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The Washington times., 1937-10-11
Democrats to Hear
Howard w. Smith

ARLINGTON, Va, Oct. IL.
Representative Howard w. Smith
and Commissioner Of Revenue
Harry K. Green will be the prin-
cipal speakers at the October
meeting Of the Young Democratic
Club of Arlington county at 8
o'clock tonight in Lee Tavern.
The Washington times., 1937-10-11

lar prims donna, away on q brief
concert tour, returns to the pro-
gram. Her solos: Weaver's Moon
Marketing" Beach's "Ah. Love,
But a Day" and WilliamsOn's
Linden Lea" With the programs 9
medley Of Irving Berlin songs. Al
fred Wallenstein's orchestra. WRC
10000 NTENTED HOUR"-Dr.
Frank Black and the cast pay
tribute to the memory Of Sir
George Williams, young English
spprentice-Clerk who founded the
y. NJ. c. 4. Noble Gains chorus
OF 20 voices. The COntinentals
and the orchestra offer 3 special
arrangement of Valencia" song
sensation of a decade ago. WRC
1O:3O-COLUMBIA CONCERT HALL
Victor Day, orchestra leader. and
Hollace Shaw, cOlOratuTa soprano,
Will be featured in a concert Of
classical numbers. Miss Shaw sings
BellinPs La SOnambula," Hahn's
LHeure EZquise," q u b 9 t's
"VOgel in Waldo" and Parks ar
rsngement of "In Dance the
homatka" ...WJSV
DRAMA
9:0O-RADIO R-Barbara
Stanwyck, John BOles and Anne
Shirley play the roles they had in
the film version Of "Stella Dali
las" in an especially prepared
radio adaptation by Producer-Di-
rector Cecil b. DeMiIIe. 1t Is es-
sentially the story Of q mother
who wasn't good enough" for
her husband or daughter. .WJSV
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-24
MUSICAL PICTURE
FILMED IN SIERRAS
FREELY Opens at Mary
land on Wednesday
For Three Days


Foremost musical picture of
the year, ard probably in screen
history, Metro4Goldwyn-M Mayors
adaptation of Rudolph FrinnePs
opera, "The FREELY, opens next
Wednesday at the Maryland The
atre. with Jeanette Macdonald
starred, and Allan Jones and
Warren William in featured roles.
Here is screen artistry at its
height. The dramatic story of
Spain in the era when Napoleon
was conquered at Vittoria by
Wellington, provides moving
plot as vast and impressive as
any that could be filmed And,
artistically, it provides a vehicle
for the Friml score that thrilled
the audience.
Jeanette Macdonald appears
in her 18th musical triumph, and
it is Enthusiastically her finest. AL
Ian Jones emerges as a star in
his own right. Warren William
performs with his accustomed ar
tistry.
Filmed in the High Sierras and
on thirty tremendous sets. the
picture reveals a background Of
unsurpassed beauty DramaticaI-
~ and unsteady it is superb.
Five Of the seven musical fea-
lures are from F'rimps original
operetta.
Miss Macdonald dances with
rare grace and sings Love Is
Like FREELY "He Who Loves
and Runs Away" and when a
Maid Comes Knocking at Your
Heart" Jones sings "A Wo-
mans Kiss" and .eThe Donkey
Serenade," and they join in duet
in @Giannina Mia" and sSynpa-
thy
The whole score is gay with
Spanish melody and the film has
been staged on a scale of unre-
stricted beauty that could be pos
sible only in Hollywood.
Jeanette Macdonald scores a
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-24
BEACH NOVEL HAS
NOW BEEN FILMED
''The Barrier" to be Pre-
scented at Academy on
Monday and Tuesday

1.-THE Barrier" one Of the most
popular novels ever written nv
the master Of outdoor fiction. Rex
Beach, has been made into a mo-
ton picture by Producer Harry
Sherman.
It took seven long years Of
negotiations before Sherman
could get the screen rights 10
the book, which he considers the
best material for an outdoor film
that Beach has ever turned out
"The Barrier which onens
Monday at the Academy for two
days, is the story Of romance
between a West Point graduate
on duty in Alaska Games Eli.
SOM and a young Alaskan girl
(Jean Parker), who is believed to.
be half Indian. An absorbing
photoplay lies in the way the two
overcome the obstacle Of mixed
blood and work out their happi-
ness together.
In the cast Of "The Barrier },
are Leo GARLIC, Jean Parker
James Ellison, Otto Kruger. Rob.
ert Barratt, Andy Clyde and Sara
Haden.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-24
LIONS LADIES, MIGHT

