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Evening star., 1936-04-02

traitor for several years, and then be-
came editor of three magazines-For-
estry and Irrigation, Washington Life
and the American Spectator.
He has played a prominent part in
the development Of courses In journal.
ism ut Cornell and has been particu.
larry 1,ai,,dns interested in uubersr'duass pub
Evening star., 1936-04-02
Early Spring Finds Southern
Section Bussing With Activities
Writer Tells of Cheerful Scenes and
Lure of Outdoors, With Base Bali
Leading Politics as Topic.

Sights and sounds Of the South
land are described here by an errant
NetD York newspaper man, seeing
and ,vriting about people and places
on q trip across America.
Evening star., 1936-04-02
Foreigners Barred.

Until 80 recent q date as 1897, West
River, the principal waterway Of South
China. was closed to all navigation
by foreigners.
Evening star., 1936-04-02

/. But liquors all right in here.
We don't sell drop. Don't handle
it. The guests bring their own and
We have locker system. The lock-
Evening star., 1936-06-19
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Constructive Criticism.

Constructive Criticism.
It's only human nature to be kicking
now and then.
The secret of the trick is knowing how
and where and when
If everything is going smooth and joy
knows no restraint,
You need for contrast something in the
way Of mild complaint.
But in time of stress, when there is
work for all to do,
The sunshine -smiler" often frowns and
says that he is through,
For he and trouble have been total
strangers for so long
That he can't endure a discord, as it
interrupts the song.
The kicker. on the other hand, when
life has grown perplexed,
Says, Let's get through with this hard
luck and ready for the next"
A man who's always happy is unlike
his fellow men.
It's only human nature to be kicking
now and then.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
Triple PLAYS.

Perhaps the most spectacular per-
formance in base ball is q triple play,
that swift elimination of base runners
that ends an inning with startling sud-
denness. Yesterday one of these was
pulled off" by the Washington club at
Detroit, at what may have been the
turning point of the game, which even-
tually went to the Nationals by large
margin. Had it not been for that play
the game might have been lost.
The triple play requires, Of course,
that there be two men on bases and
none out, situation which is always
menacing to the defense. Yesterdays
play was due to, line drive which
appeared to the base runners to be a
sure "hit," but which was caught by the
shortstop, who threw to second, whence
the ball was relayed to first, to catch
both runners before they could reach
their respective bases. 1t was the stand
ard triple play, such as has been per-
Evening star., 1936-06-19
Young Southerners
Urged to Stay South

From the Nashville Banner.
David E. Lilienthal, director of the
T. v. A., was advancing no new doctrine
when, in his speech before the gradual
ing class of the University Of Alabama,
he admonished them to stay South,
young man."
Lilienthal, himself q Northerner, SIM
ply reaffirmed a belief held by national
leaders in the fields of education, eco
nomics and government that opportu-
mites and possibilities of the section be-
low the Mason and Dixon line out
weigh those of other areas. His words
paraphrased the expression by the pro-
fessor of economics at Dartmouth Col
lege, whose article, "Now-Go South,
Young Man." might have furnished the
text of Lilienthal's remarks.
That distinguished educator summed
up the comparison in this succinct decla-
ration: THE famous Greeley advice to
young men to go West must in our,
times be redirected, for the economic
frontier of the United States no longer
lies in the West, but in the South.
From the miserieS Of past depressionS,
the Western frontiers have furnished
much of the relief and from our existing
economic confusion the advance to the
South may 60 far toward effecting a re-
adjustment. A new era in the South
may be at hand"
That the new era is now a reality Is
witnessed by the leadership of this sec
ton in phenomenal strides from the
abyss of the depression. Industrial lead
ers have seized upon these facts and
translated them into action, as attested
by the steady growth In commercial
development. The press Of the North
and East now echo the sentiment.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
Two Incidents Denote New
Spirit of Un.Americanism

