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Evening star., 1936-04-15

these years, the sacred and reveren-
tial attitude to be assumed by underlings
in dealing with H r. H. the Budget
Bureau such invitations will evoke i'm
mediate and even joyful response.
Regardless of other things, Budget Bu-
reau practice has had the effect OF les
sening responsibility by the Commission
ers in presentation of Capital City needs.
Every year the department heads at the
District Building submit preliminary"
estimates to the Commissioners, on which
the blue sky is the only limit. They do
so with the feeling that their estimates
are going to be whacked to pieces, any
way, so they might as well present every
thing, including the kitchen stove, in
their requests. Something OF the same
spirit has accompanied the submission
of the Commissioners estimates to the
Budget Bureau. The Commissioners
know their estimates are going to be cut
so let the bureau hold the bag!
AS long as the Budget Bureau exer-
cises arbitrary authority 1t may never
be possible to make the Commissioners
feel fully responsible for Budget Bureau
estimates of local needs. But the Sen
ate committees action in putting the bu-
reau on the defensive, the Commission
ers on the offensive. is bound to produce
better results. To Senator Thomas and
members of his subcommittee go the
thanks of the Outstanding, taxpaying.
local community.
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many long years, and that the new plans,
and the new arrangement Of sidewalks
and shrubbery is going to make all the
parks more beautiful. What appears to
be ruthless destruction is merely the
foundation for something which will be
even more attractive, when completed.
Well, it may be too early to take issue
with this argument. But let the authori-
ties be careful! A newcomer to WASH
ington, as skilled as he may be in for.
NAL landscape architecture. cannot hope
to convince Washingtonian that lilac
bush is unsuited to this climate. Nor
can he prove by any number of charts
and maps that anything is gained by
substituting a single additional square
foot of concrete for the same space of
green grass.
While the healthy debate RACES,
though, let us not forget the thanks that
are due to Secretary Ickes tor having
taken the bull by the horns and made
the funds available for a greatly needed
program of renovation and improve
ment of the small parks which have suf-
fered years of neglect, taking on rum
down-at-the-heel appearance pleasing
to nobody.
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Small Park Renovation.

The park authorities have been fore
warned by something approaching
deluge of criticism from citizens that
their new landscape architecture in
making over the city's small parks must
be above reproach. Letters to The Star
indicate that presentation of the plans.
giving an idea of the proposed treat
ment, does not silence the criticism.
Why? For one thing, the park author
tiles are digging up more than lilac
bushes. They are uprooting old associa-
tions. Let q man or woman pass q lilac
bush every day, Winter and Summer.
for years-as many Of them have been
passing the lilac bushes in the small
park at Eighteenth and Pennsylvania
avenue-and anybody who moves that
bush has fight on his hands right at
the start. So it is with other shrubbery
and trees. So it is, even, with the layout
Of the sidewalks. Old associations are
hard to break.
The park people explain that the new
plans have been passed on by compe-
tent authority; that the parks have been
neglected-which Is perfectly true-for
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Beneficial, Anyway.

