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Evening star., 1937-11-04
THIS AND, THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

surely more so today than ever-tais is
good thing for anybody.
Especially those persons who are tense,
as they say, will find music the best of
all relaxations.
There are as many ways of reIexing as
there are people, some one has said, but
the truth seems to be that some of the
methods adopted are really tensing.
What some people do for relaxation"
as they call it, is really a keying up of
the mind and body toward more activity.
What some of these people need is.
more listening to music in quiet atmos-
phere. Even lively music, under the
proper auspices, is relaxing, rather than
tensing.
The way in which one listens plays an
important part That is why gigantic
music festivals, while having a legitimate
place, scarce strike many music lovers as
musical events. They are more athletic
than anything else. What can $50 pianos
give that one cannot?
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Listening to music in the best way will
give peace to any one if anything can.
That is why every one should make an
effort to resist the modern idea that
Music is at its best in sad or depressed
times. Many persons, unfortunately,
feel that at such times music is out of
place.
1t is very much in place, provided it is
good music properly rendered.
There is peace for the duration of the
music.
The perplexed mind may not entirely
fnropf re Of hut
of it will be soothed, some part of it may
be relaxed and relieved.
The faces of those listening to music
usually wear what is called blank look
This is because the face muscles are
relaxed. Since these muscles, including
those which control the eyes. the neck
and the throat, are among those most
necessarily relaxed, if any sort of peace
is to come, it will be realized that listen
ing to music is one of the best means of
achieving any sort of relaxation.
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Eastern religions notably the Hindu
and Chinese, look forward to progressive
steps toward relaxation ending in
complete state of inmobility of mind
heart and body.
They have various names for it. Most
feel that they could never understand
the matter at all-but they really do,
if they have ever listened to music
properly.
They at least are on the road.
Their minds are not inactive, but
active; but this activity is not of the sort
which wrestleS with problems in the
great exterior world.
1t is commanded by the ears, which
direct the mind thus relieving the mind
OF the necessity for directing itself.
Self-willed efforts to achieve this often
result in the very tenseness they are
striving to overcome, whereas music
achieves the same result with no effort
or striving whatsoever.
Music is not an opiate of the people,
in any sense, but often their only chance
OF attaining peace in turbulent world.
Music is order, law, harmony, melody
why shouldn't it bring peace?
Evening star., 1937-11-04

your friendship with the birds and
pleasant garden meditations have no
doIbt endowed you with superabun-
dt/nt peace" writes Mrs P. r. A. from
Annapolis.
Lady. it isn't the birds or the outdoors
which have done that, if it has been done
at all, but music.
Birds often tend to worry one, and gar
dens likewise but music truly soOthes
the breast, today as always.
The music of the great Ludwig van
Beethoven Che "of the beet garden" and
of the gods is not necessary, although
highly desirable.
ANY music will do it, if given the
chance, if listened to properly.
What music does is free the mind from
details.
Whether the listener is thinking or not
Will remain a question.
Too precise attempts to make music
intellectual have done great deal of
harm to criticism and musical writings
of all kinds, as well as to music.
Yet there can be no doubt that, just as
the composer has used his mind in writ
ing, SO the listener must use his in
listening.
Where the difference comes in lies
exactly in the great point that the mind
is taken off externals and put on
Intervals.
The ears are in charge.
ANY one who attempts to leave the ears
out of music is doing the impossible.
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let on.
From reading some of the writing
about music a reader might we'll get the
idea that music is altogether mathemat-
ical, like logarithms or purely intellectual,
like Plato.
Let us keep our ears about us as we
listen to music and especially when try
ing to write about it.
No one, not even the best, ever did
more than try to write about music
Words are poor things, at best, in try
ing to express what one thinks and feels.
and especially in trying to make others
realize just what one thought and felt.
When it comes to music, words are
impossible, really.
Words about music scarce scratch the
surface, and those who love music the
best realize this best
Of all those musicians who have writ
ten on their art, only Berlioz, Wagner
and Schumann. it seems to us, do any,
thing worth while
What hope is there, then, for an aver
age listener?
Only this, that he may clarity his own
thinking bit, as he thinks along; if he
puts the words on paper he may help
some one else.
The result is peace of a sort.
1t is in the listening. however. that
such peace as music brings has its real
being.
The listening ears direct the mind to
put away all external things, for time,
and concentrate on internal.
The world drops away. If it is too
much with u.s." as the poet said-and
Evening star., 1937-11-04

