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Evening star., 1936-10-13
Supreme Court and
The Constitution

To the Editor Of The Star:
In his letter Mr.. Leo A. Hughes at
tacks certain people because they deny
that two and two make four, or that q
decision of the Supreme Court Is the
supreme law of the land" This deserves
correction, as an instance of the loose
thinking and misinformation that mar
the enthusiastic bursts of those who are
more ardent than informed about funda-
mental American documents.
The Constitution provides that: "This
Constitution, and the laws Of the United
States which shall be made in pursuance
thereof, and all treaties :" shall be the
supreme law of the land" Under no
circumstances could any court decision
be considered law. The Supreme Court
is granted no specific power in the Con-
stitution to rule on laws. 1t has assumed
the authority to state that certain laws
are not the supreme law of the land,
basing such authority on the implication
Of the phrase which shall be made in
pursuance thereof" and the omission In
the Constitution of any specific means
for determining such pursuance.
Mr.. Hughes Is correct, however, in as
severating that two and two make four.
A. r. MURRAY.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Swedish Baby.Carrying
Picture Is Inaccurate
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Noting the picture in your gravure Sec
tion of Sunday Star of October IL, de-
picting the different customs of carry
ing babies around, it appears to give
a wrong impression to the readers of
your paper, placing the Swedish people
on a par with East African savages,
almost as ignorant Arabs and primitive
Indians, and as a Swedish-American I
would like to explain that this picture
must have been posed. I was born in
Sweden and neither my parents nor
can ever recollect seeing anybody carry
ing babies around in the manner shown.
The whole picture tends to show the
Swedes up as primitive nation when,
on the contrary, they are q highly cul-
tured people. I hope you will give
space to this letter with the view Of
enlightening your readers.
@. BENGTsoN.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Protests Any Diplomatic
Relations With Vatican

To the Editor Of The Star:
As reader of The Star, take excep-
tion to the editorial in your October 8
issue relative to the mission of repre-
sentative Of the Pope to Washington.
Any attempt, by propaganda or other
wise, to create public sentiment favor
able to q revival Of the long and properly
discarded exchange of ambassadors be-
tween the United States and the Papal
See will not meet with favor of Amer
leans who oppose the union of church
and state. We, as people, are fortunate
in not being involved in European
schemes Of government, and we should
remain so.
Furthermore, mixture OF religion and
politics does not become any church
pretending to be Christian.
To Americans it matters not what
other governments do with respect to
their intercourse with the Vatican. Our
Government represents citizens of many
faiths and strength of numbers. They
do not seek. nor should any one sect
seek, special favor in relation to the
Government at Washington.
r. e. MASON.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

No one can know what mature taking"
really is until he reads some OF the older
books, Oliver Goldsmith's history Of
Animated Nature" for example.
Goldsmith knew nothing about ami
mails, of course, but simply went to
sources from which he came up with
several hundred pages Of matter.
One Of his classic tales is about the
squirrels.
These intelligent animals, according to
Goldsmith, don't even let river stop
them.
When a number Of them came to
stream they would have no difnculty
about crossing it.
Here was how they would do 1t:
Each squirrel would repair to nearby
forest, where it would secure for itself
small piece of bark"
Each rodent then would come down to
the bank, launch his little boat and
step aboard.
once aboard the bark the squirrel
would hoist its bushy tail in the air for
sail and so proceed across the stream.
It was q pretty picture, OF course, the
hundreds of migrating squirrels going
along on their bits Of bark, tails waving
in the breeze.
About all there is true to the story,
of course, in so far as it concerns squlr-
rels, is the tail-waving.
SQUIRRELS do love to fiirt their tails.
What Goldsmith became confused with,
undoubtedly, was the lemming, North
European rodent.
These creatures, at long intervals, eX-
perience q sudden desire to migrate, ana
do so in countless thousands.
1t is said that nothing whatsoever Will
stop their advance, once th1s sort OF
madness seizes them.
If they come to a river they go into 1t,
pushed on by the numbers behind.
II they come to the ocean 1t is just the
same-in they CO. one after the other,
and all are lost at sea.
No doubt this occurance attracted the
attention of people in all ages, SO tnat IL
was not strange. perhaps, that In tlme
this popularity of the Jennings should
be transferred to the common squirrel.
The point is that there is enough OF
interest in the real habits of the squirrel
without adding anything to 1t.
Goldsmith goes on to tell of thousands
of his squirrels losing their lives and
being washed up on the shore, where the
natives gathered them up and sold
their skins for penny
1t would seem that the natives were
not very good merchants. But penny,
of course, in those days. meant more than
it does today in any countryS currency.
The squirrel of our own forests and
suburbs and even cities df they have
trees, is interesting enough in his own
right, without any one adding anything
to him.
Persons interested in animate Nature
will find few things more animated than
squirrels.
Division OF Nature into animate and
inanimate is not a bad one for ordinary
purposes.
The microscope, it is true, has shown
animation where only dead matter
seemed to be before.
Yet in the main the old division holds.
What leaps and cavorts in the YARD
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Mark Hopkins Centenary,

