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Evening star., 1936-03-17
D. c.. Taxpayers Improve
Smaller Number Waited Till Last Minute to File
Returns-Dnmb Questions Also Fewer and
Arithmetic Is Better.

who wanted an exern. ton for a baby
born in 1885, and, consequently. nom
deductible item in 1885 income calcu-
lations. She knew all about the Gov
ernments official. attitude on that sub
ject, but the baby had been an item
Of expense in its prenatal days. and
she thought more liberal position
was in order. The income tax people
went on thinking differently. however.
just as they always do.
There were the usual protests at
having to wait hours in line in order
to pay the tax. Typical was the atti-
tude of one man who stormed at "hav-
ing to wait in this line for two long
hours before got bit Of attention" !"
Waiting Since January 1.
That's nothing at ALL" the deputy
consoled him, I've been waiting here
for you since January l."
Happiest caller at the Internal Reve-
nue. Building in the past few days, the
staff agrees, was q little old lady who
had inherited $4,000 at precisely the
moment when the wolf was growing
loudest at the door. Her elation was
boundless when she discovered that
the payment of an inheritance tax OBJ
waited the necessity of an income as
sessment.
There was relief, II not happiness.
for another group of callers. 1t was
the one comprised of those who earned
sufficient money to fall within the tax
able group In 1885, but who, through
the loss of jobs since. are unable to
pay. They were told they will be
billed later on the returns they we're
required to file,
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door would be closed to an Anglo
German rapprochement, informed
sources said. If the answer were un-
favorable. the French were said to
feel the League was dead and their
last great ally had deserted.
Although the French were evident
ly incensed at what they believed to
be British invasion and dnatoriness,
they decided to withhold their fire
until the League Council approved
the resolution finding Germany a vio-
lator OF the Versailles treaty.
Automatically Binding.
Under the Locarno pact. such a
finding automatically binds Britain
and Italy to come Immediately to the
assistance" of France and Belgium.
The British recognized the grave
danger of the obligations they might
be called upon to assume under this
provision, and therefore we're trying
to bring the French and Germans
into arbitration.
League sources said the British
would have almost inescapable obliga-
tions to march with France should
the latter decide it was necessary to
force Germany out of the Rhineland.
Informed sources believed France
would not be satisfied with the
Franco Belgium joint resolution
against Germany and would have
further measures to propose.
Well-informed sources scoffed at a
report that, in the secret Council ses-
sion yesterday, Flandin had threatened
TO return to Paris and mobilize the
French Army. One delegate stated:
Not one word was said about mobiliz-
ing an army"
Evening star., 1936-03-17
CONNECTICUT AVENUE
GROUP TO HONOR RUBEL

Lawrence e. Rubel, retiring presi-
dent of the Connecticut Avenue Asso-
citation, will be honored at a banquet
March 26 In the Chinese room of the
Mayflower Hotel.
c. A. Martin, newly elected presi-
dent of the association, will preside at
the banquet. and a program of enter
tainment Is being arranged. Plans for
the fifth semi-annual style show and
exhibit of the association, to be held
beginning April 3 at the Mayfiower,
will be discussed.
In addition to Martin, the new Off
GERS of the Connecticut Avenue Asso-
citation include: Harry Kronheimer.
first vice president; Alfred Pasternak.
second vice president; Jack Rollins,
secretary; L. E. Schreiner, treasurer
The new Board of Directors is Emile
Beauvais, r. L. Polio, Lewis E. Mas
sey, B. H. McCeney, Lew S. Birns,
Edward E. Ayre. L. r. Colburn, Will
liam ]. Nolan and Lawrence e. Rubel
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STRADIvARI GET
FUND OF 100000
Mrs. Whittall Makes Gift to
Maintain 4 instruments
Presented Library.

