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Evening star., 1936-11-22

social structure of the Nation that led
they had a voice in directing the
policies of the Department of Agricul-
ture.
When reform tactics threatened to
slow up the functioning of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Administration,
Chester Davis, then A. A. A. administra-
tor, forced showdown that brought an
end to the Tugwell influence and a
purge of his close followers inside that
agency. It was then that the Under
secretary of Agriculture took his griev-
ances to the President and was re-
warded with the gift of Resettlement
Administration, created under the au-
thority and with the funds Of a four
billion-dollar relief appropriation
Henry Wallace, as Secretary of Agri-
culture comes out of the present in
ternal New Deal adjustment with en-
hanced prestige and authority.
The Secretary of Agriculture has built
a smooth running department, operated
by assistants who are loyal to him and
who have done an administrative job
that is unrivaled in all of the New Deal.
If Mr.. Wallace now decides to absorb
a. big part of the Resettlement Admin
istration, he will do so only after con-
vincing himself that he can rebuild the
experiments he undertakes so that they
win work.
tcopyrisht. 1880
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with health and happiness and ample
provision for the things we need. they
must mean less to us If our neighbors 8
household is under the shadow of dire
need and want.
While the cynic may affirm that hu-
man nature does not change and selfish
ness is dominant trait that character
ICES all men. there are abundant evi-
dences that. despite all our sins and de-
f1ciencieS, real progress has been made
in emphasizing our mutual interde-
pendence and our social responsibility.
Perhaps one of the finest evidences of
this that Is peculiar to this generation
is the Community Chest. Where the
responsibility for beneficent agencies was
hitherto shared by the few, 1t is now
shared by the many, No one who is
familiar with the many demonstrations
OF growing neighborly regard can feel
that the spirit of kindness, of real neigh
borly feeling is growing less than it was
IN former days. We are beginning to
realize that no man liveth unto himself
and that both prosperity and adversity
are shared, not by the few, but by the
many. We have by no means attained
the maximum and we lay no claim to
demonstrably true that in respect to
neighborly feeling our age has made
distinct advance over those that have
gone before.
Christian faith is more than a belief
IN creed or a system. The highest
ideal Of neighborliness is set forth by
the Master in the parable of the Good
Samaritan, and when He would give to
the world the summary of the law He
submitted as the second great command.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self"
We shall enjoy more completely the
blessings within our own homes and with
our own loved ones If we can have the
consciousness that we have been a good
neighbor to those less fortunate, that by
our Kindness and good will we have been
able to help those who are respondent
and despairing. A good neighbor spirit.
practically expressed, must prove to be
the solvent of those major problems that
today, distract confused world.
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BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES FREEMAN D. D, IL D. D. c. L.
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

Our annual Thanksgiving day is de-
signed to do more than emphasize to us
individually and corporately the blessings
we have received. If 1t were only this
It might also remind us in many in
stances Of the trials and misfortunes that
have attended our way. It Is doubtless
true that, while many of us have been
the recipients Of gifts and blessings for
which we are profoundly thankful, there
are others who regard the past year as
one that has laid upon them stern hard
ships and bitter trials.
AS we survey the year 1t is clearly evi-
dent that we have made definite progress
as Nation. The hardships that were
laid upon us by long-continued de-
preston are growing less evident, and
there are hopeful signs on the horizon
that encourage us to believe that better
days are ahead. We believe that one of
the most salutary things that have come
out Of this period of trial is finer con.
sciousness of our social responsibility.
Where we had grown insular and selfish,
where we measured the prosperity of the
community by our own prosperity and
enjoyed the happiness we experienced
within our own households. we have come
to feel a greater sense of responsibility
for the happiness and prosperity of
others. This has even extended to our
feeling of fellowship with those who are
unrelated to us, whose interests are
seemingly foreign to our own. The world
at large has grown more neighborly, and
this growing spirit of neighborliness
must inevitably issue in a better under
standing, finer comradeship and more
real participation in interests that are
common to us all.
There is passage in the prophecy of
Isaiah that expresses what we have in
mind, in which it is recorded of a people
that, they helped every one his neighbor,
and every one said to his brother, be of
good courage" This word, written long
ago. might well prove the central theme
for our Thanksgiving day reflection.
There can be no such thing as individual
and local prosperity apart from the pros
perity of the people as a whole. If our
own household is enriched and blessed
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Sargas the Swordsman.

