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La gaceta., 1936-08-27
Hojeando los penodicos lIegados de Espana
Por la democracia, la libertad y la j~usticia

de hOras, la Junta, delegada de
Valencia podra facilitar ele-
mentOs de auxiliar a las provin-
cias que todavia Sc encuentran
en- manos de los rebeldes."
Evening star., 1936-09-06
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D. D. IL D. d. c. L.
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

Leaning to live, this has been the
universal search Of men always. Ap-
proximately one third Of life is spent
in learning the common rules Of efficient
living. Comparatively few ever acquire
sufficient knowledge to attain the high
est degree of efficiency. The post-grad-
uate school period extends its teaching
to our latest day. Live and learn" is
q maxim that Is universally recognized.
The three important sources from
which we derive knowledge are study,
observation and experience. Indispensa-
BILE as are the first two, their value is de-
termined largely by experience. In large
part experience il the laboratory in
which we prove their worth. Study and
observation may be had as our aptitudes
and desires dictate, but experience is
a costly demonstration of our capacity
to survive the shocks and accidents of
life. Experience reckons with results as
we witness them in other lives.
st. Paul had this in mind when he
wrote to an ancient people recounting
the incidents and experiences that had
attended his own nation. After reciting
the advances and declines that had
marked its course, he says: These things
happened unto them for ensamples, and
they are written for our admonition."
Then, as If to urge the value of profit
that must ensue from q study Of the
experiences of others, he adds: Where
fore let him that thinketh he standeth
take heed lest he fall" If from personal
experience or the experiences of others
we cannot learn that which is best in
life, that which is most compensating
and satisfying, then we are standing on
insecure ground, our position is perilous.
The amazing thing about most of us is
our seeming incapacity to profit from
both observation and experience. Having
witnessed the folly Of given course, yes,
and having known the bitterness of its
disappointments, we still persist, only to
Evening star., 1936-09-06

ment had made the year before, the
association went ahead, engaged direc-
tors, assembled the necessary equipment
and launched its experiment.
1t was successful. from the start. AS
many as 5000 people have attended the
Sunday evening concerts and the aver
age attendance during the week has
been between three and four thousand.
More concerts have been given than in
any previous musical season in Wash
ington, and the receipts from sale of
tickets increased over the previous Sum-
mer. The prospect now is that the
association will be able to go forward
next Summer, profiting from its ex-
perience. Improvements in acoustics
and other features are planned, and it
is the hope of all music lovers that
Summer concerts at the Water Gate
symphonies on the Potomac" are
established as permanent part of COM
munity enjoyment.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
The Smoke Screen Returns

1t should be disturbing to those who
forecast the blessings of repeal to note
the temperance on Washington streets
Of smoke-screen-equipped automobiles,
part of the traditional paraphernalia of
bootleggers. Repeal was to put an end
to that sort Of thing. But in the past
few days two feverish chases of smoke
screened automobiles indicate that II the
smoke screen and all it once represented
are not here to stay. they are least max
ing a return visit.
When men equip their automobiles
with smoke screens and, in spite Of the
heavy penalty attaching to their use.
turn them on to escape police pursuit it
means that the men are engaged in a
rather profitable undertaking which they
are willing to protect at considerable
risk to themselves-not to mention the
risk to innocent people who get hurt in
the chase. Where is this bootleg liquor
coming from and where is 1t being sold2
With the outlets of the legalized liquor
trade so carefully supervised, there
should not be any great police problem
involved in locating and closing the
bootleg market. especially with the ex-
pert assistance Of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue, which is on the constant look
out for liquor tax evasions.
But the return Of the smoke screen
indicates existence of market for boot
leg liquor, and a profitable one at that,
operating in spite of the repeal Of the
eighteenth amendment.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Something Beautiful.

