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Evening star., 1937-11-23
Mailed Fist at Shanghai.

Not content with having told the Nine
Power Treaty signatories at Brussels to
mind their own business and not meddle
with Japan's business in China, the
Toxic war lords are now brandishing the
mailed fist in the face of the western
nations at Shanghai. Invoking the pre-
rogative of conquerors, the Japanese
commanders demand REIMBURSEMENT of
all foreign authority in the famous In
ternational Settlement and conjoint,
French Concession.
Great Britain, the United States,
France, Germany, Italy, Russia, the
Netherlands and Belgium are bluntly
notified that any resistance on their part
to the exercise of full Japanese sover-
eighty in Shanghai will be combated
with force. Among the functions of
which the invader claims indisputable
supervision are the Chinese maritime
customs, the postal and telegraph Serv-
ices and the courts. 1t is also intimated
that Japan insists upon the further right
to march troops through the foreign
areas, to close Chinese government banks
and eXpel some six hundred prominent
Chinese. While Toxic spokesmen pre-
tend that the claim to complete sway is
made only in principle" and that in
practice there will be no interference
with institutions that function unob-
jectionably," it is painfully clear that
the banner of the rising sun has been
planted at the great port under condi-
tions denoting mastery that brooks no
challenge.
In some respects this Shanghai ges-
ture constitutes the supreme japanese
effrontery offered to the western powers
in China, Seizure of the customs admin
lStratlon, signalized by the actual i'm
pounding Of revenue boats, is particularly
brazen because all customs revenue is
paid into foreign banks for service of
foreign loans secured on the customs
revenue as well as of the Boxer in
oeiiiiiieS' WHICH 10 similarly secured.
Under treaty rights possessed by the
powers for century the Maritime Gus
toms are managed by Chinese and for
eign officials. The latter bear approx
mate relation in number to the trade
volume OF their respective countries.
1t is said that Tokios underlying
motive in asserting authority over the
International Settlement and the French
Concession is to prevent those regions
from serving any longer as refugees for
Chinese leaders who traditionally have
sought asylum there. In demanding sup
preston of all Chinese agencies capable
OF "anti-Japanese" activities, such as the
press, radio, movies. telephones and tele-
graphs, within the foreign zones, the
conquerors betoken their purpose to be
monarchs of all they survey at the mouth
OF the Yangtze
once upon time, red-blooded refusal
to bend the knee to such pretensions
might have been expected from powers
VINO are in Shanghai under international
treaty rights. But in light of the supine
history recently written in China, it is to
De feared that Japan will have her way
now as she has had it from the incention
OF her ourglarious enterprise
Evening star., 1937-11-23
Reactions of a Victim of
Washington's Thieves
To the Editor of The Star


For some time now have been read
ing newspaper articles describing thefts.
These accounts sometimes state the
amount of money or other possessions
stolen and more often than not specify
the location of the robbery These ac-
counts cannot, however. reveal the hor-
ror which the individual must feel at the
moment he sees before him another
member of society about to take his
purse and possibly to Go him physical in
jury. Neither can the newspaper account
describe the mental suffering of the vic
tim. Jittery nerves sometimes lasting for
days after the unhappy experience.
Until few days ago, l was one of the
many Washingtonians who read about
hold-ups without great deal of feeling,
without realizing the terror which Surges
through the individual at sucN time
and without thinking of the frayed
nerves he carries away with him from
such an experience.
At HAS one night recently, I was
driving home after spending an evening
with friends. There were many cars on
the street and I felt as safe as though
the sun were shining instead of the
moon. At one street, where the light was
SiidiiSiiIS 4ioili W leu, 1 up
in the rear of about four other cars.
From habit, 1 looked in the mirror of
my car and for an instant saw a shadow
in the reflector, but, ascribing it to jay
walker, paid no attention to it until saw
the door on the other side slowly OPEN
ing and hand slipping in through the
narrow crack. My body trembled con-
vulsively and I began to scream. None
of the cars still awaiting the green sig
nal heard me. 1 fearfully turned my
head toward the open door and saw the
hand which had come in empty draw
away with my purse; the tan fedora hat
of the thief dropped out of my vision.
The incident had taken only as much
time as the traffic light required to
change from red to green.
If the man who robbed me is repre-
sentative of others who make their living
In the same manner, they are all mas
Evening star., 1937-11-23
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Strangest of All.

