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Evening star., 1936-07-25

There are times when landscape is
most agreeably shown in etching tones
by fog. There will never be any comfort,
however, for farmer in viewing the
scenery through a duststorm.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

One of the most pathetic sequels of
q kidnapping incident is an effort to
utilize the notorieties it may necessarily
involve for the purposes of small politics.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

Civil service examinations for post
masters should relieve unemployment
among college professors who have not
made the grade in the contest for brain
trusteeships.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Frightfulness.

From the Kansas City Star
= IN Duce Plans to Send Second String
Opera Companies to Ethiopia" Some
body ought to remind Mussolini of the
perils Of the. undue seventies Of vindic-
tive yictors,s as may be found no farther
back than in the treaty of Versailles.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

BY wearing white linen suit, Gov
ernor Landon smashes the tradition
requiring silk hat and Prince Albert
coat for a statesman. regardless Of the
climate.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Social Standards.

From the Stockton Independent @
Time Is mar at hand when people
will be Dragging about having had Q
mess of potatoes for dinner. Social dis
tinctions may yet be dxed by the use Of
aristocratic articles Of food.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
A Tip to "Cussers." /"

From the Kalamazoo Gazette.
While you are cussing out the Gov
ernment as the worst in the world. re-
member there are half dozen nations
In Europe that would slap you in Jail for
just doing that -
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Hush!

Ftom tne dHrtIOru VOuIHnt.
A Viennese psychologist holds that the
present spirit Of nationalism is product
Of noise. Every effort should be made
to make the world 80 quiet that one can
hear q dictator drop.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Instruments of Terror.

INSTRUMENTS Of Terror
A brave man does not fear a gun
Or motor cars that madly run,
Yet there's one mechanistic toy
That leaves his life bereft of Joy.
When skies above are blue and hot
And earth's superheated spot,
If fear in some brave man you'd stir
Just show him a thermometer.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

A great deal might be learned from a
press conference, that would eliminate
formal restraint and allow the reporters
to do all the talking.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

Civilization is progressing, but no
civilization has been able to introduce
rioting as systematic feature of re-
sponsible government.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

Even history has its professional rival
ries. There is tendency to take the
spotlight away from Thomas Jefferson
and give it to Patrick Henry.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Jewelry.

Jewelry. ..-- .
We cannot soothe all discomfort
That hurts us nearly every day,
BY an appeal to sentiment
Placed delicately on display.
We know when some misfortune frets
The soul, where hope is almost gone.
Kind hearts are more than coronets"-
But are not worth so much in pawn
"One Of de arguments dat can't give
any satisfaction" said Uncle Eben, was
carried on in a hospital ward by two
drunks dat smashed each other up in
a motor collision"
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Prescription.

FreScr1ptlon.
From the Yakima CwashD Republic.
A doctor down in Santa Barbara says
we should eat five meals day. The
prescription is going to be hard to take.
A lot of US are having plenty Of trouble
to rustic three.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Prophets.

From the Miami Daily News.
A good many Republicans would feel
more comfortable If they could only get
the fight experts to pick Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Both il, the Bag.

From the charieston tw. Val. Daiiy Mail.
There are two bags, and according to
Mr. Hamilton and Mr.. Farley the elec-
ton Is In both Of them.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Member of the Associated Press

Z, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
credited to it 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., 1936-07-25
Tow.Line.

From the Bay City Times.
Europe, with its turmoil. luckily is far
away. But the dread thought dawnS
that the Queen Mary might arrive here
and find she forgot to cast on.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Man and His Apparel.

Wan ana His Apparel.
do you envy the great financiers of
the world?"
Sometimes" said Farmer Corntossel.
but we've got our clothes mixed"
What have clothes to do with the
subject?"
Its just as hard for a man in high
hat and patent leather shoes to run
farm as it is for one in overalls and top
boots to run a bank"
Evening star., 1936-07-25
pre.Shesred Sheen.

