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Evening star., 1936-03-07
Fixing the Blame for Bad
Manners of Young America

To the Editor OF The STAR
One of your correspondents in recent
letter criticizes the manners of the pres
ent generation in America, and says that
when he was boy there was lot to
be proud of in this country, but since
then We have copied some of Europes
bad habits and that is why ours are
not so good any more. Evidently Mr..
Allen does not know that Europe has
always been proud of its manners and
rightly so.
Why not put the blame where it really
belongs, and that is in women's free
dom. For now that most women are
working land In these times a great
number of married ones), the children
are left to be brought up by governesses
or by themselves, and no one can expect
a child to learn manners in the streets.
So instead of criticizing let us do some.
thing about the better upbringing of our
children. A. S. STEPHEN.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Brave Start.

King Edward VIII has begun his
reign courageously. In much that has
happened since the moment Of his access
sion, January 20, he has shown evidence
of fortnight bravery. The stalwart
willingness to risk himself which dis
tinguished him as Prince of Wales was
manifest in his decisive choice to fly
from Sandripgham to London imme-
diately after the death of his father.
Many Of his subjects, still timid about
air-transport, must have thought that
the journey might have been made more
safely by train. The new sovereign was
hampered by no such fears.
Again, King Edward testified to .
temperamental fortitude in the boldness
with which he assumed control of court
procedure. Promptly and conclusively
he stipulated an unprecedented democ-
racy Of dress at Buckingham Palace. His
gentlemen, he said, would oblige him by
adopting his own preference in attire.
He did not wish to live in an atmos-
phere overcharged with useless formality.
But King Edward also has been fear
less in maintaining tradition. In the
field of foreign policy, for example, he
has valiantly supported the continuance
OF the principles of King George. Those
who supposed that there might be con-
cession to expediency already have dis
covered that they were mistaken. The
empire will be defended, but twill strive
for peace. Observers long experienced
and amply qualified to Judge are con-
scious Of the presence Of . arm yet not
Evening star., 1936-03-07
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

you could set your clock by him."
How often this statement has been
made, and how often deserved!
There is not a block in the great city
which does not contain one or more such
persons, usually men, going about their
business every day and setting q good
lesson to others.
There is an old fellow out our way
who comes down the road every morn
ing at precisely the same time, to the
minute.
He probably passes every landmark at
the same time, SO that persons all along
the route doubtless really could set their
watches by his movements.
Let him feel assured that he is noticed
land let all such persons feel sure they
are noticed.
Perhaps laughed at, in a mild way. but
thereby his lesson gets carried.
He is the methodist, one whose life
runs to formula.
He has a method in his madness. It
is the happiest way for him, because
he is built that way"
His steadiness to his own program
helps others, the least methodical the
most. perhaps.
Some years ago, in a certain part Of
town. there was man with car with
but lights.
Every evening he went out with a
lantern and placed 1t on the car, in
order to comply with the law.
There goes the man with the lantern, !"
said his neighbors.
Many of them didn't know who he
was. but they did recognize his regu-
larity.
No doubt the most striking form Of
daily method comes in the leaving home
for work.
Our hero leaves at precisely the same
time each morning, and keeps his
watches and clocks in order, to make
sure that he does so.
He wants to catch that bus!
But 1t is deeper than that.
It is life habit, one which city liv-
ing has fastened on him, and built up,
year by year.
Certainly 1t has its dangers as we'll
as its good points.
This thing of being a chronometer for
ones neighbors is not Joy alone.
X X + Il
All such persons come in time to
suffer from form OF compulsion neu-
roses, another Of those horrible multiple
terms coined by the elder psychologists.
UnconSciously the victim may arrive
at the point where his desire to do the
same things in the accustomed way be-
comes an obsession.
Probably he won't know 1t himself, and
others will be in danger of making a
mistake If they suspect it, but it may be
fact.
Just what horrible fate then awaits
him cannot be known any longer, for
the elder psychologists are dead, and
certainly the plain people pay little at
tention to such matters.
Probably there is some danger here
1t Is not as important that people be able
to set their timepieces by ones move
ments as that one, in ones self, be rea-
sonably happy.
This gets us back to the supreme point.
1t Is happiness, pure and undiluted,
Evening star., 1936-03-07
''Box Score'' of Opinions
Bv Supreme Court Judges

