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Evening star., 1936-07-25
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A VERY BRUNDAGE, president Of
"A the American Olympic Com
mittee, when advised of her attitude
before he left for an inspection tour
of the Olympic Village where the
American athletes are quartered, de-
clared:
Il know nothing of any prospect
that will change our minds. Mrs.
Jarrett cannot say anything that will
affect the team, which, as have SAID
before, was the best behaved team we
have ever brought to Europe"
Earlier in the day Brundage as
serted there was virtually unan-
imous sentiment" among committee
members against lifting the ban he
Husband Says Cheer Up"
MRS. JARRETT had promised a
A'A last-ditch fight to regain her
place on the team when she talked
with her actor singer husband, Ar
thur Jarrett, over the transatlantic
telephone today.
"cheer up" and that he wished he was
there to help her.
Il want you to fight back because
they're all for you in New York" Mrs.
Jarrett said he informed her.
The party-loving New Yorker re-
ceived numerous cablegrams through
out the morning, including one from
Australia expressing regret over her
debarment.
She also received overtures from sew
eral sources to capitalize on the situa-
ton. Several of the proposals sug-
gested that she write Olympic stories
for American newspaper syndicates.
For the time being, at least, she
withheld comment on the offers and
declined to enter into negotiations un-
til the last hope of regaining her place
on the team faded.
Evening star., 1936-07-25

STAINING, OF THE CLUBS.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
DAY. GAMES TOMORROW.
GAMES TO-DAY.

cinci at New York. Cinci. at New York.
Pittsb'h. at Brooklyn. Pittsb'h. at Brooklyn.
r!hica 20 Al PhiIa Chicago at Phlla.
At Iouis at Boston, st. Louis at Boston.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
BY JOHN LARDNER,

JEW YORK, July 25.-On his
way to see Mr.. Charles John
Grimm, the boss of the League
Evening star., 1936-07-25

INTERNATIONAL.
Syracuse, 81; Rochester. 3-6.
Toronto, 4-S; Newark. -1-2.
Baltimore. Q: Montreal 2.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
League Statistics

Washington. 10: st. Louis. 4.
Boston. Z; Detroit. 4.
Cleveland. 10; Philadelphia. 8.
Other clubs not scheduled.
Evening star., 1936-07-25
Defied All Omcials.

Defied All OhiciAls.
TO CHARGES that the chaperone
neglected her responsibilities and
failed to take proper steps when
flouted by Mrs. Jarrett and other
(see ELEANOR, Page ID
Evening star., 1936-06-03

were played, with q total of seventy five
runs scored, 9 in Boston. 20 in New
York, 20 in Boston and 26 in Washing
ton. Sixty-seven men were left on
bases. These large scores were due
mainly to batting, q total Of 1T base hits
being made. with total of 15s bases,
including three home runs. Fourteen
errors contributed to the run making.
Seventeen pitchers were used, and they
gave IS bases on balls and struck out
81 men. The games averaged hours
and ~ minutes in their playing Only
one small close score was registered. in
Boston, where the two teams battled to
q 5-to-4 decision. In all % players took
part in the game, 70 regulars and 20
substitutes.
Have the pitchers lost their cunning,
or are the batters getting the better of
the curves and shoots? Is there some
thing of rabbit" in the ball?
Evening star., 1936-06-03
"No Mans Land"

In his carefully restrained comment
on the Supreme Courts invalidation of
the New York minimum wage law for
women and children, the President
makes use of an apt and fitting express
sion in referring to the mo mans
land" exposed by that decision. Neither
the Federal Government nor the States
apparently have the power to regulate
minimum wages, under the courts con-
struction of freedom OF contract under
the fourteenth amendment. The boun-
daries Of this no mans land" become
even more hazily defined in view of
other decisions which have upheld the
abridgement of freedom of contract.
Freedom of contract is the general
rule and restraint the exception" Justice
Butler wrote in the opinion of the court.
He took cognizance, however, of previ-
Gus decisions of the courts wherein this
freedom has been abridged "by the ex-
istence of exceptional circumstances"
Some of these exceptions were noted
in his dissenting opinion by Justice
Stone in reference to laws regulat-
ing the price of milk, regulating the
hours and conditions of labor of women,
the time and the manner of the pay
ment of wages, the commissions paid
insurance brokers, the charges of grain
elevators, etc, which have been upheld
by the courts.
A notable paragraph from the dissent
achieves added significance in view of
present day conditions, where millions of
persons are drawing public relief and
charging their subsistence against the
taxpayers:
No one doubts that the presence in
the community Of large number OF
those compelled by economic necessity
to accept a wage less than is needful
for subsistence is matter of grave
public concern, the more SO, when, as
has been demonstrated here, it tends to
produce i'll health, immortality and the
deterioration Of the race. 1t Is
difhcult TO imagine any grounds, other
than our own personal economic pre-
dilections, for saying that the contract
of employment is any the less an ap-
propriate subject Of legislation than are
scores of others, in dealing with which
this court has held that legislatures may
curtail individual freedom in the public
interest"
Whether the New York law was in
the public interest may be judged from
the fact that it succeeded in lifting the
average minimum wage of $4,000 women
and minors in the New York laundry
industry from slo4l a week to s1432
week, and that it had the sup
port Of the organized laundry industry
as benefiting not only the employe but
the employer.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

