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Evening star., 1936-08-23

1t was done with q purpose, il merits
the approval Of the Judge OF life. Here
in this passage those who are commended
have no evident consciousness of the
significance or value Of their service.
they look for and expect no commenda-
ton. Thus the Master appraises life
and acknowledges its enduring values.
mot what we give, but what we share.
For the gift without the giver is bare.
Who gives himself with his gift feeds
three,
Himself, his hungry neighbor, and Me-"
So the poet in Sir Launfal interprets
the mind Of Christ LIES greatest values
are in service for others. ACQUISITION.
the accumulation Of riches for self
qualification or self-satisfaction have no
place in the final appraisal of lifes
values. The apostle st. James had this
In mind when he wrote: What doth
1t profit, though man say he hath faith
and have not works? II q brother or
sister be naked and destitute Of daily
food; and one OF you say unto them.
depart In peace, be ye warmed and
filled; Notwithstanding ye give them
not those things which are needful to
the body; what doth it profit? Even so
faith if it hath not works is dead, being
alone" A faith that proves its worth
or validity by a service that is generous
and considerate Of others is Irresistible.
1t is here that the practical value Of the
Christian religion 'discloses itself. It
contemplates the salvation of the body
as OF the soul. 1t relates itself to the
most vital concerns of life.
The social implications Of the Gospel
have been too widely neglected. Our
creeds must be translated in terms of
service. Well did the late Gilbert Ches-
terton say. christianity has not been
tried and found wanting, 1t has been
tried and found difficult"
Evening star., 1936-08-23
The Mysterious Telegram.

As this Is written the returns in
Texas are still to determine Mr.. Blanton's
success or failure In the run-of primary
contest. But almost as interesting as
the result Of the contest is the mystery
Of the Farley telegram. A message en-
dorsing Mr.. Blanton and signed by Mr..
Farley was sent from Washington. re-
ceived in Abilene and published In time
to exercise upon the voters whatever
influence there may be in an endorse
ment by Mr.. Farley, which might be
interpreted by the voters as tacit en-
dorsement by the President himself
Mr.. Farley vehemently and Indignantly
denies authorship Of the telegram. He
is joined by Mr.. Nicholson, not only
personally but professionally interested
in the political implications Of such an
endorsement.
Mr.. Farley did not send the telegram.
Who did? At Abilene Mr.. Blanton adds
to the mystery by saying the telegram
was preceded by a long distance call
from Mr.. Farley's secretary" Where
did the call originate from in Washing
ton? What would examination OF the
original telegram here reveal?
The matter Is certainly important
enough to be cleared up, to the salts
faction Of everybody concerned, by the
Western Union and the Democratic Ma.
tional Committee. Mr.. Nicholson prom
ises a thorough investigation, the out
come of which, in the interests Of avoid
ing such canards in the future, should
be made known.
Evening star., 1936-08-23
Reckoning.

Senator James Francis Byrnes OF
South Carolina, campaigning for re-
election. sums up his argument for con-
fidence in the New Deal by telling the
agrarian voters Of his State: "Your cot
ton is worth $50 bale now as against
$50 in 1882" The logic of his case would
seem to be perfect. 1t amounts to an
appeal to the electorate to support Presi-
dent Roosevelt on the theory that his
policies have doubled the income, II not
the actual wealth, of the Nation.
But such supposition, of course. Is
not true. Even among cotton growers
there is no degree of prosperity equal to
the claim. Business nowhere is hun
dred per cent better than it was at the
end of the Hoover administration. On
the contrary. If the books were balanced
it would be found that merely imaginary
improvement has taken place. Also 1t
would be discovered that the cost Of
"priming the pump" has created bur-
den Of debt which future generations of
Americans will require vast altruism Of
spirit to forgive Mr.. Roosevelt's tinker
ing with the standard value of the dollar,
unprecedented borrowing and unparal-
leled subsidizing explain the price of
cotton there has been no natural re-
covery to justify the advance.
Mr.. Byrnes, however. cannot be ex-
pected to plead the opposition cause. 1t
suits his purpose more effectively to re-
mind his South Carolina friends that the
New Deal has distributed approximately
two hundred and forty-two million
dollars in relief, A. A. A. benefit pay
ments, ETC., in the Palmetto Common
wealth, while it has collected only ten
million dollars of Federal taxes there.
Otherwise expressed, the Senator asks
another term in the upper branch of the
national legislature because he has had
something to do with getting no less
than two hundred and thirty-two
million dollars of outside money" for his
constituents. But what will those whose
earnings have been appropriated to that
end think?
Certainly Mr. Byrnes does not need
to worry about the opinion Of people
who cannot vote In his bailiwick. The
stimulated cotton market and the Fed
eral handouts of which he boasts prob
ably will give him the victory he desires
over his "old-fashioned Democrat" foes
The old philosophy of economic de-
terminism" is apt to be spectacularly
justified by the enthusiastic applause Of
a community educated to want some
thing for nothing.
But elsewhere Mr.. Byrnes' triumph
may be monumentally expensive to the
New Deal. The people Of the Nation ut
large are being taxed to pay for Federal
philanthropy. and they may resent po-
litical capital being made Of the lions
share of Federal charity going into a
favored neighborhood. Perhaps South
Carolina needed more help than her
sister States, yet there is ground for
complaint In campaign use of the fact
that she received so much in excess of
what she gave. The reckoning will be
recorded on November 3.
Evening star., 1936-08-23
Skeptical Yet LOyal.

