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Evening star., 1936-07-05
" a stan CORRESPONDENT OF Tne Star.

by Stan Correspondent OF Tne Star.
CAMP ROOSEVELT, July Amid
screams of Joy and laughter and ago
nizing entreaties from Spike Bailey,
the owner, RED Mike" the hitherto
unbeaten champion of turtle track
sters, went down in defeat this after
noon, in the annual 'Toitle Dolby" at
Camp Roosevelt, the Boy Scout Camp.
So inglorious did Mike" lose that
he did not even qualify for the finals,
which were won by Newt" the dark
horse" entry of Bob Miller of Sail
Loft"
Mike was away slowly. and excite
ment ran high as he overlook one
after another Of the speeding con-
testants In his heat. But he had
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ASSUMES DUTIES

SILVER SPRING, Md, July A.
Mrs. Louise c. Ferguson of Wash
ington assumed her duties as librarian
Of the Silver Spring Public. Library
this week.
A new schedule of hours during
which the library will be open has
been announced as follows: Each
week day, with the exception of Satur-
day, from 2 to 6 pm; Monday.
Wednesday and Friday, 7 to Q p.n..
and Saturday, 10 am. to noon.
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Glass to Have Picnic.

The Mems Glass of Calvary M. E.
Church will hold its annual picnic
at 5 pm. Wednesday at Reservation
No. 2, south Of Pierce's Mill ip Rock
Greek Park. Members of the class
and their families are to attend. The
class Is headed by Herman Welsh,
president.
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Mirrors Once Disguised.

n the mid sixteenth century women
of Ash1on disguised the pocket mirror
as q little book, looking, to the uni
Initiated, like o prayer book.
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RABBI WISE H0N0RED
Again to Head Zionist organiza-
tion of America.

tion of America.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., July 1 R.-
Rabbi Stephen s. Wise Of New York,
internationally known Hebrew leader,
will again head the Zionist organiza-
ton of America which he founded, re-
placing Morris Rothenberg OF New
York, it became known tonight.
Rothenberg will become chairman
of the Administrative Committee. it
was announced at the thirty-ninth
annual convention of the organiza-
ton in session here. Agreement to
the elevation of DR.. Wise to the presi-
dency came after all day conferences.
The election was expected to take
place tomorrow.
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MANHOLE COVER HALTS
SPEEDING FIRE TRUCK
Front Wheels Throw Iron Plate
Against Brake Drum-Damage
Is Slight.

A manhole cover stopped fire
truck in a freak misf1ap yesterday.
The truck No. l engine was racing
up Connecticut avenue to a fire at
Nineteenth street and Columbia road,
when it suddenly stopped. The sur
prised driver, E. o. Negley, got OF to
investigate.
He discovered the front wheels OF
the truck had displaced the iron lid
of a manhole cover and thrown 1t up
against the rear brake drum, causing
the wheels to lock. The engine was
able to continue on its way in a few
minutes, with a bent brake rod as
the only damage.
Fair Slated in Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro Brazil, will hold an
international fair.
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Traffic
CONNECTIONS

FIRST OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Dempsey P. Latney. 144O S street, IS.
Howard Keith, 2216 Eleventh street,
S..
Luther r. Smith, Virginia, IS.
James M. Bradford, Maryland, IS.
Ellis A. wilson. $40 v street, sas'
Evening star., 1936-06-14

A NEW political combination is
~ in preparation in Europe at
~ the present moment. In Italy
A "A and in the Reich il Is called
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would remain to fortify her during
widowhood.
She remains the Queen Mother, byt
no constitutional privileges attach =,
this rank. Mary Windsor is
longer Queen of Great Britain ant
Empress of India, despite the fact
that Edward VIII is unmarried.
Medical circles, rejecting the pop
ular concern. consider that the prob
able effect of Queen Marys fall from
palace power will be psychological.
Reaction may show itself, doctors
point out, in distaste for public ap-
pearances, although queen Mary
hoped, in. her recent message to the
empire. that she might still be able
service" she and King George gave
during AZ years of married, life"
The example of Queen Victoria,
who became the legendary, black
garbed, unseen widow of Windsor
after her husbands death, is cited
by those who have expressed these
fears.
Then the Prince of Wales, later
Edward VII, was only too willing to
relieve his mother Of the duties falling
to the sovereign.
In the case of Queen Mary, with her
son as King. not regent, the former
consort must by law figure less in
public life than Victoria did when q
retired, but reigning, monarch.
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Definite Retirement of Queen Mary
ArOuses Concern About Her Health

