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Evening star., 1936-10-15
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES,E. TRACEWELL.

When people 60 away, as on a vacation.
and come back, somehow we expect them
to look or be different, but they never
are, with the exception of that coat OF
tan.
Tan is acquired consciously, no doubt,
to give at least that touch OF difference.
How easily one falls back into the old
routine, how quickly the sun-tan fades!
The man from China, he, too. Is no
different, either; just few stories and
anecdotes, and within few days he is
just the same as II he had never been
away.
1t is difficult to say exactly what one
expects of, those who have Travelled ana
arrived home again.
They should show 1t some way, in their
face. maybe. or their clothing, or what?
Just q few stories is not enough, we
say, and yet in how could they differ from
their old selves?
They never differ in character, but
come back the same man, to all outward
appearances, as when they went away.
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So are we to believe travelling, after
all, is what some one called 1t, fools
paradise?
Or are we to think that We expect too
much?
Going away and coming back again
have nothing in their possibilities TO
amaze us, knock us cold, as the saying Is.
One may recall talk with a great
fellow who had been to the North Pole;
he was a fine old gentleman, with huge,
sturdy wrists, but II we hadn't heard, we
would not have known he had been there.
And we have sat at luncheon with
adventures who have returned from the
far places of the earth, Africa and the
like, the broad deserts Of China.
They have been to the most out
rageous places, but if you were to see
them walking along the city street and
not know where they had been, they
would impress you as well set-up fellows,
probably foot ball players in their youth.
and now successful insurance statesmen.
4 y r y
No doubt we expect too much.
Whether or not travelling is FOOLS
paradise depends on the traveller.
But those who stay at home may rest
sure of one thing, that what travelling
does to the roamers scarce will show on
the surface.
The day has gone by for the wanderer
TO return in bearSkin.
There are no more bears, IN the main,
except in ZOOS. and bearskin robes are
not in style, anyway.
Feathers still are in style, If one may
Judge from the ladies hats this Fall
What hats, with what feathers!
An honest bird would be ashamed OF
himself to be caught with such feathers
as now adorn each lady's new Fall hat.
Not because the feathers are pretty,
but because fashion ordains them
That is why each pretty lady and each
not SO pretty lady and each not pretty
lady at all has floating triumphantly
over her head a monstrosity OF feather
in terrible green. hectic red, eye-defylng
orange or some other too-viyid color.
Did any returned traveller, from what
ever country, ever see such feathers as
these?
Evening star., 1936-10-15

To think that we do not have to stir
out of town to witness this jungle parade
that would make even the macaws sit up
and take notice!
What Is most striking about all this
is the angle of each feather. Also the
length. Perhaps the two go together.
The angle is both saucy and impudent,
If angle can be so, and they can. Usually
the feather is long and unhampered.
brought forward over the front Of the
head.
Why this forward angle is something OF
a puzzle, until one notes how, in public
places, it stabs some one in the eye.
While not quite as dangerous as the
old-fashioned hatpin, these feathers can
do a nasty job of it, and no doubt will,
unless the hat fashions change by Winter.
Probably they will. Women'S fashions
are always changing. 1t is the change
which makes them fashionable, one may
suppose.
Skirt fashions change by running them
up and down the ladies' legs. Years ago
skirts were very long, then shorter, then
longer, now they are two inches shorter
this Fall than last.
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If anecdotes and stories and observa-
tions are all travellers are going to bring
back with them, let us do our own OBJ
servations at home and make the best OF
them.
There go some travellers up there in the
sky, real travellers these, but few of us left
behind pay much attention to them.
Some of us are paying more attention
to them year after year as we learn more
about them and their interesting ways.
These are the migrating birds on their
way South.
They do not go in focks, but one by
one mostly.
If you want to see them, look for
them in your own back yard.
If you are fortunate, some afternoon
just before dark you will see so robins,
for instance, deployed across the garden
looking for worms.
But in the main they do not fly in
such numbers, these or any other birds.
Most of these migrators are on their
own, travelling from the far North at
this time to the extreme South, and by
the latter We do not mean Georgia, or
Florida even, but on to Yucatan and
farther south still.
lIlcSc arc ICdl tIdNClCIS, dll IllC iiOiS
so because the distances are simply
immense in comparison with the size of
these travellers, which take no baggage
with them and have no time tables, or
meals set on tables for them. but 60
solely on their own, without guiding hand
except the genius of their race, the genius
of all races, of whom the poet told us
when he said to the waterfowl:
There is a Power whose care
Teaches thy way along that painless
coast
The desert and illimitable air
Long wandering, but not lost.
"He who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy
certain flight,
In the long way that must tread alone
Will lead my steps Alright"
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Loss of Faith.

