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Evening star., 1937-07-07
A Veteran Diplomat.

To have been on duty in the State De-
partment forty-five years, under seven
teen different Secretaries of State,
from Blaine to Hull, must be a unique
career in the foreign service and
one with few parallels in any branch
of the Government. Such is the
splendid record standing to the credit
of Wilbur j. Carr, who has just
been transferred from an assistant Sec
retaIyshlp of state to the ministership
to Czechoslovakia. Beginning as 81 900
clerk in 1892 Mr.. Carr advanced through
successive stages to the highest depart
mental post ordinarily available to non
political" appointees.
The progressive growth of the foreign
service from happy hunting ground for
deserving party henchmen into an
organization comparing favorably with
the diplomatic and consular systems of
other countries was coincident with Mr..
Carr's long tour of duty in the one time
triple department structure. That de-
velopment, indeed, is due in no small
degree to his persistent crusade in be-
half of career service, whereby capable
young Americans, ambitious to follow
diplomacy as a profession, could pursue
it with some hope that politicians would
not jostle them from the rungs in their
laborious climb up the ladder. In the
formulation and enactment of the Rogers
law of 1924, which for the first time
gave assurance of security to the for
eign service in the fields of pay pro-
motional prospects and pensions, Mr..
Carr had an influential hand. Later, as
budget officer of the State Department,
he was a potent advocate before con-
gressional committees Of appropriations
to safeguard the interests of service
personnel and provide sinews for ade-
quate American representation abroad,
including suitable housing accomnoda-
tions.
His activities as chairman of the Board
of Efficiency Ratings and OF the Board
Of Appeals and Reviews cast the AS
sistant Secretary of State in roles which
inevitably invited inter- service jealousies,
rivalries and charges Of favoritism. But
his retention in Office, under administra-
ton after administration, affords ir-
refutable proof that successive Secre-
taries of State cherished him in unim-
paired regard. In 1884, having reached
retirement age, Mr.. Carr, by executive
order, was granted an extension Of five
years-a striking tribute to what Secre-
tary Hull acclaims as his devoted serv-
ice''
The seasoned veteran of our depart
ment of Peace" is assigned to one OF the
most important of European listening
posts at critical juncture. His rich
experience, ingratiating personality and
wide knowledge of foreign relations will
stand him in good stead at Prague and
assure the United States effective rep
resentation there. The good wishes of
a host of Washington friends will ac-
company Mr.. and Mrs. Carr in their
newest field of usefulness.
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Member NJ the Associated preSS
Fun for MIR. Bigelow.

II anybody can get any fun out of
tax bill, he Is certainly entitled to it.
And no one can blame Representative
Bigelow of Ohio for his huge enjoyment
OF the spectacle presented in the Sem
ateS most conservative committee-the
District Committee-recommen a
modification Of the single tax as method
OF raising revenue in the District of
Columbia. He is having more fun out
of it than a barrel OF monkeys. And
with good reason.
Like prophet crying in the wilder
ness, Mr.. Bigelow proposed his single
tax theory on every occasion when the
tax bill was before the House District
Committee and when it came before the
House. Nobody would pay any attention
to his plan. The members of the House
or majority of thenl-represent rural
districts, and to a farmer the single tax,
tax on land, is like red flag to bull
Whenever the farmer becomes enmeshed
In the theories of the single tax and wakes
up to the discovery of where it leaves
him. he roars like Bull of Bashan and
wants to 60 places and do things. Mr.
Bigelow's overtures in the House in favor
of a land tax were met with frigid dis
approval.
But when the bill got before the con-
servative Senate District Committee and
Nf
lectured its members on the glories OF
the land tax, the charmed Senators fol-
lowed him like so many sheep and in
corporated in the District tax bill land
tax provision that, if tried at home would
find great numbers of legislators flying
out of windows and landing on their
necks.
And so Mr.. Bigelow is having the time
OF his life issuing statements. He is
entitled to his fun, which he accepts
with no illusions. Says he:
The Senate bill is sound economics,
as far as it goes. and 1t would be gratify-
Ing If the Senate committee really knew
what it was doing, which doubt.
Tut, tut, Mr.. Bigelow, that is no way
Tor the member of one branch of Congress
to speak of the members of another
branch of Congress. But you are doubt
less correct. 1t is little difficult to
picture the Congress of the United States
going on record in favor of this modified
single tax theory for the National Capital
and then going home and explaining, to
realistic constituents, how they came to
adopt it.
Evening star., 1937-07-07
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC V7LLIAM VILE,

