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Evening star., 1937-08-08

cars moves ahead. The lady tries to
street end where the car stops, but the
crowd impedes her progress and the
operator of the one-man car fails to see
her. The green light is still with him.
He closes the door and moves on.
Another string of cars lines up. This
time the lady, fearing repetition of dis
appointment, remains at the Twelfth
street end of the platform, reasoning
with logic that Georgetown car is again
due to rank about sixth or seventh place.
The light changes and the cars move for
ward. Fourth In the line is a Georgetown
car. Having discharged and taken on
passengers near the rear end of the plat
form, 1t speeds along with the light
without even hesitating at Twelfth street.
Foot-weary and mentally distressed by
this time over the delay, the anxious
mother and breadwinner completes three
more round trips on the platform and is
courageously undertaking the fourth
when Georgetown car hauls> up midway
and she drags herself aboard. The car is
so crowded that she cannot get within
reach OF hand hold, but there is some
comfort in the knowledge that though
she may not enjoy being tightly packed
in jogging mass of humanity, she at
least will be spared the indignity of
lurching fall to the floor.
Rapidly waning hope vanishes COM
pletely before the car reaches Washing
ton Circle. 1t is considerably past the
time that the food stores close business
for the day.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Gloomy Fiscal Outlook

The public school estimates for the
fiscal year 1899, just submitted by the
Board of Education, graphically illus
trate the inadequacy and shortsighted-
ness OF the Districts fiscal system. These
estimates give in detail important items
totaling nearly 100000, an increase of
more than S6,000,00O over current fiscal
year allotments. A large part of the in
crease is required for the construction
of eighteen new schools and additions
and continuing of building operations on
four other projects and for the appoint
ment of 241 additional teachers
These needs represent an accumula-
ton over years of close budget pruning
and postponing. The progress of the
schools, so far as the physical plant is
concerned, has been more than retarded
1t has been slipping little further be-
hind each year.
The District, although it is to pay
additional taxes of around s9,OOOOO0, will
be in no position to meet these require
ments Of the schools. The additional
taxes, according to Auditor Donovan, will
just about enable the District to meet
operating expenses this year. So the
question naturally arises, where are the
funds to be found for carrying forward
the school program?
OF course, as in most estimates, that
for the schools may be unduly large but
In going over the schedule many urgent
items long overdue account for the
greater part of the amount requested.
The result of drastic pruning of the
estimates was shown in the framing of
the current appropriation act OF the
e4024,oOO requested for new buildings
only 81 l,540,000 was allowed, and only
f1fty-four of the 223 new teachers needed
were supplied
The school officials have worked out
q comprehensive building plan to run
for course of years and Systematically
to bring the school plant up to date,
adequate to accommodate a growing en-
rollment. This plan and other plans for
municipal development are valueless
without workable financial plan being
put into operation. And under condi-
tions that exist in the District no plan
will be workable that fails to provide
for an adequate payment by the Federal
Government in keeping with its obliga-
ton toward maintenance and support
Of the National Capital
1t would be helpful If Congress would
abandon the erroneous concept that the
District is q self-determining commu-
nifty and realize that the Constitution
and not the District residents is re-
sponsible for placing the burden of its
government on Congress.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Catching a Street Car.

A tired young widow, working to sup
port herself and her two small children
hurries down Eleventh street on her way
20 board street car that will carry her
to Georgetown in time to purchase the
meager family dinner before the shops
close. The nearest car stop is at Twelfth
street and Pennsylvania avenue. The
platform runs eastward nearly to
Eleventh street, but only a jaywalker
Is guilty Of approaching it by making q
crossing in the middle of the block.
The lady is not jaywalker, so she
trudges to Twelfth street, glancing back
ward occasionally to determine how fast
she must travel to connect with the first
car that will take her to her destination.
A Georgetown car short distance back
holds promise. She hurries to the cor
ner, but arrives too late to attempt to
reach the platform before the green light
signals vehicular trafflc to move forward
While she waits for a change of signals
the street car discharges and takes
aboard passengers and clears the light.
Several street cars line up along the
platform during the next stop light inter-
val. The lady walks down the platform
toward Eleventh street expecting that
one of the cars in the rear is labeled
GEORGETOWN, but not any one of the five
cars is going in that direction. The sixth.
slowly approaching thee lineup, is a
Georgetown car and it looks as though
: 1t might offer the luxury Of seat. Mean
( while the platform has become clogged
with people and before the car comes to
. stop the light changes and the line OF
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