Prom the Grand Island Independent.
The scientist who has developed
lamb without wool probably got the idea
from Wall Street.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

Generosity" said Hi Ho. the sage of
Chinatown, "is noble sentiment. Yet
when it bestows on some people benefits
of which others are deprived 1t may be
blamed and called injustice"
Evening star., 1936-07-25

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Evening star., 1936-07-25

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Evening star., 1936-11-14

which produces dangerous speed. Better
brakes, stronger bodies, fewer protruding
"gadgets" inside and out the cars are all
designed to lessen the gravity, If not the
number, of accidents. This trend, as
the President points out, is praiseworthy
and is in keeping with the awakened
sentiment in the country toward safer
and saner automobile driving. The
manufacturers have done their part to
put a safe automobile in the hands Of
careful drivers. The burden Of RESPONSE
bility for safety lies. as always, with the
drivers themselves.
Aside from the appearance and per-
formance of the new models, the various
shows this year attract added interest
because the sale Of automobiles has
come to mean so much as gauge Of
national prosperity and the material
wellbeing of the country. The automo-
bile industry was one Of the first to feel
the effects Of the depression and one
of the first to reflect economic recovery.
The industry has been geared to new
speed in production for the coming year
which, its leaders predict. will reach new
high levels.
Evening star., 1936-11-14
A Court Room Incident
OF Half a Century Ago

To the Editor Of The Star:
A news item in the papers states that
the son of the Governor of North Caro-
lima was admitted to practice law in the
Pasquotank County court house, and
that the lawyers oath was read to the
young man by his father. This little
item vividly recalls to the writer an
incident that occurred in the court room
in his native town in that State over
so years ago, which may be now related,
as all of the participants are long since
dead. A gentleman by the name of
r. H. Mcclure, who was q native Of
Pasquotank County, had settled in the
writer's town, and had conducted for
many years a successful general ner-
camille business. However, he fell upon
evil days, and, becoming greatly f1nan-
cially embarrassed, was the object OF
many law suits. In q suit by one OF his
creditors, who was represented by a law
yer named Jim Davis, Mr.. Davis, in
opening his argument to the jury said:
gentlemen of the jury: The defendant
is r. H. Mcclure. Who is he and where
did he come from? From away, down
yonder in Pasquotank, where the bull
frogs leap from bank to bank, and the
little frogs stuck in the muck and the
mire chirp farewell to r. H. MCGUIRE"
This aspersion upon the origin Of the
defendant was too much, and he there
upon picked up an ink well from the
table and with skillfully directed aim
knocked the distinguished barrister cold
in open court, which ended the proceed
ings for the rest of the day.
ALEXANDER SIDNEY LAN1ER.
Evening star., 1936-11-14
Political and Social Evils
Not Readily Eradicated

To the Editor Of The Star:
Apropos the ideas advanced by your
correspondent, Alexander Lanier 1t may
be said that his knowledge Of other
countries. their methods of government,
their national ethics, their spiritual de-
velopments and aptitudes, may not be
sufficiently comprehensive as to pass
Judgment upon them. While Mr.. Lanier,
voicing the popular sense, considers the
popular form of government as self
government" of which he thinks the
Anglo-Saxons are alone capable, in effect
it is government by law or constitution.
In other words, while it may flatter the
average citizen to think that he or she,
by the power of voting, has share in
the government, little reflection will
show us that. the evils operating in and
by human nature being so varied, subtle
and swift, this method Of uniting large
enough numbers of votes to outwit the
ever-changing form of evil is almost
hopeless, and the present conditions in
America attest to this fact. All good
citizens are unanimous in their con-
demnation Of the many phases Of evils or
diScords, crimes and suicides, robberies
and inequalities, but the most they can
do is to express their feelings, and 1t
takes time and money to start move
ment to eliminate, by organized action,
any one of the particular evils.
Those desiring to do something by way
Of handling the situation from moral,
metaphysical or ethical angle should un-
derstand just what is involved and should
try to see the other fellows point of
view as to what system might contribute
most to the betterment of the human
race in this world Of ours.
P. CALPAKIAN.
Evening star., 1936-11-14