One idea of something beautiful is the
sprinkler system in full operation in
Dupont Circle. II the passer-by is lucky
enough to catch the sprays going, he will
do well to pass to a seat on the right
and sit there peacefully for as many
moments as.feasible, taking in the mist
which completely covers the round of
grass.
Not only is it beautiful. it is useful,
too, for horticulturists are increasingly
coming to the belief that in seasons
such as this all kinds Of plants are
damaged largely by high temperatures
as well as drought. In the past it was
generally believed that the chief damage
came because Of lack Of moisture at the
roots.
Now it is realized that roots have
magic way of their own In drawing up
from the depths of the earth the little
water which may stand between them
and oblivion. The real harm comes
from the drying out and absolute burn
ing up of the leaf surfaces, those won
derful laboratories Of Nature so necessary
to the functioning of the whole plant.
Beauty, some hold, is perfect usage,
resulting In health. The all-over sprays
Evening star., 1936-09-06

know further bitterness and defeat. A
striking example Of this Is disclosed in
the present state Of the world after its
startling failure to learn the lessons of
the World War. There is little evidence
that the nations have profited by one,
If not the greatest calamity they have
ever. known. All the vaunting promises
and solemn pledges have been set aside
and we witness world on the brink of a
new and possibly greater conflict. A
war to end war" has generated new
animosities, given rise to new suspicious,
created widespread unrest and issued in
hatreds that threaten cleavages and di-
visions, and all this at time when we
are still walking in the shadow of the
conflict OF yesterday. Here in our own
country, despite our slow emergence from
the evil OF our own folly, we are as yet
unwilling to recognize the lessons of
our bitter experience and are ignoring
principles and ideals that have been our
stay In our most productive periods. We
would be modern" and to be modern
we would dispense with those things
that experience has shown to be indis-
pensable to our continuing peace and
security.
The new school Of life, the school In
which our youth Is trained, gives ethical,
moral and spiritual values secondary
consideration, and places the whole en-
phasis upon the acquisition of things
material and the advantages of social
and economic preferment. To recover,
as the result of our experience, lifes
neglected values, those things that are
essential to its truest attainment and
satisfaction, is the supreme need of our
restless and troubled world. Sooner or
later, again as the result of experience,
we shall learn that righteousness, which
literally means right living, is the only
sure foundation on which the individual
or the Nation builds its house. Let him
that thinketh he standeth, take heed
lest he fall"
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Thanks and Felicitations.

At the Lincoln Memorial Water Gate
tonight the final concert-the twenty
second-of the season, under direction
OF the Washington Summer Concerts
Association, Inc, will be held. And this
seems an apt occasion to extend to the
association and to the musicians of the
orchestra the community's gratitude and
congratulations on the success of their
venture. For them the season has been
q relatively profitable one financially
and for those who have attended, pos
sibly as many as 100000 persons, the
concerts have been a source of pleasure
and entertainment.
The success Of the concert season Is
all the more noteworthy because of the
circumstances under which it was un-
dertaken. The diniculties-now happily
past, it is hoped-between the National
Symphony Association and the Musi-
clans onion last Spring made it doubt
full that the Summer season would be
repeated. When the Symphony Associa-
ton announced its final decision to give
up the concerts, the union musicians,
with the help Of outside friends, hastily
formed and incorporated the Washing
ton Summer Concerts Association. AS
q member of the board expressed it, the
directors were as green as the greenest
Of apples as far as concerned any ex-
perience in such undertakings. But
without prospect of financial backing
beyond the sale of seats, and lacking
the grant Of $500, which the Govern
Evening star., 1936-09-06

touch with millions of its citizens. Nearly
100000 of them receive bi-monthly
checks directly out of the national Treas
ury. Another 1000, ,000-farmers-get an
nual checks Another 1,500, 900 find in
the Federal Government their creditor.
Before the end Of this year, 10000, 900
workers will be catalogued by the Gov
ernment for old-age insurance and will
have q direct stake in the use of the
huge sums that they are going to con-
tribute.
The day when the individual citizen
could forget Washington except at in
come tax paying time has become merely
a memory.
Today's big oficial worry concerns the
question of how to divert the public
mind from the bounties that can flow
from the Federal Treasury for q long
enough time to get the national finances
under control.
Now that millions of persons have
tasted the pleasure Of gifts and subsidies
and loans direct from the financial
fount in Washington, they are inclined
to demand more. In democracy their
votes count and the pressures on Con-
gress to increase subsidies and to enlarge
gifts are expected to become more in
tense.
The next President has his job already
cut out for him in the task Of setting .
limit to philanthropy.
CCoDyTtght 11ool
Evening star., 1936-09-06