DR.. Charles A. Beard, in the intro.
duction to his symposium, Toward
Civilization" declares: Great enter
prises, whole systems of economy and
government, have been dissolved by
loss of the faith in their values, which
sustained them" The sentiment.
obviously, is justified. Nor should there
be any wonderment about it. It seems
self-evident that nothing less than col
lapse should be expected of schemes in
which the people no longer have con-
fidence.
History affords numerous examples Of
the corrective results Of changes In
popular psychology. The fall of Rome,
for instance, may be obscured by myths
and legends of later date than the event
itself, but the cause of the debacle
appears to have been none other than
the disintegration of belief in the i'm
perial state. Barbarians conquered the
mistress of the world when her Latin
children ceased to be loyal to her.
The French revolution, likewise, was
Q fruitage Of skepticism. Careful read
ing Of the annals of the age prompts
conviction that 1t was only when the
intelligentsia, so-called, ceased to trust
the institutions of the ancient regime
that the Paris mob had opportunity to
work its murderous will upon society.
A similar principle is discernible In
operation In the chronicles of the first
decades Of the present century in Russia.
The Bolshevik disturbances Of 1917 and
the Soviet republic which grew out Of
them had for their authors, not Lenin
and Trotsky. as some may suppose. but
rather Tolstoi and Kropotkin and .
Evening star., 1936-10-15

A custom has arisen among news
writer's of including brief physical de-
scriptions of statesmen in action. These
are often trifie uncomplimentary. The
custom gives the feminine politicians a
shade of advantage, as they are invari-
ably described by the sisterhood of print
as gracing social occasions as examples
of indisputable lovelineSS.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Credit Claiming.

The President, in good form at Chicago
last night made his direct appeal for the
support of business by pointing to the
recovery which has taken place and
continues to show evidence of sustained
improvement since the blackest depths of
the depression. Naturally, he gives the
credit to his own administration. No one
would expect him to do otherwise. The
President is campaigning for reelection
and no holds at this stage of the game
are barred.
But it is interesting to note that the
credit for business recovery, in the
opinion of the President, belongs not to
business but to Government. There is
the recurrence here of that same philoS-
ophy, namely, that we owe everything
we have to Government and must look
to Government for everything in the
future, which is at the bottom Of much
Of the criticism of the administration
which comes from business. Free enter
prise, which accounts for most progress,
Is suspicious and jealous of govern
mental paternalism reserving to itself the
exclusive power to judge between what
Is right and what is wrong.
And while many of the Presidents
metaphors last night were amusing and
most effectively used, his hearers must
have been left somewhat puzzled by his
version Of some of the facts. The Presi-
dent, for instance, attributes some OF our
troubles to a concentration of high
finance" which before the New Deal
came to the rescue, refused to permit
Government credit to go directly to the
industrialist, to the business man, to
the home owner, to the farmer. They
wanted it to trickle down from the top,
through the intricate arrangements which
they controlled"
Without going into the business of
Identifying they" what was the foun-
tair-head before the Roosevelt admins
tration, and what is the fountain-head
today of most of the governmental credit
extended to private business, home own
eIS, eVts ~ ID Vic IICCoiloIl uS1AOAA
Finance Corporation, under Jesse Jones.
That organization was established before
Mr.. Roosevelt came into office, and 1t
continues today as the agency for the
extension of a large part of the credit
which, in the opinion of Mr.. Roosevelt,
has done so much to revive the Nations
business. On the other hand, what was
the agency established as one of the
first acts of the Roosevelt adminiStra-
ton to pull business out of the hole?
Why, the N. r. A. And where Is the
N. r. A. today? Gone the way of many
other expedients and plans of the busi-
ness-saving New Dealers. And to their
removal many people credit the recovery
which began about the time they were
knocked in the head.
1t was Mr.. Jones, head of the Repub-
lican-created Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, who gave to business just
this week a message that will be inter-
preted as even more encouraging than
the Presidents speech last night in Chi
cago, Mr.. Jones, using radio time spon-
sored by the Democratic National Com
mittee, voiced hope that the Demo-
cratic administration would take steps
to remove or to modify the tax on I'M
distributed surpluses, thus making sure
that this measure, sponsored by the New
Deal, would not penalize recovery, as
business fears it will.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Not to Be Disregarded.

