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Evening star., 1936-01-31
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Battling Audience.

Battling Audience.
"It's going to be fearful fight"
The billboards all agree.
"The sparring will not be polite,
Like what we used to see.
The nouns and verbs in cruel fray
Will frequently be found,
And while the band holds out to play
The fight goes round and round"
Some literary thrills we'll know
From a press agent bard,
While breathing spells come blow by blow
And words hit very hard.
And at the gate, most impolite.
The hurrying crowd will meet;
It's going to be fearful fight
To get ringside seat.
Evening star., 1936-01-31

Balloonacy.
The gas bag may be used in strife
Or postal transportation
And lead to an exciting life
For many a tribe and nation.
Perhaps it may be chartered for
Moonlight adventures spoony;
And cause this great "hot dog of war;
To rate as just "balloony."
Evening star., 1936-01-31
Nazis' Fourth Year.


its fourth year The event was COM
memorated with pomp and pageantry
on Thursday, with the Fuehrer occupy
ing the limelight in the midst OF a
tervid reunion of Storm Troop veterans.
Speaking from the precincts OF the old
imperial palace, where William II was
wont to rattle the saber to the endless
alarm of Europe, the Nazi autocrat in
dulged in a vainglorious outburst that
might once have been uttered by the
ex-Kaiser himself.
Hitler's remarks were INTENDED 10
carry assurance of Germany's incor-
ripible devotion to peace. But, thun-
dered at a moment when she is re-
arming to the teeth, by land, by sea
and in the air, the Fuehrers language
is not likely to be accepted everywhere
in a spirit of brotherly love. I'VE are
no longer defenseless," he declared. I'VE
have become elf-confident world citl-
zens. While we can review the past
proudly, our goal is not yet reacneo'
Fighting and sacrifice remain before us.
We seek peace because we love 1t, out
We insist on our honor because we DO
not live without it. Whoever be-
,ieves he can deal with us as slaves
will find we are the most obstinate
people imaginable"
Along those bleeding frontiers De-
vond the borders of the Reich, Where
millions of Germans now live as mlnorl-
ties under other sovereignties, Hltlers
words are certain to be interpreted as
a reaffirmation of his avowed purpose
one day to restore these lost tribes" TO
Berlin's rule There will be reawakeneo
wonder whether the unrealized Nazl
"eoal" is not the reclamation" OF those
peoples and the lands they at present
inhabit as soon as the construction 'of
the Nazi war machine makes the venture
feasible.
The Hitlerized Reich looks back upon
I notable series of accomplishments.
Germany is again factor in Europe.
She is creating mighty army, navy and
air force Because of European dissen-
sions, her diplomatic position is excep-
tionally advantageous Even the main
tenance of her insensate policy OF racial
and religious persecution has not pre-
vented Germany's rise to place OF un-
deniable diplomatic influence.
But behind the facade of these external
successes in statecraft and the military
fields, turks the grim specter OF economic
instability. Such prosperity" as Ger
many today enjoys is purely the product
of the rearmament program. The indus
trial boom has been financed by an
expansion of government expenditures
and credit estimated to exceed budgetary
income by between 500,0O0,000 and 60O,-
OO0, 900 marks month. A new govern
ment debt, approaching 10000 1000
marks, raises the grand total beyond
10000, 900 900 marks. Domestic credit Is
nearing the danger point, especially since
gold coverage of the currency has sunk
to only a fraction above two per cent.
Registered jobless increased by 100000
from August to December, while the
total of employed decreased by 100000.
Due to worldwide boycott. German
export trade is still in slump.
Facts and figures like these, despite
Hitler's grandiloquence, indicate that the
Nazis embark upon another year Of
despotism under far from sunny skies.
Evening star., 1936-01-31
A Gallant Offer.
rom the Portland Oreeonian.

From the Portland Oresonian.
Report comes from Hollywood that a
gentleman defendant in a divorce case
down there told the court the way times
were and everything he was not able to
pay alimony, but ne would be glad to give
the lady a first-class letter Of recommen-
dation.
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War correspondents are departing from
Ethiopia. If a Red Cross sign is not
respected the wearer of mere press
badge cannot expect much considera-
ton.
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Statesmen who refer respectfully to
Grover Cleveland naturally imply resent
ment of possibility of being reduced to
"innocuous desuetude."
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Literary discrimination by collegians
may be required to show when smart
political saying ceases to be wisecrack
and becomes an apothegm.
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Taking a walk" seems serious matter
in politics. A sufficient element of
gayety may survive to make it little
like tap dance.
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Payment Of the soldiers bonus will
require large clerical force. The work
will at least contribute something toward
relief of the white-collar man.
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No sympathy can be expected in con-
nection with suspicion that there is
an idea of reducing the United States
Supreme Court to state of inert fatigue
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Pure Art.

