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Evening star., 1937-06-14
Britain's Imperial Woes.

When the British Commonwealth OF
Nations, amid the fervor and glamour
of the coronation, convened in confer
ence to consider the manifold problems
OF the empire, fond hopes of far
reaching results were entertained. The
conference is about to break up, with the
bulk of its tasks, especially those of
economic nature, unaccomplished. On
the score of inter-empire trade rela-
tions, because of the diverse needs and
interests of the daughter states, it was
found wholly impossible to reach agree
ment. On only one subject was there
substantial accord-the necessity for
pooling empire resources to facilitate
production of munitions in the event
of war. AS Great Britain lays para
mount stress on imperial defense, the
Chamberlain government is thus enabled
Evening star., 1937-06-14
Strikers, Not Non-Union
Workers, Are Scabs Today
% the Editor OF The Star:


Were Will Rogers alive today he could
read aplenty. He could read about the
taXdodger, the taX-evader and the de-
llnquent taxpayer. He could also read
about the tax experts studying up a
new way to levy two or more taxes on
the same property without the owner
knowing it-something like giving the
patient disguised dose of castor oil.
He doesn't know it-until later.
Then again Will could read of Tie
hordes of strikers all over the country
who abandon their Jobs. take unlawful
possession Of the works and property,
defy court mandates, defy officers Of
the law, arm themselves with clubs beer
bottles and brickbats to prevent owners
from entering their own property or
non-union men taking the jobs. They
must have feeling or an understanding
that the courts will not prosecute.
Labor unions call the non-union man
a "scab." Yet that same non-union man
is a peaceable citizen ready and anxious
to work and not tied to some faraway
boss to whom he must pay monthly tax
just to tell him to strike.
During the railway strike of the
Harding administration union shopmen
walked out and abandoned their jobs.
They did, but not successfully, forbid
non-union men. or "Scabs,' to take up
their jobs in the shops. What hap
pened in my home town was that the
strikers distributed themselves through
town, taking jobs of carpentering, paint
ing, paperhanging. plastering, brick lay
ing, anything and everything thus de-
prlving the usual men about town who
handled those jobs.
1t may be that the unions have not
yet arrived at the 'scab" stage. But
were few Of those leaders and agitators
thrown into jail when they start their
work of agitating strikes to show them
that our laws still forbid riots it might
prevent bodily injury on both lawful
and unlawful sides
The unions might also change their
name to one that would better conform
with their attitude toward our courts.
They should cal! themselves The Muir
ply Spud Peelers' or The Rooseveltian
Kissers.' w. j. DERMOTT.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
Board of Guardians
Proposition Impractical
the Editor of The Star.

~ OiiS IaAtoi u me oldl
With reference to the proposal for
some kind of World Wide Board of
Guardians for children with headquar-
ters abroad and at 20 Vesey street, New
York City, it seems to me the Basque
women and children or any other VIC
TINS OF any other war for or against COM
munism or anything else ought not be
torn away from their environment and
scattered all over the earth'S surface.
Not only good morals, supreme social
and important racial reasons, but the
economies of this piouS-faced proposal
demand that these youngsters be taken
care OF as near their native little Basque
as is possible. Why, the cost of trans
portatlon alone would keep a child for
year or more far better Chan those
children have been used to. They should
have assistance, but not steamship and
worldwide Scatterment assistance.
The whole proposition strikes me as
utterly impractical and suspicious.
Only last week the President told US
how 'ill-fed," "ill-clothed" and ill
housed" and several years ago Miss
Perkins told us how barefooted and shoe
less large part of our good old Amerl-
can stock was and is. 1t looks like we
ought to clean up things here in the way
of victims" of this kind before we go
to importing more dependents and de-
fectives and wards" and unemployed
Each country should care for its own.
We should look after our own household
first. If there are those that can give
to these poor children and women, let
them give in money or clothes or what
ever they can, instead of tearing them
from their native land, their friends and
relatives. J. D. SMITH.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
New Deal Extravaganza
Likened to Edward iii
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The taxpayers seem to have their
troubles. Well, it was always thus
Edward III of England was a great King
but he never had any money. AS fast
as Parliament voted him good-sized
roll he spent it. And then he went broke
and demanded more. He simply had to
have it.
Finally, the lawmakers, tired of all
this expensive must legislation" refused
to grant him any further supplies. Did
this put the King on the spot? 1t did
not. Mounting his horse and followed
by armed men he rode through the
length and the width of the land and
helped himself to whatever came handy
when people hear of your coming" so
an archbishop wrote him, they get
to eating or selling or hiding their geese
and chickens for fear that they might
lose them entirely through your arrival"
If Congress should ever go on strike
and refuse to pass any further tax meas
ures, why. the same situation might
come up here The President himself
or maybe his Secretary of War at the
head of a detachment of Devil Dogs
might roam through the country grab
bing whatever they could get hold Of
Provided, of course, that there is still
anything left that is worth grabbing.
FRED VETTER.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
Laws Enacted by Congress
For Veterans Ignored
. the Editor Of The Star:

10 the Editor OF The Star:
Regarding the story about Uncle Sans
pension bill printed in The Star, kindly
permit me to state that Congress passed
a law for the benefit of the real veterans
in 1888, not for their veXation. All the
laws that Congress passed are being
ignored by lawyers and doctors to keep
the real veterans from obtaining that
which is justly due them under said laws
while the parasites sit in swivel chairs
and gaze out windows, at the same time
feeding at the veterans trough.
These Office holders know what is
being put over on the man who went
through the horrors in France, yet they
are taking $4,000 and $4,000 per year
from the veterans trough.
How would any one go about COM
pairing $4,000 year with the $18O-a-
year ($15 month"; pension of the per-
manently and totally disabled veteran?
The last law Congress passed in 1888
stated very plainly that the veterans
pension could not be cut and that the
veterans would not have to be re-
examined. Here you have the answer to
this law in June Plain Talk. Statement
in part follows
"One veteran was cut from $594O to
SIG month. Another from $40 to S14"
The only veteran who was not cut is the
brother of a law partner of a former
Congressman. He was raised from $50
to $40 month.
AS to dependent money I don't be-
lieve the war-risk insurance was worth
the paper the receipt was written on.
I paid $500 month for insurance while
in France under shell fire and I never
received policy, receipt or anything to
show for it.
suggest that the Veterans Bureau
print the names and amount of compen-
sation and pensions received by the
chair-Warmers, wall-f1oWers and win
dow-gazers, who have been feeding
at the veterans trough for the last II
years. 3. w. LAWLER.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

Swallows still nest in barns, when they
can find them, or their modern equiva-
lentS, garages.
There Is one brick garage in nearby
Maryland wherein two mother barn
swallows have taken up nesting almost
side by side, as is their habit.
The nests are placed about 2 feet
apart, and some feet high on the back
wall of the building, inside, of course.
All afternoon the birds sit on their
nests, facing East.
We have seen them several times,
and they are always facing the same
way.
The nests are gray affairs, typically
song bird, placed carefully alongside a
girder, nestled down in the corner
formed by upright and crossbar.
Automobile headlights flashed on them
do not seem to disturb the birds in
the least.
There happens to be sort of swing
ing affair, placed not far from the
nests, on which to hang something or
other.
The mother birds delight in swing
ing on this bar when not warming the
eggs.
The swallows are not perturbed by
the cars coming in or out of the garage
They seem perfectly at home on that
far wall, in Semi-darkness
It is said that barn swallows have had
pretty hard time of it in recent years,
owing to the passing of the great wide
doored barns of yeSteryear
Even when they find a barn which is
to their liking, they usually discover that
the doors are shut in their face.
X
Martins are close relatives of the
swallows. Many martin houses are to be
seen in and around Washington, but few
of them seem Inhabited We do not
know whether this is because there are
few of these birds hereabouts. or whether
the houses are not built and erected to
their liking.
Like the barn swallows, which love
to nest together the purple martins are
congregationalists, when it comes to
home making.
Most Of the houses made for them
contain from to 80 or more separate
compartments, one above the other, and
arranged in series around the house
Experts say that the house which
often is a heavy affair should be on a
| pole at least 20 feet high and that this
| pole should be placed well out in the
| open, away from trees or shrubs,
More martin houses fail of tenants
from violation of the latter edict than
anything else.
We know where there are some very
beautiful ones, but erected SO close to
houses or trees that the birds will not
nest in them.
Nesting birds are funny. after all
One season none will come to a garden
The next. for no apparent reason,
half dozen species will establish nests,
and hatch out their young.
Friends of the birds will vary between
pride in the nesting operations and fear
for the young.
Those large robin babies. squalling
for dinner, are an easy prey for wander
ing cats, and for this reason all owners
of Tom and Tabby should take pains to
keep their pets in during the nesting
| season.
1t is not realized by many persons
that the name of house cat means just
that-house. Even cats which roam "a
hours around love to sleep indoors dur
ing the DIV.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
Straw in the Wind?

