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Evening star., 1936-02-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Senator Borah'S decision to enter the
Ohio presidential primaries will lead to
a contest between him and the friends
of Herbert Hoover, who is supposed to
be bent at any cost upon preventing
Borah'S nomination. The Buckeye Old
Guard, headed by the Hoover Postmaster
General and Republican National Com
mitteeman Walter F. Brown, favorS an
uninStructed convention delegation. so
that the IdahoanS quest for pledged
delegates means straight fight with
forces partial to the Hoover cause. Ira
ditionally pivotal State, both for pre-
convention and election purposes, Ohio
will provide an acid test of Borah Senti-
ment. Conscious that his fate in the
primaries there will be of Nationwide
influence, the Senator plunges into the
fray in full confidence that it will estab-
lish his vote-getting qualities and make
him from the outset formidable con-
tender at Cleveland Borahites continue
to estimate his minimum flrSt-choice
strength at more than 200 delegates,
recruited from both Eastern and West
ern States. His pre-primary ONO
speeches are intended to stimulate his
pre-convention campaign everywhere.
4 4
Former Vice President Charles Curtis
was an original and enthusiastic Lam
don-for President man, and the Kansas
Governors cause suffers a real loss in
the passing of the old Republican wheel
horse. Curtis is remembered at the Cap
itol as one of the Shrewdest politicians
of his time throughout his long career IN
both branches of Congress. A man of
few words and fewer speeches, it used
to be said of him that he could influence
more votes in the Senate on critical occa-
sions by an unobtrusive stroll around the
floor and a confidential whisper in the
right ears than hours of spellbindlng
from far more eloquent lips. Curtis re-
tanned his interest in @. 0. P. affairs TO
the last. He contemplated an active role
in promoting the fortunes OF Governor
Landon.
While there was danger of civil war at
Pekin, Ill, last week, there was sug-
eestion on Capitol Hill that Representa-
tive Sol Bloom, Democrat, OF New YORK
would be the ideal man to stralgnten
things out in the strife-torn community
Bloom happens to be native OF the
little city named after the ancient cap
ital of China. Having blossomed into
fame as Pekin's most distinguished ma
five son, it was thought that he might
have been just the one to pour oil on
the troubled waters of his ancestral
heath.
X y X y
Possibly because of the Presidents un-
nonularity among capitalist nabobs, the
Suggestion is forthcoming within the
Dernocratic high command that Kip
1ing,s LEST We Forget" would be an
appropriate slogan for the Roosevelt re-
election campaign. The thought is that
the country needs to be reminded OF the
Evening star., 1936-02-10

Of inquiry humanity proceeds step by
step to one identic goal. A tardy but
liberal charity grants to each soul the
privilege of choice. Coercion in the
realm of thought has declined to the
vanishing point. Whether it was the
characterization of culture or the infiu-
ence of the World War and its resultant
social changes does not affect the out
come. What merits notice Is the fact
itself. Intolerance in the arena of in
tellectual progress may not be dead, but
it would be folly to deny that it has
ceased to function.
To illustrate the triumph of liberty,
q recent statement by Dr.. John c.
Merriam, president of the Carnegie In
stitution Of Washington, may be cited:
Science does not reach to the end of
an infinite past or an infinite future.
or of infinite space. 1t does not fully
understand the atom, the chromosome
inheritance, environment. the creation of
the earth, the inner regions of the sun
or the personal history of spiral nebulae
1t is distinctly limited in every direction
but it is quite aware of this, and is sat-
isfied to build slowly outward and
upward. Science does not presume to
interpret the personal devotions or the
belief in any philosophy or religion. II
does say that each of us lives in uni
verse that is marked by unity and con-
tinuity in space, time and apparently in
meaning"
A priest of the church conceivably
might have sponsored such an express
sion of humility. 1t connotes the modern
spirit of both religion and science anc
testifes for high purpose and noble
ideals as well as methods of appropriate
integrity.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Same Old Tune.

