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Evening star., 1937-09-04
Keeps Record Straight
On Airport Legislation
70 the Editor Of The Star:

40 tIe EdltoI ol ne otaI
Permit me to point cut an error which
you made in reporting, Thursday eve
ming, the history of the Washington
Hoover Airport improvement bill, vetoed
by the President.
Your reporter stated that this bill had
been passed by the House after the
bill to establish a new airport at Camp
Springs Md, had failed" If you will
refer to the Congressional Records of the
last two days of the session it will be
apparent that the bill to improve the
present privately owned airport was
passed by the House on August 20,
whereas the Camp Springs measure did
not come on the floor of the House until
late in the day on August Il, it having
been passed promptly by the Senate
some time previously, and received IA
vorable action in the House Military
Affairs Committee from which it was
reported out during the latter part of
adjournment week.
Your error is not serious one, but it
leaves the impression that noble states
men in the House passed the improve
ment bill as last resort in their effort
to give Washington an air terminal only
after failure of q bill to provide the
Capital with real airport. This is
more credit than they deserve: for it is
a matter of record that they would not
give consideration to the monumental
airport bill until they had first taken
care of the vested interests.
Strictly, the Camp Springs bill did not
"fail' in the House. Pages 12349, 1883
and 1889 of the Congressional Record
of August 81 will show that the Speaker
adjourned the session while Representa-
tive May still had the floor on this bill
and just as two objections to its con-
sideration had been withdrawn. In read
ing the record Of the performance" it
seems doubtful whether the Speaker did
not actually consider that the bill had
passed, for it appeared to have gotten
all of the consent that was given other
passed bills, under the rush system.
A humorous sidelight on this affair Is
that, as reported by press, the Speaker
rushed from the rostrum Immediately
after bringing down the gavel on the
Seventy fifth Congress (first session. and
kissed Representative Mary Norton on
the forehead; and 1t was the bill she
was sponsoring in the House that was
blocked by the Speakers hasty announce
ment of adjournment
BENJAMIN KING.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Straw Hat.

The Straw Hat.
Oh, 1t bossomed in the Springtime and 1t
trembled in the breeze
That brought along an unexpected chill
1t was highly decorated with strangely
colored frieze.
And traces of its beauty linger still
1t was only one of many that were
smiling fresh and fair
When the little birds were singing light
and gay.
Like the final rose of Summer 1t must
lie neglected there
My old straw hat is fading fast away.
1t has lost It's fair complexion, It has
shed it's shapely lines.
Time has gnawed into its edges like a
file.
1t once looked like the top piece Of the
picture in the signs
That show young gents dressed up
with proper care.
But like the other incidents of senti-
mental glee.
1t withers as the skies are turning gray.
And that is why we warble in melan-
choly key.
The old straw hat is fading fast away.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Inquiries are received as to what has
become Of Templeton Jones, whose small
doings have been set down here from
time to time over the years.
Jones is we'll.
He has been doing nothing much in
particular, he says, just going along, max
ing the best of life as he finds it.
Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm
down." says Jones, quoting an old spirit
ual
The mishaps OF Jones, OF course are al
ways more interesting than his successes.
Most Americans like to talk about their
achievements, seldom prefer to say any,
thing about their failures.
Here and there is man who likes to
tell all, especially when the so-called Joke
is on himself.
Tempeton Jones' latest Joke hinges
around chocolate cigar.
Tommy Smiles, his sunny old friend,
gave it to him.
Smiles owns an automobile and all,
but he really belongs to the horse and :
buggy days.
Often he and Jones think back upon
those times. They talk about the beauty
of candlelight, and even the fine glow
OF kerosene lamps, but it is significant
that they seldom use them If they can
get out of it.
Smiles has one glowing memory, per-
haps not a strange one, but only an
interesting one.
The candy of his childhood years still
intrigues him.
Recently he decided to recall those
pleasant memories in a more pointed
| way than usual.
He bought gross of chocolate cigars.
In the old days they sold at a penny
apiece. didn't they?
1t would have been impossible, in
those days, to have thought of buying
l44 of them at one time.
Two usually was enough, and FIVE or
six the outside limit of childhood's pur-
chaseS.
Hence it is easily seen how far Smiles
had gone in comparatively few years.
1t was indeed, wholesale purchase,
made in mature spirit of recklessness
No sooner had Smiles started down the
street with his box, than an inferiority
complex or something swept over him.
What would his associates say?
They would say plenty, he realized, If
they knew,
The box must be kept from them then.
AT his Office the exuberant Smiles lost
no time in hiding his treasure
A few chosen friends-old Temp Jones
was one-should be initiated, but the re-
mainder must be left in ignorance.
1t was in the spirit of deepest secrecy.
therefore, that Jones was handed a
chocolate cigar.
Try it." said Smiles.
Il used to like EN- replied Jones.
I still do commented Smiles, en-
Enthusiastically
Jones nibbled the end of his cigar
ref1ectlvely, trying to Jump back 80 years.
He couldn't quite do it.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