Recovery. as exemplified by Americans
ability again to spend money on world
travel, IS producing windfall for the
State Department. Passport fees COL
lected during the fiscal year of 1887, just
ended, will total approximately ST 500 600.
That's enough to pay nearly three times
the sl7,500 salaries of all our Is Am
bassadors and $4,000 salaries Of 38
Ministers. In the Federal year that
wound up last week, 168,760 passports
were issued-37, $50 more than during the
previous year, an increase OF 28.6 per
cent. March, 1887, showed an increase
of 877 per cent over March, 1885. Dur
ing fiscal 1880, which rates as the boom
year. 209,2l1 passports were issued, as
against 163,904 in 1881. Thus the 1887
total shows passport business running
between the 1880 peak and 1881. It is
approximately $4,000 passports ahead of
1884. the lowest depression year. when
11O.214 of Uncle Sans credentials were
marketed. Increase in passport appli-
cations and incidental correspondence
has been due in considerable degree to
unsettled conditions, especially in Spain
and Central Europe, where growing num-
bers of Americans have applied for the
protection Of their Government.
X
No political topic momentarily arouses
livelier discussion than the reported slump
in c. l. O. stock, as far as John L. Lewis
status with the administration is con-
cerned. The Fourth of July week end
produced whole crop OF developments
indicating that the movement, which
seemed to be sweeping everything before
it. has been suddenly held up. The
Presidents plague on both your
houses" Secretary Perkins declaration
that sit-doWn strikes are unsuitable"
to the American system, Governor Earle's
pronouncement against violence, Gov
ernor Daveys refusal to invoke strong
arm methods against the independent
steel magnates and Secretary Ropers
warning against autocratic control of
labor and industry alike-all these things
combine to convince observers that C.. I.
o. has reached its zenith and that its
direction from now on will be down.
grade. Congressional and executive re-
action against the move to bring the
civil service within the C. I. o. orbit fas
been particularly marked. Intimations
that strikes and collective bargaining
would not be tolerated in the Federal
bailiwick are straws showing how the
wind is blowing. Failure to bring the
independent steel industry to it's knees
helps to destroy the myth of invincibility
which was associated with Lewis and
all his works.
X
Undoubtedly another factor that plays
part in undermining C. l. O's position
at Washington is the financial alliance
between the Lewis organizations and
the Democratic Nationa! Committee.
This embraces 100000 or $70O, 900 in
contributions to the 1886 campaign fund
and the $500 loan by the United Mine
Evening star., 1937-07-07
Annapolis VS.. Baltimore.

The court victory Annapolis has scored
In its fight to retain its status as the
actual capital of Maryland is gratifying
to many in Washington.
For years residents of the ancient
community on the Severn have viewed
with growing uneasiness steady transfer
of State activities to Baltimore State
departments set up branches or head
quarters in the bigger city. Even the
Governor found it necessary to maintain
an Office in the metropolis.
And it could not be denied there was
much logic in the moves. About half
the population of the State resides in
Baltimore. 1t is more nearly the geo.
graphical center of Maryland.
Contemplating the future, Annap-
olitans realized the time might not be
far distant when serious effort would
be made to move the official seat of the
State government to Baltimore.
Under the circumstances the capitals
Evening star., 1937-07-07
Transatlantic FLIGHTS.

