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ST.T.HS' HHVN. Departed thiS He on
THURSDAY July -. 1917 at his res
dence. 3ol st. NV MACK SIMMS.
he leaves to mourn their loss devoted
WIFE. Lizzie SimmS seven sons, Ave
daughters. forty grandchildren len
eeeat-erandchildren and a host of other
relatives and friends Remains resting
at the George B Clarke Co funeral
parlor l4l6 Florida ave. ne until
funeral hour Service Monday july
%. at 80 pm. at Salem Baptist
Church st. between 9th and 10th
Sts. NV. 1nterment Payne,s Cemefery
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ThA Sun and AAnn
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ioTs sos 5ob AND sos. Is GRAVES
soOYs, section l. B. in Washington Me-
merlsl Park. Address Box 319H. Star
Evening star., 1937-01-01

with the value of their services, but by
the guarantee that Government service
would provide for them an honorable
career, safe from the bulldozing and
reprisals Of politicians, safe from the
loss of their jobs to make room for po-
litical requirements.
Mr.. Dies and his colleagues would
accomplish great deal for increased
governmental efficiency, loss of which
he now deplores. by working to extend
the merit system and to encourage young
men and women of ability to seek honor
able careers in the Government service
The occasional desertions of admins
trative officials now who seek to apply
their skill and knowledge to the i'm
provement of the molasses and other
industries are not, as a matter OF fact,
of far-reaching Importance.
Evening star., 1937-01-01
Hotel Workers Have Not
Benefited From Recovery
To the Editor of The Star:

To the EDITOR OF The Star:
A writer to The Star Is In favor OF some
flexible" law concerning working hours
in short. an N. r. A. In q different form.
Most laboring men want 1t. But "busi-
ness" does not.
Now. here we have the administration
and the United States Chamber OF Com
merce trying to locate jobs In the mean
time some Of these jobs are right here IN
Washington-under their very noses.
There are the hotels. for instance, due to
their desperate financial condition in 1892
the N. r. A. dealt very kindly with them
as to wages and hours Business, for one
reason or other picked up wonderfully"
'as some OF the hotel men expressed it,,
and 1t is still said to be tops"
Did the help benefit any? Not at all
After the N. r. A. was discontinued these
places still maintained their very modest
minimum wages, but they slapped on
about 80 hours q mOnth-free, gratis
lunch rooms also. Now If the same ap-
plies ell over the country and. maybe, 10
other lines of business why. then we need
not wonder about the large number still
unemployed. All this. of course. is strict
ly according to human nature. If this
writer had business 'thank God. l have
none, where six men at such wages as
1 saw flt TO pay were doing the work TO
nv satisfaction. why would never think
Of hiring q seventh son. Let some one
else give him job.
And this is where the law" comes in.
The law is supposed to control selfish
human nature. And therefore the law
should once more take note OF the unem-
ployment problems The Chamber of
Commerce Of the United States has no
disciplinary powers. The Government
has. FRED VETTER.
Evening star., 1937-01-01

