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Evening star., 1937-01-05

terest when, tardily, 1t has been COM
pretended.
But Aristotle was correct in his 5udg-
ment that man is by nature civic AMI
NAL" The human race is gregarious; 1t
"flocks together" deliberately and pur-
posefully. An impulse, normally Unborn
in every soul, prompts men and women
to seek the society Of their kind. The
Psalmist was not talking nonsense when
he exclaimed: Behold how good and
how pleasant 1t is for brethren to dwell
together in unity!"
Certainly, 1t is inevitable that there
will be differences of opinion in COM
munity. The Almighty Father Of the
human race creates individuals-each
different from his fellows In tempera-
ment, intelligence and aspiration. 1t
follows, then, that parties and groups
will come into being from time to time
to express the desires of minorities. Yet
there always will be principle Of change
"a law Of mutation-operating for the
nation ever Is permanently reactionary
or permanently radical. In America, any
way, by grace Of the Constitution and
the basic traditions which are the in
heritance of successive generations, sta
bility is the central axiom of history.
And it is in Congress particularly
that the give and take, the fiexibility,
the rigidity of American civilization Is
most notably manifest. 1t may suit an
occasional bystander to complain now
and again about the faults of the repre-
sentative formula, but few will be the
thoughtful observers who would reform
this Sorry Scheme of Things entire"
House and Senate, meeting today, may
reflect unworthy passions, greeds, hates
and ambitions. Much more important,
however, is the incontrovertible circum-
stance of their reflection of patriotism,
altruism, mutually and hope.
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voted to boycott the durbar scheduled
to be held to honor the coronation Of
King George vi. Then, to cap the anti
British climax, the delegates passed .
resolution pledging party members to re-
fuse to fight for the empire in case Of
war.
One single ray Of encouragement shone
through deliberations otherwise uncom-
promisingly rebellious. The supporters
of Gandhi and Nehru are not immune
from the passion for Office which ami
mates politicians in other climes. They
will therefore wait until after the Spring
elections to the provincial Legislatures
set up by the new constitution before
deciding whether NationaliSts should &C.
cept ministerial posts. As abstention
from the polls on any considerable scale
might give dominating power to parties
hostile to the National Congress. hunger
for the official fleshp0ts Is likely to in
dulce extensive voting by the Gandhi-
Nehru cohorts in such regions as Bonn
bay, Madras and the central provinces,
in which they have chances of gaining
q clear majority.
The forthcoming federal government
at New Delhi awaits with mixed emo
tions the prospect Of dealing with pro-
vincial governments containing Nation
alist ministers. They are certain to
pursue intransigent tactics at every op-
portunity, following the early examples
of the Sim Feiners in the Irish Free
State and the Dutch Separatists in South
Africa. Meantime, the British govern
ment faces the situation unperturbed.
It can at any time invoke the ample
emergency powers of the constitution to
suppress wrecking crews which become
obstreperous. India now has its chance,
with franchise available to $4,000, 900
persons, or about IA per cent of the
eligible population, to show what it can
do with and under a system of far
reaching self determination.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
The Mahatma's Veto.

Great Britain's program of pacification
and unity in India, the fruit of eight
years of painstaking effort, has suffered
a sudden, but not necessarily fatal, set
back. The still potent Mahatma Gandhi
raises his hand against it. Thus, the
new government of India act, adopted
In 1885 and planned to take effect in
April, faces q season Of storm which
may not destroy the scheme, but makes
certain that it will not be inaugurated
with that degree OF popular support
confidently hoped for. There was some
expectation that because Of a division
within the Nationalist movement, which
found Gandhi, grim apostle of passive
resistance, arrayed against Pandit Nehru,
Socialist-minded advocate Of direct &C
ton, there might ensue q fairly general
acceptance of the project to give India
at once full provincial autonomy and
eventually complete federation within
the empire on the dominion basis.
Last week these prospects were shat
tered. Approximately 100000 members
of the National Congress party con-
vened amid crude rural surroundings
sop to the peasants whom Gandhi seeks
to rally-and adopted belligerent reso-
lutions sponsored jointly by the mahatma
and Nehru. The new constitution was
denounced and rejected as imperialiStic.
In its place the congress demanded the
summoning Of q constituent assembly for
establishment Of home rule. As further
evidence Of their longing for liberation
from the imperial yoaes, the NatinnAliats
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

