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Evening star., 1937-09-09
Resents lngratitude of
Recipients of Charity
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star.
Am justified in feeling as do about
the way have been treated after max
ing numerous sacrifices to help others?
l have never had much to give, but
whenever 1 was called upon to help, and
without the asking, gave as much as
was able, and more, too.
The first shock received. after SPEND
ing $50 for food for the poor, was the
Winter before my son died. Three years
ago, showing, blowing and cold, drove
to No police station. hoping I might
see and shake the hand of the policeman
responsible for all the lovely donations
that year and others for the poor. In
stead, this is what I got. I was met, Just
as 1 plowed through the sonw and ice to
the front of the precinct by a man who
without asking why I was there, told
me to drive on, could not stop there. I
then proceeded to tell him l had this
stuff in the car to be taken inside and
would he please help me. He gave me a
look that nearly said out loud What do
you think 1 am?"-went inside and got
some one to help me unload; then, after
the last box was taken out, he said,
90 K, get going" 1 did not see the
oiiCeI III charge OF any one else. NO
one said word of thanks. Well, that
was No l shock, and right then and there
| resolved never again would I try to
help any one through an agency. If 1
had anything to give I would give it to
the individual.
Now for No. shock: I had resolved
never to part with a dime for any one
again-even personally. Less than two
weeks ago I read of an accident to a
young man while diving at one of the
beaches-his father was a w. P. A.
part-time worker, painter-mother and
four other children living in two rooms.
I again succumbed and took my six
months saving Of dimes and sent a check
for $40 to this family, also asking that
the father call to see me as I could give
him some extra work to help them. He
had only 48 hours work a month and I
naturally thought he would be glad to
make few extra dollars. 1 put my
name, address and phone number in my
letter, hoping to see this man or hear
from him further in this way, but not
line, phone call or personal call from
these people.
/ should be fully convinced by nv
experiences that / would do better to
save my dimes toward old age, which
is just around the corner and pay no
more attention to pleas for charity. I
am disgusted.
MRS. MARGARET K. FIEDT.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

had in mind when, lately returning from
an Oxford Group meeting in England,
he announced: 1--WE have plenty of engi-
neers who can build bridges, but we
need engineers who can build nations"
The thought, plainly enough, has merit.
Doubtless it is true that humanity stands
in need of practical and equitable
science of management. For example,
the so-called machine age" is socially
good or bad as it affects people. If its
products, honorably manufactured, are
fairly distributed, there can be little Just
complaint. The difficulty has been that
of democratizing its advantages rapidly.
Involved in the problem are many alien
issues-the intrusion of politics being
one of them.
Certainly, the ideal condition would
be that under which every citizen would
manage-or engineer-his own affairs
Civilization, then, would be a matter of
millions of self-sufficient and self-gov-
erning hermits, all content in paradisial
toOiooAoii' Due VIII CoulQ UC lidppy III
such negative independence? The log
ical answer is: Nobody Human beings
are gregarious; they depend upon asso-
citation. Mr. Huston mentions the
building of nations advisedly He might
have gone further step, suggesting
single all-inclusive commonwealth.
But the race is not ready to abandon
its divisions. 1t is too young to have
learned the philosophy of live and help
live" At present, it has not attained to
that Of live and let live"-it still re-
mains in a state of competitive bar
barism.
No excuse for despair, however, exists.
Progress has been made, is being made,
will be made. Gradually individuals will
educate themselves into the religion of
mercy, fellow-feeling and sympathy,
which is the corner stone required for
the New Eden upon the New Earth. Gen.
turies of experience are necessary, but,
viewed from an historical angle, what
is hundred years as compared with
hfnity?
Evening star., 1937-09-09
No Personal Profit.

