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Evening star., 1937-06-24

against it-not once, but several times
since 1919 Then, when spokesmen for
vested interest" in the Improvement
OF prevailing manufacturing policies
were weary with the exhaustion OF plead
ing, a new ally appeared In the person
OF resident Of Chicago who took the
floor as a mere citizen and taxpayer.
He demanded better stamps in the name
OF everybody. The available variety he
declared were unworthy Of great
nation"
But he cid not blame the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing. The fault, he
said, lies with the enfranchised democ-
racy of the United States. If it be
willing to tolerate continued inefficiency
and expense, it ought to get the kicks
which now are being aimed at the Gov
eminent. Officials admit that dry"
process steel engraving is to be preferred
to wet" but they are not volunteering
to accept responsibility for recommend
ing the necessary change. Such a re-
form. as they very properly insist, is up
to the public" Hope for the correction
OF prevailing conditions, then may be
found only in popular support for the
appeal OF philatelists, who, through the
Phllatelic Agency and every other postal
station under the Stars and Stripes.
pay the bill
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Report of Henry Dyer
On Economics Prophetic
To the Editor Of The Star.

10 the Edltor OF The Star
Recently, while making research
upon the subject Of the Cooperative
Wholesale Societies, Ltd. of England
and Scotland (and they are really CO.
operative), I found a most interesting
leading article entitled THE Influence
OF Modern Industry on Social and Eco
nomlc Conditions" written by Henry
Dyer, c. E., M. A., D. S. c. This was
in the annual report for 1892 1t was
a remarkable report and I will quote one
particular paragraph entitled Trusts
and Syndlcates in America: I'm order to
find the logical outcome of system it is
necessary to examine cases in which
1t has been carried to an extreme, and we
require to turn to America to see the
social results of trusts and syndicates.
The legislators have been bought to sup
port their exactions, and the rights of the
public specified in most ruthless man
ner; and the Americans, with all their
boasted liberty. are being reduced to a
state OF bondage more complete than
ever existed under the feudal system. But
the people are now beginning to awaken
to sense of their danger, and associa-
tions are being formed in every State
either for the purpose of overthrowing
the combinations Or of rendering them
harmless. and preventing the threatened
obliteration of law and morality in the
unrestrained riot of private power. It
Is much easier, however, to see the evils
than to suggest measures to overcome
them. 1t is quite evident that the powers
of the trusts must be limited in some
way, or they must inevitably be taken
over by the state"
WILLIAM S. WAUDBY,
Evening star., 1937-06-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

one really has to have rather tough
epidermis to enjoy the great outdoors in
Summer what with the flies. gnats, mos
qultoes and many another flying, crawl
Ing thing often with bite or sting.
1t follows as the night the day that
there will be certain proportion Of peo-
pie who, though admitting the desirable
ity of plenty of fresh air and sunshine,
yet shrink from getting it.
Usually these persons receive little
sympathy from others, the members of
the great tough-skin clan, whose integu-
ment laughs heartily at the efforts of
mosquitoes and others to puncture it.
There are some folk who actually repel
fleas and other biting things: fleas from
the family pet may enjoy a full meal
from the thin skinned, but seldom even
look at the others.
1t is easily apparent then, that those
who enjoy this immunity will have little
conception OF the trials which many an
other person must go through at this
time OF year.
Smoke smudges and the like are
rather nuisance and often fail to pro-
tect the sensitive.
Wherefore screened porches have their
uses for multitude of persons who SIM
ply say nothing about the matter, but
protect themselves as best they may.
These were the people forever getting
ants down their backs at picnics in the
old days.
Maybe they order such alfresco din
ing better today, but in the famous
yesteryear, which some believe COIN
cided with the real golden age, there
seemed always to have been plenty of
ants at picnics. No golden age" about
that
1t may be that memory rather dis
torts the picture, but in retrospect all
that one recalls OF certain picnics was
the humble ant.
1t was always in the pickle jar, OF all
places, when 1t wasn't trying to crawl,
and with remarkable success, usually,
down the aforementioned back of ones
neck.
Really fiendish ingenuity was exerted
by the members of the ant tribe in Sc
lectlng the part of the anatomy which
was rather difficult to see Had the
front of the neck been chosen. a we'll
directed hand might have settled the
matter quickly, but when the creature
selected the back thereof the victim
wished he had eyes in the back of his
head, too.
X X
1t all went back to skin sensitiveness
An ant in the collar of non n-sensitive
person was just an ant in the collar and
nothing more.
Down the neck of the sensitive, it was
curse, an affront, despicable attempt
to wreck an otherwise good party.
Often it succeeded.
No person with a skin which resents
ants is ever happy after he ina gines one
OF them is crawling on him.
The old imagination, some one says,
and is right about it.
But full-fedged ant is big enough
to drive such person to a full use of all
imaginative powers.
1t is not just imagination, let it be
known, but mostly sensitive skin.
Not even single hair can fall athwart
Evening star., 1937-06-24
such a skin without 1t being felt In