Evidence of the last trickle of animosity
crept out when the Virginia. Division
of the United Confederate Veterans
received an invitation to a reunion with
the former Union troops.
There never can be a reunion be-
tween the men who fought in the Union
Army and our men," the fighters who
wore the Gray said. "Let it be called
meeting and perhaps We'll attend"
they added. So those who sponsored
the invitation, realizing that the fiery
spark in breasts of valor never complete
ly dies, agreed to change the wording.
Fortunate, indeed, will be those who
are able to go back to Gettysburg.
What memories they must carry! The
smoke and noise of those heroic, heart
breaking July days that to the present
generation seems so long ago! Lincoln's
voice, "The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here have consecrated
it far beyond our power to add or
detract!" Reconstruction days, and
then war on foreign shores pro-
ducing another generation of American
soldier-heroes and showing that "a
nation so conceived and so dedicated"
had not perished but been welded to-
gether in new might! And, as always,
personal memories, most poignant of
all, of comrades sleeping under the sod!
Small wonder, amid such a setting,
there will be much repetition of with
malice toward none" as feeble foot
steps tread the paths of Little Round
Top and shadows lengthen at the base of
brave young men in stone.
Evening star., 1937-11-04
MOdernizatiOn of Laws
On Immigration Needed
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
One of the subjects Congress should
tackle in the next session is an effort
to modernize the method by which
the annual immigration quotas are de-
termined.
At the present time these quotas are
based upon the number of foreign
born persons resident in the United
States in 1920.
new deal should now be put into
effect whereby the future Immigration
would be limited by quotas based upon
the number of foreign born persons
naturalized by admission to citizen
ship by our courts during a designated
period for which known records NAV be
tabulated
Currently naturalization by admission
to citizenship by court action is predi-
Gated upon certain compliances with our
immigration law on the part of foreign
born persons.
Hereafter, it appears advisable that
immigration by the quota system be re-
stricted by numerical quotas predicated
upon known facts regarding past compli-
ances with our naturalization laws on
the part of foreign-born persons.
1t is suggested that the proposal here
made would tend to further advance
effective coordination in the operation
of the immigration Jaws and the natural
lzatlon laws. JOHN j. SHAY.
Evening star., 1937-11-04

been developed what would conditions
be? The answer to such question is:
Chaos. Each separate agency would
be obliged to stage its own campaign.
That would mean confusion, compe-
tition, waste, ineft1ciency--a negation, a
Illustration of practical altruism. The
cooperative organization was invented
to correct a prevailing anarchy among
worthy land well-intentioned servants of
the general good who, despite their
selfless idealism, were defeating them
selves and each other in the contest for
necessary support. It's value has been
demonstrated beyond any doubt. Liter
ally, millions of dollars have been saved
to the poor, the sick, the very young
and the very old, the underprivileged
and handicapped of all ages.
But the Chest members ought not
to be penalized for their cooperation.
Rather, they should be appreciated and
commended for their willingness to
labor together. When a citizen gives
to the sixty-nine independent agencies,
he should remember that they really
are sixtynine in number. His gift should
be commensurately proportioned.
Evening star., 1937-11-04
Blue Meets Crav.

IN the twilight of their lives the
thinning ranks of Blue and Gray vet
sans seem destined to hold a joint
meeting. On the seventy-fifth anniver-
saxy of the Battle of Gettysburg the
men who followed Lee and Meade will
gather there in tranquility and rev.
erence.
While distant war drums rumble in
spain and China, the site of this
continents great battle now presents a
scene Of rural quietude. Nature has
healed most of the marks of conflict.
Nan-made monuments of marble stand
anaong the fertile fields and woods as
tl,e chief landmarks of the high tide
At the valiant Confederate campaign.
And as Nature has healed the physical
wounds of the battle-ground, so time
has healed the cleavage between the
men who made Gettysburg famous.
Evening star., 1937-11-04
Sixty-Nine.