Same Old Tune.
When families that were very smart
Set out for entertaining
They had a special piece of art
Which no one was disdaining.
And what most frequently we heard,
Friends and relations,
Was Listen to the Mocking Bird"
With variations.
Of Jefferson a song we hear
With cadence tender,
jackson and Cleveland charm the ear
In echoing splendor.
That old band wagon still Is stirred
To limitations
OF Listen to the Mocking Bird"
With variations.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

Women in Government Offices are hav-
ing a grand time these cold days laugh
ing at the style and variety of caps worn
by the men.
It seems that though all men love
caps, most of them must have some
good excuse for wearing them.
Motoring is a good one, SO is fishing,
but the best of all is extremely cold
weather.
When the thermometer goes down be-
low freezing and stays there; when there
is ice on the streets, in alternate layers,
even the most orthodox male will risk
q cap.
He whose standard is the felt, or the
derby, at such times may come out in
a coonSkin cap, or felt affair dating
from the gay 9Os.
And ear muffs, too.
Saw an old codger with plush ones,
held across the back of his head by a
metal band.
Every one smiled, but every one ad-
mired those muffs.
1t seems that some persons complain
of their ears getting cold more than
their hands, or nose, or feet.
Many feel extreme cold in the very
tips of their nostrils.
Zero or below tends to wrinkle the
noses in a very curious and unpre-
cedented way.
The colder the air, the more essential
it is that one breathe through the nose,
not mouth.
Some do not realize that the nostrils
are Natures way of heating the air we
breathe, as well as filtering it.
So keep mouth closed.
x x X
Although the cap is mans favorite
headgear, large number of white-col-
lar workers, so-called, have agreed to
frown upon it, except for certain occa-
sions.
Probably this comes about because the
Workingman, also so-called, has frankly
honestly and courageously Rugged this
style headgear to his collective bosom
He likes its looks, feel and utility. 1t
clings to the head tightly and will not
come off in wind.
The cap gives many men roguish
look which they like.
Some think it makes them look
younger.
Others feel the cap is "undignified "
Woodrow Wilson wore one before he
became President, but seldom thereafter
and only on the special occasions men
toned above.
X
Since really cold weather makes the
cap acceptable to all, many queer speci-
mems have been seen, as was to be ex-
pected.
When a stiff wind is blowing there 1!
nothing to equal it.
A cap will stay on the head, in a
boat, on the Avenue, or tip-top on the
| mountainSide.
If it is large enough it will hug the
| head as if in love with it and loatt
| to let go.
| Small boys, those first of sportsmen
have no inferiority complex when il
| comes to caps.
| All of them wear them, without reStric-
| tionS or shame.
The cap, as a matter of fact, is par
Evening star., 1936-02-10

otor Carter Glass and Gov Talmadge OF
Georgia. The first reply has come from
senator vandenberg, who insists ne Is
not a candidate for President, but upon
whom the mantle may yet fail. Says
Vandenberg:
st think a balanced Federal pudget
Nth least nossible delay Is essential to
the preservation of the public credit and
therefore essential to national recovery
itself. Courageous economy without de-
serting essential relief and courageous
taxation can do it. The people Will accept
the latter if the Government will prac-
tice the former The existing situatlon
is little short of shambles. 1t Is not
onlv hazardous, but 1t also is positively
immoral to continue to pile UP needless
expenditures at the expense OF our
grandchildren. There is no possible
black magic by which we can escape
the iaws of simple aritHhnetic."
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Wealth Distribution.

The best way to distribute wealth is
to give the people chance to earn their
share. 1t is the only sane method. 1t
is the only method that has chance
at all of real wealth distribution. It is
impossible to give to people wealth and
expect the distribution to stick. The
shifting sands of the desert would be
as stable as such distribution. And yet
there continues, and probably always
will continue, demand for some kind
of mechanical plan by which wealth
will be spread around among the people.
In the United States today concen-
tration Of industry, of business and of
wealth constantly challenges the pro-
ponents of distribution of wealth. The
share our wealth" clubs, organized
under the leadership of the late Sena-
tor Huey p. Long OF Louisiana; the
Townsend old-age pension plan, with its
e2oO-a-month payments to every person
sixty years of age or more, are merely
manifestations of the demand that
something be done.
The tremendous decline in production
and in employment in this country which
came with the depression has been the
meat on which the demand for wealth
distribution has fed. The answer is. OF
course, renewed production and renewed
employment. And that production and
employment can be had best under q
system of free enterprise, the kind Of
system that has prevailed in the United
States in the past and under which
the Nation has grown.
There is method that seems dear to
the hearts of some members of Congress
to bring about wealth distribution
take by governmental taxation from one
group Of citizens and hand It over to
another group. Such method is not
Evening star., 1936-02-10
British Defenses.

