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WANTED-ROOMS.

BY Government engineer, in strictly pri-
vate family; northwest preferred: private
or semi-private bath; furnished. Address
Box 246-R. Star Office
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MOVING, PACKING AND STORAGE,
ANDERjON VAN SERVICE, 11th AND N. z
ave. Natl. 1870. Special rates all cities;
N. Y, Boston Chicago, Fla, st. Louis,
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20 ACRES m FLORIDA. CLEAR. 70
18th st. NV. Phone National 4353.
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ROOMS AND BOARD.

ROOMS AND BOARD.
1885 K-Close in; large livine-bed room,
private bath; excellent meals reasonable.
vacancy Tor young man, S32 30.
172s N ST. NW.-Delightful studio rooms.
walking distance to downtown: excellent
meals &c
TILDEN GARDENS-Doubie rn1. adjoining
private bath. Phone Cleveland 6137
1922 MASS. AVE. N.W.-Attractive double
room. strictly private bath. shower Excel
lent meals. Reasonable.
l401 10th N.W--vacancy for young lady.
2nd moor. front; newly decorated and furn.'
phone in room: semi-private bath.
9622 18th. APT 32-Room and board with
private family in apt for 2 young business
ladies or couple; reasonable. Call after z
pm. Columbia 54S9-J
1923 10th ST. N.w.-Attractive home for
men and women: convenient location: ex-
eellent food; oyernight or permanent guests.
Phone North 4752. g.
FAULKsToNE COURTS. APT. .117-Large
room. twin beds. next to bath: southern
and eastern exposures; good home cooking;
$40 O month for two; breakfast and din
ner. Phone Adams 02S4. 14th snd
Fairm0nt st. NV.
HuLCREST INN. $500 18th st. NV
Corner double room. twin beds; excellent
900 10th ST. NW.-Youne man. share
front double room; also lovely single room,
newly dec. nicely furn.; well-balanced
1854 FAIRMoNT ST. N.W.-Phcne CO.
fumbia 4240-w, Room with board; one or
eve gentlemen: SS week: lunches packed.
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room. to l or . men; convenient car and
bus: $50.
1883 MERIDIAN PL NW-Attractive
adults: owner; reasonable. Phi. Col. 0243
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ROOMS AND BOARD.
tonn-tonn,

1919 BELMONT RID NW.-Single, double
rooms: home cooking; garage. Phone
Adams 1850. Call after pm.
1862 WYOMING AVE. NW.-Large dou-
BILE room. comfortable home: references.
Call Decatur 21S3.
1914 CONN. .AVE.-Attractively furnished
IN hot n. L.
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14s4 MERIDIAN PL. NV. Excel,
home-cooked meals. attractively sery
Phone Columbia 3911.
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DUPONT CIRCLE - Lovely studio room,
front. fireplace. maid service: gentlemen
only, Also single room available. Phone
North 2702-J 1Os
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DO ,Z0U.
IN BEST RESIDENTIAL SECTION OF
GEORGETOWN near 30th and Que sts.-
ro9m On sasy fnd teSt bath prisk H ean Rs bought
2S27. ELIOT MIDDLETON. 2o5 In
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advantaged by the current argument. If
justice is done, plank for the enfran-
chisement of Washington will appear in
the platforms of Republican and Demo-
cratic parties alike, and the candidates
unhesitatingly will commit themselves to
its fulfillment.
In any case, concentration of the
country's attention on politics is not to
be deplored. Rather, it is an occasion
for rejoicing. 1t is symptomatic of
America, a phenomenon of liberty in
action, a value rare in an age whose
principal handicap is coercion.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Frances New Deal.