Strangest of All.
At last the wishes have come true
That in the early days we knew
Ben Franklins kite has brought the
spark
Which never leaves us in the dark;
Which speeds mid scenes of peace or
strife
And almost brings machines to life.
Though wondrous men have passed away,
Their presence seems at hand today.
Unto the ocean depths we turn
And take trip with old Jules Verne,
Or If we would explore the sky
With patient Langley we may fly
And here's the strangest thing of all
While every wish We can recall
Has now been gratif1ed, we fret.
Somehow we are not happy yet!
Evening star., 1937-11-23

dence by indicating a positive intention
to balance the budget.
Mr.. Roosevelt and some of his aides,
apparently alive to the need for change
of front, have indicated the administra-
ton is now willing to cooperate with
business if business is willing to help
itself. For this they are to be congratu-
lated and 1t is to be hoped these tenta-
tive verbal advances will be translated
into effective action. AS one of the econ
omists said: "There is need of some
definite, dramatic action to show that
Government promises of helping business
is more than just lot of talk"
Evening star., 1937-11-23

evidently the largest cost, that of little
care of his books, and consideration for
his own feelings.
1t is a curious thing how perfectly
nice people. as the world of nice people
wags, can be SO thoughtless and so care
less.
Accused of these faults to their face,
they would grow very indignant.
That is why Jones makes his speeches
only in imagination.
Yet actually they soil and deface his
books, and harry his feelings, with all
the best will in the world.
Jones isn't supposed to notice that his
favorite volume has its back broken.
He must not let on, or say thing when
he finds whole pages crumpled and
torn.
Chocolate markings down certain
pages, relics of sweety's last gift of candy,
are not even to be noticed.
Jones sometimes wondered if he were
not the most unfortunate booklover in
the world
Others had assured him he was not,
that they, too, suffered the same way,
that people who borrow books or even
people who have books thrust upon
them, always seem to partake of the
same unusual mentality.
OF their own books they might be
careful, but of others books they would
not.
Jones supposed the borrowing of book
offered them relief.
Now they could read comfortably for
once, at least.
Put down the glass of water on the
coYer, and leave neat ring forever.
Smear butter down the pages, leave
crumbs of crackers, spill milk over the
edges, dog-ear the corners, split the
backs, tear the title page, rend the
jacket back from 'front.'
What fun, indeed.
So Jones was giving up loaning his
books at last.
1t was really too bad, for there was
nothing he enjoyed more.
This book belongs to - and his
friends"
What more noble and. natural book
plate than that?
None had been more abused in these
latter days.
In the days when books were few and
far between, such joint ownership was
respected, because books were rarities.
In the days of the menace of mass
produced minds, books had become so
common that many persons, evidently.
tended to look upon them as they did
upon all common things
book, to Jones' was something to be
loved and treasured.
book, to his friends, was something
to be borrowed and thrown around
The two points Of vieA could never
be reconciled and Templeton Jones, for
one, at last was going to stop trying to
reconcile them.
He would never loan another book as
long as he lived
Il say, old man, have you ever
read"
Why, Bill, just got it recently. 1t
is mighty fine piece of work Would
you live to have it? Oh. that's all right
take your time, there is no hurry, know
you'll like it,
Evening star., 1937-11-23
Industry and Labor.

