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Evening star., 1937-09-26

Harrison Of Belvoir. Va; Miss Daven-
port OF London, England; Mrs. John
Cochran Of The Plains, Mrs. Lomax
Taylor of Fairfax, Mrs. j. P. Reardon
and Miss Helen Massey of Winchester
and Mrs. Francis Carter and Mrs.
Thomas Cochran of Alexapdria.
The arrangements in the Balch
Memorial Library and the exhibits in
the Leesburg homes will be on view
from 1870 am. until sundown.
In the library there will be groups
OF spirltuals sung by the Waterford
Quartette from 2:30 until s and sale
OF pottery, bulbs and dainties made
from century-old recipes, for which
Leesburg homes since Colonial times
have been famous.
Evening star., 1937-09-26

ceived his A. B. degree from Prince
ton, LII. B. from George Washington
University and M. P. l.. from Ma
stional University. He was formerly
"a member of the examing corps,
. United State patent Office. He is
member of the American Patent Law
]. Association and member of the bar
of the United States Supreme Court.
8 Courses in accountancy and law
got under way last Monday, with the
opening Of the university for the Fall
sem@ter. The university is enjoy
ing the largest enrolment in its his
tory. There were substantial in
creases over last year in the number
Of students enrolled in classes in both
the School of Accountancy and
School of Law.
Evening star., 1937-09-26
FRESHMEN JOIN
HILLTOP R. D. 7. c.
About 125 Rockies, Passing
More Rigid Physical
: Tests, Accepted.

Approximately 125 freshmen recruits
Joined the r. o. T. c. unit at George
town University last week.
S Due to the severe physical eXamina-
zion imposed this Fall under new
War Department regulations, Col. Jesse
G. Drain. military commandant, said
the new contingent of rockies" pro-
vided the best material he had seen
at the Hilltop. Experiences at the
various R. o. T. C. encampments last
Summer led the War Department to
order stricter physical examinations
hereafter at all colleges and universi-
ties.
For the l6 vacancies in the ad-
vanced course of the military depart
ment, Col. Drain said there were 40
applicants. The vacancies will be filled
by competition. Academic standing
will be taken' into consideration as
we'll as military efficiency. Confer
ences will be held with the college
dean, Rev. John E. Grattan. S. j., so
that there will be no interference
with extra-curricular activities in the
selection of the candidates.
Students taking the bachelor of
science course at the. college will be
ineligible for enrolment in the r. o.
T. c. because of laboratory studies
In the afternoon
Advanced Courses Restricted.
Because of reduced appropria tions,
the War Department has restricted the
number of students in the advanced
courses at all institutions this year
Georgetown was given an allotment of
80 men. Since there are already IA
seniors, the Is openings will be filled
by juniors. There is no limitation,
however, on the number of freshmen
and sophomores.
Students returning last week found
D new military instructor in Maj.
Stonewal jackson He is a graduate
of the General Staff and Command
School and of the Infantry School.
where he took the company officers
course. Maj. Jackson was the son of
Virginia soldier who served under
the Confederate commander. Gen.
"Stonewall' Jackson. He named his
son after his old commander.
Maj Evans Returns.
Mai. Vernon Evans is on duty again
this year in the R. o. T. c. depart
ment. The next few weeks will be
occupied chiefly with ORIGINATING the
freshmen cadets. the distribution of
uniforms and equipment and prelim-
tnary drills.
In the medical unit this year Col.
E. G. Mccormick. M. c., will have
two classes This is the second year
of the medical unit, which was re-
established last year by the War De-
partment.
Enrolment in the R. o. T. c. unit
at Georgetown is voluntary and never
has been on compulsory basis
Owing to the excellent cooperation
on the part of the university authori-
ties military training has been an
important factor at the Hilltop since
the World War.
A large number of the freshmen
members of the unit are from the
School Of Foreign Service
The Graduate School of Georgetown,
under the direction of the Rev. Alloys
ius j. Hogan, Ph.D. dean, will be-
gin registering students tomorrow.
Glasses start October T. The school
aims at limited student body so as
to provide for intimate contact be-
tween student and professor. Seven
new members Of the graduate faculty
were announced last Thursday.
Evening star., 1937-09-26

