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Evening star., 1936-06-28

good in the inch, and cling to it. I am
climbing the bare stairs of duty, step
by step" Despite the malady that was
slowly destroying him he kept at his
writing, but the most marked character
istic Of the latter years of his splendid
life was his ver-developing faith. His
understanding Of the purpose of life
grew clearer and its ultimate attainment
became more and more evident to him.
1t was the demonstration of what faith
may do when it Is free and untrammeled
by doubts and fears. His last prayer is
one that discloses his humility and trust
and his complete obedience to Him in
whom he believed. I produce it here:
For our absent loved ones we implore
Thy loving kindness. Keep them in life,
keep them in growing honour; and for
us, grant that We remain worthy of their
love. For ChriSt's sake, let not our be-
loved blush for us, nor we for them.
Grant us but that, and grant us cour-
age to endure lesser ills unshaken, and
to accept death, loss and disappoint-
ment. as it were straws upon the tide
Of life"
Here is expressed confidence in the
outworking of Gods purposes, complete
love, and utter resignation to His will.
Possibly more than any spoken creed 1t
affirms a faith that is triumphant
whether in life or death. 1t is in demon
stration of the ancient word: Mark the
perfect man. and behold the upright: for
the end of that man is peace" Steven
son was finely human and his many de-
lightful books give evidence of the wide
range of his thinking. 1t is when he
permits the world about him to enter
the more secret place where the strength
of his character has its seat that we
are privileged to know of the faith that
sustained him in weakness and in
strength. He wrote his own requiem in
lines that suggest the assurance his faith
gave him:
Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die.
And I laid me down with will"
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Holy War Threat.

Having narrowly escaped conflict with
Italy over clashing ambitions in Africa
and the Mediterranean, Britain sud-
denly faces the possibility of fierce desert
warfare in the Near East as conse-
quence of the anti-Jewish Arab uprising
ing tribesmen who inhabit Transjordan,
the British-mandated kingdom adjacent
to the Holy Land, are threatening to join
in the bitter guerrilla hostilities which
the Arabs are waging against the Jews
and the British. Transjordan is in
cluded in the League mandate which
gave Britain control over Palestine, but
since 1928 London has recognized the
existence of an independent TranSjordan
government under the rule of Emir
Abdullah.
The Emir himself is strongly Anglo
phile and would, if he could, restrain his
100000 militant subjects, mostly fanat-
ical herdsmen, from throwing in their
lot with their Arab neighbors, whom
they look upon as brothers. But Abdullah
faces stern opposition both within his
own house, at the hands of his son and
heir. OXford-educated Crown Prince
Talal, and from the desert sheiks who
demand an immediate armed alliance
with the Arabs in their crusade to crush
Jewish economic and political influence.
The sheiks, who WELD vast authority over
their own people, have confronted Emir
Abdullah with something bordering on
an ultimatum. Declaring TranSjordan
and Palestine to be single community,
constituting one people and one land
they insist that freedom for them is use
less without freedom for Palestine. They
have served Emir Abdullah with notice
that unless the Arabs are liberated"
within ten days, the hard-riding plains
men-warriors will cross the River Jordan
in aid of their blood brothers and win
Palestine back from the Jews and the
British"
Civil strife between Arabs and Jews
has been steadily intensified during
recent weeks, despite efforts of British
military forces to suppress the revolt and
persuade the Arabs to abandon their
hostility to the continued presence of
the Jews Hitherto the British authori-
ties have felt that the situation could
be handled by their relatively small
garrison of $4,000 regular troops, from
tier guards, camel corps and local police.
But their problem will become a vastly
graver one if the Transjordan tribesmen
carry out their plan to invade Palestine
as allies of the Arabs. In such a de-
velopment would lie not only the peril
for Britain of tribal conflict of incalcu-
liable dimensions, involving the dread
menace of holy war in which Mo-
hammedans throughout the British East
might be melted to participate. There
would also be imminent danger Of the
destruction of the great work Of coloni-
zation carried out in Palestine under
Zionist auspices for the purpose of estab-
fishing a haven Of refuge for oppressed
Jews. 1t is the recent immigration influx
of Jews from anti-Semitic European
regions that is at the root of the trouble
in Palestine.
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ment was hot on the trail of alleged in
come tax evaders who were members of
his ring, sending one of them to jail
and indicting others. Now that Long
is out of the way and his machine has
come back into the fold the Department
ious than ever to press for fair trial
and a rigid prosecution-if for nothing
else than to demonstrate to the country
that politics has never had anything to
do with the case and never will. That
is presumably one consideration that
actuates the Treasury in its decision to
60 ahead with the income tax cases,
regardless of the Department Of Justice.
The Treasury is trying, and rightly so,
to keep its skirts clear of the charge
that it ever permits the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue to engage in "persecu-
ton" for political purposes. The fact
that Seymour Weiss, former Long lieu
tenant and treasurer of his organization,
was reported from Philadelphia now to
be shouting his head of for Roosevelt
makes the Treasury's course of action
more praiseworthy than ever, just as 1t
puts the Department of Justice in
shadier light than before.
1--WE have preserved and stimulated
respect for law" said Senator Barkley
in his keynote. Yes, with the help Of the
"G-men." But the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation is only one bureau of the
Department of Justice, one small arm
of the Federal Government.
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Politics and Business.