To the Editor of The Star:
On the first page of The Evening Star
of June 16, one directly beneath the
other, will be found the following head
lines: "Blanton QuizZes D. c. Teachers"
and Girl and Minister Flogged by Mob"
To the casual reader and Mr.. Blanton
this accidental juxtaposition may carry
no meaning. but the anxious observer of
our times will find in it some food for
thought. For both incidents reveal the
same Fascistic desire for direct action,
the same impatience with the orderly
processes of government, the same self
righteous usurpation of authority, and
these traits are as abhorrent 10 The
American people as the Communism
they would so summarily suppress. The
brutal Arkansas fioggings differ only in
ugly uneSsential details from the inquisi-
ton in Washington-the same un-
American temper pervades both
If Mr.. Blanton is genuinely concerned
about our institutions there is q more
legitimate and fruitful field of activity
for him on the floor of the House An
eloquent defense of our liberties there
would seem to be his best, perhaps his
only, chance of passing from the ridicu-
lous to the sublime For this stalking of
Washington schoolmarms is almost as
silly as Mr.. Zionchecks assumption that
our amiable v. P. has made of with his
wife. Let Mr.. Blanton beware. Unrea-
son is infectious. and these medical rem
tlemen are no respecters of persons.
r. D. MILLER.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
Maxim GOrky.

Maxim Gorky, most widely famous
of twentieth century Russian literary
men, died yesterday. He had been in
imperfect health for many years, and
1t was the wonder of his friends that he
still was able to write so recently as a
few months ago. The explanation of
his survival to the age of sixty-eight
probably is to be found in the essential
bravery of his spirit-he lived because
he willed so to do.
And yet Gorky never was happy. BY
nature and almost by deliberate convic-
tion he was a pessimist. The scars of
wounds received in childhood continued
to ache in his memory long after such
success as he sought had been freely
conceded to him. He simply could not
forget, and neither was he competent to
hope with any normal enthusiasm. The
past was bleak and miserable as he re-
membered it; the future-well, dreams
rarely come true; no rational individual
dares be otherwise than skeptical of a
tomorrow in which history may repeat
itself!
Such was his doctrine even In 1917
Evening star., 1936-06-19
Church and American Flags
Emblens of Christianity

To the Editor of The Star:
Would it not be well to call to the at
tention of Mr.. August A. Lutke. who will
not allow his children to salute the Ma
tional Flag because they cannot put it
above God" that the flag of the church
always flies above the flag of the nations
during religious services on battleships
and follows the cross in church religious
services And that the flag is the symbol
of a nation, which is under the protection
of the God of Nations? We pray to God
to guide us and to preserve our country.
and to be with us in our national de-
cisions We are a Christian people. Could
they not be told that in all forms of re-
ligions, even the simplest, there is spirit.
ual meaning and some form of symbol
ism? And so we fly the flag Of the church
above the National Emblem during those
services.
What a pity to allow good people to
continue in their mistaken belief that
Gods place is usurped by our countrS's
flag. MRS. GEORGE BARNETT.
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when his country cast of the Gear and
prepared for the commissars. Gorky,
never q politician, saw little to rejoice
about in the change. The freedom and
the prosperity which he believed were
the toilers' due, he realized, cannot be
achieved by revolutionary alterations in
systems and personnel. First, the soul
must be disciplined. Only then can the
millennium be accomplished, Utopia
established.
The bitter one, as he called himself,
lent his pen to the Soviets under the
spell of psychological compulsion. He
admired Lenin, but never unreseryedly
Endorsed Leninism. Much was made of
his conversion" he was advertised to
the world as the chief propagandist" for
bolshevik communism. Actually, he
lacked the talent to conform to such a
pattern of madness. He apologized for
those aspects of it that he could tolerate
and was eloquently silent concerning
the extravagances which he could not
approve.
Gorky in his prime was the artist who
will be remembered. He wrote the saga
of human pain, taught other authors
to think in terms of social suffering. To
his example Theodore Dresser, Upton
Sinclair and thousand other literary
agitators are in debt His Lower
Depths" showed them a theme and a
style, and they accepted the models.
But more important than any result of
his career was the effort involved. The
man, tortured but unwilling to sur
render, was greater than the fruits of
his struggle.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
State Regulatory Powers by
Constitutional Amendments
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
A constitutional amendment is being
proposed-same giving the States regula-
tory powers as to wages, hours and
SUCH The exercise of these powers of
course, would be within the discretion
of each individual State. And, there
fore, such an amendment, II adopted,
would be a long, long time in bearing
fruit
According to common report there are
backward" States and "forward-look-
ing" States The first, no doubt, would
leave things "as is" This inactivity on
their part would hamString the social
minded commonwealths. This welfare
business costs money. mostly raised from
industry. Their industries would not be
able to compete with similar concerns of
the Cheap John neighbor. They'll
threaten to leave the State. And then,
of course, labor itself will petition the
Legislature and the Governor to please
let bad enough alone.
Even now and for years past We have
noted. where towns and cities are striv-
ing to attract employers by pointing to
their low tax rate and the low wages.
This is also one of the reasons why the
Northern textile mills moved South,
where dollar bill looks like Govern
ment bond. Nearness of the raw ma
terial, naturally, was also a factor.
The only kind of an amendment, as
see 1t. would be one that gives the Fed
eral Government mandatory authority
in these matters. Then 1t would be up
to the administration, If so disposed, to
get action along these lines. Industry
and labor would be consulted, local con-
ditions would be considered. In short,
the N. r. A. all over again. But, in the
light of past experience, possibly with
better and lasting results. 1t goes with
out saying that the farmer1l also be
invited to sit in. His tale of woe1l be
listened to with respect And then he'll
be told to go and kill few more hogs
in order to get rich in hurry.
FRED VETTER.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
ormed a good many times in the history

