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Important Sales
Tomorrow

Ever r-changing items of in
terest to Washington shoppers
are found daily in The Star.
Offerings today are exceed
ingly attractive in Mid
Summer Sales, Clearance Of
Women's Apparel, Friday
Remnants, Women's Dresses,
Mems Clothing, Furniture
Sales, Radios, Fur Goats, New
Fall Millinery, Luggage, Food
and Groceries and innumer-
able other things.
Yesterdays Advertising
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(See SPAIN, Page So
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(See FARNSWORTH, Page 15.)
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BRIT0N STARTS FLIGHT

(See DROUGHT, Page 2.)
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(see HEAT cHAsERs. Page ~
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(See LANDON, Page A.
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Fair and continued cool tonight and to-
morrow; gentle northerly winds. Tenn
peratures-Highest, 81, at 3 pm. yester-
day: lowest, 81, at 6 am. today.
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Two U. S. Bishops to See Pope.

(See CLEVENGER, Page 2)
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(See DIPLOMATS, Page 2
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THE GREAT DECISION
THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D. D, IL D, D. c. L.
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

in His purpose, but the Master put Him
aside with mild rebuke.
There Is something magnificent, pos
sibly beyond our power to understand,
in this great decision. It is always easier
to follow the line of least resistance, to
make compromises even with our deeper
convictions than 1t Is to follow fixed
course that conscience dictates. To hold
steadily to a well-defined purpose, to
adhere without faltering to that which
we believe to be the right and only course
taxes our courage and lays heavy toll
upon our convictions. Jesus never prom
ised His disciples that the way of loyalty
to Him, to the habit Of life He prescribed,
was an easy way, nor is it. Men may
say concerning Him that He is the
"mightiest among the mighty; they may
declare as one Of old that, "Never man
spake like this man; they may see in
Him and in His matchless life a supreme
and Incompatible example of holiness;
they may readily express their faith in
creeds and dogmas. All this they may
do under conditions that are favoring.
Such expressions may not imply utter
loyalty to His teachings. 1t is in the
daily course Of our lives that the real
test Of loyalty is put upon us. 1t is
when we have to decide what course we
will take, what position we will assume
in a given situation, that we are COM
PEELED to take our stand with Him, and
with decision say Behold, we go up to
Jerusalem" 1t may mean that in doing
so we face a situation so involved in peril
that it will call for all our reserve moral
strength, all that we have of Christian
character.
1t is men and women Of decision, men
and women who are prepared to say to
their leader, Il will follow Thee wither-
soever Thou goest" that ultimately de-
termine great issues and set forward
great ideals.
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The Master in drawing to the close OF
His great ministry felt that the time had
come when He must tell His immedi-
ate followers and disciples Of His ulti-
mate objective. Close as they had been
to Him they had never been able to
realize the supreme purpose of His min
istry. To them He was great prophet
and teacher, later representative OF
the mighty prophets who had gone be-
fore. Even His simple parallels in which
He attempted to disclose to them the
great truths He had come to teach, they
had been unable to understand Him.
Doubtless they assumed that presently
He would announce a policy that would
indicate His determination to restore the
ancient prestige of His nation. Even up
to the latest day they were unable to
grasp the deep significance of His min
istry.
There is every evidence in the gospel
narrative that from the time He came
out of the obscurity of Nazareth and
entered upon His great work, the pur-
pose of His mission was clearly before
Him, and from it He never departed.
The time had come when He must tell
the twelve disciples more explicitly where
the final act in the great drama was to
be accomplished. 1t must have been
bewildered group that heard Him utter
the memorable and decisive words: BE
hold, we go up to Jerusalem: and the
Son of man shall be betrayed unto the
chief priests and unto the scribes, and
they shall condemn Him to death, and
shall deliver Him to the Gentles to mock.
and to scourge, and cruelty Him: and
the third day He shall rise again"
What the disciples more secret COM
munings were concerning this cryptic
statement we may well imagine.
In another part of the gospel narra-
tive when He uttered such words, the
emboldened Peter attempted to halt Him
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Places to Play.

The days, and playtime for the chill
dren, are getting longer. Kites are be-
ing abandoned in favor Of balls and
bats and newly CREASED gloves and mits.
But with three exceptions, all the school
Fairgrounds in the District are closed
promptly at three o'clock. The children
can play in the streets, in the alleys. or
anywhere else they can find to play-but
the school Fairgrounds, which should be
all-day centers of recreation, are def
nitely closed. The reason is that there
are no funds to pay for the necessary
supervisory personnel. OF course, super
vision of some sort-even If it meant
only janitor or guard to protect school
property~is necessary.
On April l two more school grounds
will be opened-until four oclock-giving
the children who attend these two
schools one additional hour Of play. And
during the Summer months, from July
/ until August 81, the school Fairgrounds
are opened part of the day.
The authorities ought to be able TO
devise some system, possibly in co-opera-
ton with the various parent-teacher as
sociations, to provide guards during the
afternoon to protect school property and
permit the use of the school Fairgrounds
now. The Fairgrounds, or most of them,
are not much, to begin with. But they
are better than the city streets and
alleys.
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Peace Via Trade.