From the Minneapolis Tribune.
The Associated Press "box score"
which shows how the justices OF the
United States Supreme Court have
voted on major constitutional issues
raised by New Deal legislation. Is highly
interesting. 1t may be especially COM
mended for study to those who choose
to think of the court as politically
minded. sectionally biased and partisanly
predisposed body. For the record is rich
In those elements of paradox which run
sharply counter to such Supernclal
judgment Of the court.
In the seven cases considered, for ex-
ample. only one justice has perfect
record of opposition to the New Deal laws
involved, He is Justice McReynolds. q
Wilson appointee. On the other hand.
Justice Cardozo, q Hoover appointee. has
voted most consistently to uphold those
laws. Where McReynolds has voted z
to against the New Deal, Cardozos
record is S to z in its favor. Justice
Brandeis, a Wilson appointee. has voted
on every occasion with Justice Stone,
Coolidge appointee; they have upheld
four New Deal laws and disapproved
three. The two justices whom Wilson
placed on the court, McReynolds and
Brandeis. have q combined box score"
of 10 votes to 4 against the New Deal;
the three Hoover justices, Hughes. Rob-
erts and Cardozo have cast II votes OF
opposition and 10 in its favor. The latter
group, in short, has much the better
record from New Deal point OF view.
There is not the slightest evidence to
indicate that partisan backgrounds have
exerted a prejudicial influence on these
decisions. As matter of fact, the rec
ord seems to throw some OF the choicest
theories about the court into reverse gear.
The notion that individual members OF
the court represent sectional interests Is
one of these. In both the N. r. A. and
A. A. A. decisions considerable violence
was done to this idea. The T. v. A. de-
cision. however, probably offers the
strangest paradox of all. Here we find
Justice McReynolds of Tennessee, the
only Southerner on the Supreme Court,
casting lone vote against the Tennessee
Valley Authority, which was expressly
designed to benefit the South.
what the record indicates Is not
group Of men swayed by partisan or Sec
tional considerations, nor yet group
whose members may be fitted individu-
ally into the tight little molds Of LIBERAL
ism or reaction. It suggests, on the con-
trary, a judicial body which speaks for
the Nation rs q whole, without fear or
favor, and with complete independence
Of thought and conviction.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Stars News ''Background''
A Milestone in Journalism

To the Editor of The Star:
Permit me to express my appreciation
of your innovation in prefacing your
news articles with paragraph Of back
ground"
It marks q milestone In the history
of modern journalism. 1t is remarkable
that no one has thought Of 1t before.
With congratulations and best wishes,
CLARENCE CANNON,
M. C.
Evening star., 1936-03-07

for all such walking chronometers to be
on time.
But not for itself, alone.
On time, to them, is themselves.
They are on time.
They are, in other words, dependable
people.
You can depend on them and, what is
more important, they can depend upon
themselves.
One has but to think of all the per-
sons who evidently cannot depend on
themselves to realize what a great gain
in individual happiness this simple mat
ter really constitutes.
You have to be able to depend on
yourself before anybody else can depend
on you.
It is because employers of all sorts do
not always understand this fundamental
proposition that they must jimmy
around hiring and firing.
A few simple tests of applicants. to
see If they can depend on themselves,
first. would show whether the firm could
depend on them afterward.
- X X
Almost every one knows some person,
probably charming girl, who is utterly
undependable.
She is pretty, vivacious, intelligent,
but has no idea of what time means.
We don't mean abstract idea of time,
but just clock time, no more.
If she says she will meet you in front
Of the big department store at o'clock
you can depend on one thing-she will
not be there until 4, and probably never
show up at all.
If she announces her intention of
achieving certain destination, she
probably will forget all about going.
No watches are ever set by her, be-
cause she cannot depend on herself.
Despite her charm, she is thoroughly
undependable.
And there are men that way, too, and
they haven't the charm. maybe.
The dependable man may be an old
fogy. as some will say, but you can set
your watch by him, just the same, and
that Is something.
There are thousands Of him. He is in
every section of the city, and wherever
he is he brings quite fresh evidences of
faithfulness to many who may proclaim
themselves tired of lessons" and the
like. but who, nevertheless, are sus-
ceptible to them.
Even the sophisticates admit that they
want their preaching" as they call it,
in harmless doses, diluted with liveliness
and the like.
Our hero is lively man, although
he would be the last to admit it himself.
He is lively enough to get up on time,
though he may not want to. He would
enjoy that little extra snooze as much
as the next one.
He is lively enough to get out of bed,
to eat his breakfast at the usual hour.
even on cloudy mornings, and to leave
the house at about the same time.
When it comes to making his corners,
he is as lively as they come
He rounds every bend just on time,
like some great steamboat of old plow-
ing down the river
The only extra service he might render
to his neighbors would be to carry a
whistle, to blow loudly at the bends.
They don't need it. however. They don't
miss much, do they?
Evening star., 1936-03-07
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
End of the Trail

