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Evening star., 1936-08-21
Harvard Stamp.

Senator Marcus A. Coolidge of Massa-
chusetts several months ago appealed
to President Roosevelt to authorize q
commemorative postage stamp to mark
the tercentenary of the founding of
Harvard University, first institution of
higher learning in the United States
The petition later was indorsed by the
entire membership of the upper branch
Of the Federal Legislature. It also has
mad the support of leaders in philatelic
circles, representing that portion of the
public which normally would pay all
the costs of the manufacture and dis
tribution of the proposed issue.
But the President, himself both a
Harvard alumnus and philare.ist, has
declined to order the stamp printed.
His attitude in the matter is that he
does not wish to set precedent whereby
other educational institutions might be
encouraged to solicit similar favors. The
Post Once Department, as he knows,
has lent its facilities freely to advertise
expositions in various parts of the coun-
try, celebrations of different sorts, an
aeronautic conference, the incandescent
lamp. the Ohio canal system. the Red
Evening star., 1936-08-21
How the Merger Affects
The Street Car Rider
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The street railway merger is WON
derful combination. Every seven days
it gets dollar out Of fellows pocket.
Oh, yes, it is SO convenient to thrust
out your hand with piece OF card
board, get on their cars, ride a few
blocks, then stop and wait for one or
the other of the little tin chicken coops
mounted on four rubber wheels with one
human in it to get out of the way SO
that street car full of humans can
move on to their destination. But will
that be all? No, no! The humans on
the street car will probably have to
change cars, walk across the street
block or two before they get car going
in the direction they aim for. One can
get in conversation with the operators
of the street cars Of the District. They
even stop to talk to those on the out
side of the car when the green light
is on and nothing can be done about it.
They pack us in until they get the car
jammed from the operator to the con-
ductor. When those on the seats try
to get out after pressing the button.
before they can get through the pack
to the door the car is moving along. The
merger keeps on making turns, tearing
up the streets and giving us old, rackety.
dirty cars to ride in. Conditions are
almost unbearable for us who have no
tin chicken coops.
M. A. r. STOTILEMEYER.
Evening star., 1936-08-21

testify for the spiritual character of the
race. Nor does humanity fail to re-
member its debt to the second circle Of
its heroes-such men as Calico and
Spinoza, John Bunyan and William
Harvey, Heine and Schopenhauer, Bee
thoven and Neitzsche, Simon Bolivar and
Robert E. Lee, David Livingstone and
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, all Of whom
rjsked everything for what they loved,
dedicated themselves to suffering to
awaken us to convictions which are
necessary to our moral condition"
But the unknown victims of misery
important in the scale of human expert
ence. The tomb of the unidentified SOL
dier at Arlington indicates the instinc-
tive popular comprehension of nameless
valor-a power deeply felt, but not fire.
quently enough frankly expressed.
Thomas Gray grasped the truth when,
in his "Elegy," he limited at:
Some village Hampden, that, with
dauntleSS breast,
The little tyrant of his fields with
stood,
Some mute inglorious Milton here may
rest.
Some Cromwell guiltless of his coun-
try'S blood"
Mere chance provides celebrity; mean
while, every human creature who
breathes belongs to the genus Of the
sentient. That is part of their claim to
fellowship. Moreover, it goes far to
explain their victories over circum-
stance. 1t is logical, then, that the most
unhappy times should produce the most
notable triumphs. The Koran declares
that Allah is with those who persevere," +"
and a wisdom greater than Mahomet's
is contained in that observation.
Evening star., 1936-08-21
Settlement Houses Give
Girls Many Advantages
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
I would appreciate the opportunity Of
replying to an article signed by Cecilia
Silver, which appeared in the July 81
edition of The Evening Star, entitled:
Girls Need an Organization Similar to
Boys Club"
I have a sense Of gratitude to Miss
Silver for the interest which she ex-
pressed in girls and their needs. I
quite agree with her that the girls have
far too few opportunities for wholesome
recreation. Our girls often cry out, "The
boys get more chances at things than we
do" However, feel that I must call
Miss Silver's attention to the fact that
the following social settlements carry
on a girls as we'll as boys program:
For the white-Christ Child Society,
608 Massachusetts, avenue northeast;
Friendship House, 324-326 Virginia ave-
nue. southeast; Georgetown Childrens
House, 1898 N street northwest; Juanita
K. Nye Council House, 609 Sixth street
southwest; Neighborhood House, 470 N
street southwest. For the colored-The
Northwest House, SIS M street north
west; the Southwest House, sol Second
street southwest; the Southeast House,
301 G street southeast.
The work done in these houses for
girls is somewhat similar to the work
done at the boys clubs for boys. It is
true that We work under a handicap,
due to inadequate buildings and equip
ment; but believe better service could
be given to the girls of our city, with
smaller outlay of money, by more
adequately supporting these agencies
than by starting a new one. Hundreds
of girls and young people are enrolled
In the various social and educational
clubs and classes conducted by these
eight Community Chest agencies. The
Y. w. c. A., at its E Street Community
House, also conducts a program for
girls in that section Of the city.
The dues at all of the above-men-
toned places are such that it brings the
work within the reach Of all who care
to participate.
A very cordial invitation is extended
to Miss Silver to visit our settlement
houses. LYDIA A. H. BURKLIN.
Evening star., 1936-08-21
Golden Rule.

