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Evening star., 1936-09-05

their stock in trade. One wonders II,
In the name of heaven, some Older people
have that idea too firmly planted in
their minds, that there is something
eternally juvenile about books, and that,
therefore, If they are seen with them in
public places they will be mistaken for
scholars?
Never fear. dear lady.
No one will mistake you for a scholar,
or q student. or the like.
But the old lady looks down sharply
One Is glad the title is harmless. The
dear old lady might not understand.
As for actually reading aboard bus,
this Is feat, mostly because Of the
psychological hazards.
Reading with some one looking over
your shoulder is really most unpleasant
experience.
Only dearly beloved soul ought to
have that right.
All others, please stay outi
Those strange eyes, fixed on the same
page, make the owner uneasy.
1t is almost as if some person we're
staring openly and rudely, than which
there are few public happenings more
disagreeable.
II there Is a person who does not mind
being stared at he Is dull-witted person,
indeed. Perhaps it would be better to
say he has a tough, impervious mental
hide.
u
Most persons heartily dislike being
stared at and, for much the same reason,
equally dislike to have stranger look
over their shoulder, or down, at the book
or paper they are reading.
Then, too, there are other hazards,
such as rough starts and stops, with
always the possibility of the vehicle
smashing into something or other
No doubt the home or library reading
room is best. No doubt of it.
Still there is something fine about
carrying books around, let them think
what they will Probably it is only the
sensitivity Of the average book lover
which makes him think other people
may be laughing at him, or his choice
of books.
He loves plays and likes to have them
with him, let us say.
Yonder moon-faced fellow never saw
a real play in his life-how can he be ex-
pected to agree with ones choice?
4 4
What part titles play, too!
When the stranger across the aisle. or
in the next seat. happens to look 1xedly
at a title in ones hand, one is glad when
it is a good, open title. in the vogue of
the moment.
What fools mortalS be, indeed and
how silly, but how human, for the
wandering book lover to hone others will
agree with his likes, and not be too put
out when they disagree!
Such feelings and such matters go to-
gether to make the carrying of books
in public places a not altogether
pleasurable thing. But as long as there
are books and those who love them,
those who love them best will insist on
taking them with them. wherever they
go. as the sign manual of free and easy
spirit, one which quests time and tide,
and finds hope in all things, especially
in books, which hold time, tide, hope and
life in the hollow OF their covers.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Graceful Gesture.

In at least one respect the Presidents S
request that civil service standards be
applied informally, or extra-legally, to
the Home Owners Loan Corporation is
interesting and perhaps important. This
agency, established by Congress without
regard to the civil service act, is now
reducing its force of employees. The
merit system, at this late date, is to
be applied in principle in determining
who shall be retained and who shall
be dropped from the rolls. And If that
may be considered as precedent, the
same principle would hereafter apply
in the case of every non-civil service
agency when its work is completed and
the reduction of personnel has COM
menced.
In the case of the Home Owners Loan
Corporation, the merit system is tardlly
to be applied through the back door and
in a manner that is not made very clear
in the Presidents letter to President
Mitchell of the Civil Service Commission.
This was one of the agencies created
under the specific direction of Congress
that the employees should be selected
without regard to the civil service act
The President explains this by the asser-
ton that the H. o. L. c. had to be
assistance" In other words, the Presi-
dent implies that in an emergency the
selection of employees under civil service
fules and standards is impracticable
That should not be the case. Whether
1t is may be matter of opinion, but 1t
is to be recalled that during the emer-
gency of the World War it was not
necessary to make wholesale and spe-
cific exemptions to the civil service in
hiring thousands of new employees. The
concession to the emergency of the war
was to lower, but not to do away with
entirely, certain civil service standards.
And the same thing could have been
done effectively in organizing the new
Government agencies to deal with the
emergencies of the depression.
The real reason the H. o. L. C. was
specifically exempted from civil service
was to put the jobs there at the disposal
of the patronage dispensers, and at one
time in its short life the H. o. L. c. was
regarded as boon to political job dis
pensers as well as an instrument of aid
to home owners. That conditions in
selection of employees were later improved
Is rather generally agreed.
Under the H. o. L. C. act the Civil
Service Commission cannot formally
apply its rules and regulations to that
agency. nor can the employees be "blan-
keted" in the civil service under executive
order. 1t is apparently planned merely
to adopt certain civil service standards
voluntarily. And this is another indi-
cation that the widespread criticism of
the administration for its departures
from the merit system is having its
effect. It Is leading to some remedial
measures and to some noteworthy, If
delayed, gestures.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Constant Political Defeat
Price of Bucking Nature