Great Brltaln'S plans to double her re-
armament program at an eventual ex-
penditure of roundly two billion dollars
assume special significance in light of
the outbreak in Germany of an inten-
sive campaign for recovery of the Reich's
war-lost, colonies. Under leadership of
DR.. Schacht, minister of economics and
president OF the ReichSbank, public SEN
timent is being militantly agitated in
favor of reservation of Germany's over
seas domain. 1t is German East and
Southwest Africa, the Cameroons and
Togoland the African possessions di-
vided at Versailles between Great Britain
and France. upon which the Nazis have
set covetouS eyes.
The drive for their return is based on
the theory that Germany still owns her
one-time colonies, even though they are
temporarily administered by other pow
ers against German will and consent.
DR.. Schacht's thesis, fomented with the
full power of Naz propaganda ma
chinery, is that "the possession of CO.
lonial raw material and raw material
territory is essential for an industrial
nation There is undisguised German
admiration for the methods Italy is now
pursuing in Ethiopia to assure indus
trial development" and corresponding
conviction that the Reich should model
it's policy along similar lines.
The Hitlerites' purpose in feverishly
re-creating German military, naval and
air power thus becomes clearer than
ever. They are bent upon retrieving
the Reich's place in the colonial sun.
British rearmament plans are as unmiS-
takably related to the German threat.
British statesmen have revealed readl-
ness to consider a more equitable dis
tribution of the worlds raw materials
in order to stave off wars of conquest.
But in a recent House of Commons de-
bate it was made plain that Britain is
not interested in any redistribution that
would denude the empire of territory,
including the one-time German colonies.
Conscious that a nightly rearmed
Reich is likely, as soon as 1t can risk
the venture, to attempt to seize by
force what it cannot obtain ny negotla-
ton, the British are considering a pro-
gram for spending some f400,0O0,OO0 on
their navy, army and air force between
now and 1899. There is evident de-
termination to meet the German menace
at any cost, just as there was PRIOR 10
1914. when the Kaisers challenge 10
British naval power was John Bulls
paramount bogey. Hence Parliament
will be asked in March to accelerate
British defense arrangements on huse
scale in every direction. Japan's naval
intentions as manifested by her de-
mand for equality with Britain anu
America, also spur the London govern
,ment's arms policy.
With imperialist- -dictatorial powers
abroad in the world and avowedly on
the make peace is in perpetual danger,
no matter how much pacifically minded
democracies may long to preserve IT,.
President Roosevelt dwelt forcefully on
that subject in his annual message to
Congress Great Britain is dealing prac-
tically with the peril by preparing be-
times to resist aggression. 1t is the only
effective method of discouraging and
restraining would-be despoilers OF other
nations rights and property.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Two Important Meetings

Provided the so-called gag" rule does
not muzzle the school authorities and
the members of the Board Of Educa-
ton. their meeting with citizens in
the Franklin School tonight should be
the occasion for discussion not only
of a five-year school building program,
but of some plan of action to persuade
Congress to restore some of the school
items eliminated from the District budg-
ct now under consideration.
The serious congestion already exist
ing in the schools, which promises to
become worse unless new facilities are
provided, constitutes strong evidence IN
favor of building program. But while
the building program is under conSid-
Grafton every effort should be made to
have the next appropriation for schools
increased.
Under able leadership Of the Med
ical Society another movement is get
ting under way to bring forcefully to
the attention of Congress the urgent
need for enlarged public health appro-
priations. The doctors and those work
ing with them may discuss the ad-
yantages of a longtime health pro-
gram. But their main effort is to be
centered on petitioning Congress for
action this year in the appropriation
bill already under consideration,
Two important facts are to be borne
In mind in connection with this BILL
One is that while the Budget Bureau
has eliminated items from the local
budget, creating a potential surplus OF
idle local revenues at a time when larger
appropriations are needed, the hope for
remedy lies with Congress, not the
Budget Bureau. Little is to be gained
by deploring the action of the Budget
Bureau, no matter how illogical and
even unfair such action may appear
to be-. The other fact is that even should
Congress grant the restoration OF items
eliminated from the estimates, the total
appropriations thus represented still
would fall short of meeting such mun1c-
fpal needs as a school-building pro-
gram.
Local revenues, however heavy may be
the local burden of taxation imposed,
can never meet the extraordinary de-
mands occasioned by the fact that this
Is the National Capital These local
revenues must be supplemented by sub
stantial Federal contributions, through
the lump sum or otherwise, really repre-
sentative of the Federal obligation in
connection with the National Capital
partnership. Washington's present dith-
culties result from continued reduction
of the proportionate share Of Federal
funds contributed through the lump
sum in the face of increased Capital
City demands.
Some way must be found out OF
condition under which the local schools
are shamefully overcrowded, where the
city's health is inadequately protected
and where other unmet needs are ac-
cumulating far faster than any pro-
vision is made to meet them.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES e. TRAcEW ELL.