It would. and it did. for those who tried
1t along that basis, more or less. found
that they became very i'll, as many a
small boy had discovered long before.
Among the many factors which the
cal0ry enthusiasts had left out of con-
sideratlon were the vitamins.
This was not to be wondered at Of
course, since no one knew anything
about vitamins.
They hadn't been discovered.
Only surmises about them were in
existence. When this field of scientific
approach to rational diet was explored.
with many gems of fact discovered as a
result, the calory theory quietly died
almost.
1t still exists, and has its uses. but no
one attempts to live according to 1t any
more. except in certain cases where
deemed necessary by the physician.
We know now that diet might con-
tain enough 'calories" yet might be so
lacking in minerals and vitamins that it
would approach the "vitamin-free" diet
on which white rats are made III as the
first step in testing for the recuperative
power OF fish oils and other substances
containing vitamins in concentrated
quantities.
Nevertheless, the calory theory still Is
worth keeping in mind with reservations.
for 1t will bring home to any one who
considers 1t the chance Of over eating
which besets most persons who have free
access to food.
There seems to be little doubt that most
such persons over-eat most of the time,
and especially do so during holiday sea-
sons. No doubt this fact. and not the
weather, Is At the basis OF the lugubrioIs
sayings to the effect that a green
Christmas" is sure TO be very much the
worse for many persons.
1t probably isn't so much the unsea-
sonab BILE warmness which induces many
to 60 without sufficient wraps, as the extra
amount of food eaten at this time, which
results in illness later. The entire good
functioning of the digestive tract, and es-
pecislly of the various mucous membranes
of the body. Is overturned for the time
being. 1t is being more widely appreci-
ted that vitamin-free diets tend to dis
turb the proper functionine OF all these
membranes: that is why vitamn A. So
CHHeC, nelpS DullO up the nedlJn even
of the eye, by way of its membranes.
keeping these at the proper t1uidity to do
their best work.
Over-eating evidently tends to concen-
trate the fluids Of the body and TO dry
out certain membranes which ought to
have them. This may not be scien-
tific explanation. but it probably is
common-sense one. 1t has the merit of
being understandable. which is all any
theory ought to aim at. 1t may be wrong,
In a sense, and yet right in another.
Especially after middle age. the average
man and woman ought to eat more cau-
tiously. One eminent scientist has the
ory to the effect that Nature induces
hearty eating in youth and that after
certain age she is through with one. and
so continues to induce a hearty appetite
in order to get rid of one all the quicker.
Whatever one may think of this theory.
IT. may give few pointers as to the
wisdom of not letting the appetite for
food and drink run awav with one. eSpe-
cially at Christmas and New Year.
Evening star., 1937-01-01
Abolition of Dollar Pass
Is Not Good Business

To the Editor Of The Star:
In connection with Capital Transit
Co. affairs the following will be of in
terest:
About 1905 the late Lincoln Steffens
wrote book about the State OF Rhode
Island, In his so-called muck -raking'
way. At the time Senator Aldrich was
a power. not only in Rhode Island but
also in the Nation. In commenting on
the book the Senator asked Mr.. Steffens,
What did you mean by saying that we
business men don't understand busi-
ness, even our own business?"
well" answered Steffens, when you
consolidated all the trolleys in Provi-
dence you promised to give universal
transfers and you didn't. For years you
fought those who tried to force you
to. And then at last. when you were
beaten. and you had to give the trans
fers, what happened?"
1T was funny, what happened" said
Mr. Aldrich 'Our earnings increased"
Il knew what would happen" said
Mr.. Steffens Il had seen 1t happen In
other cities and so, though l am not
street railway business man. knew that
much about your business. And you
didn't. You business men don't know
your own business"
Does the Transit Co. show q knowledge
of it's own business in cutting OIL the dol
lar pass? Let's check up on Its earnings
In 1897.
Again, does 1t understand Its own best
interest IN continuing the enormous ex-
pense of the underground system-which
has run into hundreds Of thousands OF
dollars in the past year, much OF which
might be saved with the bus system?
One wonders If the operating control
Of the company is in the hands Of those
who profit from electric car construction
and underground power transmission.
MAURY H. BROWN.
Evening star., 1937-01-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES +. TRACEWELL,