Business people usually are not ex-
travagant. Their spirit, as Shakespeare
might have said, is imbued in what
they work in." It is the universal COM
plant of their critics that they are too
conservative" Napoleon could think OF
no better way to express his contempt
for the British than by referring to them
as nation of shopkeepers," and such
radicals as Karl Marx always have be-
heved that the so-called bourgeois ele-
ment" represent their real enemie$ in
their struggle for theoretical industrial
democracy.
Yet it may be wondered If the mer-
camille classes are not more sinned
against than SHINING. Diatribes launched
against them customarily are predicated
on their supposed lack Of an instinct for
reform. They are vilified as stolid and
selfish. sordid and satisfied. If history
contradicts those notions, the fact is dis
regarded. They are bracketed in sin
gle epithet, held up to public scorn as
"reactionary." And professional poll
ticians, especially in recent years, have
made it vocation to identify them with
vested interests" which they allege are
involved in a great conspiracy against
the human race.
But no proof ever is offered. The ex-
ecutive officers Of one Of the most i'm
portant banks in the United States not
long ago were subjected to an inquisi-
ton frankly designed to prove that they
were criminal promoters Of war. For
days In succession they were questioned
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Worse Than Ever.

Efforts by the Treasury Department
to collect income taxes allegedly due the
Government are not, of course, confined
to cases in which criminal evasion is
suspected or charged. They often con-
stitute cases in equity before the Board
of Tax Appeals.
But in the Louisiana tax cases, involv-
ing the former associates of the late
Huey P. Long, determination of the
Treasury Department to collect taxes
allegedly unpaid emphasizes once again
the odd decision by the Department of
Justice in agreeing to drop further
criminal proceedings against these men.
II the Treasury succeeds in collecting
the taxes it will be difficult for the, De-
partment of Justice to justify course
of action that does not look right and
should never have been taken.
While Senator Long was alive and
ranting against Roosevelt the Govern
Evening star., 1936-06-28
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Trouble.