Current controversy concerning the
Golden Rule, launched by Father
Charles E. Coughlin, may serve at least
one useful purpose. 1t will remind the
public that the principle still exists and
still is valid. Thus those who may have
thought that it had passed forever from
human consciousness will be encouraged
by the debate about it.
Historians, it seems, never have been
able to trace the rule back to its primi-
tive origin. Without question, it is ages
old. The Americana says that it already
had been examined and adopted as
standard of ethics by westerns like
Socrates and easterns like Thengtsen
some centuries before the birth of
Christ" Surely, it is foreshadowed in
the injunction of the ancient Egyptians:
IF thou be among people, make for
thyself love the beginning and end of
the heart; but even more definite is
the phrase in the Book of the Dead
which reads: He sought for others the
good he desired for himself At
approximately the same period, circa
1900 BE-, the Hindu sages were teach
ing: "The true rule of business is to
guard and do by the things of others as
they do by their own"
Also when Father Coughlin prods the
Jews he forgets that it was one of the
laws of Moses that: Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thyself" Four hundred
years later, the Greeks had the identic
thought in the form: do not that to thy
neighbor which thou would take i'll from
him. and zoroaster instructed the Per-
slams: do as you would be done by"
Then came Confucius with the warming:
What you would not wish done to
yourself do not unto Others" and the
Buddhist fathers with the command:
"One should seek for others the hap
piness one desires for oneself" And in
scribed in the Roman code of $50 BIC.
there was the sentiment: THE law i'm
printed on the hearts of all men is to
AobC VIC AlClllbClo O1 SUCleGy DIS lIlPLn-
selves"
The Savior, apparently, summed up
the conviction of generations when, in
His Sermon on the Mount, He de-
clared: "All things whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you, do We even
so to them" In acknowledgment of His
forerunners, He added the meaningful
words: For this is the law and the
prophets"
BY inference, therefore, any man who
is uncharitable, intolerant and self
righteous breaks the universal law, COM
mits treason against the conscience of
the race. Possibly, Father Coughlin
could do worse than employ his present
vacation from the hustings to examine
his own position. The Jews comprise
only one class of his fellow creatures
toward which his attitude has been any
thing but charitable.
Evening star., 1936-08-21

Cross, the Olympic Games, Arbor day
and Mothers day, the National Parks,
the N. r. A., the American tours OF
the Graf Zeppelin and the Byrd Expe-
dition to the Antarctic. But he hesitates
to add a cultural interest to the list
because he fears that Yale and Princeton,
not to mention smaller colleges, some
time may ask the same recognition now
requested for Harvard.
Other nations, of course, have honored
the arts and the sciences in their stamp
designs Even little Guatemala has told
the world about her educational equip
ment through the medium of attractive
postal labels. Indeed, America is prac-
tically alone in its neglect of its cultural
Government to grant philatelic recogni-
ton to writer's and artists, philosophers
and teachers-the acknowledged builders
of civilization-have failed. And Mr..
Roosevelt, in his refusal to consider the
Harvard commemorative, makes it clear
that he is opposed to any change Ap-
parently it is his belief that stamp
for higher learning might commit the
Post Office Department to further devia-
ton from the old rule that portraits of
politicians and military heroes are to
be preferred as subject themes. Some of
the Presidents successors, however, may
be less stubborn. Harvard will be four
hundred years old in 2O36, and by that
date more charitable conception of the
part which education plays in the Ma
tion's life may have developed.
Evening star., 1936-08-21
Dynamics of Pain.