LONDON CR.-The announcement
that Queen Mary is moving out of
Buckingham Palace to live in gloomy
Marlborough House is interpreted by
many British subjects as heralding
her definite retirement from public
life.
The step also has elected popular
concern for the Queen Mothers
health.
Although she "will never give way
on parade" as the Duke of Atholl
recently stated publicly, nisgivings as
to how deeply the death of her nus-
band might have affected her have
been felt ever since she was seen in
King Georges funeral procession,
haggard and grief-stricken..
The bereaved mother win not have
to go far when she leaves the scenes
of her past greatness. Marlborough
House Is but a few hundred yards
from the palace down the mall.
First Tenant In IL Years.
The Queen Mother will be its first
tenant in II years. 1t was purchased
in 1863 from the Marlborough fam
lily as town house for the Prince OF
Wales. It has been unoccupied since
the death in 1925, of Queen Alexan-
dra, who left a precedent for Queen
Mary by taking up residence there
when her husband, King Edward
VII, died.
So gloomy is it that the present
King, before he succeeded to the
throne, refused to live there although
it was entirely redecorated after
Queen Alexandria died.
The house, built in ITO by Sir
Christopher Wren for the great Duke
of Marlborough, ancestor Of Winston
Churchill, has 200 rooms. Bricks
brought from Flanders as ballast by
the first duke were used in its con-
struction. Originally with two floors
it now has four.
Here Queen Mary will pass the
eventide of her life. largely with
drawn, it is expected, from public
view, hoping in peace and quiet to
recover from the shock of her hus-
bands passing.
"will she recover?" Ask those
who saw her at the funeral cere-
monies.
People noted then that never be-
fore had she looked 50 aged, her
features 30 deeply lined.
It was then that her people began
to wonder whether the iron viii and
unflinching bearing she has evidenced
during as years - reigning Queen
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Huge India Dam Faces
$ll2,OOO,O 900 Failure

KARACHI, India R.-One Of the
worlds largest irrigation projects in
India's Province of Sind faces the
prospect Of becoming one Of the great
est engineering failures in history.
The threefold menace Of malaria,
seepage and salt deposit threatens
the $112,000,0o scheme, and the
problem has become so acute that
Sinds new governor has moved his
headquarters to Sukkur personally to
investigate the troubles affecting the
giant Sukkur Dam.
The project irrigates more than
100000 acres, which is 100000 more
than the total cultivated acreage Of
all Egypt. Main canals fed by the
dam total 1900 miles, and these sup
ply 3,700 miles of distributaries.
Dangerous seepage, however, has
already jeopardized the scheme in
several areas, bringing with It an
alarming increase in malaria.
In addition, agricultural research
workers are seeking method to pre-
vent crops from being ruined by the
rise Of sub-soil salt.
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Boy Scouts in India
Aid i'm Regeneration

BOMBAY.-Boy Scouts in India are
taking large part in village ''uplift"
and demonstrating cleanliness for
roads, removing dirt and refuse. dress
ing neglected wounds, washing sore
eyes of the children. These splendid
boys are reported to be contributing to
the regeneration of India. Scouts are
taught loyalty. obedience and serv-
ice to others. They are taught to face
difficulties smilingly. and that 1t is es-
sential to be clean at all times. Above
all they are taught that they are
brothers to every other boy inside
and outside the Scout movement-no
matter what their religion or caste
may be.
The membership Of Boy Scouts Is
increasing In India, the numbers
amounting to 279, $40, an increase Of
$4,000 on last years total.
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Chang Still Holds Hope for Peace
I'm China Through h Political Means