Trouble.
Lookin' for trouble? What's the good?
Always lot in the neighborhood.
A man has met with financial woe
And little boy has stubbed his toe.
Lookin' for trouble? What's the use?
There's always so much that has been
turned loose
That if you observe both great and small
You won't see anything else at all.
Look for the sunshine across the f1owrs,
An the rainbow CLINT through cooling
showers;
Look for the gentle and friendly smile
And your lookin' may show you some
things worth while.
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applying taxes that increase from year
to year to build vast reserve fund. AS
this fund grows, many officials are con-
vinced Congress will be subjected to ir-
resistible pressure to cut down on the
rate of the pay roll taxes. This would
upset the insurance character OF tne
plan.
8. A financial problem, growing out
of handling of the huge reserve fund II
it is allowed to accumulate as planned.
This fund is scheduled to reach 0,0O0,-
100000, all of which must be invested IN
Government securities. Should the fund
grow as contemplated the Government
would need to stay in debt to the extent
of so billions.
The principal question which voters
will be called on to decide is whether or
not they want old-age pensions to be
confined to individuals who grow old
and become destitute, requiring public
charity; or whether they want to build
a system of old-age annuities which
will be theirs as matter of course
when they reach retirement age.
One is the extension Of the dole or
poor relief principle; the other is an
adaptation of the insurance principle.
The insurance annuity plan about TO
take effect is among the most highly
complicated of possible systems. 1t
could be greatly simplified and prob
ably would have to be If continued and
if able to survive the Supreme Court.
But, regardless of the fate OF the pres
ent plan, the idea of generous subsidies
and of Government assistance to i'm
portant population groups is being In
trenched to stay.
tooosTishA teesS
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and catechised. In the end, however, the
probers were obliged to admit-reluctant-
ly, of course-that they had failed.
Even by star chamber methods they
could not convict the suspected finan-
ciers Of wilfully stirring up armed strife
for the sake of profits. The most that
they could show was that certain money
kings had preferred the allies to the
Germans in 1914-191s The political
bosses Of the time made a similar de-
cision and were much more vociferous
about it.
To illustrate the haSic difference, the
late Lord Carson may be quoted. In
1917 he announced as one of the objec-
tives of England: "We must destroy in
every country every German business
and get these businesses for ourselves.
We can do that now" Such was the
politicians point of view. But the aver
age British tradesman was motivated
by other ideals. His code was more
notably equitable in character. Eco
nomic determiniSm had no strangle
hold on his soul. So it happened that
he was among the first to protest against
the indefensible injustice of the Ver-
sailles treaty.
The current campaign in America
brings to the fore the same variance.
Business, particularly successful busi-
ness, again is foot ball, scheduled to
be kicked around the national landscape
until November 3. There will be tor
rents of talk about monopoly, the trusts,
Wall Street, the resistance of industry
and industrial institutions to compulsive
change. But much of the oratory, it may
be hoped, will be vain waste of breath.
The voters will Understandable least
should understand-that the orators
seek political advantage.
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Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Washington had no geological garden
fifty years ago, but, according to a cor
respondent whose letter
Snakes in is printed in The Star
=, of June 80, 1886, the
the otTeets' Government was main
tanning a scientific collection OF some
menace to the public safety.
"I was quite startled and shocked this
morning by the intelligence that snake
more than three feet long had been
found on the railroad track Immediately
in front of my residence on New York
avenue, only few feet from Fourteenth
street. Upon examination I found that
the reptile had been evidently crushed
under the wheels of the cars. The ques-
ton naturally presented was how did
this snake get there and whence came
it. Whether it had come up through
the sewer, brought there by the cars
from a distance, or escaped from the
Smithsonian Institution were among the
many surmises and speculations sug-
eested. In view of the fact that snakes
have frequently been found in the
grounds of the Smithsonian Institution
and the existence of a subterranean den
under that building for the accommoda-
ton and propagation Of these reptiles,
I consider the suggestion that the one
in question had escaped from that
quarter the true solution Of the mystery"
Half a century ago it was the general
custom in Washington for man riders
on street cars to surrender
Street Car their seats to women, but
the following letter in The
courtesy. Star of July 3, 1886, indi-
Gates that this courtesy was not always
politely rendered:
Who was it that lately wrote on the
subject of vacating seats in the street
cars? If writer and readers have not
lost interest in it I could say few
words from recent experience on the
woman's side. All the teaching OF wom-
an has for the last few centuries been
to the effect that as such she is en-
titled to courtesy and consideration; IL
is one of the first laws in the code OF
gentleman; it would therefore seem I'M
possible that one calling himself a gen.
tleman should be willing to keep his seat
in a car and see a woman stand. This,
must admit, rarely happens-has never
happened to me. It may be seen. there
fore. that my grievance is not that we
do not have a seat given us-it is the
manner of the gift. The mans COM
plant is that women take his seat as II
the offering were nothing more than ex-
pected and. he adds, without even
thank you Thanks to him and others
like him, it is nothing more than We ex-
pect; as to the thanks
How, I beg of you, is one to be bland
ly polite to person who jumps up with
a sadly bored expression about the eye
brows, hastily but resolutely turns his
back upon her, and during the rest OF
his ride either stands out on the step
or gazes fixedly at the driver? If he
would give her the chance to meet his
eve and repress the scowl he would not
often miss a grateful thank you that
is his due. OF course, there are women
who neglect it, just as there are men
who don't get up for anybody; but I
have often waited anxiously for the op-
portl1nity to do my part in the exchange
Of courtesies, and have given it up at
last with a humiliating sense OF my
own rudeness"
Evening star., 1936-06-28