tionary." Instead, he was distinguished
for his humanity. Literally thousands
of his contemporaries in Journalism were
indebted to him for cooperation Of value
beyond price. He never. was too busy to
help a friend, never too preoccupied to
entertain genuine interest In any COL
leagues problems. Multitudes of stran-
gers appealed to him, not in vain, for in
formation on every conceivable subject
under the sun. It amused him to listen
to them and pleased him to accommo-
date them. Happy in his profession and
modest about the honors it brought him,
he finished his career with rational self
satisfaction in it's fruits His services
cannot be forgotten by the generation
to which he belonged and to which
from first to last he was a credit.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Travellers Notebook Omits
Accent as Aid in Spanish

To the Editor of The Star:
This refers to The Sunday Star, Au-
gust %, section D, The Travellers Note
book" The writer gives number Of
sentences in Mexican Spanish which
might help the tourist. But he neglects
to fortify the stressed" syllables with a
q. The tourist1l talk; but the natives
won't know what he is talking about.
But he could write down those sentences.
could he not? Yes, but most of them
can't read. FRED VE-IER.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Robert Hunt LYMAN.

The World Almanac is an institution
for which an army of Americans are
grateful and it was the genius of Robert
Hunt Lyman, who passed away yesterday
In New York, that made it so. He was
native of Huntington, Mass, who
graduated from Yale and served his
apprenticeship on the Springfield Re-
publican in the eighties. Later he was
successfully Albany correspondent, night
editor and London edition managing
editor of the New York Herald, man.
aging editor of the New York Recorder
and. for three long decades, a member
of the staff of the New York World. He
had reached an age at which some men
might prefer to retire-f1fty- eight-when
he entered upon the work for which he
will be most notably remembered.
Mr.. Lyman was by nature a connois-
seur of facts. His training and expert
ence confirmed his instructive predilec-
ton for the unadulterated truth. 1t was
said of him that he was possessed of a
horror of errors, that accuracy was his
religion. And there was constructive
method in his madness" He believed
with Benjamin Franklin that education
is not so much knowledge in itself as it
is skill in the finding of knowledge. His
aim. then. was to provide the public with
q guide book as well as an encyclopedia.
Tho Almanac under his management,
from 1922 until last April, was Baedeker
for every sort of pilgrim in every kind
Of progress.
Yet 1t would be wrong to suggest that
Mr.. Lyman was merely walking die
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Ask These Questions and
Figure Out the Answers

To the Editor Of The Star:
If you are travelling 80 miles per hour
down winding road, how many feet a
second are you travelling?
II some one coming the opposite way
at so miles an hour finds you going 80
miles an hour, hugging the inside lane of
the curve on which he is travelling, and
you hit head-on, what force Is exerted
by the impacta
Presuming there are 90, 900 900 people
in the United States who drive in auto
mobiles during the year, and II $4,000 of
them must die because of automobile
accidents, what are your chances of being
one of the $4,000?
How long does it take for broken leg
to heal, If ever?
Will your insurance cover an under
takers fee for fairly decent burial
slate vault and headstone included?
How do you think it would feel after
the seventeenth month of lying fiat on
your back hoping that internal injuries
will heal?
Don't you think it would be terribly
amusing to find that you couldn't get
dates like you used to, just because you
didn't have nose any more and all your
God-given teeth we're scattered along the
road where that front tire blew out?
Do you think the economic situation in
this country is such that the little woman
could support your three kids after you
are gone by taking in washing?
Has the last premium on your life in
surance policy been metz
Can you imagine anything more novel
and exciting than plowing into the front
end of one of those beautiful new stream
lined locomotives, the distance and speed
of which you humanity miscalculated?
Why do you kid and joke and brag
about the time you, Tom, Isabelle and
Mary were coming down the mountain
at IS miles an hour, sheer drop of 300
feet to your right, and everybody slightly
tight?
How would you enjoy attending the
funeral of some kid you have killed be-
cause of negligence in driving your car?
Do you believe the consistency of the
human skull is such that it can pierce
the roof of one of the new steel turret-
top cars with little more damage than
taking the hair and scalp off? And do
you think head SO sticking out OF the
top of car will stay attached to your
shoulders after colliding with telegraph
pole?
Count up the times you have had a
close shave while driving along the high
way or coming through stop sign with
out stopping, then take that 90000,000
people mentioned, divide them by the
$4,000, take the remainder and divide it
by the number Of close calls with death
you have had; take the result of that
division, and when you see how the odds
have dwindled against the possibility Of
your ever receiving social security bene-
fits, increase your life insurance, desig-
nate an appropriate beneficiary and try
to have a natural smile on your face
when the end dcomes-undertakers always
find it difficult to set the ears back in
normal position, no less worry about the
position of the mouth.
Gruesome questions? Yes. But every
day they are being ansWered--Written in
the blood of those who know the answers
But too late. HARRY J. MAGINNIS.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