"Art is free from politics" said the
musician.
I'm glad to know that" replied Sen
ator Sorghum. Were going to have a
political rally and it would be annoying
if the band walked out on U.s."
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AL Smith wears high hat to BAN
quet, but he will never go SO far as to
put on an opera hat when the band
plays Sidewalks of New York"
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knowledge.

knowledge.
"We,re civilized! We're civilized"
We tell it with elation.
BY crimes each day we are surprised
In fearful agitation.
"We're civilized" we say once more,
With gleeful pride we shout it.
4 crime has scarce occurred before
We have learned all about it.
whether you believes de world u
round or nat" said Uncle Eben, don't
waste too much time tryin' to change
it, shape to suit yourself"
Evening star., 1936-01-31

ocriptural references imply an obliga-
ton on the part Of all voters to become
> theolosians as well as constitutional
lawyers.
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Advice.

Advice.
From the Atlanta Journal.
1T is more blessed to give than to re-
cieve" This is especially true with ref
erence to advice,
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A Tip From Old Hickory.

From the Albuquerque JOURNAL.
Hotelkeepers who have been unable to
break even on meals should follow the
example Of tho jackson Democratic.
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Improvement.

"Do you find that business is improv-
ing?"
certainly" said Mr.. Dustin Stax. MY
lectures on economics elicit sincere ap-
plause. All the old factory needs is to
improve financially as much as it does
intellectually"
II do not dance" said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown, "but value the grace Of
others, and as hearts grow generous and
sympathetic believe that those who do
not dance should pay the fiddlers."
Evening star., 1936-08-17
Premature Blame Fixing.

The peoples counsel, Mr.. william A.
Roberts, is unjust in attributing even
part of the failure to begin under
ground railway construction in Wash
ington to the inertia and inactivity Of
District officials" If they have been
inert and inactive in this connection,
they can at least claim to have shared
that attitude with about everybody
else, excepting Mr.. Roberts. He is more
nearly correct when he attaches part
of the failure to undertake $16o0O,OO0
underground railway project on the
complicated mechanism under which
District appropriations are devised"
But there are many other conSidera-
tions. Mr.. Roberts is a lawyer, but not
an engineer. Nor does he claim to be
an expert either on subway construction
or the peculiar traffic problem of Wash
ington, although he has pronounced
views on both. Before Washington is will
ing to consider the construction of sub
ways, the carefully considered views Of
engineering and other experts are desir-
able, and thus far there have been no
formal engineering surveys of the sub
way undertaking. Mr.. Roberts has
availed himself, of course, of the views
of private persons among them engi-
neers, concerning the cost and routing
of subway lines. But that is not the
sort of survey that should establish the
Evening star., 1936-08-17
Memorial Parkway.

Acquisition of a tract of 1877 acres Of
land on the Virginia shore of the Po-
tomac by gift from the estate of the late
Joseph Letter materially aids in the de-
velopment Of the George Washington
Memorial Parkway, extending eventually
from Mount Vernon to Great Falls. This
generous donation, which includes a
mansion that will be available as a
recreation center for the users of the
parkway, advances the project to the
point where it may soon become a fea-
ture of the Capital scene.
While the further steps in the de-
velopment of the parkway may not be
Immediately taken, owing to the linlita-
ton of funds, the plan is definitely set
for accomplishment in the near future.
When completed it will afford a scenic
and historic drive without parallel any
where. 1t will link the parks of Wash
ington, beginning at the northern
boundary of the District, and connected
with Mount Vernon by the boulevard
recently completed to the home of the
First President, with Great Falls, where
George Washington engaged in an engi-
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pfacticability of the undertaking for
Washington.
The matter of financing subway con-
struction deserves more consideration
than it has been given. Who is going
to pay for it7 The taxpayers. of course.
The taxpayers can pay for anything
and everything. But where Is the ev-
dence that the taxpayers are willing
to assume this heavy burden, either
through bond issue or Treasury ad-
vance or some other scheme, in the
hope of alleviating traffic congestion and
expediting their passage to and from
work?
Mr.. Roberts is thoroughly con-
vinced that a subway system, or under
ground trolley system, is necessary. He
may be correct. But before blaming the
Commissioners for the delay, he must
convince not only the taxpayers but
the exclusively legislating Congress-not
to mention half a dozen agencies with
partial control over city planning-that
he is right. This he is yet to do.
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Why Business Tremblcs.