Even if Senator Byrnes' victory in
committee for his proposed forty per
cent contribution from local communities
toward w. P. A. projects is nothing but
q straw in the wind, it is, like the un-
successful attempt in the House COM
nittee to cut the relief appropriation
by half a billion dollars, an important
straw. 1t is another indication Of the
general and widespread belief that the
time has come when more definite
effort must be made to reduce Federal
relief expenditures by placing fixed
part of the responsibility back where it
belongs-with the local communities. For
this reason Senator Byrnes' proposal
may have a greater chance for survival
than the unsuccessful effort in the House.
Under his plan the money will still be
available. But the communities to which
1t is allotted must indicate their need
by putting up a fixed proportion OF the
cost-f1Xed by Congress and not by the
Works Progress Administration.
This proportion under existing policy
shows the greatest variation, ranging
from less than one per cent to more
than twenty per cent, the lowest pro-
portions apparently falling in the more
densely populated centers, like New York
City, where relief needs are manifestly
greater. The average is about sixteen
per cent. 1t may be the belief of the
Senate committee that if the Senate
goes so far as to stand back Of the forty
sixty division, the conferees on the bill
may reach compromise in the neigh
borhood of twenty per cent. That would
not be so far above the present average.
AS Mr., Hopkins has pointed out, the
defect in an arbitrary percentage divi-
sion for the country at large lies in the
fact that conditions throughout the
country vary so greatly. Mr.. Hopkins
contends that the discretion thus far
left to the President and to himself
should continue, permitting the recog-
milton not only Of conditions of employ
ment in different parts Of the country,
but the equally varying ability of the
local communities to put up the neces-
Eary cash.
An arbitrary percentage division of
cost, however, would provide a needed
test Of the necessity for the sort of
relief furnished through w. P. A. Under
the present policy, communities vie with
each other to obtain w P. A money
because it is available. The best brake
on the unnecessary allotments would lie
In the requirement for local taxpayers to
shoulder definite part Of the cost. For
w. P. A. projects, unlike the P w. A.
undertakings, are chiefly for relief and
90 not always hold out the advantage of
the more permanent type of improve
ment obtained under P. w. A.
Nobody has yet attempted to answer
the problem of what the District of Co.
lumbia would do under Senator Byrnes'
policy. Congress has shown no DISPOSE
ton to increase local relief appropria-
tons to the point demanded by cordi-
tions as appraised by welfare officials
Even if local revenues were available for
matching Federal funds-Whicl is i'm
probable now-the Commissioners have
no authority to allocate such funds not
specifically appropriated No such ap-
preparations have been or are likely to
be made in the current appropriation bill.
Evening star., 1937-06-14

Recent rotogravure pictures of the
conference preliminary to the all-star
lnter-league game show the Big Three
OF Base Ball, Lands, Frick and Har-
ridge. Should it not be the Big -Four,
with Diz Dean added? The idea that
the game is bigger than any player in
it seems to be tottering.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

From year to year we tried to learn
Our reading and our writing.
Arithmetic We now discern
AS something more exciting.
At present we must think about
The lender and the pledger
And undertake to figure out
Some big financial ledger.
We plodded through the spelling book
And tried to be grammatic.
To pictures we liking took
Or measures operatic.
We find that we again are due
For pursuit of knowledge
And are compelled to take anew
A course in Business College.
Evening star., 1937-06-14

Loss Of check for s465, ,09220, later
on fortunately found on the street in
Baltimore, caused a railroad clerk to re-
mark that he hadn't been able to get
his books balanced all day A cinch;
he should have hoped over here. There
are New Dealers in the Treasury De-
partment who could turn that simple
trick in two minutes.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.