in Dupont Circle and similar places,
going full blast beneath the trees, serve
to cool the atmosphere, and thereby re-
duce the temperature Of the plant tissues
Of leaf and bough. In very practical
way the leaves are freshened and held
at good working temperatures. 1t is
problematical whether the sprays are
run long enough for best results, but,
however that may be, they add to the
beauty OF the city and exert cooling
influence on the minds of onlookers as
well as upon the tissues of plants.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Member Of the Associated Press.
Rah! Rah! Quoddy!

Evolution: A process in which, by
series of continuous, progressive changes.
a complex arrangement, agency or or
ganism is developed from rude or simple
beginnings: as. the evolution OF civlliza-
tion from savagery; the evolution OF
chicken from an egg.
And-the evolution of the Quoddy
Training School in "skills" from plan
to harness the tides and the moon to
turbines for the manufacture of elec-
tricity. A study of the process of evolu-
ton in connection with Quoddy is an
education in itself. Col. Dexter Cooper,
an old friend of the President, is gen.
orally credited with the idea of harness.
ing the tides of the Bay of Fundy for
the manufacture Of electric power. The
President waved his magic wand and
brought Quoddy into being at cost of
more than 100000. But Congress, ex-
hibiting an odd and unexpected streak of
stubborness, refused to authorize any
more money for Quoddy; refused, as a
matter of fact, to have anything to do
with it or to acknowledge its existence.
The National Youth Administration
was created by another wave of the
Presidents magic wand. 1t appeared on
the scene with all the suddenness of
visiting relative. People woke up one
morning and found it was there, charged
with the responsibility of doing some
thing helpful for the unemployed youth
of the land who lacked educational op-
portunities because of the depression
Congress had nothing to do with it
knows nothing about it except what it
read in the papers. 1t has grown from
small beginning until 1t now has about
100000 youthful clients under its pro-
tective wings-perfect example of the
egg and the chicken, with no complica-
tions about which came first.
And now the latest step in this re-
markable process of evolution. Quoddy,
or rather that portion of Quoddy built
to shelter the workmen on dams and
future dams. is united with the National
Youth Administration. The offspring
Of this strange union is the projected
training school, in which about 5000
Of the 100000 benefciaries of N. Y. A.
will be sent to school to receive, in the
enthusiastic words of Richard r. Brown
deputy executive N. Y. A. administrator
50 training in skills which will flt them
for induction into industry"
The N. Y. A. folk are little indefinite
now on the details. But with a feverish
light in their eyes they are talking of
the possibilities Of utilizing the machine
shops, the bakery and other appurte-
nances of Quoddy for the teaching of
"skills," along with simplified academic
courses. Whether the institution will
be co-educational has not been decided.
But there is hopeful agreement that a
course in beauty shop operation could
well find place in the curriculum of
Quoddy, as that is what the country
undoubtedly needs. The students, of
course, will be paid while they attend.
"Our program" explains Mr.. Brown, has
been the first one to recognize the secon-
Diary wage Garner"
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Self Persuasion.
Ger matter let mind
Assert the control.
How idle we find
This fretting the soul!
The thermometer lies
With its ninety degrees,
And the mercury's rise
Means a blow or a freeze.
The dust in the street
Is the eddying snow,
And there's comfort complete
AS the winds come and 60.
Our sorrows are few
As the Summer drifts by,
Since nothing is true
But the flowers and the sky.
Evening star., 1936-09-06

Theorizing is offered by DR.. I. Kreche-
vesky that brain deficiency may be a
social asset. He has experimental with
rats that show that cerebral injury may
cause peculiar adaptability to routine
existence. There used to be popular,
though meaningless, interjection, "Rats!"
which may yet be revived with psyche
logical significance.
Evening star., 1936-09-06

The mechanical heart" in the crea-
ton Of which Col. Lindbergh assisted,
is a marvel of science. Convincing the
public that no home should be without
one WILL of course, be matter for fu-
ture salesmanship.
Evening star., 1936-09-06

