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Evening star., 1937-10-21
Oyster Supper Planned.

SEAT PLEASANT, Md, October 81
(SpeciaD The Ladies Auxiliary OF
the Seat Pleasant Volunteer Fire De-
partment at a meeting here last night
decided to hold an oyster supper n
the Seat Pleasant Community Hall
November / for the benefit of the de-
partment. Officers of the department
were guests at the meeting.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
women's Clubs Back on Air.

The Education for Living" broad
casts of the General Federation OF
Women's Clubs will be resumed at
4:3o pm. today over the blue net
work of the National Broadcasting
Co. The new series will be launched
BY the president of the Federation
Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson,
Evening star., 1937-10-21
BOY DIES IN TRAFFIC

Edgewood Child, 8, Attempted to
Cross Street.
EDGEWOOD, Md, october 81 P).-
Michael Tighe, 9, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Tighe, near here, was fatally
injured today when struck oy an
automobile.
State Police Officer c. v. Maine said
the boy attempted to cross the street
while heavy traffic was moving. The
driver of the automobile was detained
pending an inquest, Maine said.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
HEARINGS DELAYED

I. C. c. Postpones Case Of Chicago
Northwestern Railway Co.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion postponed today until December
Is further hearings in the reorganiza-
ton proceedings of the Chicago North
western Railway Co.
The proceedings were scheduled 70
Be resumed on October 26.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
U. OF CHICAGO ALUMNI
WILL DISCUSS T. v. A.
Supper Meeting Sunday at $50
PM. at American Association
of University Women's Clubs.

Alumni of the University of Chi
cago and their friends will discuss the
Tennessee Valley Authority at sup
per meeting at $50 pm. Sunday in
the American Association of Univer-
sity Womens Club, 1884 I street.
Motion pictures of T. v. A. at work
will be shown.
The following talks will be given
by persons who have been connected
with the T. v. A.: 1.-THE Town of
Norris" Miss Marie White; Person.
mel, Policies, Practices and Proceed
ures," w. C. Brown, Policing Norris.
Dam," Kenneth A. Rouse; THE Train
ing Section and Educational Program"
Ralph Hogan.
Reservations should be made by
Friday noon with Mrs. Dampier, Met
ropolitan 1884.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
DRUNKEN DRIVING
TEST CASE SLATED
May Settle Possibility OF
Conviction if Auto Is. Not
in Motion.

A test case to determine whether
person may be deemed guilty of oper-
ating an automobile while intoxicated,
even If the vehicle was not in motion
at the time of the arrest, will be
brought in Traffic Court here by As
sistant Corporation Counsel George D.
Nelson at the first opportunity.
The decision to test the flexibility
OF the present driving ile-drunk
law follows receipt from the Depart
ment of Justice of a number of cita-
tions from other States where intoxi-
Gated persons we're at the wheels OF
automobiles which were not in motion,
but in which an intoxicated person
was sitting at the wheel, with no evi-
dence to show that any other person
had been the driver.
Charges So Far Limited.
Until this time it has been conceded
that a drunken man could be charged
with that alone unless evidence could
be produced by eyewitnesses to show
| that he actually was driving the ma
chine along a street or road.
The memorandum produced by the
| Justice Department cites cases in New
York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, snd
Connecticut showing that appellate
| courts have sustained convictions
where the supposed operator was
found behind the wheel in an intoxi-
Gated condition, but without the ma
| chine in operation In one case
the driver had just started his motor
when arrested, and in another it was
held that the mere manipulation OF
the gears without the motor having
been started constituted driving while
intoxicated.
| In the Connecticut case it was
| shown that a man was seated at the
wheel of an automobile which wa:
at a standstill. However, the motor
was running and the man had his
| feet on the clutch and brake pedals
and his head on the steering wheel.
Takes ~Reasonab bic" View.
| The court found in this case tnat
while there was no evidence to show
that the defendant started the car, "it
would be using ones Imagination far
beyond a reasonable point to conceive
his being dropped from out Of the
clear sky to the drivers seat of the
motor vehicle whose motor had beer
started by some mysterious force OF
being.
Although the car was not in mo-
| ton, the motor was running, was or
a public highway and was under the
custody, dominion and control OF the
defendant and capable of performing
the specific acts of moving forward oil
backward as he might wish"
Nelson, who is anxious to tighten
up on driving while-intoxicated cases
has furnished each of the available
judges with copies of the citations SC
| they will be familiar with the situa-
ton when an opportunity arises In
which to raise the question.
Evening star., 1937-10-21
Civic Meeting Tonight.