such a skin without 1t being felt In
stantly.
How, then, can an ant be missed?
*x +
Bees and others of the singing tribe
help nightly in making the outdoor ex-
cursion of our victim a thing not alto
gether to be cherished afterward.
But if the memory is bad, the actual
experience is worse. The mind is hurt
as we'll as the body, for there is some
thing to be resented in the mere fact
that these insects would not leave one
alone.
Here, with hundreds of other people
around, the bee selects unerringly the
one person who dislikes it most.
Bees are said to possess an instinct
that way; many thin skinned person
will be perfectly willing to agree.
X X X X
Ears and eyes suffer a great deal from
the winged bits of life in the Summer air.
The first, evidently, gathers 'em in on
account of its cup-like shape.
Shine lures 'em to the eyes.
GnatS and similar small things make
life miserable for many a strong -Willed
person who said to himself not many
minutes before, We'll, I guess I must get
some sunshine and fresh air"
The moment he appears 20 full-sized
gnats note his entry into their scene and
make a gnat-line in his direction.
The first one there usually manages
to get in.
Only by the most expeditions blinking
is the victim able to keep that initial
gnat from making a full entry.
If it manages to squeeze by the lids,
it is dead, of course, but still in the eye
The latter is what irks the fresh-air
gatherer.
A gnat in the eye is as nothing to the
great tough-Skinned clan, but to the
person with thin skin there is moth
ing thinner than the tissues of the eye,
evidently.
Nor will glasses or goggles keep them
out, as might be thought by one unac-
qualnted with their powers of per-
sistence.
A gnat is small, but mighty-in de-
termination.
II it wants to get in ones eye. it clev-
erly flies around the pane Of glass and
works it's way up underneath
Nothing shall stop it, it says as plain
as anything.
Usually nothing does.
Hence the person with sensitive skin
finds Summer a not unmixed blessing.
If he stays indoors, he looks pale and
loses caste with the red-faced if he
goes out, he merely furnishes food for
thousands of greedy mouths attached to
winged and flying things innumerable.
Flies can bite as sharply as mosquitoes.
There are many unknown insects which
manage to do effective work from the
mere standpoint of annoyance.
One of these in the eye. or attempting
to work its way down the ear, is as
much nuisance as if its full name were
known
1t is not so much a matter of knowing
something, after all, as of avoiding some
thing. But the air is full of something's;
and the skin is tender; maybe the porch
is best, after ALL
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Reopening of Police Boys
Club Means Much to Lads
To the Editor of The Star;