Journeying to Mecca, Democratic ma
tional headquarters in the Biltmore at
New York, Senator Tydings delivers
Maryland safely into the glad hands OF
Mr. Farley and discourses briefly on the
course Of the campaign.
II don't know of q single Democratic
Senator who has opposed Roosevelts
legislation" he says, who will not be
out Fundamentally for the Presidents
reelection" Himself q member Of that
Evening star., 1936-08-23

small group of Democratic Senators who
have at times been outspoken in their
opposition to certain New Deal policies,
Senator Tydings knows whereof he
speaks Senators Glass and Byrd of
Virginia. Copeland of New York, Bailey
of North Carolina, King of Utah all
follow the course mapped out by SEN
ator Tydings Some of them, unlike
Glass, who does not permit the etiquette
of campaigning to halt his outspoken
criticism Of aspects Of the New Deal.
have found refuge in silence since the
adjournment of Congress. But as for
deserting their party standards. or the
standard bearer. it is simply not being
done.
Does such a course make sense? Un-
doubtedly. 1t does. 1t is stronger
position, in fact. than that Of some of
the Republican Senators who supported
the very legislation which, in the cam
paign. they now use to condemn the
Democrats. Democratic Senators who
have been outspoken in their criticism
of New Deal legislation and Of govern
mental tendencies under the New Deal
are more certain to make their criticism
and opposition effective by remaining
loyal partisans than by risking the poll
tical opprobrium and the possible retri-
button associated with what would be
political treason. 1t is a consistent atti-
tude for Democratic partisans to remain
loyal to the party and the President and
at the same time to express their dis
agreement and their opposition. in the
Senate, to certain policies.
Evening star., 1936-08-23

When the resumption Of specie pay.
ment was the subject Of debate in circles
Of statesmen q plain-spoken politician
asserted "the way to resume is to re-
sumo" In the encouragement to agri-
culture now demanded theoretical con-
lecture stands aside in favor Of the prac-
tical suggestion, THE way to farm Is to
farm"
Evening star., 1936-08-23
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Back to Barnum.

Back TO Barnum.
If Barnum were here
How loudly I'd cheer!
What songs I would sing
With the clown in the ring.
The billboards would be
Something splendid to see.
And the elephant grave
Would be made to behave.
And some manners impart
To the trick mule 50 smart.
We like to be ruled
And we like to be fooled.
We're losing our sleep
Over problems so deep
Which might all be made clear
If Barnum were here.
Evening star., 1936-08-23

A woman was beaten ana robbed Of
$13 in q cafe. II food prices are going
as high IS predicted that sum Of money
would not last long in q cafe under any
circumstances.
Evening star., 1936-08-23

Science will 60 to the aid Of drought
stricken areas as rapidly as possible and
will not limit its activities to a distribu-
ton Of circulars containing remedies for
sunstroke.
Evening star., 1936-08-23

Communism assumes to correct condi-
tions by methods resembling those of
surgery. 1t has revealed no incisions
that tend to correct that ancient human
afniction. the high cost of living.
Evening star., 1936-08-23

|, In the absence Of the League of Ma
tions, European governments are issuing
warnings instead of announcing sane
tions.
Evening star., 1936-08-23
Pursuing Soil.