'Do you begrudge the time that your
audience uses in cheers?"
mo-" answered Senator Sorghum, "in
spite of my perspicacious elucidation,
the cheers may, after all, be the most
convincing part of the demonstration"
Evening star., 1936-10-15
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Out of the Past.

One memory shines, a bright, fixed star
Pervading all my thinking;
Its rays become saving spar
To which I cling when sinking.
1t shines by day as well as night,
I travel by it's cleaning;
And as / rest in soft twilight
1t permeates my dreaming.
1t sheds a clear light on my path
When turns become perplexing 80.
Such memories are the aftermath
OF ways that were not vexing.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

Borah is described as probable winner
in Idaho's senatorial race. Mr.. Borah.
however his fortunes may vary, must be
regarded as one of the most successful
favorite sons before the public.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

The law library which Senator Norris
acquired by toll and self-denial and then
introduced into Nebraska may come to
be regarded as a landmark of civilization,
surprising even DR.. Eliots five-foot book
shelf.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

A lottery is an easy way Of raising
money, but American sense Of propriety
is such that innumerable contributors
insist on making Europe bear the burden
of iniquitous profit.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

Radio advertisers who release time in
courtesy to the Nations great orators
will have to face the possibility of fan
mail protesting that the program as
originally planned would have been
more entertaining.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

In recent speech President Roosevelt
referred to Teapot Dome" which is one
way of trying to pour troubled waters on
the oil.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Modest Request.

Richard the Third, in accents coarse,
Exclaimed, MY kingdom for a horse!"
Yet Richard was q modest man.
Had he pursued modern plan
A horse, though to buggy tied,
His wish could not have satisfied.
He'd call, when caught in warlike scenes,
For airplanes, tanks and submarines.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

One of the questions in the minds Of
political patronage experts relates to the
identity of next years Postmaster
General.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

An Endorsement of Landon by Henry
Ford recalls the fact that nobody could
be further in sentiment from horse and
buggy days than Mr.. Ford.
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Evening star., 1936-10-15

Desperation in Southwestern Europe
reveals that many people would rather
turn "red" deliberately than be constantly
scared into inadvertent pallor.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Peanuts and Pellagra.

From the Nashville Banner.
Georgia is preparing to get behind the
idea of making peanut meal palatable
as human food to- end the pellagra
scourge on the one hand and end the
peanut surplus on the other.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Political Wrestlers.

Eight wrestiers are being trained for
appearance at Roosevelt campaign meet
ires. They might be able to throw eacn
other, but that doesn't mean that they
can threw votes.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Hiccups.

From the Jacksonville Journal.
A physician recommends standing on
the head to cure hiccups. But. doc, a
person rarely has a severe attack of fic-
cups until his condition is such that he
can hardly stand on his feet.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

Secretary Wallace has quoted from
ancient prophets without getting into
close practical touch with the modern
weather forecaSterS.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Needless.

From the Lowell Leader.
So far as popular Identification goes 1t
occurs to us that the inclusion of Shirley
Temple in the latest edition of Who's
Who in America is superfuous.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

President nor Gov. Landon would make
a trip into the Far West before election
day. They both realize that the battle
win be won or lost in the Middle West
and the East.
Evening star., 1936-10-15

Cheers consume time and contribute
no reliable thought. But, it may be men,
toned, so do many platform planks.
Evening star., 1936-10-15
Missing Letters.