A little more than fifty years ago a
beginning was made upon an important
The Beginning of public educa- D.
Tech High School. tion in Wash
ington by the
establishment of a small carpentry shop
in the basement of the high school build
ing on o street From this developed
that branch of high school education
which is now housed in the large estab-
lishment at Second and T streets north
east. The Star Of August 6, 1887, says
For two years the Washington High
School has been the scene of an extern
sive experiment in the way Of the man.
ual training of public school pupils as a
branch of public education. During the
first year the shop" as it was termed,
was cramped in its extent and effective
ness, the number of boys receiving in
struction being necessarily limited to
about 40. The instructor was one of the
teachers of physics and was able to de-
vote for short space of time each week
to the work in carpentry, which formed
first step in the experiment. The boys
were taught the elemental theories and
practice Of the joiner art and were given
short course in wood turning.
The experiment of the first year was
regarded as sufficiently successful to war
rant its continuance last year under a
different plan and with enlarged accom-
modations. A graduate of one of the
leading chronological institutions of the
country was employed and an additional
room was given up in the basement of the
school for this purpose. BY means Of the
uneXpended portion of an old contingent
fund Commissioner Webb was enabled to
secure sufficient tools for the new enter
prise and the boys of the school manu-
factured the necessary work benches.
Instead Of forty 24O boys received in
struction one hour each week.
This, as has been said was to a GER
tain extent experimental and the work
was closely watched for practical results
by the Commissioners and the school
trustees, by whom it was pronounced an
unqualified success at the close of the
past school year. A Star reporter called
on Mr.. w. w. Curtis, who is the chairman
Of the committee on manual training of
the board of trustees and asked his opin-
ion OF the work and its results. He said:
Il can say with assurance that the
work at the high school has been emf
nently successful; so much so, indeed.
that our committee has decided to recon-
mend its continuance and its develop
ment. We propose to enlarge the work
of the high school by renting. building
opposite. In the Jefferson and the Ped
body buildings we will start manual
training schools, with one teacher for
each. I believe that the manual train
ing of students is destined to become a
necessary factor in our public instruc-
ton"
Evening star., 1937-08-08

discussing questions too profound ard
complex for their understanding. While
they We're not statesmen or economists,
they were clear-visioned men and women
who had come to see in the new and
changed political, social and economic
order that neither statesman nor econo-
mist alone was capable of bringing
order out OF what looked like impend-
ing chaos. We had a Christian civili-
cation out Of which much of Christian
practice had gone. Equity and fair play
in every sphere Of life were the church's
concern, and they proposed to enter
the lists in their behalf.
One OF the leading speakers, whose
message was adopted in principle
said:
"A task Of colossal magnitude faces
the church in such circumstances" and
he defined this under four headings
"O The church must present not
only doctrine but way of life;
"(O 1t must prove itself living force
in the purposes and activities of civil
society, and must achieve its influence
not through a clergy, but through the
agency of laymen, evading no RESPONSE
DlAAoy lcJCCtHls dlGOkClIlcI VIC lucd
that the church as such has nothing to
do with real life;
"(3) 1t must give the world a new
idea of what is meant by Christian edu-
cation especially in preventing and
removing those emotional biases which
dull the still, small voice of conscience
and render men insensitive to cruelty
and injustice and oppression;
And. finally %, the church must not
be content with saying things, but it
must discover the will Of God for men S
lives and make it manifest therein"
This is call to more aggressive and
militant spirit, and If it is taken serious
ly, as I believe 1t will be, new day
is ahead for the church as an institu-
tion. "ChriStianity," to quote again
Chesterton, has been tried and found
dlf1lcult,' but it is that which is diff
cult that challenges the heroic in men
and women. Christ is not to be con-
fined within cloistered walls, nor is His
message to be related solely to those who
worship in His house. 1t is to be
brought to bear, in all its implications.
upon the worlds so-called practical
concerns; upon everything that has to
do with human betterment and human
salvation here and now
Evening star., 1937-08-08
FAITH AND WORK.
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES FREEMAN D, ILL., D, D. c. L.
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

