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Evening star., 1936-01-02
A Benevolent Dictator.

In the Irish Free State there is about
to be witnessed an example of virtual
dictatorship that will afford striking
contrast to autocratic rule as the rest
of Europe has come to know it. Early
in February the Senate at Dublin will
be abolished, whereupon the country will
have unicameral legislative system
consisting solely of the Dali Eireann, the
popularity elected body of representa-
ttves. The government then will be in
the hands Of the executive council, or
cabinet, as the Fianna Fail party in the
Dali Fundamentally supports cabinet
policy, which in turn is completely DOM
mated by President de Valera. For all
practical purposes the country will come
under one-man control operating within
the framework of a democratic system.
While MIR. de Valera's power apparent
ly will approach the absolute, it is recog-
nized on all hands that his dictator
ship will be strictly of the benevolent
paternal type and definitely devoid of the
vicious attributes that characterize cer-
tain continental regimes. Even Irish poll
ticians VINO are implacable opponents Of
the President contemplate coming events
with equanimity. Having experienced at
his hands during the past three years
moderation and wisdom in the realm of
home affairs and shrewdness and cour-
age in the conduct of external relations,
especially with Great Britain, the nation
views without any semblance of alarm
the practically unrestricted rule which
Mr. de Valera is about to exercise. Abo-
lition of the Senate follows earlier abro-
cation, under the presidency of Mr.. Co.'S
grave, of the safeguard whereby special
procedure was required to amend the
constitution. The Free State is going
only a step further in doing away with
the upper house.
Undoubtedly Irish opinion is calm in
presence of these developments. which
a decade ago would have led to tenn
pestuous political conflict, because under
joyed progressive industrial prosperity.
The cost of living has risen and taxation
is high, but the people seem to recog-
nize that these conditions are the price
of economic independence. The close of
1895 marked a substantial increase in
trade over 1884. Due chiefly to the coal
and cattle pact with Great Britain, ex-
ports were G1,5OO,OOO higher in value.
Commercial agreements with Germany
and Spain also proved profitable. While
exports were growing, imports declined
e1,300000. The program of making the
Free State self-contained thus registered
material advance, reflected among other
signs. by the fact that bank clearingS
for last year were more than G70O0,000
in excess of 1884 figures.
Amid such conditions the Irish con-
front dictatorship" with nothing but
confidence and good cheer.
Evening star., 1936-01-02
Snow, Parked Cars
And Subway Plan
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The great misery to the taxpayer is
again in full bloom in the wonderful
prosperous city of Washington, D. c.
Yes, the great misery of trying to walk
a few blocks without breaking your neck
on the sidewalks of our wonderful Capital
of the U. S. A.
Now If that official who is so anxious
to have millions put to waste in Wash
ington for subway will have a law
passed to have the people remove the
snow from their sidewalk eight hours
after the snow falls, and also have a
law passed to have some more garages
built and make each and every one that
owns car put it up in garage after
1 O'Clock at night and not torture the
neighbors that pay big taxes for their
homes by parking their old cars in front
of their door and even letting the darn
old car freeze to the curb and sit there
for days and days, then have real live
bus system and a real sure enough street
car service the public will be truly served.
How can the street car or bus companies
have good service when every one has
car and garages it on the streets OF
Washington?
So If the good man that wants sub
way SO badly will have two laws passed,
one TO have every car of the city's streets
after m and the other to make every
property owner remove the snow from
the sidewalk within eight hours after
the storm or fine them, he will really be
a real peoples counsel. But to build
subway that will cost millions and to
have every Tom, Dick and Harry own
To- ha d3akaNa a CllhWQV
help the situation.
So here is hoping that the chief of po-
lice and the peoples counsel and the
Commissioners will really do sensible
good to the city and not waste any more
millions for lot Of bunk.
HARRY WILLING.
Evening star., 1936-01-02
Another Racket Revealed.

