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The Washington times., 1936-02-10
Mrs. Long Is Greeted
BY ThrOng i'm Senate

her late husbands colleague, to
be sworn in.
AS she walked down the aisle
someone on the Democratic side
Of the floor started to whistle
Here Comes the Bride"
Sits by Mrs. Caraway
AS soon as the oath was ad-
ministered by Vice President Gar
ner, Mrs. Long signed the roll
and was led to the back of the
chamber by Senator Overton. She
was greeted by several Senators
and then, instead Of taking the
seat assigned to her, she took a
CONTINUED on Page 6, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1936-02-10

Fair, colder tonight; minimum tempe
about 8: tomorrow fair.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1936-02-10
5 Killed , 1S Wounded
In Tampico City Riot

TAMPICO, Mexico, Feb. 10.
G.N.S0. - Five persons were
killed and 18 were wounded to-
day when warning workers fac
tions clashed in the heart of the
city.
The outbreak occurred during
parade of radical workers.
Somebody began throwing stones
and soon shots were fired. The
battle ragged over an area Of sew.
ersl blocks.
The Washington times., 1936-02-10
Prince ofAusturias
Reported Improving

HAVANA, Feb. 10 (I.N.S)-The
Prince of the Asturias was believed
to be gaining slightly today after
another blood TRANSMISSION last
night in his fight against illness
from an abceSs complicated by
hemophilia, curse of the Spanish
bourbons for centuries:
The prince, former heir to the
Spanish throne, slept well most Of
the night.
Evening star., 1936-04-28
''Bituminous Mix" Is Fine
For Making Oven of Park
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
How strange is the malignity of fate
that gave the parks of Washington, once
its greatest esthetic asset, into the
arbitrary and dictatorial dominion of
men so manifestly untitled for such q
responsibility! One Of them tells The
Star that the hideous wastes of cement
that have been substituted for the grass
and shrubbery formerly growing in these
spaces will be pleasing to us when they
are covered with what he calls "bitumi-
nous mix" His men are now engaged in
putting down this "bituminous mix" in
the triangle at Pennsylvania avenue and
Twentieth street, one of the spots he has
so effectually ruined, and it is plain
enough that "bituminous mix" Is merely
an alias for asphalt.
The walks now being covered with this
repulsive substance have been made more
than twice as wide as they need to be.
or ever were before. There is toward
the eastern end of the triangle a great,
clumsy, inexcusable expanse of asphalt
where formerly was grass, and we know
only too well what the result will be in
hot Summer weather. Hitherto we have
gone into that little park on Summer
evenings for GOODNESS and fresh air. Now
the asphalt will absorb the heat all day
and give it out all night and the place
will be an oven.
I understand that the public officer
chiefly responsible for all this wreckage
is steam shovel engineer and pretends
to no knowledge of landscaping. Is there
not some way by which the people of
Washington can be protected from such
blundering incompetents?
WILLIS j. RUTLEDGE.
Evening star., 1936-04-28
Contempt of Law Shows
Need for Code of Ethics

To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial titled Dangerous Tom
foolery" is evidently one of the thousands
of the kind being penned in every city
and hamlet of the United States; some
using criticism, others exhortation, thus
everlastingly practicing the ways Of
democracy. while the gradual disappear
ance Of ethics and morals renders such
polite pleadings almost useless and in
effective. This situation not only irri-
tateS the American who is still faithful
to ancestral traditions and finds himself
an alien in the midst of strange spirits.
but it will some day be recognized as
the remote cause of the present decrease
of employment Ethics have everything
to do with preserving law and order, dis
playing mutual respect, and respect of
other peoples opinions about ourselves.
Such problems appear to be abstract,
but they are factors governing our pres
ent state Of affairs. Even the conduct
of the Representative from Washington.
his speeding and his subsequent actions
in responding to the demands Of local
law, rs well as the actions of other
citizens, are remotely but actually con-
trolled by the prevailing ethics of the
country. We all know how even chill
dren, who are otherwise mischievous, in
the presence of certain persons will at
least temporarily adopt an entirely new
behavior, and If they are placed in an
environment where better influences pre-
vail they will soon be changed persons.
The remedy then Is to inaugurate . new
ethical movement, If necessary awarding
the relative models Of virtue, even as we
now punish those who are given to
criminafty. This will soon make the
Nation ethic conscious, q sort of Amer
lean culture, and the result will be that
men and women will be more secure in
their homes and people will not tolerate
crime, vandalism, mischievousneSs or
other forms of lawlessness.
c. PHILIPS.
Evening star., 1936-04-28

