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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18

Today the old Chain Bridge across the
Potomac at Georgetown is cld6ed and
thus the first step is taken toward the
erection of new adequate viaduct,
which has long been needed. 1t is esti-
mated that the new construction will
require about eight months and during
that time large numbers living in and
visiting Virginia in the area which the
highway crossing the bridge now serves
will be materially disconnected. This
disadvantage, however, is but pre-
liminary to the establishment of via
duct of insured safety and greater &C.
commodation than the ancient one now
standing.
The inadequacy and insecurity of
Chain Bridge have been subjects of pub
lie comment and protest for many years.
Successive freshets have revived fears of
its collapse. 1t has been necessary to
limit the load carried and to require re-
duced speeds for vehicles. Its approaches,
too, have been such as to make 1t a
point Of possible disaster apart from its
own weakness. Now 1t Is to be replaced
with a wider viaduct and the approaches
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18

Rex, the dog sees the bee, and snaps
at it.
He does not comprehend bee, however.
He does not say to himself, Nov, that
Is bee"
Many human beings allow themselves
to get into the dogs frame Of mind too
easily.
"A bee" such person says, lis moth
ing to me. What do know about bees?"
Bees may be something to others, he
would say, II some one prodded him about
bees, but they can be nothing to him.
Everything can be something to every
one.
The tragedy OF life is that all too many
persons put themselves into water tight
compartments, as far as the mind is
concerned, and keep themselves there
all the rest of their years
Is not this just another way OF saying
that man is a narrow brute In many re-
spects in SO far as his most precious
possession is concerned?
With mind which might take in all
things, he limits it to few
Then thinks these few are not only
the best, but ALL
Many home gardener plants roses,
and refuses the beauty of peonies.
Many an addict of peonies cannot
see" as he says, the grace, beauty and
interest Of the gladiolus.
At 10 minutes after o'clock the other
night there was an "unearthly" light in
the garden.
Unearthly is the word chosen to stand
for strange Or nj her. Uorl61y
1t is unearthly, as we say, because it is
different.
Grass and foliage seem exceptionally
green The sky is clearer. The colors of
flowers more vivid.
The effect lasts about minutes.
1t is gone, and may not come again for
many weeks, or months.
Be sure to know when 1t arrives.
Tantalizing fragrances are continually
arising in garden work, but they must
be realized as they arise, else are worse
than lost, never being known at all.
1t is as II one were carrying around q
big sum OF money which he didn't know
he had. II it were lost, it would not
bother the one who lost it.
So with scores of garden fragrances,
which play their part in the occupation,
but are lost unknown, through the pre-
occupation of the gardener.
very practical side to this form of
appreciation lies in the value of such
close inspection in detecting plant
enemies.
One who stops to sniff at branch and
leaf, to say nothing Of flower, is much
more likely to find plant enemies and
pests than one who is not interested in
the scents Of the plant kingdom
The very physical juxtaposition of nose
and leaf gets the eyes close enough to
see everything, to note everything. pro-
vlded, OF course, one is thinking about
everything.
we cannot dismiss mind from the
senses without losing a great deal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
Alternative Policy.

Representative Hamilton Fish, jr., of
New York, speaking in the National Ra-
dio Forum, has suggested that the Re-
publican party should be "liberalized."
Unless the existing organization is
brought into harmony with advanced
social philosophy, he declared, Gin the
next election we won't even carry Maine
and Vermont"
But there are, as usual, two sides to
the problem. Many loyal Republicans,
it would seem, will be hesitant to at
tempt to compete with the New Deal
in the business OF making promises to
voters. President Roosevelt is so much
a master in that field of showmanship
that 1t might be difficult to find candi-
date ready and willing to match pledges
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
Retrogression Among
The Nations of TODAY
To the Editor OF The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
Since time immemorial mankind has
attempted to progress In political phil
osophy to point where the individual
and the state can plan together con-
structively for the benefit of the body
polite. Strange as it may seem, neither
has been able to attain that spirit of
cooperation so requisite to the promul-
cation OF harmonious social organiza-
ton.
Throughout the great powers of the
Eastern Hemisphere we find general
confusion relative to the new and in the
most part impractical theories emanating
from the present statesmen of Europe
These theories have more than once
been the stimulus of fear, suspicion and
in some cases even resorted to disturb
ances which were prone to throw all OF
Europe into international turmoil
In Japan today the best example of
the foregoing statements is constantly in
operation. In that land exists military
ollgarchy bent and determined to carry
out an imperialistic policy which in
evitably will mean complete dissolution
If continued in it's present course. The
people OF Japan are reputed to be one
OF the most peace-loving peoples in the
world, but camoufiaging this inherent de-
sire is selfish and INSCRIPTIONS clique,
mind made up to partition the five north
ern provinces of China and destroy the
territorial integrity of this nation.
In statement issued recently by the
Chinese Ambassador, DR.. Chengting T.
| Wang, he said: China is seeking a posi-
| ton OF freedom and equality among the
| nations OF the earth. The ideal that
| we are carrying out on behalf of our
| great leader, DR.. Sun Vat Sen, in the
revolution OF 1911, is to bring to China
an alert but not aggressive sense of
natlonallsm, democracy expressing it
sell through republic, and common
sense realization that the chief interest
OF the individual is livelihood"
The individual or the state, which Is
the more important? That is the ques-
ton that has permeated the scrolls of
mankind from the ancient patriarchial
| families to the modern complex social,
economic and political set-ups which we
| enjoy today Is the state to be the
servant of the people. or shall the In
dlVlduals be the servants of the state?
The interests which exercise such con-
troll both in Europe and Japan only
the people the idea that such is requisite
to more abundant life. To break down
this hypnotiSm and re-educate the people
to the true facts it is imperative to re-
establish the basic formula on which
every democratic government depends,
| that Of freedom of the speech and press.
We are familiar with the policies of Hit
Ter, we are aware of the monstrosities
in Spain and we know the way of
Rome. Is Japan to succumb also? If so,
God help the cherry blossoms.
Are such monStrostieS constructive re-
form? Is this the Utopia of which Moore
and Bellamy dreamed? Is this the way
| to enlightened mankind so that he some
| day may demonstrate the spiritual mani
festations that are rightfully endowed to
him? If this is their answer, we pray
| for the results
BENJAMIN r. STICKNEY, Jr.
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with him If he should be drafted" for a

