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Evening star., 1937-05-05
Be Careful!

Last week end took from Washington
homes two boys who could i'll be spared.
One was killed by a railroad train; the
other died as the result of the explosion
of glass bottle into which dry ice had
been introduced. Fun, natural enough
to young people, was the objective in
both instances, and tragedy, sheer and
stark, was the outcome. The whole city
sympathizes with the bereaved parents
But how shall such sorrow be employed
constructively? How shall the grief
which so many feel be used to prevent
further death and injury? The prob
lem is staggering in its implications.
For solution of it, education on a vast
scale is necessary. Youth must be taught
caution. Otherwise, day by day, year by
year, the record Of losses is bound to
increase.
Yet no friend of the younger genera
ton desires that 1t should be frightened,
made timid or timorous. It is normal
for boys and girls to choose to take
chances. Youth always instinctively is
venturesome, and 1t is patiently right
Evening star., 1937-05-05
One Doubtful Proposal.

Prom the Helena (Mont) Independent.
There is one proposal in the Presi-
dents plan for reorganization Of the
Government that will attract more than
a passing glance from Western members
of Congress. 1t would relieve the United
States Army Engineers from all further
responsibility in connection with rivers
and harbors and other public projects,
such as the Fort Peck Dam, and center
that responsibility in the hands of new
department of public works.
Members of Congress report they have
already received numerous letters and
kilograms opposing this feature of the
Presidents program, particularly from
areas where the Army Engineers are now
carrying out big improvement projects.
The Mississippi Valley States are espe-
cially concerned, over this proposal.
The United States Army Engineering
Corps has built a great reputation for
efficiency, economy and integrity. Not
one project handled by the Army has
"gone sour" and the officers have han
died billions Of dollars OF public money
and there never has been even hint Of
scandal. There is no finer body Of men
"a earth than the Army engineering
stan,
Evening star., 1937-05-05
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Those Alleged Happy Boyhood Days.
I'd like to be boy once more!
You'll often hear it said
AS men maturer cares deplore
When years have swiftly fled.
I'd like to be boy again
And hear dear teacher bluff
And vainly struggle to explain
A lot of Wisdom Stuff.
Which nothing but Experience
Can truthfully reveal.
I long to feel with glee intense
That stone bruise on my heel.
And stomach aches and smarts and
stings
OF chastisement deserved
And all the various other things
That leave a boy unnerved.
I long with jocund song to go
The rising sun to view,
And Echo answers soft and low
you do Tut! Tut! Pooh! Pooh!"
Evening star., 1937-05-05
A Good Start.

In the opinion of many, the initial re-
Association on crime and criminal prose-
cution in the District is chiefly important
for the spirit in which it has been made
and the success already achieved in en-
listing the sincere cooperation among
all agencies concerned in attaining the
goal of efficient law enforcement.
AS the figures in the report plainly set
forth, lit is obvious that the position of
the Nations Capital, from the viewpoint
of criminal activities, is not an enviable
one" But the report wisely refrains
from blaming any single official or agency
for the conditions revealed, contenting
itself for the time being with a presen-
tation of facts, which in themselves point
to the weak spots, and a few recon-
mendations for remedy.
The Criminal Justice Association dis
claims the role of "sn apprehending,
prosecuting or judicial body" 1t does
not pretend to assume the performance
of the duties of accredited officials
charged with the administration OF
justice" In studying the activities OF
the various public officials and agencies
intrusted with the administration OF
criminal justice, its aim is to bring to
their attention and to the attention of
the public any practices which it con-
siders contrary to the best interests OF
the community to the end that necessary
Improvement will be effected"
This the first report has done in a way
that leaves no jealousies and antago-
nisrls among officials who might have
been, had the procedure been little diff
ferent, placed "on the spot" and in the
position of defending themselves. That
has been the mistake of some of the
sporadic efforts at improving law en-
forcement in the past. Instead of CO.
operation among the officials con-
cerned, some of the past efforts at
remedy have resulted in much passing
the buck among officials, to the con-
fusion of the public and of little benefit
to law enforcement in general.
The report does not attempt to place
the blame on individuals so much as on
a condition which leads to public in
difference and resulting lackadaisical
enforcement. The proposed remedy, in
addition to suggestions for better CO.
ordination among law enforcement
agencies and the interested cooperation
of officials, is to stimulate the interest
of the community in the operation of
its law enforcement machinery. This
first report has pointed out general con-
ditions which indicate that the machin-
cry is not properly functioning. The
reports which follow will doubtless
become more specific, and the public
will become more insistent in its de-
mand for all the details.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
Our Miniature Army.