Two developments of significance in
the field of industry-labor relations have
occurred within the past twenty-four
hours.
One is the announcement being made
today that officers of the United Mine
Workers. in the interest of cooperative
efforts with anthracite mine operators,
directed at stabilization of that industry,
are asking the union membership to
support their request for years extern
sion of their working agreement rather
than further disturb the already troubled
industry by asking a more favorable
contract.
A second was the decision of Pontiac
sit-down strikers yesterday to abide by
the judgment of their leaders and aban-
don their seizure of valuable piece of
industrial property.
In each instance, there appears to be
a triumph of common sense, the sort of
practical wisdom which is essential to
furtherance of sane employer r-employe
IeldllOlSllpS.
Apparently, leaders of the mine work.
ers' union are fully aware that their
best interests and those of the industry
overlap in important degree. They
speak in their announcement of CO.
operating with the operators in striving
to open up new markets, in seeking re-
duction in anthracite freight rates and
in seeking r. F. c. loans to some of the
eligible needy concerns.
Protracted labor negotiations, they
say. would be "fraught with great
danger to ourselves, the industry and
the communities" an appraisal both
selfish and unselfish but certainly WISE
In the Pontiac incident, the greatest
regret is that the recalcitrant strikers
did not realize earlier the dis-service
they were doing their own cause by
seizure of the automobile plant. That
their leadership did recognize this vio-
lation of good policy and finally pre-
vailed in its attempts at exercise of dis
clpllne gives cause for hope that parties
to the troubled labor picture of the auto
mobile industry may soon reach some
lasting grounds of agreement. to be un-
marred by further irresponsibility.
Evening star., 1937-11-23
Bivalye Battles.

The second major battle between So
called Potomac River oyster pirates"
and enforcement officers focuses atten.
ton on a situation fraught with grave
dangers.
In 1888 more than dozen Eastern
ohoremen were arrested off Popes Greek
after gun battle with conservation off,
clals, Maryland State police, county
officers and deputized citizens. One man
was slightly wounded Even more dra-
matte was the night battle Saturday
between a conservation boat armed with
a machine gun and feet of alleged
oyster scraping boats. Only two men
were captured. Through great good for
tune there were no casualties
The situation is not unlike that which
arose IN many localities during prohibi-
ton days when police resorted to arms to
enforce a law unpopular with those
affected by it. Potomac oystermen were
ordered to cast aside dredges and scrapes
about ten years ago when, after an off,
cial survey, Maryland and Virginia, by
concurrent action, closed the river to
dredging and scraping to save a dying
industry. Only longing, which is not so
injurious to the oyster beds, was permit
ted. The closing was to be indefinite,
but within few years word went out
that the bars were becoming replenished
and agitation began for reopening, which
also can be accomplished only by dual
State compact. Repeal of the Potomac
law remains live issue whenever the
Assemblies meet.
Southern Marylanders, in general, want
the law kept on the books. Eastern
Shorenen and Virginians lead the fight
for its repeal. Meanwhile both Mary
landers and virginians clAm the other
is scraping oysters Illegally. The compact
requires that persons caught be tried in
their native State. Maryland officials
say Virginia judges free any violators
they capture. Under the circumstances
the difficulties of enforcement are obvious,
Those who sponsored the legislation
insist it can be enforced if both States
act vigorously. They point out that an
industry affecting thousands of people
who now exist on submarginal scale is
at stake. With a small boat and q pair
of tongs oystermen are able to exc out
an existence in the rugged individual"
fashion, free of bosses and, in general,
resentful of regulation.
1t is obvious, too, that human lives,
worth many times the richest oyster haul,
Also are ct stake. Unfortunately, II the
Evening star., 1937-11-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
For the ninty- ninth time, Templeton
Jones sWore that he would loan no more