Of the standard uniform Of the Amer
ican small boy.
He wouldn't get along without it.
Notice we say wouldn't, not couldn't.
Ke could, but he won't.
~
Women, through their stylists. have
attempted to steal the cap, and while
sometimes they achieve very clever lit
tie hats, they are distinctly chapeaux,
and not caps.
Caps remain essentially masculine,
which means that they stubbornly re-
fuse to be stylish, except on bus drivers.
A cap either makes the average male
resemble small boy or a fool or freak,
take your choice.
If it makes him resemble a youngster,
it looks good" on him.
If he has that Jackie Coogan air about
him, in a cap, he is the man who dares
wear it on the streets and down to Office.
Jolly old Jack Coogans, indeed, some
Of them. with ruddy faces showing be-
meath the brim, set off by snowy white
hair.
The older man who Is made to resemble
a fool or a freak by cap is the chap
whose womenfolk are forever taking
up cudgels against it.
They know better, having better
sense for such things.
They want to put him into felt,
a derby or a high hat, even. Dignity,
my man.
They want to make a monster OF style
out of him, when he prefers a cap.
You have to be making the magic
$4,000 year land all your friends know
it) before you can get away" with
the cap in everyday usage.
Then it is all right, but scarcely on
less.
Men with big noses, in particular,
ought to let caps alone, because this
headgear accentuateS all such. The man
of sharply cut features may risk one
without sacrificing his dignity. 1t is
| much with all caps as with that queer
offspring the beret-some men natu-
rally find them becoming, others do
not, and there is not much to be done
about it.
The queer thing is that almost al
ways it is the fellow who honestly ought
to shy away from caps who loves them,
and insists on wearing them, even at
the risk of being taken for an Office boy.
Which, of course, brings up the
equally strange fact that office boys
are no longer office boys, but young
Office gentlemen.
One of them walked in on us the
other day and asked if we had read
Henry Adams.
| We said nothing but the Education u
| He said he is writing a biography of
Henry, and we, weakly wished him sue
cess.
What a great difference it might have
made in our life if we had determined
to write biography of somebody, at
the mature age of 49,
We often see this young mamie has
| big nose, and wears cap, alas-and
felicitate ourseh on being in the know
When his famous book comes out (all
biographies either are famous, stupen-
dous or colossal nowadays we can
smile superiority and say. Yes, he came
to us for help once. He is a bright
! boy He wears a cap
Evening star., 1936-02-10

Disagreements with George Washing
ton are expressed without restraint
though seldom with his succinct and
convincing phrase. He is made dis
tinguished example of the fact that in
order to preserve a past President in
reverence and even affection 1t is not
always necessary to be in implicit and
eternal agreement with all his details
of policy.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

In this country the man beloved is
called by his first name in familiar form.
The memory of former Vice President
Curtis has called for public ceremonial
honors, which, however impressive, can
not outweigh in sympathetic value many
a silent tear that has been shed over the
passing of Charley" Curtis.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

The professional impudence of G.
Bernard Shaw ventured into deep water
when he advocated throwing the United
States Constitution overheard. If Amer
ican patriotism were sensitive to the at
tacks of superficial clowning, Mr.. Shaw
himself might find it expedient to wear
a bathing suit and perhaps life pre-
server.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

Disputes about Olympic games offer
another suggestion of the desirability of
keeping Americans out of war. When
Americans get into any kind of contest
they are liable to make it as rugged as
legitimate rules will permit, without
reference to the restraints of artificial
etiquette.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Completing the Job.