NANKING-Marshal Chang Kai-
shek, China's generalissimo and presi-
dent of the executive Yuan, found
time in an extremely pressing day this
week to tell a correspondent that he
still hoped for a peaceful settlement
with the South.
Il hope the situation will be settled
through political means" he said.
Asked whether the central govern
ment forces would be obliged to resort
to arms against the southern army if it
continued its advance northward
through Hunen Province, Chang Kai-
Shek said that this question was not
yet suitable for discussion, "as they
are not now continuing their advance
and we hope they will not continue it."
The generalissimo, slender Of face
and figure, was in smart but simple
uniform. His eyes are extremely keen,
his quick smile was at once courteous
and reserved, and his manner COM
pletely cool despite the present crisis.
He talked in his current Nanking
residence, a pleasant but not pre-
tentious house belonging to his
brother-in finance minister H. H.
Kung.
A man of action and quick de-
cisions, Chang rarely grants inter-
views and when he does, he wastes no
words. When asked regarding his at
titude to the manifesto issued by the
Southwest Political Council, calling
for a war of resistance against Japan,
he replied that such questions were
for the Forthcoming plenary session of
the Central Executive Committee to
decide.
But 7 believe that more remains to
be accomplished through diplomatic
channels for peace with Japan" he
added. "I believe there Is still ground
for eace." A
He was asked what he considered
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that the new European states furnish
the solid and permanent material out
of which the new European edifice
will be built. The old monarchies
would not even have understood the
idea. At most, Bethmann Hollweg
or an Aehrenthal might have offered
to help to consolidate the European
equilibrium" And we all know what
deadly surprises are latent in this
formula, which has belonged to the
diplomatic arsenal ever since it was
first thought that the treaty Of West
phalia had created an artificial Eu-
rope by dividing 1t into two rival
groups.
I cannot help, in my own mind,
comparing Bethmann Hollweg or
Aehrepthal, whom I knew SO well, to
a Masaryk and a Benes. The latter
also-and it is their duty to do So
value the independence of their coun-
try. But they understand perfectly
that a reconciliation of Europe, even
at the cost Of common sacrifices, Is
the essential primordial condition of
that independence.
Hope of Common Ground.
1t Is this new outlook-which exists
even in those countries that seem to
oppose it most-that warrants the hope
of a future common organization of
Europe.
Our long standing antipathies and
recent hatreds prevent us Europeans
from perceiving that the European
feeling has awakened in us far more
than we suppose. And certainly not
by our own merits. But because today
new units, the work of Europe, are
springing up beside her-units which
differ from her hundred times more
than the European nationalities diff
fer from each other.
Asia was always a very different
world from little Europe, one of Asia's
peninsulas. BY Westernizing the ex-
ternal appearance of Asia we have
drawn her nearer us-but only with
material bonds. In reality. now that
Asia lies within our reach, we feel our
collective dissimilarities even more.
North America has perhaps contrib
uted even more toward the formation
of q half conscious, half unconscious
European feeling, owing to the fact
that the American personality has
evolved in a manner so much more
detached from US during the last 20
or 80 years.
Let the most skeptical Europeans
recall their instructive reactions on
their return home after q fairly long
stay in the United States. Whether
they were shocked by the mechaniza-
ton OF American life, OF whether--like
myself-they loved the warmth and
spontaneity 50 often found there, even
among the most refined, they felt
back home" as soon as they landed
in one of Europe's big harbors: Cher
bourg or Bremen, Antwerp or Genoa-
it does not matter which.
In this the United States has helped
us unconsciously. Whoever has-as I
have-tasted Of American life cannot
but have noted that when we spent
an evening with men of the "old
school, we we're, after all, among Euro
peans. They also may know our
philosophers, or Shakespeare, or the
classics, or Dante. But in them one
notes q new mental training Ameri-
can, that training, and exclusively
American.
On some future day it will perhaps
be recognized that even the World War
and Its four years Of slaughter co1sti-
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French Border Church
Supplants Nazi Edifice