Prom the Sacramento Bee.
The Midwest boy who goes to the city
to escape the trials OF country life now
adays has no assurance that the OLD
farm may not blow In to re him.
Evening star., 1936-08-23
Dollar: What and Where.

Dollar: What and Whefe.
What is q dollar?" I inquire,
With sentiment intensive.
Toward things to which I may aspire
As life grows more expensive.
What is q dollar?" Then I may
Some ponderous ledger visit
And in some CONSERVATION say
Instead of "What?" WHERE is 1t?
Evening star., 1936-08-23
Temperamental Preserves.

Temperamental Preserves.
what is your wife doing?" asked the
friend.
She's making preserves" said Mr..
Meekton.
What kind Of preserves?"
IT don't know. She Is culinary artist
and all artists are temperamental.
had hoped for jam and jelly with plenty
of sugar. But If her productions reflect
her present disposition. I am expecting
mostly pickles"
MY ancestors were great men," said
Hi Ho, the sage Of Chinatown. 80 were
those Of my neighbor, HI Hat, who. even
as q borrower, looks on me with disdatn
because his ancestors were rich enough
to lend money to mine"
Gone to the Printers Devil.
Twas In Seattle by the Sea
They had o little fight
To ascertain Just who should be
Considered wrong or rigt'.
Ideals were both high and large.
We notice with Q sigh.
The Printers Devil now takes charge
And turns them into ri.
"Scarin'. folks foh fun" said Uncle
Eben, els low form Of wit. In capsize
de- man dat rocked de boat de hardest
II most always de one dat hollers foh
help de loudest."
Evening star., 1936-08-23

Berlin is naturally having difficulty in
restraining impetuous citizens who insist
on trying to mix politics with sportsman
ship.
Evening star., 1936-08-23

Descriptions of war terrors in Spain
are superfluous. Gen. William Tecumseh
Sherman put the whole big idea into
three words.
Evening star., 1936-08-23
Natural Communism,

"Are you in favor of teaching COM
munism?"
NO" said Senator Sorghum. "You
don't have to teach it. For some people
it's like taste for cocktails and pro-
family. 1t just comes natural"
Evening star., 1936-08-23
Insect Welfare.

From the Indianapolis Star.
This country should. turn the army
worm against the Japanese beetle and
the Hessian fly.
Evening star., 1936-08-23
Ageless Political Youth.

From the Charleston wv. ya) Mail. .s..
The thing We like about these Young
Democrats and Young Republicans Is
that they never grow old.
Evening star., 1936-08-23

system of accounting which credits re-
payments of loans as an Offset to pay
ments from the Treasury. Thus: The
r. F. C. in the first six weeks Of the
new fiscal year paid back about $780,
900, 600, and the Commodity Credit
Corp. paid back nearly 10000 900. more
than they paid out. Those and other
repayments enabled the Treasury to
show deficit between outgo and income
much smaller than year ago.
4 X
But this significant trend is buried in
the figures:
Lending Of money by the Federal Gov
ernment is decreasing and repayments
on old loans are increasing.
Spending Of money by the Federal
Government is increasing-or at best not
decreasing-and there are to be no re-
payments on this spending, except
through tax collections.
The trend thus far disclosed does not
support the theory of Mr.. Morgenthau
and Mr.. Roosevelt that recovery will
mean a pincers movement between ris-
ing revenue and falling expenditures,
resulting in q balanced budget. Revenue
is rising rapidly, but spending is not de-
clining.
+ \
Experience and party platforms reveal
that the powers Of government are to
be used more and more to apportion
the national income.
Rising expenditures and the promise
of permanent pensions and subsidies and
annunities-made by both parties and
both major candidates-are not part Of
the regular expenses Of government, but
represent Q conception Of government
Evening star., 1936-08-23

These wide differences might be easier
to understand If there were tariffs be-
tween the States or cities, but with all
in the same country, all well served by
transportation, it is surprising that such
great contrasts should be shown. The
value Of such study to the Federal and
State emergency relief organizations Is
great. Relief oficials must study costs
carefully to know how far given amount
Of money will 60. Obviously. costs in one
city have no bearing on costs in another.
and the relief administrator who tried
to fit the entire Nation into one price
category would face grave difficulties.
Such study shows that with all the
talk Of Standardization and regimenta-
ton. this remains country Of great
variety and contrast. Now, II one should
60 into the field Of expensive living 1t is
certain the variations would be even
wider.
Evening star., 1936-08-23

