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Evening star., 1937-02-01

them. Such a moment was written into
history when President Roosevelt called
for funds for the Red Cross campaign OF
relief in the stricken Ohio and Missis-
sippi Valleys For proof of the mis-
cellaneous character of the response a
glance at the names of those who have
sent their contributions to The Star
will suffice.
Rich and poor, old and young, Jew
and Gentle, Catholic and Protestant,
all races, all national stocks, all religions,
all classes are represented in this roll of
honor. A random selection shows en-
ployes of the Maloney Concrete Co., staff
nurses and employees of the Adult Tu-
berculosis Hospital, vestry Of Rock Creek
Parish, teachers and pupils of Eastern
High School, employees of the National
Radio Institute, Committee on the Ju-
dietary of the House of Representatives,
Master Plumbers Association, four Chi
nese friends, Ladies of Charity of st.
Joseph'S Church, Womens Auxiliary of
Northminster Presbyterian Church, Stu
dent Council of Roosevelt High School,
employees of Remington Rand, o Street
Market Dealers, Calanthe Lodge of the
knights of Pythias, judges and employees
of the Police Court, Delta Chapter of
Tau Phi Sorority, Temple Chapter of the
Order Of the Eastern Star, kitchen and
coffee shop crew of the Washington
Hotel, section C-5 of Mckinley High
School, Monday Lunch Club and friends
and employees of the Union Trust Co.
Certainly it would be difficult to dis
cover anywhere a more convincing cross
section of democratic society. For an in
dividual citizen who may be in doubt
about the future of his country, the fu-
ture of civilization in the United States
such demonstration of fellowship and
solidarity will be encouraging 1t is
symptomatic of vitality as we'll as of
elemental charity.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