Without further laboring the point
whether the District Commissioners or
the Budget Bureau should be blamed for
failing in the adequate presentation to
Congress of pressing local needs, let it
be said that the outcome of the dispute
should be beneficial to all concerned.
The need for higher appropriations for
certain phases Of public health work has
been recognized, apparently by the
Budget Bureau, certainly by the Senate
subcommittee. The Commissioners have
been invited. both by the Budget Bureau
and by the Senate committee, to be more
vigorous in their future presentation OF
local needs. After being taught, In all
Evening star., 1936-04-15
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Roosevelt apparently aSpires
to rate as a standpatter. in the sense
Of sticking by his guns. His Baltimore
accent on youth" speech, pledging a
program of unrelenting warfare against
unemployment, reafflrmS the policy OF
action" promulgated the day he took
Office, on March T. 1888. His now pro-
claimed determination to keep on doing
something" and, IF it doesn't work, to
do something else" is also in line with
the Presidents famous quarterback allu-
sion of early White House dayS-when
he intimated that recovery would be
promoted by certain plays, which would
be continued as long as they gained
ground, and, if they failed, the quarter
back would signal for other plays. On
the policy of sustained effort, tempered
by results, the President stands pat, he
indicated at Baltimore. Undoubtedly
Mr.. Roosevelt has struck what Is des-
tined to be a paramount keynote OF his
reelection campaign.
- x*
Political observers read into the PreSi-
dents speech an unmiStakable SuggeS-
ton of his intention sooner or later to
recommend re-eStablishment OF some
thing that will fulfill N. R. AS functions,
if unemployment persists. His remarks
at Baltimore had distinct Blue Eagle
ring when he declared that "the Gov
ernment must give, and will give, con-
sideration to such subjects as length OF
the working week, stability OF employ
ment on an annual basis and payment
of at least adequate minimum wages"
It is the second recent occasion on which
F. D. r. has hinted at the urgent duty of
private industry to supply more jobs.
There were similar intimations in his
March message to Congress calling
for 81, 500 100000 additional work-relief
funds. Between its lines there seemed
to run a pretty plain indication that
other plans and policies might be in
voked if industry proves incapable of
graphing effectively with unemployment.
BY and large, signs multiply that the
master of the New Deal will ask the
country for second term largely on a
promise Of incessant effort to cure job
lessness.
Industry's attitude toward the Presi-
dents warning on unemployment will be
disclosed at the annual meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States IN washington from April ~ TO
30. The general text of discussion will
be principles of American Enterprise"
The chamber proposes to subject to
practical business scrutiny" the obsta-
cles retarding recovery and re-employ-
ment. The subjects to be X-rayed, be-
sides Unemployment are the increase of
production and consumption, Federal fiS-
cal policies and taxation, relationships
between Federal and State Governments,
social security and industrial relations
and the relationship between business
and the public. Much attention will CEN
ter upon Limitations of political control
over economic activities" and 'increas-
ing governmental encroachments upon
business"
y Il
Very latest of G. o. p. dark horses is
Col. Charles H. March, chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission. He received
support in the recent preferential poll
Evening star., 1936-04-15

The operation of syphoning OF fourth
of the tank, adding fresh water, gives
the fishes slight fright which, with
intensified activity, has all the effects of
a cathartic.
Causes of poor water must be ended.
Usually such remedial measures will
tend to improve the appetites of the
fishes. Correction of poor appetite often
may be made by the extremely simple
expedient of putting the fishes on a
fast. Perhaps it would work equally well
with hIlmanSl
Easy breathing or its reverse is seldom
observed unless one looks closely. Many
beginner, whose fishes are "gasping
their heads off," hasn't. the slightest
suspicion that anything is wrong.
When a fish has enough oxygen in its
water and does not have to share it with
too many other fishes, his mouth is
seldom open except to snatch food or,
If he is belligerent, to bite at the fin of
a mate.
His gills open slowly and easily and
not very widely.
When the water is contaminated or
ne is suffocating from too much carbon
dioxide, which lies heavily at the bot
tom, or he is forced to share what oxy-
gen there is with too much competing
life, he opens his mouth widely and
necessarily and spreads his gill covers
until, viewed from the rear, they would
impress any observer as too widely open
and at the same time show red within.
The sick fish will gasp even when water
conditions are correct for him, but more
often this is merely sign of insufficient
oxygen, combined with too many low
lying gases in the water.
Fresh water, then, will do a great deal,
but is only palliative. The real remedy
is to reduce the amount of life in the
tank until no fish gaSps, even at dawn
(after the plants have been using oxygen
all night. The next best remedy, if one
insists on crowded tank is to use arti-
ficial aeration of some type. The way
this takes the "gasps" out of a given
collection of fishes is one of the real Joys
of the hobby.
Aquarium keeping teaches even the
most squeamish person that there is
nothing uriseemly about plain biological
necessities. Hence, he comes in a short
ment as a sign of good health; and the
white, stringy sort, filled with air bub-
bles. as an indication of failing health,
mostly brought about by feeding too
much dry foods. The remedy is plain.
Either feed nothing at all for day or
two or use some form of live food such
as garden worms or the like. An in
between remedy is to feed very much
less of the dried foods than one has been
using.
Lack of proper coloration is often hard
to detect, since one may not have ready
standards of comparison. 1t is impor-
tant, however, and. along with lack of
appetite, excessive gasping and lowered
activity, is one of the sure signs of sick
ness or approaching sickness.
Less than normal activity is always
suspicious. The old saying, Life is mo-
tion," is particularly true of fish life.
Even the protected confines of the glass
walled aquarium offer no exception. The
lively fish is, with few exceptions, the
healthy fish. The moping fish is the
i'll one. Fishes do rest, however. at times,
and also sleep, we believe; so do not
make the mistake of calling them i'll
when they merely are seeking a little
repoSe.
Evening star., 1936-04-15
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Early Crop.