with him If he should be drafted" for a
third candidacy.
Also skilled observers report gradual
change in public sentiment. Something
not altogether unlike the trend toward
normally" which in 1920 carried War
rem G. Harding into the White House
has been discerned. The country is not
fundamentally radical in the normal pat
tern of its mind. Rather, 1t experiments
with revolution only when 1t is desperate.
And the panic of 1882, according to Mr..
Roosevelt himself, has been pretty thor
oughly liquidated. Not even the .Presi-
dent can scare the electorate out of its
wits just now
Current tendencies, moreover, will have
developed their natural reactions before
1910. People who have, jobs want to
keep them; they will be apt to express
their conservatism at the polls-not their
liberal altruistic impulses. Especially
when they begin to consider the tax
burdens they are carrying they may go
individualistic." Mr.. Roosevelts endeavor
to raise the economic and social status
OF the lowest onethird of the population
makes music in Tobacco Road, but not
elsewhere. The middle class has nothing
to gain by compulsory endowment of
professional idleness and greed.
But Mr., Fish has forgotten another
factor. In common with many another
frightened Republican, he has failed to
remember that the New Deal came into
power because of the detection of thou
sandS-perhaps millions-of G.. o. P. adj
herents who are not definitely comfort
able under the Presidents reformatory
leadership. Some of the Migrants already
are homeWard bound. When enough of
them have returned, they will make their
influence constructively felt. Burnt chill
dren, it will be their function to fear the
fire, not to play with 1t wilfully again.
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enlarged so that 1t will give far more