day, but former Premier Edouard Her
riot, also q shining Radical Socialist
light, suffered q reverse. winning only
second place In Lyon. M. Herriot is 50
reluctant to accept Socialist and Com
munist support In the run-of that he
is reported ready to abandon the con-
test. 1t is the first time in his long
career that he failed on the first ballot.
Nothing could more graphically illustrate
the political topsy-turvydom amid which
France is noundering. The outstanding
aspect Of the vote to date is the increase
in the Communists strength. They seem
likely to augment their total to between
fifty and sixty seats. as against the
ten they had before. The Right seems
to have held its own. Socialist and Com
munist victories were scored mainly Ut
Radical Socialist expense.
If the new Chamber has as markedly
Left a trend rs now indicated. important
changes in French policy'are held to be
inevitable. Despite Socialist Communist
gains, there is no promise of . reign OF
pacifism. Campaign spokesmen of both
those parties were violently anti-Naz
and anti-Fascist. All groups revealed
ardent desire for peace and security and
generally advocated maintenance OF the
gold franc, despite the subterranean con-
sensus that devaluation cannot long be
postponed. Just what will be the i'm
mediate effect of events. both at home
and on French policy in Europe, will
depend largely on the identities OF the
men who obtain command Of the gov
ernmental helm after the makeup OF the
new Chamber is settled. Reelection OF
Foreign Minister Flandin in q striking
victory over four opponents suggests
popular approval of continuously
strong hand in the Rhineland contro-
versy.
Despite popular passions engendered
by disccntent with party methods and
parliamentary rule, the elections passed
of calmly. They are proof that at its
core France remains sound and we'll
disciplined and will survive the political
tangle in which it momentarily finds
itself, able and determined. as in the
past, to play an effective role in Euro
pean affairs and in the preservation of
world peace.
Evening star., 1936-04-28

have been able to work together on p
plane Of equality, without hindrance or
pretense; and, as an observer who is
intimately acquainted with both men
has said, "they do not try to kid each
other"
MI. Delano's experience has been more
comprehensive than that Of his chief
In fact, he has had three separate and
distinct careers. He was Q railroad on
cial, a banker and diplomatist before,
in 1890. he spoke of himself as being
retired" But surprising his knowledge
OF many different important interests
and enterprises there is in his compost
ton a quality which is not amenabls TO
analysis, but which all who meet him
apprehend - certain curious and
strangely compelling genius for creating
harmony and peace wherever he goes,
whatever he does.
For example, he has solved the prob
lem of the site of the new Pan-American
Union Annex Building. A bill now be-
fore Congress provides that his sugges-
tion of way out of the controversy shall
be adopted. 1t compromises the much
debated issue, meets the needs OF the
Union, prevents the architectural
anachronism" of one structure impinged
upon another and preserves the standard
building line of Constitution avenue
from violation. Utterly ideal, it may
not be; probably could not be. But it
represents the only feasible answer to
the question raised by competition for
space in an area where mistakes ought
not to be permitted.
Mr.. Delano, however, claims no credit.
1t seems to be natural to his tempera-
ment to avoid applause. When people
try to congratulate him, he becomes en-
barrassed and goes "out of town." But
he is appreciated none the less. Wash
ington owes him much and is happy to
acknowledge the debt.
Evening star., 1936-04-28
Rank Injustice Will Be
Result of Blanket Move

