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Evening star., 1936-02-22
Proposal for Public Test
On Music and Drama

To the Editor OF The Star:
Tuesdays Star, under Reviews of
Theatrical Events, by E. de S. Melcher,
carries statement which, in its general
implications, is enough to cause any one
interested in the dramatic development
of our Nation to pause and think.
The particular play to which it is here
applied is Blossom Time but any
other play could be substituted as we'll
and the implication would still remain.
The statement is this:
Blossom Time may be trif1e old.
But it still has its followers. And that
is more than most slightly ancient
operettas can boast of. Schubert, after
all, is still pretty good. (Ask Herr DR..
KindleD."
1t is rather severe indictment of the
crop of dramatic and musical produc-
tions which we have suffered from for
at least the past 20 years. In other
words, very few, if any, had in them
enough of lasting value to make them
bearable after the novelty had worn OIL.
When Ibsen wrote his plays they we're
very much to the point. Today his plays
are still occasionally produced though
in the intervening 30 years most OF the
social ills at which they were pointed
have been corrected. Why? They hap
pen to be also profound character studies,
and character is as interesting today as
yesteryear.
suppose it would be unreasonable to
expect Shakespeare or Schubert of our
modern times, but, with apologies to
some of our modern composers and play
wrights, it makes one wonder if what a
famous wit has recently said of our fash
ions-"That they are so awful that we
have to change them every half year
is not also true of our modern dramatic
art. and music.
Where are the songs of yesteryear?
And the plays? Gone! Forgotten!
Surely some few of them must have
had something of lasting value in them
We cannot be as bad as all that. Or
have we entirely surrendered to Dumb
Dora?
So suggest contest to find out which
plays and songs and other music and
dramatic arts have so endeared them
selves to the public that they can still
command paying audience.
It is high time that they were rescued
from oblivion and burial in the mad
rush of contemporary mediocrity and
worse. Let us ballot to see how much
of our dramatic art and music of the
past so years or SO we are unwilling to
throw in the waste backet.
S. j. WARBERG.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
The French Debt.

M. Herriot performed a service for
Franco-American amity and for the
cause of honorable international rela-
tions by reviving in the Chamber of
Deputies the dormant question of the
war debt which France owes to the
United States No Frenchman is in such
logical position as the former premier
to call his country's attention to that
repudiated obligation, and he chose a
particularly telling occasion on which
to do so.
The Franco-Soviet pact of mutual as
sistance was under consideration. Depu-
ties were opposing its ratification on the
ground that pre-war Russian debts to
France, estimated at two hundred bill
lion francs, remain unpaid. Since the
end of 1882, when the Chamber, deaf
to NJ Herriot's appeal, refused to sane
ton war debt payments to the United
States then due, he has preserved silence
on that subject. To his everlasting
honor, it will be recalled, he resigned
from the premiership rather than bear
the stigma of countenancing Frances
default at Washington.
To the position that her repudiationist
attitude is indefensible M. Herriot has
consistently adhered, but never until
this week did he find so devastating an
opportunity to ram home that view
point. The former premier, defending
the Soviet pact. had advocated that it
should be accompanied by commercial
credit to the Moscow government, as
serting that if France did not extend
such an accommodation, Germany would,
and added that the Soviet today is
entirely solvent" Thereupon Count de
Lasteyrie, former finance minister and
chief opponent OF the mutual assistance
agreement, shouted that "if Russia is
solvent, she can pay her debt"
M. Herriot was equal to the emer-
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Civil Service POstmasters.