Faith and Work" is the distinguish
ing title by which the world confer
ence, recently met in Oxforu, describes
itself 1t is comparatively new thing
for the church to couple faith with
work. Most of us were brought up to
think Of faith, our profession of re-
ligious belief, as something quite unre-
lated to work. We kept our faith as
we kept our worship, quite apart from
our ordinary, every day tasks. While
we accepted certain principles that af-
fected conduct, what we did and said
in church was one thing; what we did
and said in our social and occupational
life quite another. AS a matter Of fact
we were solemnly admonished by those
In authority that we were not to bring
the church and its beliefs into too close
contact with the practical concerns of
life. you can't mix religion and busi-
ness was an axiom widely observed.
The teachings of Jesus by this stand
ard of judgment had to do largely with
other worldly concerns Accepted as
He might be as great, the greatest
OF teachers, there was nothing in His
concept OF life that was designed to
fit the conditions of the market place
and forum. BY this standard of judg-
ment, religion had its prescribed and
restricted sphere OF action. A great
English bishop once affirmed that the
church, as an institution, had no re-
sponsibility for the unwholesome and
unsanitary conditions under which the
underprivileged were compelled to live.
Doubtless it was this type OF preaching
that created a cleavage between the
toiling masses and the church. They
could not see in it anything that was
profitable or helpful, so they abandoned
it for more practical institutions.
The social implications of the gospel.
the discovery of Jesus purpose in His
ministry, is largely new thing, and
the changed attitude of the church is
comparatively modern. True, great
preachers like Charles Kingsly and
Frederick Dennison Maurice in Eng
land sounded this note in books and
sermons in the last century, but take
the church by and large, its assumption
Of its social, civic and industrial re-
sponsibility is compassed by the last
half century of its life, hence the sig
nif1cance of the Oxford Conference on
Faith and Work" The men and
women who met in this conference
were not idle dreamers, nor were they
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Grafton which often is regarded as being
wild but which, generally speaking, Is
not incorrigible. 1t is no accident that
the court records of youthful criminals
almost invariably mention unfortunate
home environment" or lack of parental
guidance"
Perhaps the average family stands in
need of practical social craftsmanship.
Boys and girls require tactful manage
ment in their childhood, diplomatic coun-
selling as they approach maturity. They
cannot be "bossed" into a congenial ad-
justment to the world. Unquestioning
obedience to the temperamental whims
of their elders no longer is to be ex-
pected from them. They must be per-
suaded by processes of education begin
ming in infancy; they must be convinced
by the living example of their seniors.
To illustrate feasible solution Of the
universal problem, let the case Of q
nameless Washington family group be
mentioned. Not one but a score OF
mutual enthusiasms tie the home to-
gether. Parents and children alike are
correlated In work and play. The
mother helps the father in the routine
of his profession, serving as his secretary
and treasurer. Her household duties are
shared by her daughters, one of whom
attends to marketing and upstairs rou-
tine while the other supervises kitchen
and pantry, laundry and garden. The
sons keep the domestic equipment in
repair. drive the family car, aid In the
maintenance of the family budget. Hob
bies. including photography, philately
and music, furnish employment for leis-
ure hours which otherwise might be
spent less wisely. The parents long ago
started family scrapbook for which the
youngsters now are responsible In the
volume stranger might find the un-
written chronicle of a solidarity which
has survived because it is kindly and
mannerly and just.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