gift of 100000 for the mainte-
nance of four Stradivari stringed in
struments and for the presentation #
programs In which they will be used
was received by the Library Of Con-
gress yesterday. The donor was Mrs.
Matthew John Whittall, who gave
the instruments several months ago.
DIR. Herbert Putnam, librarian, said
no recent gift has in its nature and
implications aroused such eager in
terest as the gift by Mrs. Whittall Of
her exquisite quartet of Stradivari-
aristocrats of their species"
He praised the donors choice of the
library. rather than q museum, as
custodian Of the instruments, saying
1t signified that the instruments should
not become mere relics, but should
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TURNER ADMITS FEAR

GAJCA ouJo LAC SSoAS0
Time He Flys.
NEW YORK, March II R.-Col.
Roscoe Turner, who flys around the
country setting new air speed records
with lions and such as pets told an
interviewer yesterday:
Am I afraid? Every time I get
into plane to start new race I'm
scared Of everything in it. When I
shove it to the limit I know anything
can happen. lose 10 to IL pounds
every time try for a record across
the country. Fear makes me
come through. It causes me to be
careful, to look after all exigencies
that may arise during the trip"
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Career Diplomats.

With another meritorious appoint
ment-that of John ". A. MacMurray
to be Ambassador to Turkey-President
Roosevelt demonstrates afresh his devo-
ton to the career principle in the United
States foreign service. Mr.. MacMurray
is one of Americas seasoned diplomats,
with quarter Of a century's varied ex-
perience at home and abroad to his
credit, including tour of duty as As
sistant Secretary of State and five years
as Minister to China. He is recognized
world authority on Far Eastern prob
lens. He goes to Istanbul after having
been Minister to Latvia, Estonia and
Lithuania since 1888. Mr. MacMurrays
wide range of association with world
affairs embraced between 1880 and 1888
the dictatorship of the Walter Hines
Page School of International Relations
at Johns Hopkins University.
1t is wholesome and encouraging to
find that even under a scheme of patron
age and politics such as is inseparable
from the American party system man OF
Mr.. MacMurray's type can attain place
to which his sole claim is that of super
lative merit. It was not 80 long ago
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fact is that there are more cars in
use than can be accommodated in the
downtown area during the periods OF
idleness. The streets are used as public
parking spaces greatly to the impeachment
of moving traffic. In some streets nearly
one-third of the possible driving space
is occupied by standing machines.
Privately operated parking lots. have
been established throughout the down.
town area, in some cases with the
demolition of buildings that have been
found to be non-profitable in mainte-
nance. There is a shortage of ramp
garages due largely to the use of the free
spaces in the streets. But however diff
cult conditions may be, there is no justi-
flcation for the transformation of any
OF the public parks into car-storage areas.
The contention that the two parks
named for the first invasion are now
seldom used except by loafers, pam
handlers and other undesirables" does
not merit consideration. In fact, that
is not the case
This proposal is an instance of the
nose of the camel" 1t should be
abandoned. But if not abandoned it
should be resisted with determination.
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A LOST OPPORTUNITY
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES d. D. IL. d. D. c. L.
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON -

Among those who lived in the days in
which Jesus was born in Bethlehem was
a petty prince whose seat of power was
in Jerusalem. Herod by name. When
the story of the extraordinary events in
Bethlehem were brought to him we read
that. "When Herod the King heard these
things he was troubled and all Jerusalem
with him" He was fearful that the birth
of this Child meant ultimately the loss
of his own place and power, and in this
judgment he was well advised. Herod
represented in his philosophy and habit
of life all that was selfish, indulgent and
sinful. His Office meant to him nothing
more than the satisfaction of his selfish
ambitions, and anything that interfered
with his freedom or self-indulgence he
regarded as an invasion of his Well-Se-
cured rights-hence his concern for all
that was brought to his royal palace Of
the incidents that had attended the
birth of Christ. He might have been
one of those who witnessed in this
miraculous birth the beginnings of
new era, he might have caught the
echoes of the angels heralding message,
joined in the wonder of the lowly shep-
herds and hastened to pay reverent
tribute to the advent of One whose COM
ing was to change the course of human
events the world over.
But the whole life of this man violated
every principle and ideal which the
Christ of Bethlehem was to proclaim.
Herod's case is another tragic illustra-
ton Of lost opportunity; the incapacity
Of a man to dimly comprehend the
meaning of great event. His name is
forever linked with that of PLATE, who
at later period saw for an instant his
supreme opportunity, only to lose it as
he put temporary personal gain above
duty and merited forever the contempt
of the generations that were to link his
name with the crime of the ages.
Herod at the beginning and PLATE at
the close of the Masters life witness to
the tragedy of neglected and aband-
'oned opportunity, and in both cases their
names are synonymous with all that
men hold as typifying infamy, shame
and moral obliquity. For nineteen CEN
turies that which Herod failed to UNDER
stand and appropriate has been pre-
sented to men-the beauty of life which
had its noblest expression in the mis-
sion and teaching of Him who was born
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in lowliness of circumstances in an OBJ
scure village in far-away Bethlehem.
What Herod heard concerning this event
troubled him. He could not conceive
what such happening might mean to
world that his own fancy had imagined
was created for his own satisfaction and
lustful indulgence. This birth in Beth
lehem was to trouble other men in other
ages, 1t was to make more evident the
inequities and iniquities of life; it was
to turn searching and penetrating
light upol places where greed and sell
fiShness and sin held uninterrupted
sway; it was to expose that which was
secret and hidden and to make evident
its corruption.
1t is little wonder that Herod was
troubled, he and his kind were in jeop-
ardy if this Child was to survive. Men
are always troubled where their so-called
personal liberty" is threatened. They
are jealous of anything that controvenes
their selfish designs and purposes. There
is an age-old conflict between the forces
of good and evil, between that which
Christ represents and that which the
world holds to be its right and privilege.
Herod represents type common to life.
promptings of his nature, he could only
see in that which the Bethlehem babe
represented force that would ultimate
ly check his freedom and restrain his
selfish purpose. Such force could not
be permitted to exist, it must be de-
stroyed at its inception, hence his ruth
less demand that all infants in the
land should be slain.
The incident is one that stains the
page Of history. His name has been
landed down through succeeding gener-
ationS as that of the destroyer of the
innocents. He had his opportunity, he
might have had his name preserved
among the immortals, but he was too
blinded by passion and lust to know the
day of his visitation. To every man
repeated opportunity is afforded to see
in Christ the highest approximation of
all that makes for decay and the noblest
attainment of lifes truest and best
values. Perhaps our modern troubled
world is at another crossroads where it
must determine its choice. It may be
that it is troubled because, like Herod.
it deliberately sets aside the appeal of
Him who alone offers it the better way
by which to attain its truest satisfaction
and its most enduring peace.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

under both Republican and Democratic
administra tions-that partisans with a
pull were the only ones who could aspire
to ambassadorships and ministerships.
That time-honored rule has not been
entirely abolished, but it must be put
down to the credit of President Roose-
velt and Secretary Hull disciples as they
are Of Andrew Jackson, who invented the
doctrine that Ito the victors belong the
spoils," that they have not permitted
"Old Hickory's" creed to be applied ruth
lessly to the foreign service.
Throughout the world, and at numer-
GUS key posts especially in Latin Amer
lea, Uncle Sans interests today are in
charge of trained veterans of the foreign
service-men who have made it a life
time career and risen to their present
status from the lowest ranks. Officers
like retiring Ambassador Skinner, about
to quit Turkey after forty years of duty
abroad; like Ambassadors Grew in Japan,
johnson IN China, Caffery in Cuba, Glib
son in Brazil, Philip in Chile and Dear
ing in Peru; and Ministers like Wright
in Czechoslovakia, Wilson in Switzer-
land. Armour in Canada, Sterling in
Bulgaria, Harrison in Rumania, Messer-
smith in Austria, Dawson in Colombia,
Summerlin in Panama and Lane in Es-
tonia, Latvia and Lithuania, are types
of the Americans with whom the foreign
service is steadily filling.
No New Deal achievement reflects
greater credit upon the administration
than its proved faith in the diplomatic
career idea. Nothing it could have done
in the field Of our international rela-
tions is of more practical Importance.
1t may outrage Jobmaster General Jim
Farley's conception of the vested rights
of deserving Democrats, but the country
is the gamer from the system of having
on guard at outposts overseas in these
critical days Americans qualified to be
there.
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Seasons,