To the Editor Of The Star:
The first thing think of in connection
with the reOpening of the Police Boys
Club in Kenilworth Is, of course, tho
chances to participate in the different
kinds of sports. At the present time,
we are most interested in base ball. We
were put in the right mood for this when
the various clubs in the city were invited
to Bob Feller's day" at Griffith Sta
dium. All the members of the clubs were
allowed to go into the game free Boxing
and wrestling is getting started now, too
Then there are games for others who
aren't on the teams. These games in
clude ping pong, pick up sticks, box base
ball and many others. Although not
exactly sport, the reading room with
its many books is nice way to spend
your time
The Boys Club is somewhere where
fellow can learn how to be a man. We
have to learn to be good sports and clean
AVers Smoking, swearing, drinking is
not permitted in the club. We are learn
ing to play the game fair and square,
ana, II we lose, we can still come out
on top by being good sports about our
losing
Our director. Mr.. Earl Dunlap, means
lots to the boys OF our club. He is a
good athlete and fine man and he
intends to help the boys in the club be
that way, too. He not only is teaching
us how to run bases and pitch a good
game, but he teaches us to be real men.
We are all looking forward to going
to camp this Summer. 1t will be great
1un and wonderful advantage to be
able to get out in the wide open spaces
and learn about nature as well as to
keep ourselves in good physical condi-
ton. At the camp we will have a
chance to meet the fellows from the
other clubs and learn how they manage
their club affairs. We, of course will
always think we are the best, but will
learn lot just the same. At the camp
we will have to live on a regular
schedule.
The Police Boys Club is a great thing.
JOE ARMSTRONG.
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Navy.Built Battleships.

Apart from the budgetary considera-
tlons which governed his decision, Presi-
dent Roosevelt's order to build the two
new 35,00O-ton battleships Washington
and North Carolina in Navy Yards is
tribute to the efficiency of the construc
ton branch of Uncle Sans fleet estab-
1ishment. 1t is explained at the White
House that the wide differential in costs
between bids submitted by private yards
and the estimates of the Navy made it
imperative to intrust the work to the
governments own construction plants.
The lowest outside bid for one of the
battleships, s55,875,824 was submitted by
the New York Shipbuilding Corporation.
The Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpora
tion's tender was $59,90O,000. The Phila-
delphia Navy Yards estimate for one of
the ships was s36,56o,3O0, while the
Brooklyn Navy Yard at New York put in
an estimate of $37,265,843. The round
$20000,000 excess of each private bid
over those of the Navy Yards is, of
course, occasioned by the fact that COM
mercial builders are subject to fixed
charges and overhead of various kinds
that do not exist in the case of Govern
ment shipyards. The new social security
taxes and other substantial Federal
revenue requirements are factors which
impose upon private bidders higher
construction costs than those which
1lgure In the calculations of Navy Yards.
The assignment Of battleship building
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Lunch Room Worker Cites
Results of Wage.Hour Law

To the Editor OF The Star:
Minimum wages and maximum
hours" There are so many arguments-
for and against. Now here is the case
OF the lunch room as explained to me by
a worker (not boss):
We have, for instance, right now four
OF these places in certain block Each
employs eight men, 80 in all The four
proprletors are not prospering. but they
are getting by The help works rather
long hours and doest get any too much,
but. anyhow, they have jobs
NOW comes John Law and orders less
work and more money. Two of the
proprietors, weakly financed, can't stand
1t. They discharge their is men and
close up. The customers, who must eat,
troop into the two who stay in business.
THOSE two proprietors now do we'll. But
in order to take care of this additional
windfall they don't double the help BY
Judiciously arranging their hours as
to rush time" and dull time" each can
handle everything with u instead of 16.
And so we have now two places employ
ing "a instead of four with 32 Net
result: Two bosses are making money,
"a employees are enjoying decent wages
and easy hours. On the other hand we
have two employers and eight employees
who are out-temporarily, or maybe,
permanently. Besides, the real estate
man has two empty stores on his hands.
Take your choice
Mr.. John L. Lewis. speaking, of course.
OF much larger affairs, contends that
financially weak concerns "have no busi-
ness to remain in business" It's a great
conundrum thatll have to be solved by
trial and error. Next thing some onelr
propose that the help is to be hired and
paid according to the amount of business
done.
In any case, as it appears to the COM
mon man, the entrance of the Govern
ment into the field of practical economies
was absolutely necessary. Industry "let
alone simply didn't get anywhere.
FRED VETTER.
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Why Not Make Members of
Congress Earn Salaries?