Premier Blum has undergone his bap-
tism of fire in the French Chamber and
emerged with an impressive vote of
confidence. BY the substantial margin
of 384 to 210, his motley majority of
Socialists, Radical Socialists and Com
munists registered approval of the Pop
ular Fronts program for giving France
new deal. AS the first move in that
direction, M. Blum will this week rush
through Parliament a forty-hour week
bill, coupled with measures for collec-
tive bargaining and paid vacations for
workers. These plans comprehend no
arrangements for enforcing higher
wages, which the government labor
supporters vehemently demand, but the
premier will exert his powerful influence
with employers to fatten pay envelopes
without legislative pressure.
While M. Blum was outlining his
social reform propositions before tur-
bulent Chamber, which at one time roared
with such provocative references to his
Judaism and alleged Moscow" ties that
he bolted proceedings in protest. Strikes
prevalent throughout France ramif1ed in
extent and bitterness. Paris witnessed
the first disorderly outbreaks since
workers, now estimated at roundly
million, began walking out last week.
Returning to the Chamber, which was
presently to record its overwhelming
confidence in him, the premier left no
doubt of his hope that the labor bills
would end the strike crisis, hope which
was speedily justified. He expressed COM
plete sympathy with the workers cause,
but cautioned against eXcesSeS.
Besides legislation dealing with labor
conditions, NJ. Blum proposes national
ization of war munition industries and
reform of the Bank of France so as to
give the state preponderant voice in
it's management. The new deal program
also looks to an elaborate system OF
public works as an antidote to unemploy
ment, to laws for lengthening the school
age and to price-flXing for farm produce.
Even ways and means for developing
sports, "tourism" and diversified branches
Of French economy are included in the
far-flung scheme of the republics first
socialist government for national re-
generation.
The premier was silent on the burning
issue of devaluation. But when the
opposition challenged his ability to carry
out SO elaborate a program without
tampering with the franc, M. Blum re-
piled that the government will try by
extensive credits to obtain the results
achieved elsewhere by devaluation. In
the realm of foreign affairs, the premier
confined himself to promising to do
Frances utmost to lead an overarmed
Europe to better ways.
The new regime in Paris, born in
stormy times, faces probably even more
tempestuous experiences both in and
out of the Chamber OF Deputies. To
keep in leash and in line his nondescript
aggregation of Popular Front bedfellows
is for the moment M. BlumS paramount
problem.
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WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

presidential nomination takes none of
his close friends by surprise. 1t was
only a week ago that the Michigan
ditor-stateSman, in radio interview on
the eve Of the Cleveland convention, de-
clared vehemently that 81 do not want
anything" Vandenberg has been freely
quoted during the past few months,
though not directly on his own authority,
as preferring to bide his time for what
the Republican presidential situation
may offer in 1910. He will be only 56
years old at that time, so he can afford
to wait. Meantime he is sure to remain
an outstanding figure in the Senate,
and. If there are to be four more years
of Roosevelt. Vandenberg is likely to
develop as the administrators most
effective critic and opponent at the
Capitol. That would be an ideal build
up for national aspirations later on.
Nothing in the Senator's remuneration of
second-place ambitions at this time
seems to eliminate him from continued
consideration for first place in the re-
mote contingency that Landon is
stopped. He is still, by long odds, the
leading dark horse as the home stretch
approaches on the embattled shores of
Lake Erie.
Speaker Bankheads arrival on the
House rostrum fortifies Dixie's strangle-
hold on the seats of the mighty in the
lower branch of Congress. Never in
Capitol Hills history have so many key
House committee chairmanships been
held by Southerners. Except for rules.
nearly every major committee is today
headed by member from below the
Mason and Dixons line The formidable
list includes Ways and Means, Foreign
Affairs, Appropriations, Agriculture, Naval
Affairs, Military Affairs, Banking and
Currency. Interstate and Foreign Com
merce, Judiciary. Civil Service, Merchant
Marine and Fisheries, Rivers and Har-
bors, Flood Control, World War Veterans,
Territories, Pensions, Public Lands, Pub
lie Buildings and Grounds and Accounts
X
Secretary of State Hull is the first
member of the cabinet to accumulate
1886 honorary university degree. La
fayette College has just conferred an
IL. D. upon him, making his third aca-
denic distinction of that caliber. The
two others were given him in 1884, re-
Spectively, by Notre Dame and George
Washington Universities.
X x y X
In his latest weekly commentary on
the convention situation, Charles
Nicholson, director of Democratic Ma
tional Committee publicity, supplies
what may be hint of New Dealers in
tentions to propose a constitutional
amendment in the Philadelphia plat
form. Nicholson "guesses" that "the
1886 platform will not be very different
from the 1882 platform except for the
inclusion of planks dealing with matters
that have arisen since that brief and his
toric document broke the precedent of
a recital of whereases and becauSes
which consumed newspaper columns
that nobody read"
X X X X
Representative Samuel B. Pettengill,
Democrat, of Indiana, is the author of
a highly informative book entitled "Hot
OIL" which tells the inside story of the
congressional investigation of the petro-
leum industry conducted by the special
committee headed by Representative
William p. Cole, jr, Of Maryland. Pet
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Cicada History.