To the Editor OF The Star:
Sitters on the sidelines see things that
the engrossed players miss. This is SO
as to sports. 1t may be true Is to the
game Of politics.
A move directed to one angle may
open up q revealing view Of the whole
strategy Of the game being played.
A presidential candidate seems to have
done this. It is revealed In the move to
work out "a plan Of cooperation with
nature instead of going along with what
we have been doing in the past-trying
to buck nature"
The attempt to buck nature was
vividly exemplified by the collegiate
economics Of food destruction and the
equally bucking "grainstorms" Of food
scarcity that permit artificial high prices
to ravage the hovel Of every poor man
In the land and let loose proflteers to
forage unrestrained upon every living
soul in the United States.
There Is made plain the failure fol-
lowing attempted bucking of human ma
ture-that abortive experiment to regi-
ment, truss up and dam up the natural
ability OF American freemen to work out
their own salvation better, wiser and
AuoAC 1eoshA6 tAAoh 1CRACooASC bu-
reaucracy can ever do it for them
Such noxious paintings to buck ma
ture's good growths have not enriched
the forgotten man" nor raised him to
exalted station, as promised. Their nat
ural products are the tares of sky
rocketing imitation on the gambling stock
market and mounting profits for ECO
nomic royalists," while nearly $4,000 900
forgotten men" still wander up and
down the land in unproductive idleness.
Failure Of bucking tactics is further en-
phasized when the politician calls upon
his adversaries to give these people the
employment that all his artificial devices
cannot supply. 1t is a retreat and an
admission that the grip of business on
the country is beyond power of the ex-
perimenting politicians to break, direct
or effectively control.
More bucking is the futile palliative
Of added spending, only to realize later
that nature turns again on the politician
and mockS his efforts toward the unat-
tainable illusion that prosperity can be
brought to all the people by plunging
them further and further into useless
debt, or that the money changers are
driven from the temple by giving them
a bigger mortgage on all the people of
the United States.
An ultimate Sahara Of unproductive
theories can hypnotic only SO long as
the people are beguiled by distorted
political dreams of how not ever to reach
the promised land of sanity, safety and
toil-wrought security.
And If sane and sensible people will
throw off the spell of unfulfllment by
asserting their strength and common
sense at the ballot box, the light of rea-
son will dispel the delusions as soon
as the result Is announced, and the
United States will at once resume the
march of genuine progress that all politi-
cal tinkers never have been able to
halt very long.
A nation is redeemed when deluded
people regain their wits and no longer
permit blind boondoggling politicians to
dig boondoggled bitches into which to
thrust and confine them forever.
Sincerely-in the public interest.
JOSEPH w. CHEYNEY.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

is q suggestion that Toxic Is actuated
primarily by the United States purpose,
in line with its parity policy. to meet
Britain's proposal by retaining 10000
tons of over-age American destroyers
which would otherwise have been
scrapped by the end Of 1895. Great
Britain has been formally notified that
the Washington Government Is re
luctantly" obliged to take advantage OF
its escalator privilege. The japanese
example may eventually impel both
Britain and the United States to include
submarines, instead of exclusively de-
stroyers, in the excess tonnage now to
be retained.
Japan's plans coincide with the re-
crudescence of strain in Soviet-Japanese
relations to q point that causes Moscow
sharply to warn Toxic of the "in-
tolerable" situation on the Siberian
Manchukuan border and to describe 1t
as dangerous to peace. Under the cir
cumstances, it is possible that Japan
will allege the presence in the Pacific Of
a stable feet Of Soviet submarines as
concrete justification for a course that
threatens to bring about another naval
construction race. The United States
policy is to maintain parity with Britain
and the So ratio with respect to Japan.
Such q program, never more than at
this gravely troubled international juno
ture, East and West. heartily commends
itself to the American people.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Not a Partisan Issue.
n the Illinois State journal