The Mark Hopkins Centenary at
the announcement that Samuel Hopkins,
New York cotton merchant and cousin Of
the famous educator, had left bequests
in amount Of two million four hundred
thousand dollars for the endowment of
teaching at the institution now headed
by DR.. Tyler bennett. Still other gifts,
it is hoped, will be offered to the end
that the school may survive in the face
of forces of RECOMMENDATION recognized to
be sweeping the world.
Mark Hopkins in himself personified
the philosophy of individual RESPONSE
hility. When President James A. Gar
field said that his ideal of q college
would be fully met by log in the woods
with student at one end and the
master at the other, the services of the
latter were summarized for all time. He
believed that the business of the human
race Is to elevate its own cultural and
spiritual character. Systems, in his
judgment, were useful only to the extent
and degree that they prompted people
to the performance of duty. Mans
highest good" he taught, 'lies in the
harmonious cooperation of all his
powers . to love God and his fellows" /"
He gave more than sixty years of his life
to williams in behalf of his faith.
And it is good to know that the fruits
Of his labors are not to be surrendered
without struggle. DR.. bennett, 1t seems,
might be Mark Hopkins in second in
carnation when he throws down the
challenge: "It may well be that some day
Williams College will be merely number
umpty-ump in the file of Federal De-
partment of Education, an obscure school
in q regimented system of instruction.
May God avert that dayl" So definite
and fortnight position must be assumed
If students Of the future are to cultivate,
under academic freedom, their own in
tellectual and moral integrity" Samuel
Evening star., 1936-10-13

Hopkins gave his wealth to that purpose,
and the entire Nation should be grateful
for the example which his kinsman set
and which he has followed.
The centenary of Mark Hopkins presi-
dency, therefore, passes into history as
useful occasion. 1t has attracted atten-
ton because it put Williams on record as
ono school in the United States where
there will be resistance to any effort to
reduce American culture to q dead level
Of uniform mediocrity.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Peace in Palestine.

After six months of strife and terrorism
resultant from Arab-Jewish antagoniSms,
peace has descended upon Palestine. The
general strike proclaimed by the Arab
High Committee last April as a protest
against Jewish immigration under pro-
lection of the British mandate has been
called off. Arabs throughout the coun-
try are returning to mercantile, agricul-
tural and industrial pursuits. and the
disorders that SO long immersed the
country in turmoil and sanguinary racial
controversy have ceased. Tension per-
sists. as is inevitable after SO protracted
all sides there is rejoicing that concilia-
tion has at length prevailed and laid
the foundation for an enduring under
standing The Arab Committee, decry-
ing further violence, awaits with hopeful
confidence the coming Of British royal
commission which is to look into Arab
claims. These concern not only immi-
grafton, but sale of land to Jews.
Economic Self-interest no doubt played
0 potent part in convincing the Arabs
of the foolhardineSS of prolonged paraly-
sis of PaleStine's commercial life. But
the arrival of a force of 5000 British
troops and appointment of major gen.
eral as supreme administrator of the
inundated territory were factors that
must have carried persuasiveness, too.
They reflected Britain's determination
to live up fully to her mandatory obliga-
tions as guarantor of the Jewish ma
tional home. 1t was not even necessary
to enforce a threat to establish martial
law. Another development that induced
the militant elements to return to pacific
paths was an appeal from four leading
Arab rulers. While assuring their Pal
estinian brethren of complete and con-
tinuing sympathy with their grievances
King Ibn Saud eptomized the views OF
the Arab kings when he pointed out
that further struggle against superior
British power would be futile and end
only in disaster for "the entire Arab
world" Having contrived to demon
strate to the Moslem masses that the
Intervention of the Arab kings had been
successfully invoked, Hal Amin Ell Hus-
seini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and
chief of the High Committee, decided to
stack arms.
Thus, for the immediate future at
least, q situation briStling with gravest
possibilities, not short of the danger of
q holy war in the Near East, has been
reconciled. One more conflict that con-
tanned the seeds of international COM
plications has been localized" as were
the Italo-Ethiopian campaign and the
still raging revolution in Spain. British
prestige in the Mediterranean area, sadly
impaired by Mussolini's challenge,
emerges considerably enhanced. Con-
ditions in Palestine again are favorable
for Jewish immigration from European
zones Of oppression. From every stand
point, restoration of peace in the Holy
Land is q benef1cent consummation.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
A Paradox

