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Evening star., 1936-11-27
RAILROADS ENTER
TRUCK LAW ROW
Case on Regulatory Authority
Becomes Open Fight
of Carriers.
; the Associated Press,

os INC hSSOClkte0 FEeSS.
COLUMBIA. S. c.. November 81
A precedent-setting case over whether
the Federal Government or the States
shall regulate the size of motor trucks
became an open fight between rival
transportation systems today with the
roads.
Counsel for the Seaboard Air Line,
the Atlantic Coast Line and the
Charleston & Western Carolina Rail-
roads petitioned Federal Judge j. Lyles
Glenn to be allowed to answer truck
ers' allegations that South Carolina
law limiting trucks to q gross weight
Of 10000 pounds was nullified by the
Federal motor carrier act of 1885.
Judge Glenn signed an order set
ting the petitions for hearing before
three e-judge Federal court Monday
along with a request Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission that it be per-
mitted to intervene on the side Of
the II trucking firms assailing the
State law.
Barnwell Bros, q North Carolina
Trucking Co., and 10 other truckers In
the Carolinas and Georgia contend
that the Federal act. which contains
no. weight and size limitations at pres
sent. stripped the State of the author
ity to restrict truck operations on an
interstate scale.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion asked to come into the case when
it appeared. attorneys said, that 1t
would be the first test Of whether the
Federal law superseded the South Car
olina statute, which was enacted In
1888 to take effect January l, 1885.
The State Supreme Court upheld
constitutionality of the law and the
truck companies renewed their litiga-
ton from the present angle Of con-
fiict with the Federal act subsequently
passed.
Evening star., 1936-11-27
BY JOHN II. CLINE.
.HE disastrous maritime strike,
which has paralyzed or crippled

which has paralyzed or crippled
shipping in the principal ports
Of the country, can be traced
directly to hatreds and jealousies Of
which the great majority Of consum-
ers and business men-those who will
suffer most in the end-know little
or nothing.
This ignorance on the part of those
who should be vitality concerned Is
probably attributable to three major
causes.
In the first place. the strike on the
West Coast and the sympathy strike
on the Atlantic seaboard and the
Gulf of Mexico. although the product
of years of bitterness, were called
during the height Of the presidential
campaign. when there was little room
in the public mind for anything but
politics.
Secondly, the issues involved in the
strike, or. more properly. the three
strikes, are not easily understood.
And finally, the potentialities of .
Nation-wid maritime strike seem
remote to the average person until he
begins to feel the effects in the form
Of lost business. rising prices or even
actual hunger.
Monetary Losses Mount.
A few Of the consequences already
apparent are monetary losses in this
country running high into the mil
lions Of dollars each day. In Alaska,
largely dependent on the mainland
for its food supply, most communities
are running short of eggs, milk, fresh
meat and vegetables Onicials there
have appealed frantically for some
relief. and Government Intervention
to insure an adequate food supply has
been considered. The same situation
is developing in Hawaii. although con-
ditions there are not critical.
Taking up the strikes in the order
Of their development. they are:
The West Coast strike, which was
called in San Francisco on october
80. Some $4,000 maritime workers.
members of seven unions. left their
jobs and Immediately established
picket lines.
Two days later maritime workers in
New York and at least IA other At
lantic and Gulf ports began 4 SYM
pathy strike.
Last Monday two unions composed
of ships officers called i walkout at
all American ports. This strike. it was
said, was independent Of the rank
and-file walkout of the seamen. Timed
as it was, however. it aided the sea-
men in their flght and. at the same
time. drew strength from them.
The principal bone Of contention in
Evening star., 1936-11-27
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
FAVOR1TE.
YF HOLLYWOOD is reliable as ,

IF HOLLYWOOD is reliable as a
source Of information, one OF
President Roosevelt's favorite
L songs is the sprishtly la Cucu.
racha."
Gertrude Niessen, radio and screen
singer. is the authority who divulges
the vital information. A year ago
Miss Niessen, while attending luncheon
at the White House, was asked to sing
q song. She agreed and asked what
Mr.. Roosevelt would like to hear.
LA Cucuracha,' she reports he
replied. THAT songs top rate"
4
RACE.
The tdricdb driUer neDer realized
he Dds no longer young man un-
til some gay young girl pisitors ne
had hauled to Washington Monu-
ment dared him to race them up
the steps inside. The driver tooe
them up before he thought a sec
ond time Once entered, he did not
surrender until he had uheezed up
the topmost step. many Jumps be-
hind the youngsters.
The merit day the tari drirer's
muscles ached so he did not work.
When he did get behind his Wheel
again he groaned euery time he
had to mope his body. Maybe
am an old man noU," he sighed,
but you'll haUe to admit had q
young idea!"
X
CRASH.
ONE OF those downtown taxicabs
" which make sudden turns ol
halts and scare the wits out Of tht
motorist behind came of second best
several days ago with a bicyclist who
suddenly decided to go left.'
Evening star., 1936-11-27
Alteration Is Fatal.