Early Crop.
I'm going to make garden soon," said
Aristides Bings.
I'm going to raise tomatoes, corn and
radishes and things.
I'm going to rise at daybreak, when the
sky is mild and blue,
And gayly warble 'Tra-la-la' and some
times 'Too-ri-loo'
I'll buy myself some overalls, likewise
a spade and hoe,
And all the rest of what you need to
make garden grow.
I'll read the books that tell the use of
bone dust and of lime,
Or at least look at the pictures when I
have little time"
He dug around for quite awhile, did
Aristides Bings,
And then he cried. What luck a little
honest effort brings!
The soil is most productive. I observe
whereer I look
AS fne lot OF fishing worms as ever
graced hook.
And there's sapling that will make a
first-rate fishing pole!
And here's cord for measuring, stout
and goodly roll.
I didn't hope for such results. My Joy
I can't express.
The garden is undoubtedly a swift and
huge success!"
Evening star., 1936-04-15

1t is suggested that young and beau
tiful dancers should have spectacleS
devised to insure them employment.
Some of the best of the old operas were
produced under conditions which made
the corps de ballet refuge for singers
whose voices showed wear and tear.
Tired business men winked gaydoggingly
and sent bouquets to the stage door just
the same.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

A brain trust is in danger of i'm
petuous methods of intellectual initiative.
It is necessary to remember that citi-
zens who do not grasp ideas with light
ming speed have right to deliberate
and have things explained to them.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

gator for the Mumm Bureau, so between
them they converse with ease and with
energy in all the branches Of odd, salts
flying speech. The mixture of American,
English, German and Viennese slang
gives an additional spice to the mystify-
ing events that lead eventually to the
death of harmless cuckoo in an exas-
perating clock.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

An agreement that will secure peace
in the Western Hemisphere will throw
so much influence into this part of the
world that it may efface suspicion that
Columbus simply discovered a new sup
ply of the same old trouble.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

The biggest of all lenses is expected
soon to penetrate new vastnesses of
space and add an infinite number of
mysteries to those which remain un-
solved. One of the lessons of science is
the reminder that there are limitations
beyond which human intelligence cannot
60 as it gropes for new glimmerings of
light in fathomless darkness.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

A 74-year-old Georgia judge averted
lynching by declaring every man in sight
deputy sheriff bound to support the
law. Here is one old gentleman who
should not under any circumstances be
retired on a pension.
Evening star., 1936-04-15
Encouraging Conversational Confidence

Encouraging Conversational Confidence.
"You seem to have forgotten all you
used to know about base ball." said the
girl who overhears.
my escort is little bashful," an
swered Miss Cayenne. "His superiority
complex needs cultivating affected
complete ignorance of the game so that
he could have the pleasure of telling
me all about it."
Evening star., 1936-04-15

It is time for some of the authors who
affected communism as form of humor
to arise and explain that they were only
fooling.
Evening star., 1936-04-15
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
An Infectious Laugh.

An Infectious Laugh.
1t rang out somewhere in the city street,
A sudden laugh that seemed to clear
the air
Of fog and murkiness, and unaware
To warm the heart, as when strong
handclasps meet.
The vibrant laugh a second filled the
place,
A sunburst; tagging steps new vigor
found,
And though nobody turned to look
around
Response awoke In every passing face.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

Efforts to make fun Of the American
nag should be resented at least as
promptly as some fancied disrespect to
foreign symbol of majesty and power.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

Natural resources of the world have
been scarcely touched owing to a ten
dency to squander wealth on high explo-
sives instead Of buying food and shelter.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

The League of Nations still serves a
useful purpose as filing system that
future historians may find useful.
Evening star., 1936-04-15
Those Behind.

From the New York Sun.
The Soviet government is said to be
organizing the peasants as front be-
hind the 'front.' in case of war. This
will offer the opportunity for a song
about the man behind the man behind
the man behind the gun.
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Sincerity Disapproved.