The cicadas are not historians. But
If they were, they might tell fasci-
mating story of ceaSeless mutation in the
world of which at birth and death they
have momentary views. Longest-lived of
all insects, they burrow into the ground
in one era and emerge in another. The
seventeen years of their Information is
cycle of repetition for them; it is, on
the contrary, period of constant varia-
ton for their human neighbors. Con-
tinuity is a law for both, yet the
Hemiptera-specifically the Cicadidae
septen- -decem-has a theoretical advan-
tage in being privileged to witness the
principle of change dramatized.
For example, when the cicadas were
in Washington in 1919, they might have
learned that President Woodrow Wilson
was expected home from the Versailles
Peace Conference and that Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge was preparing to keep the
United States out of the League of Ma
tions. Or they might have heard that
three Navy flying machines were blazing
transatlantic trail from Rockaway
Beach to the Azores-the first flight of
its kind in human annals. Also, that
Alcock and Brown shortly would wing
their way from Ireland to Nova Scotia
and the British dirigible R-34 would
cross from Scotland to Long Island and
return. Theodore Roosevelt recently had
died in his sleep at Oyster Bay and
Andrew Carnegie's philanthropic career
was drawing to its close. Congress was
debating woman suffrage, Billie Burke
was selling Victory Loan bonds on the
steps of the Treasury, the Washington
Monument was being experimentally
illuminated, DR.. Frank Crane was writ
ing daily sermon for The Star, Mary
Pickford and Charlie Chaplin were in
the front rank of cinema popularity.
In 1902, the scene and the characters
were drastically different. The cicadas
of that date might have listened to dis
cussion of Chinese exclusion, read of the
Moro rising in the Philippines, heard of
the big fire at Atlantic City, in which
eight hotels were destroyed; seen the
models for the Grant and Mcclellan
Monuments and been informed that
plan for Union Station was under
consideration. In South Africa the Boer
War was In progress and Cecil Rhodes
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will, establishing the Rhodes scholar
ships, was being announced. Theodore
Roosevelt was President and King Ed
ward VII was dragging himself through
the tedious ordeal of coronation at
Westminster Abbey. Bret Harte and
Admiral Sampson were paying their debt
to Nature and John B. Henderson was
entertaining at dinner at Boundary
Castle with Henry Watterson as his
guest of honor. 1t was the epoch of
Chase's Polite Vaudeville and the Bel
lows Stock Company. Blanche Bates
was starring as Cigarette in Under Two
Flags" A dispatch from Menlo Park
told of a conference between Thomas
Alva Edison and Santos-Dumont, the
aeronaut-they agreed that eventually
men would be competent to fly even bet
ter than cicadas. But the best symptom
of the increasing tempo of inventive
advance was report in The Star which,
referring to an unnamed member Of
Congress, said: 1.-TWO bicycle officers
silently followed his racing automobile,
one of the fastest in the world, and,
when the statesman stopped. politely
requested his attendance in the Police
Court the following morning"
The game of cicada rotation has a
vast attraction. Indeed, the whole pace
of human evolution might be measured
in terms of their coming and going
To illustrate, this years crop is con-
temporaneous with the Queen Mary, the
conquest of Ethiopia, the New Deal, DR..
Townsend and Mr.. zioncheck, sound
movies and radio broadcasting, while
that of 1917 may be bracketed with
Fultons steamboat, that of 1884 with
the Baltimore and Ohio as the first
passenger railroad, that of 1851 with
Morse's telegraph, that of 1868 with the
oil industry and that Of 1885 with what
curiously has been called American i'm
perialism."
But, of course, the cicadas do not care.
Theirs is department of creation in
which nothing new ever happens-a
fact which explains why they are not
historians.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
A Compromise Resolution.