Sir Frederick Banting has announced
that he did not receive even so much
as one dollar for the insulin patents
which, in association with two colleagues,
he developed for the treatment of dia-
betes. His discovery was conveyed to
the University of Toronto for the
oretical equivalent of one hundred cents,
but no money actually changed hands;
no personal profit accrued to the IA
nous medical research director Far
from wealthy, he must be content with
the possession of such trinkets as the
Starr gold medal, the Scott medal, the
Flavelle medal, the Cameron prize and
the Nobel prize-relatively inconsequen-
tial symbols of the gratitude of man.
kind.
But in his poverty Sir Frederick has
excellent company. William Harvey was
not showered with riches for his solu-
ton of the riddle of the circulation of
the blood. Sir Isaac Newton did not
die millionaire because of his formu-
lation Of the law of gravity. Louis Pas
teur is not remembered for the fortune
that his cure for rabies should have
brought him. John Fitch and Robert
Fulton were not notably rewarded for
their efforts to design practical steam
boats. Eli Whitney, inventor of the
cotton gin, never ws conspicuously pros
Evening star., 1937-09-09
When DIR. Cary Crayson
Was Mistaken for a Waiter

To the Editor of The Star:
1t was during one of the Wilson ad-
ministrations. A big banquet came off
at the Willard After the eats were
served and when the speeches began the
bulk of the walters (about 100) were
shipped home. For this purpose one of
the passenger cars was temporarily
turned over to houseman (myselD.
/ took them to the ground floor in
patches. From there they went down to
the basement, got paid off and shooed
out. Once, when I was discharging a
cargo, the operator of the adjoining car,
which was serving guests, stuck out his
head. He was Mac" (MacVogeD, who
later on became Washington's No / ele-
vator jouk. He made an immense hit
with the Coolidge family when they lived
at the Willard during the Harding
regime He is dead now, and SO is Care
full Cal" and so is young Calvin, who was
very fond of Mac" Tempt passati!
Say, Mac, I am putting it all over
on you. l got a hundred of them and
each hands me dime" That, of course,
was de bunk" A waiter who derives
about IS per cent of his income from tips
II hardly ever loosen up to a fellow
n.
He may donate quarter to St. Peter
for passing him into Heaven, but have
my doubts. There must be something in
the Bible that forbids it. In any case,
Mac laughed and went on about his
business.
Preparing to start my car, man in
evening clothes got ready to step in
This car for walters only. Are you a
rtrai& &o,-0 l..,+ ;x-I,.
to get back to the banquet room" Very
well, sir; I'll take you" I ran the car
rather slowly, and so there was time for
the social amenities Smiled the guest:
mo; am not waiter. l am DR.. Cary
Grayson, the Presidents physician"
Glad to help you, doctor"
Drawing close to our destination (tenth
floor the doctor put a hand into a
pocket and fished out dime well, L
guess I'll have to give you yours" He
apparently had overheard my 10-cent
conversation with Mac. Good God, no,
sir. That remark of mine was only a
joke. Not a red cent. You are entitled
to this service and welcome" We both
were still smiling when l let him out
And there sternly looking at me, stood
the manager Frank S. Hight, them. He.
no doubt, was wondering what caused
one of his housemen to be on such free
and easy terms with one of the hotels
distinguished patrons. He made move
in my direction, but I beat him to it..
Piling in another load of deadheads I
disappeared into the neither regions.
Wilson is dead. But the doctor Cor
admiraD, am glad to note is still very
much alive and going strong. A very
pleasant Officer and gentleman"
FRED VETTFR
Evening star., 1937-09-09
Why the Bear CrOwls.