'You at least give that energetic
orator credit for believing every word
he says"
YES" replied Senator Sorghum.
'That is what makes me doubt his in
tellectual responsibility"
Evening star., 1936-04-15
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled 70
the for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t 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., 1936-04-15
Sympathy for the Fish.

Oh, Mister Fish, I'm longing now
In quest Of you to 60,
And pause beneath some sheltering
bough
Where tranquil waters flow.
And there I'll wait with line and bait,
Where you with sunbeams play.
Down in my heart, the truth to state,
hope you'll get away!
Jud Tunkins says when man claims
he works eight hours a day he is sell
dom exact. He counts in the time he
spends listening to funny stories or
talking base ball.
"Ingratitude," said Hi Ho, the sage
Of Chinatown, should cause no regret.
Thanks from q natural migrate could
only mean hypocrisy"
Out Of Date.
Honesty" we still recall,
"Is the best policy" for all.
But that was in a copy book
OF which for years no note we took.
And any racketeer will state
The schoolboy stuff is out of date!
"a man dat's always talkin' bout bad
business" said Uncle Eben, "is q poor
advertisement foh his own SELF"
Evening star., 1936-04-15

@. When was the factory fire which
engaged the interest in factory hazards
of Nine. Frances Perkins?-A S.
A. 1t was the Triangle Waist Factory
in New York City, March Is, 1911. The
dead numbered 148.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

@. What are the names of some of the
famous caves in Europe?-J. K.
A. Fingals Cave, Scotland; Eye Of
Dionysius, Syracuse, Sicily: Grotto of
AntiparoS, Greece; Peak Cavern, Derby
shire. England; Gailenreuth, Germany;
st. Michael's Cave, Gibraltar.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

@. How many theaters in the United
States are wired for sound?-J. v. w.
A. AS of January l, 1885, there we're
1888 wired theaters in the United
States. OF this number 1897 were closed
and 14,161 were open.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

@. When there is three-day DELAY
between application for and receiving a
marriage license, do some couples fail to
return?-E. M.
A. In Los Angeles County Calf, out
Of 10000 couples applying for licenses
in one year, 1900 did not return to get
licenses.
Evening star., 1936-04-15

@. From what language does the name
chrysanthemum come?-H. L.
A. 1t is Greek and means golden
flower.
Evening star., 1936-04-15
Out Of Date.

"a man dat's always talkin' bout bad
business" said Uncle Eben, "is poor
advertisement foh his own SELF"
Evening star., 1936-04-15

anxiety is the uppermoSt emotion in the
elderly plutocrat's breast he confldes his
troubles to that diligent and able sleuth.
The case becomes too involved for him
to handle alone, so after consultation
with his equally clever and competent
wife, who had served most satisfactorily
as the great Mumm's secretary, they ask
the super-investigator of Vienna to take
q hand in an effort to recover the pearls.
That gentleman finds that not only have
the pearls been stolen by a famous gang,
but that one and perhaps others of the
valuable paintings in the Cobbleigh
house have been substituted with value
less limitations.
Soon after the discovery that the paint
ings have been substituted and that
practically all of the servants in the
Cobbleigh domain are members of the
most powerful of all international gangs
of thieves, Mumm demands that the
whole lot of them be dismissed and that
the house be closed. But before this feat
is accomplished Lord Cobbleigh van
ishes from the golf club green during
q pea-soup fog. All efforts to locate
him fail and the conclusion generally
accepted Is that he wandered in the fog
until he walked into the sea and was
drowned. Mumm holds to this theory,
but young Devereux has other ideas, and
though it takes him many months he
solves the mystery.
Thorp's attractive wife is also Wen
ilese and is almost as adept in the art
of sleuthing as is the huge Austrian for
whom she has worked. He is a world
famous character and has visited and
investigated in every country in the
world. His facility for picking up the
slang, the idioms and the dialects of the
various nationalities has been passed on
to Mizi. Devereux also has visited many
countries In his capacity as an investi-
Evening star., 1936-04-15

A reader can get the Gns,oer to anu
question OF fact by tDriting TIL Epenino
Star Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Hasktn, Director, Washington. d. C.
Please tHclose stamp for reply.
@. How much money was taken in by
The jackson day dinners?-E. M.
A. 1t is estimated by the Democratic
National Committee that more than
100000 was netted from the 100000
guests at Jackson day dinners.
The Washington times., 1936-07-04
STRANDED AMERICANS VAINLY
SEEK ESCAPE FROM RUSSIA
ARTICLE SIX
By FRED E. BEAL

