companied by the United States Ma
rine Band Orchestra.
Evening star., 1936-12-09
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Evening star., 1936-12-09
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Russia's famine of 1888 was care
fully ignored in the press there, but
they did refer to a famine existing
among the cattle.
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