Dead Sea life-which runs as high as
ITO microns in length.
&% ~
Two more American game birds which
once visited the Eastern United States
in countless numbers may be on their
way to join the passenger pigeon and the
marsh hen in extinction
The Biological Survey has Just de-
clared completely closed season on
canvasback and red-head ducks, long
favorites with hunters. after a survey
Of their Canadian breeding grounds this
Summer showed that not enough of
them were left to keep the race alive
unless they were given rigid protection
for time.
Unlike other birds which have been
wiped out the plight of the ducks is
not entirely due to the fact that they
have been hunted ruthlessly. The
trouble has been that their natural
breeding grounds-swampy areas in the
North Central StateS-have been drained
for agriculture. This has helped pre-
cipitate droughts in q few appropriate
places left. So the canvasbacks have
been driven steadily north into Canada
for their breeding season. Droughts
have hurt them as much as hunters.
There still are vast numbers of them.
Last Fall, it was estimated, more than
100000 assembled on the Susquehanna
River fats in Maryland-but this num-
ber represented a very large proportion
of all that were left in the world They
are all needed as nucleus for restoring
the vast flocks of few decades ago.
Evening star., 1936-11-14
The New Automobiles,

" In taking note of the opening Of the
National Automobile Show in New York,
through letter to Alvan Macauley,
president of the Automobile Manufac-
turers' Association, the President is
merely rejecting the national interest
which is attracted by this annual parade
of the new motor cars. 1t is an interest
which springs from the remarkably wide
distribution of automobile ownership in
America. More than 100000 pas
senger cars were registered in America
last year, which indicates the vast num-
ber of Americans who take q peculiarly
personal interest in what the manufac-
turers have done to improve the auto
mobile for the coming year.
Washingtonians will have the oppor-
tunity to see the new models themselves
when the Washington Automotive Trade
Association presents its seventeenth an
nual automobile show, which opens today.
But the New York show has revealed
some of the chief points of interest to
the average automobile owner. The
president mentions one of these in his
references to the improvements built into
the new cars to increase safety. There
Is more emphasis on safety In construc-
'tion this year and less on the power
Evening star., 1936-11-14
Editorials i'm Thursdays
Star Elicit Commentator
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
No doubt numerous of your read
ers feel as do about your editorials,
which are uniformly of timeliness, ex-
cellence, sanity, and balance, whole
somely free from rancor and bias. Their
wholesome power OF generating and
stimulating thought has often moved me
to want to write an appreciation. Thurs
days four excellent editorials have made
irresistible the desire to express my COM
mendation.
On why Not Count Them" your intel
ligent, timely suggestions and views will
helpfully keep on the consciousness Of
many, including our leaders, a problem
that is yet with us and for which no solu-
ton is of certainty assured, hopeful as
all may be.
In your IAN Affair of the Nation" you
masterfully plead the cause Of the multi
tude who feel with you that though it is
the Presidents inauguration, it Is the
Nations President whom thousands will
come to see, and that the wishes OF both
can be respected on common ground.
In your Navy Personnel what red
blooded American can disagree with you
on the leadership of President Roosevelt
or the squally fine record Of Congress In
legislating for the Navy's needs.
In your "The King Of Bridges" you
bring your interesting story Of accom-
plishment to an end with fitting, elo-
ouent tribute which I read over and over
again. It's pregnant meaning and truth
is expressed in words that will bear re-
peating and instilling in the conscious
ness of America. Many were your read
ers who breathed silent prayer Of graft
tude for the America which has made
such achievements possible. and hope
that liberty shall not perish from the
face Of the earth. II. Il. ENTz.
Evening star., 1936-11-14
Expanding Consciousness.

