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Evening star., 1937-03-04
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

TINE radio address Of Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Re-
publican, of Michigan
4 against the Presidents Su-
preme Court proposal this week was
landmark Of a phase Of the contro-
versy, a phase that may have future
consequences. Vandenberg was the
Evening star., 1937-03-04

Deeu UlOSt utlplul. VIC WcAs az ~
with q whoop-la and then-two
years later-began to see his work
attacked by men who had not only
refused to help discuss policies and
problems but who had voted for
the very measures which they later
deplored.
The political landscape is now
Uttered with 50 many lost causes
and with such a huge herd of sa-
,red oor,. that ~ 10 iy,,nossihle for
Evening star., 1937-03-04

Works Progress
Administra t ION
was born in 1885
she became as
sistant admins
traitor, in charge
Of women's and
professional prof.
ects. Some 5S5.-
900 men and
women receive
employment in
this division on
non construction
projects.
Ellen w 90 d.
" ard alw avs
Uunra her fate
Evening star., 1937-03-04

HE opinions of the rers this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented In
The Stars effort to gipe all sides of questions of interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1937-03-04

an lnAIlenapIe rlgnt 70 DEED, put lC
would seem to make for Nvelier
and more workable world If we
began by accepting the inevitable
in easy installments and took the
future, rather than the past, as our
province.
Let's assume that Mr.. Roosevelt
will succeed in packing the Su-
preme Court. The consensus of
coyoratent pross oniuior at WASH
Evening star., 1937-03-04

strikes. You will notice production
has been cut from 121 to ia since
December. The motors strike, the
glass strike, the West Coast mari
time strike and the floods are re-
sponsible for the drop. Prospects
for March are much brighter, now
that these factors have been elimi-
mated, but no one Is counting more
than 80 days ahead, because Of the
probability Of coal strike.
Each figure in the chart Is
which were based on 1926. The
Evening star., 1937-03-04
An American
You Should
Know
Ellen Woodward, W.P.
A. Aide, Made Human
itarianism a Career.
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

BY DELLA PYNCHON.
w YHEN you hear Ellen Wood
M ward say with her soft
Wv Southern burr. 81 declare
it's right heartening to see
pc 1ple happier" you feel encouraged
over the future Of works progress and
what she calls "the most comprehen-
sive program ever put on anywhere
In the world"
In September. 1888 Mrs. WoodwaD =
was appointed assistant to Harry
Hopkins, ther administrator of Fe
eral emergency relief. When the
Evening star., 1937-03-04

that
ing the court.
The Senator did speeches. both the
proved the
The point clear that
going to win congressional approval for his program
screaming
They misleading.
situation
1925
allow
living, will find actually
NoThe yearly for 1896, being
published actually 90 aHw population
Evening star., 1937-03-04

1925 100 based 1925 The
Seasonay adjusted the percentage relation
hin
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News Behind the News
Flood Factor Seen as Pushing One Senator Into
Court Plan Eyes" Group.
BY PAUL MALLON.


SENATOR that
cmmuning with God and his conscience he had
~ Rooseyels courtackng plan
effective speech, poll
sometimes
backfes
whether
Evening star., 1937-03-04

ing the Senator may have mispro-
nounced the word. He may have
meant Gov" instead of God"
There is no need to mention
names, but the Governor of this
Senator's State was in town q few
days earlier. The Governor told
friends that he had come to Wash
ington for the dual purpose of flood
control and fixing up the congress
sional delegation for Mr.. Roosevelt's
court plan. He proudly announced
The Washington times., 1937-12-21
Ostrich!
DaUe Ducks Under:
But Ma Finds Hin,

While police were conducting a
city-wide search for him. eight
year-old David B. Garrison. 4O5
Tenth st. N. W., slipped quietly
into his home and tucked himself
away beneath a davenport.
His mother, Mrs. Alice L. Garri-
son, heard a disturbance in the
living room and upon investigation
: found him.
- ~ The boy failed to put in an ap-
pearance at home at his regular
; bedtime and his mother requested
!, the police to search for him.
When she found him beneath
the davenport, she said, David
tried to make her believe he had
been asleep there for hours. Upon
closer questioning, the boy admit
! ted he had stayed out late with
I'sorne fellows in the gang"
The Washington times., 1937-12-21
Philadelphia Graft
Inquiry Is Studied