Amid international turmoil and ten
sion without parallel in recent years, the
United States has quietly been making
steady and substantial progress in the
realm of economic peace among the ma
tions. Recent conclusion of reciprocal
tariff agreement with Nicaragua calls
attention to the fact that Secretary Hull
has concluded nearly eleven such pacts
with countries on both sides of the At
lantic, including Cuba, Canada, Switzer-
land, Brazil, the Netherlands, Colombia,
Sweden, Haiti, Belgium and Honduras
Preliminary negotiations are pending
in fact, that governments anxious to
make reciprocal arrangements with
Uncle Sam have been informed in effect
that it has been necessary to establish
something like waiting list" at the
State Department, whereby applicant
nations must take their turn. Agree
ments with France and Finland are
nearing conclusion and discussions with
Argentina, Denmark, Portugal, Austria,
Bolivia, Chile, Norway and Greece are
understood to be imminent Agreements
with Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador,
Spain and Italy are actually under nego-
tiation.
The results already attained and those
in assured prospect provide gratifying
and graphic evidence Of the spirit OF
give-and-take that now prevails in the
realm of international trade. They are
proof that statesmen and business lead
ers everywhere recognize that commerce
has become an interlocking entity-that
no one nation or group of nations any
longer can expect to have a monopoly
of commercial prosperity and that those
which desire to export must be prepared
to import, in order that all concerned
may have fair share in the fruits that
result from interchange of goods.
The notable success with which Amer
ica's policy of reciprocal trade agree
ments is meeting indicates that the
antiquated policy of economic national
ism and prohibitive tariff walls is on the
way out. AS trade rivalrieS lie at the
root of many of the animosities now
perturbing the world, with chronic fears
and dangers of war as the inevitable
consequence, a policy which concentrates
on alleviating international economic
grievances, breaking down artificial bar
riers to the normal flow of trade and
widening markets between given coun-
tries on mutually profitable terms is
essentially policy that makes for peace.
In concentrating its energies upon such
a program, as the United States is now
doing, this country is playing genuinely
constructive part in the worlds laborious
effort to depopularize, if not abolish, war
as an instrument of policy among the
nations of the earth.
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center of the country from North Dakota
to the Panhandle of Texas. This idea
has been heavily laughed at, but the
Forest Service is planting 100000 trees
this year and is going ahead with the
experiment If Congress votes the money.
r. r. A. Along with the shelter belt
goes the plan of the Rural Resettle-
ment Administration, headed by DR..
Tugwell, to buy up submarginal land in
the Western dry regions and to return
this land to protective grass. Duststorms
are traced to dry farming practices in
region that the planners say never should
have been taken out Of grass. They now
want to return part of the region to ITS
native condition.
Sc. s. Tying in all of these expert
ments is the Soil Erosion Service. This
agency is devoted to conducting demon
strations in erosion control and preven-
ton both in regions affected by water
erosion and those affected by wind
erosion.
The planners, convinced that this Ma
ton no longer can afford to let Its re-
sources 20 to waste without worrying
about the consequences, are saying that
the various experiments now under way
will result in a changed national attt.
tude toward the use of land and water
and the control of destructive floods.
II was former President Theodore
Roosevelt who first interested the people
in the preservation Of their forests and
their wild life.
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but by the controller general. When
the proposition was advanced to put all
workers under the civil service it was
found impractical because of the addi-
tional expense involved. Classified sala-
ries would have been more than the sala-
ries then paid.
Public relief is undoubtedly the most
serious problem facing the country today.
Yet the people engaged in the admins
tration of public relief, as far as the
District is concerned, are slurred as being
overpaid and penalized by unjust salary
reductions. That is not the sort of econ
omy that will save anybody any money
in the long run. That policy will not put
premium on intelligent service, but will
degrade it and cheaper it. 1t should not
be permitted to stand.
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tween men and the groups in which they