Senator Glass, chairman of the Sen
ate's Appropriations Committee, and
Senator Thomas, chairman of the sub
committee on District appropriations,
share the major burden of Senate re-
SponSibility for the District bill They
have received the united support of
committee members and of the Senate
in their determined fight for fiscal equity
for the District. The District is highly
fortunate in having such champions.
For that reason, if for no other, the
people of the District will be inclined
to regard sympathetically Senator
Thomas resolution, adopted by the Sen
ate, fixing the lump sum for the fiscal
year 1887 at the budget figure of $780,
600 and leaving determination of the
Federal obligation for 1888 to an inde-
pendent commission.
Certainly there can be no objection
to the commission proposal as far as
the District is concerned. Nor is there
any reason for apprehension over the
results of any fairly conducted investi-
CATION. The last time Congress investi-
gated the subject through joint COM
mission, the solution Of the Federal
obligation controversy was reafhrmation
of the fixed ratio principle. The last
time an outside agency investigated the
subject, the recommendation (by the
now extinct Bureau of Efficiency was
for lump sum exceeding ten millions
q year.
These points, however, may be borne
in mind: The entire expense for the
commission, coming out of the lump sum,
which constitutes a part Of local reve-
nues, is thus to be borne by local
revenues. That in itself constitutes
reduction in lump sum that should
represent-and in the opinion of the
Senators-doeS represent an irreduclhle
minimum. Out of the lump sum the Dis
trict is already obligated to repay $780,
600 for Federal advances from P. w. A.
and the park and planning law, under
terms far more drastic than those which
sum of $500, ,o0O-already reduced by
1,550,OO0-can certainly stand no fur
ther reduction in any possible COM
promise" to expedite House acceptance
of the Thomas resolution.
The Thomas resolution is itself dis
tinct compromise on the part of the
Senate 1t represents compromise with
existing law, which sets the Federal
obligation at forty per cent of the reve-
nues divisible between the District and
the Federal Government. 1t represents
compromise with the facts, which show
to every unprejudiced person who has
studied them that the real Federal
obligation is in excess of $5,700000. 1t
represents a distinct compromise, on the
part of the Senators, with state of mind
that is neither logical nor fair and
which has set itself against any inter-
ference in its sacred processes by any,
body.
If, in addition to such compromises
embodied in the Thomas resolution there
are additional demands for yielding on
the already inadequate lump sum of
$5,700,000 it is hardly conceivable that
men of the type of Senator Glass and
Senator Thomas will weaken the integ-
rity of the position they have stanchly
assumed in the cause of equity and fair
dealing for the District.
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Shooting Stars.
BY PH1ANDER JOHNSON.
The Man of the Hour.