Final plans for Ladies Night by
the Lions Club, at Hotel Alexan.
der, on the night Of December %.
was announced at the last lunch.
con meeting Of the club, at
which John R. Tenney spoke on
Safety" Attorney General Her.
bert r. O'Connor, of. Maryland.
will be the speaker at the Ladies'
Night event.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-24
'FnetIy", at the Maryland Three Days Next Week

personal triumph in the title role
as the colorful dancing girl of
Madrid. Allan Jones has his fin
est acting and singing role. War
rem William adds new laurels to
his reputation as distinguished
actor and every member of the
cast is truly fine.
"The FREELY is the screens
most Illuminating example of its
own artistic ideals.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-24
FRuIT GROWERS To MT

Fruit growers of Maryland will
join with those of five other
states in a tWo-day session of the
recently organized Middle Allan
tic Fruit Growers Conference to
be held in Washington, D. G., on
January and 5. The states in
cluded in the conference are
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-24

What's the use? If you speak
loudly, Emily Post says you are
common. IF you speak low, &C.
lett Burgess says it proves you
are old.
Watch The Globe Grow!
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-24
AUTO HITS HOG

Or. Clyde E. Basehoar, Green
castle, badly damaged his automo-
bile when he hit a hog which
ran across the road, a short dis
tancc south of Greencastle.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-24

Clifford Gloss, Boonsboro Dis
trict, killed two phogs weighing
976 and S13 pounds, respectively.
Watch The Globe Grow!
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-24

Rev. C. M. Sparrow, United
Brethren minister, Keedysville,
who has been sick is reported
improved.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-12-24

Two midshipmen girl provide the romantic compl
cations Navy Blue Cold colorfu and thrilling
Annapolis which Christmas Day Ct the Maryland
Stewart the mdshpmen the fight on Also
imposing Lionel Barrymore Billie Burke
Evening star., 1937-07-09
Good Radiance.

Section 213-the so-called marriage
clause-of the old economy act contained
a lot Of the stuff of which romance is
made. 1t suggested the tragedy of
broken homes, the dissolution of mar
rlage partnerships, the furtive efforts of
young neWlyWeds to keep the news OF
their marriage from a heartless Uncle
Sam. 1t was plainly discriminatory in
its effect, for most of those released from
the Government service under the act
have been women. The discussion of the
evils OF the marriage clause have always
been accompanied by display of con-
siderable emotion, which was not lack
ing in yesterdays House debate
But the fundamental issue typifed in
the marriage clause was far from emo
tional. The real issue concerned the
merit system, not the right of men and
women in Government service to be
married. Under real merit system
there never has been and never can be
any room for such a law as the marriage
clause. For the merit system concerns
itself, or should, only with the efficiency
and the well-being of the Federal service.
When the time comes to enforce
separations from Government service. for
reasons of economy or for other reasons,
the first chosen to go should be those
most lacking in meritorious performance
of duty and of least value to the Gov
ernment. Marriage status, veteran
status, ace-of-residence status-all
these things represent eXtraneous issues
which have no pertinent bearing on the
efficient conduct of Government service.
And when marriage status or veteran
status or place-of-residence status is
injected and made a qualification for
holding of Government positions, the
merit system is by so much damaged.
The outright repeal of the marriage
clause by the House yesterday was the
best, in fact the only sensible way to
get rid of an obnoxious and vicious law.
Proposed amendments which would have
coupled the question of salary with the
question of marriage status suffered de-
served defeat. The House has done well
and has acted with great wisdom in
throwing the whole business out, lock,
stock and barrel And it is to be hoped
that the Senate will take the same view
OF the situation and follow suit.
Evening star., 1937-07-09

