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Meyers. 10, both Of Baltimore, Mo- Tne
Rev. John c. Ball.
James Joseph Cody, 20, and Geraldins
Mae Coles, 10. both of Baltimore, Nd.
The Rev. G. 8. Biggs.
Licenses issued at Rockville, Nd:
Bernard Noah Patrick Hixson. ~.
Washington. and oueenie Pearl Murphy,
Laurel, Md.
Floyd A. Bearly, 40, Langley Field, Va,
and Ruth L. Brown, 81, Newport News.
Va. "
John Maxwell Dickey, rs, and Ruth
Elizabeth Denton, 20. both Of washing
ton.
James Hardy Richardson. 30. and
Lolles C. Judd. ~. both Of Alexandra,
Va.
Love Carr, ~, both Of Washington.
John w. Merryman, %, Lynchburg,
Va, and Annie Leigh Bailey, 81. Wake
Kemper Lee Weaver, 81, and Pauline
o. West, 10, both of Washington.
William Singleton Camp. 81, and Ruth
Moore Darlington, 81. both Of Chevy
Chase, Md.
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BIRTHS

Alphonsus and Irma Radcliffe, boy.
william and Geneva Bowman, ooy.
Francis and Gladys Perkins, boy.
George and Mary Taylor, boy.
Stanley and Hilda Shriver, boy.
Walter and Kathryn Dyer, boy.
Lawrence and Ursula Myers, jr., girl.
Folke and Dagmar Wennerberg, girl
Joseph and Geraldine Canzert, girl.
Richard and Roberta Thrift. boy.
Joseph and Ethel Fowler, girl.
William and Hazel Hamerdinger, boy
John and Dorothy Russell. boy.
Louis and Virginia Thomas, boy.
Joseph and Claudia Brown, boy.
Paul and Marion Burris, girl.
Leroy and Juanita Harris, girl.
Joseph and Francis Shaw, boy.
Albert and Leila Haynes, boy.
Samuel and Pearl Wilson, girl.
Adam. and Susie Bush, girl.
William and Emma Stewart, boy.
Thomas and Jane Van Horn, boy.
James and Fannie Rose. girl:
Joseph and Josephine Gray, girl.
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luncheon. Among them Mrs.
Charles w. Tillett, of South Caro-
lima, who directed the New Deal
women speakers during the last
campaign; Mrs. Emery Scholl, Of
Indianapolis, and Mrs. James H.
Mcdonald, of Ypsilanti, Mich.
Among the other useful and
agreeable personalities at the
luncheon were Miss Jewell Swof-
ford, director of the Employees
Compensation Commission, very
handsome with her white hair
worn Smartly beneath a wide hat;
Miss Sue White, Miss. Catharine
Lenroot, director of the Children's
Bureau; Mrs. Ellen Woodward,
who runs the women's WPA, and
Miss Virginia RiShel and Mrs.
Katharine Walton, who run Molly
DeWSon.
After luncheon when the finger
bowls with floating sprigs of rose
geranium had been brought in
and the big damaSk napkins en-
broidered with fat ~. s." had
been placed on the table, Molly
Dewson introduced her new as
SiStantS. ..-.
Mrs. McAlliSter and Mrs. Evans
arose in turn. Said the right
thing gracefully and looked so
pretty and young while so doing
that everybody at the table vowed
to begin to work intenSiVely for
the party. The task was SO be
coming
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GEORGETOWN Tour Opens

The annual tour of old George
town homes, staged for the benefit
Of historic st. Johns Church, will
be held tomorrow and Saturday
from 1870 to $50 p. m, it was
announced yesterday. Tickets for
the tour are on sale at all leading
hotels and the American Automo-
bile Association headquarters
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IRECORD Of BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES

) Mary e. whitesell, 50, 400 I st. N. e.
Ruth L. East. 81, 4os Second st. N. ".
Judea Manilli. "a, National Homeo-
pathic Hospital.
James DoolIn. s.. childrens Hospital
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Wednesday, April z. 1897, at his residence,
Croome, Md, ]. ARTHUR SWEENEY,
beloved husband Of Mary v. Sherwood
Sweeney.
Services at Richie Brothers funeral home,
Upper Marlboro. Nd, on Friday. April 0.
Interment Mt. Carmel Cemetery.
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LOeW's CAPITOL
R-K-O KEITHS