The annual Community Chest cam
paign needs no apology, no excuse But
it does require explanation. Not one
person in a thousand in the city of
Washington can claim TO understand
everything that is involved in the drive
to collect sufficient funds to maintain
the sixty-nine social service agencies
and institutions represented in the Chest
organization.
For instance, few persons compre-
hend clearly enough the fact that the
appeal is made in behalf of threescore
and nine different community charities.
More commonly, the average man or
woman thinks of it as being a call for
help for a single philanthropic enter
prise. Yet moments thought would
suffice to convince any rational mind
that a multiplicity of interests are con-
cerned. The list is long, its scope is
universal, its effect advantages every
home in the District of Columbia.
Suppose the Chest plan never had
Evening star., 1937-11-04
Believes Poll Best Plan
For ID. C.. Civil Service

To the Editor of The Star:
Apropos jobs, Mr. Palmisanos pro-
posal, as outlined in The Star on Octo-
Der n, listens good. To insure appoint
ments on the District of Columbia per-
sonnel by Washingtonians, he recon-
mendS civic civil service, one require
ment of which will be five years
residence in the District. The plan
seems feasible but not near so favorable
for Washingtonians as would be a poll.
The subject of the vote is far from
Irrelevant in this connection. Speed the
day of acceptance of Mr. Palmisano's
plan, for want of something better.
We Washingtonians have no word in
the government of our States, though
the States, in point of fact, are not
ours" What is worse, we have no word
in management of affairs local. We
have our homes here; we pay taxes; we
jolly ourselves occasionally that we are
accepted, but actually we are exactly
nobodies, we who neglected registration
on reaching maturity or who were born
here under the proud skies of Americas
marble and sandstone Capital. We can
not say how we would like our COM
munity in which we built our homes
N%NAN> ASNA OSAA StiAASi Ciis W NC iCS Qldl6Q.
This writer can chisel through his
Uranium glimmer of understanding re-
garding the situation. He can family
perceive why negligence of polls back
State for these many years has deprived
him OF expression concerning things
national, but he cannot even vaguely
reason out his not having a voice in
the government of local affairs. He
cannot imagine, for one thing, why
appointments in local institutions main
tanned by local funds must and do 90 to
persons with residence, by vote, in the
States. Granted the District of Co.
lurnbia is of and for the whole of the
United States, there are nevertheless
local institutions having to do with
things local, and this writer voices the
feeling of thousands that local persons
insofar as possible should compose the
personnel of these institutions. Out
s1ders, or persons from the States. elect
our rulers. For instance, at the ton.
appointments to the Office of Commits
s1oners are made for us, not by U.s. Not
that complaint is being made of our
present praiseworthy protectors, but
there may come time where our CITY
fathers will not do their duty by their
SoIlS ana QaugnterS.
Anyway we look at it the whole plan
revolves around the poll. Why can't it
be here? Who knows better what is best
for locality than the people therein
established? The West Indies and such
detached American domains have no
sayso in who shall govern the United
States and how, and we of the District
OF Columbia will have to try to like
being foster children. We do, however.
venture to expect some recognition,
some say in home management. Even if,
to be visionary, in event of poll here
for local officials and government, even
II our ultimate choice had to be SANG
toned by the President, though that
ought not really be necessary, we would
have that belonged feeling, a steadiness
underfoot. We would feel established as
individuals with rights apart if not of
United States, at least of America.
LOUIS E. DENNY.
Evening star., 1937-11-04

milk and no manganese was found in
their bodies. The element apparently
passes directly from the body of the
mother to that of the unborn offspring.
There is no evidence, DR.. McCollum
said, that manganese deficiency ever oc-
ours IN human beings Among chickens
II IS common and causes severe malnu-
triton. There is a bone disease of
chickens which apparently is due to
manganese deficiency.
Another element the necessity of
which in the diet has been demonstrated
by DR.. McCollum and his associates
during the past few years is magnesium.
Ihey were able to reduce this substance
IN the food OF rats and dogs almost to
the vanishing point. Within less than
TWO weeks the magnesium content of
the blood was reduced to less than half
the normal amount and the animals
showed marked dilation of the blood yes
sells and speeding up of heart beat. They
ended up in fatal convulsions. The
animals become hyper irritable.
Evening star., 1937-11-04
Letter in Old Newspaper on
A Lottery for Washington
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
A few days ago an issue of The Star
carried, in among various letters from
subscribers, suggestion that a lottery
be established in the District of Co.
lumbia to raise money for some charit-
able purpose. In this connection it NAV
interest you to learn that 1 have what
think is an authentic newspaper sheet,
entitled "The Argus, or Greenleaf's
New Daily Advertiser" dated New York.
January II, 1896, containing a letter
from correspondent complaining that
the Federal Lottery No. 2 for the pur-
pose of improving the city of Washing
ton is not drawn agreeable to notifca-
ton"
This paper also carries an advertise
ment by one Oliver Vanderbilt who
has discovered how to make very SUI
perior waterproof boots. There appears
also an advertisement of a Negro man
for sale. and one of a "self moving
carriage, which would be exhibited at
the Amphitheater on Broadway, Box IS,
Pit. 2 S." ELIZABETH MCFARLAND.
Evening star., 1937-11-04
People Versus Bosses.

