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Evening star., 1936-03-22
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

The project of clear vista from the
Capitol to the Washington Monument
through the Mall, now
monument being brought to compile
A ton, was virtually antici-
pated fifty years ago in
letter addressed by j. B. Edmonds, presi-
dent of the Board of District Commis-
sioners, to Representative William M.
Springer of Illinois proposing the crea-
ton of Monument Avenue" The letter
is printed in The Star of March 16, 1886,
as follows:
The Commissioners owe you an apol-
ogy for not having prepared bill with
maps, as they promised and intended 10
do providing for the improvement OF
the eastern end of the Mall and the lay
ing out of the West Capitol" or "Monu-
ment" avenue upon line drawn from
the center of the Capitol to the center
of the Washington Monument. The Com
missioners were informed that there
existed certain maps, prepared by the
officers in charge of public buildings
and grounds in former years, and also
by the architect of the Treasury for
some improvements west of the Capitol,
which the Commissioners wished to con-
suit before preparing the plans and maps
aforesaid"
After describing the areas to be pur-
chased or condemned, the Commissioner
proceeded:
THE bill in regard to the purchase
and condemnation of this property fol-
lows substantially the provisions OF
bill condemning certain squares for the
extension of the park east of the Capitol
You will observe that the bill also con-
templates extending Virginia avenue
from the northwest to the center of the
Monument which in connection with the
Avenue from the Monument to the Capt.
tol makes a continuous one from the
Capitol to Rock Greek. The extension
of Virginia avenue might require it to
be carried between the fish ponds north
west of the Monument, or possibly it
may impinge upon the banks of one or
two of them, but as there are or will be
so many other ponds, that will not prob
ably be regarded as a serious objection.
The Commissioners incloSe small sketch
showing you the location of the squares
to be condemned. AS the real front
of the Capitol is toward the west. the
Commissioners also suggest for consld-
Grafton that the three avenues from the
west-Pennsylvania, Maryland and Mon
ument (the proposed new one)-should
be brought at a suitable grade directly
to the Capitol, where both by steps and
elevators that building would be en-
tered even more easily than by the ap-
proaches to the east side. and whether
with that view the present Botanical
Gardens. the adjacent grounds and
streets should not be brought to higher
grade"
The following day Representative
Springer introduced bill embracing the
Commissioners proposal.
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cultivation of temperate, restrained, rea-
soned speech has become a matter Of
deep concern today. We do not recall
a period where there has been such a
plethora of unsound, unseasoned, unrea-
soned, passionate speech as we are hear
ing today Obviously, the radio has SO
amplified the opportunity and increased
the range of speaking that it has given
a fresh impulse to those whose habit 1t
is to speak violently and dogmatically
and with an air of finality on every
question, human and divine. That the
pot calls the kettle black is hardly ade-
quate to express the vituperative terms
that crowd the airways today. 1t may
be all right for the seasoned, discrimi-
mating mature listener to hear all this
jargon, but certainly it is to be regretted
that youth should be subjected to such
violent and passionate utterances. There
have been those in our history who on
an occasion that was fraught with mat
ters vital to the very life of the Republic
have spoken intensely, but surely the
modern defender of the Nations faith
will hardly be compared with Patrick
Henry, Daniel Webster or an Abraham
Lincoln. The latter's "house- divided
dSdltlSt-lIScl1 SpccCIl ID CcILdully 1dI Ic"
moved from much that we hear today.
Let us allow that there is reason for in
tense and passionate utterance, that the
times are out of joint and that strong
and loyal men and women with honesty
of purpose are called on to defend great
principles and to champion great causes.
These circumstances, we submit, are in
sufficient to warrant violent and intem-
perate language, whether written or
spoken.
The finest exhibition of eloquence is
that which is restrained, freed from
passion yet strong in expressed convic-
ton and intense in loyalty to principle.
1t was said of Washington that he
deeply moved men because of the fine
control he exercised in expressing his
own convictions. Surely if the Christian
spirit which implies charity among
other things, is to find expression today,
great and radical change must come
over those who seek hearing in public
forums or on the air.
Evening star., 1936-03-22
Pickwick Centennial.

