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Evening star., 1936-06-10
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Interest in fish life reached a new
height this week with the discovery of a
Washingtonian who reads everything he
can find about the watery world, al
though he has no fishes:
He should and undoubtedly will take
up the hobby of aquarium keeping be-
fore long.
He may begin with the ubiquitous
guppy, than which no fish is better,
though most are larger.
Summer is perhaps the finest time of
year to begin fooling with fishes, espe-
cially of the exotic or tropical type, for
there is no heating problem.
The famous guppy, friend of this
column and of millions of persons, easily
stands low temperature of IS degrees
even lower, although we cannot adVo-
cate that, except under extreme necessity.
There will be little difficulty from now
on in keeping even the smallest aquarium
at 70 degrees or better
BY the time Autumn comes around
the beginner will have learned some
thing about fish keeping, and will be
able to provide for the changes made
necessary by colder days and nights.
Even the hardy guppy, however, and
even in Summer, should not be kept by
window which is permitted to be
open all night.
On extremely hot, breathless nights
this might be permitted, but scarcely
at any other time 1t is true that this
rule is often violated, without seeming
harm to the fishes I'VE speak of tropical
or exotic specimens, Of courSe), but it
is a good rule and the beginner, espe-
cially. should pay attention to it.
There is a great deal of honest pleas
ure coming to any one who takes up
the recreation of fish keeping in the
home aquarium at this time.
Old hands well may envy the beginner
because they know that the newcomer
to any good hobby has the most inter-
esting experiences.
Especially does the interested beginner
find the difficulties and hardShips of
the recreation interesting and entertain
ing. Maybe they will not prove so much
so four or five years later, but in the
beginning every disaster is challenge,
which must be met and overcome, for
the benefit OF the fishes. in the first
place, but especially for the Solacing of
the soul The Orientals call this say
ing the face" and everybody knows how
it is, whatever 1t is called.
We undertake something, we move
along finely. then reach a place where
things go wrong. What is it? In finding
out for ourselves. and in righting the
wrongs, whatever they may be, We prove
to ourselves that we can actually do
what We set out to do.
There is no telling how much this good
spirit is foStered in business and the
everyday life by the recreations of man
kind.
Many a person. no doubt, has taken
valuable lessons back from the base ball
diamond, the golf links, the swimming
pool, the tennis court.
The same may be said of hobbies,
whether stamps, or fishes, or old glass,
or silver, or furniture, or what else.
Every hobby. or recreation, has Ms
proper persons.
These alone should take them up, each
for each.
How does one tell whether he is SO
fitted?
Evening star., 1936-06-10

BY the STRINGS in his mind of a
genuine interest.
But no one can tell whether he has
this real interest until he has given the
thing fling, as it were. He actually
must put himself into it, before he is
able to say definitely that he does or
does not fancy a given subject.
Thus it may be believed that there are
thousands of stamp enthusiasts who vet
do not know they are such; thousands
of fish fanciers and amateur breeders
who as yet haven't the slightest idea
along these lines, or, as far as they
know, any definite leanings thereto.
The spark which will touch off long
train of events, mental and physical, is
unknown.
1t may be nothing more than the sight
of beautiful pool in friends garden.
or a glimpse of an iris blossom in a
florists window.
A great iris hybridizer may come into
being from the glimpse, a fish culturist
from the sight.
There lis no telling, and that is one of
the fine things about hobbies, not only
that they are life-Savers, literally, for
many hard-working persons, who find
in them relief from nervous tension and
a too close abSortion with one subject,
but before all that they may turn into
new lines of lifetime interest.
If money develops, so much the better,
perhaps, but here, in most cases. money
is properly secondary. Here, and almost
here alone, in modern life, money hon.
estly takes a back seat. Now this is
y,,hOl
ideas in which money was not consid-
cred first, last and all the time, he
would be better of.
The idea of the hobby, so long as it is
a good hobby, deserves all the conSidera-
ton which it has received in recent
years The mass of the people, the hard
working people, have come to realize that
man lives not by bread alone, but actu-
ally by all his impulses. If he is fortu-
nate enough TO have these impulses good,
by and large, he goes on to a fairly
healthy, interesting life. The danger of
such a life is that it may become too
narrowly restricted. Honest hobbies en-
able a man to get outside himself, as 1t
were, to stand back and look the world
in the face without one thought of the
terrible paralyZing economic fear which
comes over even the braveSt at times.
Every man is king or robber baron
as he wishes, in his chosen hobby.
His collection, the key of all hobbies
may be large or little, but it is his, and
of his own freest choosing.
He knows the meaning of true democ-
racy, real ariStocracy, genuine dictator
ship, because within the limits of his
recreation he is at once dictator, demo-
crat, ariStocrat.
He blends in himself the best of life's
approaches to problems, usually in their
better aspects.
The tired business man with his bowl
of guppies finds all Nature before him
in little
These things are his. to do with as he
pleaSes The powers of life and death
are in his hands. He makes decisions
for good or i'll, and let him be sure TO
learn something from what happens.
FIVE gallon tank. three pairs of gup-
pies, water, sand and plants and he has
world.
There is life there. science and phi
losophy, interest, recreation-what more
could one ask?
Evening star., 1936-06-10