this administrative move has been
hastened by the imminence OF pro-
ceedings at Geneva and is intended,
along with the army mobilization, to
certify the intention Of the FasciSts to
hold against all comers the position
which their armies have just "consoli-
dated" in Africa. The wisdom OF these
truculent tactics will be speedily demon
strated-whether they are designed to
force recognition Of accomplished facts
or stiffen opposition to them. Mussolni
has plainly come to the conclusion that
an exhibition of saber-rattling will ut
terly cool any enthusiasm on the part
of his "oppressors" for impeding Italy's
imperial progress.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC HILLIAM VILE.

Henderson says that the coast States
A delegates are turning up at Cleve-
land heart-whole and fancy-f:ee. The
expectation is that they'll cast unani-
nous first ballot complimentary vote for
Earl Warren. State chairman and re-
Gently elected national committeeman,
and possibly toss similar bouquet in
Herbert Hoover's direction. When the
real shooting begins and the bandwagon
starts moving it's foregone conclu-
sion that an impressive batch Of Cali
fornians will at once switch to Gov.
Landcn. Capt. Henderson is confident
that with the right kind of a candidate
and platform, together with flve months
Of aggressive campaigning, California
despite certain mathematical Democratic
preponderance, can be swung into the
Republican column.
Uncle Sam has a battle-scsrred Latin
American trouble shooter on the job in
strife-torn Nicaragua in the person Of
Minister Boaz w. Long After serving
for year as chief of the State Depart
ment's Latin American Division early in
the Wilson administration. Mr.. Long
had two tours of duty as Minister to Fl
Salvador. In 1918 he was mediator in
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS boundary
dispute, and from 1919 to 1922 he was
Minister to Cuba. Leaving diplomacy
for private business, he was chief Of
the foreign department Of the N. w.
Aver & Son advertising organization
just before joining N. r. A. at Wash
ington in 1888 Long had completed
a period of duty as deputy administra-
tor for Puerto Rico under Gen. john
son when he re-entered the foreign serv-
ice to become Minister to Nicaragua
Because of his familiarity with old Latin
American politico-military customs, the
bullet-dodging experiences he's now un-
dergoing at Managua probably strike
him as being all in the days work.
Il y y =
DR.. William E. Dodd, American Am
bassador to Germany, along with COL
Robert w. Bingham, Ambassador to
Great Britain. Is the latest addition to
the growing Homecoming contingent Of
American ENJOYS, here either on regular
leave or for participation in the ap-
preaching presidential campaign. DR..
Dodd is one of the New Deal ambassa-
dorial appointees whose entry into the
diplomatic service was wholly devoid
of political background. He is regarded
as having acquitted himself at Berlin
with striking effectiveness under circum-
stances that often were difficult. AM
bassador Dodd is for the moment di-
viding his time between Washington and
his model dairy farm at Round Hill,
Loudoun County. Va, across the Po-
tomac from Washington.
~ 4
James d. Preston. assistant admin
istrative secretary of the national ar
chives, will again be on duty in the
press section of both national conven-
tions. Having functioned on similar oc-
casions since time immemorial in his
capacity as the veteran superintendent
of the Senate press gallery, the Standing
Committee of Correspondents decided
that newspaper arrangements at the big
shows could not possibly be run with
complete smoothness without the in
defatigable "Jims" presence.
(CopyriRht. 1880
Evening star., 1936-06-03

