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Evening star., 1936-07-18

Pershing was approached with the
proposition of taking the Fourth (Ma-
rine) Brigade as the nucleus Of new
division, to be composed entirely of Ma
rines. He turned down the suggestion.
He could never consent, he said, to see
the Second Division broken up. As a
unit 1t went to France, along with the
gallant First, as the vanguard Of the
hosts to follow. AS unit 1t would leave
France. And as a unit it will live
proudly in the memory of American
arms.
It left France as a unit, and as
unit it survives today through the men
who fought under its colors and stand
ards in France. And part of the busi-
ness which brings its members to Wash
ington now is to assure that those who
were left behind-on the battlefields of
Belleau Wood, at Chateau Thierry, at st.
Mihiel, in the hills of Champagne and
in the Argonne-will always live in the
memory of Americans. The names of
its battles are engraved on It's simple
memorial, to be unveiled today. Moth
ing else The fact that it suffered more
casualties than any other American
division. that it took more prisoners,
captured more artillery, received more
requirements, was second in the number
of kilometers advanced-these are
merely the details. relatively unimpor-
tant, in the record of a division that
always did its duty and did it well.
Washington is proud of the Second
Divisions monument, taking its place
with the other memorials of valor and
great deeds in Washington. None de-
serves better place.
Evening star., 1936-07-18
Russia Looks to the West.

It was inevitable that the German
Austrian accord, with implied inclusion
of Italy, would sooner or later produce
counter moves by other powers which
do not contemplate with equanimity the
domination of Central Europe by re-
vived triple alliance. The Soviet Union
has promptly replied to the Berlin
Vienna Rome deal. It has arranged
with Rumania to build great strategical
railway which would give the Soviet
army direct communication with Czecho-
slovakia. The purpose would be to facili-
tate the movement Of Red troops and
guns in defense of Czechoslovakia against
German-Austrian attack. The proposed
line would be built across the Carpathian
Mountains and link the Russian railway
system with that of Czechosloyakia. For
its construction Rumania would receive
financial assistance from Prague. The
primary object would be to avoid de-
pendence upon the railroad passing
across Polish territory, because in war
time this line might not be available
for military transport.
These projected arrangements proclaim
that the U. 8. s. R. has determined to
interest itself actively in Central Europe
and not be a passive observer of German
italian plans to dominate from the Adri-
attic to the Baltic. Russia and Rumania
have ended their long-pending estrange-
ment over Bessarabia and have now en-
tered into something approximating de-
fensive alliance. Similar relations have
been brought about between Moscow and
Prague. Announcement of the Russo
Rumanian railway scheme follows the
recent triumph of Foreign Minister
Titulescu over the pro-Germans in the
Bucharest government. Rumania thus
evinces her readiness to support the Rus
sian move westward into the Danube
Valley to mset the menace Of German
Evening star., 1936-07-18
BENZ. Franklin, Printer,
Not Postmaster General