An Other States ana Canada.
Daily ana Sunday - yr. $1,000; ] mo Sl:00
Daily only ". $500: mo 75c
The producers news., 1936-08-14
Continued from page Onel

week that all landlords who aban.
doned their farms or took up arms
with the enemy or gave them fin.
anclal aid, will suffer confiscation
and that the land will be divided
among their peasants. This de-
cree was in effect a ratification Of
the deed, for upon the outbreak
or the lighting, estates all over
Spain were seized, and peasants
with guns and pitchforks in their
hands stand ready for any land
lord who dares to show his face
in the locality again.
Red Cross officials estimated
August 3 that $4,000 persons had
been killed, and three times that
many wounded.
Help began to come from abroad
to the government last week. The
union men of Sweden sent $4,000.
The British Labor party was So
Letting funds, but the amount re-
celVed was not yet known. The
Mexican workers set their goal as
enough to purchase two bombing
planes. The Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers of America and the
International Ladies' Garment
Workers sent checks of $4,000
each from their New York Offices.
Of course the French workers are
helping and before their fund is
completed. probably every worker
in France will have contributed
the equivalent of a few nickels.
But greatest help of all was the
check of $2,4OO,OOO from the trade
unions of soviet Russia. At
mass meetings in all the principal
Russian cities, "check-Offs' on
their pay were voted to the ex-
The producers news., 1936-08-14
NEW SOCIAL ORDER TO
EMERGE FROM BLOODSHED:
BRAVERY OF WOMAN RE-
COUNTED BY WRITER.
By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
By Federated Press
(By airpIane to Parisl

MADRID-Fascism masuuerad-
ing as the champion of law and
order has plunged the land of
Spain into bloodshed and chaos.
But Fascism is getting paid back
IN its own medicine.
When the smoke of battle fin
ally clears away, there will emerge
a free workers republic in. which
the eXplOiters will be put to work
Tor the common veal. Backed bv
Hitler and MusSolini, the clerico-
Fascist military clique had plan
ned to break down the People's
Front to institute a dictatorship of
the right and force Spain out of
the league of nations into an alli-
ance with the brown shirt state
and the black shirt state, thus en-
circling France.
Army of Girls
Although the Fascists had the
majority of the army on their
side, they were beaten back bv the
armed workers who fought with
the desperation of lions. I spent
IA hours on the Sierra Guadar-
rama, in the company of Largo
Cabellero, the Socialist chief. when
the battle of Madrid was at its
height.
/ saw a battalion of working
class girls throw away their skirts
and launch a bayonet charge
against the perfectly equipped
Fasclst-led troops. saw the af-
termath of the fighting on the
Colde Leon, another mountain pass
leading into Madrid, and scores of
Women's bodies fastened to the
ground with bayonets stuck
through their abdomens. But I
also saw the Fascists being hurled
back. Almost barehanded the
workers militia tackled the legions
OF Molla. On the day when that
general promised to take Madrid
and cruelty 100000 workers, l saw
the clouds of dust of his retreat
ing army as it was pounded by
the artillery, which the workers
mad captured and turned around.
Only when the Montana bar
racks. where the Madrid garrison
had revolted and fortified itself,
was taken by storm, and the chief
strongholds of the Fascists had
6een moped up, did the workers
tiock to the hills, without rest,
without sleeping for days and
nights on end. Thousands of wO-
The producers news., 1936-08-14
Friday, August |. :.
Peoples Rule Saved in SD.in