Ate too much during the Christmas
holidays?
Well, q good New Year resolution is
not to do it again this weekl
Eating, Of course. has for centuries
been associated with these holidays.
Eating and drinking, stufing ones
self to the extreme limit, have been part
Of the holidays. mostly to every partici.
pants regret, large or small.
We know this, yet every year act In
much the same insane way.
The culprit may be candy, or cake, or
1t may be too much meat, or too much
liquor, or too much OF combination, or
simply too much good food in too short
o space Of time.
Anyway, we eat too much and know it,
yet 60 right ahead doing 1t.
1t Is one Of the bad features Of the
holidays, and is particularly SO because
1t has tradition on its side, and We think
that just another little party won't do
US any harm.
No doubt stufhng during the holidays
is more responsible than anything else
for the many logy minds and ill-at-ease
stomachs which follow.
1t was noticeable, the look Of illness
which appeared on many faces that
Monday after Christmas
The day after was not time enough.
People had to eat just a little more.
SO that by Monday almost every one you
met wore q very worn expression.
Some such faces might have been due
to genuine cares. or the multitudes Of
small cares incident to the day. but in the
main they probably were due to that very
human action, over-eatinR.
This Is q subject that comes home to
the minds and bosoms-as the philos
opher put it-and the stomachs-as we
put it-of all Of US.
For who of US Is there who doesn't eat
more food than he needs. If he can get II !?
The great excuse is, of course, that no
one knows exactly how much any one
needs.
Many attempts have been made to set
this all down in scientific form. but no
sooner is the thing done than some start
to shoot the performance full of holes
and generally succeed In doing so very
nicely.
Take calories, for instance Twenty
years or SO ago the calory theory burst
upon the aStoniShed world with all the
vigor of anything new.
Diet was to be put in it's place. at last.
So many calories for workingman.
so many for a sedentary worker, so many
for child. so many for ar adult. so many
to put on flesh. and SO many less to take
it Off
A neat theory one which documented
and seemed almost to prove a very diff
cult subject.
Indeed. the calory theory was one to
delight the mind Of man, ever searching
for air-tight, fool-proof reductions Of the
irreducible
The theory had q place but 1t was
misplaced by most persons. especially
the layman.
Even the man-in the street came to
see that something was amiss in It's ap-
plication.
For didn't the humble doughnut have
a most astounding calorifle content. yet
wouldn't diet Of doughnuts and nothing
but douehnuts put 4 rhinoceros in the
hospital?
Evening star., 1937-01-01
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

cate that the Wolverine editor statesman
is prepared again to step out as rugged
oppositionist Somebody wished Vanden-
berg anything you want" in Iceland
after. Il don't want thing said the
man who might have been Landon.
Probably the State Department reacts
with mixed emotions to that 210,00O-
square mile Afghanistan oil concession
just awarded to New York corpora
ton in which former Secretary of the
Treasury Ogden L. Mills is principal.
Vast AfghaniStan is an ancient bone
of contention between Great Britain and
Russia. The intrusion of large-scale
American capital into King Mohammed
Zahir's sprawling domain conjures up
the possibility Of complications for Uncle
Sam in that remote corner of the Asiatic
earth. Charles c. Hart, former Ameri-
can Minister to Albania. who helped 20
negotiate the deal with the Afghan gov
ernment was a Washington newspaper
correspondent when appointed to the
diplomatic service by President Coolidge
in 1925. Afterward President Hoover
promoted Hart to be our Minister to
Persia.
Carroll Miller, who has Just been
elected chairman OF the Interstate Com
merce Commission for the year 1897, Is
q brother-in-law of Senator Joseph F.
Gufey. Democrat. of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Miller, the Senator's sister. is Demo-
cratic national committeewoman for the
keystone State. One Of her four sons
Is named Joseph F. Guffey Miller. The
new I. c. c. chief is an engineer by pro-
fession and was appointed to the COM
mission by President Roosevelt In 1888.
He has been associated at different times
with the steel, gas, oil and electricity
industries Virginian by origin. he
once upon q time was on professional
duty in England.
When the Securities and Exchange
Commission was first projected more
than one chill ran down the sensitive
spine of Wall Street. Bulls and bears
aliks feared, among other things that
the new law might sound the death knell
of security flotations. The year 1895
ended according to S. E. c. figures. with
a gross issue of more than $4,000. 100000
Ol HcW SJOthS anu DOIluS, vi uou-
bic the s2677 900 900 approved in 1885.
That the brokerage business in Lower
Manhattan is still a lucrative game Is
further indicated by this weeks sale of
4 Stock Exchange seat at one OF the
highest prices on recent record.
Representative Emanuel Celler. Demo-
crat. of New York wants to raise the pay
of United States district judges. Their
salary Is now $4,000 year, which the
Brooklyn representative considers mig
sardly In comparison with what jurists
receive in many American State and
municipal courts, and abroad. England,
he says, pays a justice of the Kings
bench division $25, 600 per annum, while
Judges corresponding to our Federal dis
trict Judges receive $4,000 in Australia
and $1l .25O in South Africa. Mr.. Celler
Is introducing q bill in Congress to au-
thorize q permanent increase in salary
for Judges of the circuit and district
courts based on certain recommended
t,ons OF Supreme Court justices, to each
Of whom is allotted a judicial circuit.
respecting cost of living and the size of
dockets In given jurisdictions.
(Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-01-01
Congress Should Decide
Control of Public Domain