After the calendars and almanacs
come the seed catalogues.
Many person who received large and
expensive books for Christmas neverthe-
less looks forward with greater interest
to the arrival Of the free flower books.
Even persons who, for one reason or
other, are not particularly interested in
vegetable and flower growing, ought to
get their names ON such lists, just to
keep in touch with the soil.
Often the city man is SD far removed
from this touch that he forgets the good
earth and all its horticultural children
the plants which cannot live away
from it.
Even II one has no more than window
box, a seed catalogue is a source OF Won
derful interest
Even with no window box at all, or not
even flower pot. a good catalogue +
something to stir the imagination.
Those colored illustrations, for one
thing.
The printing art has improved these
over the years.
Color work today is superb. Even in
the old days, the tomatoes in color were
always surprising. Today they fairly
melt in the mouth of imagination!
1t Is interesting to realize that two
very fine art books, selling at a good
price, have been made from these illus
trations. One of these volumes deals
with general ornamental flowers and
shrubs. The other with roses.
The interesting fact is that practically
all the colored illustrations in these two
volumes first appeared in catalogues
which were sent gratis to hundreds OF
thousands Of persons.
4 **
Wherever colored print of really
fine vegetable creation appears, it makes
a mighty appeal to an American.
We often have wondered if the peoples
Of other nations get similar kick cut
Of these great red tomatoes, as played
up in the annual seed books.
America was brought up on these
pictures.
In every small town, Of which there
are so many thousands throughout cur
land, and on every farm, these books
and booklets played an important part.
Sometimes they were the only books,
with the exception of school books.
They were vital, too, in that they
represented sometimes the livelihood,
and almost always a most important
part Of the food supply.
Customs have changed. The vegetable
garden no longer occupies the sure place
it held for many years. Even in the
small towns there is an ever growing
reliance in the tin can, and the truck
farmer.
But still the old pictures. especially
those in color, have power to move
something in heart and mind.
II i
Aside from that. even the poorest little
catalogue is something of an education.
1t is a type of knowledge We all need,
if for no other reason than to keep us
in touch with vital things.
Year by year man realizes better the
interdependence of one part Of Nature
with another. We are told that insects
will devour the world. unless we kill them
all. Then scientist pops up and assures
us. after many years, that We will have
neither songbirds nor vegetative life un-
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less we stop killing all insects indis-
criminately.
All these are vital things, and the
annual seed catalogues remind us Of
them, force us to keep them in mind.
We cannot grow 70 be concrete people.
street people, brick people, entirely, as
long as we read about soft green leaves,
and trees, and shrubs, and flowers. about
beets and radishes and tomatoes and
sweet corn.
Circumstances may prevent us, indi-
vidually, from raising any Of these. Even
when we are able to do so. life in con-
crete for many years may have so oper-
ated as to have removed from lis all real
liking for the tasks.
Nevertheless, il we are willing to
thumb through these books, and look at
these pictures, and be vaguely stirred at
the number of varieties, and to wonder
why there are so many of them, we are
not wholly lost.
So far we have considered merely the
inspection OF these booklets, as II we
were all eyes, and could do nothing but
look. (The world is wagging in that
direction, as witness the astounding sue
CCoo VI tllC ldICoI PAStdAC boSpDAAS'
Fortunately, however. we can read. and
there is no better reading fer a long
evening.
This is a Winters tale that bears end
less unfolding.
equal any we could find, if we have the
imagination to put them in order.
Here is exaggeration, If you will, the
L,.:Il ,,Al- enlvn n
of our fiction interesting.
We take the descriptions with the
proverbial grain of salt. Happily there
is not so much reason for this now as
a few years ago. The people who grow
and deal in these precious commodities
themselves have come to the realization
that there is no use being too enthusi-
astic. Let the readers do that for
themselves!
Fireside gardening some one has called
it, but Winter gardening would be as
good a name for happy indoor sport.
The play may take many evenings.
There is no hurry here. Even the most
bustling individual will get nothing from
scurrying through plant catalogue.
Spring planting is long way of, by
any mans calendar.
The bluebirds are down South. and The
starlings with us. and no doubt many
snowy day is to clothe the landscape
in soft white before the first warm days
when ambitious gardeners feel that stir
within them. calling for rolled up shirt
sleeves and the rake.
Let us take our time with these beauti-
full books. Surely they are precious,
despite the fact they cost nothing. Maybe
you can't get something for nothing, but
these books seem to be lit"
The best part about going tM ough
them now, and making lists of desired
material, is that by the time Spring
arrives, the reader already will have
done a little wedding. He will prune
his list down. so that by planting time
it will be reduced to more seemly pro-
portions. We sometimes think the seed
people would do better to send their
books out very late. so that common
sense would be usurped by enthusiasm.
But We guess they know their business,
after all.
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Training.