did ever think this was good?" he
asked himself
Himself replied, Eyes, you did. Once
upon time you thought no candy bet
ter"
THAT was long time ago. Jones said
to himself
The irrepressible Smiles asked him how
he liked it.
SWELL" clamored Jones.
Have some more" said Smiles, prof.
fering handful.
Being very old fashioned-and there
fore polite-Templeton Jones accepted.
He gave away the handful, kept the
one.
And that was where he made his big
mistake
Deeply into his upper left-hand coat
pocket he thrust the chocolate cigar.
And forgot about it.
That was where he made his second
mistake
The weather turned extremely hot, the
cigar melted
Templeton Jones had pocket full Of
hot fudge without knowing it..
1t is bad enough to have pocket full
of fudge, under any circumstances, but
to have it without knowing it is bad,
very bad
Jones found that out when he took off
his coat.
The breast of his immaculate shirt was
colored with queer brown stain.
Tobacco juice?
Not chance. Jones didn't smoke lex
cept now and then for show and, of
course, he never chewed.
He dabbed away at his shirt with a
handkerchief soaked in ice water, but
ment a thought.
1t was not until some time later, as he
donned his coat, that he reached into
that upper left-hand coat pocket for his
fountain pen.
AS he pulled it out, his hand touched
something intensely sticky.
The object he hauled forth resembled
not so much a fountain pen, as a curious
green reptile which had spun itself a
cocoon of heavy brown material of an
extreme gumminess.
One good look and Templeton Jones
realized the truth
MY chocolate cigar. he breathed, in
heartfelt tones
Yes, it was his chocolate cigar, but
how changed
The neat lining of the pocket could be
termed nothing less than a mess
Melted chocolate had permeated every
fiber. 1t had made its way through the
coat fabric, and had come out on the
under side.
That was how it got on the shirt in the
first place.
AS Jones mopped up the best he could,
he thought Of the words of friend long
ago.
Sentiment" that wise man had said,
costs too much
Templeton Jones, looking at the rem
nants OF his first chocolate cigar in many
years, agreed.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Map as a Guide to
The War in China

Important history is revolving around
Asia. Watch the situation in China.
You cannot read the daily news from
this storm center with complete under
standing unless you have good map to
refer to. To aid our readers in keeping
abreast of these momentous events, we
offer map which shows in minute de-
tail the cities, towns, mountains, rail-
roads, strategic lakes and water routes
OF Asia. This map is printed In five
colors, and is 2lx28 inches in size The
reverse side carries complete economic
and political data on every geographic
division OF the continent of Asia. Order
your copy now. Inclose 10 cents to
cover cost and handling
Evening star., 1937-09-04

the tests which are supposed to indicate
neuroses are such that an educated per-
son is more aware of the content of the
words, which are to be crossed out when
they have an unpleasant significance,
than is the uneducated individual
Twins. the study shows are normal in
all respects. They are neither inferior
nor superior to people in general Iden-
tical and fraternal twins alike were
found to be normal in intelligence and
in education achievement.
In most of the traits measured the un-
separated identical twins were much
more alike than the fraternal twins
This finding held true of physical dmen-
sions. intelligence and progress in school.
The only group of traits in which iden-
tical twins are not significantly more
alike than fraternal twins are those
commonly elassed under the head Of
personality.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Force Of Habit.