For the ninty-ninth time, Templeton
Jones sWore that he would loan no more
books.
Miss Ludwig had just returned one of
his best-loved volumes
Miss Ludwig had possessed the book
for four months, during which she had
spent four hours reading it.
There is big difference between four
months and four hours, as any one
knows.
Jones wondered what Miss Ludwig had
done with the book for the remaining
hours.
Had she used it as door STOP or in
lieu of paper weight?
Once Jones had seen somebody's book
used to prop up window with a broken
sash cord and ever since he has pic
tured his own loaned books receiving
the blasts Of rain and wind.
Jones, soft and timid, as most people
become under civilization, wanted to
make but never did the following ad-
dress:
Miss Ludwig, why do you keep my
book for four months?
An idiot could read it in four davs.
You, being very smart person, no doubt
could get through it in ten or twelve
hours.
-Four months have gone by, and you
have neither finished the book, nor re-
turned it.
one of two things is certain, you do
not like the book, or you do like it.
If the former, then why keep it?
III you like it, why in thunder don't
you finish it?"
Templeton Jones sWore he would never
loan book to anybody
Hencetorth, he will give them away.
He says that if one never gets books
back, they might as we'll be presented,
in the first place.
Then the donor would have that small
Su1uslon of happiness which comes with
a good deed.
good book is. or ought to be, a good
deed. There can be little doubt that
few good deeds are as easily done as
this. A little money, of course, is in
Volved, but if one fortunately or unfor-
tunately happens to be person to whom
money absolutely is nothing at all, in one
mood or way of looking, then the money
end is not of much consequence.
Just few pieces of rather soiled
looking green paper. and in ones hands
IS trlumphantly borne away something
OF real and precious value.
Many people, in glimpses look upon
money in the very same way and always
unconsclously echo old Omar, who Won
dered what they bought half as precious
as the things they sell.
X
Jones got his big book back.
Ihere was just one more TO come in,
OF those loaned during the last half wear.
When that one arrived, much bat
tered, it would be the last.
Templeton Jones sWore it.
lie had sworn it so many times before:
always he had relented and loaned those
ne liked best; always he had been dis
appointed, but he never seemed to learn
anything.
AS book loaner, he died hard. He
liked them, he wanted others TO like
them. He was willing to give others the
pleasure, at no cost to them except-alas
Evening star., 1937-11-23
The New Farm Bill.

Under the whip and spur of adminis-
. tration leadership, the crop control bill,
with its ever-normal granary provisions,
has at last made its appearance in the
Senate and will soon make its bow in
the House. The Senate bill has nearly
everything in it except the kitchen stove.
Generally speaking, however, it is de-
signed basically to give the farmers
parity payments for their crops, larger
In years when crops are large and prices
. threatened and lever in the lean years
when prices would be high because of
the demand. 1t is designed also to estab-
Gsh voluntary" acreage reduction con-
tracts for wheat and corn and acreage
allotments by referendum for cotton, and
national marketing quotas for tobacco.
How the House bill will measure up
with the Senate bill remains to be seen.
1t appears, however, that it is to have
a compulsory control of wheat and
corn crops. The two committees have
wrangled in recent days over the volun-
tary and compulsory methods of con-
trolling crops. They have both, however,
come round to favoring a referendum
vote of the farmers when crop control
measures are to be put into effect, with
tWo-thirdS vote required to make the
measures effective. This is not an en-
tlrely new wrinkle, for the Department
OF Agriculture has conducted referendum
votes in the past on the corn and hog
< curtallment programs, under the old
A. A. A. However, the proposal for the
, use of referendum votes in the new
bill is on far larger scale, and further
: more, the referendum votes are to be
the determining factor when a certain
crop control measure is proposed.
How much the new legislation will
cost the Federal Government-the tax
payers to be more exact-is not vet dis
closed. Several members of the Senate
. Committee on Agriculture insist that the
cost Will be no greater than the half
billion dollars set aside now for pay
~>NS@ASH "a 1~A4S1ASS
soil erosion act. Others contend that
the cost will be $150O00,000 higher.
President Roosevelt told the chairmen of
the Committees on Agriculture that if
the farm legislation increased the burden
on the Treasury, they would have to find
new revenue to meet this burden, since
it was his plan to balance the budget in
the coming fiscal year. The Senate
committee has made no attempt to write
new taxes into its new bill. The Senators
point out that such duty lies with the
House, where revenue legislation must
originate. No one knows definitely yet
what the House committee will do in
this matter. If a revenue provision is
inserted in the farm bill, opponents of
the undistributed profits tax might
undertake to add a repeater as an
amendment. This would not suit the
administration.
So much has been attempted for the
farmers and so often with unexpected
and unsuccessful results that the coun-
try must really hope the new legislation
will work well. The farmers after all
must be prosperous if the Nation is to
prosper. And in the effort to bring aid
to the farmers Congress should 90 slowly
and be sure, this time, what it is doing
and why, and how the system will really
work. There has been too much guess
work.
Evening star., 1937-11-23