Regular air traffic over the Atlantic
became reality yesterday. That. it
seems, is the significance of the test
flights made by two commercial flying
boats operating between Foynes, in the
Irish Free State and Botwood, in New
foundland. In fifteen hours the Gale
donia crossed almost two thousand miles
OF water east to west. Only twelve hours
was needed by the Pan-American Clip
per III for the negotiation of the trip
IN the opposite direction.
The next step will be the develop
ment OF schedule for ordinary trans
portation of passengers, mail and
freight. OF course, there may be some
errors, some losses, some disappoint-
ments. But few will be doubtful of the
eventual success of the enterprise. In
deed, 1t is merely question of time
until private travel by plane over all
the waterways Of the earth will be a
commonplace of human experience.
Not even the accident which brought
Miss Amelia Earhart and her navigator,
Frederick j. Noonan, to an unknown
landing in the mysterious Pacific will
serve to retard inevitable progress. The
whole world joins in the prayer for their
rescue, confident that disaster no longer
is necessary penalty for riding the air.
So much has been learned, so much has
been gained in the past decade that it
appears incredible that any reasonable
effort in aviation should terminate in
tragedy.
Evening star., 1937-07-07
''Non.Obiective Art"

From New York, source Of many weird
stories of similar sort, comes news of
another endowment of esthetic anarch-
ISM Solomon R. Guggenheim, copper
millionaire, has established a fund the
oretically pledged to "the promotion and
encouragement Of art and education in
art" but actually, as the announcement
OF his attorneys indicates, designed to
publicHe the school of objective"
experimentation associated with the
name of Vastly Kandinsky, a Russian
post-impressionist painter who, in 1911,
wrote one Of the most notably incom-
prehensible books ever to emerge from
press-"The Art of Spiritual Har-
mony," so called.
Not even the author could explain his
purpose. Critics put it into the words:
Color, form and space combinations
without intellectual meanings" They
might have offered the synonyms sense
less" "inane," "vacuous" "moronic," "im-
becilic.' But Kandinsky would not have
been disturbed. He launched his move
ment with a declaration of independ-
ence, assuring his readers that he did
not expect to be understood. Like other
revolutionaries he was content to be
abused and prosecuted for his notions.
Somebody some day. he knew, would ac-
cept him. 1T is poor dog" he might
have said, "that has no heas."
Yet not even in his widest moments
did Kandinsky anticipate 50 generous .
patron as Mr.. Guggenheim. His vision
Evening star., 1937-07-07

Americans who try to model their yards
on other peoples likes and dislikes.
This is all very well, as far as it goes.
It makes sure that the --latest" in plants
will get a fair trial. 1t enables the
newcomer to gardening tc make a very
good show right from the start.
It keeps alive, too, the spirit of ad-
venture which ought to be part of all
home gardening.
In some ways, however, 1t makes for
the very same things, planted in exactly
the same way, wherever you go. Follow
ing the leader, in gardening as else
where, allows for no individuality, no
likes or disikes based on personal pref
erence and nothing else
Even after an amateur has tried rose
growing and found out that it is too
much trouble. as far as he is concerned,
he will still desire to stick to it, because
he thinks rose growing 'the thing" to do
Now that is decidedly not the reason
for keeping on trying to grow roses.
Nor is the work successful rose culture
entails the reason. The real reason is,
or at least should be, that one really
likes roses. Also that one is determined
to succeed despite the bugs" the black
spot and the score or more other troubles
which beset bush roses, from blasted
buds to off color petals.
* XXX
Rose growing is supposed to be "the
thing" however, so many an amateur
keeps on trying, despite the fact that
his blossoms are really failures and he
knows it.
Let him give up roses, then, and stick
to such flowers as do not require dusting
every week.
Let him be sure of his ground, then go
ahead with what he likes at all times.
That Is the one sure way of getting
pleasure out of amateur home gardening
Inspection of many such gardens
brings home the plain fact that many
people are well-grounded in this es-
sentiall
They do plant and grow what they
like, and let the ambitious writer's go
hang" as far as they are concerned.
The amazing thing about gardening,
the one which shows the immense vital
ity of the earth and the things which
grow in it, is that almost any one at
all can garden very successfully without
any recourse whatever to writer's.
This is established everywhere, so
whom writer's on garden subjects write,
after ALL since so many home owners do
not know even the names Of the flowers
they grow SO successfully.
They write, of course, for all those
persons-and they are many-who some
how never find anything real until they
read about it somewhere.
Base ball and the sports pages have
demonstrated this for many years. Most
persons who go to the ball game never
quite feel they have seen the game
until they have read all about it after
ward, and talked it over, either with
the Writer-who also saw the game-or
other spectators.
1t is the same with plays and all other
occupations of mankind We like to
read about what We do and see and hear.
We are not so much minded as
word-minded, and always crave more of
the same.
To all such let us address a plea for
the common hydrangea and express the
hope that it will be grown by every
body, as it deserves to be, and that the
blossoms will never be cut of, but al
lowed to wither away over the weeks to
the fine mellow color which time and
Nature alone can give.
Evening star., 1937-07-07