tween men and the groups in which they
live"
Such prophecy was dangerous when
it was uttered; looked back upon from
the angle of 1886, it seems sardonic. The
struggle to make the world safe for
democracy" failed. Instead of peace
and progress, it yielded the bitter fruits
of bolshevism. fascism and experimental
ism in government. But why was the
result SO cruelty disgenic? The answer
is postulated by Frank A. Vanderlip in
his What Next in Europe?" THE dis
tress that Europe is suffering . . arises
less from the direct injury of the war
than from the indirect consequences of
the peace" In other language, as the
same author also says: "Magnanimity
was wholly lacking"
That, then, appears to be the real
world problem. Society requires an en-
larged, an enhanced instinct toward
mercy. Without it, the nations struggle
in vain. Even after nearly three decades
of punishment the race has not learned
the practical meaning OF the greatest of
spiritual powers, specifically described by
the Son of God in the words: Charity
suffereth long, and is kind; charity
envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself,
is not puffed up, doth not behave itself
unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not
easily provoked, thinketh no evil; re-
joiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
truth; beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all things, endureth all
things"
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Unjust and UneconOmical.

Rejecting common prejudice, based
largely on misunderstanding, against
adequate administration in welfare
work." Congress imposed limitation of
ten per cent for the fiscal year 1888
on administrative expenses in public
relief. The following year the limita-
ton was lowered to eight per cent. And
in that fiscal year the false economy
of such a limitation became apparent
in duplication of effort, hardness in in
veStigation, neglect of pressing cases.
For the next fiscal year, 1885, the limi-
tation was removed.
The Commissioners and the Board of
Public Welfare. drew up a scale of salaries
for relief workers which was approved by
the F. E. r. A. and by the controller
general. In this years District appro-
priation bill the House subcommittee
took exception to the salaries paid and
ordered reductions in administrative
expense amounting to $150,180-a ''sav-
ing" achieved chiefly through drastic
lowering of salaries. The result is abso-
lutely unfair. The new scale of salaries
for social workers in the social service
staff, for instance, is $1,400 and 81 500.
That places social service workers on q
salary par with senior grade typists in
the Government service; below the grade
for senior grade stenographers, slightly
above the salary grade for adult mes
sengers. Case supervisors, under whom
much of the investigation work falls,
have been reduced in salary from 81 $50
to $1,500-less than senior grade stenog-
raphers. Comparable reductions have
been made all along the line.
If these workers had been overpaid to
begin with, there would be logic in the
reduction of salary. They were not over
paid. Their salaries had not only been
approved by the Federal agencies-in
many cases it was below the salary for
comparable work In the Federal service
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The Coming Tax Battle.

The tentative tax schedule approved,
by the Ways and Means Committee as
the basis for the new tax legislation does
not meet the Presidents recommended
tions in at least two points. 1t does not
provide the revenue found necessary by
the President to offset losses under in
valuation of the A. A A and the enact
ment of the soldiers bonus. 1t steers
clear of the broader processing taxes, or
sales taxes, recommended by the Presi-
dent as substitute for the A. A. AS
processing taxes AS a revenue raising
measure, to meet revenue needs, it is
inadequate.
That deficiency will doubtless be
remedied before enactment OF the legis-
lation, if the President is insistent.
Doubtless the President will be insistent,
because the money has to be produced
to meet obligations already assumed.
There is no way to get around that.
The chief battle over the new tax
legislation, beginning with open hearings
lOIIlO11ON, WILL, L1IC4S4O1C, SC11ICl
the new attack on "bigness" represented
in the proposition of forcing corporation
reserves into distribution through divi-
dends. The new proposals substitute for
the existing fiat rate taxation of cor
poration incomes new levieS that affect
net incomes in proportion to the amount
of undistributed reserves. The effect
would be to force payment of higher
dividends by penalizing accumulation of
reserves, one theory being that the addi-
tional funds thus put into circulation
would in some manner increase pros
perity. AS matter of fact, the form
of taxation thus proposed-with its bene-
fits yet to be demonstrated-is about as
politically safe" method of taxation
as could be devised in an election year.
That will doubtless remain as the most
potent argument to members who face
the voters in November.
Open hearings on the proposal will
continue the discussion that so far has
been carried on behind the closed doors
of executive hearings. That discussion
will center on the theory that to penalize
undistributed earnings, usually set aside
for plant expansion and new undertak-
ings, will discourage the enterprise on
the part Of large corporations that pro-
duces greater employment, leading, in
turn, to an injudicious policy of divi-
dend payments adopted in avoidance of
the penalty taxes on undistributed
income.
The new tax proposals would pro-
duce higher revenue. But the question
is still the question raised in the Presi-
dents revenue proposals last year: Is
the real purpose of the legislation to
raise revenue for the Government
which everybody grants is now necessary
in view of its tremendous expenditures
or is the purpose to reform" corpora
ton practices? Is the purpose to levy
taxes equally, or to penalize tax-paying
corporations on account of size?
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World Problems.