My feet are weary on the road I've
travelled;
My heart is weighted by q deepening
sorrow.
If all lifes tangled skeins might be
unraveled
To clear path to some divine to.
morrow ,.-...
Then could I face the road that lies
before me,
Tread it courageously, of all fear
Shriven; lsS
Knowing whatever tempests may sweep
DER me
The clouds will some day by the sun
be rtven
And light will break, far-reaching light,
commanding
View Of a cleared road leading TO
the heaven
Where I'll find peace that passeth un-
derstanding -'.
In the safe harbor Of your arms st
even
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Life of the Party.

Il have been told" said the lady with
a notebook, that you began your bril-
liant career by posing as bit of a
clown"
That's quite correct" answered Sen
ator Sorghum. 'The public is as shy as
femininity itself. If you want to get 1t
interested in your serious intentions you
must first attract notice by cutting up
and trying to be the life of your po-
litical party"
Evening star., 1936-03-07

This country has been so liberal in
contributions to George Bernard Shaw
that he comes over regularly to super
wise his accounts. Americans are easily
taxed and habit encourages almost any
kind of collector to keep calling, re-
gardless of whether or not he has the
affability which insures perpetual per-
sonal popularity.
Evening star., 1936-03-07

A judge rules that it was legal for
process server to serve papers on H. L.
Doherty at private banquet which fea-
tured costumes and melodious satire.
Censorship grows bold indeed when the
amateur cop defies the amateur actor.
Evening star., 1936-03-07

Tuneful burlesquers have made bold
to attack the Supreme Court of the
United States. A strange clash is threat
ened when a falling out is feared be-
tween the most eminent group of nine
judges and the nine muses. themselves.
Evening star., 1936-03-07

Stain in some of his interviews inti-
mates that some Americans have in
vented a special kind of communism for
themselves which lacks even the official
approval of the Soviet.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
The Menace of Neglect.

1t is grave reflection on some members
OF the House that they made of debate
on District appropriations an oppor-
tunity for meaningless and often spiteful
''wisecracks." What this bill does to
the Districts school system is tragic.
The victims are children.
For years-almost ten years-the
school authorities have been struggling
with lack of teachers. Shortage of class
rooms is bad enough, but it can be met
by sending children long distances to
other schools, using the corridors for
class rooms, dividing the pupils into two
shifts so that some come in the morning
and others in the afternoon. A shortage
in teachers cripples the whole system.
Little can be done about 1t except to
neglect the children.
That is what is happening now. In
the colored schools especially the over
crowded classes are .disgraceful. In the
senior high schools throughout the city
the authorities have had to adopt the
arbitrary allotment of one teacher per
thirty pupils. Teachers are not assigned
on the basis of educational requirements
any more. They are assigned like cattle
to railroad cars-so many head per feet
Of space.
The result? The schools are forced to
neglect one of the great opportunities
for constructive work in useful citizen
ship. Talk about your little red rider!
More causes for deep-seated, funda-
mental social unrest might be traced to
the cruel undermining of the schools
than to all of the silly prating about
communism Of all the soap box orators
and new world makers in the country.
In Washington we have child labor
law. Under it no boy or girl can 60 to
work until the age of sixteen, except boys
who have completed the eighth grade,
who may go to work at fourteen. Out Of
every 400 boys who graduate from junior
high schools at about the age of fifteen,
$50 of them fall out before they COM
plete senior high school. They drop by
the wayside because the school cur
riculum is not adapted to their indi-
vidual needs. Many other young men
and women finish high school, are unable
college. They want to return to high
school after graduation and learn some
thing else.
For those students who cannot complete
high school because they cannot master
Latin or trigonometry and those who
want to keep going to school after
graduation, nothing is done. They can
not get work, their particular educational
needs are unmet. Many of them are
thrown on the streets. Many of them
20 through life, misfits and failures for
lack Of proper guidance and early
training.
The schools, undermined as they
are, can supply no needs except those
filled by the assignment of one teacher
per so many pupils. The "custodial
duty of schools to the community is
the principle of the survival of the fittest
In a mass production scheme. There are
not enough teachers to go around.
The Board of Education asked for an
increase of two hundred teachers. That
estimate was conservative, to meet only
pressing requirements. The Budget
Bureau cut the request to fifty-five. The
House bill allowed twenty-three. This
number will not decrease the shortage,
but will merely take care of additional
class rooms in new schools.
Evening star., 1936-03-07