The age of chivalry is supposed to be
dead. Cervantes. greatest of satiric
writers, put it to sleep in Don Quixote. +"
The lanky and rattle-pated knight who
courageously tilted with windmills was
designed to be the last of his species.
And his sponsor generally has been con-
sidered to have been successful in his
purpose.
But it is difficult to change human
habits. For untold centuries of time
men have been accustomed to defend
what they choose to call their honor"
Cyrano de Bergerac, famous for Ros-
tand's beautiful play, was a real person.
He furnished Dean Swift with the in
spiration for "Gulliver's Travels" and
fought, 1t Is reported, no less than
thousand duels in the interest Of nose
of ludicrous dimensions. It was an
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The Preaching Mission.

In an ancient book, tattered and
stained by time, these words appear: "Ar
English merchant, visiting Scotland in
1850, and being asked on his return
what he had heard, answered: Rare
things! I went to st. Andrews, where
I heard majestic-looking man, and he
showed me the majesty of God. After
him I heard little fair man and he
showed me the loveliness of Christ. I
then went to Irvine, where I heard an
old man, and that man showed me my
own heart"
The anecdote is worth repeating at
the moment, when the National Preach
ing Mission begins in Washington. Obvi-
ously, its significance is that of pointing
out that there are numerous kinds of
preaching and that each has its own i'm
portance. People need the Word ex-
pounded. Some will require a new af-
firmation of the Creator, some will want
new delineation of His Son, and some
will most readily respond to an appeal
which reveals the individual soul. The
ideal interpreter probably could meet
all demands. Lacking such a modern
st. Paul. cooperative effort is indi-
Gated. And that, more than anything
else, doubtless is the meaning of the
current campaign. to restore religion in
the Nations Capital.
OF course, it is possible for a COM
munity to exist without faith in the
Infinite. But it shames a citizen to
imagine that he can relate his life to
the universal principle with confidence
in. nothing but his own limited and
faulty powers. He does not wish himself
into the world, nor can he delay his de-
parture from it by so much as the frac-
tion of second. All his days are num-
bered in a record prepared by "a moving
finger, which, having writ, moves on"
Laugh or sneer as cynic may at his
predicament, the fact of 1.-THE i'm
mutable truth of it-remains.
Meanwhile in America, if not else
where. long processes of social develop
ment have opened the doors of circum-
stance to permit renaissance of sacred
philosophy and ethics. Mankind is
ready and waiting for the assistance
which these great forces would give.
Even war and revolution and famine
could be corrected by race educated
to love and honor its Divine Source.
There stands the challenge, then. Who
dares refuse to take it up?
Washington should be af1ame with the
zeal of thousand pastors and the en-
thusiasm of half million listeners to
their messages this week. The alternative
would be spiritual defeat for the city
q tragedy which is not to be con-
templated with equanimity.
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insult, he insisted, to glance at his nasal
property obliquely. So monstrously
unique possession had to be protected
by an owner self qualified as gentle
man. Resort to lethal weapons was
demanded under code intended to pre-
serve the credit of those trained in
their use.
And a similar attitude just now is
being maintained by DR.. Franz Sargas
of Hungary. He married a rich wife,
and nine fellow citizens of Budapest
presumed to comment adversely on his
marital adventure. The multiple affront,
of course, might have been treated with
whatever contempt it deserved But the
offended husband preferred a medieval
alternative. He sent challenges to his
critics, covenanting to carve them all
into goulaSh with an eight-pound cavalry
saber The feat, according to the rules,
must be performed on one and the same
day. In preparation for it, the prin-
cipal actor is being put through a
rigorous training in scientific swords
manship by his bride. She emerged from
a sanitarium for the wedding, and her
husband appears to be scheduled to
enter hospital for the aftermath.
However, the incident is not amenable
to the corrective of laughter. DR.. Sargas
is deadly earnest about it, and it is likely
that somebody will get hurt. The au-
thorities, perhaps, ought to intervene be-
fore 1t is too late. Private settlement
of disputes involving law and order is a
custom outmoded by common sense. If
the tragic comedians concerned do not
understand that, they should be told
about 1t.
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milton three years ago, respecting debts,
trade and other conditional issues Wash
ington registered its own displeasure by
curtailing American diplomatic and con-
sular stats throughout Russia and aban-
doning plans to construct elaborate Of
fetal premises in Moscow. Only recently
President Roosevelt intimated that it
might be some time before a successor
to Ambassador Bullitt would be named.
Evidently kaleidoscope changes in the
international situation persuaded the
administration that it is unwise to leave
the United States ambassadorship in the
Soviet Union unoccupied. The role into
which the Spanish revolution has
plunged Russia and the worldwide re-
suits that may flow from It obviously
make it important that this country,
isolated though it is from the immediate
consequences of the Fascist Communist
conflict underlying the European crisis.
should have an envoy of the highest rank
at Moscow. Nor is the new Japanese
German agreement, with its plain anti
Russian purpose without certain impli-
cations for the United States. For all
these reasons, apart from the paramount
desirability of adjusting Soviet-Ameri-
can relations along the lines covenanted
in the Roosevelt-Litvinof understanding,
it is well that the President, before leav-
ing for South America, moved to flll
diplomatic post that may presently be
destined to figure significantly in our
association with both Europe and Asia.
Mr.. Davies embarks upon delicate mis-
sion at critical moment.
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Relations With the Soviet.