Suffering is not useless. On the con-
trary, it often, If not invariably, is a sign
OF growth-a symptom Of progress to-
ward health of spirit, mind or body. The
problem has attracted unnumbered gen.
erations of philosophers. Its seeming
contradictions have engaged the atten-
ton of some of the noblest thinkers who
ever have lived.
For example, Shakespeare wrote: Pain
pays the income of each precious thing"
To illustrate the point, he might have
cited the Saviour of Mankind, crucified
on Calvary. Redemption of the world,
the church has taught, was purchased
by the Son of God with the coin of His
agony. And the same claim may be
made for every lesser martyr who in time
past or present has paid out his life for
his fellows. Joan of Arc, dying at the
stake In defense of her visions, and DR..
Jesse William Lazear, immolating all
that he was and all that he had to prove
his theory of yellow fever, stand at oppo-
site poles of human idealism, but serve
an identic purpose in history. Like
Socrates, Demosthenes and Seneca, St.
Alban, Thomas Beckett, Savonarola,
John Huss, Zwingli, Servetus and Sir
Thomas More, Arnold Won Winkelried,
Gustavus Adolphus, Robert Emmett,
Nathan Hale, Alexander Hamilton, John
Brown, Abraham Lincoln and John
Reed, they gave the last full measure
of devotion" for faith or hope dearer
than any words can tell.
And such sacrifice never goes unap-
preciated. There is an instinct in the
humblest heart which prompts universal
gratitude for those who. self-forsettins.
Evening star., 1936-08-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Difference between standard plants
and all other kinds should be kept in
mind.
Plants which may be called standard
are those which all amateur gardeners
grow at home.
The reason that they are grown, in
the main, is that they are easy to grow,
which means sure-fire.
Also, they are beautiful.
These are the satisfying plants,
whether flowers, shrubs, trees or what
not.
The same applies, in the main, to
vegetables.
Corn and beets and carrots and the
like are standard everywhere because
they are good growers and good to eat
In the ornamental flower garden there
are many of these standard things-in
the ANIMALS, the perennials, the bulbs
and the shrubs, including the ever
green's.
These are the flowers and shrubs
everybody grows, to the point where,
in time, they tend to become common
1t is at this point many persons feel
inclined to look down on the good old
standard things.
They grow sour, once they see others
planting and enjoying the same things
they have planted and enjoyed.
In this they make big mistake. one
which the passage of time and greater
experience tends to correct.
After all, there are no more salts
factory growing things, in the main,
than those found in everybodys garden.
They are there because they are good,
because they have proved themselves,
because they are both easy to grow and
sure fire" in the best sense of ease
of growth and surety of production.
All other plants, in the main, are
experimental. AS long as this is recog-
nized, the amateur gardener can plant
as many of them as he wishes.
This will mean that his garden will
be composed of the standard sorts be-
fore anything else.
Once he has achieved this typical
background garden tas it might be
called, or groundwork garden (perhaps
that would be better), he is free to try
as many of the others as he chooses.
Just how highly desirable the ground
work garden, the garden Of everybody,
few people will know until they make it.
Then they will see easily enough its
value. especially in regard to judgments
on all future paintings.
1t is impossible, unless one is a genius,
and few are, to say what should be
planted and what should not be planted
unless one has had this experience.
Then it is easy, or at least compara-
lively easy. In plant work everything
is comparative.
There is no need to sneer at the
humble petunia. Some of the greatest
plantsmen have worked with it and
given it hours and days Of their devo-
ton.
"Oh. everybody has petunias," is true
enough. Everybody has them, and every
body who plants them is right enough.
He or she could do no better.
How silly to plant mecanopsis, that
most difficult thing, before trying ones
hand with petunias and marigolds and
zinnias.
Equally nutty, as the squirrels would
say, is the planting of roses before the
simpler and easier things have been put
in the ground. Yet the rose, in any OF
its many species, is such an intriguing
Evening star., 1936-08-21
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS

a considerable amount of his time to
study of the drought situation and to
conferences with Government officials
who are seeking means to alleviate 1t,
the attention of the country is directed
to the trip on which he is preparing to
start next week to make a ''irst-hand
inspection" of the stricken territory. His
conferences with Governors in the
States that have been most seriously
affected by the drought will largely de-
termine the manner, it is believed by
officials here. in which the needed relief
measures will be applied. The opinions
expressed to him by the Governors, sup
plemented by the detailed information
now being gathered by special drought
commission, which is making tour OF
the parched territory, will form the
basis, it is believed. of the Governments
future action on relief for the farmers.
x X x
Visitors to the hotel where Vice Ad-
miral Zengo YoShida, commander of
the imperial japanese training squadron,
and members of his party have been
entertained during their two-day stay in
Washington were interested not only in
the nattily- dressed Nipponese officers
and midshipmen, but also in many fea-
lures connected with their tour. One
of these was a large blackboard in the
lobby of the hotel, filled with japanese
characters giving information to the
members of the squadron as to where
and at what hour various affairs
luncheons, receptions. tours to points OF
interest and other events connected with
their trip-would take place. Some OF
the passersby looked at the blackboard
so intently that they gave the impress
sion they could read what was written
on it.
Among large number of awards made
by foreign governments to American
naval officers "in the promotion OF
friendly international relations" which
are now being forwarded by the Navy
Department to their recipients, is the
Order of the Striped Tiger" to Rear
Admiral George T. Pettengill, COM
mandant of the Washington Navy Yard.
Admiral Pettengill saw duty in China
during the Boxer rebellion and it was
in recognition of meritorious service per-
formed there at that time that the Chi
nese government thus honored him.
These various awards to United States
naval officers, 1T in all, have been in
the custody of the State Department
since their presentation, as no officer OF
this Government had been permitted
personally to accept such an award until
Congress last May passed law per-
mitting them to go to the persons for
whom they were intended.
X *x*
Strenuous objection raised by Clifford
Davis, acting mayor of Memphis, to the
reference by Col. Knox in his speech
Wednesday night to the sumptuous dog
pound erected in the Tennessee city
with Federal Government aid, reminded
many officials here of the famous cam
paign song of yesteryear, which they hu-
morously paraphrased to read: you've
got to stop kickin' my dog pound around" ."
Mayor Davis took vigorous exception to
the vice presidential candidates assertion
that the pound" had marble showers, I"
declaring that 1t did not have showers
of any kind"
Copyright, 1936)
Evening star., 1936-08-21
Business of Government.

One of the striking showings of the
National Industrial Conference Boards
latest study of National Income and
Its Elements is the marked increase,
during the years of the depression. of
the business of government. The sta
wages and salaries, dividends and other
forms Of earnings by private citizens.
But the business of government has
enjoyed boom.
In 1929, for instance, Federal and
local government was contributing 8.5
per cent of the total realized income
of the Nation. In 1884 the proportion
of this contribution had doubled and
accounted for IT'S per cent. The show
ing is even more marked in totals.
Wages and salaries derived from indus
tries and occupations amounted to about
flfty-one billion dollars in 1929, declin-
ing to the low point of twenty-eight
billion in 1888 and increasing to thirty
one billion in 1884, a decrease between
1929 and 1888 of 80 per cent. In the
same period income of independent
entrepreneurs, those in business for
themselves, dropped from slightly over
fourteen billion to slightly over eight
billion, decrease of about 81 per cent.
Dividends, in the same period, fell off
from more than five and half billion
in 1929 to slightly over two billion in
1884, drop of more than SO per cent.
But in the same period government
wages and salaries dropped from about
$4778,0 ,00O, 600 to s4,655, 900 900, decrease
of only s123,ooO,OOO, or less than per
cent
The relatively slight decrease in total
government wages and salaries, the re-
port points out, is more than Offset by
an increase in pensions, an increase of
more than s3oOOO0,OOO in interest pay
ments, an increase in rental payments
benefit payments and relief payments
which in 1884 amounted to $4,000 000, 900,
or almost five per cent of the accountable
realized income for that year. There
was slight reduction in average gov
eminent salaries-Federal and local
during the depression. But, whereas
these were ninety-one per cent in 1884
of what they were in 1929, industrial
wages and salaries were only seventy
two per cent of what they were in 1929.
This study furnishes statistical evi-
dence supporting the obvious fact that
government is the last to feel the effects
Of depression, and in the current de-
preston the business of government has
increased, while practically everything
else has shown drastic decreases. The
increase in government during the de-
preston has been supported by the
theory that increased government
activity was essential to recovery and
the extension of relief. But the in
crease is also supported by the dollars
and cents drawn in taxation from those
whose incomes, from every other form
of activity, have shrunk. If the theory
of governmental activity in times of
depression were applied in times of
prosperity, such activity would be
diminished as recovery gained headway.
But, unfortunately. the theory usually
works in only one direction-toward
more, instead of less, government.
Evening star., 1936-08-21
Old World!