To the Editor Of The Star:
What does Congress think the tax
payers pay them $4,000 for about six
months time and lot of perquisites
besides. Why not change the laws to
have only one Senator and two Repre-
sentatives to represent each State. Put
them on full time of II months 80 DAYS
leave), make them punch the clock and
work same hours as other Government
employees do.
It takes some work to earn $4,000
and dare say there are many who never
earned that amount in private life and
will not earn it again if voted out.
Is it not about time that something
was started to put a stop to many of
the things happening these past few
years? JAMES T. FINK.
Evening star., 1937-06-24
The Third Term Boom.

lie nlrO Term Boom.
Gov. Earle's declaration for President
Roosevelt for third term leaves the
pennsylvania Governor in an entirely
safe position politically. 1t is obvious
that If the President is willing to take
third term nomination at the hands
OF the Democrats, he can have it. If,
on the other hand, the President declines
fatty to become a candidate for another
term OF office he will, nevertheless. be
IN position to dictate very largely who
the candidate shall be. Earle's early
declaration for the denomination of the
President, his willingness to submeree
his own personal ambitions, the fervor
with which he has followed in the foot
steps of the New Deal President. may
bear fruit in the Democratic national
convention of 1910.
Had Gov. Earle not started the boom
tor third term for President Roosevelt
the chances are that the discussion of
his own candidacy would have grown
apace. Neither Gov. Earle nor any other
potential candidate for the presidential
nomination is anxious to be out In front
at this early stage. The national con-
vention which makes the nomination is
three years in the future. 1t is clearly
good tactics for Earle to get out from
under. His recent action in the Johns
town steel strike, following on the heels of
his earlier sympathetic moves in the in
terest Of the c. l. o. unions, had been
widely interpreted as meaning that the
Pennsylvania Governor was intent upon
having the support of the c. l. o. and
its militant leader, John L. Lewis, for
the presidential nomination.
While Gov. Earle appears to have safe
guarded himself from too early a bloom
ing in the garden of presidential can
didates, he has stirred up the politicians.
He has put into words the thought of
lot OF Democrats and others-the idea
that President Roosevelt will be the Sc
lection OF his party, the New Deal element
particularly. for third term He has
advanced the idea, too, that if the coun-
try needs Roosevelt-and he maintains
that the country will need him-the ira
dition against third presidential term
should be cast out of the window. When
that tradition goes, the American theory
OF rotation In the highest Office in the
land will 60 with it. A President who is
sufficiently strong may perpetuate him.
self in Office as long as he desires once
the American mind is attuned to such
proceeding
How many Democrats will proceed now
to Jump on the Roosevelt band wagon,
set in motion by the Governor of Penn
sylvania? Or what will President Roose-
Velt himself do to halt the boom? The
President has said once or twice that
he hopes to be enjoying himself at his
home in Hyde Park the day after his
successor takes the oath of office in jan
uary, 1941. That is a hope, not the
expression of fixed purpose. He could
clarity the situation materially by stat
ing definitely that he would not be a can
didate to succeed himself in the White
House. 1t is scarcely to be expected,
however, that the President will go that
far. If he did, he would lessen his own
influence and prestige. The thought
that he may yet continue to be Presi-
dent four years from now doubtless has
its effect.
Evening star., 1937-06-24

Mexicans, it is positively asserted, do
not support bull-fghting for it's blood
thirsty aspects, which, of course, they
deplore, but are enthused only over the
ability and agility of the matadors Nor
DO residents of the United States sup
port horse-racing because of the chance
TO bet and sometimes win thereon. They
are strong for it only because it Is SO
essential toward improvement in the
breed Of horses. Ho, hum, warmer TODAY.
is it not?
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Representatives of L. S.
Sail on Foreign Ships