The Petworth Woman's Club will
hold civic meeting at o'clock to-
night at the home of Mrs. E. H.
Painter, 1914 Eighth street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20

militarist contention that Nippon needs
strong" government because Of inter-
national developments. He proclaims
that "the menacing European situation,
Russia's positive advance into the Far
East with powerful fighting forces and
the Communist International's agrees
sion cause Japan grave anxiety" The
premier also views with alarm the
worlds gigantic naval programs" and
extension of American and European
airlines to Asia
1t is significant that threats of au-
thoritarianism at Toxic coincide with
increasing overtures from Italy and
Germany designed to bind Japan more
closely to them in an anti Communist
front and generally link her with the
political theology which they espouse.
A Japanese cruiser is about to pay a
return ceremonial visit to German
waters, Mussolini has approved ar
rangements with Nipponese universities,
looking to propagation of 1talo-Japanese
cultural ties. Thus, signs multiply that
Fascist and Nazi leaders are eager to
bring the dominant power of the Far
East within the orbit OF their dictatorial
cult and influence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Reply to Letter on
Flood and Fire Hazard
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
May I call attention to an erroneous
impression conveyed in the letter on
flood and fire hazard by Mr.. Mark S.
Willing III your Letters to the Editor"
column, May 6?
The Forest Service does not practice
elimination Of loose leaves, brush, rot
ting and decayed trees" from the forests.
On the contrary on forest lands under
its administration the Forest Service
endeavors to retain and protect forest
litter of any description that will serve
to make the watershed more effective in
holding back stream flow and preventing
too rapid run-off. Fire protection, which
helps to preserve the forest litter and the
porous water-holding soil beneath it,
really is a measure of flood prevention.
Only on few spots and roadside strips
where the fire hazard is extreme is Ger
tain amount Of debris removed to afford
protective strips Observing such road
side fire hazard reduction work near at
hand may have led, in some cases, to a
mistaken impression Of the forest and
watershed protection Job as whole. I
wish to assure Mr.. Willing that the pro-
lection and proper use of the water re-
source has always been and remains ono
Of the principal detectives Of I'LL Forest
Service work ROY Z. MILLER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20

contemporaries with needed confidence
In air transportation. In brief, ne proved
that the feat could be accomplished
without undue peril. His achievement
worked miraculous change in the psy-
chology Of mankind. If any single indi-
vidual ever may be regarded as being
responsible for the beginning of a new
age in human history, he is that person.
But the impact OF his triumph has not
been limited to aviation alone. There
also have been notable gains in other
fields of endeavor. Every branch of
science and every department of the
useful arts have manifested the same
dynamic progress. Radio and sound
motion pictures in color may be cited
as obvious examples. The public like
wise Is conscious of significant advances
dramatic current conquest of fate it
may be mentioned that the Works Prog
ress Administration recently reported
that in the past four years it has taught
seven hundred thousand adults to read
Perhaps Colonel Lindbergh may be re-
garded as the symbol Of his generation.
He has known loss and sorrow, struggle
and victory as millions of other young
man have known them; he has been
saddened as they have been, but he
has not lived nor suffered in vain, and
neither have they.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Tenth Anniversary.