To understand the true inwardness of
the Soviet's threat to purge the Mediter-
ranean of pirate" submarines by send
ing a Russian fleet into that italian
lake" it is necessary to realize that the
fate of the Spanish Loyalists now rests
primarily on their ability to smash the
de facto blockade established by Franco
and his foreign allies. Hence, the
turbulence and bravado with which
Moscow is exchanging diplomatic barbs
with Rome. Tomorrows conference of
Mediterranean powers at Nyon is sched-
uled to come to grips with the piracy
issue, but if collective measures fail to
end "the intolerable situation" the
Kremlin storms, the U. S. S. r. will pro-
ceed in its own way to obtain satis-
faction for the Soviets lust demands"
These are based on the unequivocal
contention, which the Italians con-
temptuously reject, that recent sinkings
of Russian freighters were of lawless
Italian origin.
The Soviet Union is doubtless promot-
Ing various objectives in showing Musso-
lini its teeth. Some of them are of yelled
or of politically psychological nature. The
Communist government, smarting under
the suspicion that Generalization in the
high command of the red army has
paralyzed RusSias international in
f1uence, is naturally bent upon exploding
that theory. Or Moscow may be indulg-
ing in that time-honored recourse of
distracted dictatorships-a foreign diver
sion-as a sure-fire means of taking
harassed peoples minds off the home
troubles.
These are speculative explanations of
the Soviet's belligerency. But there is
one aspect of it that is palpable and
concrete. 1t is now common knowledge.
even in strong pro-Loyalist quarters like
Paris, that continuance of the sub
marine blockade would doom the
Valencia government. Already, accord
ing to well-informed observers, the flow
of the supply of Russian war materials
has been virtually stopped. AS soon as
mysterious submarines, which the Loyal
lists and their foreign sympathizers allege
to be italian, began sinking ships out
side the Dardanelles new and delicate
situation arose for Europe in general,
but for republican Spain vitally and
particularly. Immediately Spanish and
Russian craft plying between the Black
Sea and Valencia or Barcelona were
halted at their source. All concerned
realized that they could not run the
undersea blockade off the peninsular
coasts. Without Russian sinews Loyalists
Spain Is hopeless-as hopeless, probably,
as General Franco would be without
Italian and German munitions and men.
Contrary to popular belief, the govern
ment is said never to have had from
France, or countries like Mexico, active
help on any substantial or sustained scale.
Russia is the Loyalists' sheet-anchor.
1t Is because the insurgents and their
Fascist supporters have effectually
checked the Soviet service of supply that
Moscow is now breathing fire and brim-
stone and calling frantically on the
democratic powers to preserve the free
dom" of the great middle sea.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

namics to the study of chemical prob
lems."
Among other uses to which extremely
low temperatures can be put, according
to paper presented by DR.. Alexander
Goetz of the California Institute of
Technology, is that of obtaining clearer
understanding of the actual structure of
matter itself.
1t can be studied standing still. The
most successful way of determining how
atoms are arranged in the molecules of
different materials is by means of the
reflections of X-rays. But with the
atoms forever bouncing back and forth
the distributions of the reflected rays
are difficult to interpret Close to abso-
Lutte zero the elements of molecule "stay
put" A special X-ray spectograph has
been developed for this type of study.
Among the American pioneers in low
temperature experiment were physicists
at the Bureau of Standards. Precision
methods of measuring minute differ
ences in temperature were reported to
the chemists by DR.. F. G. Brickwedde of
the bureau staff.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