From the Minnes polls Tribune.
Congress has been asked by two Fed
eral departments to consolidate control
over the public domain under their ad-
ministration. In his annual report Harold
L. Ickes, Secretary OF the Interior. sug-
gested that the administration of these
lands be concentrated in his department
Almost q year ago Secretary wallace
made Q similar proposal. differing only
in that he felt the control should be
lodged in the hands of the Department
Of Agriculture.
Secretary Ickes argues In his report
that further grants of public lands under
existing legislation are virtually at an
end, although there remain for settle
ment outsta nding grants and unper-
fected public land entries aggregating be-
tween IS and 20 million acres The final
disposition of these lands will remain a
problem for good many years, and ad-
ministrat tion Of the remaining ns tional
estate, according to Secretary Ickes,
constitutes the principle public land Ac-
tivity now In prospect" Since the only
major land administration activity that
IL not now, although 1t was once, under
the jurisdiction Of the Department of In
terror covers certain lands within national
forest boundaries, the Secretary feels that
control should be vested in his depart.
ment
Secretary Ickes cites the forest service
to prove that more than half of the land
in question is not available as a source
of merchantable timber and is considered
chiefly valuable for grazing and the MAIN
tenance Of useful forage cover. Under the
circumstances, he feels that the admin
istrati0n and use Of these lands should
be co-ordinated or combined with those
of the far greater area of lands of similar
general character in grazing districts un-
der the jurisdiction of the Department
Of Interior" Secretary Wallace, on the
other hand, makes what appears to be
an equally strong case for placing public
land control under his department be-
cause Of the land conservation program
which 1t is applying to other lands.
Where the authorit1 to administer these
lands should be vested is a matter for
Congress and the administration to de-
eide. 1t would appear entirely logical to
the average citizen. however. to bring
about a greater degree of unity in control
by reducing the number of authorities
having charge Of regulating common in
terests.
Evening star., 1937-01-01

parts are curtailed shutdowns and lay.
offs follow. The New Year greeting Of .
tire manufacturer to his employees In
Ohio is the dismal news that production
Of tires must be curtailed and men laid
of because the manufacture of auto
mobiles has been slowed down.
Executives Of General Motors, largest
manufacturer Of automobiles yet Affected
by this preliminary campaign, are pub
licly taking the position that each strike
or sit down" is q local matter, to be set.
tied on the scene between the plant au.
thorities and the plant employees. The
United Automobile Workers Union warns,
on the other hand, that the strikes are
not local in any sense Of the word and
local settlement will produce no lasting
results. Settlement on 4 national basis
will mean, however, not only the recog-
milton of the collective bargaining"
which the organizers state is their objec-
tive, but recognition of the power OF
John l.. Lewis and those associated with
him In the present effort, a power that
can be exercised more potently through
recognition than 1t Is being exercised
now.
The nature of the issue and the ele-
ments which compose 1t indicate that the
coming year will witness, along with the
return of the prosperity so long sought,
q major engagement involving the closely
linked bituminous coal, steel and auto
mobile industries. The outcome is still In
doubt. as the New Year dawns, but the
seriousness Of preliminary skirmishes in
dicates the proportions OF the coming
battle.
Evening star., 1937-01-01
Shooting Stars.
BY pHfLANDER JOHNSON.
A Greeting.