Journeys End
A granite cross upon my heart is craven,
And I must travel under it, alone.
But though it weighs me down I am no
craven,
The world of men shall never hear
me groan;
Only to God I pray for that far haven
Where your dear hand may lift my
cross of stone.
So fare on. For every one who meets
I have a song of cheer, a rondelay:
Lest my stone weighted heartache should
defeat me,
And I go down beneath the granite
gray;
Nor reach the haven, love, where you
will greet me,
And your caress will roll the stone
away.
leaving Uncle Sam in second place be-
hind Japan by per cent. The Japa-
nese have hit up their production to
meet foreign demands. American rayon
manufacturers cater almost exclusively
to domestic needs.
(Copyrizht, 1879
Evening star., 1937-06-14
A Futile Quest.

'Tis common 'mongst us mortal men,
This wish to lead the clan;
And yet it happens now and then,
The Office seeks the man.
It seeks him high, it seeks him low,
Then great rejoicings sound;
The public is relieved to know
At last the man is found!
But he remarks, Il find the pay
Considerably less
Than what I'm making now. I'll
Stay in private life, I guess"
"One of de troubles I has," said Uncle
Eben, "is wifi folks dat keeps tellin' me
how iuStld Of doin' how deirselves."
Evening star., 1937-06-14

President Roosevelt, it is announced
through official channels, shook hands
with 1850 persons during 1886. 1t is
thought that he also once or twice
clasped his own hands and shook them
together for the benefit of the gallery.
How am I doing, folks?"
Evening star., 1937-06-14
A Drowsy Day.

To sit and think is pleasure deep.
About the best a man can take
Too Wakeful quite to go to sleep;
Too sleepy to stay awake.
Evening star., 1937-06-14

Jud Tunkins says a man don't stand
up to give lady seat in street car
since women went into politics, but he
wishes he could do that instead of hav-
ing to give his seat in salaried Office
chair.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
All Other States and Canada
Member of the Associated Press.

a., The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
credlted TO 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper paper ano also the local news published herein
herein are also reserved
Evening star., 1937-06-14

The much-advertised hog calling con-
Louisiana and Iowa will, let it be noted,
take place on the very rim of the pork
barrel itself
Evening star., 1937-06-14

Compared with today's rulers of Rus
sia the Expresses Catherine the Great
and Elizabeth were just Lavender and
old lace"
Evening star., 1937-06-14
In the Old DAYS.

"You got your start in politics by
burning midnight oil?"
Yes" replied Senator Sorghum. Il
was one of the busiest boys you ever
saw in a torchlight procession"
Evening star., 1937-06-14

Add famous double-play combinations,
adept at twin killings: Roosevelt to
Congress to Internal Revenue Bureau.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
Taxes in Society.

Are you in favor of sales tax?"
"Only for social reasons" answered
Miss Cayenne. "It differs from the in
come tax in not compelling you to re-
ceive letters from people with whom
you are not the slightest acquainted"
Evening star., 1937-06-14
Rate by Carrier-City and Suburban.
RerIilar EaiIinn
Night Final Edition.
Rate by MaiI-Payable in Advance.

Maryland and virginia.
Daily and Sunday ! yra $1,000: ! mo-. s5c
SaIy SanSy, oniy ------ ! VI, $500; ! mo. SOC
o"Hoay ohIy------ l W.. o4 Loo; mo-. 40c
Evening star., 1937-06-14

@. Is there farm on Manhattan
Island?-K D. w.
A. The last farm on Manhattan was
recently converted into a trailer camp.
Evening star., 1937-06-14

"The people, demand leaders," said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "and
continue to change them until at last
they have found master
Evening star., 1937-06-14

@. Is the Graf Zeppelin still in serv-
ice?-L. T.
A. 1t is still in service 1t operates
between Germany and South America.
Evening star., 1937-06-14

@. How does the per capita for social
relief service in the United States COM
pare with Great Britain and Germany?
"A. G.. D.
A. The following figures were pub
lished in the Congressional Record for
May IA, 1886: The United States spent
for social relief service S20.81 per capita;
Great Britain, s2894 per capita; Ger
many, s32 "a per capita
Evening star., 1937-06-14

@. When was the first Alaska mineral
patent taken out?-M P.
A. The earliest patent was No. 1901
Sitka mineral entry No, /, issued jan
uary 49, 1889, to the Alaska Mine g.
Milling Co.
Evening star., 1937-06-14

@, Which State had the first modern
program of highway development?-
l.. S.
A. New Jersey was the first. 1t passed
State highway act in 1890
Evening star., 1937-06-14