School. Clarence
lie Roy Parker,
who is actively
engaged IN the
practice of pat
ent and trade
mark law here,
will be the in
structor for the
new course.
Degrees Of mas
ter Of patent law
will be awarded
to those who sue
cessfully c o m =
plete the course.
Mr.. Parker, the
4refr,,ofor
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Marry Co Round
By Helen ROWLAND

Iful for the wife Of a man who
knows his own mind-and has
the nerve to SPEAK it. A NO.
husband!
NERVEI That's what the
American husband lacks. Nerve
to make his own children behave,
keep his own servants in awe, and
run his own house.
All the nerve in America is
cornered by the bachelors. They
have more of it than any other
set of bachelors in the world. But
once you get them all the way up
the middle aisle to the altar, 1t
oozes right out Of them and they
become Yes-huSbands.
An American husband, as I have
so often remarked, is what is left
of a bachelor after the nerve has
been removed" He may be a
tyrant or Simon Legree around
his office, but in his own home
he is just a pacifist-usually as
silent as the "P' in ptomaine.
He doesn't want the response.
bility Of deciding things. And,
until there is a divorce, q scandal,
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FOrerunner of Fascisrn

THE recent radio address Communism by Walter
Plant, District of Columbia Deputy of the Knights
of Columbus, delivered over nationwide hook-up,
struck answering note in the hearts of all believers
in TRUE democracy.
Pointing out that the for Communism lies in
improved hours, wages working conditions and other
measures of social justice, Mr. Plant said:
Communists profess burning love for democratic
ideals In reality however all their social and economic
thoughts contrary to concepts Of democracy COM
MUNISM Is THE F0RERUNNER OF FASCISM Let
them abandon Communism and the specter Of Fascsm
will soon disappear
Though Communists and Fascists alike are distinctly
annoyed when told that their systems resemble each
other, the two much alike in their theories of the
totatarian state their planned economy and their sup
preston of individual liberties
Each is at the opposite pole from true democracy
As Mr. Plant well says, the issue here is democracy
against BOTH Communism and Fascsm.
The more need, therefore, to STAMP OUT BOTH if
our democratic ideals not to perish they have
In 30 many countries abroad.
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little 10-year-old Rep. VIM T. C0nner5
daughter, Marie Therese.
It seems that Marie was being
twitted at school by the other chill
dren because her father is q Rep
resentative. 1t sorta nettled the
youngster, but she realized right
off that she couldn't do anything
about it, so in q burst OF irrlta'
ton she exclaimed:
''WeII, it isn't my fault"
Bill gets as big a laugh out Of
that one as friends Of Ed Brown,
the towering member Of the police
force who is assigned to guard the
Vice Presidents Capitol office, are
getting out of this one:
They tell the story that Ed
brought his little nephew to the
Capitol along with his cousin. The
nephew got q bit angry at the
cousin, whose name is Landon,
and didn't have really good time,
so on the way home he asked:
els he the one that was heated
In the last electiOn?"
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lwho have built up that great body
of classical learning which we in
America esteem and venerate.
Our hurgeoning American cul-
ture, so splendidly appraised in
Van Wyck Brooks book, "The
Flowering of New England, d."
reached out eagerly for the Ger
man pattern Of education. Our sys-
tenn Of university education took
over their details of majors and
minors and electives, with little re-
gard to its suitability for a fluxed
and unStratified democracy. And
we have in New York a University
of Exile as a haven for the few
men of courage and character who
dared resist the strangling of their
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you stood. And you wouldn't lie
awake nights wondering about the
climate Of Reno, or if q Mexican
divorce was legal.
There would be no before break
fast arguments in menage where
there was only one vote, one
opinion, and one wearer of
Stacks" Neither would there be
any servant problem, nor any
discussion as to who would go out
and tell the cook that the roast
was overdone and the pudding
inedible. Nor any scrapping as to
who should have the first look at
the newspaper. Perhaps you
wouldn't care to read a news
paper, anyhow.
You'd never have to decide
things for YOURSELF, and that
would be a comfort. When dull
and importunate people asked you
out for a dinner party, you'd
merely say. "I'll ask my HUS.
BAND"-and that would settle it.
He'd never make you the goat.
by saying, I'm see what the WIFE
says" when he wanted to crawl
out Of going.
Altar al. life must be very peace.
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might NEED THEM''