Mariner S. EccleS, chairman OF the
Federal Reserve Board. is business
man and might be presumed to compre-
hend business psychology. But he con-
fesses that he is puzzled. Addressing
a Salt Lake City meeting recently he
declared: 1T is difficult to understand
the attitude of many business leaders in
view Of rapid economic recovery
His problem, it seems, is that of trying
to reconcile his optimistic faith in buSi-
ness recovery and his knowledge Of the
fact that business people in general are
critical of the New Deal. On the one
hand, he says that he has noted pros
porous conditions throughout the land;
on the other, he comedies that prosperity
has not brought political support to the
Roosevelt administration. Certain groups
of organized workers may applaud ex-
perimentalism in government, but Mr..
Eccles still is not satisfied-he wants the
bankers and manufacturers, the COM
mercial and mercantile classes of the
Nation to express similar confidence and
approval
That, however, is asking too much.
No regime justly can hope to be all
things to all interests. The notion that
the New Deal ought to be tolerated by
those it has stigmatized and penalized
is ridiculous. "Unscrupulous money
changers" and economic royalists"
would be less than human if they did
not fight back. But the President also
has the active opposition of business
groups to whom such epithets cannot
be applied. 1t happens that he has in
dicted by inference thousands of citi-
zens who we're not conscious of any
special sinfulnesS-he has made the mis-
take of not specifying the culprits he
has in mind. 1t follows, then, that
many who are innocent have taken
fright.
Mr.. Roosevelt himself appreciates the
danger inherent in such panic That IS
why he favored Roy Howard with his
famous promise of "a breathing spell''
for business. His pledge Of an armistice
would have been meaningless unless it
signified an existing state of war. And
that is exactly what its connotation was.
The New Deal from the first has been
unfriendly to industry and trade. BY
no other theory can the Presidents re-
peated onslaughts on ''the high and
mighty" and "the professional mourners
of an old and obsolete order" be ex-
planned. Mr.. Roosevelt sincerely be-
lieves that the Federal Government
should have control over national eco
nomic enterprise of every variety. And
he may be right in insisting upon that
sort Of discipline. 1t is fair question,
though, to ask if he ever has known any
individual who enjoyed being punished
If so, that person was pathologically alb
normal.
But the business community of the
United States is not notably more &C.
centric than its critics. 1t does not boast
Of all the virtues nor does it incontinent-
ly plead guilty TO all the vices. Mr..
Eccles, as a member of the banking fra
ternity, should be particularly well
equipped to understand why those who
get slapped may cultivate the habit of
trembling.
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Golf in Old Madrid.

American golfers may or may not get
a smile out of the dispatch from Madrid
recounting the seizure of the fashionable
Club del Campo by it's caddies, who are
now red militiamen.
They carry rifles instead of clubs,
and although they are permitting some
members-or should it be former men,
bers?-to 60 around, they merely follow
after them with bayonets. The golfers
carry the clubs now.
Perhaps caddies the world over have
envisioned such a day, but fortunately
for America the average boy on a golf
course has but one big idea, and that
Is to become as good player of the
game as his favorite golfng hero of
the moment.
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neering project to afford water COM
munication between the upper Potomac
and the river shore later dedicated to
the purposes OF the Federal Govern
ment as its seat and center of action.
The scenic features of the river valley
above Washington are such as to insure
the development Of an Incompatible
parkway when the remaining links are
provided and the work is extended to
the falls. Meanwhile, the acquisition
of the Letter estate assures an immediate
addition to the recreation spaces in and
around the Capital. While no corre-
spending work on the eastern bank of
the river is now actually in progress, it
is conceivable that perhaps within
short time there will be such an under
taking, on a commensurate scale, to pre-
serve the natural beauties of the river
valley and afford means of visitation
and source of pleasure to future gen.
erations.
1t is now possible to progress almost
entirely within park lands from the
northern boundary of the District to
Mount Vernon. With the development
of the Great Falls Parkway it will be
possible to return from Mount Vernon
to the eastern Arlington entrance and
thence through parkway to the remains
of George Washington's engineering
work at Great Falls. Truly, this will
be an historic as we'll as beautiful
accomplishment, without equal any
where in the world
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filed papers for the Democratic NOM
ination for the Senate and also as an
independent candidate at the election,
withdrew of his own volition. 1t is be-
lieved that Mr.. Hurley had some hope
he might receive the Endorsement Of the
National Union for Social Justice, but
Mr., OBrien, who is running under the
appelation adopted in this State by that
organization, refused to retire or have
ANYTHING to do with a movement to
solidify the opposition against Gov.
Curley, and so Mr.. Hurley decided to
get out.
Representative Henry Cabot Lodge, jr.,
of Beverly, whom the Republican pre-
primary convention Endorsed for the
United States Senate, also has his
troubles. He will be opposed both in the
Republican primary and at the election
bv Alonzo B. Cook of this city and Guy
M GRAY of Greenfield. Mr. Cook has
always been strong in Republican pri-
maries and he probably will receive
good many votes this year, but If he is
beaten in the primary he probably will
not be very strong at the election since
he cannot use the word Republican"
after his name. The common guess Is
that Mr.. Lodge has less to fear from
Mr.. Cook and Mr.. Gray than Gov.
Curley must expect from Mr.. OBrien
and Mr.. Greenwood, in case all OF these
names are on the election ballot in
November.
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