From the Illinois State Journal.
Two years ago, when President Roose-
yelt toured the drought area, rain, like,
a miracle, followed him wherever he
went. This year, with both Mr.. Roose-
yelt and Gov. Landon, his opponent for
the presidency, travelling through the
Middle West, cooler weather has come
again. -.
A good argument could be made for
crediting either man with this natural
phenomenon. The Kansan, for example,
brought rain with him from Chicago as
far south as Pontiac. But We won't
bubble about it. The blessed relief from.
the heat should remain on strictly non-
partisan basis as long as the rain falls on
both Democrats and Republicans alike.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
The JeffersOnian Democrats

The JefferSonian Democrats are going
into action. James A. Reed, former
Senator from Missouri, and Joseph B.
Ely, former Governor of Massachusetts,
have invaded Maine to denounce Pres
ident Roosevelt and the New Deal. In
little more than a week the Maine voters
go to the polls to elect Governor and
other State officials, a United States
Senator and three members Of the House.
The New Dealers are hopeful Of making
a good showing in the Maine election.
They figure that the election Of Gov
ernor Brann, the Democratic candidate
for Senator, even if they lose other con-
tests, would give cheer to the Roosevelt
forces.
Reed and Ely are not speaking under
the auspices of the Republican National
Committee or the Republican State
Committee in Maine. They visited the
Pine Tree State to make an appeal to
all voters to turn Roosevelt and the
New Dealers out of office, on the ground
that they are not Democrats but are
Socialists, Communists and what not
These Jeffersonian Democrats are not
licans. They hold, however. that it is
of vital importance to all Americans
that the present regime be retired. AS
practical matter, the only way that
the Rooseveltians can be retired is
through the election of some one else
In this case the "some one else" hap
pens to be the Republican candidate for
President, Governor Alfred M. Landon
of Kansas.
The former Missouri Senator, speaking
in Portland, Me- expressed the attitude
of many anti Roosevelt Democrats in
this campaign. II hold no brief for
Governor Landon." he said; "he is a
Republican and am Democrat. But
this much I say: He has never under
taken to repudiate the Constitution, to
sneer at its precepts or to contemptu-
ously refer to its authors. He has not
assailed the Supreme Court. He has not
proposed the confscation c: property
through taxation or by any other
means"
Reed and Ely are lifelong Demo-
Gratis. By no possible stretch of imagi-
nation could they be considered any
thing other than Democrats. The very
fact that they have taken the stump
against the reelection of Franklin D.
Roosevelt is a clear indication of the
strength of their feeling. Reed, in his
speech, charged that Roosevelt has been
the hired man" of the economic royal
lists" whom the President is now attack
ing. and that the Roosevelt family is
now receiving profits from the kind of
corporations which the President has
assalled; that when he has found it con-
venlent the President has been a guest
aboard the yacht of Vincent Astor, who,
Reed insisted, might be classed an
economic royalist." To serve his own
political ambitions, the President, ac-
cording to the vitriolic Reed, has at
tempted to stir up class hatreds in this
country, but at the same time lives like
an economic royaist" himself.
The Jeffersonian Democrats have en-
tered this fight to prevent the re-elec-
tlon OF Roosevelt, organizing in thirty
States. They offer a rallying post for
the members of their party who cannot
and will not stomach the New Deal.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Proposal for Air-Cooled
Small Police Stations

To the Editor of The Star:
noticed in your newspaper that the
police have much difficulty in keeping
cool in a small police station. May
suggest "air cool police station?
People are fined as high as $25, and
they have 200 or more at one time. Why
don't the police department air cool the
small police station with the low ceiling
and give some comfort to those that pay
the fine and also to the suffering judge.
The same time it will help prosperity to
continue. MISS -. MEDOW.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
designations of 1,25O,0O0 members Of

designations of 1,25O,OO0 members OF
the A. F. of L. cause slight Interrupt
ton OF the amenities of correspondence
1t will be impossible to take time for a
letter to each resigner, telling him how
much his services were valued, how
deeply he will be missed and how warm
are the hopes for his success in a new
field of endeavor. Mass transactions
save time, but at much sacrifice of the
polite platitudes that are dear to the
popular heart.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