Incredible as it may seem, Mr.. Pick
wick is about to be one hundred years
old. The centennial of his first appear
ance will be commemorated on March
81. 1t was on that calendar date in 1886
that Charles Dickens produced the
initial printed number of the Twenty
Parts in Nineteen" Of ''The Posthumous
Papers of the Pickwick Club" AS he
held the still-damp leafiet in his hands,
fresh from the press and redolent of ink,
he may have felt the bright light of fame
beating about him. 1t was at that
moment, anyway, that his celebrity
began.
But the public did not respond imme-
diately. Indeed, it was only when the
fifth paper had been released to the
streets that the crowd caught on" Sam
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TEMPERATE SPEECH
BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES FREEMAN D. d, D. d. c. L.,
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

There are many references in the
Bible to what constitutes sound or un-
sound, wise OF unwiSe speaking. In one
place reference is made to the speech
of one who Is desperate" and in this
same book of Job Zone of the very great
books of the Old TeStament), the writer
speaks of speech wherewith he can do
no good" In both instances attempt Is
made to show the folly of unsound and
unreasoned speaking.
In proverbs the wise man says that
excellent speech becometh not a fool"
and a great prophet speaks of speech
so deep that its meaning is obscure. In
the New Testament many references are
made to speech and its power and influ-
ence where rightly exercised. st. Paul
says concerning one that, his speech is
contemplate" again he pleads for
sound speech, that cannot be con-
demned" In his own writings and par
ticularly in his very notable utterances,
he discloses rare gifts and in nothing
does he display greater excellence than
in the choiceness and restraint of his
language. His memorable address before
Agrippa, as we have it in the twenty
sixth. chapter of the Acts, illustrates this.
st. James in his intensely suggestive and
practical epistle gives much conSidera-
ton to this matter of speech. He says
of the tongue that it is potentially "a
world of iniquity" that at defileth the
whole body" He contends that every
kind of beasts and of birds and of SER
pents hath been tanned of mankind but
the tongue can no man tame" He de-
votes a whole chapter, namely, the third,
in his brief book, to the subject of the
evils of the tongue. 1t is the most
searching, the most arresting statement
of the kind to be found in any literature.
No example of the care taken in ex-
pressing deep feelings will bear compari-
son with the habitual practice of the
Master. In all His dealings with human
frailities and weaknesses He disclosed
gentleness and kindess. No situation
however exacting could change His habit.
Even on the Cross, He pleads forgiveness
for those who had been His false
accuSers.
This whole matter of speech, of the
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than 10000 administrative jobs and
$4,000 relief jobs.
How effective w. p. A. proved in re-
lieving the pressure Of job-seekers Is
shown by the fact that Congressman
again are complaining that they have
more troubles with ambitious mothers
wanting to have their daughters pre-
sented to the British Court than they
do with deserving Democrats looking for
work.
The relief picture is complicated, too,
by DR.. Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettle-
ment Administration. That organization
has managed to spend about thirty cents
out of each of its dollars on admin1stra-
ton. So many jobs were created that,
for many months, more dollars went to
jobholders than to destitute farmers
and others to be helped.
Mr.. Roosevelt is passing the buck on
relief to the Supreme Court and to busi-
ness. He points out that the Govern
ment can't do anything to shorten
hours in industry and that, until em-
ployers create more jobs, Government
will have to provide work. But business,
in turn, passes the buck back to the
President with the observation that, until
Government gets its affairs in order,
business can't expand.
Thus far, President Roosevelt is ad-
mitting no mistakes in relief policy and
is making no real moves to correct ad-
ministrative errors. Instead, w. p. A. is
about to launch a Nationwide pub
licity drive designed to sell the program
to the country. How successful any such
high-powered campaign can be is a mat
ter of conjecture.
So the question, as the political dag.
nosticians here see it, is this:
Will skillful maneuvering on the part
of President Roosevelt to avoid crack
ups on the farm, the financial and the
tax problems. finally fail due to lack OF
skill in handling work relief?
Apparently the President thinks not.
His opponents are counting on him be-
ing wrong.
scessrisht, }essA
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venient proximity to the stove. 1t was
announced that she had survived her
experience without impairment of her
health. All she required was "thawing
out" and rest.
Such incidents make encouraging
reading. The world is full of trouble.
rife with selfish competition; but it is
not so far sunk in sin as not to appre-
ciate such a tale. Fannie has had, in
effect, million dollars worth of pub
licity, and civilization again has mani
tested it's elemental charity-a value
which, like truth, may be temporarily
crushed but never wholly annihilated.
Evening star., 1936-03-22