do you do whatever your wife tells
you to?" asked the severe woman.
do you mean in politics or other
matters?" asked Senator Sorghum.
II mean in matters of all kinds"
I'm afraid I don't show the train
ing I've had. This very morning paid
no attention to my wife and forgot my
overshoes."
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A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Wood Creatures.

Wood Creatures.
I sought the forest aisles in January;
Tracks on the snow as weightless were
and wary
As if made by some passing woodland
fairy.
Here. a swift-footed rabbit SKINNED the
snow;
There, pheasant scratched q bed In
leaves below;
And farther on the claw-prints OF crow.
MY. own boot-tracks seemed sadly out
Of place;
Al on snow surfaces stopped to trace
The forest foot-maxks, delicate - lAce.
Evening star., 1937-01-05

The employment of caricature would
hardly be permissible in the Congress
sional Record, but a staff of photog-
raphers might brighten many a narrative
by showing exactly how an orator looked
when Grating.
Evening star., 1937-01-05

Berlin political programs somewhat
resemble concert programs with an
effort to make a Wagnerian war chorus
harmonic with Christmas carol.
Evening star., 1937-01-05

Support rallies to Hitler in his attack
on bolshevism. 1t may be possible for
Berlin to concentrate its purposes so as
not to appear to be fighting everything
at once.
Evening star., 1937-01-05

Inauguration day will be time Of
general rejoicing when every citizen will
feel like addressing his fellow citizens as
my friends" excepting, Of course, over
the radio.
Evening star., 1937-01-05

Reprisals are reported but not to such
an extent as to warrant revival OF the
theory that war may be regarded as q
series of implacable reprisals.
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Preparedness is demanded on the
theory that in order to be neutral it is
not necessary to be obliviouS.
Evening star., 1937-01-05
Bad Combination.

From the Indianapolis News.
It isn't safe to have sleds and autos
aiding about the streets ct the same
TINS,
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Member of the Associated Press.

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credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
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All rights of publication of special dispatches
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Differences Of Speech.