ther loan possibilities are excluded by
the johnson law. Senator Lewis OF
Illinois predicts that the French, British
and Italian governments will soon make
new proposals at Washington, but moth
ing concretely pointing to such develop
ments has reached American official
ears.
The British note foreshadowing the
coming inStallment default repeats
phraseology which has become routine
ever since London stopped paying in
June 1884 Ambassador Lindsay points
out that the reasons which reluctantly
forced his majestys government to sus-
pend payments are unfortunately no
less valid now than they were two years
ago" Great Britain remains prepared
to reopen negotiations whenever cir
cumstances warrant hope OF a satisfac-
tory result" The United States con-
tinues fully disposed to discuss any pro-
posals which debtor governments may
put forward.
With Europe in state OF chronic
turmoil and terror, causing nearly every
nation, especially the principal debtor
powers to plan vast new expenditure on
ornaments, the outlook for curtailment
of their American debts is bleak. There
is no alternative for the United States
but to face the situation in spirit of
stark realism-to hope that international
conditions one day may permit some
substantial approach to payment of debts
which the American people look upon
as both Justly due and eventually COL
lectible, in part or in whole.
Evening star., 1936-06-10
Up to the President.

Representative Blantons refusal TO
accept the Thomas resolution as tenn
porary compromise on the District bill
makes the passage of continuing reso-
lution supplying the District with main
tenance funds for the next fiscal year,
highly probable Senator Robinson pre-
dicted as much last week, when he said
that the passage of continuing resolu-
ton seemed inevitable as the Senate had
no intention of yielding on the lump
sum issue Nor should the Senate yield,
unless willing to be broW-beaten into
surrender of its prerogatives as joint
participant in legislation for the District.
If the continuing resolution is finally
enacted as the only way out of this
snarl, it should, of course, be con-
tinuing resolution in the sense that
precedent and legislative practice de-
mand. 1t should merely re-enact, IN
other words, the maintenance funds
contained in the appropriation bill for
the current fiscal year. 1t should not
contain new legislation.
On the House side, Mr. Blanton has
already introduced his particular Ver-
sion of a continuing resolution" which
is not a continuing resolution in any
sense of the word. 1t would strike out
the Federal appropriation altogether. 1t
would contain new legislation in the
form of the provision denying outside
employment to judges and others in the
District service receiving more than
$2,4O0 year. Such resolution merely
seeks to penalize the people of the Dis
trict by vicious stroke that neither the
House leaders nor any other leaders
should for moment condone.
Even the continuing resolution to be
proposed by Senator Thomas would mean
hardship to the District. There are
those who believe the principle for which
Senator Glass and Senator Thomas have
been fighting is worth the hardship in
the form of chaos in municipal financing,
postponement for another year Of greatly
needed Improvements and other disad-
vantages. Certainly to yield on the
wholly unreasonable demands of Mr..
Blanton this year means continued and
further yielding next year, with calam-
itous effect on the District.
But is there any reason why con-
tinuing resolution should be the only
Thnco u,hn rloinn hQUp
studied the matter without prejudice
have already agreed that the lump sum
recommended by the President is the
least that can fairly be appropriated this
year for the District Even the sum of
$780, 600 does not approximate repre-
sentation of the Federal obligation. The
President has reiterated his previously
expressed Endorsement of S57OO,O00 for
the next fiscal year, and has frowned on
the continuing resolution proposal. The
Senators who studied the bill and their
colleagues who have become familiar
with the situation know that the lump
sum should not be reduced.
1t is time for the President, as Chief
Executive of the District as well as the
Nation, sharing with Congress the re-
sponsibility of legislating for the Dis
trict, to intercede with the responsible
leaders of the House in behalf of the
District and make known to them his
wishes in the matter, which have
already been given informal expression.
Evening star., 1936-06-10
Inevitability.