will take depends upon many factors.
notably the intensity of the green" and
the conditions relating to feeding.
Nature, in her everyday wisdom, ham
dies this matter much better than off,
cious man.
His intentions are good, but his meth
ods crude.
When nature begins to cut Off the
light. she does 1t by natural means,
which are the kind which natural things
respond to best.
A succession Of cloudy days cut down
on the light to the exact point which
caused the undesirable algae to perish,
but which gave the major plants (ara-
charts and eel grass, in this case) enough
to live on nicely.
Thus, by the time the great rains had
ended, tiny good had been done at
least one tank, and probably many
others in the same condition. It was
small good, indeed, in comparison with
the misery, death and destruction which
the same rains had caused on the far
flung Ohio and Mississippi Rivers Yet
1t was benefit worth keeping in mind,
perhaps.
The local resident who usually grouches
about the gloomy weather no longer
had any room for his crouch. as he
recalled the fatal results which attended
rains elsewhere.
Rains here have been only incon-
venlences, and, as we have attempted
to show, Of some benefit, perhaps, in a
very small way.
The interesting thing about "green
water" In &c hot ~
bad for the fishes. 1t is, in fact, health
full, since the algae plants, as tiny as
they are. send forth certain amount of
oxygen in their life processes.
Old-time hands at keep small fishes
in tanks persistently assert that there
Is no hospital equal to a tank of green
water for most fishes which show
smaller illnesses. Yes, fishes as we'll as
men suffer from a number Of diseases,
ranking from the minor to the major
F1nny animals, too. grow old and die.
Some enthusiasts 90 so far as to
advise the keeping of green tank, in
order to have it ready to hospitalize sick
fishes. This is going bit far, perhaps.
II an enthusiast wished such a tank, it
would be easy to secure it in short
order, by placing one in full sunshine
OQSIlG W SSI IcSulLS- certainly II
would if the tank were priced one, with
perfect fishes and plants in it!
There is nothing more disconcerting
in all the hobby Of fish keeping than to
have good tank go green.
Usually it happens. as most enthu-
siasts know, when you have invited some
critical person to see the fishes.
At such times the owner wants moth
ing less than perfection.
He is in somewhat the same position
as the amateur gardener who invites his
friends to see the flowers in his yard
Said friends do not come at the time
invited, but wait until most of the special
blooms are gone.
Then they arrive. and the gardener
must content himself with that most un-
satisfactory of sentences, But you
should have seen them last week."
Fish tanks have an unhappy way of
going green just before guests arrive.
There is one solution. Of course. Sim
ply say. "Oh, yes, that is the hospital
tank. I keep that one green on pur-
posel"
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It's far stretch from raging rivers to
the confines OF a small home aquarium
containing few gallons Of water. Both
OF them have one thing very much IN
common. however.
They are filled with water.
It Is the water which makes the river
interesting. and at times terrible, and 1t
is the water which makes the home
tank OF small fishes. whether the So
called tropicals, or goldfishes. worth con-
sidering.
AS long as our bodies are mostly COM
posed of fluids, as long as We must
wreStle with rivers on rampage. as long
as water in the small tank insists on
going green" when one desires 1t to
stay clear. the universal problem Of
water is with us.
The world drinks water. bathes in 1t,
and finds it useful for transportation.
All the life processes take place by
means of it. The blood is largely water
The vegetables fruits and meat we eat
are mostly water. Milk is almost all
water.
There are very few good words which
may be said for the recent heavy rains
which were responsible for the great
riverside tragedies.
The person hereabouts who happened
to be interested in aquarium fishes,
however, discovered that the succession
of rainy days cleared up green" tanks
as II by magic.
The tank with unwanted green water,
in which the plants and fishes appear
murkily, and then only when at the
front glass, is a very common phenom-
enon.
There Is seldom a collection Of half
a dozen to q dozen tanks without at least
one green one.
The usual remedy for this, that Of cut
ting off the light, or cutting it down
markedly, may or may not work.
Usually it doesn't, because II the light
is too restricted the paintings become
brown.
The idea Of cutting down on the light
is to cause the death Of the microscopical
plants, called algae, which cause the
green In the water.
The greennesS is due to the thousands
of these minute plants in mass forma-
tion.
Water everywhere is filled with the
spores of algae. Some of them grow
only at the touch of plenty of light.
Others need half light. The former
are known as green algae. and the latter
as brown.
Tanks kept in full sunshine most often
"go green" as thousands Of enthusiasts
have found to their sorrow. Even in a
strong light, without sun. the same
thing may occur, if the spores of the
right forms are in the water which has
been used in the aquarium.
Tanks set up on the north side Of the
house, on the other hand, most often
get brown algae," an unscientific name
true enough. but very descriptive
The remedy for this latter condition is
to remove the aquarium said
than done-to brighter location.
II the tank goes green" the remedy
is to cover it with paper-newspape
will do-on the side from which the light
comes.
Several thicknesses Of dark green
tissue are excellent. but then it will be
touch and 60 whether enough light is
cut off.
Just how long this process of clearing
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controversy was given prominence, or II
than the other, an unfair situation would
be created. The power is asked for the
Department of Labor on the ground that
if the department Is thus enabled to
obtain all the facts 1t will be in
better position to carry on mediation
and conciliation between the workers
and the employers. And, doubtless, the
more facts at hand the better.
President William Green, speaking for
the American Federation Of Labor, has
declared fatty against the legislation
asked by Miss Perkins. He is opposed
to IT on the ground that it might lead
eventually to compulsory arbitration.
which is an abomination in the mind of
organized labor. And he is opposed to it
on the ground that instead of aiding the
department conciliators and mediators 1t
would add bitterness to the strife be-
tween worker and employer. For, he
says, when the principals on both sides
are summoned before the officials of the
department and present their argu-
ments, as they would before a court,
the breach would only be widened.
The opposition of labor, as represented
by the president of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, may strengthen the
hands of the opposition to the Perkins
proposal in Congress. Even if John L.
Lewis, chairman of the Committee for
Industrial Organization, should come
out on the other side and favor the
legislation, there would still remain the
very powerful federation in opposition.
The power Of subpoena is the power
to punish-the power to punish for not
appearing to testify or to submit papers
and records. If this power is lodged in
the hands of an executive official of the
Government, 1t would be futile unless
it were used. 1t may be argued that it
would not be used, that the mere threat
OF punishment would be sufficient. But
that does not necessarily follow, espe-
cially If one side or the other were stiff
OF neck and backbone. When an ex-
ecutive official of the Government has
the power to put citizen in jail, a
new condition will have arrived in the
United States.
The request of Miss Perkins for the
power of subpoena followed upon the
refusal of Alfred j. Sloan, jr., head Of
the General Motors Corporation, to come
to conference called by Miss Perkins,
with John L. Lewis, who is backing the
strike of the automobile union in the
corporations plants. Presumably, that
refusal had something to do with the
request. And, presumably. if Miss Per-
kins had had the power of subpoena
she would have used it on the person of
Mr.. Sloan at that time. Mr.. Sloan took
an unfortunate position when he de-
clined Miss Perkins request for a con-
ference. That, however, does not neces-
Sarily imply that Miss Perkins should
have the power to clap him into Jail,
if she issued a subpoena for him and
he failed to comply.
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Real Melting Pot.