To the Editor Of The Star:
No enthusiastic support should be
given to the suggestion of Robert S.
Anderson that the statue at Tenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue northwest be
removed to Franklin Park.
That statue represents Benjamin
Franklin, Printer" much more than
Benjamin Franklin. First Postmaster
General of the United States.
1t was presented to the city by a news
paper publisher.
During the Dos in that building were
published the Washington Post and the
National Republican (morning papers,
and the Evening Critic. which probably
moved there from 5l1 Ninth street north
west mot Tenth. as enormously located
recently by Dick Mansfeld). The Eve
ming Star was at Eleventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue These four were
the daily newspapers of the District at
that period.
In the old Post Building also were
published the Craftsman, official organ
of international Typographical Union
printers and presSmen of the United
States and Canada, and various other
publications.
Later the Washington Times was
started by printers at the southwest cor
ner of Tenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
The first linotype machines used in
Washington were set up and operated
in the old Post Building. They were
used on the Post daily and also for
Republican campaign book. The main
defect then was that the letters were
not of uniform height in the cast line.
AS pressmen found it impossible to print
properly from the defective slugs. the
machines were taken out until further
improvements made their effective use
possible.
This neighborhood is old newspaper
row of Washington. The Benjamin
Franklin statue there Identifies it as
SUCH 1t is a historical Landmark that
should not be removed because of mis-
conception of the true purpose it serves.
OF all his remarkable achievements
during long years of wonderfully versatile
usefulness to mankind, this great genius,
who dignified manual labor, considers
honest toll his greatest accomplishment
when in his epitaph, written by himself,
he wrote, Benjamin Franklin, Printer"
And who shall say that this prolific
producer of letter-preSs wisdom and
enduring knowledge. as his contributions
to the supremacy of the art preserva-
tive of all arts" did not choose infinitely
wiser than another could have chosen
for him? JOSEPH w. CHEYNEY.
Evening star., 1936-07-18
A ''Typical Prairie State"
Bounded by W. p. A. Funds
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor of The Star:
In these distresSful times of drought it
should not be difficult to believe that the
Lord would give ear to the cries of his
people. It is not that the citizens of one
State are more virtuous than those of
another, for we know that He sends the
rain on the just and on the unjust
equally, as generally is inferred But
that Is not to say that He may not give
more abundantly to certain group who,
for some special reason, have found IA
vor in His sight.
The great, big-hearted New Deal,
givers of the more abundant nfe being
thoroughly in tune with the Almighty,
would, of course, sense the differences
in need with entire subconsciousness and
thoroughly apart from all worldly con-
siderations. This is evidenced by cer-
tain Associated Press dispatch which The
Star carried the other day to the effect
that Mr. Harry L. Hopkins had revealed
that President Roosevelt had made avail
able an additional 100000 for soil
erosion work, flood control, forestation
and recreational development.
There were listed amounts which had
been earmarked for certain States deSig-
mated by the Department of Agriculture
as drought areas. This list included Mis-
souri, and Oklahoma. Then there were
listed further ALLEGATIONS under the head
ing "Other States Get Funds" Select
ing number of States from these two
lists we see this result, which seems odd
geographically and, indeed, is compre-
hensible only after the spiritual expla-
nation suggested above. Colorado, to the
west of a certain typical prairie State"
was allocated $4,000; Nebraska, to the
north, $62,040: Missouri to the east, $685.
763, and Oklahoma, to the south, $101 685.
Kansas, home of Gov. Landon, was al
located $5,071. E. G. SMITH.
Evening star., 1936-07-18
Wisconsin and T. V. A.
Rates for Electric Power
To the Editor Of The Star:

10 tue EQltOI Vi 4uc otaA'
According to Mr.. Paul Mallon. in his
Behind the News" column July Is, the
Porter Electric Co., farmers co-opera-
tive in Wisconsin, buys electric energy
for 6O2 cents per kil0watt hour and sells
1t to members. of the cooperative at 5
cents for the first so kilowatt hours and
cents per additional k. W. h., plus 81 30
line charge And, says Mr.. Mallon, this
business nets regular per cent diV-
dend on the 500 par stock.
From another source learn that the
average annual consumption OF electricity
by the 68 members OF this cooperative
was 808 kilowatt hours. Computation on
the basis of the above rates indicates that
this quantity of energy would bring IN
$26.74 to the company, whereas IT would
have paid for the same amount OF power,
at 6.02 cents, $48.64. Getting an per
cent dividend from that would baf1e even
New Deal experts.
Tracing the discrepancy back to its
source, it appears that Mr.. Mallon read
his data too hastily. This is what he
read: I'm 1885 the company distributed
current from the Stoughton hydro plant
at an average cost to its consumers OF
about 602 cents per kilowatt hour.
In other words, the consumers, not the
company, paid that rate. The fact Is
that the wholesale price was 2.22 cents.
This electricity, by the way, comes from
a municipality owned hydro-electric plant
and is distributed by quasi-public agen-
cy. Yet note the rates, both wholesale
and retail, as compared with the much
publicized T. v. A. ''yardstick' rates.
We are told that the T. v. A. profitably
sells power at wholesale for mills per
kilowatt hour, and that publicly owned
distribution systems can profitably retail
it at cents for the first so XVIII, cents
for the next $50 XVIII. and less for greater
use, all with no line charge.
Thus it seems that the Stoughton mu-
nicipal plant finds 1t expedient to charge
over three times the T. V. A. rate for
wholesale power and the cooperative
collects $3.50 for 100 XVIII. against the
$3.50 said to be profitable under T. V. A.
retail rates.
What's wrong with this picture? Are
the Wisconsin public agencies making eX-
cessive profits? They are under regula-
ton by the State commission. Or is it
possible that T. v. A. power Is being
sold at loss, with taxpayers throughout
the country making up the difference?
GEORGE E. DOYING.
Evening star., 1936-07-18
The Second Division.