In fitting phrase strove to turn
The words which to her addressed.
Such classic lore as could learn
I offered with fervent zest.
studied very hard indeed
To speak in English that was good;
In silence she would often heed
AS if with care she understood.
She laid aside her magazine,
Whose style Of speech was very smart:
She turned on me her eyes serene
They cleaned with futuristic art.
To speech she paused to condescend.
She murmured, "Us two don't connect.
You seem a good scout and friend.
But I don't get your dialect!"
Jud Tunkins says II you want to
know whether a man or woman is boss
In the home, persuade the man to put
his feet on the furniture and see what
happens.
~ 10 Vic OAu OuAOAA6 tA0V AoAAS AAs
the storm" said Hi .Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, "and yet we go on boaSting
Of antiquity"
Congress.
O Congress, how you make us all COM
plain!
When you are here we wish you gone
again.
When you're away our troubles will
seem sore
And make us wish that you were back
once more!
II believe in moral suasion," said Uncle
Eben. when my boy dom show me
rightful respect jes' waits to see whatn
happen when he talks to some o. de big
boys Ia de i,eighhorhood same - be
doss y as.'
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Evening star., 1937-12-16
EX-CODE OFFICIAL
TALKS IN OIL CASE
Dr.. Frey Testifies Ickes Did
Not Definitely Approve
Firms Buying Acts.
By the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, Dec. 16.-A stan
member of the Department Of the In
terror. which administered the N. r.
A. petroleum code, testified In the
Federal Governments gasoline price,
fixing case yesterday that the major
oil companies buying activities In
1885 were not definitely" approved
by Secretary Of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes or any member Of the Petro-
leum Administrative Board.
DR.. John w. Frey, former Univer-
sity Of Wisconsin geologist and now
associate director of the Petroleum
Conservation Division at Warrington,
gave this testimony under cross-exami-
nation by . Government prosecutor.
He said he was . member Of the
Petroleum Administrative Board dur
ing the code days.
DR.. Frey had testified as . defense
witness that Charles Arnott, Socony-
Vacuum official, who the Government
alleges was the master mind" Of
the price-fixing conspiracy, reported
to the board in 1885 about the major
company purchasing of independent
refiners' gasoline through the Tank
Car Sterilization Committee.
The Government contends this buy
ing program was the means whereby
the 1e defendant companies raised
and pegged prices. A principal con-
tention Of the defense Is that the
Evening star., 1937-12-16
Ambulance
Continued From First Page.)

District health officer. and DR.. Rich
ard F. Tobin of the Permit Bureau.
The health officials said a call was
received from Jordon yesterday morn
ing asking for a permit for admission
OF the woman to Freedmen's Hospital
The permit was issued, the doctors
said, and the. bureau was informed
that Jordon would find his own means
OF getting the i'll woman to the hos
pital.
DR.. Tobin said his bureau received
. request for an ambulance at ll:45
am. Al three vehicles were out at
the time, he explained, but when one
returned it was sent to the Twenty
seventh street address, arriving there
at 40 pm. At that time the woman
was found to be dead.
DR.. Tobin said District ambulance
made only one trip to the address,
and added that no driver has authority
to say whether or not a patient is ill
enough to be removed to hospital.
Jordon declared, however, that he
Evening star., 1937-12-16

moy IN person attended the cata.
loeulng OF arms yesterday. In q
statement the minister said that this
latest arms discovery was the biggest
so far.
Rumors circulating In Paris say that
Dormoy has presented to the minis.
tries OF war and finance lists Of high
military officers and other important
persons implicated in the Cagoulards
affair. but without result.
tCopyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-16
INSURGENTS LINKED
TO PLOT IN FRANCE
Part OF Arms Found Yesterday in
Paris Was Manufactured in
Toledo Factories,
By Radio to The Star

% Ssaulu W AuS 6t8f.
PARIS, Dec. 16.-Intervention in
French affairs by rebel Spain is
brought to light by the latest police
discovery Of an arms cache linked
with the Cagoulard conspiracy. Les
Cagoulards, or Hooded Men, have been
the objects Of . nation-w wide dragnet
against treason plotters.
Part OF the tons Of war material
found by police authorities In the
cellar of q Paris garage yesterday
consisted Of munitions made in To-
ledo (Spain) arms factories. These
were packed in boxes bearing the
stamp and color of rebel Spain.
This Is the first confirmation of
repeated reports that arms were being
smuggled into France from rebel Spain
and that state of non-intervention
reversed exists. Some of these arms
were OF German and Italian manufac-
ture. French machine guns were also
discovered, two Of which had been
stolen from the French Army garrison
OF Laon.
Minister of the Interior Marx Dor
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first called an ambulance in the
morning, and that the attendant re-
fused to take the woman to the hos
pital and left. Yesterday afternoon,
he said, his aunt became violently i'll,
and he again called an ambulance.
When he had no response, he said. he
became desperate and summoned fire.
men.
Jordon was ordered to report to
the corporation counsel's Office this
morning. Policeman Ernest Fillmore
of No. 3 precinct and representative
of the Fire Department, 1t was said,
explained to the assistant corporation
counsel that they would not press
case against Jordon under the cir
cumstances.
Evening star., 1937-12-16
ISOLATION POLICY
q TOPIC OF DEBATE
G. w., Oxford and Cam
bridge University Speak
ii ers Heard by 500.