Ten years ordinarily might be re-
garded as mere tick of the clock in
human experience, but the decade that
has passed since Colonel Charles A,
Lindbergh flew the Atlantic from New
York to Paris has been so distinctively
remarkable as to merit special comment.
Let it be granted at once that occa-
sional disappointments have been chron-
icled, it still remains true that aviation
has made unprecedented progress. The
navigation of the skies now is COM
monplace phenomenon OF travel People
fly with greater safety than they walk
the streets of any average city or motor
over the roads of any average country
side.
And it Is fair to concede to Colonel
Lindbergh goodly portion of the credit
in the circumstances. His venturesome
negotiation of the trackless waste be-
tween America and Europe provided his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20

grower has plenty to give away to
friends
All flowers are not good to give to
friends.
One gains nothing, in the main, by
giving plants away. Too often the re-
ceiver minimizes, or neglects, them. He
or she is not to blame, perhaps; 1t is
here as with dogs, the dog one buys is
better than the gift pup. A little money
plunked down gives one certain re-
spect, from the very beginning, for the
animal.
1t is so with plants.
II you want to love plants, and get
the most out OF them, never accept a
batch OF them from friend. That Is
not the way
A few of these wild phloxes, however,
will in time make any garden bloom, and
that with practically no care or at
tention.
In time the most Indifferent recipient
comes to see that these really are
standard May month flowers, as good
In their way as the tulips, the Ilacs, the
peonies which grace it.
"Divaricata" comes from divaricatus
diverging; botanically, widely diverging
as the branches Of some trees and
shrubs.
Applied to this phlox, it means
branches somewhat widely spread. as
we'll as the plant itself spread over a
very large territory in its natural state.
Phlox is from Greek word meaning
flame, from the verb meaning to burn,
and refers to the bright colors.
There are many cultivated forms OF
phlox, all of them In wide use in aver
age home gardens. Some OF them SUI
fer from a sort of rust, but the dwarf
cata is singularly free from it.
The beauty of this phlox is the rare
drift OF blue which it gives at this time,
and which goes so well with the bright
colors OF so many of the tulips now in
flower.
The lighter shades OF blue, sometimes
called porcelain, or powder blue, are
known for their ability to tie together
different and brighter Towering things.
Drifts of Phlox divaricata bring into
harmony the brightest shades of reds
and yellows in tulips. for instance. They
do this even better than white flowers,
the other old garden Standby for the
purpose.
Phlox divaricata would be even more
widely used than 1t is If 1t had a good
common name
1t is true that many persons shy
from purchasing plants whose names
they are not able to pronounce.
Let them write them down, then, and
poke the paper at the nursery man.
Especially in this case, for here is one
Of the best plants possible for an aver
age garden, where plenty of bloom is
wanted without too much effort.
This phlox stands severe Winters and
comes up smiling in the Spring 1t
does not seem to be harmed by ca
PRECIOUS seasons, too much rain or too
much drought.
1t does well under a variety of con-
ditions. ranging from the rock garden
to the open border. No yard should be
without it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Nuisance Plants Menace
To Residential Areas

To the Editor of The Star:
I want to thank you for the publication
in Sundays Star headed: Public
Aroused on Nuisance Plants"
Not only would the abattoir in East
Washington be a nuisance, but there
have already been other nuisances
allowed to creep into residential sections
in the city.
For instance, where live, at 619 East
Capitol street, which is supposed to be
strictly residential, there are two auto
repair shops in the alley of this block.
The noise OF the hammering, grinding
and screeching sounds all day long have
caused several families to move away on
account of It,
A number of years ago the owner OF
this property was given a permit to have
a storage home-g garage, and did minor
repairs but now modern machinery has
been added, which makes the plant
nuisance.
The city officials seem to be helpless
because the owners have permits for the
plants.
The press, the newspaper, is wonder
full institution in helping the citizens
here, who must depend on appointed off,
Gals to represent them. I certainly hope
you will continue to arouse the interest
of the readers of your valuable paper to
influence some one to help rid our city
of nuiSanceS.
I have been secretary of the Stanton
Park Citizens Association for the last
ten years, until recently. The motto of
our organization Is: "A community worth
living in is worth working for"
MRS. LUTHER H. BROWN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