One of the obvious anomalies of the
move to place first, second and third
class poStmasters under the civil service
and take these juicy patronage appoint
ments out Of politics is that while every
body from top to bottom in both parties
may favor this needed reform and praise
IL 10 the skies in principle. nothing ever
seems TO happen, 1t could never happen
at the beginning OF an administration,
when the triumphant party has just
come in. for such postmastcrships give
the opportunity of placing about $4,000
deserving psrtisans in fairly good jobs.
And after the party in power has dis
tributed the patronage. the opposition
will hesitate to approve reform legisla-
ton, fearing the loss of the same spoils
when the tide of battle changes.
But the President has chosen good
time to come out strongly in favor of
legislation at this time taking poStmaS-
terships out of politics. A good ma
jority in both houses is available to make
such legislation effective. The Demo-
Gratis have had their chance and most
Of the jobs are filled. The Republicans,
after their blistering of the administra-
ton for its inroads on the merit system,
cannot consistently oppose such major
reform in behalf of the merit system.
Pending in Congress now are several
bills some of them better than others,
but any of them capable of improving
the existing situation. Chairman Rams
peck of the House Civil Service Com
mittee has reported his own bill, now
on the House calendar, extending the
civil service to postmasters of the first,
second and third classes. In the Senate,
Senator OMahoney's bill, aimed at the
same objective but differing in some
important provisions from the RamSpeck
measure, is still in the Post Office Com
mittee. In addition there is the Mead
bill in the House, companion measure
to Senator O'Mahoney's bill, and in the
Senate are two bills. one by Senator
Norris and another by Senator Vanden-
berg. 1t will be interesting to see now
whether the Presidents frank, unauali-
fled Endorsement in principle of the leg
islation will have the effect of fastening
its serious consideration on either side
of the Capitol.
There is certain inconsistency, of
course, in attempting to effect major
reform in the post Office patronage sys-
tenn as long as the Postmaster General
himself remains at the same time a
member of the cabinet and the chair
man of the party organization, in charge
of the patronage machine. Senator
Norris has been one of the strongest
critics of such an arrangement 1t will
be ended only by the resignation as
Postmaster General or as chairman of
the Democratic National Committee of
Mr.. Farley.
Senator OMahoney has been a con-
sistent advocate of the extension of civil
service requirements to cover all post
masters. He has pointed out the fact
that if the high positions in the post
masterships of the country were open
to men in the service there would be
improvement in morale, to be reflected
in better administration of the service.
Other advantages are so manifest as
to require no argument-although the
advantages would accrue to mere tax
payers rather than to politicians.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Shooting Stars.
BY pHILANDER JOHNSON.
Cherry Trees.

Cherry Trees.
George Washington, a Nation free
Once more salutes the cherry tree
Which made your honorable youth
The symbol of undying truth!
Yet as the years have fastened by
We are compelled to breathe sigh
AS we at last must come to know
That dear old story wasn't so.
Another cherry tree we view,
A sign of what is brave and true,
And wait it's blossoming once more
Along the proud Potomac's shore.
The Friendship that it signified
Was of itself source of pride;
The world would join to say ALAS"
If it to realms of myth should pass.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

over and over again. with all sorts of
variations and all sorts of rehnements,
and at last announced five years ago
that he had obtained positive results.
DR.. MillerS high standing as physicist
forced serious consideration of any an
nouncements he might make. There
could be no question of their honesty or
scientific accuracy.
But if Prof. Miller was right. then
Prof. EinStein must be Wrong-but in
the years which had elapsed the spe-
cial theory of relativity had received
left very little doubt that it was close to
up to the present.
At joint meeting of the American
Physical Society and the American Op-
tical Society in New York today DR.
w. B. Cartmel of the University of
Montreal, for several years member of
the staff of the Bureau of Standards
here, presented two papers which appar-
emily solve the whole problem.
In the first place, number of mathe-
maticians have presented data to prove
that DR.. Nicholson was wrong in his
mathematics, that several factors were
left out of account altogether, and that
actually it would be impossible to get a
positive result from the experiment II
1t were conducted with absolute accu-
racy But Prof. Miller did get positive
results and so, on less reliable basis,
did several others.
DR.. Cartmel's first paper supports
mathematically the contentious of those
who claimed there could be no positive
results. His second shows that such re-
suits could come only from fitting of
the mirrors-a necessary procedure in
the experiment. The amount of the
difference depends on the amount of
the fitting.
Then he takes Prof. Miller's results
and shows that the precise amount of
fitting admitted would produce precisely
the effect that was obtained.
An enthusiast over DR.. Cartmel's work
is DR.. Paul Heyl of the Bureau of
Standards, who himself has taken an
active part in relativistic experiments.
Now for the first time, he says, the
Nicholson Morley experiment can be dis
missed as a mirage toward which phys
icists have been stumbling for more than
a quarter of century and which al
ways receded before them. It meant
nothing and had no significance.
But this was the corner stone upon
which the special theory of relativity
was erected, and if it crumbles one might
expect to find the whole weird struc-
ture of the space-time universe tum-
bling down at the same time. Not at
all, says DR.. Heyl. Einstein built on
a much broader basis. The Nicholson
Morley experiment served only to turn
his thoughts in that direction. There
are more substantial experimental veri-
fications of his work.
Now if the positive results claimed
by DR.. Miller were allowed to stand they
would constitute serious obstacle to the
acceptance Of relativity. II they are
swept away the most serious evidence
against Einstein disappears-even II the
whole case for which he came into court
is thrown out.
The Nicholson Morley experiment was
the key which unlocked the door. 1t now
turns out that the key didn't flt-but
somehow or, other It turned the lock
Evening star., 1936-02-22
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The wild birds take the seed and
grain offered them by city persons be-
cause it is scarce to be refused, nothing
else offering itself, but down at bottom
most of the birds would prefer fresh
grubs and the like.
The dry foods make the best possible
fodder for them at this time, however,
and everybody is happy. including the
feathered friends, when it is put out in
abundance.
The more one watches the birds at
feeding stations the more he will realize
that bird is, after all, simply flying
stomach.
A bird, despite its prettineSs, is about
as simple demonstration of the me-
chanics of life as can be found any
where.
Even some of the microscopic ami
mails, to be seen only with the aid of
an instrument. give no better demon
stration of this than bird.
Rave as one will over the loveliness
of cardinal or snow bird, every bird is
prime demonstration of alimentation.
"Alimentary" means nourishing, per-
forming the functions of nutrition. The
famous alimentary canal is really a
nouriShing canal.
The birds know all about aliment
/. e., food. They have no word for it
as we have, but they know it just the
same.
And what sharp eyes, what sharp
senses they have when it comes to food
put out for them!
Many a city person, becoming inter-
ested in this thing of feeding the birds,
has put out seed with what almost
amounts to fear and trembling, at least
with extreme doubt as to whether any
bird at all would grace the hand-out.
Always it is real thrill for such per-
sons to watch the first birds come, and
then to see the numbers increase day
by day, as if no bird that comes once
ever forgets the place.
X X X X
The prime necessity of food scarcely
needs any demonstrations it is true,
but 1t is interesting to realize that the
birds are such demonstrations, whether
the observer pays any attention to them
or not.
1t is the fashionable thing to speak
OF the beauty OF Cle DlrQS alone, Dul
really there are many other phases of
their living with us which are as inter-
esting.
The beauty urge often alone causes
people to put out food for them.
Another is the hope that by so doing
more of them will be induced to stay
around the place and nest there.
These are natural urges and must not
be overlooked. Perhaps it is better, after
all, for such reasons to be compelling
than simply to feed the birds with the
belief that one is doing good deed, at
the same time helping the farmers.
Help given to unknown persons, after
all, is customarily not as satisfying as
that given where the giver can see the
good done and the happiness brought.
So feed the birds, while it is cold,
simply for the pleasure of watching the
little fellows eat. This they will do
all day long. bite after bite, without
missing a peck. until an observer ceases
to wonder how they do it. They just
do it.
1t is helpful. however, to keep in the
back of the mind that this business of
bird feeding is good in other ways, too
Those intending to put up bird houses
should do it shortly, in order that the
affairs may weather and get the true
smell of the great outdoors, all in readi-
ness for their guests.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Farmers know the value of the wild