The voters of New York City on Tues
day took swat at machine politics-the
Tammany bosses. 1t is a healthy sign.
1t comes just at time when the effort is
under way to form super-Tammany
organization to dominate the whole
country. Probably the effort will con-
tinue. Indeed, the country has already
been Tammanyized as never before in its
history. But the voters have shown a
willingness to get out from under such
political dominance. They have more
complete picture of machine and boss
rule, more intimately seen and at close
range, in the municipal government.
Some of them are beginning to grasp,
however, the significance of the organi-
zation that has been erected and which
has its central headquarters in Wash
ington.
Tammany gained its early grip on
New York by looking after its own and
perfecting an organization. 1t distrib-
uted food and coal, on occasion. 1t went
to the bat for the voters who got into
trouble, on occasion. Not until the
people began to understand about the
benefits which went to the top layer
of the organization, not until they
learned of graft and political influence
that went to the aid of the lawless, did
Tammany's name become anathema.
The defeat of the machine in New
York City on Tuesday was not merely
a defeat for the old Tammany, which
has been knocked groggy in recent years
by repeated thrusts. 1t was a defeat
for a more extensive organization which
has been building under the expert
guidance of Farley and Flynn and others
who have been at odds with old Tam
many. Tammany had selected diff
ferent candidate, Senator Copeland, to
carry its banner in the mayoralty cam
paign. But before the attack of the
newer organization, backed by Farley
and Flynn and others of the Roosevelt
following, Tammany went down in the
Democratic primary. Mahoney, the
Democratic nominee, was the choice, not
of Tammany, but of Farley and Flynn.
Farley, Flynn and Company are not
an outfit to give up easily. The organi-'
zation in New York is, after all, only
fraction of the national organization.
They may be expected to pick up the
pieces where they have fallen. They
will swallow the old Tammany and make
it their own if they can. They have
the State and the Nation in mind.
But at the same time there is New
York, the great city. Their defeat on
Tuesday may have been bitter pill
to swallow. They do not intend to be
forced to swallow any more such de-
feats-if they can help it.
One way or another, however, the
people are stirring and not liking all
that is being fed them. They fell on
James M. Curley, former Governor of
Massachusetts, and former Mayor Of
Boston, and smothered his attempt to
regain dominance of Boston's city gov
ernment. They took their stand for law
and order against the sit-downers-
the c. I. o. and its candidates-in the
Detroit elections. If Tuesdays elections
failed to have national significance in
a partisan political sense, they were
vastly significant in other directions.
And perhaps, for the national field,
these elections were not so immaterial
as they may appear at present.
Evening star., 1937-11-04

AS years have gone on, notifications
of phrase have taken place which affect
the terminology of government. Under
secretaries are familiarly mentioned, and
many persons with intimate knowledge
of public affairs are credited with know
ing exactly what is meant. When, how
ever, step is taken which appears to
accredit the President with a loyal and
devoted son, competent to express his
ideas in public, the question of whether
we can have an underpresident becomes
one of serious concern.
Evening star., 1937-11-04
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Natural Attributes.


Oh, de 'possum's tail is lengthy,
An de rabbits tail is small;
Some critters hab big wavin' ears,
An some hab none at all;
Some birds dey keeps a-singin,,
An some merely hollers loud;
De hen is meek an modes,
An de peacock's mighty proud;
De locus tree is lofty,
An de cabbage done roos' low;
Oar am no explanation
De Good Lord jes' made 'em so,
An as I isn't envious
OF another mans display;
Some folks is rich an some is poor,
Cause dey belongs dat way.
Evening star., 1937-11-04
Scene l, Act l. at Brussels.