As Gov. Landon, Republican candi-
date for the presidency, sets forth this
week from his vacation resort in Colo
rado on a seven-day swing, the first OF
his campaign, which will take him
through the Central Western part of
the United States and on into Pennsyl-
vania and New York, added momentum
will be given to the presidential contest.
The country will begin to gain frst-
hand impression of the man who is
seeking the highest office in the land,
and the voters getting glimpse OF MIN
will be able in this direct manner to
form personal opinions of the candidate
rather than be guided solely by what
they have heard or read about him.
Much Of the strength which Gov. Landon
is to show in the coming elections Will
depend on the impetus Of this trip.
while this Swing" will be supplemented
by later visits to other parts OF the
country in which the Republican leader
will elaborate on his political views, at
is the opinion of political observers here
that the opportunity presented to him
during the next 10 days in the states
through which he will travel, prac-
tically all of which are fighting terri
tory will be of vital significance to his
presidential prestige.
X X +
Further repercussions from various
parts of the world are expected to the
speech on foreign affairs" which PreSl-
dent Roosevelt delivered at Chautauqua
Friday night. The full significance of
some of the Presidents assertions and
the bearing which they may have, after
they are more carefully studied ana
analyzed. on conditions abroad and on
developing situations there has not yet
been realized, and some of the views he
expressed will be the subject of debate
and discussion in the foreign chanceries
and press for some time to come. This
is particularly true of the attitude of this
country toward the question OF neu-
trality and of what the President said
about the nations of the world knowing
that I'VE are strong; they know that
we can and will defend ourselves and
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up with them. Where one OF the larger
animals seems to be catching a rabbit,
the advantage has been won at the very
start, for these wild rabbits are not
nearly so tinid as they have been pic
tured.
The three in the yard just before dusk
manifested little alarm at the sight of
people and contented themselves with
keeping weather eye, and very enor-
NOUS rectangular sort Of eye 1t was, to
be sure. in the direction OF very old
cat which came to the gate.
This old cat had a sur 1risingly large
amount of pep" left in him, however,
for with one bound he made after the
largest of the three rabbits, and was
within 10 feet before the burrowing
rodent of the hare family, as the diction-
ary insists on putting it, saw what was
up.
In run of so feet down the driveway
the old cat maintained his position-in
fact, even gained slightly-but by that
time the prey had turned sharply and
made off through a hedge, leaving the
cat very much at sea.
The other rabbits, the middle-SiZed one
and the little one, leaped beneath the
shelter of shrubbery and disappeared
from view.
It was not long. however, before their
brown noses appeared poking gingerly
toward the petunias
In another 10 minutes the big rabbit
was back. too, appearing not one whit
upset by the fact that he had Just out
witted a member OF the feline family
All three fell to on the petunias, so
that gardeners who fancy flowers alone,
and have no spots left In their minds and
hearts for the wild animals, would have
been very much upset by the whole oc-
currence.
Those rabbits had picked wisely, how
ever. The owners of their garden were
more interested in the rabbits than in the
petunias.
They welcomed the animals, fleas and
all, and felt sure that little material
damage would be done by morning.
This proved to be the case Inspection
OF the petunias variety Rosy Morn, i'm
proved, showed little if any damage.
The pow-wow set up by many gar
deners about the great damage done by
wild rabbits is mostly unnecessary, If not
downright sheer hokum.
1t is much the same as Audubons
famous bear, which he helped catch in a
corn patch, and which, he said afterward,
would not have done one-fourth the
damage had he eaten all night which
the efforts of a dozen men and boys
caused in catching the animal.
One Of the advantages of many and
large shrubs of various kinds planted
around the entire border of the garden,
as a sort of fence or hedge, is that it
provides real sanctuary for small life,
including the birds.
Many types of life will come to such
a garden which are y.ever seen in the
more open place. In a properly pro-
tected garden they feel safe and at home,
and indulge in play such as is seldom
seen elsewhere.
Dusk is the rabbits favorite playtime.
evidently. The big rabbit and the mid
dle-sized rabbit and the little rabbit
chased each other over the knoll, and
into the shrubbery and around the ga
rage and out again.
They kicked Up their heels and their
cotton tails cleaned in the rising moon.
One did not have to be dreaming to see
Brer Rabbit, or even read Joel Chandler
Harris.
Here he was. in the flesh and fur. as
happy as If life held no triple threat OF
dogs and cats and men.