go like mad, but not all Of them, thank
heaven.
There are no sidewalks, only concrete
shoulders, so II you walk this way, be
prepared to walk on the side from which
traffic is coming. That is, II going
north, walk on the west side OF the road.
If walking south, come down on the east
side
Keep an eye open for cars, and do not
dispute the right of way. Do not stay
on the shoulder when the driver comes
too fast, but 60 over as far as you can
on the earth.
Hedges or fences or walls or shrubs
or flowers will stop you
There Is little of everything along
Locust lane, including stately old trees
OF gigantic proportions. 1t is in these
that the cicadas are singing, or hum
ming, or just making a noise, as one
pleaseS.
Fine old trees they are, of the totally
irreplaceable type. This is the green wall
in which these people live, and in Winter
the wind howls through the great bare
branches like the roar of surf on q
lonely coast.
Wind through trees is another natural
music, but one does not stop often to
think of it as a natural wonder as the
l7-year cicadas are.
Wind in trees reminds many of rain.
When a stiff North gale hits the sub
urban areas, at any time of year, there
rs a swish aloft reminding one
Thus Nature keeps alive her primitive
patterns. She has certain great sounds
certain fundamental structures, certain
colorations. repeated endlesSly.
1t is interesting to trace these re-
semblances in things so vastly different.
At the time of this writing the cfcadas
had enjoyed excellent weather, but
already many OF the males had fallen
from aloft, their life above ground ended
at last
The weather had been a little cool,
perhaps the insects would have liked it
slightly warm, but in the main the sun
had shone.
1t had been great cicada weather just
the sort that should have come after the
l7-year Information in the darkness Of
the earth.
One walking along here, listening to
them, enjoying their music as much as
any, could be glad that he had found
pleasure In them, and not fear. He
could feel sorry for all those persons
who did not like these harmless things,
who had shrunk back from them, who
had been able to hear nothing but
harsh noise in their music.
The earth which had given them to
the light and day was taking them back
again.
Hundreds of their carcasSes sprinkled
the ground. They would be incorporated
with the earth again, help fertilize the
plants and the trees, in their turn add
fragrance TO the air.
Aloft the chorus was as strong as
ever Locust lane was humming.
The poet, with few changes, might
have addressed with equal certainty the
locust hordes:
"Oh, cicsdas, you are not thrown to the
winds-you gather certainly and
safely around yourself:
Something long preparing and formless
is arrived and formed in you:
You are henceforth secure, whatever
comes or goes"
Evening star., 1936-06-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The lady stopped her car, and called
to pedestrian.
rs this Brookville road?" she asked.
"Yes, ma am" replied the walker. But
they ought to change 1t to Locust lane.
The woman behind the wheel looked
blank, just for a second, then smiled
brightly.
II think they should" she agreed.
Everywhere the cicadas, or l7-year
locusts, as most people call them, were
singing their fine song.
From Chevy Chase Circle to Bradley
lane, the music was at its best, possessing
deep intonation reminding some of the
famous drone bass of the Scottish bag
pipers.
The hum of the cicadas Is a sort Of
music, without the slightest doubt.
Those interested in music will be the
first to admit this: they know enough TO
distinguish between mere noise" and
those qualities which transform noise
into something better.
~
The greatest profusion of tree and
shrub foliage in years has accompanied
the locusts.
Standing at the entrance to the Chevy
Chase Club and looking east along
Quincy street one cannot see single
house.
A great wall of green meets the eye.
1t is the same elsewhere in the sub
urban districts where Spring is bringing
her loveliest displays.
Locust lane, as we shall call 1t, is q
bower of beauty these days.
If you want to hear the locust music,
fn nansf lana hafnro
their concert in the great trees.
You will be well repaid for your visit,
not only by the cicadaS, but also by the
winding road, in our estimation the fin
est thing Of its kind in or around the
National Capital.
Locust music is an added attraction.
\ y
Swinging along Locust lane while the
cicadas sing overhead is the nearest
approach the city man may get to the
open road.
What has become Of the real open
road of which the poet sang?
Those great thick layers Of fine dust,
which whirled aloft in billQws when a
wagon went along
Those roadside brambleS-
Those stretches of crude fence, with
here and there few white pickets-
Or turnstile, and boy in overalls-
Those red chickens, scratching up the
dust
Old Rover. irate at paSsersby, barking
defiance from the white house set way
back
These are pictures of the old open
road, now largely things Of memory, cspe-
cially near great cities
The road is still open, but open to
great speed.
These roaring monsters that come this
way are a part of the picture, too.
Behind each wheel sits all that is left
Of Daniel Boone. one thinks. Yes, 1t is
the same desire for adventure, the same
desire TO push ahead" the same urge TO
get somewhere.
The tempo is Speeded up, but the
desire is the same.
II you do not leap out of the way in
time you get in the way Of more than
q motor car.
You get in the way of continent.
Along Locust lane many of the cars
Evening star., 1936-06-03
ii Duce Says Islands Off