the Government to put bottom under
wages and top on hours OF work will
serve to slow the migration Of industry
and to check the development of new
industry In an area that offers an abun-
dance Of workers who do not demand
high wages.
The validity Of the Southern argu-
ment, SO far as it is based upon diff
ferences in living costs and upon trans
portation penalties, is recognized by
Congress in the legislation now taking
shape. But the coming law is designed
to check the tendency for industry to
seek haven in the South based upon
extremely low wages. Actually, Gov
ernment figures show, the range OF
wages Is as wide in the North as in the
South. Sweat shops are not limited to
either region. E
And what is to be the probable effect
OF the law on the general run OF the
people? Are prices to be boosted still
further?
The best available answers seem to be:
At present levels prices are returning
large profits to industrial concerns pay
ing wages far higher than those pro-
posed. Demands OF organized labor,
not affected by the planned new law in
any appreciable manner. are having
much more effect on price than the wage
and hour law would have. The type Of
enforcement now planned should not be
painful to any one other than the few
employers paying exceptionally low
wages.
But the big question is: Where will
Government wage control lead, once its
principle is accepted and Its possibilities
appreciated by the masses Of the coun-
try's workers who possess voting power?
An answer to that one u something else
again.
fenaxy.sht <{o371
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
In Thought and Deed.

In Thought and Deed.
Good thoughts may come, though men
remain,
But selfish slaves to sordid gain,
And though their source unfit may seem,
Still benefit the human scheme.
The impulse to good deeds may rise
In one whose thoughts we must dispise
And heralded abroad by fame
Make gratitude o'ershadow blame.
When one at last to view is brought
Noble in action as in thought.
The world his record fair will scan
And say, "He was, indeed, mani
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Violent World,

In single page of recent issue of
the New York Times all of these head
lines appeared: Bandit Is Felled After
Wild Chase 'Trestle Burns, Three
Killed" Beating in Lobby Laid to Po-
llceman,' Escaped Prisoner Called
yellow Kid" "kidnaper Suspect Held"
Freed in Theft Charge: Woman Is Dis
charged When Three Refuse to Press
Complaints" Girl browns in Barge
Canal Baby Killed, Six Hurt as Auto
Hits Bench" 5000 Fight for Ride"
Fined on II Auto Counts: Providence
Man, Seized for One, Is Penalized on
Old Record Trapped on Bridge, Dies
Connecticut Girl Is Victim-Train
Passes Over Others" "Mounties Rescue
Crew AS Ships Sinks" Bronx Thugs Get
$4,000: Three Seize Contractors Pay Roll
and Flee in Automobile" Five Police
Denoted in Chaser Inquiry" and Kills
Three and Himself: Unemployed Youth
Shoots Mother and Sisters in Pittsburgh"
Random selections from other portions
of the same edition included: Ships of
Three Nations Bombed by Planes in
Mediterranean" Flight from Nanking
Begins When City Is Warned of Ex-
pected Air Raids Broker Ends Life"
Auto Crash Toll Is Five Strikes Hit
Paving in Philadelphia" Seeks Felons'
Return: Georgia Governor to Invoke
Federal Law for Extradition," Painters
Walk Out on % School Jobs Blasts
Fatal to Two More" China, Japan Buy
Arms: Two Nations Among the Heaviest
Purchasers in July Thugs Attack Bel
fast Worker" "Copenhagen Circus Stunt
Fatal" Chilean Volcano Found in Vio-
lent Eruption" Paris Police Hunt
Dancer: Aunt Of American Girl Re-
ceived Note Demanding $780, Flying
Officer Kills Friend and Himself" New
Yorker Taken by Spanish Rebels"
Strike Grounds Planes: Is U. S. Ships
Held in Texas Due to Mexican Trouble"
"Loyalists See Foe Halted in Teruel,"
Summer Home Burns" Striker Gets
Two Years: Third of 16 Men Indicted
in Virginia Clash Is Convicted" and
Violence in Cleveland: Two Injured Six
Arrested in Steel and Textile Clashes"
IT more convincing evidence of the
turmoil of the world be needed, 1t may
be found without much search. The
mind of the average individual is only
too profoundly conscious of 1t. Yet the
situation is not hopeless. Humanity
always has been afflicted with multi
tudinous troubles. Perhaps 1t is in
evitable that it should be. But there
is no reason to suppose that every prob
lem is 1nsoluble. On the contrary, the
progressive development of social con-
science signifies the gradual perfection
of a practical philosophy of adjustment
under law and order The race never
may be competent to control volcanoes,
but it certainly is possessed of the power
to improve its natural pattern of self
government. Possibly it will help to re-
member that headlines tell only part
of the story of contemporary events.
There happens to be an aspect Of his
tory that rarely is reported-the unwrit-
ten chronicle of routine effort and hon.
orable reward In which millions of people
are represented but commonly unnoticed.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Yacht racing is always interesting and
1t is welcome assurance to find that
speed was not hindered by the tendency
of ambitious Holsters to utilize the hull
of a convenient boat as place of abode.
civilization, but he should be made to
keep his place.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
A Peril Of Peace.