II can't make any speed at all on this
typewriter" said the new clerk.
mo wonder" replied the man who
thinks inanimate objects have feelings.
1T has been used in preparing diplo-
matte correspondence. Try this one for
speed. 1t has been employed in prepar-
ing remarks for the lecture platform"
Evening star., 1937-09-04

The long peninsula OF Lower California
has offered attractions to many Japanese
citizens who might be willing to say
whether their affections in Pacific waters
are as dependable as those attached to
the somewhat politicized grove of cherry
trees around Potomac Park.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

A mystery submarine ship has been
at work in the Mediterranean, a sea
where experiences have always been of
character to enhance its peculiar sense
Of mystery.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Sad Self-ConsciOusnesx.

What are you going to wear to the
fancy dress party?"
Il dunno" replied Mr.. Cumrox. Il
guess I'll 20 as a clown, and then If I
do something that makes the guests
snicker, maybe mother an the girls'u
think I'm doing 1t a-purpose."
Evening star., 1937-09-04

IT the Chinese and japanese would
only take the time to read up their
ancient legends they would find many
narratives assuming to afford enlighten-
ment on modern events.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

Some Of the English sovereigns did not
speak the language of their own people
very well, but George Washington and
some Of his associates gave lessons that
combined force with dignity.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Neutral Envy.

What is the cause of social unrest?"
THE DESIRE replied Mr.. Dustin Stax,
"of the working man for leisure and OF
the leisurely man for something to keep
him busy"
Evening star., 1937-09-04

II the experiences Of retiring motion
picture actors are faithfully recounted,
more and more citizens will be found to
support an opinion that they never were
much good in the first place.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
In and Out.

Prom the 9t. Paul Daily News.
The Michigan man who studied law
after he was sent to prison has set some
kind of example for budding barristers
who want to know their profession inside
and out. 4
Evening star., 1937-09-04

Cargoes that our ships may carry are
still matters of deep concern, although
ideas offered by some of our most able
writer's are permitted to lapse into for
getfulneSs.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Gentlene@.

80 you think the world is growing
better?"
Il do" replied the CHEEKY citizen.
I'm spite of all these wars?"
"Yes. If human nature were not very
gentle and obedient it would be impos-
sible to send so many men to war with
out letting them know precisely what
they were fighting about"
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Location.

What was the weight Of that fish
you were talking about all Summer"
Which fish?" inquired the unblushing
boaster. The one had on my line or
the one 1. only had on my mind"
Evening star., 1937-09-04
DANGEROUS Bathtubs.

From the Pontiac tAdich) Press.
Chiropractors' statistics reveal the
bathtub to be the greatest household
hazard. Small boys have always known
that, and shunned It. 1utuitively. I
Evening star., 1937-09-04

The U. S. A. is expected to furnish
new gas for European craft without too
much inquiry as to what kind Of use will
be attempted with 1t.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Abbreviation.

Prom the Bangor (Me) News.
The Senate has passed a bill limiting
freight trains to seventy cars, thereby
considerably easing the work Of those
who count the cars at the crossings.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

Radio is still expected to provide un-
limited power without discreet inquiry as
to the kind of weather its habitual mer-
camille employment may be causing.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Like Universal Laundering.

From the Paducah (Ky.) sun-Democrat.
The idea OF taking new census Of the
"jobless" is unconsciously magnificent in
its conception. All the "jobless" could
be used In taking the census. which would
definitely move that every one had Job.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

Selassie talks of going home, but none
of the diplomats has the nerve to in
quire what he will do when he gets there.
Evening star., 1937-09-04
Weepers.