No SUI pdlSeS were sprung as the cur
tain rose on the Nine-PoWer Conference
ut Brussels yesterday Whether the
opening scenes are destined to be the
prologue of farce, comedy, tragedy or
constructive drama it is too early to
estimate. Prologue pronouncements by
Mr.. Davis on behalf of the United States,
by DR.. wellington Koo in the name of
China and by MeSSrs. Eden and Delbos.
respectively, for Great Britain and
France we're in full accord with expec-
bations.
Tho delegates of the Western powers
stressed the gravity of the Sino-Jap-
eness conflict and pleaded for prompt
ection 10 remove the danger of its
Sannfying beyond the Far East. China
spokesman warned that unless the in
vader's aggression is checked and faith
tn the pledged word restored" there is
eesruine peril that Japanese forces will
c~errun the boundaries of China and
throw the world into a general war
from which no important power will
long be able to keep aloof."
DR.. Koo's purpose is transparent. He
desires to convince the United States
Great Britain and Soviet Russia of the
necessity of helping China, not alone
IN her interest, but in the name of
their own welfare and safety. That
Macedonian cry may fall on deaf ears
A& Brussels. But it is legitimate plea,
with far more than diplomatic high
pressure, not too artfully applied, to
Justify it.
From Italy came prompt intimation
0f the conference role she plans to
piay-that of Japan's friend at court.
Aussolini's emissary, thrusting directly
st President Roosevelts Chicago pro-
poeal of concerted effort" to abolish
international lawlessness, declared there
can be no question of action to "quaran-
tine" either of the fighting nations.
Waving experienced sanctions-the pre-
Roosevelt euphemism for a "quaran-
tine"-when Italy was victim of them
during her conquest of Ethiopia. it
b IN character for II Duce to oppose
their application against Fascisms
Asiatic ally.
Ambassador Davis functioned as Brus-
sels keynoter with an earnest invita-
ton to China and Japan to end their
andeciared war by peaceful processes"
The American representative avoided
any arraignment of Japan-an example
As scrupulously followed by spokesmen
Of other powers. All agreed with Bel
gian Foreign Minister Spaak that the
conference should not be converted into
m international tribunal before which
sd1e island empire should be hailed as
= guilty party.
To what extent this labored effort
Dot to wound Tokio's susceptibilitities
MI persuade the conqueror of North
China 10 discuss debatable armistice or
peace terms either directly with the
Chinese or through the Intermediary of
conference powers is disconcertingly
pfobematical. Markings position is
Mat there is no sense in formal peace
ta2ks without provision for Japanese
evacuation of Chinese territory. On the
Japanese side there is no less unequivo-
sal unwillingness to discuss arms stack
Ing until China accepts the military
usatuS quo established throughout her
northern provinces and agrees to re-
p0mce Communism" No man can
psophesy what will emerge from the
grim piece of which the overture has just
been played. Scene /, Act 1, finds the
stage set for deadlock.
Evening star., 1937-11-04

Theodore Roosevelt made some ener-
getic mistakes, such as his impolite
reference to Tom Paine as an unpleasant
little atheist. However, one of the
characteristics of the American people
has been to forget the mistakes of
eminent men and to remember such
services as they have rendered.
Evening star., 1937-11-04

Turkish people the world over are cele-
brating the foundation of their republic
and are doing what they can to establish
their society as a pattern of reform for
the rest of the world.
Evening star., 1937-11-04

A hitherto undiscovered ape is sup
posed to be wandering somewhere in
the depths of Africa. The ape will al
ways be disappointment until he can
bring along some documentary evidence
relating to lands he has inhabited.
Evening star., 1937-11-04

Mussolini and Hitler are programmed
for one of the greatest duets ever known.
1t may be doubted, however, whether they
can make themes which they have long
been expressing harmonic in the new
conditions which are definitely an
nounced for the world.
Evening star., 1937-11-04

Mussolini has an able and attractive
Bon in the great European war game
Yhs question must soon arise as to
tas policies he will be found ready to
tndorse.