formed good many times in the history
of base ball.
Three men usually figure In such q
play, but two have occasionally made it,
and there are records of seven such plays
in which only one man participated.
They were made by Neal Ball of Cleve-
land in 1909, Bill" Wambsganss OF Cleve-
land in 1920 in a world series game, George
Burns of the Boston Red Sox" in 1923.
Ernest Padgett Of the Boston BRAVES"
in 1923, Glenn Wright of Pittsburgh in
1927, John Neun of Detroit in the same
year and j. E. Cooney of the Chicago
CUBS" a third in that year, making
1927 a record season for these solo
slaughters.
The late Paul Hines of Washington,
q stellar figure in his day, was for q
long time credited with having exc
cuted an unassisted triple play in 1878.
But some iconoclast once upon time
undertook a research into the files Of
q newspaper of the period and found
that the play was in fact two-man
achievement, Hines catching the ball
in left field, touching third to wipe out
the most advanced base runner and
then throwing to second to complete
the third put-out. But even that was
a notable performance, as indeed is ans
sort Of triple play, which requires swift
thinking and action on the part Of the
participants.
Any triple play is something to thrill
the spectator, however his partisan feel
ings may be affected, something long to
remember and to describe to the Junior
generation.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

lieved, about equally from Roosevelt and
Landon. The regular party popular vote
here and there would be cut into, espe-
cially in regions where the Townsend
plan has adherents, but that the third
ticket in question could capture the elec-
toral vote of single State is held to
be beyond the range of possibilities.
Il -
Not since the passing of Boise Pen
rose and Philander c. Knox, Pennsyl-
vania's United States Senators, within
a period Of two months at the end of
1921 has any State gone through the
recent experience of Florida in losing
both of its representatives in the Upper
House at almost the same time Borah
of Idaho. with continuous service since
1907 remains the father of the Senate,
although he is not the oldest member
in point of age. Next in seniority is
Smith. Democrat, of South Carolina,
who entered the Senate with the late
Senator Fletcher of Florida in 1909.
Then comes Ashurst, Democrat, of Ari-
IONA. who was the first Senator from
his State, elected in 1912, and who has
represented it continuously in that ca
pacity ever since.
y t*
President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull
may shortly be brought face to face with
the question Of recognizing Italy's con-
quest of Ethiopia. Former Undersecre-
tary of State Fulvio Suvich, who is
slated to be Mussolini's new Ambassador
to the United States will present creden-
tials at Washington from his majesty,
King Emperor Victor Emmanuel" Ac-
ceptance of such credentials. in Romes
eyes. would constitute American recog-
milton of Ethiopia as an integral part of
the Italian empire" Augusta Rosso,
II Duce's bachelor envoy at Washington
for the past three and a half years. is
to be transferred to Moscow. Rosso
is regarded at home as having rendered
exceptionally able service in the United
States, especially during the delicate
period of the Italo- Ethiopian war. The
Fascists expect him to give an equally
good account Of himself at the difficult
Soviet post.
No presidential ticket was ever
equipped with SO two-fisted a news
paper brain trust as the one that sur
rounds Landon and Knox. Gov. Lam
don's chief political advisers from the
outset of his campaign for national hon.
ors have consisted of a group Of ex-
ceptionally live-wire Kansas and Mis-