Weller was hit-incontrovertibly, defin-
itively, conclusively a hit, sir! And
the combination of the two characters
was monumentally successful. Their
sponsor grew rich on royalties and, much
more important, was inspired to con-
tinue a career which hitherto had seemed
excessively chancy" for a new-made
husband aged twenty-four.
In the procession of the children Of
Dickens brain, therefore, Mr.. Pickwick
always must lead the van, Sam following
promptly after And what a company
it isl Think of them: Nathaniel Winkle,
Buzfuz and Skimpin, the intelligent jury,
Sans father-the stagebox king who
warned: Beware of the widders." But
the parade includes in its next division
some less comic creations of the quick
ening pen: Oliver Twist, earliest scion
of Dickens second talent; Bundle, the
classic bureaucrat; Edward Leeford alias
Monks, Bill Skies and his dog, pitiful
Nancy, Fagin earmarked for the gallows,
and the Artful Dodger.
The line marches on, and from the
curb the readers behold Nicholas
Nickleby, Schoolmaster Squeers of
Dotheboys Hall, poor Smike, Crummles,
the brothers Cherryble, beautiful Made
line Bray; pale Barnaby Rudge and his
parents, Mr.. Haredale, Dennis the hang
man, Gabriel Warden, the raven Grip:
darling Nell and her grandfather, Kit,
Mr.. Garland, Quilp, Marks and Brass,
and the Marchioness; Martin Chuzzle-
wit, his family, PeckSniff, Chuffey and
Mary Graham; pathetic Paul Dombey
and heart-hungry Florence, their father
and his second wife, James Carker;
David Copperfield, his mother and
Murdstone, the deathleSs Micawber, Tor
whom a position on the bench in far
Australia finally turned up: Dora and
Agnes, delightful BetSey Trotwood; Little
Dorrit and her father, the prisoners at
MarShalsea; Charles Darnay and Lucie
Manette, Sydney Carton and the fright
ened seamstreSs who learned from him
how to die; Edwin brood, the mystery;
Mr.. Jarndyce and Esther Summerson;
Bounderby, Gradgrind, Tom and Louisa; !;
Cobb the Boots and the eloperS of the
Holy Tree Inn, and Scrooge before and
after reforming. Bringing up the rear,
of course, there could be none other
than Bob Cratchit withheld high in
his arms to cry God bless us every one!"
the frail figure of Tiny Tim.
Mr.. Pickwick ushers in the whole
immortal gallery. So, it is more than
his single beneficent rotundity that the
world will celebrate on his hundredth
birthday.
Evening star., 1936-03-22
Fannie the Famous.

Fannie is famous Probably it never
occurred to her to wish for celebrity,
but it has come to her just the same by
grace of news-gathering facilities which
reach into even so obscure a place as
Louis Hollow, in Ohio. The story began
developed through nineteen exciting
days and ended triumphantly when the
heroine-a well-beloved mine pony-Was
rescued by her owners, Guy Brown and
his three sons.
The little animal is five years of age.
Her career has been dedicated to the
useful business of hauling coal to a pit
mouth. For months in undistinguished
sequence she performed her routine
labor. Then suddenly there was cave
in, and Fannie was imprisoned behind
a wall of earth and rock. The Browns,
of course, instantly applied themselves
to the task of freeing the poor, bewil-
dered creature, but the problem was ex-
ceedingly difficult to solve. One slide
after another delayed liberation. But
during the tedious ordeal the pony was
fed oats and hay through crack provi-
dentially available The Browns per-
severed until they cleared tunnel large
enough to permit Fannie to emerge from
confinement.
And a Nation applauded. Hundreds
of representatives of grateful public
crowded to the Brown family home to
congratulate the erstwhile prisoner and
to thank the friends who. at the peril
of their own lives, restored her to free
dom. The pony received her guests in
the kitchen, where she had been &C
corded the privilege Of quarters In con-
Evening star., 1936-03-22
Japan's ''New Deal"