From the Cleveland NeWs
The Chicago boy with two crying
mothers ought to appreciate what is being
put up with by q mother who has two
crying boys.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

@. Who is the child who leads the
Lords Prayer on all the radio programs
conducted by Elder Solomon Lizhtfoot
Michaux, the Negro evangelist?-H. G.
A. The prayer is led by a little girl
named Yvonne Anderson.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

@. How long can person live without
food or water?-F. A.
A. person can live about 40 days
without food, about 4 days without water
and about 5 or minutes without air.
Solid food taken into the body is about
half water.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

Q. How many wars have there been
since the armistice was signed?-K. L.
A. There have been II since Novem-
Der II, 1918.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

@. Who invented the microphone?-
M. S.
A. The first such instrument was in
vented by Prof. D. E. Hughes at the
end of the nineteenth century.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

reader can get the nnsmer to any
question OF fact by ,oriting The Euen,no
Star Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Hasktn, Director. Washington, d. C.
Please inclose stamp tor reply
Evening star., 1937-09-04

Q. What is the American Eugenics So
ciety?-L. F. H.
A. The society was Incorporated in
1886 to alter present distribution of
births so that those parents who best pro-
vide essentials necessary for development
of character and intelligence will have
the major portion of the country's chill
dren.
Evening star., 1937-09-04

Q. What tree is the symbol Of happ.-
ness in Japan?-W. R.
A. The bamboo, the pine and the plum
tree all symbolic happiness.
Evening star., 1937-06-02
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National-"Lost Horizon" at 2:3O
and $50 pm.
Palace This Is My Affair" at
1905, 2:25, $50, ITO and 9:3Op.m.
Earle-"Turn on the Moon" at IL
AM. l:35, 4:25. 7:l0 and 9.55 pm
Stage shows at 1880, 3;35, $40 and
s:10 pm.
Keith's-"Thcre Goes NY Girl At
1l:25 m. l:lo. 2:55. AS, $50, BIS
and 10 pm.
CapitoI-"Thev Gave Him a Gun
at 1890 am. 1:25. 4:lo. and e:55
pm. Stage shows at 1925, 3:l5, 6
and 8:55 pm.
Columbia-"A Star Is Born" at
11:50 am, 2:l5, 4:40, 7:o5 and 9 35
pm.
Metropolitan-"P and the Pau
per-" at l0:45 am, 1880, 3, $40, 7:2O
and $50 pm
Belasco-"Carnival in Flanders" at
1905, 2:05, 4, $40, 8:l5 and 10 pm.
Rialto-"Abraham Lincoln" at 1:45,
4:55 and $40 pm.
Little-"Life of Henry VIII" at II
am, 1855, $40, 5:25, TAO and 10
pm.
Trans-Lux-NeWs and shorts. Show
runs ! hour and Is minutes, contin-
uous 10 am. to midnight.
Evening star., 1937-06-02

W tilc uIlucIlleQ Talents OF Two OF 1CSs
most respected stage contemporaries,
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
Almost everybody who Is anybody
was there-that is, with the exception
OF Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone,
without whose presence any such event
seems to lose luster and authenticity.
The Tones had reservations for first
night, and the curtain was even held
half an hour. But Lunt and F'ontanne
nnally decided it best to struggle along
without Hollywood's nominal social
leaders
Audience Is Show Itself.
However. the remainder OF the au-
dience exhibition was first class, as
1t couldn't help but be-What with
scores Of gorgeously goWned creatures
and their tuxedoed escorts, whose
yearly salaries are checked by the
Government at around $5,0OO0OO
sauntering into the auditorium in the
gayest OF moods
Regular theatergoers, who took
seats in the rear OF the house half
an hour before curtain time, were
treated to show which the subse-
quent platform performances Of Lunt
and Fontanne couldn't hope to tie
Tor color and thrills.
Appearing in Highlander's full dress,
with kilt, plaid, brooch, sporran, Glen
garry bonnet and dirk. the visiting Sir
Harry Lauder stole a march on the
rellIll0iH uhny, ha
the aisle with his niece, Greta Lauder.
A wave OF applause broke from the
audience. Sir Harry took two bows
before sitting.
Producer in Pickford Party.
The two professions causing most
gasps were those headed by Mary
Pickford and Marlene Dietrich. They
were Judlclously timed and spaced for
audience appreciation
Miss Pickfords party consisted Of
Buddy Rogers and Mr. and Mrs. Cliff
Reid. The presence of Reid. one Of
HollyWood's top producers, gave ere
dence to rumor that, after maria ge
to Buddy, Mary will appear in at
least one more picture. Shortly after
her arrival from Europe, Mary con-
fided to friends she might make an
other start-provided she could get
Reid, shreWd judge OF show values.
to engineer the enterprise as pro-
ducer Mary was youthfully arrayed
in combination red cape and bonnet
to be stamped at once by the crowd
as Little Red Riding Hood.
In the Dietrich party were Douglas
Fairbanks, jr., her official escort for