A brilliant mathematical demonstra-
ton has been given at Harvard which
presents a new set of logical rules for
discovering all the numbers from zero
to infinity which possess the same set OF
complicated attributes. There is no
suggestion that the discovery will be
useful in connection with budget bal
ancing or tax collection. II it can be
applied it means heavy work for the
rising generation.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

The drought may be regarded as a yerv
Slight blessing in thick disguise Of mis-
fortune If 1t gives people something to
talk about that permits no thought of
controversy to intrude on a purpose of
sincere benevolence,
Evening star., 1936-09-05
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton

Destiny.
A woody. cloistered nook
Wherein the only sound
In quietude profound
Is a low-chanting brook.
In ceaseless monotone <'
1t chants of a far sea
Whose song Is loud and free, .
Whose depths are oft unknown.
But the small rivulet
In cloistered banks well known
That toward the sea 1t flows
Staging its chansonetts.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

norway refuses to deliver Trotzky to
Russia but agrees to keep him under
strict surveillance, such as perhaps might
have been desirable years ago when he
was engaged in pounding an irrepres-
sible typewriter in the Bronx.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

Erosion control calls for some method
Of anchoring top soil in case of wind
storm. There are so many angles to
problems Of agriculture that it may be
necessary to call the Bureau of Aero
aautics into conference as to atmos-
pheric eccentricities.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

The New Deal is getting out a paper
of its own which does not yet respect
journalistic amenities to the extent Of
referring to Gov. Landon as ''our
esteemed contemporary"
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Laughing II or.

mo matter how anxious about the
future may be-" said Senator Sorghum,
Il keep a smiling face and give gentle
answer"
Growing indifferent?"
mo I'm trying to be one Of those
happy worryers you read about"
Evening star., 1936-09-05

The Home Owners Loan Corporation
is engaged in an effort to take proper
care, through a merit system, of its EN-
ployes who may have mortgages of their
own.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

Candidates confer on the economic
situation. /. is encouraging to note that
in spite Of what is said about them by
their respective campaign promoters
they remain on speaking terms.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Hoppers Missed the Cows.

From the Sioux City Tribune.
The Banner Township farmer says he
thinks he might have been better OF If
the grasshoppers had eaten his cows, too.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Hopeless.

From the Grand Island Independent.
Herr Hitler says that unless our states
men develop common sense war is in.
evitable. The situation indeed seems
hopeless!
Evening star., 1936-09-05

Jud Tunkins says he likes to 60 fishin',
because he admires the fish who let him
sit and think and seldom interrupt him
by trying to start an argument.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

Labor affiliation is engaged in a DEM
onstration of how much easier it is to
disorganize than to organize.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Colored News.

Prom the San Antonio Evening News.
These days the news Is colorful enough
what with the Spanish Reds, the White
Russians and the Michigan Blacks.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

Trotzky goes so far as to give any
assassin full permission to kill Stain,
provided Stain does not see him first.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Old Stuff.

From the Indianapolis News.
Mexico is face to face with . news
crisis, but, Of course, that's old stun for
MEXICO.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Not Any for Uncle.

From the Roanoke Times.
London suggests that the United States
should act as peacemaker in the Spanish
civil war. Thanks, we'll take vanilla.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

de man who always laughs at trouble" !"
said Uncle Eben, may be philosopher;
an den agin he may have . powerful
pore seTts Of huuner!" 4
Evening star., 1936-09-05
After Vacation.

When from the country he's returned
All stung and battered and sunburned
He vows in tones sincere, though grim,
The city's good enough for him.
Evening star., 1936-09-05
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Evening star., 1936-09-05
Pride of Possession.

Pride Of Possession.
Every man is entitled to his own
opinion"
"Of course" replied Miss Cayenne, "but
opinions are sometimes like small
children. The worse the impression they
make the prouder their parents SEEM"
Evening star., 1936-09-05
Telling Our Troubles.