METZ, France JP.-Citizens Of the
French half of the Village of Leyding,
cut in two by the Franco-German
frontier, will have their own church.
Their religious difficulties have
been solved by the French govern
ment, which appropriated $4,000 for
construction of church on the
French side of the street.
Previously, Leyding's Frenchmen
attended services In the towns only
church on the German side Of the
frontier. Since the establishment OF
the Hitler regime the French faith
full said Nazis were imported from
Berlin to transform the pulpit into
political soap box" and they de-
serted the church.
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newspapers rnagnified-and nothing
was fairer-the spirit Of the victorious
offensives of the French armies, as
we'll as that Of their British. American
and Italian allies on the French front.
But they did not sufficiently bring out
one Of the essential elements of the
changing situation: The fact that the
German military organization was in
creasingly compelled to narrow itself
down, to draw nearer its bases-that
is, to evacuate France
The disillusionS Of 1915 and 1916
had possibly been too hard lesson;
we had hardened ourselves against
too much optimism. 1t should even
be acknowledged that the discussions
of the Reichstag in authoritarian
Germany in 1918 showed a more ac-
curate knowledge Of the truth than
those held in the Chamber of Deputies
of democratic France. The men who
in 1914-like Stresemann, to quote
one of the best-had shown childish
credulity in the lies of their general
staff, took their revenge in 1918.
Defeat is harsher but more clear
sighted taskmaster than victory.
Paris Refused Compromise.
Misapprehension endured after the
war. It was Sorgotten-Paris willed to
forget-that neighbors never crush
one another definitely; that after
Rossbach came Jena; after Jena,
Sedan; after Sedan, the Marne.
In China, they know better. In
China-I saw it with my own eyes
wars, even when they are waged with
ferocity, never sever all possibility of
eventual agreements: there Is always
confidential agent of the enemy
at hand. It was not until the gloomy
years of 1917 and 1918 th,t I graSped
the full value of remark Sun Vat
sen made to me when, Italy having
entered the war, left China to re-
turn to Europe, there to serve my
country from closer quarters. As I
was preparing to leave, the great
Chinese leader told me: when you
Europeans fight, you always forget
that all wars end in compromises
must end in compromises.
Useless memories and confessions?
Thin. perhaps, but not entirely use
less. What we need most is to under
stand what has happened and thereby
destroy the legends and myths of
which we, the war generations, were
the victims.
All the same, despite all our past
errors, despite relationships and the
wars they begin or threaten to begin,
the possibilities of a European en-
tente today are nearer and greater
than before the World War, notwith-
standing the hatreds and problems it
bequeathed to u.s.
1914 Picture Held Worse.
If one considers essentials rather
than episodes (admitting, however,
that episodes are liable to become
very dangerous), one must acknowl-
edge that present-day Europe is far
from being more inexorably divided
than the Europe Of 1914.
It Is. indeed, true that the 1919
treaties have multiplied the barriers
between peoples. In 1914 we had 26
customs systems and 13 monetary
systems. The war has given Europe
IS customs systems and ~ monetary
systems-there are $3.50 miles Of new
customs barriers. The conclusion is
easy: A Balkanized Europe, to quote
clever saying launched By Magyar
propaganda.
!. But the fact remains. nsyerthelsss,
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in London. in Paris, in
Rome, before we had the courage tc
feel and assert that we must at last
create new Europe?
I believe it was due to the nature
of the treaty itself BY defining this
nature, we shall come very close to
the judgment history one day will
pass on this famous document.
The Versailles treaty can be COM
pared-and the comparison consti-
tutes its best definition-to bronze
statue cast by two teams of workers
working simultaneously but inde-
pendently of each other. Each group
is determined to throw quite different
materials into the melting; both
teams are agreed on one point only:
That they must do the job quickly.
The contradictions, the antitheses
of the treaty explain good many
postwar hesitancies. During meet
ings of the Supreme Council in 1926
and 1921 often simultaneously had
to adhere to errors knew to be such
and admit that these errors were un-
avoidable. Either wholly Wilsonian
peace or wholly treaty of
Westphalia" kind of peace would have
produced earlier, more immediate
reactions and crystallizations.
Crisis May Be Long.
But we should not, after all, be
overmuch surprised at the long dura-
ton Of the crisis our generation is
at once guilty of aud victim to. The
World War was a revolution-and
revolutions are long.
That of England lasted half a
century.
That of France-the greatest ad-
venture in the history of recent
generations-began in 1779; and one
may well say that, with the arnis-
tices of two Bonapartistic dictator
ships and one and half restora-
tions, it ended only in 1876, when
MacMahon surrendered to the will
of the voters.
If political and social reformations
are slow in countries which for CEN
turies have constituted complete
organisms, it is not at all strange that
Europe should be so long In finding
herself.
As regards the glaring mistakes
made In the hot and f1urried casting
of the Versailles treaty, it has often
been limited that they were the con-
sequences of revenge, of hatred, Of
fear. However, rather than being the
sins of well-intentioned but stupid
politicians, they were the consequences
of historical factor which was never
so marked as at the end of 1918.
The factor is this: In 1914 and 1915
London and Vienna had known for a
fairly long time In advance that
Napoleon's hour was about to strike.
Cavour knew, before 1859, that Aus
trian domination in Italy was about to
end for all time.
Victory Came Suddenly.
But in November, 1918, victory. from
Flanders to the Piave, occurred almost
unexpectedly-at least, 1t was psyche
logically unexpected by the peoples.
And our countries had to pay for the
stimulants that oficial propaganda
had ladled out to them.
When, In the Summer Of 1918, the
German troops began to retire almost
everywhere In France. the French
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tuted a connecting link between the
peoples of Europe, if not between their
governments. Through the war the
instincts of the peoples were found to
be so similar to each other, in their
moral strength as in their moral
weaknesses, in their hopes for the fu-
ture as in the disillusions with which
a past heavy with history has laden
them.
A day will come-when the wounds
and sorrows of war have been softened
by time-when one will realize with
astonshment and fright that the bel
ligerent masses were led to death, were
buried in the trenches because of a
series of assertions which were be-
lieved on both sides equally in good
faith: That they were fighting for
life, for independence, for freedom.
This process Of similar thinking does
not apply-not yet-to the leaders who
are, almost everywhere, poisoned or
terrified by nationalisms.
But nationalism-this caricature of
patriotism-bears In itself its own con-
demnat ton, because Of its violence and
its artificiality The Italian poets and
thinkers of the Risorgimento, from
Manzoni to Mazzini, preached release
from the German yoke without ever a
word of hate against the Germans.
And in the war songs of 1848, the
Italian soldiers themselves learned to
sing: "Ripassin PAlpe tornerem
fratelli'-"Let them cross back over
the Alps and we shall be brothers once
more"
Ideal Aided by Patriotism.
The ideal of cooperation in Europe
was intimately blended with the ma
tional patriotism of the Mazzinis. the
Michelets, the Hugos.
The nationalities that filled the
nineteenth century with their glory
were not-with the best of their apes
ties, the first of whom is Mazzini-an
end in themselves. They were only
step toward a wider European ideal.
Either we shall serve this ideal-in
our minds, in our souls, even more
than in our treaties-or we shall perish.
And we shall not be submerged by
tht revolution" Of which the Tories
talk with shudders of horror. Ours
will be-if it does come to pass--a
suicide due to our short-sighted self
ishness. to our dread of the principles
of freedom and peace. For it is from
these principles that we should derive
the necessary strength to resist the
cheap happiness which the Kremlin
maniacs have proffered to a hesitant
and weary humanity.
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the greatest of all needs of the
Chinese people.
Education" was the immediate,
decisive reply.
"And how can America best CO.
operate with China?"
"The United States has always
been China's friend" said the gen.
eralissimo. II hope for continued
economic cooperation between the
peoples of China and America"
tCopyright. 1866
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-07-16
SYNOPSIS