To the Editor of The Star:
Much has been written and said about
"blanketing in" the thousands OF un-
classified Federal workers In the so-
called New Deal agencies. This would be
. rank injustice to the large number Of
classified eligibles on the registers of the
Civil Service Commission who have
anxiousiy awaited appointment. In all
fairness and business, should not cogni-
zance be given the following:
% Why should preference be given
those who are unwilling to take q
competitive examination which would
readily determine their fitness? (0 The
Civil Service act provides that not more
than two members of Q family shall be
eligible for appointment. CD During re-
trenchment. where husband and wife
were Federal employees, one was fur
oughed-equiyalen to dismissal since
vacancies rarely occur In the older
established departments, and many OF
whom had not participated in voting had
no chance Of getting in the newer bu-
reaus. % State apportionment has been
almost completely ignored. 90 Veterans
have been given very little. If any. con-
sideration. 90 Lack Of fair and just
handling Of positions in the unclassified
service.
Amplifying the foregoing: Should the
taxpayer be burdened by an excessive
number Of Federal employees because my
father loaned this ofiicial $500 years ago."
II was his roommate at college" or "she
Is such q good skater" These people in
variably get the higher-salaried positions
instead Of rewarding those who have
worked faithfully during the lean years.
Is it not known that in some cases as
many as seven and eight members of
the family are on the Federal pay roll?
Is 1t fair to furlough q husband or wife
in the classified departments while per-
mitting the employment OF husband and
wife in unclaSsified agencies? Should
not bureaus employing unclassified en-
ployes make 1t known to all applicants
that political Endorsements are neces-
sary in order to receive consideration,
rather than make the positive assertion
that politics doesn't mean thing here"
while at the same time employing only
constituents OF politicians whose favor
they seek to curry? Should not each
State have its quota of Federal employees
when the taxpayers of all the States
contribute the appropriations? Too,
what good is the term military pref
erence" when such eligibles are not even
considered?
1t behooves each classified Federal en-
ploye to bestir himself to the point of
informing his Senator's, Representatives
and the Committee on the Civil Service
that he is against such unjust intrusion
and urge the support of these honor
able gentlemen in keeping Civil Service
positions on a merit basis thus reducing
the large number of political parasites
and raising the efficiency standards
FLORENCE ANDERSON.
Evening star., 1936-04-28
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Toward the end of the Summer the
bull is sorry looking animal The sur
plus fat on which he has lived is all
gone. One day the COWS and calves
depart. The bulls, as rule, draw back
among the rocks and spend two Or three
days in sound sleep before taking to the
ocean again to replenish themselves.
The cows have very little reserve
energy and must take to the water every
two or three days, leaving their nursing
pups ashore. On her return from one
of these feeding expeditions a COW un-
cannlly always goes straight to her own
pup among the hundreds of thousands
of animals on the rocky beach. Pre-
sumably she locates it by the odor.
Few animals grow more rapidly than
the seal pup. Within few weeks it is
almost as large as its mother. This is
necessary provision of nature, for the
animal in few weeks must gain suffi-
cient size and strength to care for itself
in the open sea during the Winter. 1t
is fully the size of its mother when 1t
comes back the next year.
Mr.. Bower denies that seals must be
taught to swim When thrown into the
water for the first time, he says, it has
been demonstrated that they will swim
ashore without difficulty. They will not
go into the water by themselves, how
ever, and the mothers have to push
them in.
st. George and st. Paul Islands are
two spots under the American flag which
are absolutely barred to visitors unless
they have special Government permits.
These, as a rule, are given only to scien-
fists studying the behavior Of the seals.
On each island there is an Aleut village
whose inhabitants attend to- the butcher
ing of the seals each Summer. This is
confined entirely to the 3-year-old males
who congregate by themselves. The
only other killing permitted is by Aleuts
along the coast for whom sealing is the
traditional means of livelihood, but this
is now so restricted that the annual toll
of the herd is very small. The sealing
must be done from an open boat, use
of firearms is prohibited, and the Aleuts
cannot be under contract to furnish
skins.
Evening star., 1936-04-28
France Turns Left.