CHARLES BOYER and JEAN ARTHUR in
HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT" with
Leo Carrillo and Colin Give.
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SMITH. MARY E.-On Thursday. April 8.
1887. MARY E. SMITH. the beloved
liam Lambert. of Charlottesville. Va. and
sister of Mrs. William Millar. Remains
resting at the W. w. Chambers Co. South.
east funeral home. SIT Eleventh Street,
Southeast. until Friday Anril O. 1897
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LINCOLN 1915 o Street N. ".
Greatest All Colored Sensation - DARK
MANHATTAN" with Ralph Cooper. Cleo
HeEndon and Clarence Brooks.
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MOTT 1897 ssth Street NOFthwSS'
ROSE BOWL" with Tom Brown, Eleanor
whitney and Larry Crabbe. Also|James
Dunn and June Clayworth in TWO
FISTED GENTLEMAN"
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CARROLL. MARY Non Wednesday.
April a. 1887. at her residence. lila
Chicago Street Southeast, MARY NJ.
CARROLL (nee Johnson widow of John
F. Carroll. Funeral from the above rest
dence on Saturday, April 10, 1887. at $40
a. M, thence to st. Theresa's Church Thir.
teenth and Streets Southeast whera
mass will be offered at Q a. M. for the
repose of her soul. Relatives and friends
are invited to attend. 1nterment in Mount
OliVat Cematarv -
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Robert M. AlcOrn, chairman Of
the joint conference on retirement
at Capitol Hill, yesterday con-
ferred with President Roosevelt on
the Nicely retirement bill. which
generally would lower optional
retirement ages to SO, so and "a
years from the current levels Of
81, IS, and 10.
It is believed the Administra.
ton will favor lower retirement
ages for workers who have spent
their lives in the service, but at the
White House it is said the Presi-
dent will confer with Budget Di.
rector Bell before acting definitely.
The Nicely bill would cost about
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six million dollars in addition to
present retirement expense, it is
estimated,
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RAPHAEL lAOO 9th St. N. ".
Mary Astor in LADY FROM NOWHERE"
Also = CASE OF THE BLACK CAT"
with Ricardo Cortez.
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yers. 10, both of Baltimore. Md. Thee
Evening star., 1937-09-20
SILVA Temple Scaled.

The conquest Of great heights has been
the persistent aim of countless people
for ages. Mans desire to scale the
submits of mountains in all parts of
the world has led to many heroic achieve
ments and has cost heavily in life. There
remain but few of these immensities of
rock which have defied adventurers. The
most notable of these is Everest, be-
lieved to be the highest mountain in the
world, $4,000 feet, or approximately five
and half miles.
Now new conquest of height has been
accomplished which, though by no means
so great climb as Everest or other
Himalayan peaks that still defy man, is
remarkable achievement. A party of
scientists has succeeded in scaling and
exploring SILVA Temple, which rises a
mile and half from the floor of the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Ari-
zona. In point of distance this would
not seem to be so extraordinary an ac-
Evening star., 1937-09-20
Critics of President
Should ALWAYS Be Fair

To the Editor Of The Star:
The critics of Franklin D. Roosevelt
should above everything else be fair.
They well know that the election to the
once OF the presidency carries an i'm
plled warranty or representation over
and above those express words for the
oath OF ONCE set out in the Constitution.
tnat every act OF the Chief Executive
aside from the technicalities and man.
dates OF law shall be in accordance with
his own feeling and conviction as a
fellow American.
No President who has ever taken that
solemn oath under the Constitution has
ever failed or will fail to carry out that
Intangible implied warranty.
In world beset with economic and
social conflict, the great need of Amer
lea today is faith in the man who
guides her destiny.
We always find many like Scylla and
Charybdis when the going is rough, but
we should have the wisdom to beware of
those opportunists who lure into their
confidence those who are too weak to
think for themselves and exploit them
Tor their own selfish ends.
l believe America still has that rugged
lndiyidualism and courage to carry on
in world of general unrest.
And in the spirit of the words of the
immortal Stephen Decatur, Our coun-
try right or wrong, but NAV she
always be right" would we of America
be far wrong in adopting and believing
the President, right or wrong, but NAV
he always be right"
BUFORD ALEXANDER LYNCH.
Evening star., 1937-09-20
The Eternal Chaco.