The Sunday Star carried an interest
Ing story about number of Government
attorneys sailing for the Hague in
August to attend law conference in that
beautiful city. The thrilling feature of
the item discloses that these Govern
ment-paid men have engaged passage on
French Line steamship The item
omitted to mention If any discussion of
the American merchant marine act
would be entered into by these able
American lawyers. President Roosevelt
has Just asked Congress to appropriate
Sl6O,000 900 to build UP an American
mercantile feet. The project is generally
approved, the taxpayers being willing to
contribute to support this sound doc
trlne. What shall be said OF these law
yers drawing handsome salaries from
the United States Treasury paying over
that money Of the American taxpayer
to the French Line?
One OF these men is described as legal
adviser to the State Department. Does
Secretary Hull approve of his legal ad-
wiser rejecting an American ship in favor
OF French boat? Another is adver-
tlsed as an assistant to the Attorney
General. Does Mr.. Cummings sanction
such f1agrant disregard of the Presi-
dents policy?
When the Presidents message comes
up in Congress for the usual committee
hearing The Sunday Star article should
be placed in the record with the names
OF those favored Government employees
who prefer French to American ships.
Would it not be a good idea to sum-
mon them before the committee, where
they could explain their preference?
Perhaps those gentlemen can discover
superior scheme of government in the
French method, especially with respect
to the French system of payment of its
debts to the United States.
HILDEGARDE ROSECRANS.
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Annual Events in
The United States

You will like this unusual booklet, which
tells about the big annual event in eacn
State in the Union. 1t contains page for
every State and the District of Columbia,
with beautiful tinted illustrations and ample
descriptive text. 1t will be interesting to
learn about the celebrations of the various
States as nothing portrays the personality
Of people more than the events which
bring them together. Send in your name
and address, with 10 cents in coin, care-
fully wrapped, to The Evening Star In
formation Bureau, Frederic j. Haskin, di.
rector, and your copy will come to you
promptly.
Evening star., 1937-06-24
Mail Must Move.

Although this is an age that witnesses
new marvels in the speed of commune
cations every day, it is none the less
breath-taking to realize that the De-
partment Of Justice has already learned
that the United States mails have been
lnterfered with in the steel strike, Nov
ing with amazing precision, the alert
Watchdogs of law and order at the De-
partment OF Justice no sooner received
word that the mails were being interfered
with, doubtless relayed to them with tre-
mendous speed from the Post Office De-
partment several blocks away, than they
accompanied words with action.
The Attorney General declares that
interference with the mails will not be
tolerated or countenanced The mails
must be delivered. The whole power
OF the Federal Government is behind that
position"
But what position? That, unfortu-
nately, seems to be another matter. A
few days ago Mr.. Howse, the First As
sistant Postmaster General was explain
Ing to the Senate Post Office Committee
that the mails do not move when vicious
dogs or other strange or alarming ami
mails might bite the postman The
watchWord of the Post Office Depart
ment, the Senators were informed, is
safety first.
And this position received adequate
backing from the Postmaster General
himself, in answering suit in District
Court to compel him to deliver the
mails. The Postmaster General charged
the steel companies with acting in bad
faith by attempting to get the Post Of
flee Department involved in a contro-
versy between the steel company and
the strikers. BY delivering mail, the
Postmaster Generals argument seemed
to be, the Post Office would get itself
involved by helping the steel company
as against the strikers. BY not delivering
the mail the Post Office Department
would avoid becoming involved because
it was helping the strikers and not the
steel company.
Statutes under which the department
operates, the Postmaster General said,
not only permit but require the exercise
OF discretion" in the acceptance and de-
livery of the mail. And the refusal of
the postmasters at Niles and Warren to
accept foodstuffs for mail delivery was
neither arbitrary nor capricious.
Furthermore, said the Postmaster
General. to deliver the mail under exist
ing circumstances would require 'addi-
ton equipment which the defendant has
not available, and, in addition, would
expose its employees to grave risk and
danger in making deliveries"
In other words, the mail did rot have
to be accepted anyhow. If it had been
accepted it would not have to be deliv-
ered because to have done so would have
endangered postal employees. That posi-
ton was assumed, said the Postmaster
General, squarely within the law.
And the whole power OF the United
States Government, thunders Mr.. Cum
mings, is squarely behind that position.
THE mails must be delivered-that is,
any mail which the Post Office Depart
ment has accepted for delivery" And
as the Post Office Department will not
accept any mail the delivery of which
might endanger its employees, against
whom is the whole force of the United
States Government to be exerted? AS
Alice found out, in surveying the delights
of Wonderland, it is all most confusing.