At q hearing before q special
subcommittee Of the Naval AT.
fairs Committee held to find out
how come that so many boys
were asked to resign from An
napolis because of bad eyesight,
one of the admirals explained a
few reasons why their tests had
to be so high.
He said for one thing that an
officer Of the line had to have very
good eyeSight to see a periscope in
time to swerve his ship and escape
submarines. And another reason
was that in time Of war the ships
all sailed at night without lights
and you had to be pretty good to
keep from ramming another ship
in the total darkness.
With a slight touch Of pride one
Of the admirals revealed that a
number Of commercial firms had
asked the Naval Academy to put
them in touch with the boys who
were going to have to leave, as
they wanted them, no matter if
their eyesight wasn't good enough
for the Navy.
One Of the members Of the com.
mittee said they ought to have
that list Of names Of the corpora
tons, and Representative Melvin
j. Mas said:
eyes, it would be good idea.
We might need them after the
next election"
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The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

Nancient culture by uncultured men.
It is not only in the countries
which have been driven into die
tatorships in which noble scholars
have been chained to the wheel
of the war chariotS. There is
probably no greater scholar In
England than Gilbert Murray,
brilliant translator Of the Greek
classics. Educated men and women
everywhere are indebted to him
for his masterful rendering Of the
classics.
But, from the day England en-.
tered the war, Gilbert Murray was
no longer a dispassionate scholar.
He was a rabid and Incorporate
war propaganda. He had a ire
mendous following in this country.
His propaganda service to Britain
undoubtedly had great effect in
inclining our cultured leadership
to our participation.
If the scholarship plan had been
working then, beneficiary would
have learned from Prof. Murray
that this war was a noble crusade
against a ravening beast, and with
conquest there would come a mil
lennium and the world would be
safe for democracy.
DUBIOUS LOGIC
This debt settlement plan is
obviously an educational plan, and
nothing else. Speaking bluntly,
vulgarly, perhaps, it doesn't look
like Europe just now is in a posi-
ton to set up as an educator.
There's a ME, too," squad Of pro-
fesSors yessing every angry igno-
ramus who has planted his hob
nailed boot on the neck Of the
arts and the humanitieS. They're
busted, they're scared, they're con.
temptuouS Of sound learning, and
there isn't a first-rate intellect In
Continental Europe that isn't a
CULVER chained by Yahoos.
The logic of the debt settlement
plan would seem to be that If we
let them pay their debts that way,
we can get their recipe for going
to pot in a big way. Europe has
infinitely enriched our life and
our culture. And can give you
the address Of all their immortals
right in New York. It is at
Fifth Avenue and Forty-second
Street. Meet Goethe there, and
Schiller and Shakespeare, and
Erasmus and Taine, and La Fon
taine and Montaigne, and all the
rest of the great faculty of the
ages-or at your own public IL
brary, If you don't happen to live
in New York.
And don't forget that it was
men Of great culture, many with
Continental training, who did a
beautiful job Of rationalizing the
World War and got us into It
such as the late Walter Hines
Page, Ambassador to England.
who started to jockey us in from
the start. And it was this war
that made the debts and the pro.
posal to accept payment by being
allowed to study the culture OF ma
lions which made this cosmic
wreck Of a great civilization.
There is some dubious logic here
somewhere.
Copyright. 1881. by King Features
! Syndicate Tns.)
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" AA u NV erSlCy Oh
Pennsylvania, is chairman of the
plan.
It is impressively sanctioned
Among the names of persons in
tereSted" on the opening pamph-
lets are Daniel c. Roper, Secre-
tary Of Commerce; John w.
Studebaker, Commissioner of Ed
ucation; william Green, president
Of the American Federation of
Labor; Frederick H. Stinchfield,
president Of the American Bar
Association; Bernard M. Baruch,
Bruce Barton, U. s. Senator Ger
aid P. Nye, John Haynes Holmes,
Sir Josiah Stamp, the British
economist, and many other SINH
larly weighty names.
TO PROMOTE PEACE
The proposed scholarships pro.
vide for all travelling costs and
living expenses up to $4,000 q
year. AS the last funding arrange
ment Of the war debts set 81 years
for amortization, it is estimated
that in so years about $1,000, OOO,'
900 could be paid off in keeping
about 5000 of our young folks
studying in Europe. The ad-
vantageS to the United States are
summarized as follows:
It would promote international
peace; it would provide the United
States Government with better
trained service employees; it would
enable the United States to col
lect something where otherwise 1t
probably would get nothing.
In the view of this writer, any
sincere effort to further the cause
of peace deserves careful and
friendly consideration. But, in all
the diSSenSion between town and
gown which has been going on for
the last eight years, I have seen
no offering Of the pedagogues
which has left me more hesitant
and puzzled. I had an idea thai
Europe couldn't pay its debts be
cause it had suffered not only an
economic but a cultural break
down, putting it mildly. Our
youngsters over there might learn
about Frederick the Great, who
q bit bored one day, made up his
mind he would start another ten.
year war. He told his chancellor
about it.
every well, Your HighnesS,"
said the chancellor. II will apply
myself Immediately TO finding .
suitable cause Of war and watch
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IN VERSE