Nothing could more graphically il
lustrate the state of filters in which the
Fascist conquest Of Ethiopia has left a
distracted and bafied Europe than Mus
sollni's spectacular plan to mobilize a
million troops on Italy's northern from
tier. The demonstration is timed for the
eve OF the League Council session on
June l6, when questions raised by ces-
sation Of the African conflict will be dis
Cussed. Mainly at stake is the problem
of sanctions. Whether to prolong them,
in order to handicap the Italians in
reaping the fruits of victory, or abruptly
TO cancel punitive measures which failed
of their original purpose is the issue
over which opinion is widely split. Those
League elements which favor mainte-
nance of sanctions are hopeful that
thereby Mussolini might be coerced into
accepting peace sealed more or less
within Geneva's framework.
Flimsy as is the chance that the
League would attempt species of face
saving which could only eventuate in
emphasizing the Ethiopian fiasco, II Duce
does not propose to run even the remote
risk that such program will be in
voked. He has determined to manifest
his iron resolution to tolerate no tamper-
ing with the military peace he has i'm
posed. To that end he will station a
vast army on Italy's borders as warning
that her full military might stands back
of the annexation of Ethiopia, ready to
oppose any power or combination Of
powers that ventures to challenge the
Fascist title to the conquered regions,
even at the cost of European war. In
addition to the 100000 regular troops
constituting greater part of the regu-
lar army of 100000, extensive units
of the country's reserve man power
estimated at $4,000 semi-trained per-
sonnel, are expected to take part in the
"hands of" msneuvers. Operations will
last presumably over the entire period
of the Geneva deliberations.
Pending League discussions Italy has
given concrete evidence of the perma-
nence of her new domain by incorporat-
ing 1t within five-part colonial entity
to be known as Italian East Africa,
with its capital at Adds Ababa. The
realm thus created will embrace Eritrea
and Italian Somaliland, in addition to
Halle Selassie's late territory. Obviously
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Big Base Ball Scores,

Base ball fans are of two types, those
who like to see close games, with small
scores, usually known as pitchers bat
ties, and those who like to see plenty
of hitting and large scores, games full
of action. Yesterday the latter had
their wishes gratified in. large measure
in the American League. -Four games
Evening star., 1936-06-03

Women who know what farm life really
means have assembled in this city to
talk things over. Nothing will be off
the record and there will be no expert
ments in an effort to make ice cream for
day take the place of substantial
nourishment the year round. Youth is
to be considered. The women who live
for the family may perhaps bring the
most important message of ALL
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Kind Remembrance.

THE people hold truly great man in
perpetual remembrance"
Not all the people" answered Sena-
tor Sorghum. Take George Washing
ton, for instance"
Doesn't every one respect him?"
Deeply. But few study his teachings
or his example. Most folks regard him
chiefly as grand excuse for birthday
party"
Evening star., 1936-06-03

The history OF w. j. Bryan's nomina
ton is not likely to be repeated. Radio
has many announcers, but none has
shown enough eloquence to encourage
the idea that an outsider may step out
and claim the nomination for himself.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

Dlctators like to be interviewed by
American reporters. The experience. in
fact, seems mutually enjoyable as an
example of polite conversation with SUI
pervision available to prevent any pos
sible offense.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

Summer delegates in comparing per-
sonal comfort notes bring out the fact
that while Cleveland is on the Lake
shore, Philadelphia is nearer to Atlantic
City.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

An excited politician is regarded as
doing very we'll If he Smashes only cabs
and furniture and does not indulge in
efforts to demolish the United States
Constitution.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

In order to teach Communism 1t Is
necessary TO find teacher who under
stands 1t sufficiently TO keep it from
looking like mere soap-box rebellion.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

One Of the most famous farm women
was Maud Muller. Intelligence will not
permit the charm to depart from country
life.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Worries for the Miners.