OF year are apt to be white or Of Light
shades Of color easily marked by stains
from smears left upon the upholstery
by less tidy passengers. The floors Of
both buses and cars might likewise be
kept cleaner than they are. In the
course of days run, with brief stop
overs at terminals and no purging forces
established at these points, the accurnu-
lation of trash becomes a veritable
nuisance.
The passengers comfort is as essen
TALLY matter of good service as the
maintenance of adequate schedules. The
dissatisfied patron, whether his discom-
future is due to bad service, long waits
at terminals and junction points, con-
gestion or uncleanliness and poor VEN
tilation, is liability. The expenditure
OF comparatively trif1ing amount upon
such matters as window adjustment and
floor and seat cleaning-window cleaning
as WELL ncidentally-would be a paying
investment in good will.
Evening star., 1937-07-09
Rapid Transit Comfort.

While the question of rapid transit
fares and services is under discussion at
the District Building, some attention
should be paid to the matter of the care
and keep Of the vehicles now in use on
the local lines. Much improvement might
be made, at small expense and to the
effect of a better disposition of the
riding public toward the corporation.
First of all Is the matter of the win
dows, which especially at this season of
the year should be so adjusted as to
permit ready opening and closing by the
passengers. In these days of sitting heat
ventilation is required. 1t cannot be
regulated by the drivers of busses and
the conductors of cars-where there are
conductors. Passengers must attend to
that matter themselves and save in rare
cases are they able to manipulate the
windows Only by titanic strength is it
possible to raise or slide them, and
many a wrench to sensitive muscles is
caused by the contortions and exertions
incident to this performance, with nu-
merous broken finger nails resulting from
struggles with balky catches.
The seats OF the vehicles, likewise,
should be daily cleaned, to prevent the
soiltng Of garments, which at this time
Evening star., 1937-07-09
Keeping Cool.

1t Is possible to make a science OF
keeping cool. Long time residents of
Washington have developed a practical
technique of living in Summer. They
may not be able to put into effect the
suggestion of the British humorist,
Sydney Snith-"It is so warm that I
venture to advocate that we take off
our flesh and sit in our bones!"-but
they know from experience that it helps
considerably to be philosophic in the cir
cumstances. AS they see the problem,
there is small advantage in getting
heated about the heat They try to
remain calm of mind, however uncom-
Portable of body.
Also, they have learned that there is
efficiency in the old policy of air-condi-
tioning in homes and Offices. Closed
doors and windows and drawn blinds,
they realize, serve to shut out the burn
ing daylight. A certain psychological
principle is involved-a room that ap.
pears reasonably cool actually Is 10. The
Evening star., 1937-07-09

same generality may be applied to food.
A table groaning with meats and vege-
tables still smoking from the stove Is
attractive in December, but q discour-
aging spectacle in July. Similarly,
clothing appropriate for Midwinter may
be positively irritating six or seven
months later. The common reaction
may be illustrated by the remark of q
bus passenger: THAT girl in the scarlet
dress looks as though she were on flre!"
A specific word may be added with
regard to travel. Starting for business
early rather than late is conducive to
convenience in more ways than one.
TRAFFIC Is less congested, public con-
veyances less crowded at 7:30 than at 8
o'clock. Also it should be mentioned
that the mood for beginning the day Is
important If people commence their
routine OF work in good spirits, there is
an excellent chance that they will finish
1t undisturbed.
Evening star., 1937-07-09
Memher of the Associated Press
Hitler Protests Again.