1t will not be until after next Sundays
run-of ballot in four hundred-o dis
tricts that final results of the French
Chamber elections will be known. The
hrst voting on Sunday disclosed with fair
assurance what the complexion of the
new body will be. 1t will be preponder-
antly Left in hue, though, as usual the
Chamber will consist of so many factions
that no one party is likely to command
majority. In consequence and in ac-
cordance with contemporary tradition
the government that takes ofice will
have to depend upon such a coalition of
support as 1t can fashion and face cor
respondingly uncertain tenure. During
the late Parliament there was an all
time record of twelve ministries, whereby
the repute of the parliamentary regime
was all but ruined. The Chamber of
seventeen parties about to come into
existence Is destined to witness tug-of-
war for power no less fierce or constant.
Though the late campaign was waged
amid unprece edented chaos and confusion,
with nothing savoring of concrete issue,
it has produced clearly defined swing
of the electorate toward the Left. The
Socialists may emerge as the largest
single group, maintaining the predomi-
nance they have so long held. Their
leader, Leon Blum, and Edouard Dala-
dier, the Radical Socialist leader, were
among those who were elected on Sum
Evening star., 1936-04-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The airplane daily proves the estate
vision Of Walt Whitman, who wrote be-
fore the Civil War:
20, to realize space!
The Righteousness of all-that there are
no bounds;
To emerge, and be with the sky-of the
sun and moon, and the flying
clouds, as one with them
Only few weeks ago there was pub
lished . book called wake Up and
Live" latest of the self-help volumes.
whose theme is that one must bear ones
self as If one could not fail.
Walt Whitman announced 1t those
%. while I live, to be the ruler of'lifs-
not a slave,
To meet life as q powerful conquerer.
No fumes, no ennui no more complaints
or scornful criticism
In the 1860 edition of Leaves OF
Grass" picked up on q bookstall re-
Gently, we found the following lines,
entitled. in this edition, Walt Whit
mans Caution:
ITO the States, or any one Of them, or
any city OF the States: Resist
much, obey little.
Once unquestioning obedience, once
fully enslaved,
No nation, state, city, Of this earth,
ever afterward resumes its liberty"
In those stirring days, when the fires
Of the great war were blowing up, he
had this to say:
Who are they, as bats and night-dogs,
askant in the Capitol?
Are those really congressman? Are
those the great Judges? Is that
the President?
Then I will sleep awhile yet-for see
that these States sleep. for reasons.
with gathering murk-with muttering
thunder and lambent shoots, We
all duly awake,
South, North, East, West, inland and
seaboard. we will surely awake"
in New York in 1855.
1t was thin volume of "a pages.
We are apt to think of it today as
being unaccepted, but by 1860 he had
built his outpourings to a neat 456 pages.
An average, definitive edition of today
will contain between 500 to 800 pages. but
u NC tliaS Silio WILL
include all the poems written during
the Civil War and following.
The 1860 edition contains such famous
things as Walt Whitman" now known
as Song of Myself), and Song of the
Road" now entitled Song of the Open
Road"
There are some lines in the old edi-
ton which were dropped completely out
of all later ones, we do not know why,
and doubt if even their author knew.
He was forever revising, going over. No
man revised more. and often with loss,
since the first, crude expressions were
the real expressions of such a man.
Here are q few such lines
II will take an egg out of the robins
nest in the orchard,
I will take branch of gooseberries from
the old bush in the garden, and go
and preach to the world;
You shall see I will not meet single
hereto or scorner,
Evening star., 1936-04-28