Speaking of taxation" began the
man who likes to help along the worry.
why not talk about the weather."
interrupted Senator Sorghum.
They aren't the same thing"
yet they are somewhat alike. When
may talk about it as much as you
choose, but you're going to get it just
the same"
Evening star., 1936-06-10
The KEYNOTE Speech.

AS keynoter Senator SteiWer labored
under difficulties which the situation at
Cleveland made unacceptable Consider
ing the nature of these difficulties. he
did preSentable job at delivering the
keynote of a party which is even now
laboring over the task of deciding just
what that keynote is to be. His speech,
Of course, had to be prepared in advance
of the convention at Cleveland, and this
preparation doubtless included submits
sion of the first drafts to the best minds
of the party for suggested eliminations
and amplificationS. Yet the gathering
at Cleveland is even now concerned with
the drafting of platform which-in
reality-is to carry the keynote of the
next campaign. Considerable difficulty
will probably be experienced in whipping
that platform into such shape as TO
sound a convincing note and at the
same time retain the close party unity
essential for success. and that was the
sort of keynote Senator Steiwer had to
sound.
AS his speech discloses, the Senator
chose for his predominant chord a re-
sounding attack on the sins of the pres
ent administration, without too much
detail as to how his own party proposes
to correct them and set the country
back on the right road. Regardless of
what the real issues of the campaign
may be, or the manner in which the con-
servative East and the more literally
minded Midwest may be brought to-
gether on such matters as farm relief,
money, the Constitution and relief, there
is no doubt about the fact that the
partys major objective is to stop Roose-
welt by defeating him and all his works
next November. And to this task SEN
ator Steiwer summoned all patriotic
Americans" regardless of political af-
filiations, ito start the drive to put an
American deal in the place now usurped
by a self-styled New Deal"
To those Americans responding to
that call the Senator promised "a gov
ernment endowed with conscience"
that would produce a prosperity built
with the bricks and mortar of funda-
mental principles" But in the remain
der of his speech the description of
such building materials is rather cas-
ually, if picturesquely, phrased, and the
words are chosen with care not to ruf1e
the feathers of any of those diversified
elements now gathered in Cleveland as
members of one happy family.
The partys strategy this year is of
course to attack. Senator Steiwer has
singled out what he conceives to be the
three most vulnerable spots of the New
Deal position, which he characterizes as
'the evil trinity of increased deficit, in
creased debt and increased taxes" with
such ramiicationS as a bureaucracy
which "billets bureaucrats on every fam
lily and spending and borrowing policy
tending toward ultimate destructive in
fation. On these points the guns of the
G. o. P, may continue to thunder
throughout the campaign, with deStruc-
tive effect. Senator Steiwer leaves to
the candidate and the platform the plan
of operation should the attack be ef-
fective enough to place with his party
the responsibility of reconstruction.
Evening star., 1936-06-10

Seasoned reporters are sometimes to
be cautioned against allowing their lit
erary proficiency to outshine the graces
of party spokesman at a convention.
Since W. J. Bryan ran away with a nomi-
nation the press gallery needs a certain
amount of stage management along with
the rest of the assemblage
Evening star., 1936-06-10
Neglected Husband.