A Peril Of Peace.
Some day We'll get them settled,
These problems 50 perplexed,
Mid peaceful bowrs
This world of ours
Will seem just like the next.
Some day we'll get them settled
And yet there comes a doubt.
With all made plain,
What will remain
For folks to talk about?
Evening star., 1937-08-08

The country has housing problem to
consider. 1t is, after all, more important
than some OF the picturesque publicity
which while promoting interest must be
figured into the cost.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Picketing embassies or legations is
brought into discussion with some un-
favorable comment. A live artist in
picketing should be able to get his ideas
into consideration without depending on
the attention to be commanded from the
front window.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

If American aviators have been train
ing Chinese to fly they should have been
required to guarantee better job than
some of them have been able to; turn
out on their own account.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Radio is to have the supervisory atten-
tion Of some of this Nations best minds.
The arts have been recognized by emf
nent men and the art Of advertising will
not be neglected.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Russia is in state of Indignation to-
ward representatives who have shown
activity in Asia and may decide on dis
cipline. Trotzky with all his troubles
may yet be regarded as luckier than the
once powerful Litvinoff.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Japan is said to contemplate protest
against the sending of American avi-
ators to China. A number of distin-
guished flyers have persisted, without
creating suspicion that they intended
to 60 to Asia. 1t is perhaps a mistake
to add to the suspicious to which flight
as practiced by an independent nation
may be subjected.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Gamers Debut.
ON the Albuquerque Journal.

From the Albuquerque Journal.
Some observers say the Vice President
emerged from the Supreme Court fight
as the biggest man involved therein.
Which proves that one can rise from
obscurity II the stage 10 set right and
heknows his part.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Hidden Gold,

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
It will be one more Summer before the
gold can be salvaged from the sunken
Lusitania. Our thought has been to
leave it and issue paper money against
1t where 1t lies
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Proof of Titanisrn.

From the Paterson IN. J) News.
Those who keep bathing suits for rent
continue to hold steadfast to the belief
that the planet earth 10 inhabited n .
race II GIANTS. =
Evening star., 1937-08-08
The Great Revived.

ne UFC8L HCV1VcU.
II understand you are going to revive
Shakespeare"
IAN actor doesn't have to revive Shake
Barnes. But there's always chance
OF shakespeare's reviving an actor"
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Discretion Required.

DTSFTcVIUII
you must have had opportunities to
make great deal Of money"
Many" said Senator Sorghum. "A
man in my position finds discretion
necessary to enable him to avoid becom-
ing so poor he can't afford to stay In
politics or so rich that he won't be con-
sidered eligible"
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Gay PAree.

Gay P3fee.
"A great many people go to Paris to
study art"
EYES," answered Miss Cayenne, "and a
great many study art as an excuse for
going to Paris"
Evening star., 1937-08-08
Aqueous Prosperity.
be surlinxton Havkeye Ga,stte.

Prom the Burlington HaWkeye Gasstte.
Egypt's the only civilization We know
Of that was built UP on the strength
Of floods.
Evening star., 1937-08-08

Jud Tunkins says farmer must make
hay while the sun shines. but he won't be
satisfied till he's prosperous enough to
hire some one to come along and hold an
umbrella over him.
Evening star., 1937-08-08
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Evening star., 1937-08-08
Conversational Philanthropy.
How oft a man with phrases good
Amid the throng will walk.
He talks Of human brotherhood"
And pays his dues in talk.

Education only confuses person dats
natchelly dumb" said Uncle Eben. Ever
since Rastus Pinkley learnt dat de world
is round he's skeered foolish foh fear
he'll slip off,