Psychopathic examinations are de-
manded for any statesman whose duties
cause an overwrought nervous condi-
ton. The Association of Song Pluggers"
may introduce timely variation entitled
Home on the Derange"
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The Restless Mind.

"You ought to take day off and go
fishing"
NO." answered the constant toiler;
"I'd rather stay in the Office and think
about fishing than be out in fishing
boat thinking about work"
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A protest which mentions this or any
other third party" is careless in its
arithmetic. With two parties estab-
lished, there may be one third party.
Another would have to be commended
to Einstein as more or less fourth
dimensional.
Evening star., 1936-06-28

Party affiliation has been mentioned
with reference to ]. Edgar Hoover. Mr.
Hoover may be credited with serious
and conscientious endeavor to keep
crime out of politics.
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Not an Outer.

"You must be familiar with the ins
and outs of politics?"
mo" replied Senator Sorghum; $50
far have been lucky. I have managed
to identify myself strictly with the fell
lows that get in"
Evening star., 1936-06-28

A great deal of American history was
made in Philadelphia. 1t was the avowed
purpose of some of the visitors last week
to improve on the article previously
Evening star., 1936-06-28

A filibuster often enables a Congress
to command attention by doing nothing
in the most conspicuous manner possible.
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Many delegate who has taken the po-
litical hurdles will wonder whether, after
all, a session of Congress is not easier
than a convention.
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Blame the Tax.

From the Toledo Blade.
"Out of every Is cents spent for
cigarettes one-half goes to the tax gath.
erers." So, If the cigarette bites the
tongue, 1t Is the tax.
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The Happy Medium.

Inc HAPPY Meulums
I love to hear the highbrow
Making great opinions known;
I sometimes wish that my brow
Were lofty, like his own.
Yet my feeling never mellows
When he leads the learned hike,
As when talking with plain fellows
Such as Jim and Bill and Mike.
I don't commend the lowbrow
OF the rude assertive kind.
I am satisfied that no brow
Should conceal a vacant mind.
But when erudite orations
Leave me mystified, like
The lucid observations
OF plain Jim and Bill and Mike.
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Prismatic.
There are now so many 'isms"
Tingeing the affairs of man
That we seem to look through prisms
AS this busy world we scan.
Some are "blue" and some are yellow"
Some are green" it has been said.
But the worst of all's the fellow
Who turns out to be a red"
de man dat trusts to Luck" said
Uncle Eben, "is always so ungrateful
as to give his own smartness all de
credit when Luck helps him out"
Evening star., 1936-06-28

Jud Tunkins says mans noblest and
most philanthropic efforts often fail to
attract as much attention among his
friends as the fact that he has bought
q new hat.
EFT is worthy action" said Hi Ho,
the sage of Chinatown, Ito learn truth
and speak it. It is an unworthy action
to pretend to speak truth when you
have but guessed at it,"
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Nsht Final snd Sunday star---7ee per mont month b
NiSH5 colleetion a made at the end Of each month
Orders may be sent by mail or telephone Ma
tional 5000
Evening star., 1936-06-28

Washington had no geological garden
fifty years ago, but. aceprding to cor
Evening star., 1936-06-28