" Is more than two years ago that
Paraguay and Bolivia, by the Buenos
Aires protocol of June, 1885, terminated
the hostilities which nearly bled both
countries white. BY the terms of their
accord they pledged themselves not to
recognize any territorial acquisition aris-
Ing out OF the war for possession of the
Gran Chaco. To have brought about
such an ending to the bloodiest con-
f1ict in South American history was no
small achievement for the group of
neutral American states, including the
United States, which toiled so patiently
TO persuade Paraguay and Bolivia to
stack arms. In renouncing any settle
ment of territorial differences bv force
Asuncion and La Paz blazed a trail de-
signed to lead to far-reaching results
In the field of Pan-American good
neighborliness
On how precarious a foundation
matters were thus left was indicated by
recent news that group of malcontents
In the Paraguayan army declined to
abide by the provisions for a neutral
zone between the former belligerents.
Later, Paraguay, after changes in its
army command in the Chaco. reaffirmed
Its purpose to comply with the Buenos
Aires agreement. Now comes another
episode disclosing that the dove of peace
Is not even yet lowering in serenity
over the long -embittered heart of the
Southern Continent. Two neutral mill
tary observers-a Chilean colonel and
Uruguayan major-reported that thev
had been arrested by a Paraguayan
patrol within the neutral zone and held
for five hours. The patrol, they said.
had refused to recognize their uniforms
or status. simultaneously Bolivian
sources charged that Paraguayan-armed
elements have been penetrating far into
the neutralized terrain.
Negotiations to write absolute finis to
the Chaco tragedy have been periodically
deadlocked by military incidents grow
ing out OF the effort to maintain a no
mans land In the Chaco. There were
chronic charges and counter charges
holding one side or the other inter-
mittently responsible for infractions.
The latest reported violation is described
as the most serious that has vet
occurred.
AS Mr.. CASTOR Nerval, who writes so
informatively about Latin America in
The Star, has pointed out, the Chaco
protocol represents solid gains for peace
In the Western Hemisphere, "the pres
ervation of which has become a matter
OF continental Importance" 1t is to
be hoped that neither Paraguay nor
Bolivia at this late stage will resort to
any action capable of undoing the la
borious work of reconciliation.
Evening star., 1937-09-20

complishment, but as matter of fact
1t is to be rated as historically note
worthy. For this huge rock mass is in
places almost perpendicular. 1t is one
of the most spectacular features of the
canyon. For long time it has lured
these great remnants of the original ter
rain through which the river in the
course of millenniums has cut its way in
its flow to the sea.
The immediate purpose of this enter
prise was to ascertain whether life in
any form exists on this isolated mass,
which is topped by mesa of about 275
acres in extent. The difficulty chiefly
lay in an almost perpendicular wall 200
feet in height below the mesa. The ex-
plorers reached their goal and returned
with living trophies of their adventure
in the form of two tiny leaf-eared mice.
These mice may be similar to creatures
that are known to exist on the rim of the
canyon. However, if upon comparison
Will SpcClIucllS Ol tHe laJbeT bney are
found to be different the scientific value
of the find will be increased, for it will
point to an isolation protracted through
the centuries. If, as some suppose, this
mesa has been cut off from what may be
styled the mainland ever since the ice
age, then indeed there has existed there
a form of life of great interest to science.
The early exploration of the Grand
Canyon cost numerous lives and many
others have been lost in the course of
the years since its discovery. This vast
rift in the surface-which has been styled
the worlds greatest geological laboratory
is at the point Of this recent enterprise
mile in depth and ten miles in width.
SILVA Temple is but one of many striking
examples of the fantastic effects of ero-
sion continued over thousands of years.
1t would be in the last degree unfortu-
nate If this accomplishment should lead
to limitations, for the result would almost
surely be tragic.
Evening star., 1937-09-20
Colossal Joker i'm Laws of
Seventy-ffth Congress.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
In no other session, perhaps, has such
a colossal joker been found in laws ap-
proprlating money as during the first
session of the Seventy-fifth Congress.
Though the Nation is plunged into in
creasing billions of debt by vast and
multiplied largesses of money, until
Uncle Sam never has dollar of his own.
but must borrow money whenever due
bills are presented to him for payment.
our squandering national legislators per-
slstently and deliberately piled up obliga-
tlons to be paid "out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. :"
The joking irony of this runaway
prof1lgate spending is that there never
Is any money in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated"
Just how the District Commissioners
Will be able to get money out of the
treasury mot otherwise appropriated" to
pay running expenses of the District until
belated District taxes roll in is twizzling
and sizzling problem for wizards of
hnance in both Federal and District
Ilnanclai agencies to solve with any
oegree OF certainty or satisfaction.
JOSEPH w. CHENEY.
Evening star., 1937-09-20
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
MeIanchOIia.