souri, journalists, like Roy Roberts OF
the Kansas City Star and William Allen
White of the Emporia Gazette. Col.
Knox not only is himself professional
newspaper man, but has had at his elbow
since the inception Of his presidential
ambitions q seasoned former Washing
ton correspondent, Leroy T. Vernon OF
the Chicago Daily News. The news
paper coterie, skilled in the game Of
politics, will have at all times power
full voice in the promotion of the Lam
don cause. 1t is of o caliber to offer
Charles Nicholson, New Deal publicity
ace, about the only real fighting COM
petition he has faced since he set out
seven years ago to make the U. s. A.
safe for the Democratic party. The duel
between Nicholson and the Landon out
fit will provide plenty of fireworks. as
they spar for openings to outsmart one
another in smearing and cheering.
tCopyrisht. 1850
Evening star., 1936-06-19
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Seventeen-year locusts are on their
last legs, wings and heads.
Their sounds in the trees are growing
less each day, while their wings and
heads and battered bodies litter the
walks, streets and lawns.
Squirrels eat the entire cicada, except
the head.
Birds consume everything except the
wings.
Dogs are not particular, but eat the
entire insect Such cats as will eat
them seem to devour the entire insect.
We have watched several squirrels,
and in each case no cicada heads were
consumed.
Attention was first called to this by
finding q dozen or more locust heads on
the sidewalk beneath an oak.
Looking up We saw . chatterer In the
branches.
He had q locust between his paws.
Soon the head dropped.
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So Nature slowly brings to an end
this great and interesting insect drama.
The rest Of the chapter will be In
visible to all except q few devoted souls,
who will follow the new brood into the
ground, and speculate over their long
term Of years there.
An interesting feature of the hosts
now departing is the way they came up
between the bricks in sidewalks.
1t Is q matter for speculation, whether
the emerging locusts came up straight
only, or could shift their tunnel side
ways. to meet the emergency of bricks
or concrete
Our belief is that they had to come
up straightaway; If they ran into
something impervious 1t sealed them
in a tomb forever
Thus they began to meet their enemies
long before they saw the light of day,
In many instances. Thousands upon
thousands of them must have died
naturally in the long stay in the earth.
The work of excavation and the like
ended thousands more before they saw
the light
After they emerged their extinction
seen how they have been run over, killed
by thoughtless steps, wheels, natural
enemies
Yet for several weeks their music was
loud in the trees.
AZ "aS oiio SAfOy hiuaC
the most of it.
Even the least interested person stop
ped now and then to contemplate this
natural wonder.
Perhaps he did no more than to peer
at one In q hedge, but 1t was enough
to make him aware that the world was
not for him solely, but for the cicadas,
too.
Yes. this is their earth, as much as
ours, within the shadow of their fmita-
tions No form of life on this globe can
do more.
Deprived in the beginning of the power
of conscious intelligence, the 17-year
locusts do the best they can with such
powers as they have been given.
AS far as we have been able to see,
they do very well by themselves, in their
interesting way. Despite the huge loss
which attends them through all their
curious history, they 60 right ahead
disappearing and coming again into
the light of day.
Those who have liked the locusts will
be sorry to watch and hear them dis
appear. Those who have not liked them
Evening star., 1936-06-19