enlarged so that 1t will give far more
efficient service than its predecessors.
There has been a bridge across the
Potomac at this point for more than a
hundred and fifty years. The first one
was built under an act of the Maryland
Legislature incorporating the George
town Bridge Company" That, however,
was not a chain" bridge Indeed, the
name which has been so long given to
the bridge now to be destroyed did not
come into use until the fourth of the
five viaducts at this point was erected.
The second bridge was built in 1897.
1t was constructed of wood and was of the
covered type. 1t collapsed in seven years
after erection. A new one was built
at once and was soon after swept away
by freshet. In 1884 the first chain"
bridge was built. 1t was an iron sus-
pension structure supported by immense
cable chains stretching from pier to
pier. 1t was eventually destroyed by ice
and driftwood which lodged against the
chains and piers at time of high water.
In 1874 the structure now about to pass
was erected, retaining the old name of
Chain Bridge"
Bridge designing has greatly improved
in the course of the years during which
this now condemned structure and it's
predecessors have served the public
needs There is no occasion to doubt
the stability of the new viaduct, what
ever the pressure exerted by the river
torrents and the debris brought down
by the high waters Whatever name may
be given it officially, it will probably be
known at least for generation as Chain
Bridge. It's title has become so thor
oughly identified with this means of
crossing the Potomac that it may per-
slst for all time. But whatever the name,
the new bridge will be welcomed and
1t will serve greater multitude of people
than ever used any of the earlier viaducts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
Ibis AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Fragrance in the garden has been
treated thoroughly in several interesting
volumes.
More important for the individual
gardener is the actual smelling az he
goes around.
The aroma of the good earth comes to
the amateur just little better than to
almost any one else, because he is pc
culiarly interested.
Hardy farmers at their highly impor-
tant tasks may not stop to appreciate the
aroma of hay fields, but the humblest
back yard gardener knows the fragrance
of grass fresh from the lawn mower
There are a thousand and one delight
full scents, some sweet, some bitter aris-
ing from even the smallest plot Of
ground.
Even tree bark has a scent all it's own.
There is not a branch of the smallest
annual or perennial which hasn't some
thing of the aroma of the forest hanging
to it.
Just as there are certain times in the
garden when everything in 1t seems
focused in a strange and beautiful light,
SO there are hours when every plant has
its fragrance.
Nicotiana, yes, and a multitude OF
others, but the naming is unimportant;
what matters is the individual apprecia-
ton at the very time.
This is the difficult thing but he who
manages it has whole new world of
interest.
This is the way to make life success
full, no matter how much one earns or
doesn't earn.
To be real philosopher is not to be
famous, but to be unknown, and to
like it.
A small garden is one Of the best places
to be unknown in.
There the unknown bees, with lineages
millions Of years long, launt their wings
in the sun.
There is no history to this tree.
In their season, however, there are
many sweet smells, attracting the bees
and others.
Understanding these odors means ac-
tually smelling them, and speaking of
them at the time.
Unconscious sampling is not as good
as conscious.
To have mind and to use it in all
corners OF life is better than to use the
mind merely on the orthodox matters,
such as earning living.
X
The 100 per cent user Of a mind may
not concentrate his energies to the bet
ter amassing Of wealth, but he will gain
something else.
What can it be but content?
Content is a continual feast" said
some one.
This is the best way to eat ones cake
and have it, too
1t can be done, this way.
10 have and to hold really means
knowing everything as something, not
Just permitting much to slide in and out
the mind without mental realization.
1t is not as easy as it sounds.
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now ne spends the money, present Sumo
interesting statistics. These SURVEYS now
oelng tabulated were made by the Bureau
Oh LABOR statistics, Department of Labor
ana oy the Bureau of Home Economics
Oh ehe department Of Agriculture. bv the
former IN some 80 large cities scattered
throughout the United States and bv
tne latter IN many small cities, towns and
Vluages. They are yielding important
information for sellers of consumer
goods. Statistics already tabulated re-
veal That there was a striking similarity
IN the percentage of income spent for
similar goods and services in the differ
ent cities. In the Ohio and PENNSYLVANIA
towns studied by the Department of
Agriculture it was found that is ner
cent OF the families had been on rei,ef
at some time during the wear as com
pared with 26 per cent in the towns and
villages Of the Midwest States and 81
per cent in the New England villages
Colonel Robert Fechner, director of
the Civilian Conservation Corps. after
conference with his advisory council. has
Planned an unusual innovation to be
applied at the camps This is a plan
10 Keep the new boys" arriving in the
camps-the majority OF them actually
being boys, averaging II to IS years OF
age-from becoming homesick. Realiz-
Ing that many of them are away from
home for the first time in their lives
1t has been decided that special efforts
shall be made to make the "enrolleeso
satlsned and get them promptly inter-
both company officers and educational
ADVISERS are being instructed to try to
create, through general persuasion and
frequent conversations" feeling of con-
tentment in the minds of the fresh ar
rivals at the camps.
Japan's demand for Chinese co-opera
ton against communism, as recently ad-
Vanced by Foreign Minister Koki Hirota
may have an effect contrary to Japa-
nese aims, In the opinion of Robert s.
Morton, writing from Shanghai in the
current issue of Pacific Affairs, quarterly
OF the Institute OF Pacific Relations
Speaking OF the war of minds" now
going on beneath the surface of the pres
ent Slno-Japanese conflict, he states that
subcurrent OF Chinese opinion is in
chned to listen to Communists, not so
much because of their social program
or their actual record in China. as be-
cause they denounce and oppose Japa-
nese imperialism more openly than does
the cautious Chinese government"
4
There Is fine distinction in the titles
OF the members OF the Supreme Court of
the United States. Eight of them are
properly addressed as associate justices
OF the Supreme Court of the United
States. But the Chief Justice is not
merely chief justice of that court: he is
the Chief Justice of the United States"
the chief justice of all others in the
land.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
Change of Wesley Heights
Bus Stop Protested
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Thanks very much for the letter In
Thursdays Star, Street Car Difficulties
at Many Loading Points" May I add
another protest and mention that the
change in the Wesley Heights and Fes-
sender street buses stop from Seven
tenth and K streets to across on Con-
necticut avenue is not only exceedingly
dangerous, but most inconvenient for
those transferring from the Mount Pleas
ant cars? Now we have two dangerous
streets to cross instead Of one, and, by
the way, why is 1t that we have
really no cross town service from this
part and section Of the city? II you live
in Wesley Heights section how are you
going to get to Eighteenth street and
Columbia road7 G. p. BILLIARD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
A Costly Victory.