Haywood Fuller, 40, colored. 1901
Freemans street, was shot In the left
chest during an alteration at his
home last night and died early today
in Emergency Hospital. Soon after he
was shot, police arrested Doris Young.
as, colored, same address.
Evening star., 1936-11-27
WHITE RITES TOMORROW
Services for Produce Merchant in
Christ Episcopal Church.

Funeral services for Alton p. White.
"a, farm produce merchant, who died
Wednesday in Sibley Hospital, will be
held at pm. tomorrow in Christ
Episcopal Church, 900 block OF G street
southeast.
The church services will follow serv-
ices an hour earlier at the home Of his
son, Malcolm H. White, 4400 Four
teenth street northeast. Burial will be
in Congressional Cemetery.
Evening star., 1936-11-27
Longshoremen's Delegate Found With
S40o In Satchel.

t4Uu IN SatcheI.
HONOLULU. November ~ R.-
Charles Wilson. 37 was held "for in.
vestigation" by police today following
the wounding of John Cabral in front
of the Seamens' Hall here, as police
doubled guards on the Honolulu wa
terfront.
Chief of Police W. A. Gabrielson
said Wilson was a delegate for the
Longshoremen's Union, member Of
the Union Strike Committee, and was
carrying s400 in cash In . satchel
when arrested.
Evening star., 1936-11-27
TWINS.

SIAMEsE twin guppies. born Novem-
Der IS, were thriving beautifully
during the week end, according to
Mrs. Catherine Kizsee, 113 r street,
who called The Star ONCE to report
the interesting freak of nature.
The pair, joined together at their
stomachs, swim sidewise, facing each
other, she said, and, so far, have
avoided collisions with their nine
brothers and sisters born at the same
time. Except where they are joined
together, their bodies are perfectly
formed, she added, and they seem to
like each other.
Mrs. Kizsee has been raising guppi
only q year, but this Is the second
time q blessed event for the same
parents has included Siamese twins.
The first pair died two days after
birth. she said.
Evening star., 1936-11-27

SKIPPED.
'RUTCH," the 5-year-old Police Court
mascot who has made" the Way
side column ere this, recently was sum-
moned to appear before Judge Fay
Bentley in Juvenile Court and show
cause why he should not become a
ward of the District and be sent to an
institution.
On the day before he was to appear,
Butch told his lawyer friends around
the court:
I'm getting out of town until the
heat cools off"
And when the case was called
neither Butch nor his sister, HARRIET
could be found.
Hx **
BUSINESS LOOKS UP.
Washington is pldnet-conscious
II the names OF some OF its COM
mercial enterprises prope anything.
No less than 81 businesses haze
named themselves after the sun,
moon and stars or some deriudtiue
thereof, such as moonlight, sun
beam, etc.
1t Would seem that there are
about 2S deuotees of the solar sys-
tenn, while the cult of the star
numbers "a. This earth, too, has
its admirers in seDen firms that
haze taken the name uorld, but
the moon, Dhich occasionally
eclipses the more popular sun, has
only tho.
Evening star., 1936-11-27

The announcer rushed to the micro
phone and intoned:
THE next selection by the United
States Marine Band will be Skip the
Waltz
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Labor

Continued From First Paae.)
Evening star., 1936-11-27

HELD IN HONOLULU SHOOTING.
Evening star., 1936-07-06
Campaign Expenditures.