Thoughtful spectators, watching the
passing show of current events, must be
impressed by the fact that confusion is
the distinctive characteristic of modern
times. But few, it may be suggested
have been able to decide the motive
causes of the chaotic strife. Indeed,
those who have studied the problem most
carefully are the men and the women
who today are saying that no one single
theoretical explanation is enough.
For example, it is sheer vanity to
imagine that economic determinism" is
responsible. Neither is there any virtue
In the doctrine of class conflict" And
q like observation may be noted for
such shibboleths as racial antipathies,"
''the spirit of nationalism" and pro
fessional militarism" None of those easy,
bromidic half truths is competent to
account for the tragedies Of the past
quarter century. All, of course, have
played some part in the sorrowful drama;
but it would be mistake to believe that
even in their fearsome aggregate they
have been the only forces at work.
Perhaps the basic difficulty is that of
the lack of intelligence equal to the need.
The earth, assuredly, is rich in knowl
edge; millions Of people very properly
consider themselves educated-they are
literate, cultivated, refined. But there
is a further step which thus far the
masses have not taken-namely, the
humanization of culture. To illustrate
the point it will serve to cite the final
paragraph of Augustin lannon's Lessons
of the World War" Writing in Paris
on July IS, 1917, he said: After the
war the world will enjoy more liberty,
more equality and more solidarity be-
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Action Required.


It's pleasant being in the swim
When sunshine brightly glows
And not shadow comes to dim
The current as it flows.
To float along and hum song
Is delightful trick,
Until you find you're drifting wrong
And then you've got to kick.
It's pleasant just to see the sky
And feel the breezes soft.
But when the thunderstorm draws nigh
And lightning CLEANS aloft
The hour Of idleness must pass;
It's time for action quick.
1t is the general fate, alas;
Sometimes you've got to kick.
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Uncle Sam is strong for a good neigh
Dor policy which does not assume obli-
CATION to lend home resources when some
of the neighbors decide to have rough
party.
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Both thrift and sudden fortune vary
their methods. The Dionne quints have
in a very short time shown what re-
markable prosperity may be attained
simply by sleeping regularly and putting
money in the savings bank.
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The floods have caused demand for
P. w. A. funds for a maximum of plain
construction and a minimum of deco
rative art.
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Now and then art seems to feel called
on to do something as rival of nature.
A train load Of dynamite blew up near
Mexico City and gave a very convincing
imitation of an earthquake.
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Novelists. musicians and dancers have
done great publicity work for Russia.
The test to which Stain submits himself
is that of box office organizer.
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A dictator often seems forced to go on
the principle that if he cannot give
people work he must give them some
thing to fight about.
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Pet Names.

"Are you favorite son?"
IT was one," answered Senator Sor-
ghum. But I am afraid these big ap-
propriations will cause me to be referred
to as a prodigal son."
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More permanence for purposes of ref
erence might be secured hereafter by
having peace pacts written on asbestos.
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A Senatorial Toga.

From the Roanoke Times.
The fact that Senator Glass is the
owner of a $4,000 mink overcoat Is even
more interesting than the fact that it
has been stolen.
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The appeal now being made is to the
plain citizens. Many hats go into the
ring and not high hat in the lot.
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Preliminary tryouts in publicity present
an interesting competitive test to show
who has the best press agent.
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Furlough.

When the breeze was warm and the sky
was blue
We'd wish for nothin' at all to do;
Nothin' to do the livelong day,
Except keep loafln' the hours awayl
When nothin' to do came drawin' near
1t felt us lonely and feelin queer.
We rose in the mornings early glow
And waited to hear the whistle blow.
Nothin' to do, from day to night.
The dog won't play and the fish won't
bite.
A holiday, "free from care and strife"
Is q crisis in economic life.
Jud Tunkins says a man who always
tries to see both sides of every question
is liable to become mentally cross-eyed.
Old Story.
Oh, politics is something queer;
It is an ancient text.
The friends you counted on one year
Are enemies the next.
"Extravagance," said Hi Ho, the sage
Of Chinatown. "is often popular in
prince, because it implies august approval
Of what the poor man would permit him
self If he had the opportunity"
The Conclusion.
1t came to pass, once on time,
A young man led life of crime.
Then came the consequences grim;
The life Of crime at last led him.
sometimes" said Uncle Eben. "it ain
as much good to sympathize with q
friends trouble as to help him forget It."
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Cause for Alarm.

From the Paducah Ky Sun.Democrat.
Naturally, the pedestrian views with
alarm the fact that a car is now within
reach Of every man.
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The Conclusion.

It came to pass, once on a time,
A young man led a life of crime.
Then came the consequences grim;
The life OF crime at last led him.
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