Representative John M. Hous'
ton, q Kansas Democrat, thinks
that the continual hammering
at the New Deal by the minority
still makes q poem written by
Claude N. Clark Of Durant, Okla
homa (before the last election)
appropriate. It has eight verses
and ends like this:
''They offer as in days Of old
"A crown Of thOrns. . cross oil
gold
"A balanced budget'-can you
beat It?
Well, one things sure, you can
mot eat It,"
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breathing earth. I stand and
touch the Swaying trunk Of q
tree. I lift my eyes to the young
leaves streaming in the wind-fly-
ing like torn, green lace through
the glittering gauze of the air
tossing and turning in the sweet
and urgent air-and everywhere
there is life.
Everywhere there is life. pant
ing and pushing, showing and
Swarming, flooding and flowing.
Everywhere there is life and the
opening to life. Everywhere the
old bark Is being broken to make
way for the new sap. and the
old earth is being ripped to make
way for the new blade. and the
old sheath is being split to make
way for the new flower. Every.
where there is life and the giving
way to life.
NEW LIFE
Everywhere-life. In turning
earth and tumbling leaf and
swelling bark. in tiny creatures,
winged or furred or scaled. j..
everywhere, new life-except in
you and in me. Everything bend.
ing and being reborn to life-ex.
cept yourself and myself.
We, alone-we human things
will not bend, will not give our.
selves up. We alone stand stiff
against the flood and flow of
spring. holding ourselves tight
and locked. .clutching our old
habits and hopes, old fears and
feudS. holding ourselves fast
against change.
But how can we grow unless
we change? How can We have
new life unless we are willing 10
give Up the Old9 How can We
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Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
COME, LIFE!

LIFE!
live unless we die and are born
again?
Over and over we have wished
for more life, new life, better life,
Now it is here, tugging at our
hearts. offering us that chance
for which we have asked. but
still We stand stiff, refusing.
For we are afraid Of the new. ..
We are afraid Of the spring. We
dare not bend to the spring. We
are afraid to be broken. So we
stand stiff and locked against the
gypsy call Of spring .clutching
the old, the worn out, the dead
things. Clutching death, afraid
to give it up.
Why do we grow old? Why do
we die?
BECAUSE WE ARE AFRAID
TO BE YOUNG. WE ARE
AFRAID TO LIVE.
We have minds-let us use
them! We have heartS-let US
open them! Let US be as wise, at
least, as the earth and the trees
and the flowers. Let us say to
life
A PLEA
"COme, Life-take me! Have
your way with me! I will not
shut the door any more. will
not try to run away nor fight
against you. I will dare to bend
III will dare to be broken, il
need be, that / may be made
new again.
"COme, Life-I give mp. I give
up my graves. / give up my old
hates and hurts. / will stop
thinking of death. i will risk
life. / will risk new thoughts,
new desires, new loves. / viii
dare to live again.
"COme, life, with all you
have! Come with your quick
ening wind and rain. your
dangers and risks, humiliatiOnS
and failures, griefs and losses.
Come with all those changes
and challenges which will
shake me free from old sheath,
my old form, into a new body,
q new spirit.
"COme, Life-and take me!
For /, too, am your child. And
I, too, would be reborn with
spring"
(ThiS column tDelconses and
requests comments. Letters pre-
senting personal problems mas
also be sent. All letters tDiu be
handled confdentiGlly ana
GnSWered promptly IT stamped
addressed envelopes are ~.
clUded.l r
Copyright. 1887. BY Ktng Features
Syndicate. Tna.O
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for something that we can con-
strue as an overt act by the
enemy"
"NOnsense!" said Frederick.
Don't worry about that. Wen
just start our war and o million
pedagOgues will rush in to pro-
claim it divinely ordained Of
God"
He had his war! and that is just
what the learned doctors did
CorpSeS Uttered the battlefields.
Most Of the manias, villainies
and Stupidities Of European poll
ticianS, which have ended in gas
mask equipment for perambula,
tors, have had the pious sanction
of scholars-great scholars, too
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Greatest Show on Earth
BIZ Frank Miller Smith