Farmers know the value OF the WHO
birds.
The birds are their ever-ready assist
ants all Spring and Summer, helping
them clean up on grubs, full-grown in
sects and other forms of life ininiical to
crops of various kinds.
The city man or woman who helps
feed the birds during Winter is rem
dering a valuable assistance to the
farmers.
We quote the following letter:
"Derwood, Md.
Dear Sir: Your articles about birds,
just now, are most interesting, and
wish so much you could stand in the
front window of our farm home, at this
early hour, and get the thrill of your
life, or one Of them, watching covey
of Is Bob Whites getting their early
breakfast.
"They come again every day about 1
pm, murmuring to themselves and each
other low, almost indistinguishable
bob white, almost drowned out by the
noisy blue jays, starlings and sparrows.
After scratching in the hay chaff
for grain awhile they fly with low
whir of their wings to the japonica
bush for shelter.
Are we saving their lives now for
some heather hunter to shoot next Fall
and call it sport?
That is the only sad side of bird
feeding.
None know better than farmers the
value of the birds, and feeding them is
pure joy during this hard spell Of
Winter. could write pages about the
many varieties of birds we have, but I
will spare you.
when Summer comes I wish you
would drive out to the real country and
see us-we live two miles west of Olney,
and we have cats and many other in
teresting animals-besides ourselves.
Very truly, M. B. B."
In the center of the city, in the sub
urbs, on farms, feeding the wild birds
at this time of year is an interesting
and helpful occupation.
Not only are the birds kept alive, but
they are saved for help in protecting
the farmers fields.
II is true that some of the wild song
sters eat grains in the warmer seasons.
and some consume fruits, but it may be
stated confidently that the loss they
cause III IIllS way ID ullulltcSuildl Ill
comparison with the vast good they do
This has been so we'll established by
ornithologists that there is no argument
about it any more.
This is fortunate for the birds. The
economic benefits of the house cat on
the other hand are still in dispute.
Some persons believe that agriculture.
as such would be impossible without
domestic cats, while others pooh pooh
this idea.
While the role of the cat as rodent
destroyer is admitted, as an abstract
proposition many claim that these ami
mails do not really keep down mice and
rats as even articles in encyclopedias
assert.
1t is satisfaction for the city man
or woman. who is feeding such birds as
come to the city at this time, to realize
that he or she is actually helping the
farmers.
Many talk about helping the farmers,
but this is one way in which even the
most city-fed person may really do it.
While song birds eat grains and seeds
put out for them at this time of year,
when Spring comes they are only too
glad to leave such dry diet and turn to
the fresh bits of life which, feeling the
urge of the vernal season, also begin to
stir around.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