Political campaigns in this country cost
money. A national campaign costs a
good deal of money as review Of past
records clearly show. Probably great
deal of the money expended is wasted.
Some of 1t has gone in the past into
pockets of political bosses. Some of it
has been used to corrupt the electorate
by actual vote buying. But these cases
have been the exception, not the rule.
As q check upon the improper use
of money in political campaigns, the
Senate has for years been in the habit
of setting up special committees to look
into campaign expenditures. 1t has a
committee now, under the leadership OF
Senator Augustine Lonergan Of Connec-
ticut. This kind of inquiry, II 1t Is
properly conducted, is entirely right and
proper, and of value. Senator Lonergan
has promised a fair and impartial in
vestigation of charges that are brought
to the committee, where the facts war
rant.
The resolution under which the Sena-
torial Campaign Committee is operating
Is very broad. It gives the committee
authority to inquire into the use ct Gov
Evening star., 1936-07-06

ernment funds-as, for example, In the
case of the Works Progress Administra-
tion-as well as into the use Of funds
contributed privately for political pur-
poses. So far the committee is COM
mitted only to an inquiry into the use
of the regularly contributed campaign
funds. That means the funds raised by
the finance committees Of the political
parties-their source, their size and the
uses to which they are put. This is all
right as far as it goes.
II, however, charges are made that
the vast sums expended by the Federal
Government for relief of all kinds
which includes the granting of jobs
are being used for political purposes,
certainly the Senate committee should
weigh these charges carefully. II the
facts warrant, there should be search
ing investigation. Anything less would
defeat the very purpose of the Senate
resolution. There are many ways OF
corrupting the electorate beside the
direct purchase of votes on election day.
If the voters working on relief projects
are regimented in support of certain
candidates, the corruption is the more
inSidious.
There is no more reason why the funds
contributed by private persons should
be investigated than the funds used by
a governmental agency, if the latter are
used so as to influence votes directly, or
even indirectly. The country has heard
a lot about the use of relief works funds
and their influence on the political situa-
ton. There has been no open investiga-
ton of such charges. A thorough ven-
tilation would be a salutary thing.
Evening star., 1936-07-06
At Monticello.

II there are those who are struck by
seeming incongruity, If not boldness,
in the Presidents choice of the heights
of Monticello as the rostrum from which
to address the people on Independence
day, the same thought must move them
to agree that his appearance in Trinity
Churchyard, New York, at the grave Of
Alexander Hamilton, would be appro-
pirate.
1t is true that some of Thomas Jeffer-
sons contributions to the theories Of
government have apparently lost caste
with the party which continues to regard
him in the light Of a patron saint. His
advocacy of economy in government and
q small public debt; his strict construc-
tionism Of the Constitution; his belief
in a State sovereignty, on the ground
that the broader the base Of government
the less the chance Of its being toppled
over; his firm belief in judiciary beyond
control of the legislative and executive
branches Of the government-these are
some of the Jeffersonian ideals that live
to mock, rather than support, certain Of
the present-day tendencies of American
Democracy.
But it is also true that some-not all
of the theories of Jefferson, great
American, were opposed violently by an
other great American, Alexander Ham,
iiton. It is an anomaly Of politics and .
commentary q The shifting tides Of
Evening star., 1936-07-06

political opinion that some of the latter
day Hamiltonians have become the dis.
ciples of Jefferson, and some of the
latter-day Jeffersonians would be more
appropriately classed as the followers of
Hamilton.
Such considerations should tend to
remove all significance from partisan
gibes at an occasion which finds the
President q worshiper at the shrine of
Monticello. The President appeared at
Monticello as an American come to pay
tribute to another American. He ap-
propriately kept politics out of his short
address. He invoked the memory of
Jefferson as one of those who typified
the spirit Of youth and daring in the
early American battles for freedom and
the worship not of "the gods of things
as they were, but the gods of things as
they ought to be-"
The death of Jefferson did not end
the pursuit of those gods of things as
they ought to be-" Nor did 1t end the
struggle among men to determine which,
in truth, are the gods of things as they
ought to be-" There are many things
which have changed since Jefferson
looked for the last time on the world he
knew at Monticello. But the false gods
remain to obscure, as they sought to
obscure then, the search for gods of
things as they ought to be" and it re-
quires brightly burning torch OF love
OF liberty to seek them out.
Evening star., 1936-07-06
The Leagues Downfall.