skeptics occasionally declare that the
melting pot ideal is merely theoretical.
America, they pretend to believe, is just
an uncorrelated confusion of isolated
neighborhoods. National unity they deny
altogether. And sometimes they appear
to be correct in their criticism.
But there are emergencies when the
people forget the barriers which separate
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Hitler's HesitatiOns.

As homily on Nazi virtues and
most beautiful and perfect democracy"
preached primarily for home consump-
ton, Hitler's address to his marionette
ReichStag was doubtless a satisfying
performance. From the standpoint of
European reconciliation, it is distinctly
disappointing. Mr.. Eden said in Par
lament the other day: I'VE cannot cure
the world by speeches. however lofty
and peace-breathing they may be.
There must be a will to cooperate
which is unmistakable." The British
foreign secretary might almost have had
an advance peep at der Fuehrer's
speech, so accurately did he anticipate
its noble but vacuous sentiments.
Hitler had before him concrete offers
of economic and political partnership
from Great Britain and France. They
called, in return for German pledges
on two scores-readiness to enter into
a general disarmament convention and
remuneration of any intentions to dis
turb the European status quo. Though
manifesting an abstract attitude of con-
ciliation, Hitler studiously abstains from
any commitments in either of those di-
rections. He enumerates minor states
with which the Reich has cemented
friendly relations, and, OF yiously as an
assurance to London and Paris of
amicable intent in Western Europe,
proclaims his willingness 0 respect the
territory of Belgium and the Neither
lands. But as to Germany's notorious
longingS for expansion eastward, par
ticularly at the expense of Czechoslo-
vakia and Russia, the chancellor is
ominously but eloquently silent. Pend
ing categorical guarantees affecting
those countries, Nazi peace professions
are merely pious platitudes. They will
not induce single one of Germany's
neighbors to dismount gun or demobi-
lie soldier.
To the extent that Hitler promises
to spring no more surprises evidently
a reference to the bombshells like sue
ceSsive violations of Versailles treaty
clauSes-his speech is not wholly de-
void of constructiveness. 1t only whips
a lfeless horse by grandiloquently
withdrawing Germany's signature"
from the war guilt clause of the peace
pact, which was already, for all practical
purposes, as dead as the proverbial door
nail, except for the territorial provisions,
which cannot be upset without war.
Der Fuehrer reaff1rms in conspicuously
moderated terms Germanys claims to
her lost colonies. He maintains allie
glance to the policy of agreements with
individual nations" and stresses the
anti-Communist pact with Japan as evi-
dence that Germany does not crave ESQ
lation." But as to Europe's major need
of collective security, Hitler remains OBJ
durate
His stubborn Communist complex,
plus his yelled warnings to Czechoslo-
vakia and Lithuania about their German
minorities, must strengthen the convic-
ton that until the "drang mach Osten"
is appeased, peace has no real charm for
the Nazis. The proclamation, issued
while Hitler was spell-binding the
Reichstag, that henceforth no German
may accept Nobel prize, peace or other
wise, tells its own story.
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The District Of Columbia has wit
messed some wonderful conferences
bringing together the highest types of
intelligence, but none of them has dis
covered a reasonable excuse for depriv-
ing its taxpayers of the right to vote.
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take up the cudgels for the court IN
an address he Is to deliver over the
radio at 9 pm. tonight in the National
Radio Forum. arranged by The Wash
ington Star and broadcast over the net
work of the National Br0adcaSting Co.
What Senator Borah has to say about
the court promises to be well-worth
hearing.
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Instead of organizing political gang,
Trotzky appears to have produced some
thing like a suicide club.
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Next to the Rhine the Mississippi
seems to threaten more trouble than
any other river in the world.
Evening star., 1937-02-01
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Sun-Swept.