Barring the selection of foreign serv-
ice career officer, which would have been
natural and gratifying, the appointment
of Joseph E. Davies of Washington to
the ambaSsadorship to the Soviet Union
is unquestionably as commendable a
choice as President Roosevelt could have
made. 1t assures the United States of
representation at Moscow by a lawyer
and business man of high standing and
experience in international affairs and
whose former activities as commissioner
Of corporations and chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission equipped him
with valuable knowledge of financial and
economic problems, which bulk conspicu-
ously in our relations with the U. s. s. r.
Although Moscow is the seat of pro-
letarlan government, diplomatic repre-
sentation there appears to be Of some
what lavish character, as far as hospi-
tality and entertainment are concerned.
American Ambassadors are required to
finance out of their private means that
not unimportant department of their
duties. Mr.. Davies will not be lacking
in that respect. Reputedly well to do in
his own right, he married a year ago a
lady recently tabulated among the
wealthiest women in the United States.
It is therefore probable that under their
joint auspices the Moscow embassy will
be maintained on scale in keeping with
the social dignity of the worlds richest
country.
For months the United States has been
content to be represented in the Soviet
Union by a Junior diplomatic secretary
Ambassador Bullitt relinquished his
post early this year, supposedly because
of disillusionment over non-fulfillment of
the Communist governments pledges,
given when it received American recog-
Evening star., 1936-11-22
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Chester A. Arthur, former President
OF the United States, died In New York
uo1f M.: City November 18,
1A"i o''ihs 1886. AS mark
Americas Flag. of respect the flag
at the White House
was lowered to half-mast, and, strange to
say, this elected adverse comment. The
Star of November %, 1886, says:
The lowering of the flag on the White
House to half-mast. account of the death
Of ex-President Arthur, has excited some
comment in the city, in view of the sug-
geStion OF a distinguished naval officer
that it is not in keeping with the custom
OF other nations. 1t does not seem as if
the subject were worthy of so much dis
cussion, as the proprieties in such mat
ters are purely conventional and gov
erned by local usage rather than by any
absolute rules of right and wrong. 1t
may not be customary in other countries
to half-mast the flag on a royal resi-
dence, except out of respect to dead
royalty within its walls. In this country
however, the uniform precedent has been
in favor of the same token when an ex-
President has died and there was no
reason why an exception should be made
in Mr.. Arthur's case. The only claim
the foreign practice has to supersede the
American is its greater antiquity; but,
If that consideration were to rule gen.
orally in the domain of etiquette, we
should have to discard our forks at
table, because the politest court in Eu-
rope regarded them as a doubtful in
novation as late as the end of the
sixteenth century"
Abolition of grade crossings in WASH
ington was sought by the residents of the
Capital for many years
uraoe-Crosslng before accomplish
Abolition. ment. The Star of No
vember "a, 1886, SAYS
on this subject:
"The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is
making arrangements to elevate the
tracks by which its cars enter Jersey
City. This is a noteworthy concession
to the feelings of the people in State
which corporation has been popularly
supposed to carry about in its pocket.
AS railroad companies are not given to
sentiment, it is fair to assume that a
change involving the expenditure OF
nearly a million dollars was in Difference,
not to any mere idea of the pleasure it
would excite. but to the conviction that
a direct and tangible profit would How
from it. What is true of Jersey City
ought to be true. by parity of reasoning
of any other city of equal or greater
population. In Washington there are
districts lying almost unoccupied which
would be available for some useful pur-
pose were it not for the railway tracks
which block them in and make ingress
and egress both difficult and dangerous.
One day, perhaps when the city has so
far outgrown its present bounds as to
make the filling up of its waste spaces
necessary. the people will take this
matter into their own hands and force
the railway companies, either to remove
their freight and passenger stations to
the suburbs or to raise or lower all
tracks which interfere with free pass
age through the streets 1t would be of
decided advantage to the companies to
forestall a movement of that sort by
voluntary concession, for it does even a
giant corporation no harm to keep on
kindly terms with the public"
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The economic theorist, however. ex-
pansive in ideas, shows good practical
sense if. like Mr.. Tugwell, he does not
allow Government post to prevent him
from keeping string tied to good job
connected with molasses factory.
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Sport is enjoyed by all American cit
izens, but the public is likely to become
impatient with an athletic enthusiasm
expressed in impromptu tendencies to
play foot ball with the local police.
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No school book chapter can be expected
to show anything as interesting and sig
nificant about communism as the current
news dispatches from Spain.
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Workers are being returned to employ
ment in large numbers and in some areas
just in time to listen to the persuasions
of strike promoters.
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No statistician has taken pains to show
how many men slain in combat ever
studied politics sufficiently to know what
they were fighting about.
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Automobile,