"Are you self-made man?" asked
the lady with note book.
mo" answered Mr.. Dustin Stax. 81
am the master of my fate up to
certain extent, but I'd never get to a
party if my wife didn't tie my necktie
for me-"
Evening star., 1936-02-10

DR.. Mary Walker wore silk hat and
a frock coat. Her influence on feminine
attire might have been more respected
If she had gone in for sports togs or
costume parties.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

Some communities have already tried
imitation for awhile by trying script"
when regular currency became scarce.
Most of them apparently managed to get
over it.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
ANY Mans Musina.

Since youth he'd followed a routine,
And on adventurous paths had seen
Sons of chance wander, daring, free,
Above the earth, below the sea.
Body and brain still In their prime,
Just beginning to mark of time,
A desk chair, and problems staid--
Was it for this that he'd been made?
Mutiny born Of the human load!
He laughed, and took the homeward roac
That other men were taking, too
AfteTa ahe grind Of town was thru.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
A Lift, Now and Then.

A LIT, NOW and Then.
The dollar has uniform
That shows yellow glitter,
But it has veathered many a storm
In an experience bitter.
It journeys on through many a land,
Much mathematics striking,
In spite of our orations grand
It Just keeps on hitch hiking.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

One of the tests of a successful career
is the privilege Of performing on oliz-
zard with skis instead of with snow
shovel.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
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Evening star., 1936-02-10

There may be leisure class, but when
a financial inquiry is on, j. P. Morgan
does not pretend to belong to it.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
The Genuine.

do you believe everything you hear?"
mo" said Senator Sorghum. "As I
sit before the radio only the tap dancers
and the jazz bands seem positively
genuine"
Evening star., 1936-02-10

Jud Tunkins says politician is man
who wants to serve his country, but
wants to be sure of tip.
Evening star., 1936-02-10
Leisure.

Who are the leisure classes
In times exciting whirl?
The mark of leisure passes
Unto the hired girl.
And housewives still with brewing
And baking strive to please:
While they are UP and doing
The hired girl takes her ease.
Evening star., 1936-02-10

"A college professor knows mo- dan I
do" said Uncle Eben, 'but he ain got as
much sense as de janitor bout gettin'
heat de school room" n
Evening star., 1936-02-10

OElldGOI 1IOlil XAAlOLo, 1Auo WAAesSAA
to the Democratic State Committee
agreeing to run again for his present
seat. At one time Senator Lewis said
that he did not wish to make the race
again. He wanted to get back to his
practice of law in Chicago. But he has
reached the conclusion that he should
do all in his power to help in the COM
ing national election. He is the strongest
candidate the Democrats have to put
forward for the Senate seat. He has
many friends among the Republicans
as well as the Democrats. He Is not
mixed I'D in the factional Democratic
souabbles that have gone on and are
going on In Illinois. Lewis will be
hard man to beat. He is good cam
paigner Former Senator Glenn, who
lost to the Democratic Senator DIETRICH
In the Roosevelt year, 1882, is one OF
those seeking the Republican nomina-
ton to oppose Senator Lewis.
The Illinois Senator, Democratic whip
of the Upper House, appears to be in
better health than before he suffered
an attack Of pneumonia in Russia last
Summer. Indeed, he seems to be in first
rate shape to go into the coming cam
paign. He plans to do all he can to
help bring about the reelection of PreSi-
dent Roosevelt.
X n
The director of the National Economy
League, Henry H. Curraf1, has sent
QUESTIONABLE on budget balancing to
some of the leading candidates for Presi-
dent this year, and to some other promi-
nent men who are not candidates for the
presidential nomination This question
of Government finance is likely to be
one of the main issues In the campaign.
President Roosevelt is the first on the
list to receive the QUESTIONABLE. Others
are former President Hoover, Senator
Borah, Senator vandenberg Of Michigan,
Gov. Landon of Kansas, Al Sr3jth, Sem