Missing Letters.
Our problems run to figures vast
And letters stand in great array
In the discussion of the past
And of the puzzling present day.
We often meet sad surprise
When final proof we cannot see,
And fail to rest our weary eyes
On the initials @. E. D."
Nobody is satisfied to do nothin' at
ALL" said Uncle Eben. "Give man a
holiday and he wants to go fishin' or
start q fight"
Evening star., 1936-10-15
IncidentalS.

"Are you alarmed by the political
tempest around your"
NO" answered Farmer Corntossel.
what I want is more and better crops.
When you are praying for rain you
mustn't complain of the thunder and
lightning that may happen along with
it."
Evening star., 1936-10-15

1--WE are all eager to civilize one an
other" said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town, 'but have not yet devised method
of doing so painlessly."
Evening star., 1936-10-15

uCSAaSo yOu SoAAAoU 4iAdhC q AANAAi6 OA
$40 acres Of grazing land on which you
have filed. Accordingly we will give you
16O acres of it." The Republican COM
mittee has dug into the records and has
made public long list of cases of this
kind. giving the names of the home
SteaderS in each instance. These Gov
ernment operations, the Republicans
hold, are clear indication of the manner
in which it is planned to regiment" the
farmers of the country. They will have
to take their cue from Washington,
whether they want to or not. With
some of the farmers the argument is
effective.
The campaign in the last week has
warmed up. The brickbats have begun
to f1y-with both President Roosevelt and
Gov. ALT Landon doing some of the
hurting. The two principals have not
come to personal attacks upon each
other, but the Presidents recent speeches
In the Middle West have been filled with
aspersions on Landon, charging that
Landon is trying to be one thing in the
East and another in the West, and
Landon's campaign Is two-faced. It
might occur to the ordinary voter that
since the speeches OF Landon are broad
cast nationally over the radio, the Re-
publican candidate could scarcely ex-
pect to keep secret from an Eastern
voter what he had told Westerner.
Landon, on the other hand, also CAM
| paigning in the Middle West, has taken
| off his gloves and waded into the New
Deal and its spending policies, its waste
| and it's emnity to business. II am dedi-
Gated" said Landon in Cleveland, ito the
| proposition that no American citizen
shall ever again be put in the position
! of having to sell his vote to get bread"
Harsh words.
! It looks now - though neither the
Evening star., 1936-11-01
|GHOST TRADITION IN CAPITAL

Vivid Keep Alive Stories of Famous People Who Are
Believed to Revisit Scenes Of Their Tnumphs and Thrilling
Tragedies
Evening star., 1936-11-01
By Mildred Ockerf
Wauph.


w WASHINGTON Is Q haunted
M city where the past and
w present mingle and where
the future is forming vis-
IDLY in the activities Of today. Old
streets have their stories: old houses
are filled with "hants"-imaginary,
perhaps. but none the less persistent,
vivid and real. And as the great city
Of Rome has been discovered to be
many cities, one built upon the other,
so tradition in Washington Is layered
and overlapping. Ghosts and appari-
tions Of one generation linger on and
mingle with kindred ghosts Of later
years.
Washington ghosts are not trivial
ghosts. Mere little graveyard SHIN
merings have no place in the recollec-
tions OF the old settlers here. As i
fitting, the ghosts of the Nations
Capital are lusty spirits, brought ou1
Of history, by the turbulence Of 800
years Of nation building. Nor are
these ghosts regarded, even In thi,
modern day, as Pigments Of old dreams
and apprehensions. In a number OF
sections Of the city residents are still
loyal to the city's ghosts, and it is in.
teresting to find that even the minol
ghosts are still potent enough to af-
feet the local real estate business.
Tourists coming to Washington see
beautiful new buildings. A boom ir
small houses under the stimulus of the
F. H. A. is definitely under way. AL
seems clear and distinct and modern
But old Washingtonians know differ
emily.
THE fact Is that you still find Wash.
ington city streets dotted here and
there with houses which do not rent
Evening star., 1936-11-01

Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr
were tied for first place with 70 votes
each. Adams and Pinckney had IS
and "a votes, respectively. and John
Jay had one vote.
HERE was a condition not expected.
- Burr was not running for the
presidency, but for the vice presi-
dency, and everybody understood this
to be the case, and yet. according to
the Constitution at that time, 1t be-
came the duty Of the House Of Rep
resentatives to "chuse by Ballot one
Of them for President: and if no per-
son have a Majority. then from the
five highest on the List the said House
shall in like Manner chuse the Presi-
dent. But in chusing the President.
the votes shall be taken by States. the
Representation from each State hav-
ing one vote .. In every case,
after the choice Of the President, the
Person having the greatest Number of
Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice
President"
And the choosing Of a President at
this time was one Of the hardest
problems Congress ever had to solve.
On the first ballot, taken at IL
o'clock noon, on Wednesday, Febru-
ary II, Jefferson had 8 States; Burr,
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members agreed to be separated until
II noon, when the twenty-eighth bal
lot was taken, and further balloting
was postponed until Friday morning
at IL o'clock. Friday came, and still
no results, and Saturday was likewise
wasted. On Monday, February 16, the
thirty-foVrth ballot was taken, with
party lines still holding. and adjourn
ment was taken to the next day,
when, on the second ballot Of that
day, or the thirty-sixth in all, Thomas
Jefferson was chosen President.
The final vote showed Vermont, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee as
voting for Jefferson. Rhode Island.
New Hampshire, Connecticut and
Massachusetts voted for Burr. Della
ware and South Carolina cast blank
ballots. I'm the instance of Vermont"
the report states, "Mr. Morris with
drew; in the instance of South Caro-
lima, Mr.. Hough. who is understood
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those Of Rhode Island, New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in all
Of which the republican form had
been found equal to the tasks Of car
rying them through the severest
trials. In this State alone did there
exist so little virtue that fear was to
be fixed in the hearts Of the people,
and to become the motive of their ex.
ertions and the principle of their
government? The very thought alone
was treason against the people. was
treason against mankind IN general:
as riveting forever the chains which
bow down their necks, by giving to
their oppressors a proof, which they
would have trumpeted through the
universe, of the imbecility of repub-
lican government in times Of pressing
danger, to shield them from harm.
Those who assume the right of giving
Evening star., 1936-11-01

A city block will show q row Of fine
buildings in good repair and one in
the row falling to ruins. No amount
Of argument will bring a native of
Washington within these walls to live.
Newcomers, urged sometimes even
by free rent offers, do not linger.
And often the offending building has
to be torn down to lay the ghosts
which have made it worthless as resi-
dence property. As recently as 1881
the records show vigorous efforts on
the part Of IL leading citizens to put
an end to reports about house on K
street. These II, 1t seems, stayed the
night out in the old house. The early
evening was marked only by the shuf-
fling Of the wind in the old chimney,
Of boards creaking in the old rooms
and Of loose doors banging now and
then.
Each man was stationed in a sep
arate room, and it was jpst becoming
evident that the ghost was indeed a
legend, when two long, vibrant screams
cut the night. A practial joke? The
watchers hurried downtairs to the
drawing room. their candles flickering
in their haste to get together. Each
was inclined to blame the other. The
chairman was excited. And then
while they were all together discussing
the happening. the screams came
again! The IL searched the house
and grounds and found nothing, and
gathered in the drawing room in a
substantial group they watched until
dawn.
Newspapers Of the day commented
upon the experiment, and altogether
it was agreed that nothing had been
accomplished to prove the non-exist-
ence of ghosts in Washington.
It Is recorded that one owner OF
haunted property. about that time,
gave his house rent free for a year
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6; divided, 2. From that time on,
and until 4 o'clock pm, eight ballots
in all were taken, with no change in
results, when a suspension of ballot
ing was ordered.
Everything was done behind doors,
and for time no one was allowed to
leave the chamber. The twenty
seventh ballot was taken on Thurs
day morning at 8 o'clock, when the
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away the reins Of government in any
case must be sure that the hand,
whom they hand on to the rods and
hatchet of the dictator, will lay their
necks on the block when he shall nod
to them"
And so the battle was fought in the
press. But when the electoral votes
were counted in the Senate on Feb
ruary II, 1901, 1t was found that