Mighty nice places they may be, but
something is lacking. something lacking
tremendously, it would seem.
The something, of course, is a tree.
just one tree, in such location, makes
all the difference in the world.
From bare house the place becomes
home, with even so little as one tree.
provided that it is q real tree, of course.
Many household would do better
with less interior decorating and more
external planting, to wit, one nice tree
put where 1t would do the most good
Trees too close to a house have certain
inherent disadvantages. In such a Sum-
mer as the one about ended they will
help induce mildew. Many households in
which this never occurred before have
had mildew on books and cushions, as
the result of trees too close to the house
1t is impossible to move the trees, of
course, to prevent dampness in an ex-
tremely muggy season. That is one
drawback to treel
X
Usually 1t will be found that trees on
parking in front of the house are well
placed they give the home enough shade.
but not too much.
Persons OF nervous temperament will
find trees close to a house just little
too close during thunderstorm.
They do just as we'll back a bit. en-
nance the appearance of the home just
as well, above all give the same definite
honey" feeling to the beholder.
Too many trees too close to house and
garden often play havoc with ones plant
ing aspirations.
Say what may be said in favor of the
shady garden, it must be admitted that
this is only making the best of things
The sunny garden is the only real gar
den, the garden most people want,
whether they realize it or not
The sunny garden permits the plant
ing of 95 per cent of all the growing
things of the plant world, whereas the
shady nook, as charming as it may sound
in print, can have only about per cent,
and of this percentage at least two and
half are definitely very hard to man
age.
Too many trees, and especially too
many close to the house and garden,
tend to make place much too shady
for the best gardening.
Yes, it is definitely interesting to try
to make the best of things, and grow
wild flowers and things which need acid
soil. Much experience-and money-may
be put into such gardening.
Well-placed trees will not cut off too
much sunshine from house or garden.
They will give the home all that these
greatest of plants can give, at the same
time they will not add certain plain
drawbacks.
The real estate man is not going to
tell you about these things. From a
thing which was just to be cut down,
the tree has grown, in his eyes, to some
thing extremely sacred. Of the two atti-
tudes, the latter is thousand times the
best. But there is medium way of look
ing at trees which is at once sensible
with experience and reverent with love.
Maybe it is best expressed in that song,
after ALL
Evening star., 1937-09-09
Was Participant in the
First Labor Day Parade
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The caption of Half Century Labor
Day" in editorial made me smile, because
l was in the first Labor day parade that
was held in September, 1882, in New
York City. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
was not in the parade for he was born
on January 20, 1882. On May 8, 1882,
at the regular meeting of the Central
Labor Union in New York Peter j. Nc
Guire, a delegate, proposed the first
Monday in September as a national
holiday. The first Labor day parade
was led by "Bill' McCabe, leading
printer of the New York Herald, as the
grand marshal
WILLIAM S. WAUDBY.
Evening star., 1937-09-09
A Farewell.

Lazy dayl Lady day! You has Travelled
on yoh way,
An de katydid is calm fun de tree
De bird has quit his singin'
An de frost will soon be stingin'.
De loafin' time ain what 1t used to be.
Lazy day! Lazy day! We has passed de
time foh play.
De roses dey has withered on de bush.
Dis world was smoothly slidin.
1t was mighty pleasant ridin',
But it's time foh folks to all git out
and push.
"A lazy man." said Uncle Eben, has
to work mighty hard sometimes hustlin'
foh excuses"
Evening star., 1937-09-09
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
An Applicant,

When the dawn is in the sky
Mother busily draws nigh,
Shattering the drowsy spell
That precedes the breakfast bell.
Busy still until the noon
Brings the dinner, none too soon;
Busy still until the chime
Gayly rings for supper time;
Busy through the twilight glow
AS the stars begin to show;
Busy still, till prayers are said
And the rest have gone to bed.
Even when to sleep she goes,
Vigilant in her repose,
She will hear the highest call
That from childish lips may fall.
Yesterday she paused to smile,
Saying, Maybe, after while,
An arrangement we will see
For an eight-hour day for me-"
Evening star., 1937-09-09
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Evening star., 1937-09-09
Every Little Bit Helps.

If you know a merry quip,
Tell it,
Try to give dull care the slip,
Quell it.
Sorrows help to sink the ship,
But jest will speed the trip
And may prove lucky tip
Tell it,
Evening star., 1937-09-09

Chinese bombers have in contempla-
ton raid on Toxic with renewed en-
phasis on an indifference to what may
happen to the e-prosperous tourist
traffic which must eventually be de-
pended on to repair the ravages of
fighting.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

One Of the facts that seems hopeful
about John Nance Garner is his appar-
ent willingness to get on without fight
even If he has to relapse occasionally
into personal quietude in order to do so.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

Phantom subs" are referred to in
connection with the new terror which
overtakes the world. The one regret is
that they are in no wise related to the
genuine physical fear that infects q
world situation.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

A meeting will be called in which Hit
Ter and Mussolini are expected to show
talents for becoming benign and placing
them where they will do the most good.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

It is now declared that John L. Lewis
has it in mind to become President of
the United States. By way of punc-
tual showdown, the opinion of the latest
appointee to the United States Supreme
Court should be solicited on this momen-
tous idea.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

AS events develop in Asia, Secretary
OF State Hull may be excused for con-
templating his position as calling for a
man who is closely observant but not
talkative.
Evening star., 1937-09-09
.Japanese Juggling,