ters. He approached me fraction of a
second after the light became red. He
knew he had just so much time to ac-
complish his purpose. Noiselessly he
opened the door and with surprising
GOODNESS he took my purse. Perhaps he
had been robbing women in cars for so
long that he knew the hysterical female
would drive off, as eager as he to leave
the scene. He never showed his face,
he never uttered word and all that I
can remember is the tan fedora hat.
Now. even in the midst of friends, I
involuntarily shudder when I think of
the slowly opening door and the hand
coming toward me.
And so, in the future, when read
few words in the paper relating such an
incident shall add to 1t the memories of
my own experience and feel toward the
latest victim of Washington's skilled
thieves a sympathy born OF similar
episode in my own life.
A. FOGELGREN.
Evening star., 1937-11-23

Annapolis calls attention to fire in a
famous old hotel but does not assume
that Maryland is endeavoring to overdo
a great occasion. There was a time
when Annapolis was scarcely consid-
cred big enough town for really
great fire.
Evening star., 1937-11-23

Weather is hard to endure some times,
but as November puts on finishing
touch the sound of the holidays becomes
clearer and the rough gossip becomes less
clear
Evening star., 1937-11-23

Interesting books are still being
written and the turn of personal dis
tlnction asserts itself on the holiday
shelves in a manner which should be
cheering even if doubts arise concern
ing some of the material.
Evening star., 1937-11-23
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ganization-ToWn is Governor
which last summer was set to stick
knife into Van Nuys, has reconsidered
and Van Nuys looks to be 4 good bet for
fonolninAHon,
Evening star., 1937-11-23
Doubtful Discipline.

Doubtful Discipline.
"How's the new jail?"
Mighty handsome an commodious,"
answered Cactus Joe. THE fact is, it's
50 comfortable we're thinking of offerin'
weeks board in 1t as q premium for
good behavior"
Fame has it penalties" said Hi Ho,
the sage of Chinatown, "and a monu-
ment preserves memories Of deep sorrow
as we'll as splendid achievement"
Evening star., 1937-11-23
Conservatism.

Conservatism.
Though scientists labor SO hard,
Old-fashioned machines claim atten-
ton.
The Snow Shovel soon we'll regard
AS the worlds most important inven-
ton.
Evening star., 1937-11-23
RemOteness,

Radio is wonderful means of COM
munication"
"Yes,' answered Senator Sorghum,
but I don't find it entirely satisfactory
There's no way of checking up on the
laughter and applause to make sure you
aren't accidentally getting in wrong with
large and influential audience"
Evening star., 1937-11-23
More Important.

More Important.
Footprints in the sands of time
We recall the good old rhyme
With respectful sentiment
Yet just now men are intent
On lifes more important things
Than the thrill ambition brings.
Footprints may be fine, indeed,
But they fill no present need.
So, my hat doff today
To the men who go their way
Painting, in style so neat,
Traffic signals on the street.
IF one bite of an apple could maxi
so much trouble in de Garden of Eden,
said Uncle Eben, Il can't help wonderir
what jug Of hard cider would hav
done."
Evening star., 1937-11-23

@. Who originated the winged chair?
w. K
A. Hepplewhite is credited with de-
signing this type OF chair.
Evening star., 1937-11-23

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@. How does the average salary Of a
teacher in the United States today COM
pare with that in 1870?-C. l.. M.
A. In 1870 the average annual salary
of teachers in the United States was
Sl89 while in 1887 it is S1,325.
Evening star., 1937-11-23

@. Where is dorado Tafts statue Of
Black HaWk?-E. w.
A. A statue of the Indian warrior by
Taft stands on a high bluff overlooking
the Rock River near Oregon, III.
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@. Who was called the Carnegie OF
Belgium?-W. H.
A. Ernest Solvay, manufacturing
chemist and inventor of tn Solvay pro-
cess for the manufacture of soda. was
SO called because of his many philan-
thropic enterprises.