do you read the crime stories in the
magazines?"
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum.
"And the love stories?"
Invariably"
"And the sports news?"
Invariably"
do they aid you in your economic
problems?"
"Very much. These subjects serve to
remind me of how many things the peo-
pie are interested in besides the question
of who is going to get Government
job"
Evening star., 1936-11-14
Car Riders Want Double
Track on Kennedy Street

To the Editor Of The Star:
The writer has been sincere advocate
for an up-to-date mass transportation
system In Washington for several years,
and II the street car companies had
more thought for their patrons the sit
uation in the Takoma Park, Bright
wood and Kennedy street sections would
not be broken down like 1t Is at present.
If the present management keeps on
adding buses, lengthening the street
car schedules and making those that
would rather ride the street cars more
and more disguised they will make less
and less revenue as the years 60 on.
Why the Public Utilities Commission
have put aside the "order" to double
track Kennedy street is q mystery to
many. I understand for $14,500 or so a
good street car can be purchased and
1t will last from 20 to 30 years and
bus costs something like $11. 900 and
will not last one quarter Of the time .
street car will last-that is called econ-
ony backwards. When the Capital Trac-
ton Co. was In existence they had a
better street car service on their lines
than they have now in the Northwest
section. The writer feels sorry for the
hundreds of faithful men who have
toiled for years and years for the two
old car companies, but since this new
management I understand they favor
the one-man car and my own idea Is by
buying these buses and operating them
with one man that is why they are grad
ually shunting the old tried and true
men to the side lines and 1t will be just
a question of time that the Capital OF
the United States will have an under
manned transportation system unless
something is done to stop 1t, and sug-
gest the sooner the Government takes
over the system and operates 1t the
sooner we will have better opportunity
to get some real service.
There are many thousands Of people
living in Washington that do not like
the bus to ride in and never will and II
they stop the cars on Kennedy street
they Will lose plenty of patronage.
The citizens associations cannot die
tate to the majority OF citizens living
in that area, even If they have gone on
record that they want an all-day bus
service on Third street and a bus at
Fourteenth and Kennedy. Most asso-
Citations represent only small groups and
should not seek to voice what they think
a majority should do. The sooner the
present management of the Capital
Transit Co. realizes that even If it
fayors the uncomfortable and unsafe bus
for a major transit vehicle, the better
service which the street car gives the
more thousands of people will patronize
the company, Street car riders want q
double track on Kennedy street and at
once. too. FELIX A. URY.
Evening star., 1936-11-14
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

In their infancy, for the prize Of public
interest. George Crabbe. a forgotten
but by no means poor poet, lamented
loudly the faults Of the newspapers Of
his day in q poem In heroic couplets
called '"rhe Newspaper"
Americas elder poets (called the beard
ed poets by some wag) kept the readers
of their day alive to the beauty and in
spiration Of the seasonal changes. Per-
haps they would do az much today II we
would do them the justice to read them.
Where is better writing than Whit
tiers "Snowbound"2 It still remains n
fine picture Of q vanished people, the
real Americans who asked nothing bet
ter than to be allowed to stand on their
own feet.
Even more, the poem keeps alive the
sense Of beauty in Nature and its rela-
tionship to us. the living. Snow Is the
same now as 1t was then, let us keep In
mind.
The tendency nowadays is to regard
such subjects as too utterly commonplace
for notice, but one may stop to wonder
II they really are, II the sophistication Of
its false estimates. We were told Is
years ago that Dickens was false artist,
unworthy Of serious thought; today the
pendulum has swung back again. and
every one Is reading Dickens. Where are
the smart guys" who told US how rot
ten" he was?
Walt Whitman, who came along in
Civil War times. wrote Of Nature, eS-
pecially in his prose pieces, but as one
who escaped from business to find solace
in the woods.
Today the better attitude, one may
feel, is to accept your Nature along with
your business, and make much Of both.
Whitman said, in his Specimen Day:
"After you have exhausted what there
Is in business, politics, conviviality, love
and so on-have found that none of them
what remains? Nature remains; to bring
out from their torpid recesses, the af-
finities Of a man or woman with the open
air, the trees, fields. the changes of sea-
sons-the sun by day and the stars Of
heaven by night"
Whitman was poet, first and fore
most, so he is not to be blamed for not
understanding that many men do find
permanent satisfaction in business, poll
tics, "and so on; that Nature becomes,
for them, nothing more than a queer in
comprehensive something which sends
rainy days when they want to play golf.
Many Of these men are among the
kindest Of all, some with dispositions
which can be called nothing but sweet.
1t would seem, then. that in cutting
Nature out of their scheme of things
they really miss a great deal.
And isn't that the fact?
No men, not even poets, could get more
out of the seasonal changes, the varying
days and nights, than these hard headed
business men, as they like to call them
selves, if once they would take it into
their heads to stop being ashamed of
such interests.
Perhaps frost is Just as good begin
ming as anything. 1t is something big,
universal, as real as daylight and as
interesting. Frost has a way of getting
at you, making itself felt; poets and
children call it Jack Frost, but whether
it is regarded as a painter with a name
or simply as physical change, it is very
much worth thinking about when you
look out into the yard and see it on the
grass and garage roof.
Evening star., 1936-11-14