Seasons.
Any old time is Springtime, if you're
willin' to help it along;
Any old day is holiday, if you'll fur
nish the laughter an song.
The birds can't be singin' always an the
blossoms can't bloom without rest,
But there's hope an there's light an
the sky seems bright fur the feller
that's doin' his best.
Any old time is Winter, if you're willin'
to see it that way.
The frost in the heart is the frost that
chills till the world is dull an gray.
You may shiver by day an be shiverin'
still as you turn to a restless couch,
Fur the days 60 slow through the ice an
snow fur the feller that's nursin' a
crouch.
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be limitation on the right of the Su-
preme Court to hold acts of Congress
unconstitutional unless by more than a
majority vote. Senator Borah stood for
a change of that kind many years ago,
and it has been advocated of and on
for more than 100 years.
The second would be to write an
amendment into the Constitution def
nitely enlarging the power of the Fed
eral Government. so that this may be-
come Nation in which power is CEN
tralized, rather than diffused as now
among 48 sovereign States.
The question that New Dealers ask is
whether, on either of these lines of
attack, enough public interest can be
generated to justify the effort. Thus
far there is disappointment inside the
New Deal over response to its gradual
obliteration.
(occyrtghk. 3eSe.l
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No Parks for Parking.

A proposal to turn two of the parks
of Washington into public parking lots
is under consideration for submission to
Congress for legislative action. These
reservations are Franklin Park and
Mcpherson Square. There will be definite
and vigorous opposition to any such plan.
If these two areas were thus taken it
would be but the beginning Of whole
sale invasion of the park spaces of the
Capital for motor car storage.
Admittedly the car-parking problem
in Washington is serious one. The
Evening star., 1936-01-12

The June % convention will enable
Postmaster General Farley to demon
strate that so far as campaign fund
Indebtedness is concerned in the Demo-
cratic management, by means of selling
banquet tickets and collecting from
Philadelphia for the distinction of hold
ing the great show, remarkable demon
stration of budget balancing is being
given.
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RemOrSe-Pronf.

"That man is saying lot of things
he will be sorry for
Il don't know" replied Senator Sor-
ghum. when man hasn't sense enough
to avoid saying preposterous things he
generally hasn't sense enough to be sorry
for them"
Evening star., 1936-01-12
The Snow Man.

The Snow Man.
All in day they fashion him,
The creature of a careless mood;
He stands peculiar, great and grim,
And towers Ger the common brood.
The sculpture may show meager skill;
1t was the greatest at command,
And pride declares, admiring still,
"We made him. Therefore let him
stand"
But in the sunshine's changeful ray
CTis often thus with fame so fair),
The figure slowly melts away
And no one knows that it was there.
Jud Tunkins says there's no doubt
about pride going before a fall. It's
always when a skater thinks he's per-
forming most graceful that he hops.
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Evidence.

what makes you think our great
used to?"
"By the photographs" replied Farmer
Corntossel. When was young feller
the big men in politics didn't take near
as much time to git shaved an have their
hair cut"
Evening star., 1936-01-12

There are intimations that people who
insist on having war materials should be
allowed to buy them, as children are
allowed to buy fireworks on the Fourth
of July regardless of danger to life and
property.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

Military experts declare that the con-
quest of Ethiopia will be completed even
if climatic conditions make it necessary
to issue rain checks.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

1t is evidently the opinion of Senator
Nye that the way to prevent a new war
is to fight old ones all over again in
committee rooms.
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Evening star., 1936-01-12
He Doesn't Exist.