Kansas is frankly proud of ALI.
Landon, even though he discourses on
business lines and does not attempt to
be as picturesque as some of the con-
spicuous figures in the old greenback
agitation.
Evening star., 1936-03-07

The still respected Ten Command
ments hold suggestions of art limitation
which should perhaps be brought to the
attention Of some of the boondoggle
studios.
Evening star., 1936-03-07

In sporting circles performers fear to
lose their amateur standing. The pro-
fessional theater may find Selective ad-
vantage in the great array of clever
people anxious to lose theirs.
Evening star., 1936-03-07

There might be less fear of Adolph
Hitler if his friends and admirers did
not print biographies which seem con-
stantly to threaten a need of expur-
cation.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Epic Boiling.

From the Lowell Evening" L<ader
Sinclair's E. p. I. G.. is said to be organ
izing in California bolt from the ad-
ministration. But most people get the
idea that E. p. I. c. shot its bolt some
time ago.
Evening star., 1936-03-07

Future historic analysts are likely to
wonder why, during period when emf
nent thinkers were mercilessly heckled,
criminals got by with comparative ease.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Slogging Home.

From the Charlotte Observer.
Being an infantryman, Gen. Hagood,
Of course, understands the technique Of
the procedure when he is told to hot-foot
Il home.
Evening star., 1936-03-07

II amt lookin' fob no shortenin' Of
de workin' week." said Uncle Eben.
"some of de days dey figures on leavin'
out might be pay days" .
Evening star., 1936-03-07
More Study.

You've heard that history will repeat
Itself. And that is true.
It's lessons never are complete,
They must be learned anew.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Demands of a Great Author.

DChH~IUS VI . OTCdE lAUVHUKs
1T requires time to know enough about
Goethe to lecture on him." said the
erudite conversationalist.
"Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, "some
people never even learn to pronounce
his name correctly"
Evening star., 1936-03-07
A Variable Vision.

From the st. Paul Daily News.
Hawaiians say their GODDESS. Pele, ap-
pears as an old hag or beautiful girl.
Depending. of course, whether it was
early morning or afternoon.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Taxation Struggles.

From the Sioux City Tribune.
Congress Is represented as engaging
In q major struggle over taxes. The
taxpayers major struggle viii coma later.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Rate by MaiI-Payable in Advance.
Al Other States and Cana oa
Member of the Associated Press.

a, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
The use for republication of all news dispatches
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., 1936-03-07

Jud Tunkins says Uncle Sam amt the
first youngster that spent money Law.
ishly for nothing much except q head.
ache.
Evening star., 1936-03-07
Another Historic Task.

Another Historic Task.
George Washington, if you were here
To see this reverence and good cheer,
Gould you, with dignity sedate,
Manage to get the budget straight
Could you provide the funds, immense,
to meet the recent years expense?
With patient toll and words of weight,
Oh, could you get the budget straight?
Evening star., 1936-03-07

Eieht Final and Sunday Star----s0c per month
Night Final per month
Collection made at the end Of each month
Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Ma
tionaI 1000
The Washington times., 1936-02-17
Presidents Play
John Marshall