Our troubles long ago we told
To policeman, stout and bold.
Today the proper thing, you know.
Is to tell your troubles to the radio.
If you have tune you can't repress:
If speech is bothering your conscious
ness,
Or great big ad that you'd like to show,
You can tell your troubles to the radio
If you think you are the only one
Who knows how this world should be
run,
With the grand piano or the old banjo
You can tell your troubles to the radio.
Evening star., 1936-09-05

"One Of your philosophers" said Hi
Ho, the sage of Chinatown. advises me to
let well enough alone. But who shall
tell me where well enough has even
been discovered?"
Evening star., 1936-09-05
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REGULAR Edition.
The Washington times., 1936-01-27
VINS0N HAPPY
0VERVICTORY
OF BONUS

January % was big day in the
life of Representative Fred M. Vim
son Of Kentucky. On that day, in
1890, he was born and on the same
day As years later he saw sent to
the President the piece Of legisla-
ton for which he has probably
worked hardest in the almost IL
years he has sat in the House Of
Representatives. That was the
soldiers bonus bill. Adjusted pay
bill, Mr.. VinSon prefers to call it.
Mr.. VinSon believes it was a fit
ting way in which to celebrate
his birthday, making a speech on
the Floor of the House which
speeded the bill on its way to the
White House, especially so as many
persons call it the VinSon Bill.
Souvenir For VinSOn
The Kentucky member is keep
ing as a souvenir the original bill
presented to the Ways and Means
Committee at the beginning of this
session. 1t was a copy which went
into the hopper" and finally
found its way to a Presidential
veto. Mr.. VinSon also has the or,
iginal Of the bill introduced by him
in the last session and which lost
out to the Patman bill by only a
few votes.
Mr.. Vinson does not seem wor.
ried about where the money is
coming from to pay the baby
bonds as they are caShed by the
veterans. For one thing, it is pre-.
dicted that there will be about
two billion dollars of unexpended
balance in the Treasury July /,
money not spent out of the billions
appropriated for emergency pur.
poses by this and the preceding
Congress. This money, it appears,
can be reappropriated if not spent
before July /.
Eye on Senate
There is a senatorial election in
Kentucky this year. Senator 10
gan'S term expires. Much stranger
things have happened than would
be a boom for Mr.. VinSon. In fact,
it has been suggested several times.
But don't try to get him to say
what he intends to do about it,
because he won't say.
Representative VinSon is a mem
Der of the Ways and Means Com
mittee and is the only East Ken.
tuckian ever to have served on
! that committee.
The Washington times., 1936-01-27
10Th ACCIDENT
KILLS RACER

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 1N.S).
He cheated death 19 times, but
the goth time death cheated him.
And today AL Gordon, veteran
race driver, and his mechanic, W.
E. Spider" Matlock, motion pic
ture stunt man, lie dead here as
the result of a spectacular crash.
Gordon died enroute to the hos
pital, and Matlock Succumbed IL
hours later.
AS $4,000 race fans stared horri-
fled, Gordon plunged to death
over an embankment in the 126th
lap of a 20O-lap race at Ascot
Speedway yesterday. Horribly
mangled, the men were taken
from the wrecked car which had
dropped out of sight of the Specta-
tors. among which were Gordon'S
wife and two sons.
Reckless Rex" Mays of River
side, Cal, won the contest in
1886, a quarter lap ahead
of Lou Meyers.
Gordon'S crackup came only
a few laps after he miraculously
escaped death when a tire blew
out and sent him into a spin. He
was trying to make up the lost
time when the tragedy occurred.
The 34-year-old driver is we'll
known among race fans from
coast to coast. In his record are
10 serious crack-ups, three of
them at Indianapolis.
The Washington times., 1936-01-27
DEATHS PR0BED
IN ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Jan. q.
Investigations into the death of
two colored persons, one shot
through the head and the other
killed by a freight train, were be-
ing made by Alexandria police
here today.
The body of Bobbie Bixon, %,
colored, of New Orleans, was
found badly mangled on the rail-
road track about 300 yards north
Of Union Station here early Sun
day morning.
Effie Elizabeth Pratt, 10, col
ored, Of the 800 block North Al
fred Street, was found in her bed
early today with a pistol shot
through her head. A rs calibre
automatic pistol was found nearby.