Does your wife ever find fault with
you?"
Not now" answered Mr. Meekton.
"Since Henrietta went into politics she
has found any number of men with
worse shortcomings to talk about than
mine."
Evening star., 1936-06-10

MusSolini has been compared to Julius
Caesar. So far as dramatic picturesque
ness is concerned his venture in Ethiopia
makes him look like a transformer.
Evening star., 1936-06-10

The threat of a fierce campaign by
Postmaster General Farley has not been
followed by bitter rivalries. The gentle
ness in some cases amounts almost TO
an air of patient resignation.
Evening star., 1936-06-10

A war on mosquitoes is interesting
scientists. The damage that may be done
by airplane makes the management of
the big iron insect that threatens devas-
tation a matter of chief concern.
Evening star., 1936-06-10

There will be cheering for Mr.. Landon
as prelude to an enormous amount OF
advice on how to train an elephant that
Evening star., 1936-06-10

Feminine politics has not yet de-
eeloped far enough to make advice on
how to serve terrapin and champagne
q feature of Hints to Housewives"
column.
Evening star., 1936-06-10

A nominating convention gives the Dis
trict of Columbia a chance to do little
voting by way of practice for more re-
SponSible demonstration in the future.
Evening star., 1936-06-10
European Peace.

From the Sacramento Bee.
The. European movement for peace
appears to have reached the stage where
all the nations are beating their plow.
shares back into swords again.
Evening star., 1936-06-10
III Other States and Canada.
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the use for republication of all news dispatches
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herein are also reserved
Evening star., 1936-06-10

The spotlight has been adjusted with
so much patient care that Governor
Landon is without fear that it could
possibly miss its aim at Cleveland
Evening star., 1936-06-10
Hold.Ups.

Prom the Winston-salem journal.
Some people believe in supporting the
Government; others think they have q
right to hold it up.
Evening star., 1936-06-10
Not So Long Between Bites.

Prom the Indianapols News.
Locusts are good bait for catfish, but
that doesn't mean the catfisher has to
wait another II years before trying his
luck.
Evening star., 1936-06-10
Voters and Veterans.

Fr"u tie Sacramento Bee.
1t is hard to say which will be the more
popular this Summer. the voter or the
veteran after he gets his bonus.
Evening star., 1936-06-10
Critical Objection.

heard a critic, very gay,
Who showed us more and more
He liked the modernistic way
And scorned the ways of yore.
"I don't like Dante" he declared,
who threatened to return us
Down to the basement, all ill-fared,
To tend the fiery furnace.
Il don't like Milton. who explored
Those shadowy neither regions
And into conscious strife restored
Demoniac battle legions.
II don't consider what they wrote
Good for small boys or ladies,
For much of it, I'm sad to note,
Was simply raising hades."
"A man who speaks but seldom" said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, saves
time by placing himself under no cour-
teous obligation to listen to Others"
Evening star., 1936-06-10

Superiority.
Roses bloSsoming in June!
Bees that hum the same old tune!
Men that gloriously crate
AS to the affairs Of state,
Seeking to effect q way
To establish human sway.
When we're gone-and that seems
queer
Bees and blossoms will be here
In their generous endeavor,
With no thought of man whatever.
II don't believe in chooses" said Uncle
Eben. But jes' de same I admires de
cautious smartness of de neighbor dat
put his chicken houses right close up
to . graveyard" 3.
Evening star., 1936-06-10
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Maryland and virginia.
Evening star., 1936-06-10

@. Are sound motion pictures run of
faster than silent pictures?-J. r.
A. Silent films were run off at 40 feet
a minute and sound films are run off at
90 feet minute.
Evening star., 1936-06-10
ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

A reader can get the ansuer TO any
question of fact by ,Drittng The EUeninq
Star Information Bureau Frederic J.
HdSkin. Director, Washington. D. C.
Please incloSe stamp jor reply.
Evening star., 1936-06-10


the collection of material for an au-
thentic history and study of the music
of race whose melodies and dances.
hymns and ballads have from the begin
ming of recorded history influenced the
development of rhythm and song where.
ever the Negro people have made their
homes. The book Is particularly timely,
for 1t comes in an era in which op-
portunity in this country has no parallel.
Never before has there been so great
demand for the music that for so
many years remained unheard by the
multitudeS who now find it beautiful
as well as significant. And never before
has the door of opportunity for Negro
talent been so widely opened.
For an understanding of this music
which has sprung into sudden and almost
universal popularity something more Is
needed than mere recital of the prob
able origin and survival of the So-called
folk songs. 1t is necessary to go back
to the ceremonial music of the earliest
known civilization and come forward
by the slow degrees which incomplete
history of the race and its art affords
and to trace its development and its
influence in many lands before it reached
the shores of the New World.
Such task has been a heavy one.
Most certainly it has been worthy
undertaking and the result, now COM
pleted in book form, should meet with
a warm response from those to whom
knowledge is essential to the full en-
joyment of an art that is so peculiarly
characteristic of culture that is older
than time.
From Africa, Egypt, Greece and
Palestine the story of Negro music is
herein traced to America, and an au-
thentic account of It's survival and de-
velopment together with biographical
sketches of well-known Negro composers
and musicians whose work has merited
high praise, is set down in interesting
as well a. Informative style. u.
Evening star., 1936-06-10