In future appraisal of American social
conditions this present period will prob
ably be described by the discriminating
historian as the era of the racket, or
criminal enterprise, with an illegal pro-
cedure of coercion or persuasion. There
have been so many of these enterprises
during the past decade that technique
has developed, requiring a high degree
of talent for corrupt practices and
veritable genius of organization. No
computation of the gains Of the rack
eteers has been possible, for the victims
have in most cases concealed their suffer-
ings, in fear of reprisals. Some of the
racketeers have been caught and pun
ished, but the game goes on, nevertheless,
as the profits are large and alluring.
The latest of these organized frauds
to be uncovered is variation on the
customary Swindle with direct action"
as a means of compulsion. Seven men
have been arrested in New York charged
with the promotion Of scheme of selling
motor car insurance in the name of
alleged clubs which have never existed.
1t is estimated that no less than 100000
victims have been mulcted in fees and
dues, to the total of $2,5O0,0O0. These
men. who are now in the tolls, are bearers
of bad records, five of the seven having
been previously charged with grave
offenses. In all, it is believed, nineteen
formed the syndicate" that carried on
this game.
High-pressure salesmanship was the
operating factor of the racket Persua-
sive agents peddled policies in the form
of memberships in motor clubs that had
no other identity than titles upon
prospectus. Membership" in one of these
fake clubs cost the victim $3.50 year,
or two years for $3.50. Each member"
received a list of sixty-five garage and
repair stations in various parts of this
country and Canada, which. were. sup.
posed to supply towage, repair and garage
services fres. Inquiry has developed that
Evening star., 1936-01-02
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

tainly no "holier than thou" attitude,
simply does what he does for the interest
and love Of 1t.
Not paragon by any means, he must
be one who has solved life in peculiarly
successful way.
Look ut these joints; each one right.
There is no crack mere where two
boards meet.
They are supposed to meet, and they
meet.
Life is as simple as that, evidently, for
this man-and as successful.
There lis more than one way to have a
successful life, surely.
Loving care Is ore way.
And 1t doesn't make much difference
whether 1t Is bird house or what il the
care Is there.
The care goes outward, from the giver,
and only so returns to him..
ANY one with the price can buy his
bird house and receive real thrill from
contemplation of its perfection. but the
real gain will come in time after that is
forgotten.
He who made it gets the most good
out Of it, now and forever more, If it is
done correctly.
Interest and love, blossoming in wood,
or stone. or paper, or foods, or automo-
bileS, or anything make q world Of their
own for their maker.
There is just one big factor to keep in
mind, and that is the necessity for pa
tience with the repeated task.
1t is the repeated task, the daily grind,
as it is commonly phrased, which is the
test of it all.
New year or old year, years ago or
years to come make little difference in
this. They may make a difference in
other wayS-in government, in econom-
les, in high or low, in success and fall
ure. in getting ahead and in falling be-
hind-but the years do not change the
necessity for this:
Patience with the repeated task.
X
The repeated task. the task done again
and again and again until even a saint
would grow tired.
This is the test of humanity-and it
must be So
1t is here that women shine best, be-
cause they are more patient.
Approval is not an attempt to Salve
the weary or induce them to take more
loads. but simply an effort to point out
that patience in all things is its own best
reward.
1t makes the repeated daily task endur-
able, and she or he who has not solved
this has not solved a basic problem of
living.
Those who have solved it. as so many
have, are those who make the world bet
ter for the rest Of us.
They make the bird houses which
strike us as works of art; they give us
clean clothes which are no less miracles
of soap and sunshine and pure water.
Patience with the daily task!
Think of the old man, up North, max
ing every bluebird house as If it is the
last one he will build He is more than
a cabinetmaker-he is a philosopher.
Evening star., 1936-01-02