n "NScssuBs
Oh. here's a little greeting from old
Pohick on the Crick!
We're countin up the blessins that have
followed fast and thick.
we've had our days of merriment rs
well as days of toll,
And we've gathered in the richness of
our broad and generous soil.
The old folks have grown Older and
we're smiling now to see
The youngsters settin' frivolous, jes like
we used to be.
They're courtin' an they're marryin an
goin' on their ways
An the mother songs are soundin', same
as in the other days.
We wish you all successes In that great
big world outside.
We glory in your splendors Of prosperity
and pride.
We hope for peace an plenty-but II
strife is in the air,
Wen line up with the rest Of you an try
to do our share.
But it isn't eeotism If we also hope you
may
Enjoy the calm an the content 70 COM
mon out our way.
We will wish you Happy New Year-an'
you mustn't be too quick
To forget this simple message from old
Pohick on the Crickl
Evening star., 1937-01-01
How to End a |ERacket.'

Representative Dies of Texas con-
cerned over this racket of Govern
ment administrative officials resigning
to enter private industry, proposes an
investigation. After the investigation
has revealed the extent of this nefarious
business, something, presumably, would
be done to stop it.
There are at least two remedies. One
Is to establish an enlistment period in
Government service, longer but other
wise comparable with the enlistment
period of the military services and either
shoot the deserters at sunrise or i'm
prison them for twenty years, with loss
of citizenship.
The other, however, may appeal TO
many as a better system, more desirable
from the point of view of the taxpayer
who supports the Government as we'll
as those who work for the Government.
This plan would, first, eliminate the
vicious political racket sometimes known
as the spoils system, in which Govern
ment jobs are apportioned among de-
serving politicians for distribution rs
reward to their political hangers-on.
At the same time, Government service
would be closed to all except those able
10 qualify for its responsibilities through
competitive. examination, the excep-
tions to this rule being strictly limited
to relatively few policy making posi-
tions to be filled by presidential appoint
ment. Those able to qualify for Gov
ernment service and, through meritori-
Gus performance of duty. able to retain
their positions would be rewarded not
only by remuneration commensurate
Evening star., 1937-01-01
Preliminary Skirmish.

An effective campaign of attrition Is
we'll under way, foreshadowinz the long
anticipated battle over unionization of
the automobile industry with the United
Automobile Workers of America-afii-
lated with Mr. Lewis Committee for In
dustrial Organization-leadin the at
tack. Its success so far is probably due
more to the closely integrated nature Of
the automobile industry than to any
present strength, in power or numbers,
Of the organized automobile workers.
Out from the actual assembly lines,
where the automobile takes final form,
extend many branches which touch the
manufacture of parts as well as the prep
aration of materials. So closely related
are all that delay in one OF them af-
fects the others. A relatively few men
sitting down" in wheel factory may
cause the layoff of thousands of men
supplying other parts.
John L. Lewis and the subordinate
generals directing the present campaign
in the automobile industry have taken
advantage of this fact in a manner that
is accomplishing more, in the way Of pun
ishment for the manufacturers, than any
other move possible at this time 1t Is .
question whether Lewis and his staff
are at this time able to call 4 strike that
would affect even a majority of auto
mobile workers. But, as local strikes in
glAss-manufacturing plants have already
demonstrated, few men can affect the
jobs of thousands of others. Fifty men
sitting down" in a body manufacturing
plant cause thousands of others to lose
immediate employment. "Sit downs" In
Michigan and Ohio spread anxiety
through Connecticut, for many manufac-
turing plants and whole communities in
Connecticut are dependent upon the sale
Of automobile parts. and once orders for