Colloquial repartee has become so re-
sponsible a factor in campaign prepara-
ton that a formal match might be
arranged as an incident in imitation OF
old classic games where poets competed.
A cracking contest between AL
Smith and Jimmy Walker would make
the athletic features of Olympic games
look by comparison like fiddle -winks
or ping pong.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
NV Corner

The great corporation, it seemed to me,
Was like a we'll ordered house
Where every one had his special room
While I, an intrusive mouse,
Had no real right in the spacious place.
And then all my qualms took wing;
For a little corner was given me
Where could happily sing.
When twilights fall in the city streets
come to my little nook
And sing of the town, of life and love,
OF forest and tree and brook.
And pour out song all thru the night
To the corporations heart;
Safe in my corner tucked away
OF the great house part.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

A series of cold waves are beyond man
agement by man, but in providing a
series of freeze-ups to operate as brakes
on a torrential thaw there may be an
indication on the part of the Depart
ment of Agriculture to compliment Ma
ture for displaying almost human intel
ligence.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

George Washington is made the excuse
for contest to decide whether it is
possible to throw silver dollar over
one river or another. Nothing in the
economic history of Washington war;
rants the assumption that he ever threw
away dollar of any kind.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

In every emergency there is a danger
of sacrifice to splendid spirit of hero
ism in some situation which might have
been managed by cool common sense
The sense of drama" is universal but
the practical, conscientious stage mana
ger is a scarce article.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

Respect for forefathers is interfered
with by lack Of self-respect among
later generations. George Washington
could not possibly be aware of the extent
to which he was to become involved in
New York show business.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

The "lie detector" cannot be intro
duced into campaign with any salts
faction. The physical stress of the
ordeal is such that stethoscope and
even pulmotor may have to be re-
lied on.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

An able national legislator sometimes
feels 1t necessary to slow down the rou-
tine business for which he was elected
in order to volunteer remarks as a
character witness concerning some of his
colleagues.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
The Immoral Scissorist.

The UnmOFaI SClSSOf1SC.
"That joke book publisher seems to see
fun in everything"
"Yes," replied the journeyman humor-
list; "he refuses even to take seriously
that one of the Ten Commandments
which says, Thou shalt not steal"
Evening star., 1936-02-22
ThOrOughneSS.

"The public usually forgets any inju-
dicious speeches man happens to
make" remarked the confident politi-
clan.
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum; "but
it almost invariably forgets the man
along with Them
Evening star., 1936-02-22

The Weather Bureau is an humble
!mitator of the United States Supreme
Court in letting its announcements
apply to one particular situation and
refusing to assume astrological author
ity as to future announcements.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

In discussing medical science for local
purposes some of the orators are in
clined to overburden the research groups
that explore the mysteries of psyche
analysis.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

Texas has grown conservative, while a
Pennsylvania band-wagon begins to sug-
gest possibilities of the old stage coach
and horse pistols.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

There can be little excuse for street
crowding. The privilege of sitting quietly
in an Office or study is one of the great
points of general gratitude the public
owes to radio.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Old Hickory.

From the New York Sun.
The bonus bonds will bear the likeness
of Andrew jackson, in whose admins
tration the public debt of the United
States was extinguished.
Evening star., 1936-02-22

that one time. Science entered the
strange room of transcendental physics.
1t doesn't make much difference now
how 1t got there. The job is to oh.
serve and describe the wonders 1t finds
thersS y.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
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Evening star., 1936-02-22
Premium.

From the Indianapolis News.
Anybody who buys real estate now
gets lot of ice and snow thrown in
without any extra charge.
Evening star., 1936-02-22
Melody Unrestrained.

Melody Unrestrained.
They sang it long ago:
There's music in the air"
But now full we'll we know
There's music everywhere.
There's music in the street
That you perchance explore;
There's music loud and sweet
In each department store.
Where athletes are in line
Or art is on display
Or where you go to dine
The band begins to play.
Oh, happy multitude!
Not only in the air,
But in clothes, drink and food
There's music everywhere.
Complete truth" said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown, SIS not always possible.
Courtesy may compel the most discern
ing man to pretend that he is being
deceived"
Evening star., 1936-02-22
The Pedestrian.

The aviator makes a show:
The motorist keeps on the jump;
The man who has to walk goes slow.
But spares his feelings many a bum
Evening star., 1936-02-22
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"A man dat's easy scared" said Uncle
Eben, mot only hears all de bad news,
but imsgines twice as much more" 4
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