Prom the Charleston (w. va) Daily Mail.
A substitute for the invalidated coal
bill Is only one OF the worries OF the
industry. A more important one Is the
substitutes for coal which are appear
ing on the market.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

Statesmen cannot remain in Washing
ton all Summer. They have to take
some time out to go to Cleveland and
Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Encores.
Politics
The truth to tell,
With all its tricks.
We love it well.
Want still more.
And so we say
Encore! Encpre!-
Without delsy!"
Even then,
If both should flop,
We won't say when
It's time TO stop.
If great or small
Should disagree
Put In a call
For number 8.
Evening star., 1936-06-03


DEATH IS A LITTLE MAN. BY Minnie
Hite Moody. New York: Julian
Messner, Inc.
Georgia is the setting and Eenie is
the heroine OF this story of Honeysuckle
Hollow, the bottom" of typical South
ern city TO which the Negro returns at
the end Of the days toll in the homes
and the warehouses and on the farms
to live his own life in his own way and
to enjoy the limited pleasures of asso-
ciation which his lot affords 1t is an
interesting fictional portrayal of Negro
life and temperament, based upon OBJ
servation and study, but 1t lacks the
appeal which the wealth of material
afforded for such subject would lead
one to expect. One outstanding char
acteristic of the race, as elementaY as
the spiritual faith which has saved it
from despair, that has been neglected
by the author is its genius for happiness.
This is perhaps the reason for the failure
of the story to reach the full roundness
Of its possibilities.
Superstition and death are the main
factors which control the fate Of Eenie
and her unstable husband. Signs and
omens are inherent and necessary to
her belief in the powers which rule
human destiny. She is the next in line
OF the large family of a devout preacher
who is eligible for marriage, and sim
cere precautions are taken to be sure
that at the exact moment of q certain
day she Is ready to look into the well.
where she will find the reflection of the
man she will marry. She sees Weaver's
face mirrored in the still water, and so
they are married. But Weaver is Ill and
unacoountable for many of his sins of
omission as well as those of commission.
Eenie loves him, despite his faults and
failings, and life becomes complex in
stead of rosy as he leaps from one
trouble into another.
younger sister, Pretty, comes to
HoneySuckle Hollow to visit Eenie and
marrieS fine young man whose honesty.
integrity and goodness cause as much
sorrow to Pretty as Weaver's badness
causes Eenie. Then her brother. Elm.
who sees visions. leaves the homestead
and joins his sisters in the Hollow. A
succession of births and deaths, preceded
by good or bad signs is the course of
life. and upon Eenie falls the burden of
responsibility. And so runs the story of
Eenie and her neighbors and friends. her
family and her husband through an
existence that emphasizes the futility of
effort against the tribulations of the
poor and the helpless.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

Attempts at communism have been
distinguished chiefly in history by the
rough experiences necessary to get
over it.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
More Letters.

From the Charlotte Observer.
The Supreme Courts raid upon the
New Deal alphabetical order runs the
gamut with the courts annexation
against the Guffey coal act that IL Is
N. @.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

G-men have been doing good work.
Kidnapinss are suspected, but most OF
them turn out to be elopements.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Joint Bosses.

Prom the Toledo Blade.
II both could boss there would be some
reason to believe Mussolini and Hitler
may join forces.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Chronic.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Somebody has discovered that women
are the greatest believers in prisoners
parole. They never would let q man
finish q sentence.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
A Rhyme at Twilight
BY
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Seen From a Plane.

Seen From a Plane.
People, throngs Of people,
Running to and fro
Lord, how fast they gol
Busy, self-engrossed,
Striving. wriggling host;
Puny little things.
Marionettes on strings.
People, throngs Of people,
Carrying on the race
At a reckless pace
In the streets OF town.
As the sun goes down
Like seed thru the air
Blown, God knows where.
Evening star., 1936-06-03
Immune.

From the Atlanta Georsisn.
One thing Is certain: The opposition
can't get into Mr., Earley's hair.
Evening star., 1936-06-03

"Dar amt q heap O. usefulness no
way" said Uncle Eben, "to be expected
FUN de man who wants to be boss cause
he ain never learnt no regular kind Of
o Job