Sun-Swept.
Twas sundoWn, and amber mist
Hung low above the river.
Turning to gold and amythyst
The dancing wavelets' quiver:
AS bright rays. falling where they list.
Sent the night tides in glory-kissed.
Soul-haze had compassed me all day,
Causing an inward shiver.
That blurred my vision to dull gray;
But this mist on the river
In sunset so respondent lay
1t turned my fog to golden spray.
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Fame continues to point out Trotzky
as man with genius for getting
innocent bystanders into trouble.
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Density.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Scientists report the earth is only half
as thick as supposed in some places, but
that doesn't include suppositions about
its inhabitants.
Evening star., 1937-02-01

lens, which are the country's route to
economic and social peace" Mr.. Jack
son emphatically identified himself at
New York as New Dealer.
(Copyrtght. 1879
Evening star., 1937-02-01
Shooting Stars.
BY PHuANDER JOHNSON.

Awaiting Sir Ground Hog.
1t will not be so very long
Before Sir Ground Hog, honest fri-nd.
Will bring us reminder strong
That every Winter has its end.
And even though his tale may be
About a few more weeks of snow,
The road to Spring, We must agree,
Has but little way to go.
So be it clear or overcast
Well view the sky with feelings gay
And vow we'll start anew at last,
Since here's another Ground Hog day!
Evening star., 1937-02-01

"Dar aim no use tryin' to be boss'
said Uncle Eben, unless you knows
how, and If you knows how, you don't
have to try. You jes' natchelly Is" .
Evening star., 1937-02-01
A Willing Work.

Our Congressman wins new applause.
He says we'd be in clover
If he could Just take all the laws
And simply write 'em over.
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Meeting the Home Folks.

Meeting the Home Folks.
do you enjoy the frivolities of social
life?"
Very much," answered Senator Sor-
ghum. "If there weren't card parties
and receptions, my wife and daughters
wouldn't let me enjoy their society
without the necessity of entering into
deep discussions of political economy"
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Sunshine in Winter.

Sunshine in Winter.
When Winter came her 'customed way
We had welcome fond and true
And gathered glistening boughs so gay
To show the homage that was due.
So have we done through many year
And Winter has grown kind at last
With hours in which the sun shone clear
Like Mayday memories of the past.
Jud Tunkins says it's too bad that q
young chap who gets through college
without foot ball reputation is re-
garded by the neighbors as just little
bit of failure in life.
"An unwilling student" said Hi Ho,
the sage Of Chinatown, may, after all,
be fortunate in finding 1t easy to forget
many teachings that later proved incor-
rect"
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The Position of Ease and Authority.