You shall see how I stump clergymen
and confound them,
You shall see me showing a scarlet
tomato, and white pebble from
the beach,"
*EE ~
Whitman always sounds the greatest
gibberish to some people, until they get
into their heads that he was a chanter,
one who sobbed over the universe-and
found 1t goodl
Il know am solid and sound;
To me the converging objects Of the
universe perpetually flow,
AL are written to me, and I must get
what the writing means"
This is so of every human.
Life, and all that it means, conVerges
on every one of us, during our little day,
and We must be in some haste to find
out what it is all about, If ever.
AL is written to us. How absurd, then,
to stand apathetic and dull, amid these
shows of days and nights, to immerse
ourselves solely in man-made businesses,
as if there were nothing else.
These are good enough, but there is
much beside, and we must get what
the writing means.
~
II We are to get what the writings of
Whitman mean, if they mean anything
to us at all, we must realize that he
echoed those famous words:
There is nothing common or unclean."
His irregular chant is wild and stormy,
possessing for certain natures the charm
OF the wild and stormy, for other ma
lures the repulsion of the wild and stormy.
Yet his lines contain some of the mag
niflcence of the English translation of
the Psalms, the song of Macpherson S
'Ossian," the lure of William Blake in
his later years.
But because he sings of the things we
know, among the first to make music of
Indian names, because he gives us also
the common and the low, and espe-
cially the everyday, some of us are re-
PEELED. But We forget that he spoke
with the divine egotism of America, that
he said for us:
II conned old times,
I sat studying at the feet of the great
masters;
Now, if eligible, o that the great masters
would return and study mel"
Does any one think this just a hlurb
by one man, Dragging of himself?
The world has returned TO study
America.
All of us have conned old times, and
sat at the feet Of the old masters, in
song and story.
Now, for the things Americans have
done better and bigger than others,
they return TO our shores, to find out all
about it.
Great manufacturing plants, great in
stitutionS-Whitman meant these, too,
not word jugglings alone.
He did not mean himself, particularly,
in anything he wrote.
He meant America.
His times were tremendous times, too.
America was at the crossroads. He
lived in stirring days
The 1860 edition of his Leaves" con-
tains the basic poet, the chanter, the
dreamer and seer. The war added noth-
ing to his stature as poet or man.
This old edition is more satisfactory
than the newest.
Evening star., 1936-04-28
Running Georgetown.

Most of the old residential areas of
Eastern American cities have passed
away. falling before the march of COM
merce or suffering in one or more of its
various forms the blight" that signals
the beginning of the end. The WASH
ington Square district of New York and
Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia are
on their way out as survivals of past
glorieS. Beacon Hill in Boston, the
Battery in Charleston and Georgetown
old Georgetown-in Washington have
retained through the passing years many
of their old attractions.
A modern blight on residential neigh
borhoods is traffic. Beacon Hill in
Boston is hill and trafhc skirts it. The
Battery in Charleston is a dead end,"
fronting on the water. But the days
of Georgetown as a lovely reminder of
a residential section of other years, re-
tanning q charm that has made it ma
tionally famous, are numbered. For the
Commissioners, with a strange lack of
foresight. have given their approval to
the plans for resurfacing p street from
Twenty-eighth to Wisconsin avenue.
Resurfacing, perhaps to be accompanied
by widening, is the forerunner of the
change to q traffic artery. When P
street becomes traffic artery it will be
merely a question of few years before
the street and adjacent territory fall vic
Tins to the traffic blight, with resultant
decline in property values and the decay
of one of Washingtons picturesque
neighborhoods.
Competent authority, with imagina-
ton enough to foresee the evil conse-
quences. should step in now and stop
this proposed change before it is too
late. Influential citizens are grimly
determined to do what they can to save
Georgetown from the same sort of
ruination already visited upon other
sections of the city. They need help
and they ought to get 1t.
There is a principle here worth a
fight. Because @ street has been struck
with the trafic artery blight already, is
there any reason why p street should
be made another victim? Instead of
following the destructive policy of cut
ting another trafic lane through a resi-
dental neighborhood. the traffic and
highway engineers should be studying
methods of preventing it. One course
would lie in making K street into the
traffic bypass that Park and Planning
Commission plans have already put
down on paper. Some day the plans
will materialize. Why not carry them
out now instead of waiting until George
town has been suficiently ruined?
Traffic planning has become most
important element of city planning.
Washington is already suffering the
curse of past failures to plan for traffic.
Must yet another atrocious error of the
sort be committed?
Evening star., 1936-04-28
Mr.. Delano's Solution.

When the history Of the New Deal is
written, it should be recorded that
Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, was one OF its most useful and
helpful characters. He has been 0
source Of strength to President Roose-
velt in ways too numerous to mention.
Because of their family ties-they are
uncle and nephew, respectively-they
Evening star., 1936-04-28
Correcting Star Statement
Concerning Judge English

To the Editor of The Star:
In speaking of Senate impeachments,
you refer to former Judge English as
from West Virginia, whereas he was a
Federal judge for the eastern district of
Illinois and from my county.
Again, the newspapers stress the few
convictions by the Senate, ignoring the
cases of those who resign to avoid con-
yiction, as did English the day the
Senate met in extraordinary session to
try him. GUY FEARS.