u 8AaAkoA
I studied some portraits Of women and
men
Who lived in the last century.
To me all the faces seemed happier then
Or is that fallacy?
Gazelle-eyed, smooth of brow, reposeful
Of mien,
All the women appeared to be.
And the brows Of the men were unfur-
rowed, serene,
No lines of perplexity.
Yet in ease and finance the men have
progressed,
And the women from hoop-skirts are
free.
Why, why should our faces disclose such
unrest
While we boast Of more Hberty7
Evening star., 1936-10-13

It was back in the early horse and
buggy days when the most prominent
anarchist in America was a man known
to print as Herr Most. He was not an
example of courage He was safety
firster from the heart and it required
little research to drag him out of his
place Of hiding under bed.
Evening star., 1936-10-13

Wagner's music is advancing in Ameri-
can popularity. A Wagner libretto be-
comes more and more agreeable as it
holds to entertaining myths without
efforts to go as far back as the swastika.
Evening star., 1936-10-13

AS the time for campaigning shortens,
orators are liable to be confronted by a
situation which conveys the impression
that everything Of possible importance
has been said.
Evening star., 1936-10-13

Austria now claims to have an undis-
puted dictator. dictator usually means
little less trouble for the present with
possibilities of q great deal more for the
future.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Neat.

with robins nesting in its hair"
A tree is fair;
But hair Is hard, I wish to state.
To cultivate.
You have to keep 1t nice and neat
With care complete.
Nest eggs grown old, small good will do
As q shampoo.
I'm glad that robin climbed q tree
Instead Of me.
Evening star., 1936-10-13

When the position OF undersecretary
was created for Prof. Tugwell's benefit
the title may have sounded to Prof.
Wallace little like that of "understudy,"
a functionary whose natural aspirations
are to supersede a star.
Evening star., 1936-10-13

Ponzi is at liberty, but not dangerous.
Almost every possible advantage to be
obtained by financial intricacy is being
discussed by able orators.
Evening star., 1936-10-13

Jersey City has become SO strong in
politics and finance that as great events
develop New York is regarded almost
as an innocent bystander.
Evening star., 1936-10-13

Europe continues to invite American
tourists to make haste before riots spoil
some of the best articles.
Evening star., 1936-10-13

As q town builder Professor Tugwell
will provide certain amount of unfln-
ished business for any administration.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Collection.

Collection.
MY hat won't throw in the ring"
heard the politician sing.
With patriotism most profound,
take that hat and pass it round.
Rustling Of paper there will join
The jingle of bright silver coin.
keep my hat; its contents fair
Out in the ring place with care.
sometimes . sinner" said Uncle Eben,
"tells Satan to get behind him and Satan
obeys right OF because he doesn' want
TO let de gemman cut. Of his sight,"
Evening star., 1936-10-13
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the use for republication OF all news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication of special dispatches
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Texas Eloouence.

From the Omaha World Herald
It's getting so John Gamers silence
is being heard even more than Frank
Knox's volubility.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Rathes.