tent, tent Of one,hal, :.
Trade II uniOn SSl5 Ss55sOf Of one
reach $2,4O9I 1IlS Soo "cheeE.Ss
af and immediatteyITv tyT At tie ~
foIlano f. more money ,oel sent the
uniOnists on Re- Of l9O,SS u
COW that dOnatfiGo,,S isfG Square !
tR tbo,il5SO from some ccnv vets Y
sole solicitations tbsra" "orkers n,
city has cbannIbSe Tal5 IbSeveea
Tba q INK INK as strONo ! d.
volunteering l1SH foV workers ~
ceiyed seH adaSelitsI IitsiI but this 6iiS''lSS sSS..
Madrid. The The S6sSisgqr 6sneiograssSeSP assSeS !
announced that tR"itiS9 4 govsS,
manpower needed Il had I \
on military tacticianOCu Out Wa =
clans and would ''anS ans and ~.
lance nee from such soE.s %eleone n
&C Government trooDIsc oo0Ice'
cry! cry in military a annsis plsGs' q ts
and gun empIscs,,tior slls tortia
could could only be IssJ 'I,lents n
lacking saea6 Madrid ba5' y ! io@ !
s. several years a@o u Osa
K64G?b!ies, 64?bi, Catholic Iesd.,V so Wien {
,.ainii Munster of War. RI Pas,S.a va s
aISIng money for ~. S D
was looking ahead t t. t5e t1e ssS
land landlords, church and c"S .ss!. oay. /
would w19 unite to crush u ds.5 dcapla
t5O Inc government lucEiITvS ITSlisa ss.
% tne purpose for which \. '9la ! !.
cations were built and n ine Is i9
nlted them out Of i eTi,taas. 1as q
The producers news., 1936-08-14
Heroism of Spanish Nc
kerS ThLDdrtS FdSctStS

men had to STAY behind ).
!nelr eye on the hidden Fs.-
IN the capital. Thew armed ~, N.
selves with revolvers and ~ ~. Y.
ed the streets. ''u p'l
Workers Rule BarcelOn
In the CatalOnian caUitsI b.
celona. l saw the attacE !, 4
Colon hotel, where thOussS5,
tasclsts had assembled to tsT-
ize the city until Gen. Goist IN II
land with his troops, iOin wi
city garrison and dominate h
celona. GOdet was taken prr
er. The garrison was annhH,
Today in Barcelona a voh-
revolutionary committee is ruin
It has confscated all the conF.
and discharged all religious teal,
ers from the schools. The FAM.
monastery of Mont Sierra On .
hill overlooking the city has n
turned into a Sanitarium for hss
cular patients. The banks q
run by workers COMMITTEES. .
the public services have been .
tionalized and from every El
bOilding hangs a red flag. y
old ruling class is reaping the
evitable reward Of ages Of Il
man oppression and cruelty Z
first act of the Revolutionary 9
mittee in Barcelona was to
the vast and gorgeous villas o /.
city into vacation homes foF 2
dren of slum-dwellers.
Twenty-seven committee; 8
in the ritziest hotels Of The
are working night and day o Y
ther reforms, while the y
are preparing to consOlldlae a
gains and hold what tne'
won at last after centuries ? !.
most ahiect slavery. Peasdne
dividing the land and d a. y
themselves to hold it. In' y.
geoise, by its treacherous
on the legally and denoSls.. 4. 4.
instituted government .1.I q y y.
pies Front, has committed !, -
Before giving up, Cen Gen \
will create a grave ul',I = ,.t,S
incident, probably by AM an I'-l d,
Tangier, the internatiOlssl, h
Morocco. This is part s.ts.t q =
For that is why the IT,, !. ID,
trated ~ ed7 in Spanish waters y
manv rnaTTI will III try to step in dIi1r ~
in GellSsf reaiity Slif to s seize spanish nj. b
co oo,,a as Ia a c oo[S0Sii D4oBien Pfo for Tie 3
republic relrT to solve; ths, ssnse1 "
matter Of grave ,so so
France and Britain Sis1. s1...Ds
Four newspaper far sor''sp sp1
fsIse saye ne%s Dsgg about about the s,.i.is5S ist5
OFF Of priests tests and the thssonIisk fii'
nuns. The same NE rori
prCpagansdI,a ID. tnas dsss Of of The
wSl5 TeHolution IL al has been s9 .5ss. llssni
again ggd1ioGgrT by tlig gsyTmappathi1ssri
But in splse y. Isving d ths ~
tion tin nth II their own trs Is
ward war y to the New
watchwOrd here
The producers news., 1936-08-14

is organized along the lines of
supporting the present national
administration for this election
only, and cleaning out our state
mouse on January first, 1897, it
would get that 10000 mobile vote
that switched from Holt and
probably enough more to send The
wheeler, Ayers. Anaconda, Power
company Machine to the perman-
ent discard.