Newspaper writers have to admit the
passing errors of hasty composition and
accept reminders of inadvertent blum
dering even when the effect totals into
billions. But as Tiny Tim" once re-
marked for the benefit of an audience
that has proved most heterogeneous,
God Bless Us Every One" and leave
US still wary about bidding the Devil
take the hjndmosv.
Evening star., 1937-07-07

Workers. Administrations are hear
ing it said in many quarters, friends
and foes alike, that such deals SAVIOR of
mortgage on the New Deal and the
Democratic party, and create the i'm
preston, justly or not, that the Govern
ment. under the circumstances, cannot
present as stern front in labor strife
as it might otherwise offer Few au-
thorities expect an open break between
President Roosevelt and Mr.. Lewis,
though such a possibility is already
hinted. But there's no lack of signs that
Washingtons meteorological mugginess
contrasts with falling temperature in
White House-C. l. o. relations.
Amid lively speculation as to whether
Bob Wagner will run against Mayor La
Guardia next Fall, and where Mr.. Roose-
velt's sympathies will lie, should that
delicate situation arise. politicians won-
der who would succeed Wagner in the
Senate should he defeat La Guardia.
The most diverting suggestion is that
Governor Lehman might appoint AL
Smith to fill the unexpired senatorial
term. Such a selection would cause no
New Deal hats to be tossed. but it's not
outside the range Of possibilities. Leh-
man and Smith are warm friends EX-
cept for AIS support in 1882, Lehman
might not have been nominated for
Governor. 1t was on that famous occa-
sion, at the Syracuse State convention,
that Roosevelt and Smith met for the
first time after Chicago, and Al ad-
dressed F. D. R. affectionately as you
Old Potato"
House Votes Gas Control reads a
recent headline. 1t doesn't refer to i'm
pending Supreme Court debate, but to
measure placing regulation of inter-
state shipment and sale of natural gas
under the Federal Power Commission.
Hardly any Latin American news in
years has produced greater satisfaction
in Washington than Argentine Foreign
Minister SaavedTa Lamas' independence
day speech at Buenos Aires. The Nobel
Peace Prize winner acclaimed the Mon
roe Doctrine as the most effective bull
wark of defense for the American re-
publics against anti-democratic forms
of government now rampant in Europe.
The declaration is all the more welcome
and surprising because for the better
part of half century Argentina has
been an outspoken foe of Monroeism and
actively combated it at successive pam
American conferences. Senor Saavedra
Lamas said that Latin Americans can
learn all the lessons they need in de-
mocracy by following its progress in the
United States.
Recent official shifts in the State De-
partment disclose Secretary Hulls de-
termination to surround himself with
specialists. Undersecretary of State
Welles is an outstanding Latin American
authority. Counselor Moore is the ideal
liaison with Congress New Assistant
Secretary of State Wilson is a League
Of Nations expert and Assistant Secre-
tary Messersmith, who succeeds Wilbur
J. Carr, is walking encyclopedia on
Central Europe. Assistant Secretary
Sayre is Hull's right-hand man on re-
ciprocal trade agreements. Three vet
erans keep the Secretary up to the
minute on the Far East-Stanley K.
Hornbeck, chief of that division in the
department. and Ambassadors Grew and
johnson, respectively, at Toxic and
Marking.
Despite labor unrest, industrial sta
tistics continue on the upgrade. Steel
Evening star., 1937-07-07