Rattles.
From the Kalamazoo Gazette
Europe must be noisy place these
days. Some Of the nations are rafting
sabers while the others are knocking
knees.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Publicity.

"Were you ever in jail?" asked the
constituent.
mo, sir!" shouted Senator Sorghum.
"How dare you ask such questions"
I'm sorry spoke. But fame is fcke
and going to jail is the only way know
of to be sure of getting your picture In
the paper with unlimited space"
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Extremes.

Extremes.
Now comes the kind, persuasive friend,
Whose glad assurances extend
To faith complete in all we do,
With golden promises in view.
We greet the future with smile
Yet fear that in little while
Well modify our thought Of bliss;
Life cannot be as fair as This.
Then comes the friend Of cherries mind,
Who tells us life's q daily grind
Through which we seek, mid discomfort.
To pay the taxes and the rent!
When men assembled in q crowd
Must face the sneering Of the proud,
While all the world grows stale and nat;
Life cahnot be as bad as That.
Evening star., 1936-10-13
Expert Opinion.

Eve farmers need more encourage
ment," said Farmer Corntossel, mot only
for our own sakes, but for the sake OF
the tired business man."
"Who tells you this?"
my boy Josh. He says the Broadway
shows were better when the country was
turnin' out more big butter-and-egg
men,"
"All men ut some time must be honest"
said Hi Ho, the sage Of Chinatown,
otherwise there could be no division OF
the profits Of evil"
Evening star., 1936-10-13
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@. Who were the nine worthiesp-E. L.
A. They are designated in literature
as Hector, son of Priam; Alexander the
Great, Julius Caesar, Joshua, David,
Judas Maccabeus, King Arthur, Charlie
magne and Godfrey of Bouillon,
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70 report the matter % The Times Tor
Investigation.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
IL DIAMOND GAMES
ON WESTERNS LIST
Georgetowners Wallop National
Training School, 17-6, in
Abbreviated 0pener.

SEVENTEEN more games. including
- the four inter-high tussles. have
been scheduled for the Western base
ball team which opened its season
yesterday with an auspicious FIVE
inning 17-6 victory over the National
Training School on the losers field.
Although Lee Kushnain pitched only
the first two innings. during which
Western amassed a 100 lead, he was
given credit for the victory.
Western plays its second game to-
morrow when 1t travels to Garrett
Park to meet Georgetown Prep.
The other games are scheduled as
follows:
April s. Washington and Lee High; II.
Fork Union Military Academy. there; is.
Augusta Military Academy, there: 21.
George Washtnston High; 25. Loyola. at
Baltimore 90, Central
May /. Eoyola; s, Roosevelt: IL, George
Washington High, there; -; Episcopal.
Macon Military Academy. there; 1e. East
ern; 20. Silver Spring; %. Bethesda
Chevy Chase; 26. Tech.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
SCOTT A. B. c. ROLLER
Former shortstop Is Crack Shot
on Bowling Drive.

INDIANAPOLIS. April Q P.-
Everett Deacon) Scott, who once was
the crack shortstop of the American
League, will roll in the American
Bowling Congress tournament tonight
with the Grace Construction team Of
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Scott is just about as dexterous with
the mtneralite as he was with the
horeshide and> ne has frequently
placed in the A. B. c. prize money.
TIE leaders:
Five-man teams-Pabst Blue Ribbon
New York. 3.o65: Oak Leaf Motors Chi.
cago. 054.
Two-man event-A slanins-M. strska
CHICAGO. l. .347: R. Milan-G. Kruzich. De.
troit 1920.
Individual--C. Warren. sprinsheld. III.
al All eventsGH ens % Beth, CHICAGO, 1870,
L. Exler. st. Louis. 1,94S.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
STAR GRAPPLERS
TANGLE TONIGHT
Robert and Bisignano Head
Seasons Longest Card
at Turner Arena.