NEW YORK. Dec. d.N.sJ-Re-
Gently designated to investigate
charges of official corruption in
Philadelphia, three deputy attor-
neys general of Pennsylvania were
here today studying the methods
employed by RacketS Prosecutor
Thomas E. Dewey, district attor.
ney.elect of New York county.
They are Edward A. Lower, jr.;
James N. Lafferty and Charles r.
Hindley.
The Washington times., 1937-12-21
Police Hunt Pair
Who Stole Engine

DETROIT, Dec. 81 Q.N.S.)
Two enterpriSing young men, who
stole a locomotive and then
crashed it into two moored freight
cars, today were the object Of a
search by Ecorse police. The loco
motive was taken from a Michi.
gan Central siding in the Nichol-
son Terminal and Dock Company.
The Washington times., 1937-12-21

Actors Who Never Use Their Own
Faces Are Filling o London Theater.
The Story of Their SuccesS-and Some
Striking Pictures Of the Players-Is
One Of the Features in The American
Weekly, with Sundays Washington
Herald Times.
The Washington times., 1937-12-21
COLOR AND ANIMATION

Mines. Seeger and HoltzScheiter
and Mr.. Steffe had some attrac.
tive assignments and all made ex-
cellent display of their gifts and
attainmentS. Despite brief rehear-
sal the orchestral elements, never
too difficult, were played with
color and animation, as was, like
wise, the interpolated dream mu-
sic from "Haensel and Gretel."
The choral drama was prefaced
by a fantasy on Christmas carols
by Vaughan Williams, whose fame
in this country is associated al
most exclusively with "a Lonson
symphony" This highly original
and interesting work treats such
traditional melodies as "The
Truth Sent from Above (Here-
fordshire), Come All Ye Worthy
Gentlemen" (Somerset), ION
Christmas Night" (Sussex) and
'There Is a Fountain" (Hereford-
Shire) in scholarly fashion. Set
for choir and baritone solo, it af.
Horded Mr.. Steffe a larger oppor-
tunity to display his art.
The Washington times., 1937-12-21
CHORAL DRAMA,
bethlehem" IS.
PRESENTED HERE.
Fine Results Achieved
: By Conductor Ross
BY WILLIAM NEWMAN

Rutland Boughton, an English
composer, author of many books
. about music including a daring
" one about the opera of the future,
was made known in his first
capacity by the performance of
his choral drama bethlehem, "
last night in the National
Theater.
The National Choral Union, Of
this city, provided the forces
engaged, the distinguished con-
p ductor and the members Of the
orchestra excepted. The former
Is Hugh Ross, head of New York's
z famous Scola Cantorum. The
latter were drafted by George
! Gaul from the ranks of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra.
SPLENDID RESULTS
= Mr.. Ross, whose contact with
his chorus and soloists must have
been of the briefest, found a
, 1outined group of singers at his
command, all Of them members
!. of this city's best known choirs.
Being master of his craft he
achieved fine results. The sing
ing of the set of choral variations
on the hymn, 20 Come All Ye
Faithful" which BouChton in
corporated in this score, was Q
brilliant moment in the perform
ance.
The score Of bethlehem" in
cludes many references to an
cient English carols, some of them
quite genial. 1.-THE Holly and the
Ivy" "The joys Of Mary" and II
Saw Three Ships" were the best
known. The nbretto was adopted
from an old Coventry Nativity
Play. It is the weakest element
in the choral drama. The prin-
cipal roles were taken by Dor
othy seeger (Mary). Ina Holtz-
scheiter (GabrieD, Edwin Steffe
(Joseph). The children's chorus,
supplying the angelic voices, was
the st. Cecilia Choir Of st. AL.
bans, a well-trained group and
certain.
Evening star., 1937-12-30
blockade Of the Chinese coast specifically
exempted ships of third countries,