In the A. E. r. the question, who
won the war, soldier?" could be used
as an insult to start a fight, as q pleas
antry to adorn a joke, as a vainslorious
boast or as a sardonic reflection on the
vicissitudes of life. 1t all depended on
how it was asked. The Star hastens to
explain that it has no intention of rails
ing that matter now. But everybody
knows, regardless Of who won the war,
that it would not have been the same
war without the glorious exploits Of the
Second Division, whose proud veterans
are the distinguished guests of their
Capital today.
At one time during the war General
Evening star., 1936-07-18
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

A chemical research which may prove
of far-reaching significance to millions
the world over has just been started
by the Department of Agriculture.
1t is an effort to delve into the basic
mechanisms of allergy, to lay the
groundwork upon which the medical pro-
fession may be able to construct a ra-
tional, rather than an empirical, treat
ment Of a condition which aff1icts ap-
proximately one person out of every ten
in the United States.
The great congregation Of the allergics
includes everybody who suffers from
such well-known conditions as hay fever,
pollen fever, rose fever, rose colds,
asthma, hives, etc. 1T includes also
those whose symptoms are less frequent
and obviouS-the army of persons who
can't eat wheat bread or eggs, drink
milk, ETC., without some such manifeS-
tations as headaches, or the appearance
of red blotches on the skin. In many
cases the Syndrome is very light. Thou
sands probably have an allergy without
suSpecting it. In other cases the results
are so severe that they may end fatally.
These Affections affect persons of all
ages. Some individuals suffer from
abnormal SensitiveneSS to certain normal
constituents of the pollenS produced by
many varieties of trees, grasses and
weeds Similar substances present in
common foods, textile fiberS, furs and
other protein containing substances are
capable of causing distressing circum-
stances when absorbed through the skin
or the membranes of the respiratory or
digestive systems of supersenSitive per-
sons.
The Department of Agriculture chem
lists will try to find the actual proteins,
or nitrogen containing organic SUBJ
stances, responsible for the allergic phe-
nomenon. Why does one protein cause
q violent disturbance while another, pre-
sumably very similar in composition,
does not? Why are some persons ex-
tremely sensitive to one thing, some to
another and some to none?
The basic mechanism of the allergic
disturbance remains unknown. There is
considerable reason to believe, however,
that it is a complex chemical reaction
between the protein molecule and liv-
ing tissue in especially Sensitized states.
It is closely related to another phe-
nomenon-the so-called anaphalaxis-
which can be demonstrated in animals.
A guinea pig is inoculated with the
blood serum of q horse. There Is very
little effect. In few days the inocula-
ton is repeated. The second time,
however minute the amount of the
serum, the animal is thrown into con-
yulsive state which usually results In
death. A common condition shown by
autopsies is that of expanded lungs. The
inoculation apparently causes spasm
of the muscles of the lung air cells.
which are unable to expel automatically
the inhaled air.
Presumably with the first incubation
the animals system mobilizes q defense
mechanism of some kind. Perhaps def
mite anti-bodies are thrown into the
blood stream. Apparently it is COM
bination of the defensive substances
with the foreign substance which acts
like a deadly poison. Neither, acting
alone, produces i'll effects. The bodys
effort to protect itself proves. BY some
Evening star., 1936-07-18
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