T LEADING the longest pachy.
IL derm parade of the season
Yvon Robert, an outstanding
l. Il contender for the world heavy.
weight wrestling crown, will tangle
with Alphonse Bisignano tonight II
the feature graphing match at Tur-
ner's Arena.
Winner from Danno OMahony ir
an impromptu tussle at Holyoke, Mass.
several months ago. Robert recently
dropped a disputed two-hour match tc
the Irishman in Madison Square Gar
Gen for his only loss OF the year.
One of the most promising tWisterS
in mat circles. Bisignano is conceded
an excellent chance to upset the clean.
cut Robert.
| R1S1GNANO has numbered some Of
~ the most highly regarded mat
men among his victims Holding VIC
tories over the four Dusek brothers
Alphonse also has pinned George Ia
harias, Gino Garibaldi and Chief Lit
tie Wolf
In what probably will set a new rec
ord for roughhouse braWling, George
Koverly will clash with George Leni-
han in a scheduled 45-ninute semi
| final.
Three Commute matches. instead
Of the usual two. bring together Mike
Mazurki and Jim Coff1eid, Abe Gold
berg and Jim Wallis and Tom Alley
and Al Taroff.
Action will get under way at $50
o'clock.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
Eastern in Fine Fettle.
IN EXCELLENT physical condi

TN EXCELLENT physical condition
after the 500-mile train journey, the
Washington squad is keyed to mental
attitude that is as surprising as it is
refreshing.
Despite the fact that Eastern has
been playing steadily since December
Y. the team is by no means stale"
Now boasting 13-game winning
streak. the Lincoln Parkers enter the
tournament with a record Of 80 VIC
tories in "a trays.
In the opening game of the tourney
at Z o'clock White Plains. N. Y, High,
champion of the lower Hudson Valley
faces Trenton, N j.. High, New Jersey
States foremost scholastic club. La
Sale Academy. runner-up in New
York's Catholic School League. square;
of with st. Mary's Academy Of GlenS
Falls an hour later.
Following the Eastern-Brockton bat
tie, Brown Prep of Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania prep school champions, meets
Massanutten Military Academy ot
Woodstock, Va, prep school title.
holders in the Old Dominion State.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
DENVER FIVE is OUT
OF OLYMPIC TRIALS
Sideways Barred for Entering
Y. M. c. A. and A. A. U. Play
Under Other Names.

NEW YORK. April 2-The Denver
Sideways, crack A. A. U. basket ball
team that won the national Champion
ship of the Y. NJ. c. A. arrived in
New York yesterday for the final
Olympic tryouts at Madison Square
Garden, the three-day show starting
today. They worked out briskly at
the West Side Y. NJ. c. A. bubbling
over with eagerness for the court
games greatest show, and one hour
later were barred from the tourna-
ment.
DR.. John Brown. jr., Y. NJ. c. A.
representative on the American Olym-
pic Basket Ball Committee, notified
DR.. Walter Meanwell, committee
chairman. that the Sideways should
never have been permitted to enter
the Y. M. c. A. tournament. The
trouble was that the Denver Safe
ways became the Denver Y NJ. c. A.
and the Kansas City Philcos the
Kansas City Y. NJ. c. A. after their
elimination in the national A. A. U.
championships. Each entered the Y
tourney seeking a place in the Olym-
pic finals. According to A. A. U. and
Y. M. c. A. rules this step should not
have been permitted.
Under the Olympic arrangement.
seven players of the winning team
and seven from the rest of the field,
probably five Of them from the team
that wins second place, will represent
hy,arira in fln nly7r,nir Capnss
$50 m-Unlversity of Washington
pm.-Wilmerdinr Pa. Y. NJ. c. A.
rs Utah State
$50 pm-Universal pictures Of Holly.
wood vs.. Arkansas.
10 pm.-McPherson Oilers vs.. Temple.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
NEAR HAND BALL TITLE
Semi Finals Are Scheduled at "Y'
Tomorrow Night.

Semi-fina matches in the District
A. A. U. four-wall hand ball tourna-
ment will be played tomorrow night
at the Y. M. c. A.. with Wallace Wink
Ter and John Payne meeting at
o'clock, and Peter Stasinos and Jack
Schwartz playing at 9. Schwartz, the
only semi-finalist not member of the
Y. NJ. C. A., is affiliated with the jew
ish Community Center.
Only Winkler was extended to win
last night, going to 1921, 21-14 and
21-12, before defeating Harry Finder,
Payne, Stasinos and Schwartz won
easy victories over Lionel c. Moore,
P. C. OLeary and A. L. ziller. re-
spectively.