a. Judge, he knows just now 70
do it and several times he's
warned witnesses that he's going
to get the facts in this case and
not allow any arguments to crop
up.
It wasn't long before he caught
the drift of one complaint against
the proposed abattoir and he
swept the room with q roar Of
laughter.
He kept interrogating one wit
ness very closely about the
number of residences there are
around the slaughter houses that
are now going full blast in the
city.
81 want to know about the
residences" he remarked, "be.
cause / am thinking about
moving the abattOir to CHEVY
Chase"
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Lots Of American women fancy
that they are already married to
"dictators" but that is merely .
bit Of hyperbole. Just because
your husband insists on censoring
your hats, your makeup and your
women friends, does not put him
in the MuSSolini class.
Yet, a bona fide dictator might
sometimes be rather refreshing to
have around the house - who
knows? At least, with a husband
like that, you would know where
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Sity of PennSyl-
vania, proposes
the partial set
Element Of war
debts due the
United States
by scholarships
gran t ed to
American stu.
dents by the
d e b tor coun-
tries. yron
Skillin, former
editor of the
w h a r t o n
N e W s Of Fl
nance, at the
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THE WORST

Representative Charles L. Gif.
ford says that so many members
of the House are prejudiced by the
Federal Reserve Boards mistakes
that it reminds him Of the story
about two ladies who met for .
little gossip. One asked:
do you believe the awful story
about Mabel?"
The other one replied:
eyes; what IL it,"
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has q sense Of
humor all his
own.
He gets more
laughs out of
his colleagues
than any other
member Of the
House, and his
jokes are all Of
the parlor va
riety. At times
mes not ABOVE
telling one on
himself: to w.t.
his latest has.
to do with his
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ow it is
sprin g, an d
everything is
alive. Brown
e earth, blu e
shadow, an d
tn m b ! ing tu-
multi Of pigeons
a G q in st the
long leap Of the
sky, everything
q RS with
life, glit t e S
q nd clamorS
with life.
I kneel and
put my face
st the
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It would, instead, add to and complicate his tax
problem.
For the average person buying home in Washing
ton or who has bought the average home is the person
who would be most directly and heavily hit by the in
come tax.
The home owner and home buyer are the people who
would have to pay the income tax.
It would probably be better even to raise the real
estate tax and let these people pay that increase di
recy and thus get rid of the charge often made in
Congress that property taxes here too low than to
tack onto the same people new tax.
The intangible property tax is levied against those
who have wealth and who should be able to pay their
share of the taxes.
The income tax would be simply duplication of taxes
on the average who is already carrying his full
share.
IF CONGRESS WOULD STRENGTHEN THE IN
TANGIBLE TAX LAW, AND THE DISTRICT BUILD
ING WOULD GET TO WORK AND ENFORCE IT,
THERE WOULD BE NO NEED EITHER FOR AN
INCOME TAX OR AN INCREASE IN THE REAL
ESTATE TAX RATE
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Keep This Pledge

Resolved: That It be the sense OF this conventton
that committee should be appointed by the Congress
of the United States to make study OF and TO report
on the granting to the residents of the District OF
Columbia the right of suffrage. Unanimously adopted
by the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia
June 26, 1886.
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Now it is May-and the air is
golden mist. A glittering, golden
gauze, filled with flying pollen,
perfumed petals and tiny, rides
cent wings in quivering flight.
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or q murder in the family, he'd
rather give in to the whole bunch
and sneak off and play golf, than
argue about things.
He keeps his religion, his cul.
ture, and his morals all in his
wife's name, and leaves all the
social and domestic decisions to
her. And then wonders why his
opinions and tastes are never con.
suited, and why he feels like a
stranger in somebody else's harem
around his own home!
CcopyriEht. 1897, BY King Features
Syndicate. 1Ae.)