The Automobile.
It's fine when the world is an automo-
bile
That merrily whirls you along,
Where the sunshine is bright and the
stars seem to feel
In humor for laughter and song.
It's fine when the motor with steady
refrain
Keeps up its reliable pace,
And there's never a reason to fret or
complain
. But it's fierce when breakdown takes
place.
A mile is a trif1e. The flight is so swift
That we scarcely know how it was
made.
Nor think of the chance to give some
one lift
Who is toiling on foot up the grade.
It's fine when the world like a motor
car glides,
With nothing its progress to balk,
But it's fierce when 1t skids or 1t stalls
or collides,
And you find you must get out and
walk.
So, let's bear in mind, when it's our turn
to speed
At a rate that is swift and secure,
The fellow compelled on his way to pro-
ceed
At gait that is plodding but sure.
Then stifie your pride as you thought
lessly plan
A scare with the whistle or gong,
And remember to leave right of way
for the man
Who has to keep trudging along.
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The Acquisitive Sense.
The man whose energies are bent
On claiming everything in sight
Can never hope to be content,
AS avarice guides his fancy's flight.
OF peace his mind will find dearth
While nursing aspirations fond,
For, even when he owns the earth,
He strives to grasp the stars beyond
"De man dat sits aroun' waitin' foh
opportunities" said Uncle Eben. sis
mighty liable to doze of an not recog-
nize EN-
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Treasure.
Amt no money in de bank foh me,
Leastways not as I hear,
But de pig is roofing by de acorn tree,
An de sight 1t brings me cheer.
Amt no money In stock or bond
Dat rs been told about.
But de bean patch is CROWN jes' beyond,
Where de pig is a-widenin' out.
I amt gineter live beyond my means
I couldn't if I would
But de man dat's fixed fob pork an
beans
Is sho1y fixed right good.
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Mythology Outdone.