Chancellor Hitler's list of eminent
American pet aversions grows apace. On
1t recently appeared the names of Mayor
La Guardla of New York and Cardinal
Mundelein OF Chicago Robert w. Bing-
ham, United States Ambassador to Great
Britain, is the latest addition to the
roster OF those who have given grave
oftense in exalted quarters at Berlin, In
an Independence day address before the
American Society in London, the Ambas-
sador observed that 'despots have forced
the United States and Great Britain to
undertake rearmament, and, having
undertaken It, we must necessarily win
the rearmament race" He added that
III relationships are better to prepare for
wars, democracies are better to finish
wars" The Nazi government-inspired
press hastens to call Colonel Bingham to
account. The Deutsche Allgemeine
zeitung charges that his speech 'incites
the so-called democracies against the
so-called relationships in almost unbe-
ievable fashion" and terms the address
IAN appeal for competitive armaments."
The WllhelmstraSse organ unhesitat-
ingly fitting the shoe to the Fascist foot,
considers the London speech IAN unmis-
taxable reference to Germany and Italy"
While 1t is always undesirable for
American diplomats to speak out of turn
on foreign soil, especially amid the
explosive conditions now prevalent in
Europe, Ambassador Bingham has done
little but to put in other words-though
less happily chosen ones-some OF the
thoughts which have found expression
in the mouth of President Roosevelt on
various occasions. In one of his earliest,
personally delivered annual messages to
Congress- Mr.. Roosevelt, reafirming
American devotion to peace, limited at
certain conditions overseas. They not
only represent conceptions antipathetic
to our democratic ideals, it was sug-
gested, but they should cause this coun-
try to remember that ardently as we
ourselves are dedicated to the arts OF
peace, influences and aspirations persist
beyond our shores that do not run par
allel with American policies and hopes.
Mr.. Roosevelt consistently has conveyed
the impression that he holds adequate
national defense required today, among
other reasons, for safeguarding of those
governmental forms and traditions to
which this Nation is indissolubly welded
1t was in that spirit that both the
President and Secretary Hull at Buenos
Aires last Winter pleaded eloquently for
maintenance OF democracy throughout
the western world. That their appeals
and admonitions have borne fruit is indi-
Gated by the stirring address along the
same lines just delivered by Argentine
Foreign Minister Saavedra Lamas. He
acclaims the Monroe Doctrine as a
retaining dam" against un-American
tendencies that threaten this hemi-
sphere. THE republic" he said, sis and
always will be the invariable form of all
the governments of the Americas. It
must not be upset by outside currents or
by followers of the institutional regimes
based on the new ideologies circulating
IN Our atmosphere today"
Evening star., 1937-07-09
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAN VILE.

Senate debate on the Supreme Court
bill set in with return Of tropical tenn
perature to Washington and otherwise
amid conditions conducive to thunder
and lightning. Early battling leaves lit
tie doubt that the contest is going to be
waged in the no-quarter spirit. One OF
the surprises of the opening rounds is
the belligerenCy Of administration forces.
Nothing in the conduct of either Senator
Robinson. their commander in chief or
of Senator Logan. nominal proponent of
the substitute measure. indicates that
they're fighting an uphill battle. Most
significant revelation of White House
war plans is Robinson's intimation that
an opposition filibuSter will be combat
ted tooth and nail. The Arkansan has
not specifically said so. but strongly
leaves it to be inferred that the Roose-
veltians will not shrink from seeking to
apply cloture if the Wheelerites resort to
vote-blocking maneuvers.
Exchanges between the friendly enc
mics have to date kept within the bounds
of parliamentary niceties, but the atmos-
phere is heavily charged with explosive
ness, for all that. Hot words are bound
to be banded before the fracas is much
older Senator McNary's slender band
of 16 Republican brethren is plainly
enjoying the spectacle of the Democratic
family feud. Big G. o. P. guns, of course,
will bark as it proceeds, but minority
strategy for the moment is to give the
majority ample opportunity to advertise
and aggravate party friction. Enough
has already happened to foreshadow a
Democratic split that by 1888 and 1910
may rival the Bull Moose mutiny precipi-
tated by another Roosevelt exactly Is
years ago this Summer. The Presidents
court opponents vehemently repudiate
the idea that they are out to wreck either
him or the New Deal, but the conflict
has already scared the donkey with scars
that will not easily heal
Senator Guffey. Democrat, of Penn
sylvania, who introduced the first parti-
san note by assailing Chief Justice
Hughes as "supremely clever politi-
cian," who carried his political wiles"
onto the high bench, invited devastat-
ing retort by enabling Senator Burke to
point out that Joe Robinson, Senate
nominee for the Supreme Court, is no
slouch of "clever politician" himself
The Keystone Democratic boss might
also appropriately be reminded that the
Chief Justices who in turn preceded
Hughes both had political backgrounds.
Edward Douglass White, who was ap-
pointed an associate justice by Cleve-
land in 1894 and Chief Justice by Taft
in 1870 was in Louisiana politics prac-
tically all his life. He was serving his
first term in the United States Senate
when elevated to the Supreme Court.
William Howard Taft from earliest man
Evening star., 1937-07-09