There was man who sadly said,
II sometimes wish that I were dead!"
Indeed, it filled my heart with woe
To hear person talking so,
But when, one day, he caught a cold
His manner was not near so bold.
He ran for pills and oily rags
And hollored for hot-water bags.
He had the family all upset
For fear we'd lose our precious pet.
With flivvers rushing here and there
And bullets flying through the air
1t is very easy thing
To quit this earth. And yet we cling
All we would have to do is wait
Upon some crossing for our fate;
Which, spite of melancholy buzz
Is what nobody ever does
And all our "let me perish" stuff
Proves only a neurotic bluff!
Evening star., 1937-09-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Dear Sir: Thank you for your recent
article dealing with the shrub althea,
or rose of Sharon
I'VE have been in Washington for 10
years, in this house, and when we bought
there was a fine specimen in our yard,
and for years it was lovely thing, the
single white variety.
But the past two or three years it
gradually failed until half of the bush
was almost gone.
Last Winter I cut it down three feet
or less from the ground. 1t must have
been Is feet tall
Part of the bush showed no signs of
life this year, but the other part threw
up new shoots and eventually they bios
somed, and while the majority of the
flowers were white three or four of the
shoots burst out into double pink bios
soms-something we had never seen on
it before and there they are today, with
both varieties on the same BUSH
DO you suppose the humming birds
or bees are responsible for this?
X
There is one more subject I want to
go into briefly, and that is to thank you
for valuable tip
vi iioiiy SCdiH VIC WCiC az tIlt ldhts
in Minnesota or New Hampshire during
the Summer months, and I usually
shaved with cold water, as hot water
was not always on tap there, and found
1 shaved much easier than at home but
I always gave the credit to the soft
water of the lakes.
After returning one season I read one
Of your columns on shaving with cold
water-it was two or three years ago
I preSume-and ever since then when
ever am shaving 1 think Of you and OF
how much easier you have made our
daily task. Thank you again. Very
truly yours, H. G. S.
1t may be that the bumblebees did it
Such changes are common, and need
a plant specialist to explain them fully
but it must always be kept in mind that
most of our planting stock of the favorite
old shrubs is budded on roots of some
other varieties. This is especially COM
mon in lilacs. Every one knows the
need for keeping the suckers" cut back
unless one wants the bush to revert to
the stock on which it was grated.
Sometimes the cutting back of shrub
rather drastically will give the original
stock the chance it has been looking for
all along, and it will send up shoots
which in time blossom as nature in
tended it to.
Almost every one has seen rose bush
which was bought as Red Radiance, but
which insisted on throwing. both radi-
ance, which is pink, as well as the normal
red blossoms Of the other.
Fruit trees, which are mostly CRAFTS
are favorite double-bloom and double
fruit subjects. and always manage to
attract considerable attention to them
selves when they thus seem to defy
nature.
Advent of the electric razors does not
seem to have affected the millions of
older shavers who have become used to
the safety razors
They probably will go on shaving with
thin blades to the end of their days,
not only because it is habit with them,
but also because many of them feel that
nothing takes the place of soap and
water when it comes to sanitation.
The value of plain soap and water,
properly used, is recognized by doctors
and surgeons
In washing away dirt and assembled
germs properly work-up lather is an
almost unrivaled sanitary agent
1t is not SO much the temperature Of
Evening star., 1937-09-20
Back to School.

This morning approximately ninety
thousand Washington children returned
to school. Summer vacation having run
It's course and reached its inevitable
termination, the youngsters resumed
their routine Of lessons for another
academic year. Their elders envy them
the privilege.
But it is not to be expected that the
boys and girls will understand their good
fortune as whole-heartedly. Youth in
stinctively dislikes regimen of any
kind. 1t wants freedom from constraint.
Only when an individual has attained
intellectual and spiritual maturity does
he welcome the discipline of a task. The
difficulty in the circumstances of the
present period of history is that which
arises from the fact that not all labor
Is soul-satisfying in character. Many
grown-ups face problem of adjustment
to their jobs.
The average child, however, is pos
sessed Of the power to choose his voca-
ton. Granted that certain required
subjects" must be accepted, the modern
philosophy of education and most mod
ern institutions of learning concede to
him a measure of liberty unvisioned in
the experience of his parents. He thus
Is provided with opportunity to lay a
cultural foundation for his career at its
start. All that is demanded of him is
that he be reasonably loyal to his de-
cision when it has been made.
BY way of illustration, let the case of
single family be cited: The father,
having studied more than his share of
Latin, eventually found himself plumb
ing contractor; the mother. naturally
Evening star., 1937-09-20
A Student Map of
the United States.