lest fishes The reactions of these
animals were largely controlled by
nuclear nerve cell aggregations in the
brain stem and spinal cord. In con-
sequence of this largely nuclear regula-
ton OF its energy turnover the fish
possesses limited power to withhold
its reactions. Its behavior is highly
impulsive. Impressions from the out
side world produce, in the main, almost
immediate responses.
Such rapid reactions" DR.. Tlney
said, preclude a large range of acts
which characterize more deliberate and
thoughtful behavior. The brain mech
anism for the most ample kind OF life
was not yet present at this stage of
animal development. 1t began to make
its appearance. however, when certain
fishes assumed a partial adjustment to
life on land. These adventurous pio-
neers managed to crawl out of the muddy
waters at times when there was lack
OF oxygen or the food supply was in
sufnclent. They set on foot the pro-
gresslve changes which ultimately gave
rise to the fore and hind limbs Of such
amphibians as the frogs.
When these latter animals made
their appearance, nearly all OF the fun
damental problems of the vertebrate
brain had been solved. There was still
need for certain expansions in brain
power, and these, in some part, were
produced In the next succeeding stage
OF reptiles The ancient habit of highly
rapid reactions. which imposed serious
limitations on the activities of the fish,
had not been entirely overcome by the
amphibian or the reptile. These ami
mails still lacked the brain machinery
needed for the more deliberate and
varied reactions of the most effective
kind Of life.
In the mammals new and large areas
OF the cerebral hemispheres came into
existence to form the grey matter"
covering each hemisphere. In this way
billions Of new nerve cells were added
to the brain. Even more important was
their orderly arrangement in layers and
their intimate connection by nerve
f1bers. When the mammals became
possessed Of that invaluable brain equip
ment, the new cortex, they at once
began to turn it to their own advantage
They became great adventures and
great specialists"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Good Work.

The House District Committee is To
be commended for its prompt action
yesterday in favorably reporting the
klng-Norton bill to bar nuisance in
dustries from the District of Columbia.
The vote reflected the committees desire
to act in the best interests of its con-
stltuency-the people of the District
and its appreciation of the need for
prompt action to avert a grave mistake
in National Capital development.
AS the hearings draw to close at
the other end of the Capitol, the over
Whelmlng preponderance of testimony
favors immediate enactment of the King
Norton measure. The testimony has
come from citizens and officials of the
municipal and National governments who
are convinced that the time has come
when the interests of National Capital
development demand exclusion from the
District of nuisance industries. While
the plans OF the Gobel company for a
slaughter house and rendering plant
are incidentally involved, the bill is
aimed primarily at closing the door
lrrevocably to the addition of new nui-
sance industries in the District.
The only sentiment against enactment
OF the bill has come from the few who
stand to benefit financially or otherwise
from the operations of slaughter house
and rendering plant. It is inconceivable
that their limited interests would be
permitted to stand in the way of this
most necessary legislation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Keep the Gardens Growing,

congress f1rSt granted an appropria-
ton for school gardens in 1906 and has
been making money available for this
very worthwhile adjunct of the elemen-
tary science courses in the primary
grades ever since. Not much money is
involved. The first appropriation was
for thousand dollars. At one time
$4,000 was allowed. The current sum
is s2,4OO
The work done in these gardens, some
OF them.no larger than five by eleven
feet and the largest covering 5000 square
feet, has been valuable for the children
and of some benefit to communities
where, otherwise, there might be no gar
dens at all. The children become inter-
ested in watching things grow. Some Of
them learn, in these little gardens, tiny
bit about the wonderful scheme of life
on which their seed and their seedlings
depend-the rain and the sun. the birds
and the insects and the nature of the
soil itself. A successful school garden
and some Of them are spots of striking
beauty-makes for improvement in home
gardens. Children are always anxious
to show at home what they have learned
to do in school. About $1,000 children
are now receiving some instruction in
school gardens at a cost of about two
cents a pupil. For many of them the
gardening work will continue through the
Summer months after school has closed.
For many OF them this is their only
opportunity to work in a garden
Is it not worth while to carry on this
work, SO plainly beneficial and so we'll
established? Most people will agree that
1t is and will regard as unfortunate the
arbitrary action of the House committee
IN eliminating the appropriation neces-
sary to support the gardens. Perhaps
the inclusion in a $45 O00,O 900 appropria-
tion bill OF items for purchase of a ten
cent putt-putt boat, four toy balloons, a
clay pipe, dozen candles and other curl
Gus odds and ends for the elementary
science course was grave mistake. Such
things do arouse the risibilities of the
gentlemen on the appropriations sub
committee, provoking them to use the
blue pencil in broad strokes.
But it is not necessary to strike ont the
school garden appropriation in order to
prevent the purchase of a putt-putt
boat. Everybody will be glad to see this
item restored to the appropriation bill
in the Senate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Ambassador DieckhOff.