Campaign songs are persuasive, but
there is no use of telling anybody whose
name happens to be Susanna not to cry
If her residence happens to be in the
drought area.
Evening star., 1936-09-06

gallant little figure In world affairs
was Mahatma Gandhi, who only sue
ceeded in demonstrating that voluntary
hunger accomplishes nothing. Hunger
Is really significant only when it occurs
In the course of dire necessity.
Evening star., 1936-09-06

White automobiles are used for the
purposes of the Farley campaign caval-
cade. In the case of emergency relief
calls they can at a moments notice be
made to look like ambulances,
Evening star., 1936-09-06

Social rumor still has 1t that popular
King Edward not only answers his own
phone, but insists on personally editing
his own list of favorite numbers.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Varying Estimates.

II put my reliance in the wisdom Of
the plain people" said Senator Sorghum.
But suppose the plain people do not
happen to agree with you?"
Then refuse to be influenced by the
clamor of the thoughtless crowd"
Jud Tunkins says he never yet saw a
man who said he loved work that wasn't
more or less iickle in his affection.
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Solace.

From the Burlington Hawkeye Gazette.
What q solace it is to know that In
three short months the country will have
been saved, regardless.
Evening star., 1936-09-06

Speeding.
A man went in motor car,
The local laws unheeding.
He didn't travel very far;
They held him up for speeding.
He tried a swift financial trick
For coin that he was needing.
He started out to get rich quick.
They held him up for speeding.
He sought acquaintance with lass.
Regardless Of good breeding
He tried to flirt. It came to pass
They held him up for speeding.
Oh, friend, pursue prudent way.
Ambitions are misleading.
If thoughtless haste you should display
They hold you up for speeding.
Evening star., 1936-09-06

1T you don't never worry bout no.
body" said Uncle Eben, don't be sur
prised If you finds out some time dat
nobody's worryin' bout you."
Evening star., 1936-09-06
Yunress;ve but Not Decisive.

Impressive but MOI decisive.
And still statesman has to fret
About the problems Of the land.
Nothing was ever settled yet
BY cheers and music by the band.
Evening star., 1936-09-06

In Doubt.
"Mrs. Bliggins says her youngest is
the image of his father" remarked
Miss Cayenne.
What did you say?"
Nothing. I didn't know whether to
congratulate MIR. Bliggins or sympathize
with the baby"
"He who cheats a friend" said Hi Ho
the sage of Chinatown, will do so but
seldom, for soon he will have no friends
to cheat"
Evening star., 1936-09-06

ernment- subsidized housing projects. In
| some of them tenants already have taken
up residence. They are favored by rents
| far below those charged for similar ac-
commodations for the remainder of the
population.
Again, the Government has to decide
| who are to be the lucky few who get
low-rent homes in Slum clearance apart
ments, subsistence homesteads or green
| belt developments in city suburbs.
And If concessions and advantages are
| given to some, what is to keep politics
| from determining the choice, and what
| is to keep other citizens from demanding
similar benefits from their Government?
Government subsidies, direct and in
| direct, really started with the first ses-
sions of Congress when protective tariffs
were voted to help infant industries.
| But after those industries grew UP into
| the biggest and strongest in all the
world, they continued to keep and in
| crease their tariff subsidies. When others
| demanded the same sort of help, Con-
gress, having given to one, could hardly
| refuse another.
In recent years the subsidy idea has
spread to new and broader fields.
Individuals now look to the central
| Government to protect them from want !;
businessmen look to Government to help
them financially; farmers call on Gov
ernment to protect them from the haz-
ards of Nature; home owners to protect
against debtors; those who would like to
become home owners count on Govern
ment to help them realize their desire.
When help is wanted, citizens turn not
| to their sovereign State governments, but
to the national Government in Washing.
ton.
That Government, long q remote and
| fmpersonal agency, today Il In personal
Evening star., 1936-09-06

All Other States and Canada.
Daily eniy51------i ". $500 ] mo. 55c 55c
Sunday only---1 $500: ] mo-. QUO
Evening star., 1936-09-06

Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
Maryland and virgnia.
Daily and Sunday---l yr" Sae0oo: ! mo" ss2c s9c
Evening star., 1936-09-06

\ y
In those days there was no high ex-
ploSive as now 1t is known. Round shot
were hurled from the cannons' mouths
to pierce the hulls of enemy ships, dis.
mast them or tear through their rigging.
Today, while it is necessary to maneu-
yer ships into line of battle, it is not as
necessary at 1t was then. Today the
turrets can be swung. Another item
which marks the difference between
fighting ships of those days and today
is the time-keeping device. Today every
thing is electrical. On the deck of
H. M. S. Victory one may still see the
belfry, situated at the break of the poop,
1t is sort Of canopy, built over the
ships bell. Each half hour a seaman,
especially assigned to the duty, struck
ships bells.
When Nelson was hit he was carried
below to the orlop deck, below the water
line. There he died in Capt. Hardys
arms, and today a sort of chapel has
been made Of the place. presided over
by a huge painting depicting the last
moments. Regularly at 6:45-the hour
when the original event occurred-the
signal flags are hoisted from the Victory.
They read Lord Nelson's signal to the
feet: England expects every man will do
his duty"
To this day, when any English officer
steps aboard any English ship of war
he salutes the deck. He is not saluting
any officer or any human being. He is
saluting the deck where, theoretically,
Nelson fell. 1t seems of special interest
that, at this time, when bombs are being
dropped over Gibraltar. Great Britain
should be emphasizing the story Of Lord
Nelson. Duke of Bronte. the victor Of
Trafalgar.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-24
CHILDREN WERE
 GIVEN TO FATHER

Redwood City, Cal, March 24.- (UP) Marion Edward Jones, in- employed building trades mechanic, had all three of his children under his own roof again today after a court restored to him two-month- old infant and a two-year-old boy his wife had given to strangers. Judge Aylctt Cotton of the San Mateo county court gave Jones tenn porary custody of the children after he assured the court he would be able to care for them. Jones sought a formal court order granting him custody of his three-year- old daughter, who has been living with him and his mother at San Bruno.
 He also filed suit for divorce. al- leging 22-year- Linda Jones caused him great anguish in at- tempting to dispose of the children. Dolores and Marion Edward Jr., be- cause she did not want them any longer, could not care for them. and did not wish to have them reared by a stepfather If she remarked. Mrs. Jones indicated she would not con- test the suit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-24
GEN. HACOOD IS
 GIVEN VACATION

West Palm Beach, Fla, March 24-(UP)-Maj Gen. Johnson Ha- good, relieved of his command of the eighth corps area for criticism of WPA spending, today was on a three months leave of absence dur ing which his future assignment will be determined.
 The leave was announced late yes- terday as President Roosevelt boarded the destroyer Monaghan at Port Everglades, following two- hour train conference with the army officer.
 "The president and General Ha- good talked on the train. General Hagood will take three months leave of absence and his future as- signment to duty will be determined in the meantime said a statement issued by Marvin Mcintyre, the presidents secretary.
 General Hagood, who boarded the presidential train as 1t passed through his home at Charleston, 5. C., Sunda. night, left the pres!den- tial party here. He said he was going to Chicago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-24
CityFzood Quota Has
 Gone Far Beyond Top
People Advised Not to Stop Here as More Money Can Be Used-No More Clothing Is Needed

While the tabulation of contribu- tions received in the mail at Red Cross headquarters this morning indicates the flood relief drive has exceeded the first quota set for $5,- 900, John M. Burrall, chairman of the drive wishes to make 1t clear to the citizens of the city that all the money the Red Cross can get can be very advantageously used.
 This mornings figures show that since the close of the office last night some $2,000 in financial do- nations have been listed bringing the present total from $4,470 to a figure between $6000 and $6,500. Donations are still coming in by mail and personal delivery.
 The chairman of the flood relief drive, announced this morning that clothes will probably not be needed for the next few days. His an- nouncement to the citizens of the city is as follows:
 Burrall Statement
 The Waterbury chapter has been advised by the Hartford Red Cross
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