Every school child should be familiar
with his own country. A thorough grasp
OF geography is first requisite of good
citizenship. The United States map will
prove an invaluable aid to the student.
1t shows not only the continental United
States, but all of the detached Terri
tories. On the reverse side will be found
important geographical and up-to-date
statistical data. interesting and historical
facts OF each State. 1t is printed in five
colors, on strong, heavy paper, 21x28
inches in size. Order your copy today.
Inclose 10 cents to cover cost and
handling.
Evening star., 1937-09-20

the water as the actual mechanical
action which does the trick.
Surgeons are said to wash their hands
for full 10 minutes by the clock. with
nurse standing by to see they do not
skimp.
The use of cold water in what is now
coming to be known as the old-fashioned
shave is simply a sensible procedure
which any one may test for himself.
Preliminary use of soap and water
gives basicly clean skin which, after
one has become used to it over the years,
seems essential.
1t is this preliminary treatment which
gives good shave.
Old-fashioned rubbing is not meant
at all
What is meant is washing the entire
skin to be shaved before the shaving
begins.
If cold water is used the skin is not
made sensitive, but the whiskers are
rendered softer and more easily cut
through the removal of oil on them.
There are very few blades which do not
need all the help they can get.
**
The whiskery portion of the face is
washed we'll with soap and water. after
which it is all rinsed off completely.
But this is only starter.
Water is now applied handful after
handful, for as long as one has patience
This soaking is what does the real
work.
There is moth ing which will take the
place of water.
II there are any germs on the skin,
they are washed away by the mere
mechanical action of the soap and sub
sequent water.
The detergent action of soap is recog-
nized as one of the best germicides. pro-
vided it is used freely enough, and the
rinsing is made complete.
Certain soaps are better in this re-
spect than others. Many soaps leave
a Slight residue on the skin. Free
lathering and free rinsing soaps are
desirable
When this preliminary treatment has
been given the bearded area, it is all
ready to receive the shaving soap. There
are many ways of shaving, but this un-
doubtedly is the most sanitary, because
the most water is used.
A brush is not necessary. The lather
may be worked up in the hands, care
being taken to incorporate water from
time to time.
This type of shaving is done with
water, after all, rather than soap.
The suds merely holds the water
close to the whiskers
The heavy lather is now applied gently.
without any rubbing. 1t is merely put
on, as plasterer would his favorite
substance.
Washing the face, favorite old pastime
of honest Americans, is done after the
shave
But not until all the shaving Iather
has beer removed
The ablutions are done with the very
same soap.
Amazingly enough, there is no sting.
If the soap is good soap. In fact. this
subsequent complete lathering acts as
lotion to the skin.
II it does not do so, feel sure that the
soap used contains too large percentage
OF free alkali.
shave conducted in this manner
with cold or cool water leaves the face
feeling fit as the proverbial violin.
stimulating tonic properties of cold
water are widely recognized, and there
is no reason why the face should be
denied its share.
Evening star., 1937-09-20

interested in design, waited In vain for
chance to be an artist and at last
agreed to be a housewife instead, but
their first son at ten elected to be a
radio engineer and is we'll on his way to
that goal at sixteen, and their second
at eight pledged himself to chemistry
and is solemnly happy in a chaos of re-
torts and test tubes at twelve.
The principle involved is that of self
government. AS time passes progress is
registered for the increasing capacity of
the race to achieve control over itself.
Inc change is reflected in school systems
and their beneficiaries.
Evening star., 1937-09-20
Not Much Progress.

From the Ashtabula Star-Beacon.
Archeologists have discovered the re-
mains of a highly civilized people who
lived before the Pharoahs. So, consid-
ering the time we have had to step for
ward, we haven't come SO far.
Evening star., 1937-09-20

A man who attempted suicide In a
Cincinnati theater shouted his undying
affection for lady and suffered no
actual wounds. 1t will soon be necessary
to remove professionalism from the front
of the theater and develop more of it on
the stage.