City men have two annual dreams, one
to own farm, and the other to live at
the seashoTe forever.
Some make the first come true, then
spend the rest of their life wishing they
hadn't.
Others hold on to their second dream.
thereby incurring no establishments.
1t is a pleasant day variety dream,
of the Florida coast, or the Maryland
shore or California.
will do.
and tumbling breakers.
1t must contain sandcrabs and dogs
racing along the beach.
1t must show steamers far out, just
SO their smoke leaves a soft plume
scarcely visible.
1t must be punctuated with white sails
of boats, and seagulls, and even porpoises
wheeling their way south.
X X ~
All these things it must be, in sun
shine, in rain, in dull days without
either, but so very typical of such places.
There will be old men in white trou-
young ladies riding bicycles along the
hard wet sand left at low tide.
There will be white dimity curtains at
the cottage window, curtains soggy with
the moisture in the air.
There will be water in your hair at
night, and mosquitoes on your arms
and back of the neck.
Mind you, these not for just the mi
serlY little two weeks-what are two
weeks in eternity?-which the world of
workers seems to regard as sufficient,
but for the year around. until one
would get so tired of rolling sea and
wind in the face and wet in the hair
and the sight of black Old Bill coming
through the sand with his oxen and
the ice that one would willingly forget
the bliss of it and try the city again,
just as if one didn't know all the time
that the city is a thing of hard streets
and hard faces and imitation tanS Sc
cured in the semi-privacy of lousy
little back yard.
Yes, the whole year round, and not
just for the three months which the
man who can spare $500 or more throws
into the anticipating hand of the shore
real estate man.
A cottage built on piles, with space
underneath for the sand crabs, called
fiddler crabs by the meticulous, to run
and hide when Spot, the fox terrier. gets
after them.
What sport for Spot, to dig down until
he is wholly under ground, and gets sand
in his eyes, and in his pants, if he had
any.
What sport for old Spot, to bark and
dig. and finally reach claw and haul
Mr.. Fiddler out by it. rending and tear
ing and depriving Mr.. F. of both claws
and one eye within few cruel minutes.
What sport to rescue the crab, and
know that Nature is wonderful, and will
in a few short weeks grow back again
both legs entire and a fine new eye.
which will sit up on the stalk on the
head and regard the world crabWiSe as
if nothing at all had happened.
Yes, what sport these things are. and
how fine it would be to chuck the hot
city for good and all. and 60 to Florida.
or California, or even the nearby Mary
land coast line, or maybe New England,
only they have rocky beaches up there,
and they are not exactly the same.
Nothing will take the place of the
widespread far-fung coast, low and mar
row, with the whole earth and sea for
Evening star., 1936-07-18

perspective, with all the water in the
world tumbling In there, and all the
air and all the salt and all the ozone
combining to give all the real thing
there is.
That sense of realness Is the gift Of
the sea, whether in 1t or on 1t or by it.
The sailor has his rewards, and the
swimmer and the seashore resident as
well as any. The latter neither goes nor
comes. He stays, and the world Is his.
In California, Florida or Maryland,
it is the same world, the same atmos-
phere, the same lure and the same
reward.
1t doesn't make any difference where
it is, Just so long as there is a low beach
line, the surf, the white, the boom of it,
the sullen roar in the night, the never
ending sound ,of waters the bite of
skeeters, smell of citronella in the
dark
And that air!
And we don't mean for a day, or a
week, or a month, as the song said, but
for a year, two years, 10 years, the rest
of ones natural life
\ 4
well, for Heavens sake" some one
pipes up, then why don't you go?"
Well, honestly, why don't we all do
things we long to do?
Isn't it because the pull of the usual
is too strong for us?
The average human is a creature of
his circumstances What is, is; and what
will be, will be; but what was, was, too.
That's it. The lis" is more mighty than
the "was," and far ahead of the will
be-"
The fell clutch Of circumstance is as
nothing compared with the pull and
hold of the usual, the what-is, as dis
tinguished from the haS-been and the
will-be.
1t is easier to do what one is doing
than to do what one has done, or may do.
There are a thousand pulls of the
usual, only few of the unusual, and
there is much timidity of purpose to
overcome the bold blusteringS of the
new.
1t is not to be wondered at that this
fine dream of living a whole lifetime
by the sea seldom flowers into sea grass
on salt dunes, where the steps come up
to the top and there end.
1t is nothing strange that so many
people never do what turks in the back
of their mind to do. 1t is only natural
that they shouldn't. The strange thing
is that they ever do. That is why these
wild books of impossible adventure are
so sought after, so read, so cherished.
To think that some people do what
they want to do
And all the rest of us do what we have
to do. The duty of the every day, as
life works it out for us, and little choice
we have. is grand thing. after all,
with its demands for getting up in the
morning, and washing the face, and
eating breakfast, and getting down town
in buses jammed up as cattle would not
be permitted to be carried, but as hu-
man beings may. with the blessings of
the company and the approval of the
public utilities God bless their assorted
souls, and it would serve 'em all right
if they were forced to ride down each
and severally on a bus with capacity
81" written on its face and you couldn't
crowd in another with shoe horn, any
way
It's duty, mates, which makes us do
these things, which causes us all to
stay put. and keeps us from saying GER
tain things and running away to the cool
shore and staying there forever, or such
forever as Nature grants to poor humans
in world where everything changes
and nothing stays put very long.
Evening star., 1936-07-18
Shooting Stars.
BY pHILANDER JOHNSON.