The Man of the Hour.
The delegate is now the man
On whom we turn our eyes,
Although he does not lead a clan
To struggle for the prize.
The orator with phrase refined
Bows down to him to note
The passing changes of his mind
That may affect his vote.
OF statesmen wise the land is full,
With voices loud and clear.
We scorn the old-time boss pull
And flout the financier.
But we bestow the laurel crown
With honors all immense
On him who will sit calmly down
And be the audience.
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quiry. The 300-paged volume goes into
virtually every phase of the oil business,
especially the pro and con views of lead
ing authorities on the subject of Gov
ernment regulation. 1t reproduceS the
letter addressed to the Senate Committee
on Mines and Mining, in April, 1885,
by Gov. Landon concerning the Thomas
Disney bill. "Oil is fluid" remarked Lam
don. unlike wheat or corn or coal, one
owner cannot conserve unless his neigh
Dor is willing. To protect the owner who
doesn't wish to waste, Government must
deal with his wasteful neighbor. More
over, oil is indispensable in war, as well
as in peace, and there must be conserva-
ton of this great national resource"
(Copyright. 1850
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bloomer" long enough as yet for 1t to
get into its stride.
We will have to be patient, evidently.
X + X X
1t well may be that lack of sufficient
fertilizer is partly responsible for many
of the ever-blooming climbing roses not
living up to expectations.
1t has been quite a feat to get them
to forget their habits of the centuries.
If they are to produce more flowers,
from time to time, they needs must have
more food,
Roses are gross feeders, even when
normal, and these abnormal plants surely
are mere so, since they must produce
more, and out of season, as compared
with the age-old habits of growth and
development.
HollyhockS and certain other plants
may be made to bloom twice a season, by
cutting off the blooms, after Towering,
trimming the plant somewhat, and Civ
ing them repeated doses of bonemeal
and copiouS watering through the rest
of the Summer
Often in Autumn they will respond
with another blooming. This is never
as fine as the first, of course, but still is
desirable.
4
Any one who has the old standard DR..
Van Fleet climber on his fence will have
observed that once in a while it does
give few blossoms a second time in
the season.
1t was this tendency which led the
plant experimenter to hybridize it, re-
sulting in the New Dawn, as it is called.
pprCnno1lu
with the DR.. Van Fleet that we have not
investigated the newer form, so can
say nothing for or against it from per-
Sonal observation.
That magnificent sturdiness of the
parent has been its chief attraction, after
the long canes and their beautiful light
pink blossoms.
Plant experiments are interesting and
necessary but not necessarily for every
small home gardener The individual
must decide for himself whether he will
go running after every horticultural
novelty the moment it comes on the
market. Often it is expensive and un-
wise, since the small owner hasn't the
space, He had better stick to the known
and the tried, the sturdy and the uni
form, the sure-f1re things, in short.
\ X
That IS why we have stuck to DR..
Van Fleet and Paul's Scarlet, as indicated
previously.
There is philosophical side to it, too
Some gardeners, while admiring the work
of those who put crinkles on petals where
no crinkles existed before, still will
slightly shrink away from these novel;
ties, not in any real drawing back, of
course, but simply as mental or in
tellectual shrinkage.
The blooming of the various flowers
in their seasons is one Of the splendid
things of this world Who would ask
that the great peonies come again until
next year?
The fact that they bloom but their
once is chief endearment. When we
have peonieS in the Fall, and tulips in
midsummer, the home garden will be
tipsy-turvy, indeed.
Some Of US are SO very old-faShioned
as to be satisfied with climbing roses that
bloom just oncei Think of it, We are
weary with the prospect of all flowers
with blooms that look for the world like
blooms of other plants, of all flowers
blooming out Of the normal seasons
which have stood them in good stead
over the centuries. Is it necessary that
our gardens become as hectic as our
streets, as complex as our daily lives?
God forbid!
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Rejoice for 1t!

Already complaints about so much
talk about politics are being registered
by persons who prefer other types of
entertainment. The press, the radio and
the movies are filled to their respective
brims with news and views concerning
the forthcoming election, and that cir
cumstance is a source of irritation to
many who, for one temperamental rea-
son or another, choose to be detached
from the quadrennial scrimmage.
But a moments thought might serve
to suggest that the debate is something
to be happy about. In Russia, no citi-
zen would dare to express an individual
istic attitude of mind concerning issues
political In character; in Germany, mi
nority opinion is "verboten" with ven-
geance almost barbaric in nature; in
Italy-well, imagine the fate of any mis-
guided soul who should dare to criticize
Mussolini as multitudes have criticized
ROOSEVELT
Stated in the simplest language, the
meaning of the present political discus
sion is that America still is free. Nowhere
else in the world, unless possibly in Eng
land and in her self-governing dominions
overseas, is unhampered democracy per-
mitted to function. In the United States,
people believe what they please; not
merely what dictators command them to.
And they vote as they like-the most
precious privilege of all.
The single exception is that of the
District of Columbia. But perhaps even
the cause of national representation for
residents of the Nations Capital may be