@. What politician laid down the rule
that to the victors belong the spoils?-
R. D. A.
A. The statement They see nothing
wrong in the rule that to the victors
belong the spoils Of the enemy was
made in a speech by William L. Marcy
in the United States Senate in January,
1882.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
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The Washington times., 1937-03-31

Total calOries for day. ,52I
Your DietitiAn.
IDA JEAN KAN.
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
SIBLEY GUILD
TEAFRIDAY

The annual tea and linen shower
of the Women's Guild of Sibley
Memorial Hospital will be held at
Rust Hall, 115O North Capitol st.,
on Friday, April 2, from to 10
p. m.
Two plays, entitled Little Pris-
oner" and The Laughing Cure"
will be presented by the Douglas
Methodist Episcopal Church play
ers. The program will also con-
tain musical selections by the
Bernheimer trio, an organ recital
by Miss Grace Gasnell and songs
by the choir of Petworth Meth
odist Episcopal Church.
Proceeds from the benefit will
be spent in completing the air.
cooling systems in the nurseries
and delivery rooms.
Mrs. Samuel A. MooerS, preSi-
dent of the guild, heads the conf
mittee on arrangements.
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
PRISONER ASKS
$1,000 REWARD

ROCKVILLE, Md, March 81.
Through his attorney Thomas L.
Dawson, George Elmer Wins,
colored inmate of the Maryland
penitentiary, filed application with
the Montgomery County Commits
sioners for the $1,000 reward Of
fered by a former board for IN
formation leading to the arrest Of
the murderer of Horace D. Waters,
aged Germantown, Md, merchant,
on January 13, 1882.
The application, approved by
Chief j. William Garrett of the
county police department, and
States Attorney James H. Pugh,
stated that Donald Parker, col
ored, recently convicted of the
Waters Staying, had boasted to a
fellow prisoner at the penitentiary
where he was serving a life SEN
tence for another murder, that he
had participated in a Montgomery
county murder.
This prisoner hearing that
Wins was from Montgomery
county questioned him about re-
cent murders there and then
told him what Parker had said
Wins in turn contacted Chief Gar.
rett and gave him the first infor.
nation leading to the conviction
of Parker for the murder of
Waters.
The application was referred to
Albert M. Bouic, counsel to the
commissioners, for consideration.
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
Passover Recital
By Rabbi Gordon

In commemoration of the Pass
over season, Rabbi Theodore Cor
don, of the Baltimore Hebrew
Congregation, will give a song re-
cital, Songs of Freedom" to-
night at $3.50 at the Jewish Com
munity Center. Members of the
Hebrew Parent Teacher AsSocia-
ton will act as hosts for the eve
ming, with Mrs. Philip Diatz, presi-
dent, presiding.
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
Mystery Surrounds
Ford Officials Wreck

DETROIT, March 81 0.N.SJ.
Mystery today surrounded the
wrecking of the car of Harry H.
Bennett, 45-year-old personnel di-
rector of the Ford Motor Company
Monday. when another car con.
tanning five men smashed into his
automobile.
Bennett, who escaped from the
crash without a scratch, dismissed
the incident with shrug of his
shoulders. He said he believed the
men wanted to talk to him about
a labor matter. He would not
elaborate.
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
Embassy Here Shows
Spanish War Sketches

The war in Spain is depicted
here in an exhibition of sketches
and photographs of war scenes,
held daily, except Saturdays and
Sundays, from 3 to S p. M, in the
Spanish embassy, 2801 Sixteenth
st. The exhibition opened yester-
day.
The sketches are the work of the
celebrated Spanish artist, Moreno
Villa. The exhibition is open to
the public,
The Washington times., 1937-03-31
; Are Jailed in Theft
OF $4,000 U. 5. Bond
International News Service

International News Service
Arrest by Boston agents Of three
men in connection with the dis
position of stolen $4,000 Gov
ernment bond was announced to-
day by the Department of Justice.
Rupert w. Marsters, Edward A.
Goggin and William Corcoran,
former district attorney at Middle
Essex, Cambridge, Mass, were
held.
The bond was stolen from a
Louisville trust company in 1885
and sold to a broker in Boston.
The Washington times., 1937-03-31

Flying trapezist Alma Bray at
MariO'S Ell MiradOr cOnfesSeS
that her daring act is a prelude
to bigger things. I'm think
ing next season of being shot
out of a cannOn-my clothes fly
Off-and 1 land In the net with.
out Q stitch on. GOOd-aint it?"