The Song Survives.
Upon the sun-baked scene,
An airplane grumbles on its sullen
rounds
And in between
heard
A mocking bird!
A shot rings out and terror fills each
heart
And hatred's shaft is keen.
A simple song defies our angry art,
For in between
heard
A mocking bird.
Evening star., 1936-07-18
Approves Editorial
On Drunken Driving
To the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor Of The Star:
Thank you for the editorial on
Drunken Driving in Thursdays issue.
1t effectually neutralized Mr.. Ofutts
felicitation upon improved social con-
ditions." Until the blood test is ap-
piled as it is in Sweden, the number of
drunken drivers will never be known.
Your reference to the gravity OF the
drinking driver" is timely. He is prob
ably the greatest menace on the public
highway. Unfortunately, with the low
cred standard among our women "he" Is
too frequently She"
A. II. THOMPSON.
Evening star., 1936-07-18

The hint that Joe Louis was doped in
order to enable friends" to profit heavily
by betting against him may arouse ques-
ton as to whether Government agents
interested in narcotics should not be
called in to assist in preserving the purity
of pugilism.
Evening star., 1936-07-18

A tactful manner of breaking the news
gently enables General Farley to sever
ties without sentimental expressions. He
assures old friends that he will be back
at work so soon that it is scarcely worth
while to take up campaign time for
speeches and bouquets.
Evening star., 1936-07-18

Theories that radio is affecting the
weather would be hard to prove. Yet
radio holiday, under scientific super
vision, might be worth trying. Weather
with and without radio might be COM
pared with a view to new data relating
to extraordinary conditions.
Evening star., 1936-07-18

It is the right of j. Edgar Hoover to
protest against political considerations in
connection with his office. Nobody doubts
that he would be equally happy to arrest
either a Democratic or a Republican
gangster.
Evening star., 1936-07-18
Conversational Expedient.

CUHVeISdtIUHHI EAPeuIeHt'
There's looking man waiting
to see you," said the secretary.
Does he look like a Communist"
asked Senator Sorghum.
Very much"
Shake hands with him and tell him
I'm busy trying to get him Govern
ment job That line of talk always
soothes Communist at least tempo
rarily."
Evening star., 1936-07-18

After a certain point, an effort to
assert vituperative energy in politics be-
comes little more than so much extra
wear and tear on a dictionary of
synonyms.
Evening star., 1936-07-18

Educational possibilities of the films
are unquestioned. Despite an impression
that priZetights are brutal, no producer
has created a picture to prove that
pugiliSm does not pay.
Evening star., 1936-07-18

European diplomats are described as
entertaining extravagantly. Taxpayers
are admonished not to place implicit be-
lief in everything that appears in the
society news.
Evening star., 1936-07-18
Neither Hubbard.

Mother Hubbard.
Old Mother Hubbard who went to the
cupboard
Found never a bone for poor Towser.
To brain trust, in sorrow, she wrote on
the morrow,
So much did her trouble arouse 'er,
As she tearfully shivered check was
delivered
In payment for non-cultivation.
It came with flourish, but naught would
it nouriSh,
So poor Towser just died Of starvation!
"On q hot day." said Uncle Eben, "its
just as well to stop arg,lin' about trouble
an jes' take de thermometers word for
it,"
Evening star., 1936-07-18
A Novel Work.

From the Kalamazoo Gazette.
A noted author has just had published
q new book-and there isn't q single
bad word in it! It ought to be a great
hit; the public goes for distinct novelties.
Evening star., 1936-07-18
Reason of Being.

Reason of Being.
The sea was made for ships to sail
Above or down below it;
The sky was made for deadly hail,
AS warriors may bestow it.
The earth was made for tanks to ride,
All human feeling sighting.
This world was made-must we decide?-
For nothing more than fighting.
Evening star., 1936-07-18
Ultimate Advice.
rom the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
In mixing poison mash for grasshop-
pers you have a wide range In color
selection. The instructions say you may
use white arsenic, paris green or London
purple. If you are In doubt, ask the
araSshopperA
Evening star., 1936-07-18

After inspection Of drought stricken
areas, Professor Tugwell will be heard
with interest when he takes the lecture
platform to explain how they got that
way.