How greatly is that man to be admired
Who knows the substance and disdains
the fluff;
Who gets exactly what he most desired
And likewise knows when he has had
enough.
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Twain's Genius.

From the gurlinston Gowa) Hawkeye Gazette.
Mark Twain seems to have had ter
Tible lot of literary faults and virtues,
queerly mixed. Maybe that's what made
him O genius.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

IntimationS are offered that it will be
a cruel campaign. Senate investigation
suggests that 1t already is.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

"Givin' man advice" said Uncle Eben,
generally don't amount to muffin but
worryin' him wifi talk about troubles dat
he knows a heap mo- about dan you
does"
Evening star., 1936-01-12

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III PRICES Oh 1drIn prOQuCCS.
While appraising farm and city senti-
ment toward courts and the Constitu-
ton, New Dealers are looking ahead to
decisions of the Supreme Court that
now are on the way.
They see the early destruction of the
Guffey coal act, with its code for the
soft coal industry. The pension system
for railroad employees is expected to
follow later. Little hope is held among
the Governments legal experts for the
national labor relations act, under which
the Federal Government seeks to take
a hand in relations between employers
and employees. Control of utility holding
companies is in a precarious state So
is the new unemployment insurance plan,
although it may be more than a year
before test can be made of its pro-
visions.
The Supreme Court in the next few
months readily may denude the New
Deal of everything new about it. That
would leave Mr.. Roosevelt standing
empty handed, his plans destroyed, his
whole program stripped away, not by
the people, but by the courts
In the face of situation of that kind
New Dealers and New Deal opponents
wonder how the President can avoid
gearing the 1886 presidential campaign
to an attack on the courts, or to some
plan for amending the Federal Con-
stitution to permit the things that he
has stood for during the first three years
of his administration. To do otherwise
would leave him in precarious position,
accepting defeat at the hands of the
judiciary.
Two courses of attack are open if the
President should decide to fight along
the constitutional line.
One would be to limit the power of
judges in lower courts to override acts
Of Congress. Coupled with this might
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-06-09
ROBE TO COMPILE ALASKA HISTORY
University of Alaska Pro- lessor Leaving Seat
 tie June "A

Prof. Cecil Francis Robe of the University of Alaska, who has been at Yale the last two years doing post graduate work, has been named as one of the men to compile a his tory of Alaska, and is scheduled to leave Seattle June "A for Juneau.
 The Rockefeller Foundation has given $170O0 to the University to do the history work, much of which will be based on the fine library of Judge James Wickersham. Profess sor Robe will come here to work with Judge Wickersham.
 Mrs. Robe, who is with her hus- band at New Haven, Conn, will not come north probably until fall, &C., cording to information to Mrs. How ard J. Thompson of Juneau. a close friend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-06-09
PATCO MAKES FOUR
 FLIGHTS, SHORT TIME

George Skenes and Franklin Kopp were passengers to Chichagof, A. Van Mavern, West Coast Grocery Company representative, went to Sitka; and Harold Wilkey and Louis Hesn were passengers from Chica- gof to Juneau this morning on the Alaska Air Transport seaplane Patco flown by Pilot Sheldon Sim mons.
 Upon his return from Chichagof and Sitka, Pilot Simmons made two scenic flights over Mendenhall Gla- cier Miss Lois Baker, Miss Myrtle Bachand and one other were pas sengers on the first trip, and Roy Lunn and Andrew Bertleson were passengers on the second flight.
 Last night the Patco went to Wrangell with two passengers, c. E.. Macleod and J. c. Luckey, and N I. Beers travelled roundtrip to Pet ersburg