Hundreds of American workers stranded in Russia still
unable to return to this country
Many naturalzed citizens of the United States who
have either been forced caed by the Soviet authorities
their papers and take Soviet citizenship
The Washington times., 1936-07-04

Charlie JEWELS five.piece band
now performing at Stone Villa
has received the appreciation,
benediction and whatnot Of the
crowds who've been making this
spot their headquarters for the
evenings and now announces he
is out after new and better fields
to conquer. The fields he refers
to, he says, are those directly to
the rear and front Of Stone Villa.
Charlie maintains that it won't
be long now before he will be
obliged to resort to these field
concerts" to get away from the
persons who've been plaguing him
and his boys to play such con-
fusing numbers as Let's Get
Drunk and Dust" and Star
truck" Both Of which are
rather good If taken in moderate
quantities.
The call OF Chevy Chase Lake
as heard and needed by the
younger element is sounded each
night by Lee FieldS'S orchestra
which seems as impossible to re.
sist as in the charm of Frank
Shannon's vocals. Nor are these
features repellant to those whose
hair is streaked with silver with
whose hearts are Streaked with
the urge to dance and be dippy
again.
We were not aware that the
month of July was especially con-
ducive to romance and so well
simply have to take Eddie
Stamm'S word for it that the past
few days at his Maryland Club
Gardens have been red letter
days in this respect. Couples bill
| ing cooling over mint juleps, bill.
ing and cooling over George Cor
don's slack wire walking, billing
and cooling over Dorothy Neville's
songs from the balcony. and
no explanation for it all.
Prob bly, June brides and
grooms. most of them, we hope,
perhaps.
| =
Lou Frankie. Ray Woods. Bill
Chisholm, Eddie Brown and Al
Sakol.
With the latter directing, these
boys have stepped into the over
sized shoes left by Emory Daugh
erty on the hearth of the La
Paree, when Emory pulled out fol
New England in his bare feet.
Those who have heard them
pronounce them good and those
who are going to hear them are
in no position to say one way OF
the other. We belong to the lat
ter class but we're soon gradu
The Washington times., 1936-07-04

time as at all times-by the Caro-
lima Club orchestra.
The Washington times., 1936-07-04
SheII-ShoCked Vet
Murders Neiqhbor

VEAZTE, Me-, July 4. - Be
1ieved upset by explosion Of fire
crackers, William McKenna, 40
year-old shell-shocked World War
veteran, last night seized an axe
and killed his neighbor, Eugene
Prouty, So, police authorities said.
Constable Leonard Lambert, who
said he witnessed the alleged STAY
ing with Selectman Bert Kind. re-
ported that the two men had been
engaged in a heated argument a
short time previously.
The Washington times., 1936-07-04

ship. These reports did not please
the Stalinist henchmen.
Some Were Shot
Many Of the Austrian refugees,
as an impartial investigation will
prove. attempted to escape from
Russia over the border. Some sue.
ceeded. Others were shot. Many
were arrested.
The newspaper correspondents
in Moscow cannot send such re.
ports out of Russia. Not even the
plight of the hundreds Of Amer,
leans unable to leave Russia is
ever reported in the American
press
But the workers who have come
back shattered by their Soviet eX.
perienceS have all these facts
from direct contacts, and are dis
Seminating them. 1t is true, some
people are inclined to give cred
ence only to professional writer's
who interpret the official Stain.
ist propaganda to the American
public.
It is also true the StaliniSts still
have the freedom of our public
platforms and institutions. In
the Los Angeles library 1 saw
many notices on the bulletin
boards indicating the extent Of
the StaliniSt influence.
Lectured in Schools
In Hartford, Conn, I found
Julia Older, of the Moscow News,
lecturing in the public schools.
All over the country Soviet propa-
gandiStS are enabled to spread
falsehoods under respectable aus
piceS.
Yet in every one of these com
munities, in this land Of the free,
I found groups of returned workers
who knew from deep experience
the devastating truth. Partly Tor
fear of retaliation and partly for
other reasons, these living testi-
monials to the Good Stain Lii"
are forced to remain silent.
It is high time We learned from
American workers about Stalln's
paradise.