@. How many blue-b -blooded Prussisn
Junkers are there left in Germany
S. G.
A. 1t is estimated that there are about
$4,000 families, but they are not con-
spicuous in German politics.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Bausrol Course Par Merely Joke Shapshootg Golf Pros

bass Saturday In the Dalecarlia Reser-
voir, but no matter what the method
used every ones efforts were marked by
a surprising lack of success. The writer
looked the ground over, and in a trip
around the entire reservoir was able to
see but one bass caught, and that was
only a 9-inch small mouth. 1t was
taken in that swift water at the head
of the reservoir on babe-orene with
white body and black head.
All possible kinds of bait-foating
plugs, underwater plugs, spinners, dry
fys, wet fiys, spoons, pork rind, spooks
and even locuStS-Were used in at
tempts to lure bass into the creels, but
nothing seemed to have any effect. All
that disinclination to bite can in part
be ascribed to the muddy condition of
the water, but the muddy water doesn't
get all the blame. There is plenty food
in the reservoir and possibly the bass
weren't hungry, although usually they
go after plugs and bugs even though
gorged to the gills. Flys and small
water bugs were all over the reservoir
land all over the anglers too), but only
once or twice were bass seen to break
water going after them. 1t just wasn't
one of those times when they are
biting
We saw one about eight to nine
inches long idly resting in about two
feet OF water near the shore. A
Montreal fly was dropped over it. No
sign of life from the fish. The fly
was then placed up the current and
allowed to float by. Still no sign of
life. Then in evaporation a wet fly
was placed on the leader and dropped
right on top of the fsh's nose. The
only result was that he moved back
an inch or two to get out of the way
and then went On with his contempla-
ton Of the surrounding marine life.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
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MANOR golfers swung into the
second round of their two-man
team championship today as all favor
ties survived the opening round. Results
yesterday were:
E. F. Wesley and Matt Clayton de-
and j; j, G. Rudder M and j j. Y. Price Price de-
feated Matt Myers and r r. SPRINGS >
and ! G. A Albert and r. A. Pilsen de-
: and 3; j. W. Harvey and Harry Fit
SSefeated J. W. Peters and H. A. Nef,
:, J. i. Patterson and ]. S. Evart defeated
sFed Wslsn and chester LeskiS. and i;
L MddeIo3 ana snf 1ifen fMfdlsy a6e defeated L.
., Bobby Brownell and Hickman Green de-
snd l. ns gones aaa and e. T. cssasi; Nefs des 8
feated g; I. Waite and J. J. Buckley j
Sg; feste4 q thompson ,. and Tommy Bones de-
MoeTs: Ms:. and /; Tom corvin s and dHWstsep Wsltep
stat98sfsrtt ssat8sfrt Sefeated ea J, A. Lompart and J.
Lou Harrison, Argyle Club champ
snot 90 to win the blind bogey tour
ney.
AT Indian Spring Volney Burnett
- "a - " Will lIl6 N6Odl IN the
1rloal Bowl tourney, match-play
rounds of which were started TODAY.
Maurice Eiseman licked Howard
Nordllnger, former club champion in
the first round of the Woodmont
handicap tourney. winning by 3 and 2
Elseman scored an 80, with a handicap
Of strokes.
MRS. HELEN sIMoNs and Mrs
H. B. Stone tied for first In the
bind bogey tourney at Manor. each
scoring 40 for the inside nine.
Langdon Wfnslow bagged a hole in
one on the eleventh at Bannockburn
Yesterday, but Albert Sike, plav1nr
with him, came within a few inches Of
scoring another ace.
The blind bogey tourney at Ban
nockburn went to w. T. Matthews WIN
MT So with 81 handicap for a net of
os, Billy Houghton, brother of Al
played the first nine in "a.