Jeb Braddon, young and Enthusiastically
successful broker OF Chicago. Is infat-
uated with Agnes Gleneith, beautiful
daughter OF retired manufactured
Rodney, a doctor, In love with Agnes
visits his brother, Jeb. Rod plans work
at Rochester. Jeb suggests that he
make a try for Agnes before leaving
In Rod there Is deeper. obstinate
decency than in Jeb. Rod visits Agnes
and tells her OF his great desire but
realizes Ii can never be fulfilled. Agnes
mother Is attempting to regain her hus-
bands love. Agnes has disturbing
doubts as to what attracts her father
In New York. Jeb tells Agnes he is
going to marry her, and together they
view an apartment In Chicago. Jeb asks
Agnes to set an early date. but she tells
him she cannot marry him. When the
agent, Mr.. Colver. offers to show them
a furnished apartment. Jeb asks Agnes
to see 1t alone, saying he must return
to his office Agnes consents and Jeo
leaves. A radio is blaring terrihcally
from one OF the apartments. Colver
raps upon the door, which Is opened
by q scantily clad girl, who draws
Agnes into the room. Colver finds her
husband, Charles Lorrie. fatally shot.
He calls the police. Myrtle Lorrie asks
Agnes to phone Cathal O'Mara, law
yer, to come at once. Agnes does. The
police take charge. OMara arrives. The
officers are antagonistc to him. Agnes
sides with O'Mara. Agnes is to be q
witness at the coming trial. CathaIs
grandfather and father had lost their
lives In the line Of duty as city nre-
men, and his grandmother. Winnie, has
built her all around Cathal. who. being
ambitious, had worked his way through
law school. Thoughts OF Agnes disturb
Cathal Mr.. Lorrle had cast OF the
wife who had borne him his daughter
to marry Myrtle. and after two years
OF welded life she had killed him. The
coroner's jury holds Myrtle to the grand
Jury. Agnes promises OMara to review
the case with him. When Cathal calls
Mrs. Gleneith asks questions regarding
marital problems In the hope that she
might get a solution to her own prob
lem.