The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of Senator Black to be an
associate justice of the Supreme Court.
1t did SO by an overwhelming vote, 63
to Is, after bitter debate in which the
fitness Of the appointee was assailed in
vigorous terms, by Democrats as we'll
as by Republicans. The confirmation
was effected by a bipartisan vote, three
Republicans voting yea and six Demo-
Gratis nay. Thus the Senate ignored
the question of eligibility, raised on the
score of Senator Blacks participation
in the action increasing the "emolu-
ments' of the members of the bench
to which he was appointed. 1t also
ignored the question of his alleged
membership in the Ku Klux Khan,
which, if established, would have rem
dered him suspect of a prejudice unfit
ting him for membership in the highest
court of law.
This conflict over the suitability of
the appointment of the successor on
the bench of Justice Van Devanter has
arrested the attention of the Nation to
the possibilities involved in the selec-
ton of the six additional justices pro-
posed by the President in his message
to Congress of February T. 1t is the
general belief that if that measure had
been enacted and the President had
hppn Ujven tho oF
pointment all six of the nominees would
have been chosen with reference to
their attitude toward the questionable
measures OF legislation which form the
structure of the New Deal. In other
words, that the court, thus enlarged,
would have been packed with partisans
rather than with jurists dependable for
an unprecedented test of the constitution
ality of enactments
Had the President, in filling this va
cancy, chosen man of eminent legal
ability and judicial experience-in both
of which qualifications Senator Black
is definitely deficent-he would have
allayed somewhat the apprehension
caused by the proposal of February 7.
1t would have been the wiser course to
follow. He could readily have found
man of such ability who was not SO
plainly chosen for his precommittal to
the valuation of the dubious measures
which are still to come in the course of
New Deal legislation.
Naturally the course of the new JUS
tice in his service on the highest bench
will be closely observed. Despite the
dubiety attending his appointment, in
respect to his participation in the emolu-
ments increase for which he voted and
in respect to his association with an
organization of which it cannot be said
that it represents the spirit of law, he
will take his seat on the bench and
the court will without doubt accept him.
But his selection leaves the President,
despite the addition to the court of a
partisan Of his program of legislation,
definitely weaker In public support.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
Care of the Feet.

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your feet are subject to-fallen arches,
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They are the foundation on which you
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Order your copy today. Inclose ten cents
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Qualifications for
The Supreme Court

To the Editor of The Star:
"Mr President, I am an applicant for
> the next vacancy on the Supreme Court"
That's fine! Have a seat Now, what
do you know about the Constitutions"
mo more than you want me to know,
Mr.. President" Wonderful, simply Won
derful. Mac, take this gentleman's
name Head of the list" II thank you,
Mr.. President" II thank you, sir, for
coming" FRED VETTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18

Congress is anxious to permit it's
members to get back home and ascertain
clearly just what the prospects are for
a demand for discipline. The people
frequently become patient rather than
decide that a new deal may have its
time limitations
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18

Students of attire are becoming fiercely
candid in estimating the effect on the
imagination of indiscriminate display.
The subject is worthy of serious atten-
ton among those who regard human
knowledge as valuable for the restraints
which it may impose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18

Tammany has played many kinds of
politics. Time has assisted in explain
ing its various demonstrations and DR..
Copeland is evidently confident that the
day has come for the public to regard
it as plain man-to-man proposition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18

AS an evidence of the mixed motives
which may animate a statesman, Mr..
Borah unburdens soul, troubled and
yet determined, and votes for Mr. Black
while audibly disappearing of him. Mr..
Borah has warned several public men
that they were making mistakes, but
avoids the mistake of gratifying his en-
emies by relapsing into inaudibility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18

This city would undoubtedly know
how to manage a race track in a fair
and satisfactory manner, provided it
could have assurances that race track
thus conducted is what is wanted by
influential citizens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18

James j. Walker has something coming
to him under the rules of New York
political craftsmanship and intends to
collect, even If some of his best service
was rendered by getting out of the
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18

The feminine interest in politics might
be still more helpful and encouraging if
there were not SO much masculine ad-
vice asserted with purposes OF coercive
authority.
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Thought and Speech

I try to think before I speak,
The process is dismaying;
In silence then I try to think
OF anything worth saying.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-08-18
Ideal Apartment Dog.

From the Omaha World Herald.
A Silver Springs, Fla. girl owns dog
that ways his tall UP and down-the
perfect type for city apartment.
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Deferring to Sentiment

'Are you what they call a practical
politician?"
NO." replied Senator Sorghum, II used
to be one but sentiment out my way has
run to so many new theories that I feel
called upon at times to seem as i'm
practical as possible"