It's "the Old World" that's found over
there,
A world made of pleasure and sorrow.
With yesterdays worthy of care
While we're hoping to learn Of the
morrow.
It's "the Old World" that ran into debt.
Dependence on youth ne'er relaxes.
BY this New World the cost may be met
OF warfare and consequent taxes.
Evening star., 1936-08-21

A glass woman has been manufac-
tured to facilitate the study of anatomy.
The story of Pygmalion and Galatea will
not be repeated. Even if she should
come to life, she will never be loved
for her beauty.
Evening star., 1936-08-21

Japanese visitors went on a sightseeing
tour Of this city with guides to answer
each and every proper question. Some
of this espionage suspicion may be due
to the assumption of furtive manner
instead of making frank interrogations.
Evening star., 1936-08-21
Too Well.

From the Sacramento Bee.
A national health authority advocates
health examinations this year for all
children returning to school. Imagine
the disappointment Of many boy to
find there Is nothing the matter with
hiuj
Evening star., 1936-08-21
Leader.

Have you a record as q leader?"
"I have" answered Senator Sorghum.
Il haven't been doing so much leading
lately, but when I was younger, was
accounted about the best leader the
town band ever had"
Evening star., 1936-08-21

Scare propaganda" is referred to by
Chairman Farley. There are many kinds
of fright. There are few people worse
scared than the salaried man who fears
he may blunder in marking his ballot
and get discharged for not voting right.
Evening star., 1936-08-21

Colonel Knox got caught in a shower
at Hagerstown. If he could repeat this
experience at will he would be held in
superstitious regard in drought stricken
areas.
Evening star., 1936-08-21

Russia, while claiming desire to i'm
prove industry, goes on making life con-
stantly more difficult for anybody who
tries to make a living selling life insur-
ance.
Evening star., 1936-08-21

A large number of demands for funds
are reported by Mr.. Hopkins from
worthy citizens who cannot be expected
to wait until they are old enough to
benefit by the Townsend pension plan
even if it ever materializeS.
Evening star., 1936-08-21
Bad Year for Walkers

From the Macon Telegraph.
If that walking fish now on its way
to an American aquarium from South
America hoped to attract attention on
its arrival here 1t should have started
before walking got 70 be q eag.
Evening star., 1936-08-21
A Speechless Candidate.

From the Williamsport Sun.
There may be q lesson for candidates
In the outcome of the Democratic SEN
atorial primary in Tennessee. The pres
ent Senator, Nathan L. Bachman, an
easy winner, made no speeches during
his campaign.
Evening star., 1936-08-21

Ability and thrift hold their impor-
tance in human affairs. Social security
must always depend largely on getting a
good job and being able to hold it.
Evening star., 1936-08-21
A Rhyme at Twilight
BY
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
At Eventide

My thoughts, so busy all the day,
Come home at eve to rest;
They come along shining way
Thru sunset in the West:
And some are sad. and some are gay
After the hours of quest.
I do not ponder where they went,
Nor what their daylight scheme;
Whatever hours have been misspent
The morrow will redeem;
At dusk my tired thoughts are sent
into the land OF dream.