will rejoice. So there you are! 1t is Just
another example Of the varying opinions
Of mankind.
Who is there who has not puzzled
over why man cannot agree?
In church, In politics, in all the phases
Of his life, man is a disagreeing animal.
The locusts are saved that.
Even in the everyday life, In the count
less small details Of living, few persons
ever agree over anything. Mostly there
Is a different approach, different
amount Of knowledge, varying percent
&ges Of love, kindness, and so on
There Is no unassailable standard In
anything. that is why. amid so many
things, the cicadas made a decided hit"
with some, disguised others.
There are many of us who feel that
the locust music has been the very
finest that we have ever been privi-
legged to hear from an insect.
The cicada call is said to be the loud
est known insect noise, and those Of us
who carefully listened to it, as we would
to any musical instrument, found only
pleasure in 1t.
The greatest difficulty came in sepa-
rating the song Of the individual locust
from the songs of its brothers.
One got rather a thrill from this, the
first time he achieved it, because it
showed beyond doubt just how loud
this sound was, and how musical
Perhaps only one person in thousand
managed this separation, and came into
a proper realization of the beauty of
the locust noise. Then it became a
veritable song, rather than just hum,
or loud sound. as to so many.
A new fraternity might we'll adopt
the locust call as its whistle.
We refer, of course, to the mating cry
OF the male. (The male cicada is the
only one with sound effects)
The ordinary locust noise is rather
tutes nine-tenths of cheir music.
But the close listener has heard the
other, which usually has been referred
to as q sirenlike noise.
1t is a rather prolonged note, C, we
think, sustained, then suddenly dropped
on a glide to about F, where it is per-
mitted to die away.
1t is this glide. ending in diminuendo.
LldL enables OIle 10 OeSCTlDe IL as q
siren, but when that word is used a
wrong idea of this music is given the
casual person.
There is really more to 1t than siren,
for the latter word gives one the idea
of a shrek, devoid of music. while this
mating cry of the cicada is really love
song, and, as such. possesses some Of the
qualities of love songs the world over.
1t must be remembered that this Is
an insect love song, not a human love
song.
In studying Nature We must take
things as we find them.
We cannot quarrel with the locust
because he did not sing in the best style
of Caruso.
He did the best he could, with the
vocal powers Nature gave him, and there
are many human listeners who will be
willing to say that he did very well, con-
sidering that he was only little Sellow,
and rather curious looking. after all.
Life is the better, We feel, because We
have known and heard the locusts. If
We had to wait II years. it was worth
it; We will be glad to do it again.
Evening star., 1936-06-19

New Jersey liquor dealers are protest.
ing against the sale of alcoholic bever-
ages by stores that sell anything else.
They may find support from a temper
ance sentiment that prefers not to nego-
tiate for butter, eggs and calico with a
salesman who is incidentally bartender
Evening star., 1936-06-19

Noblemen in New York have organized
to protect American heiresseS from for
tune hunters with fictitious titles. An
heiress who has been reading the news
papers should by this time be able to
protect herself.
Evening star., 1936-06-19

While coalition has not been formally
indorsed, Senator Norris has made it
clear that there is nothing to prevent a
citizen to proceed on his own response
bility in belonging to one party while
casting his political fortunes with
another.
Evening star., 1936-06-19

The bonus money will not last long
1t might be better for the boys if they
were to give little less heed to the
admonitions offered from time to time
against boarding.
Evening star., 1936-06-19

Fingerprints are already being IN
spected by the Philadelphia police. The
great exhibition of what Farley parti-
sans refer to as Handwriting on the
wall" will come later.
Evening star., 1936-06-19

Soldiers are receiving a lot of advice
, as to what to do with their bonus money.
The persuasive Mr.. Farley may even
induce some of them to make campaign
contributions for a new installment of
the New Deal"
Evening star., 1936-06-19
MachinerY.

Machinery.
An engine has a bell to ring,
A whistle, too, to blow;
Their noises never do a thing
To make the engine 60.
They're useful only now and then
To make some loiterer heed
A proper sense of danger when
The engine wants to speed.
And yet some people 60 SO far
In liking boisterous fun,
They think the bell and whistle are
What makes the engine run.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
A Comrade,

N NUIHTHUEs
There Is no loneliness 80 fierce
As in q crowded street
Where unfamiliar faces pass,
No hand outstretched to greet,
Just hordes of unknown feet.
A sense Of desolation steals
Into the very heart,
A personal abandonment,
AS Of one set apart,
Alien, perhaps upstart.
These gloomy thoughts had filled my
mind,
Iwalked with cropping head
When Q hand was slipped into my own,
A small boy matched my tread.
'Take me cross Streets" hs said.
Evening star., 1936-06-19

Chinese students are being dissuaded
from demonstrations against Japan. A
bombardment of proverbs of Confucius
has no more practical effect than a pack
Of firecrackers.
Evening star., 1936-06-19
Plenty of Possible Patrons.

From the Shreveport journal.
That Pulitzer prize play, idiots De-
light" ought to be great box-ofIice
success If all the idiots spend . couple
of bucks to see It,