In the avalanche of lip service to peace
and collective security which found ut
terance at Geneva last week. no observa-
tions were more poignantly pertinent
than the remarks of Miss Kirstin Hessel-
gren of Sweden, first woman to ad-
dress the League Assembly in the capa-
city of a delegate. "Why bear children
into a world so hopeless and inSecure?"
was her anguished inquiry. Thrusting
at the orators of many countries, who
thundered platitudes for three days on
various phases Of the Italo-Ethiopian
conflict, Miss Hesselgren declared there
was no solitary ray of encouragement in
anything she had heard. The unfortunate
reality that has to be faced, she con-
cluded, is that fifty nations are letting
one small country fail; how can any
small nation henceforth have any hope?"
1t was precisely in that atmosphere OF
humiliating futility that the League on
Saturday night wound. up both its AS
sembly and Council sessions, specially
convened to deal with Fascist aggression
in Africa. Ethiopia's doom. already GER
titled by the Italian conquest, was sealed
by final confession of League impotency.
Despite his impassioned personal appeal
for Justice" at Geneva, Halle Selassie
became the pathetic eyewitness of action
that callously abandons Ethiopia to its
fate The Assembly lifted the abortive
sanctions imposed upon Italy, declined
the ex-Emperor's plaintive plea for
$50, 100000 loan to continue defense"
operations, and side-stepped proposals
to declare nop-recognition of the terri
torial and political situation represented
by Mussolini's military victory. Thus
ends for all practical purposes the
Leagues inglorious grapple with the su-
preme test of it's efficacy as a collective
peace-preserving and security guarantee
ing institution. Finis is written in terms
of abject and unmitigated failure.
Having thus proclaimed the death war
rant of both Ethiopia and its own efforts
to check aggression, the Assembly recon-
mended that the Council between now
and September / should take up with
League members ways and means OF
improving in spirit" as well as in form,
the covenant under which it was found
impossible to achieve effective results in
the African controversy. This concerns
the much discussed scheme for reform
ing" the international organization. As
recent developments produced much evi-
dence that the League, If 1t continues
to exist at all, is destined to shrink into
a purely European body, the Geneva
politicians were mainly constrained to
avoid anything designed still further to
ALLEVIATE Italy. Hence the abolition OF
sanctions and the dodging Of the issue
involving non-recognition of the Ethio-
plan conquest.
The League in attenuated shape or
otherwise may survive the debacle 1t
has Just suffered. But it has undergone
a loss of prestige and authority which
cannot be repaired by any amount Oh
tinkering with its discredited covenant
That it will act as a curb to future ag-
gression is more than doubtful.
Evening star., 1936-07-06
Shooting Stars.
BY PHiLANDER JOHNSON.
Strife.

Strife.
My library's a spot where books
Stand grinning on the shelves;
Some that have most impressive looks
Will not behave themselves.
Philosophers will oft contrive
An erudite debate
That keeps ill-nature still alive
On topics out Of date.
Some show an intellectual feast
BY men of high renown;
When one speaks gravely, as priest,
Another plays the clown.
AS wit and wisdom I observe,
New and from days gone by,
know not, as lose my nerve,
Whether to laugh or cryi
Evening star., 1936-07-06

With transfer of Undersecretary OF
State William Phillips to the Rome am
bassadorship, no fewer than four major
Federal posts now await new appoint
ments by President Roosevelt. The others
are the assistant secretaryship OF the
Navy, left open since the death OF Col.
Henry L. Roosevelt; the undersecretary-
ship of the Treasury, vacated last Winter
by the resignation Of T. Jefferson Cool
idge. jr., and the controller generalsh1p,
from which John r. McCarl has just
retired. Ambassador at Large Norman
H. Davis and Assistant Secretary Of State
Sumner Welles continue to rate as out
standing possibilities for the job of Secre-
tary Hulls right-kand man at the State
Department. The names Of many can
didates for the important junior posts
in the Navy and the Treasury have been
under consideration at the White House.
but there's no indication that F. D. r.
has made up his mind about either
position The same thing apparently
applies to the controller generals Office.
In a presidential campaign year there's
likely to be strong pressure from the
politicians to hand over these various
desirable plums to deserving Democrats,
but the technical nature OF each OF
the places in question probably will re-
suit in preserving them from the spoils-
men.
Friends of Representative William
Lemke, Union party candidate for Presi-
dent, depict him as radiating confidence
that his organization is going to make
q real dent in November. The UnioniSts
profess to be certain of carrying North
Dakota. hopeful about Minnesota and
encouraged about Montana. Politicians
of all hues seem agreed that the Lemke-
OBrien ticket is going to cut more deeply
into Roosevelt ranks than into Landon
strength. The commonest figures are
that for every Republican vote 1t gets,
the third party will take three or four
Democratic votes. On this numerical
theory rests the possibility that Lemke
may split the Democratic poll sufiiciently
in certain farm States to throw them
into the Republican electoral column.
Chairman Hamilton is believed largely
to be basing his claims Of Landon
victory on this prospect. A Lemke-
Coughlin- Townsend hope, OF which not
50 much has been said, IS the reputed
eagerness of the combination to win
enough seats to hold the balance OF
power in the next House Of Representa-
tives, SO as to permit passage OF none
tary legislation in which the third party
hackers are primarily interested. That is
believed in many quarters to be the
Unionists' real objective.
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While Democratic leaders, taking their
cue from Chairman Farley's sunny super
optimism, continue publicly to claim that
"all 48 States" are in the bag for Roose-
welt and Garner, they're reported to be
in much more conservative mood when
talking of the record. In such conf
dental moments, for instance, New Deal
ers are said to admit that they haven't
much chance of carrying Maine. Vermont
or Delaware. Mr. Roosevelt lost all three
of those States in 1882. Democrats, too,
are beginning to wonder whether it's
true what they say about Dixie-namely,
Evening star., 1936-07-06