Frost is such common thing, even
in the city, that we forget it comes only
at this time Of year in perfection.
It Is a country and suburban phe-
nomenon, really: frost In the city Is just
a covering for tin roofs, and something
not lasting long.
In the suburbs and farther out frost Is
almost snow, so blue-white 1t lies on the
yet green grass.
THO third day comes frost. a freez-
ing frost" said Shakespeare, somewhat
redundantly, because frost means freeze.
A frost is both the temperature below
freezing which occasions the precipita-
ton of water in q form akin to snow,
which we see and call frost, and the thing
itself.
To speak Of freezing frost" is just
bit too much, but, like much that is
unnecessary, in the same way, has It's
purpose in emphasis, accent, in pointing
the moral.
Frost and dew are two extremes Of the
same thing, precipitations, one occasioned
by cold, the other by heat.
y
Frost is a very pointed indication Of
colder weather at hand.
1t is a part of the outdoor scene
which we ought to cherish, since the
great outdoors, as it is so often called,
is the natural scene.
We forget, in civilization. that indoors
is what we make it, but that the outdoors
is as Nature made 1t.
Frost is her sign, at this time Of year,
her very pointed reminder, that, mas
much as we have strayed away from her
and her outdoors. we are diseased and
suffering. Even spectacles on our noses
show how much we have strayed away,
by concentrating the eyes on far. far
smaller things-type-than we should do
in a perfect state of Nature. Our reading
and our knitting are unnatural, and the
famous South Sea Islanders probably do
neither.
There was an item In the paper the
other day about famous English states
man who tainted dead away because Of
the heat at function he was attending.
No doubt the temperature was all Of So!
The English cannot stand it as hot as
most Americans. We have become veri-
table salamanders; you see husky fell
lows all huddled up in thick overcoats
at this time Of year, coats heavy enough
to stand Arctic breezes. Every place one
goes the air is too hot; to be warm enough
on the street is to be too hot indoors.
Frost. then, may be taken as symbol OF
the cooler atmosphere which Nature tries
to give us at this time, but which we so
often refuse, for purely personal reasons,
most Of which are poor.
It is correct to say, "Ten degrees OF
FROST" meaning 10 degrees below freez-
ing. or AZ degrees, although it is more
customary nowadays to say % degrees
above zero, or just % degrees.
frosty morning is Autumn at its best.
Then the temperature has bite to it
in keeping with the season, but seldom
really cold, especially in comparison with
the severe temperatures which probably
will come along later.
This is the secret Of enjoying the
weather, to keep each seasonal change
well in mind beforehand, and actually to
think about it when it arrives.
The old nature poets. so-called, served
a useful purpose, no doubt, by reminding
readers Of the seasonal changes.
We forget today that at one time in
the history Of English literature the poets
held the center of the stage. For time
they even outran the newspapers, then