blockade Of the Chinese coast specifically
exempted ships of third countries.
The ten commandments Of the Jap
anese military include not only series Of
obviously hostile acts such as espionage,
attacking Japanese armed forces, inter-
fering with communications, and SO
forth. but three which are so general
that they suggest an attempt to intimi-
date governments which still have large
numbers Of nationals In China.
These three clauses deal with "activ-
tiles designed to disturb the peace of
Japan's armed forces; planning, instiga-
ton or assisting in any of the prescribed
activities; and harboring persons en-
gagged in them" Japan, of course,
reserves to itself the right of Interpreting
what constitutes each of these of1enses,
but it is clear that many activities,
innocent in nature. might be construed
as designed to disturb the peace Of
Japan's armed forces" Every house,
holder with Chinese servants faces the
danger of being accused of "harboring
persons engaged in" hostile activity.
The sincerity Of Japans assurances
to the United States as the result of the
Panay case is Immediately placed In
serious question.
Evening star., 1937-12-30
Don MARQUIS.

The world knew and generously appre-
ciated Don Marquis as a literary clown.
His friends, more intimately acquainted
with the sensitive spirit of the man,
found him q misdirected genius. Few
OF his contemporaries were endowed with
so keen an Imagination It follows that
not many Of them suffered as he did.
In Washington, Don was a Census
Bureau clerk and a reporter; in New
York. he served successfully on the Sun
and the Tribune as feature and editorial
writer and as a column conductor.
When, at last, he believed himself free
from routine employment, his health
failed him. More than his share of
little tragedies combined to drag him
down into one final. tedious and long
continued misery from which a tardy
death now has released him.
Don did not wish to be remembered
as the creator Of Archie the Cockroach.
Mehitabel the Cat and the Old Soak.
His finest and his truest verses are those
which appeared In Dreams and Dust"
The larger portion of his subsequent
production represented compromise with
circumstance, a concession which he
hated.
But Don was not insincere He loathed
sham and pretense, and he frankly en-
joyed the opportunity to ridicule hypoc-
risy The tragedy of his career WAS
that which developed from his inability
to adjust himself to his own tremendous
ideal. Poking fun at Others he did not
hesitate to punish the mind and the
neart which visioned and loved grander
achievement yet could not attain to it.
Don, however. was far from defeated,
He lived in the wrong time, was i'm
mersed like shakespeare's dyer in what
ne worked in but he pleased millions of
readers and that was a thing more
notably worth doing than he, perhaps,
believed. In any event, he won measure
OF fame which will not be dissipated
soon. His name is safe in the memory
Of multitude.
Evening star., 1937-12-30
Death for Americans.

AS a fitting sequel to the American
retreat from its insistence upon specific
guarantees against further interference
with American rights and interests In
emma comes now an attack by the
Japanese upon a fundamental American
treaty right in China-extraterritoriality,
Less than forty-eight hours after the
Panay incident had been officially
closed the Japanese military launched
another provocative incident with the
threat Of death to foreigners, in
cluding Americans, for the commission
Of series of hostile acts against Japa-
nese military forces around Shanghai.
Japanese military courts are to take
Jurisdiction from established American
courts and try Americans at their own
whim.
At first limited to the Japanese-con-
trolled sections of Shanghai, the claim
to this right has now been extended to
the International Settlement and the
French Concession in that city.
The right Of a conquering army to
take effective measures for its protection
against subversive actions Of all persons
under its sway is conceded by inter-
national law. but Japan does not yet
stand in the position Of a belligerent in
the view Of countries other than China.
This principle was recognized when the
Evening star., 1937-12-30

would have to be ornamental as well q
useful, or 1t would conflict with the
general scheme for development Of an
attractive Capital City. And this re-
quirement undoubtedly would make the
project more costly.
It has been suggested that the ele-
waited highway could be financed with
q bond issue and q small toll fee I'M
posed to liquidate the cost. That might
be practical. But no undertaking Of this
sort should result in an increase in the
local tax burden, which is too high
already.
Evening star., 1937-12-30
One.Time Farmer on
The New Deal Policy
10 the Editor Of The Star:

40 Jue G0AtOI VI AHc otSI
When was farming in Franklin
County, Iowa. from 1885 to 1905, sold
many carloads Of hogs for So to $3.50
per 100 pounds, and many carloads OF
fat corn-fed CATTLE White-Face Here
fords and Black Angus for less than
81 per 100 pounds.
One fall I bought 200 head Of cattle
weighing about 1000 pounds each, nine
carloads, out west of Crayton. Nebraska,
and shipped them to my farm in Iowa.
I fed them nearly year, and sold
them in Chicago for about $4 per 100
pounds. and lost $4,000. Eggs were worth
5 cents per dozen. Hens IS cents each.
One winter bought 10000 bushels Of
corn for II cents per bushel, and held
some of it for five years.
I never heard OF the Government
helping the farmer then.
Why help the farmer now, with hogs
in Chicago at So per 100 pounds, and fat
cattle from $l1 to $12.75 per 100 pounds?
Why not let the farmer alone, and
let him raise all the crop he wants to,
and then crib one-haH Of 1t. That Is
better than plowing it under, and then
importing corn from Argentina.
Why pay the farmer $3 per acre to
plow under his crop? 1t is a loss to both
the Government and the farmer.
I have Rad that Joseph cribbed up
corn in Egypt for seven years.
I am glad to know that our Presi-
dent will not accept peace at any price.
We win have to let past mistakes go.
49,. = THOMAS KELLEY.
Evening star., 1937-12-30
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

representable in terms Of physical
models. For some time the orthodox
biological point Of view has been that
physiology is branch of physico-
chemical science. Lately. however. the
tide Of opinion has swung away some
what from exclusively physical concep-
tions of the living organism. Physics is
in its nature spatial representation. Its
subject matter is an external world, con-
sisting Of entities and factors with
spatio-temporal interrelations. Physiol-
ogy also conceives life as complex physics,
as an externality which. however COM
plex in kind. is bound to yield its secrets
to persistent physical analysis.
THE difficulty of this conception is
that it represents only one aspect OF
life-the external. There is also its inner
side, its intrinsicality or immediacy.
which is a matter of direct experience
and hence has priority over the external
ization and physical analysis of orthodox
physiology.
Each man is aware that his inner life
has features which are not spatially rep
resentable. or indeed representable in
any terms. No descriptive combination
Of concepts, however ingenious and ex-
act. can be substitute for any strongly
felt immediate experience. A pain q
what it is-pure affective experience. It's
scientific description Is no consolation
to the sufferer. We cannot describe it.
We can only point to 1t. All we can do
is to call attention, verbally or other
wise. to the experiences themselves.
These have terms or qualities common to
all human beings. perhaps to all expert
encing subjects other than human. There
is a character Of Intimacy about them.
Certain ultimate seem unanalyzable,
like the concept of energy in physics"
And in the very nature of things. DR..
Lille believes, science will always be
begged down in its search for the ulti-
mate In life because 1t can deal only
with what Is describable.
Evening star., 1937-12-30
Fascism Marches On.

About the time President Roosevelt
this week was voicing his growing
concern" over world events" Fascism
was scoring its newest triumph. In
Rumania the Liberal and Francophile
Tatarescu government was supplanted
by cabinet which is avowedly Fascist,
anti-Semitic and pro-German. In ap-
pointing Octavian Goga, co-leader of
the National Christian party. as premier.
King Carol installed regime thoroughly
in sympathy with the ideologies of
Hitler and Mussolini and with their
anti-democratic foreign policies. Ru-
mania, hitherto allied with France in the
Little Entente, and in friendly accord
with Soviet Russia, may now be ex-
pected at the earliest opportunity to
sever her relations with Paris and
Moscow and strengthen her ties with
Berlin and Rome. Fascism marches on.
Foremost among the facets of the
crisis at Bucharest is the extreme anti
Semitic hallmark of the Goga govern
ment. Oppression of Jews is an old
story in Rumania. Thirty-odd years
ago conditions were so outrageous there
that the United States Government felt
called upon to make representations Of
protest. Since advent of Hitlerism in
Germany, the fires of Rumanian anti
Semitisn have been famed by NaI
agents. In 1885 the veteran Jew-baiter,
Professor Alexander Cuza, fused his
group with Gogas National Agrarians
to form the National Christian party.
The fact that the latter obtained only
ten per cent of chamber seats at last
weeks elections affords some hope that
the new premier's rule will be Short
lived. for the King is said to be de-
termined to secure a chamber in which
some party commands an outright ma
jority. Tatarescu's Liberals failed at
the recent polling to gain such margin.
Gogas immediate task, therefore, is to
hold new elections.
Out of the crisis not only new
Fascist bulwark is destined to be created,
but also an additional European dicta-
torship as King Carol, with the army
at his back, is apparently in position
to exploit the chaotic political situation
to that end. With Germany, Italy,
Poland, Austria, Hungary and Rumania
under totalitarian or semi -totalitarian
sway, or under 1talo- German theological
influence the continent, from the Baltic
to the Adriatic. now forms an almost
solid Fascist bloc. Developments at
Bucharest thus strike a fresh blow at
what is left of democracy in the Old
World. Because of the new international
alignments which they portend, they
are designed to cause growing concern"
not only in Washington, but, of course,
to an immeasurably greater degree in
Paris. London, Moscow and Prague. 1t
would be ostrich-like for country even
as remote as the United States to under
estimate the world significance Of Fasc-
ism's sweep across Central Europe.
Evening star., 1937-12-30