ANNAPOL1S, Md.
Dear Sir: Thanks for your salutation
to the Japanese privet, that loves to toss
with feathery grace its fragrant flowers
IN the Summer sun against the azure sky.
Alas! that 1t can be q source of dis
sention, on one side liberty and grace
are desired; on the other, regulation and
the death of freedom.
But to gardeners there Is another
problem: What to do about the wistaria
vine that desires to ravage the hemlock
tree?
Shall It's effulgent beauty and heavy
perfume in the Springtime, as it reaches
high among tree branches for its place
In the sun, be unrestricted?
"Or shall one protect, by ruthless
pruning of the vine, the grave beauty Of
the hemlock?
These are ever fascinating problems
to those who own a paradise on earth,
however small, maybe only bit OF grass
and ferns. sd
But how best to decide-for freedom,
or for regulation? Sincerely, L. T. A."
\
To prune, or not to prune-that is the
garden question.
Whether to let things alone, and have
tangled shrubs and vines which the birds
love best, or neatly trimmed things which
somehow appeal most to a certain type
of human mind.
Those who have genuine interest in
bird life will let the songSters decide for
them.
To all such people, this is no longer
much Of problem, this old torturing
issue of whether to cut back or not to
cut back, whether to prune or not to
prune, whether to lop off or not to lop.
The birds say, in chorus, Let well
enough alone. We like tangled shrub
berry,"
AS far as we can determine. they have
no particular objection to the proper
pruning of great climbing vines, be they
Wistaria or bitterSWeet.
The tree must decide, in this case.
Birds like best the very overgrown
shrubs, which is because that is the
way Nature grows them, if let alone.
They prefer their trees as Nature
grows them. too, which generally is
without vine. Comparatively few trees,
in the wild, are borne down by great
overhanging vines, which in time come
to hide the outlines of trunk and major
branches and boughs.
Yet many such trees are to be found
in small gardens. where gardeners have
placed some climber at the base, not
realizing how it will grow in five to ten
years.
Lattices, or old tree stumps left tall,
are the best places for these great grow
| ing vines.
1t seems that vine roots rob growing
| trees of much nutriment and some moist
ure, in time harming the tree roots, and
| making the entire great structure a
! prey to the elements.
X
Trees are so beautiful in themselves
| that they need no additions.
The beauty and grace of a tree in
| Winter is commonly overlooked.
1t looks bare, but is truly beautiful
! against the skies.
In Summer no poet is needed to point
| out the glory of trees, great or small.
They command their own homage.
A little vine on a tree is not bad
from any standpoint, or viewpoint The
Evening star., 1937-07-09
The Greater Danger.

The prospect of considerable delay in
the Senate before the District tax bill
can be taken up is discomfiting from the
point of view of the municipal govern
ment officials. Left hanging in the air,
without enough money to operate before
new local tax revenues become available
and powerless to begin the important
work of collecting new taxes, the Com
mlssloners are in quandary over what
to do and how to do it.
But this question of delay, as serious
as it may be from the standpoint of ef-
ficient tax administration and OF book
keeping, is not as serious as the dilemma
faced by the local taxpayers. The danger
to them is not the lack of revenue on
which to operate the local government
for it is inconceivable that Congress
will make no provisions for avoiding the
discharge OF municipal employees because
there is no money to pay them The
danger to the local taxpayer lies in q
hurriedly enacted tax bill, without the
necessarily careful consideration which
should be given to the subject of
equitable tax legislation
Let Congress and the District Building
find way out of the dilemma created
by lack of new tax legislation and lack
of sufficient operating revenues. But let
the local taxpayers insist that when the
tax legislation is taken up for considera-
ton ample time is afforded for adequate
debate and examination of the highly
controversial tax proposals it contains.