A neat scarborough, well done, COM
plete, finished with loving care.
Such was the favorite Christmas pres
ent which, though 1t cost much less than
several others, was the besk liked.
Every one knows how that is.
This paragon of presents was simply q
bird house, designed for a possible blue
bird, but to be inhabited by sparrows,
or even wrens, in all probability.
Just bird house, but finished as none
even seen before.
It was white, with tiny clapboards.
each as carefully fitted as if for the home
of king and queen.
The roof, OF little shingles, was laid
with precision.
Each sningle was q miracle Of perfec-
ton
The back, 'front.', ooCtom were OF thick
pieces of board, so carefully put together
there was no trace of joining.
1t was, in fact, jewel of cabinetwork.
Whether the birds would appreciate it
as such was another matter, but there
could be no doubt Of its reception by
humans.
Every one who saw it admired 1t, most
often without thinking just what was
being admired.
For it was not the "cuteness" thereof,
nor the symmetry, nor the imaginative
vision OF bluebird on the little perch
in front of the hole, or door, that made
it Immediately attractive.
1t was rather, the realization that
here at last in shoddy world was some
thing which was done correctly and as
well as the worker could do it.
To be slipshod in execution is purely
human.
The animals know nothing of it. They
go at what they do as if it were all very
much worth while.
1t is the mind, of course, the so-called
conscious mind, which enables humanity
to slight its duties, jobs, works.
Interest is the key to the situation.
Any one who has watched dog or cat
to some purpose knows that the animal
The range of things which interest the
creature is very limited, but with all OF
them it is interest which wins.
When an animal is not interested it
simply quits.
Humanity cannot do so.
There are things to be done, operations
to be performed, duties to be fulfilled.
The must" in life is operative. even in
an age when laws and their proper per-
formance have been brought into disre-
pute.
Still one may half perform thing,
or three fourths perform 1t. or seven
eighths may one not?
One may. and that is where the trouble
comes in and why little home for birds
may stand out simply through exhibiting
something precious-interest translated
into work.
1t is interesting to speculate on the
man who built the house. We see him
as some old fellow who, without any par
ticular thought on the matter and GER
Evening star., 1936-01-02
Harry b. Smith.

Harry B. Smith belonged to that pc
palmy days" of operetta and musical
comedy. He was figure in a scene
which has faded, a character in a story
which has been told. But the picture
will be remembered and the tale will be
revived. The era was too rich, too
colorful to be entirely lost Indeed, its
best values appear to be destined to
repeated resurrection. The theater,
movies and radio would be poverty
stricken if they could not enlist them
now and again to supplement the
pathetic endeavors of the present gen.
Grafton of composers and writers, actors
and singers.
But Smith himself never would have
indorsed such claim to superiority. He
was an unpretending soul, avoiding the
spotlight, content to do his work quietly
and without ballyhoo. Librettists, he
believed, needed little publicity. All that
was required of them was that they
should formulate plots romantic and
attractive enough to be entertaining,
verses suitable to constitute framework
for song. He was the. friend and col
laborator of Reginald De Koven and
Victor Herbert, John Philip SouSa and
Franz Lehar. To him came Weber and
Fields, Lillian Russell, FRITZ Scheff,
Marie Tempest, De Wolf Hopper, Francis
Wilson and many another star for words
for their tunes. As he lay dying, his
"oh, Promise Me" was being broadcast
Evening star., 1936-01-02
Politics Over the Air.

That the presidential campaign of 1886
will be largely waged through the air is
indicated by the action of Chairman
Fletcher of the Republican National
Committee in requesting the two major
broadcaSting companies to allot time on
some closely following day for party re-
joinders to the Presidents radio address
on the occasion of the assembling OF
Congress, scheduled for tomorrow night.
Acknowledging the Presidents right to
"dramatize his message" Chairman
Fletcher declares that his action will
bring down to the level of a political
speech his constitutional right and duty
to address the Congress on the state of
the Union" This decision, he says. is
Understandable in the light of past per-
formances." He proposes that this re-
joinder period over the air be at the
same hour Of the day in which the Pres
ident will address Congress and says
that the time will be filled by speakers
selected by him after consultation with
the Republican leaders of both houses
of Congress. In other words, if this time
is allotted, as requested, the campaign of
1886 will start at once with Republican
partisan reply to the annual message over
the air instead of on the floor of Congress.
If every administration deliverance in
the line of official business during the
microphone it may be expected that it
will be countered promptly through the
same medium by the opposition. This
will impose large demand upon the
radio time and unless some financial ar
rangemen5 is made it will cut rather
heavily into the sustaining revenues of
the broadcasting companies During
the preceding campaign all radio time
used for strictly partisan purposes was
paid for by the national committees
and doubtless large part of the fund
raised by each party will be devoted to
this purpose in the coming contest.
Thus there is prospect of nearly ten
months of continuous political radio
broadcasting. There will be much less
grooming and cloWning over the air, less
singing and fewer orchestral performances
and more augmentation. The services of
spellbinders with good radio voices will
be in great demand A new line of talent
will be evolved. Will it not be necessary
to determine early the arrangement of
schedules so that the broadcasting COM
panies can be relieved of any suspicion
Of partiSanship? They are in the busi-
ness of selling time, but they cannot sub
ject themselves to the suspicion of selling
1t in partisan manner.
The President will be on the air quite
frequently in the course of the next few
days. First will come the message to the
convening Congress tomorrow night. On
Monday he will send to Congress his
budget message, which it may be ex-
pected will also go out over the ether.
On Wednesday night he will deliver an
address at the Jackson day dinner, in
this city, which will be broadcast to the
country in general, and specifically to
5000 other Jackson day dinners simul-
taneously in progress from coast to coast.
No suggestion has yet been made that it
will be incumbent upon the broadcasting
companies to carry rejoinders to these
two later addresses. But that they will
eventually be countered. probably over
the air, is fairly we'll assured.
Evening star., 1936-01-02
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
More and Better Resolutions.