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Feb. II.
John Marshall High courtmen, Of
Richmond, leaders In the central
division with four wins and no
defeats, play George Washington
High here February a in a game
to decide the championship.
The Presidents clash with Mary.
land froSh Wednesday at College
Park and Friday meet Eastern
High in the metropolitan area
tournament in Washington.
Paul Williams, star bowler with
the Rotary team in the Service
Club League, Is lost for the rest
Of the season. He fractured his
right ankle yesterday In a fall or
the ice.
Episcopal High entertains Con
zaga here Wednesday. This marks
the opening Of relations.
Fort Belvoir mittmen meet Fort
Myer in a series Of bouts at the
post theater Friday. Last week
the Virginians lost to the Termi
nal Y team.
The Washington times., 1936-02-17
Brewers Trip
MdrVeIs'

It was one Of those rough and
tumble games, the contest yes.
terday between the Heurich Brew.
ers and the Masked" Marvels at
the Heurich gym. The Brewers
triumphed, 80 to IS.
A basket by Everett Russell set
the stage for the victory. This
came with only q minute to 60
and the Brewers trailing, "a to
80. A follow-up shot by Whitley
Wilson put the locals ahead, SO
to "a. The game ended a few
moments later when MoSicant,
Marvel center, slipped a foul toss
through the rimS-a point that
was timely, but not enough to tie
the count or win.
Russell scored II points alto
gether. Otis Zahn was not far
behind with 10. Luderman, with
Is, was the Marvel star.
In the prelimS, the Rinaldi
TailorS defeated Olmsted Grill,
27-22, and ReSettlement trounced
Fort Myer, 43-34.
The Washington times., 1936-02-17
RossIYn Lists
Pin Stakes

Women as well as men are
eligible to roll in the second an
nual Old Dominion Sweepstakes
scheduled at Rosslyn alleys on
Sunday, March 8.
The event, in which Burt
acobS, RoSSlyn Independent
League bowler, is defending cham
pion, calls for five games and
costs only S..
1t is a handicap affair with
each participant receiving 3/5 Of
the difference between his or her
average and 40. Sixty-four
rolled last year and at least rs
are expected this season. Two
shifts will roll, one at 3 p. m.
and another at 8 D. m.
The Washington times., 1936-02-17
PADDOCK'S TURF GOSSIP
Late Special-SLAPPED
Fifth at Santa Anita

Mrs. p. A. b. Widener has q
real smart 3-year-old in pnieper,
a chestnut gelding by Kiev and
Nerva, who won at Hialeah last
Friday and stepped a mile In
1896 as, running the first six
furlongs In I'll is. The gelding
carried 116 pounds and at no
time was he ever pushed by
Jockey Johnny Gilbert. Dnieper
is entered for the Florida Derby
and the gelding win probably
rule one of the choices in the
classic.
Joseph E. Widener. president OF
Hialeah Park and Belmont Park,
said today that. TOO muc b
thought is given to track records,
rather than preserving the sound
ness Of horses. Hard tracks, de-
veloped especially for obtaining
speed at all costs, have been the
cause Of many horses going wrong
or breaking down entirely. The
surfacing of racing strips to secure
q proper cushion is a most i'm
portant study. Racing associations
everywhere should sacrifice speed
for safety and the preservation Of
good-legged horses"
Alex Gordon. trainer Of the
Coldstream Studs horses, desires
the services Of a top race rider for
the coming season. He thought he
had engaged Johnny Gilbert, for
he had a telegram from him say.
ing that terms were acceptable
and asking that the contract be
sent to Miami for signature. The
day the contract was mailed from
Lexington to c. B. Shaffer at
Miami. Gilbert signed to ride for
Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Of Vir-
ginia. I"
The Washington times., 1936-02-17
SunrisePinmen
Risking Lead

Sunrise Bakery bowlers are on
top of the Temple Major Duckpin
League heap after winning five
out of six last week but tonight
they tackle the powerful Lido
Civic Club crew and fireworks are
in prospect.
The Litteri aggregation reg
istered a surprise shutout of its
business rivals, Caruso Groceries,
thus knocking them out Of the
lead. Camden Tavern swept Lido
Civic Club to tighten the race
that much more.
Tony Santini took individual
set honors with a $50, though
Ralph Meyer had high game, 154.
Other Standout sets were Olivetti,
378; Perry and Lasover, $50 each:
Mooney, 367; Powell, 366; Lewis,
364; Honey, 363: T. Santini, 361;
Rettew and Pricci, $50. Brodt's
had high team set, 1,756, and Sun
rise Bakery high team game, 614,
Standings.