More than 500 persons last night
heard a quartet of debaters from
George Washington, oxford and Cam
bridge Universities argue the ques-
ton Of isolation as a means of keep
: ing the United States out Of war.
VI The British and American debaters
split their forces in what is known as
Z split-team debate, John p. South
mayd of George Washington and
James A. Brown, oxford, opposing iso-
Ation as impractical and advocating
collective action by democratic ma
tions for peace, while Ronald v. Glib
son, Cambridge, and Wayne Kniffen,
George Washington, stood for strict
neutrality and withdrawal policies.
Good-natured batting of each other
BY the two Englishmen enlivened the
discussion as reference was made to
the Scotsman from Cambridge" or
the "Irishman from Oxford"
! Opposing the argument against
Solationism, Mr.. Southmayd declared
that isolation is impossible because of
communications, transportation and
4 propaganda in the world today and
because the people here would not
stand for the economic disruption
caused by imposition of the necessary
fembargoes. Citing also the $l7,0OO,-
o00,0 900 of American money invested
abroad, he said:
THE thing for the United States
TO do If it sees q war threatening is
not to go into hiding, but to step In
and stop it before it begins"
Mr.. Gibson spoke first for isolation,
contending that it does not exclude
al forms Of economic intercourse.
THE United States must rely on
political isolation" he asserted, "for
only so can she keep the peace and
democracy which she prizes"
Mr.. Brown then continued the argu-
ment against "the mirage of isola-
tionisn" by declaring that the theory
Of national -sufficiency has been
exploded. The Fascist powers will
soon reach South America, and
America must make her allies now,
unless she wants to meet those powers
alone when they make their bid. War
Is inevitable, he charged.
"Your country must supply the lead
ership for cooperation among the
democratic nations" he insisted.
Mr.. Kniffen, closing the debate,
Scoffed at the Fascist spook" and
declared that the tremendous unrest
IN those countries, coupled with the
money they have lost in foreign ad-
vetures, makes it unlikely the United
States will have to face them in this
hemisphere.
THE United States has enough of
. task perfecting democracy at home"
he said
Senator Pittman, chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
presided.
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with the strikers sitting in groups In
the operating room. No pickets were
posted
Company officials in Washington de-
clined any comment on the demon
stration other than to admit that their
service had been interrupted. They
claimed that few wires still were in
operation, although union spokesmen
disputed this assertion.
Later. company officials admitted
that all wires were closed completely
and that they had requested that non-
union employees discontinue any effort
to carry on their work. Making the
point that there was no disorder,
company spokesman said that the
cease-work order was given to prevent
any possibility Of trouble between the
demonstrators and non-union en-
ployes.
Glee Club Favored.
At noon, many of the striking
messenger boy brought sandwiches and
coffee to their companions, and enter
tainment was furnished by hastily
improvised glee club, led by a horn
playing telegraph operator.
1t was learned that the company
had transferred practically all its busi-
ness during the affected period to the
Western Union Telegraph Co.
Union officials claim about $50 men,
bers out of approximately $50 Postal
employees in this city. They have
representation. they claim. in all ex-
cept the bookkeeping department of
the company, calling this morning.
even upon the telephone girls en-
ployed by Postal. The strike was be-
ing supervised by Ted Zittel, New
York officer of the union, and John
Austin, Washington organizer.
Claiming that Postal employees
average only SIS or $50 month and
more than 48 hours of work weekly,
the A. r. T. A. has been seeking a
contract through negotiation with the
management in New York. The wage
is declared to be about 35 per cent