More and Better Resolutions.
Another day is on the way,
Well make some resolutions new
AS Father Time puts on display
The notice, January g"
Each sunrise brings another chance,
Although the past We may deplore.
At old resolves with scorn we glance
But we can always make some more
New resolutions you may see,
AS days successfully appear,
With one for January 3
And thus along throughout the year.
Evening star., 1936-01-02

AS a citizen who emphasizes ethical
attitudes, AL Smith may have hesitated
to avail himself of generous holiday hos
pitalities at the White House for fear of
accidentally catching remark that he
might feel in courtesy bound to regard
as of the record.
Evening star., 1936-01-02
by q singer who probably never had heard

his name.
The occupations Of his leisure provide
a key to Smiths personality and tenn
perament. He loved books, and it was
his hobby to collect and study first
editions and to write about them. Only
q man with an innate appreciation Of
letters would have cared for an avoca-
ton of that kind. But in his case the
response was automatic. He could enjoy
Charles Dickens because he was a
spiritual brother to him. Hence the
success of his career, the achievement
and the happiness of his life. Provi-
dentially, his monument will be the
honorable desire of his successors among
librettists to initiate his genius.
Evening star., 1936-01-02
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
A Great Adjuster.

A Ofeat AOJuSter.
Men pour thru his ofice the livelong day,
Confident men, and distraught men at
bay,
Shy men like children bewildereo and
lost, 80
And men "out to get it" at any cost
All after something in booty or pelf;
Each one abundantly full of himself.
And some ask him favors he grants at
once.
While others. poor devils, must play
the Ounce.
And some Of them fawn for the thing
they seek.
And some are too roundabout when they
speak =.
He often thinks at the end Of his day
How God must be weary Of men who
pray.
Evening star., 1936-01-02

President Roosevelt will confer pub
lie benefit on Friday night by taking
radio completely out of the hands Of
frivolous entertainers and concentrating
the public mind on economic thought.
Evening star., 1936-01-02

that history repeats itself in political ex-
perience. There have been so many
variations in historical experiment that
the precise form of repetition can never
be accurately foreseen.
Evening star., 1936-01-02

Ethiopians accused of decapitating Ro-
man soldiers are held up to scorn for
introducing crude methods of vindictive
surgery into modern dispute. Decapi-
tation should at least be performed with
an ak by gentleman in dress suit.
Evening star., 1936-01-02

John D. Rockefeller expects to be a
centenarian. With that end in view he
is justified in avoiding the worries Incl
dental to participation in political con-
troversy.
Evening star., 1936-01-02

Marc Antony could not foresee the fu-
ture oratory, or he would not have begun
his classic speech merely with Friends"
instead of saying My friends
Evening star., 1936-01-02

The assemblage of Congress immedi-
interest in Eugene Fields reference to
"the cold gray dawn of the morning
after"
Evening star., 1936-01-02

A potato plant has beautiful little
flower, but no discreet florist will COM
mend it, with A. A. A. approval, for culti-
vation in the front yard.
Evening star., 1936-01-02

Red" teaching may get into the school
books, but school books cannot be made
as interesting to the alert intelligence
of youth as the plain factual research Of
the modern reporter.
Evening star., 1936-01-02

Nobody doubts the return OF good
business who observed the waiting list
for places at New Year eve cabarets at
fancy prices.
Evening star., 1936-01-02
StraWS.