A fear that many motion picture play
ers will go abroad because of a picture
tax in this country is not formidable. So
long as they make attractive pictures the
public that pays will continue to be the
judge of what it gets for it's money and
will not allow sentiment to interfere with
its enjoyment while there are funds to
be applied to entertainment.
Evening star., 1937-07-07

were so vitality important to the Amer
ican Colonies.
In volume published separately the
first publication of the court-martial of
Major Rogers appears, with valuable
historical notes and other explanatory
documents and complete photography.
This second volume is part of a limited
edition of Northwest Passage" signed
by the author, and the two form q
biography and history that is perhaps
the most complete and authentic work
yet produced covering the life Of the
famous ranger.
Evening star., 1937-07-07

The wood lot on which the President
expects to pay several hundred dollars
taxes will come into use along about
Christmas time to assist the seasons
generous display. 1t is earnestly hoped
that no assertiye overseer will allow the
funds to go into a personal account.
Evening star., 1937-07-07
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
When Susie Sing!

The precepts father offers,
The warnings mother speaks,
Oft find us idle scoffers
AS each his pleasure seeks:
But there's no chance Of missing
One joyous vocal fling,
The family has to listen
When Susie starts to sing.
What aunts and uncles mention
In praise or In attack
Does not command attention,
Authority they lack;
But we cease to joyous ructation
And form silent ring,
When she plays the introduction
Which denotes she's goin' to sing.
Our manner is devoted
And trif1e overawed,
We know it will be noted
If we laugh and don't applaud.
The talent she is displaying
Oft spoils our simple mirth,
But for lessons he is paying
Pop wants his moneys worth.
Evening star., 1937-07-07

the famous neWlyWeds who unite in
wedlock the houses of Roosevelt and
Du Pont is said to be The Love Bugll
rhythm is simple and the sentiment is
calculated to disarm suspicion at time
when caution is admonished even in the
selection of simple strains OF gaiety.
Evening star., 1937-07-07

The quotation "a plague on both your
present situation If there were not so
many domiciles expecting benefits under
new system of organization. The ref
erence must often be expanded to in
clude more than two contestants for
advantage.
Evening star., 1937-07-07

AS time progresses Mr.. Maury Maver-
lex will have improved his opportunities
to study a political situation which has
become more or less complex. BY con-
ference with Senator Ashurst of Arizona,
he will perceive that it is the way Of
wisdom to remain genial even when
public sentiment declines to coincide
with his personal plans.
Evening star., 1937-07-07

When Senator Byrd of Virginia diScov-
ers 200 real estate projects undertaken
by the Resettlement Administration he
is naturally inquisitive as to whether
they represent money saved or money
that will call for more doubling up In
the household.
Evening star., 1937-07-07

production rose last week from IS to
761z per cent of capacity. Electric power
output was the highest since January
%. Carloadings of 773733 cars were
COL better than in the corresponding
week last year. Retail sales averaged 3
to per cent above the previous week
and from 10 to 20 per cent above 1896.
(copyright. 1937.)
Evening star., 1937-07-07

All that was promised was new
deal" The work of making it better
deal will call for consideration.
Evening star., 1937-07-07
Standardized Production,

If poets were made and not born
The result would make many forlorn,
For there isn't any doubt
We'd be turning 'em out
In fac'tries, noon, midnight and morn!
Evening star., 1937-07-07
A Fisherman's Wall.

A Fisherman's Wall.
II fished all day but only caught one
fish"
How do you account for that?"
"Only on the theory that the fish had
hydrophobia and was ready to bite any
thing"
"He who thinks only Of himself" said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, must
not be surprised il he discovers that he
has devoted much thought to but little
purpose"
The Swift and Slow.
The race may not be to the swift,
But none the less the chance is small
For any one who will not lift
His feet and try to move at all.
II hope dis talk bout music speakin'
a universal language ain true" said
Uncle Eben. Some Of dis jazz sounds
right Quarrelsome to me-"
Evening star., 1937-07-07
Sufficient Endorsement.

do you feel that your efforts to serve
your country are appreciated?"
Il don't complain" replied Senator
Sorghum, $50 long as the folks keep on
re-electing me. About all good many
Of us can hope for these days is an ad-
mission from our constituents that they
might have done worse"
Evening star., 1937-07-07

Jud Tunkins says the man who goes
looking for trouble never gets the kind
he can actually enjoy.
Evening star., 1937-07-07
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