While Europe was stewing over the
Rhineland crisis the new government of
Japan, under Premier Koki Hirota, took
the helm last week and embarked upon
the task of reconstruction following the
recent military revolt.
Although the governments opening
manifesto makes only general reference
to international affairs, Toxic dispatches
credit the Hirota regime with the inten-
tion of concentrating on what is known
as Japan's continental policy. namely,
relations with China and Soviet Russia.
The premier adhering to the course he
charted as foreign minister in January,
is expected to press for cessation of anti
japanese activities in China, co-opera-
ton between China and Manchukuo and
joint Soviet-Japanese efforts for eradica-
ton of the communist menace" in
China. Having little hope that China
will formally recognize Manchukuo,
Japan will be content if Marking accepts
the establishment of the puppet state as
an accomplished fact. Meantime, there
is recurrent indication that in one guise
or another army moves to bring about
the separation of the five northern
Chinese provinces from Markings juris-
diction will be continued.
Relations with the Soviet in the re-
gions of Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia
give the Hirota government its chief
concern. Border incidents of explosive
possibilities are chronic. Army leaders
are said to be pressing for an increase
in Japans military strength in Man
chukuo, to make it equal to the SovietS
Far Eastern forces. AS Russia maintains
some 250,000 men near the Manchukuoan
border and Japan claims to have only
100000 in Manchukuo, proposed replen-
ishments would call for more than
doubling of that force. Such project
conjures up the grave problem OF taxa
ton. Although the new finance min
lister, Eiichi Baba, successor of the as
sasSinated TakahaShi, was supposed, as
a conservative banker, to be ready to
take firm stand against military ex-
pansion, his first statement of policy re-
fleets that the soldiers have not relaxed
their grip on the national purse strings.
Mr.. Baba foreshadows increased taxation
for the purpose, among other things, OF
raising Japanese defenses to a salts
factory state"
European developments are certain to
influence Japan's policy. She initiated
the Manchurian adventure when the
Western World was immersed in depreS-
sion problems. That her militariSts
would seek to take advantage OF more
serious complications, like European
war. in order to tighten the japanese
grip on China and penetrate further
into the heart of Asia, is hardly to be
doubted. A Russia involved in con-
fiict with Germany would be looked upon
as providing an ideal opportunity to
achieve Japanese mastery OF the main
land, particularly if Great Britain and
her navy were also preoccupied by Euro
pean events.
Time will demonstrate whether the
"new DEAL supposed to have been in
stalled at Toxic has left the army in It's
old predominance, or whether liberal in
fuences will steer japanese policy along
peaceful lines. Militarist pressure in the
final composition of the Hirota cabinet
unhappily justifes the fear that the war
lords are far from curbed.
Evening star., 1936-03-22
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Quest.

Quest.
A man was distant and severe.
With difference as I drew near,
I thought him very wise indeed
His slightest word I meant to heed.
His concentration so intense.
Which beheld with reverence,
Was, I discovered when he spoke,
An effort to recall joke.
I chided him and he replied,
Your words of blame are undenied
But there are scenes Of want and woe
Disclosed wherever you may go.
In vain we seek both far and near
The smile that may efface tear.
Abundant are the shades of care.
An honest jest is far too rare"
Evening star., 1936-03-22
Another Question.

The language of the sidewalk sound.
Appropriate when surprise abounds:
And as the latest news we read
Astonishment is great. indeed.
The threats of war we cannot stop.
The underworld now seems on top.
As new discoveries bring dismay,
We ask, How did we get this way?"
The miscreants in pursuit of wealth
No longer need to walk in stealth.
In any kidnap enterprise
They say it pays to advertise.
Even a comic tale well told
May be construed as satire bold,
And so, as puzzled heads grow gray,
We ask, How did we get this way?"
Evening star., 1936-03-22
MiSleadership.

"You remember what a great man
once said about the impossibility OF
fooling all the people all the time?"
YES" answered Senator Sorghum,
"and feel, in my efforts to remain con-
tinuously in Office, that have very much
the worst of the situation. My people
can fool me any time they get ready"
Evening star., 1936-03-22
Woman in Business.

"Are women success in business?"
Can you doubt it?" rejoined Miss
Cayenne. ANY store manager will tell
you that one woman can do more than
half a dozen men to keep money in
circulation"
Evening star., 1936-03-22

Economists admit that they do not know
exactly what money is. 1t is agreed, how
ever that no archeologist has dug up
coin that obtained prestige by being
sign of the SwaStika.
Evening star., 1936-03-22
Hasty Judgment.