Mythology Outdone.
"Did you ever hear of the goose that
laid the golden egg?"
"No," replied Farmer Corntossel,
"but I've got bunch of turkeys that
I reckon will be worth pretty near as
much in an investment way"
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No Sphinx

No Sphinx.
"You never seemed to care to be re-
garded as sphinx in politics"
"No." replied Senator Sorghum. "1've
seen a sphinx. A sphinx hasn't any
conversational ability whatever, and is
without ideas to express if it had"
ITO look always on the dark side of
life" said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown
"is to be as one who closes his eyes in a
slumber that brings only Ill dreaming"
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Rate by MaiI-Payable in Advance.
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we'll experiment offered the logical ma
chinery for tenant aid.
But the Secretary of Agriculture failed
to be impressed except on terms that
left no doubt about the center of control
In fact, the Secretary told newspaper
men only few days ago that aroused
farmers are worth all of the brain
trusters' in the world" when it is neces-
sary to get things done. Mr.. Roosevelt
showed that he placed his confidence
in Secretary Wallace by ignoring the
Tugwell plans for tenant aid and by
appointing Mr.. Wallace to head a COM
mittee to work out program for White
House consideration.
After that, there was nothing for DR..
TugWell to do but to accept defeat He
still may have some influence in shaping
administration policies from the outside,
but his power will be gone. It is re-
called that Mr.. Moley, after his retire.
ment, become more and more critical
of the President.
The Resettlement Administration will
gradually be broken up, with its func-
tions distributed and its objectives mar
rowed in scope and Importance
This agency, during its life of approx
mately one and one-half years, has man
aged to spend about S175000,00O, of
which nearly $40,OOO,O0O has been for
administration. This means an ad-
ministrative expense of more than 20
per cent. The remainder of the money
has gone into loans to destitute farmers,
into loans to drought-stricken farmers
and into four suburban housing develop
ments.
Essentially, the group around DR.. Tug
well has been interested in social reform.
The resettlement administrator and most
of his aides have taken the share
croppers Of the South to heart and
think Of reform. In terms Of those In
dividuals.
It was this emphasis On remaking the
The Washington times., 1936-07-01

night club where Mrs. Castle
formerly was employed, and
confessed sweetheart of the muir
der victim.
Growing Importance was at
tached to apprehension of Lynch.
He had been advised to get in
touch with Mrs. Castle, police
learned, by friends in Colorado.
He is known to have seen her last
May, shortly after his partner in
an alleged Denver robbery was
arrested by Federal agents here.
Mrs. Castle, police said, in.
quired of the local Bureau of Fed
eral Investigation if a reward
had been offered for information
leading to the capture of Lynch,
charged with fleeing from Colo
RADIO to Missouri to escape prose
cutlon for a robbery.
Police theorized she may have
offered to put the finger" on
the eX-convict.
Detectives also considered the
possibility the cabaret hostess
might have been murdered by
friends of her convict husband to
avenge her bigamous marriage to
Castle less than a month after
her marriage to J. w. Bolin, serv.
ing 812 to 10 years in the Colorado
prison for robbery. The murder
victim divorced Castle l8 months
ago.
Police were in a quandary con-
corning the handsome Jimmy.
The lad, who sleeps at night with
toy revolver under his pillow,
apparently has suffered no emo
tional reaction to his mothers
brutal Staying.
Jimmy's father is James B,
Thompson, who was divorced from
Mrs. Castle in 1888, has remarked
and is now living in Boston. The
boy arrived here Sunday from
WllkeS-Barre, Pa. where he lives
with his paternal grandparents,
to visit his mother for two months.
Detective Capt. William ], O'Brien
said:
Il don't see how any son could
maintain the attitude he did,
The first inclination of a normal
boy under such circumstances,
it seems to me, would be to
scream and run for help.
"Jimmy'S attitude toward his
mother was so remarkably cool
that he was even able to turn
over and go back to sleep after
her murderer fled through the
window"