Another German American diplomatic
era opens with the presentation to Presi-
dent Roosevelt of the credentials of DR..
Hans H. Dieckhoff as the Reich's Ambas-
sador to the United States. AS both the
President and the Berlin envoy pointed
out in their formal exchange of greet
ings, DR.. Dieckhoff takes up his duties
with background of previous service at
Washington, which should stand him in
effective stead in the promotion of
understanding and friendship between
the German and American peoples and
their respective governments AS dip
lomat OF career whose late years were
spent In English-speaking atmosphere,
as we'll as because of the wide acuuaint-
ance and high esteem which he achieved
during his earlier sojourn in this country,
Ambassador Dieckhoff inaugurates his
mission under many favoring circum-
stances.
Chancellor Hitler's new spokesman
happens to assume command of the
Embassy at moment when American
public opinion respecting German events
has had recent opportunity to express
Itself wildly in two different directions,
The Hindenburg disaster provided occa-
sion both for the administration and the
country to voice cordial sympathy with
the German nation and to register Amer
lean admiration of the scientific skill
and achievement which the Zeppelin air.
ships represent. At just about the time
OF the LakehurSt tragedy, the leading
universities of the United States let it
be known that they would not send dele
gates to the approaching -hundredth
anniversary celebration of the famous
University OF Goettingen. The reasons
were not specified, but are thoroughly
understood both here and in Germany.
They denote invincible disinclination on
the part OF the leaders of our academic
life to countenance the system of INTEL
lectual tyranny typified by Nazi repres-
sion OF free speech and of liberty OF con-
science for both the spirit and the mind.
The attitude Of the universities unuues-
tionably reflects the overwhelming body
OF popular sentiment here. 1t does not
spring In any sense from resentment of
the boorish outburst of anti-American-
ism emitted few weeks ago by the gov
ernment-controlled Nazi press.
DR.. Dieckhof will embark with open
eyes upon the heavy task of cementing
German American relations If he real
lies from the outset that there is an
unbridgeable gulf between the things for
which Hitlerism stands and the ideals
which animate the freedom loving peo-
pies OF the Western Hemisphere. The
Reich must be conscious that it can never
hope to inspire confidence and good will
on this side of the world while it con-
tinues to regiment and shackle human
rights which in the democratic concep-
ton Of government are fundamental
and inalienable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-20
Toxic, Rome and Berlin.

Fears OF fascism or dictatorship in
some form, long rampant in Japan, are
nourished afresh by Premier Hayashis
defiant decision to ignore the overWhelm-
ing government vote in the recent
general elections, whereby opposition
parties won all but a handful of Diet
seats. General Hayashi intends to dis
regard the popular verdict at the polls
and govern without parliament until
legislators manifest a spirit of world
cooperation that is fast withering."
Thus, for all practical purposes, totali-
tartan rule of Rome-Berlin pattern is
about to be set up at Toxic and the
peoples will flouted as effectually as it
Is by Mussolini and Hitler. The Seiyukai
and Minseito parties which swept the
late elections on landslide scale, call
upon Hayashi to resign and make way
for government truly representative of
national sentiment. But, bulwarked by
the army, the premier reveals no readi-
ness to surrender his intrenched position.
The impression is taking root that
the government seeks to establish a
purely bureaucratic regime providing for
supreme cabinet rule, through creation
Of so-called advisory administrative ex-
ecutive councils comprising a national
planning board. Such a system would,
Of course, be wholly outside the consti-
tuition and restore Japan to conditions
approximating those which prevailed
under the Shogunate. Premier Hayashis
patriotism is not challenged, nor is he
considered an enthusiast for destruction
of the parliamentary order. He is be-
lieved, rather, to find himself the help
less victim of circumstances of military
making. The Japanese soil in conse-
quence becomes ripe again for the
sprouting of revolutionary resistance to
armed autocracy. General Hayashi
thoroughly Identifies himself with the