A straw vote on a New Year eve
May show results that will deceive
Because the straw was somehow found
Too much inclined to twist around
Or Imply sink into a state
Which made it hard to calculate.
That straw, it somehow came to pass
Was saturated in a glass.
Evening star., 1936-01-02
A Subdued Community.

"Do G-men ever come to Crimson
Gulch?"
"A few" replied Mesa Bill. ''But they
never get anybody. The old Gulch used
to have few hoss thieves. Now there
are no more hosses and the leadin' citi-
zens have to shoot blank cartridges in
order to keep up the reputation Of the
village, so that officers will come around
and give the hotel little patronage"
Vanity" said Hi Ho, the sage Of
Chinatown, means sacrifice Of freedom.
Those whose idle applause we strive to
win become our masters"
The Gamble.
Though fortune may have proved unkind,
We know she is tickle jade,
And we may always hope to find
Her mood more pleasantly displayed.
When new deals have been placed on
view
We smile, because we understand
That as we shuttle cards anew
Perhaps well get better hand.
''Havin' been wished a Happy New
Year. said Uncle Eben. I'm tryin' to
kssn out Of srgunsnts dat might spol IT,"
Evening star., 1936-01-02

Il shake-up in the Traffic Bureau will
at least be free from the incidental IA
talities marking the crashes that have
led up to it.
Evening star., 1936-01-02

Much of the burden of traffic regula-
ton must still depend on leVeling up the
ratified pedestrian who permits himself
to get in the way.
Evening star., 1936-01-02
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Evening star., 1936-01-02
Wishing.

did you wish everybody Happy New
Year?"
Certainly" answered Senator Sor-
ghum.
And then what?"
"You can't expect every wish to come
true. I am also wishing as statesman
for Happy Inauguration day, which in
the nature of things must disappoint
some of my friends"
Jud Tunkins says that there has been
so much censorship one time or another
that he wonders whether even some of
the historians haven't occasionally been
fooled.
Evening star., 1936-01-02
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Distances.

From the Toledo Blade
From Dan to Beersheba is only mere
fraction of the distance between rugged
individualism and boondoggling.
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A Noisv Void.

From The Grand Island lNeby., Independent.
Money may talk, but lack Of 1t seems
to b making quita q noise.
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Maryland and Virginia
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ans nominate their canQldaCeS, IL Will De
remembered, by majority vote OF the
delegates to their national convention.
They do not have to struggle with two
thirds rule, as do the Democrats. when
it comes to picking their presidential
and vice presidential candidates.
Senator Capper of Kansas has returned
to Washington an ardent boosVeE FOR the
nomination for President of Gov. Alf M.
Landon. In his opinion Landon, the
Kansas Governor, is the Republicans
best bet" Landon, he says, fits into
the picture. His record of economy and
efficiency as chief executive OF the Sun
flower State commends him to the coun-
try Capper says.
THE farmers Of Kansas" insists the
Senator, have turned against the Roose-
welt New Deal. What irkS the farmer
is prodigality in Government spending.
He does not understand nor like to see
the swarms of men and women covering
his section of the country on the Gov
eminent pay roll and at the expense Of
the people"
In the opinion of Senator Capper not
even the Government checks for not
growing wheat, corn and hogs are going
to keep the Kansas tanners in line for
Roosevelt this year. He says that the
Republicans are preparing q farm plan
of their own which will appeal to the
farmers. Kansas, he says, will beyond
q doubt go Republican in the November
election. AS a presidential candidate,
Capper says, Landon would sweep not
only Kansas, but other States of the
Middle West and West. II Capper has
the sentiment of Kansas farmers sized
up right, it does not look so promising
for the Roosevelt-G Garner ticket in the
Middle West as Chairman Farley OF the
Democratic National Committee and
other Democrats say u q.