Lowell street.
Dear Sir: have Just read With in
terest your comments about birds in
today's This and That
Il wonder how many bird lovers are
aware how fond certain birds are of all
kinds Of melon seeds-watermelon, can
taloupe, honeydew, ETC.?
"They also like hemp seed. which can
be obtained for q few cents q pound at
feed stores.
I'VE maintain feeding shelf during
the winter and have as most frequent
guests Kentucky cardinals. the tufted
titmou5e, chickadee and nuthatch.
"A very fine mixture for these birds
is sunflower seed, melon seeds Of all
kinds and hemp seed. They seem to
prefer this diet to broken corn, which
is cheaper than sunhower seed and hemp
seed.
During the summer months we make
practice of drying and saving the
melon seeds for the winter feeding.
1T seems a pity that so much good
bird food goes into garbage cans. One
certainly is repaid for his trouble. If
he is fond Of birds.
yours very truly,
IL. w. s."
4 II
There will be thousands of people
feeding the birds as the result of Christ
mas presents Of feeding devices and
seed.
1t is just as we'll that all these new.
corners to royal sport know from the
start that they will be more than re-
paid for all their trouble.
Yes. feeding these creatures Of the
wild Is some little trouble.
1t Is no small chore to wade out in
the deep snow Of the yard to refill
empty stations.
There are many small perplexities
which will come to those interested, but
all Of them can be solved by patience
and especially by tolerance.
We wish especially to warn newcomers
against permitting this combined indoor
outdoor sport to get them in a grouchy
mood against anything or anybody.
Squirrels will come, when they are
not asked. and they will make furry
nuisances out Of themselves.
Pigeons will gather to the feast.
English sparrows and starlings, hungry
as we'll as any. will seek food and warmth,
resulting in life to them.
Even a hungry rat or two may de-
eide that bird food is pretty good eating.
There will be many other problems.
some connected with animals, others
with people. but each and every one of
them is best solved by patience.
-
At this season in the year. and at
this time in the worlds history, it be-
hooves all civilized persons to think
twice. or even thrice, before they add
anything. even In q small way, to the
load of hate which encumbers the globe.
Feeding the birds may not seem a
momentous occupation, but surely it
Is one which adds to the worlds store
of thoughtfulness and kindness
Let us make sure that we sully it in
no way.
II
One Of the interesting phases Of this
good hobby is seeing how many different
kinds of foods may be utilized.
People In many nearby States have
been writing in for several years. now.
to tell Of their discoveries along these
Evening star., 1937-12-30
DeplOres Destruction
OF Evergreen Trees

TO the Editor OF The Star:
I find little cause for rejoicing in read
ing Of the enormous annual destruction
Of evergreen trees for our Christmas
holidays-over 100000 In Washington
alone.
A large percentage of these are des-
tined to become merely a glut on the
market and find their way to the local
dump heaps to perish pathetically with
out even their brief hour or two Of
tinsel glory.
How much better If the merchants
who line Santa Claus lanes with footless
forest trees thrust into receptacles to
conceal their amputations were to con-
centrate on having one beautiful living
evergreen planted in each local public
area. This would be thing of beauty
and a Joy the year round and could
be used annually as the official neighbor-
hood Christmas tree similar to the one
in Lafayette square.
In all of the material world a tree
is perhaps the only living thing that
grows lovelier with the years instead of
uglier. So man in his ruthlessness hacks
1t down. THERESA H. RUSSELL.