Dear Sir: am sending to you poem
that one Of your articles inspired. It
was the article about sitting in the dark.
remember as child we would sit out
doors in the dark on Summer evenings.
Bats would dart by, adding mystery
to the night. always had feeling Of
fear. Perhaps tramp had come to our
house that day. How times have changed.
We do not call them tramps today.
II was too young to appreciate the
beauty of the night, but did sense It's
mystery. Now I am not afraid Of the
dark, but find 1t source Of inspiration.
I'VE have another thing in common.
The birds. wrote q poem about the
wood thrush. That was inspired, too, by
one Of your articles. believe you said
the wood thrush arrived the 9th Of April.
IT heard the first Bob Whites call
the 17th Of May. I fed the birds all last
Winter. Pigeons, bluejays, cowbirds,
cardinals. I am just an elementary stu
dent in bird lore, but enjoy watching
them and have become quite conscious
of their different calls.
Can you tell me the name Of the bird
that Is red like q cardinal and says
Ernie, come here, come here, come here?
Is 1t Summer redbird, or tanager? I
have seen the wood thrush, but have
never heard 1t sing. For the first time
in years my next door neighbor's cherry
tree yielded enough fruit for several pies.
The birds were feasting on cicadas.
II enjoy your articles so very much, and
hope you will like my poems. If you have
any criticism to make shall be CRATE
full. for you are a poet even though you
do not write in rhyme. Sincerely,
"F. H. D."
That flying mammal the bat, Is one Of
the true mysteries of the night.
Many years ago women were uni
versally afraid Of bats getting in their
hair" If they sat out at night.
Bobbed hair seems to have removed
much Of that fear.
They were fearful too. in the old days
Of bats getting into sleeping quarters
through open windows without screens.
Younger people of this era do not
know that thirty years ago window
screens were luxuries.
Many of the finest homes had few Of
them. just as fifty years before that no
homes had them at all.
Who has not seen old engravings of
famous hotel scenes wherein small black
boys with large fans spent their time
shooing away the flies that buzzed around
the heads Of the guests?
"Shoo. Fly, Don't Bother Me- was the
name of q popular song Of that distant
era, title indicative Of the hygienic
measures of the day.
As matter of fact, the iniquitous
house fly was not generally recognized
as q pest, but was treated with fine
tolerance as just another of the things
which must be put up with since they
could not be cured.
Going back q little farther. William
Blake, the poet, actually wrote q fine
poem inviting the little fly" to sup from
the same dish with himself.
1t made pretty verse, but poor hygiene,
as viewed by modern eyes.
Now We swat" the fly with vigor and
abandon, and the world is better place
for mankind as a result.
y -
There are scores of kinds of bats. rang
ing all the way from tiny ones that re-
semble birds to giant creatures that look
for all the world as II sprung straight
from some horrible dream.
There are bats which resemble foxes
Evening star., 1936-07-06
Ancient Enthusiasms.

As years 60 on we are perplexed
BY monuments so great
And many a long and learned text
Their purpose seeks to state.
Great pyramids and temples show
On some deserted scene.
We guess again, but never know
Precisely what they mean.
Some may be platforms written bold
Or keynotes on display;
The most of them, we're gravely told,
Mean only just "Hooray!"
Evening star., 1936-07-06

Climatic eccentricities may threaten
something like a hot Summer and a cold
Winter all in the same day. Some scien-
lists suspect that radio is at fault. A
jazz and oratory vacation for test pur-
poses would be too much for practical
experiment to ask.