Workers and employers are to be made
to contribute to an account that will be
used to protect them against a rainy
day. Their contribution will increase
gradually until it reaches per cent of
the total pay roll, involving an estimated
$4,000, 100000 year.
Each one of about 100000 workers
this fund. AS he reached IS he will be
entitled to retire and draw an annuity
for the remainder of his life ranging
from $1750 to $81.50 month, depending
on the size of his contributions and the
length of time he contributed. If he
dies before IS his accumulations 60 to
his estate.
There is nothing quite like it in any
other nation of the world.
This program of forced saving-the
real heart of the present social security
programs criticized by the Repub-
licans as unavoidable. They favor limit
ing old-age benefits to individuals
actually in need and they favor paying
those pensions on a year-to-year basis,
rather than out of huge reserve fund.
Many New Dealers of influence agree
with the Republicans in questioning the
workability of the old-age insurance
system that is about to be applied.
They see three gigantic problems, de-
scribed as:
l. An administrative problem grow
ing out of the task of maintaining 30,-
100000 individual savings accounts, with
large numbers of these workers drifting
from job to job and from one end of
the country to the other. A further adj
ministrative problem involved in col
lecting pay roll taxes through 100000
employers about $4,000 Of whom are
constantly shifting. b..
2. A political problem involved In
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A few years ago the face of the earth
was sprinkled with sugar. The ware
houses were crammed in Cuba to such
an extent that there was no more space.
Sacks of sugar were piled in the open
fields with only tarpaulins over them
for shelter. Sugar during the war had
been SO precious that not every one
could buy. The poor could not buy at
all. Sugar went to % cents pound and
more. The supply was rationed to pur-
chasers. But there came a time when
sugar sold for less than l cent pound
and with a very sluggish market for 1t
at that price.
Sugar is a commodity which provokeS
tremendous cheers and soaring hope for
the world. For world sugar stocks are
actually below normal. They stand at
only go per cent. That is the sort OF
situation, in this Through the Looking
Glass" world which evokes paeans OF
thanksgiving-the blessing of shortage!
Presumably when it gets noised abroad
than an even keel between production
and consumption has been achieved, the
producers will go full steam ahead once
more and give the wheel another spin.
In the meantime, there is possibility
that governments will arrange produc-
ton and marketing controls. There is
a certainty that with shortages or even
approximate shortages employment viii
increase, more people will be drawing
wages, profits of trade will be better, ana
the promise of lack will enhance pros
perity and feed the hungry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-06-11
Song Hit of COP Convention Work
 of Portland Man
Three Long Years Sung to Tune of Three
 Blind Mice

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June II. - The song hit of the convention is Three Long Years" sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice" and written by Joe Dunne, of Portland, Ore.
 The Oregon delegation spread copies of the song around the con- vention hall and hotels and it has caught on," bandmasters vieing with one another in putting It over.
 The hit is based on Senator Fred erick Steiwers frequent use of the phrase.
 One verse goes as follows:
 Three long years.
 Three long years.
 Full of grief and tears,
 Full of grief and tears.
 When we got to the promised
 land
 We found nothing but shift
 ing sand,
 Left unstripped like Sally
 Rand,
 For three long years"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-06-11
CHAMBER WANTS B. OF P. R. TO OIL GLACIER ROAD
Dust Makes Driving Haz- ardous - Shattuck to
 Contact Bureau Chief

Request to the Bureau of Public Roads to see if arrangements can be made for oiling the Glacier Highway will be made at once, it was decided at the luncheon meet ing of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce after the proposal had been presented by R. E. Robertson. President Norman Banfield referred the matter to the Eagle River Road Committee of which Allen Shat tuck is Chairman, to take up with M. D. Williams, District Engineer of the B. P. R.
 Homes out along the highway cannot be kept clean due to the heavy dust raised by traffic, MT. Robertson pointed out, and urged some action be taken immediately His suggestion was given support by Frank A. Boyle and John Jones, the latter stressing the safety fea- ture. The dust makes driving haz- ardous, MT. Jones explained
 President Banfield reported on the welcome extended the Los Angeles c h a m b CT of Commerce which was here Tuesday and told of the aid pledged by that group to Alaska development.
 A letter from c. c. Garland Chairman of the Alaska Committee of the Tacoma Chamber of Com merce, was read. The Tacoma Chamber renewed it's promise of support, particularly to the air mail program and has its representa- tive in Washington now working in behalf of the enterprise.