From the Chicago Daily News.
Shooting foreign ambassadors with one
hand and waving aside foreign inter-
vention with the other is quantity
Japanese.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

Prize fighting experts are giving the
world gratifying demonstration of the
amount of business that may be done
by the deft exercise of conversational
powers.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

Having taken hand in the molasses
business, Professor Rex Tugwen neglects
to demonstrate that it is any easier to
handle than real estate.
Evening star., 1937-09-09
The Childlike Nature.

do you mean to tell me that tender
foot pulled gun cause he thought you
had stacked the cards?"
That's what I said," replied Piute
Pete.
you told me the game was going to
be like taking candy from a child"
yes But some children has awful
dispositions"
1T is well to speak your thoughts"
said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown "but
only prudent to reflect on whether you
would consider them worth while If you
were listener instead of a speaker"
Evening star., 1937-09-09
One Sure Direction.

From the Greensboro News
In the Far East no compass is neces-
sary; one always faces a crisis.
Evening star., 1937-09-09
Obsolete to Them.

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
Few creditors have ever been known
to take much stock in the old proverb
that time is money"
Evening star., 1937-09-09
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Evening star., 1937-09-09
Liberal Spirit.

Aren't your constituents unalterably
opposed to graft?"
Yes, indeed" replied Senator Sorg-
hum. But if put through an appro-
priation for their benefit that they aren't
exactly entitled to. they don't call it
that"
Evening star., 1937-09-09

Jud Tunkins says it's wrong to get ex-
cited and mistake an honest watchdog
who gives warning for a wolf at the door.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

O. What is the correct pronunciation
of "Amphitryon," the play starring Lunt
and Fontanne?-E w. H.
A. 1t is pronounced am-fit-re-on, with
accent on the second syllable.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

O. What per cent of the population
of China engages in agriculture?-A. B.
A. About 80 per cent of its population
of 453000,000. China ranks first in the
production of rice, soybeans. tea, kao-
liang, sweet potatoes, millet and vege-
table oils.
Evening star., 1937-09-09

@. What States were in the Con-
federacy?-C. F..
A. Eleven States were members Of
the Confederacy. as follows: Virginia.
North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia.
Florida, Alabama. Mississippi. Louisiana,
Tennessee. Arkansas and Texas.
Evening star., 1937-09-09
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Evening star., 1937-11-26
HOSPITAL ORDERS
REST FOR BINGHAM
Ambassador at Baltimore
for Examination-Sees
Hope of Averting War.
Ey the Associate Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. Nov. 26.-Robert w.
Bingham, Ambassador to England,
was admitted to the Johns Hopkins
Hospital yesterday after arriving from
New York. Doctors said his condi-
ton was not serious, but he was or
dered to rest and visitors were re-
stricted.
He was accompanied by his daugh-
ter. Miss Henrietta Bingham.
NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (P.-Belief
that another European war may be
"averted entirely" was expressed by
Ambassador Robert w. Bingham when
he returned from his London post
yesterday for a physical checkup.
He also said the prospects for the
completion of an Anglor American
trade treaty were "far better than at
any time in the past"
To See Roosevelt.
Mr.. Bingham, who suffered q re-
currence of malaria in England, said
that after thorough examination at
Johns Hopkins Hospital he planned
to confer with President Roosevelt and
Secretary Hull before returning to
London.
While remarking an Immense re-
armament program in Europe" he
said that on the whole the outlook for
peace was brighter than a year ago.
There is sound reason to hope
that war may be averted entirely"
he said. 1T must be remembered
that in Europe there is a sort of
chronic crisis. but since an actual
outbreak has been averted, there is
room for hope that in the end war
may entirely be averted."
Defends Conference.
Discussing the abortive Nine-Power
Brussels Conference, he declared that
regardless of the outcome "it should
have been tried"
"As long as there was any possibility
or hope of peace in the Far East.
nothing should have been left un-
done" he said.
He was attended on the voyage by
Dr.. Samuel Vest of Johns Hopkins.
He developed fever when he boarded
the ship, he said. but was feeling
very much better at the end of the
crossing.