The Position of Ease and Authority.
Women can run the country as well
as men," said the polite politician.
mo doubt of it," answered Miss
Cayenne. But why should a woman
worry about the steering gear when it
is so much more comfortable to be a
back-Seat driver?"
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Marylsnd and virginia.
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@. What are chiggers?-H N.
A ChiggerS, or red bugs, are the larval
stage of large red mites which are
harmless when mature They hatch
early in the Summer from eggs laid
in the ground the previous Fall. They
frequently cause the death of chicks
and young turkeys which are allowed
to range in high grass. They cause great
discomfort to human beings. A light
application of kerosene or a busting of
the body with sulphur before going into
infested places is good protection against
bites.
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tees is the minority. lIlcIG Is IlO 1cp-
resentative of the opposition, however, in
an inquiry entered into by depart
ment head. Probably this IS not one
of the major objections to placing the
power of subpoena in the hands OF
cabinet officer, but it has its place. The
Department of Labor, whose head is now
seeking the subpoena power. was set up
to advance the interests OF labor, just
as the Department of Commerce was
set up to advance the interests of COM
merce. Presumably, the Department OF
Labor. in conducting an inquiry and in
using the power of subpoena, would be
acting in the interests of labor. That
would be natural.
President Roosevelt, in his last press
conference, indicated approval of the
plan to give to the Department Of Labor
the power of subpoena, although he did
not declare for the passage of bill
carrying out Miss Perkins request. If
he gets behind it, undoubtedly the meas
ure would have a chance of being
enacted into law. Up to the present
time, however, his advisers on Capitol
Hill and the leaders of the Democratic
party have been very loath to discuss
the matter.
\ \
The report that the President will
press for a new law to accomplish the
ends of the old N. r. A., embodying
definition of interstate commerce, has
been revived. Several weeks ago 1t was
rumored that the President had called
for a definition of interstate commerce
from one of the New Deal lawyers. 1t
was reported at the time that the defini-
ton was to be as brief, but also as in
elusive, as possible.
The Supreme Court issue is another
that is knocking steadily at the door OF
Congress. Senator Borah Of Idaho Is to
Evening star., 1937-02-28

gas station" Her voice affected sarcasm.
We'll, are you going to be there tonight"
He actually wanted her to be there! Aunt
Charlotte had probably made some messy
date for him. But he Vonied her there Oh,
good heavens! She kept her voice steady and
unimpressed as she answered: Il suppose I'll
be there"
She knew she could 90 to the club with
her parents They always went to the monthly
dances. But she knew she couldn't risk dane
ing with Rex; he'd notice that almost none
of the other men danced with her and -
disgrace of disgraces - he might even dis
cover she had not been brought to the dance
by one of them. She must find some good
excuse for not dancing. She suddenly re
membered that about two weeks ago she had
had slight cold. Why, influenza practically:
for the doctor had made her stay in bed for
one whole day. Certainly person, who'd
been through that, shouldn't be straining her
heart. rushing around on dance floor You
had to be careful after the flu.
you know" she spoke lang,lidly into the
telephone, ''on account of my having the flu
a little while ago I'm still not up to any
exercise 50 violent as merely dancing. But
III probably be at the club anyway; skulking
about"
"Okay! Well do some double skulking
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next morning he was flying back home. At
the club he could see all the pretty girls he
had met and almost loved; see them all at
once for gay farewell. He took it for granted
that they would all be there, except Isabelle.
Somehow he couldn't take it for granted
about her. He had to call her on the telephone
and make sure
Going to be at the club tonight" he asked
her casually.
The club?" Isabelle drawled in voice
suddenly three tones lower and sophisticated.
She didn't know what he was talking about
The clubs monthly dances were outside her
orbit. The younger set would have none of
such affairs, cluttered with those old debut
tantes'
The club. my pet. You know that large
white building surrounded by a golf course?"
"Oh. that" Isabelle quickly recovered her
self. "All along I've been thinking it was a