From the Albuquerque Journal. s
A psychologist says It's hard to keep
q mans mind on anything more than 10 :
seconds. And he probably gave that
assertion about 10 seconds thought. q.
Evening star., 1936-03-22

Early plans anticipated that large ships
would land at this city. but did not con-
template the possibility of enough water
to carry them into the thoroughfares.
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credited TO 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
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Evening star., 1936-03-22
EvaneScent.

The man whose boom must fade away
How transient is his giee.
For one brief day men shout 'Hoorayl"
The next they say who's her"
Evening star., 1936-03-22

When waterpower goes on a rampage
it does not indulge in boondoggling.
Evening star., 1936-03-22

Jud Tunkins says political harmony
is like that in the church choir. 1t gets
to be such close harmony that it sounds
like diScord.
Evening star., 1936-03-22

Choose friends with care" said HI
Ho, the sage of Chinatown. Unless
you can be sure of them you cannot be
sure of yourself"
Evening star., 1936-03-22

"An economist, far's kin hear" said
Uncle Eben, 'is o man dat's 50 smart
he kin get money for explainin' why
it's so scarce"
Evening star., 1936-03-22

gested a graduated tax on corporation
income. scaled according to size. This
was attacked by business as tax that
| would penalize the small stockholders
in large corporations. 1t was pictured as
a tax on bigness that hit the little man
hardest.
Now the Treasury proposed tax de-
| signed to put more money into the hands
of the small stockholder and to place a
heavier tax on the large stockholder.
1t was intended to carry over into the
corporation field the principle of taxes
graded according to ability to pay.
Whatever the merits of this tax from
an economic point of view, it was, as
one member of Congress put 1t, "the an
swer to a politicians prayer"
BY those moves the President expected
to get out of the hole in which the
A. A. A. decision left him in January.
Skillful maneuvering had carried him
around series of pitfalls.
But there still remains the hurdle of
relief and Mr.. Roosevelt is less graceful
In trying to take 1t in his stride. 1t is
at this point that the political trip-up
is expected to occur if it occurs at all.
The President is asking Congress for
| q billion and half new dollars to carry
work relief through the next fiscal year.
He has another billion held over from
| the original four billion work fund, and
| is asking for six hundred million in the
regular budget.
Those billions, counted on by Demo-
Gratis to assure their reelection, instead
are becoming the greatest danger to
their future office holding.
Bungling and political administration
for the most part. 1t no longer is pos
sibIe to deny, except for face-saving pur-
poses, that w. p. A. out in the States
has been riddled with politics OF the
most sordid sort. Work relief turned out
J to be . politicians heaven. With more
Evening star., 1936-03-22

In view of the exceptional character
of the United States Capitol it is only
natural that its care and maintenance
have been intrusted to specially trained
and selected force of employees and that
necessary mechanical shops are main
tained-painting, carpenter, metal, elec-
txieal plumbing and machine shops.
Evening star., 1936-01-11
FILM TO RECOUNT
TALE OF TWO RIVERS
All Souls Church to Show Movie
Made in Arkansas and Ten
nessee Valleys.

"a Tale of Two Rivers" a picture
made in the Arkansas River and Ten
nessee River Valleys, will be shown at
All Souls Church tomorrow at $50
o'clock. 1t will follow a program OF
French music by Charles Trowbridge
Tittmann, bass, assisting Lewis At
water, organist.
At the adult class meeting in con-
nection with All Souls Church school
George A. Finch of the Carnegie
Foundation will speak on THE Out
look for Peace" DR.. Ulysses G. B,
Pierce will continue his series of SER
mons on What Every Man Should
Know About Religion" at the IL o'clock
service. His subject will be "The Re-
covered Bible The feature at the
motion picture hour in Pierce Hall at
7:3O o'clock will be "Alice Adams"
John Ihlder will be the speaker at
the dinner of the Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Club Wednesday.
He will take for his subject Has
washington Slums?" On Friday eve
ming the Washington Chapter. Uni
tartan Laymen's League, will hold a
dance
At the foreign language cinema
Saturday evening the feature will be
the German picture "Bei der blonden
Kathrein." This evening the French
picture Crime ct Chatiment," based
on Dostoyevski's great novel, will be
shown.