While Congress has under discussion a
War Department budget calling for
roundly s4oo, 100000, which includes
heavy percentage for non-military pur-
poses, figures have been compiled in
Washington graphically illustrating the
modest magnitude of the United States
land defense system, compared to those
OF other countries, large and small.
Some 5500O,00o trained men are avail
able for military service throughout the
world. If peace minded Americans fear
that breaking appropriations may
make swashbuckling "militarist' out
of their Uncle Sam, they will be COM
torted to know that the United States
Army, with an estimated 474,378 in the
regular establishment, National Guard
and trained reserves, represents less than
one per cent Of the host Of men in forty
eight countries, enumerated as ready to
"spring to arms overnight" Man-power
in regular armies aggregates 6,513,s24
Ours will reach its authorized peak of
10000 men on July /. On that basis,
this country will rank tenth among
regular forces, below Russia, Italy,
France, Germany, the British Empire,
Poland, Japan Rumania and even Spain
Or the Spain that existed before civil
war. In total trained men, regulars
and others, the United States stands
even lower in the list-nineteenth. There
is little in this showing remotely to
justify the occasional thought that
America maintains an army not only
in excess of needs, but one which might
some day seek to display its prowess in
aggressive warfare. Nothing in our
national past or pacific present, OF
course, warrants any such misgivings.
The figures do throw disquieting light
on the unparalleled extent of world mill
tary preparations. Nearly everywhere
nations are piling up armies outstripping
pre-World War strength. Soviet Russia
has the largest force, with l,545,000 regu-
lars and 19,490,OOO trained men. Italy
Evening star., 1937-05-05


the placing Of these slabs in somewhat
step fashion is best, but even its lack
will not preclude proper rock garden,
for the terrace is not the essential thing,
but the growing OF plants which really
prefer rocks near them.
If such plants are used, as they should
be, they need rocks around them, but
seldom will this mean just being placed
among rocks laid on the ground.
Rock garden plants, properly inter-
preted, and regarded, are simply those
plants which do well in real rocky for
nations, much Of which by Nature Is
Stabilize
Wind-blown seeds. seeds carried by
animals, stuck to their coats, and seeds
dropped by the birds in flight. lodged
in the earth pockets in such slabs CEN
turies ago.
In the long past Of history most OF
these plants found lodgings to their hk-
ing, even better than in the fields and
forests in which they first had their
growth.
1t may have been that the lowland
homes Of such plants finally grew In
imical, so that the only survivors Of these
species we're in the highlands, along
rocky outcroppings and seams hard to
get at by animals, including that arch
animal, man.
So in time these plants, which we
today call rock garden plants, or apines,
grew to like such habitats best Of all.
X 4 ~
The closer the gardener duplicates
natural conditions the better, then and
he cannot do so by simply placing rocks
on the ground and putting plants in the
ground around them.
A true rock garden, as the term and
conditions have come to be known, is
made by placing large slabs of stone in
formation so that not only is there some
earth between them, but also there are
pockets of soil actually on and in them
The profile of true rock garden will
show the rocks one above the other, not
one after the other on the level. This
will mean that they must be large
enough to give a shelflke appearance,
but fine distinction must be made
this appearance need not be step-like,
and this will depend upon the size of
the rocks more than upon any other
factor.
Dark gray stones, or natural stone"
color, is the best, for this is unobtrusive
and blends we'll with both foliage of
petals.
It will be realized that the building
of true rock garden is never Woman's
work. She may superintend, and direct
the placing Of the rock formations, but
the actual handling Of the slabs of stone
should be done by man power, maybe
two-man poWer-if the stores are heavy,
as they should be.
The first appearance Of a properly
done rock garden will be very rocky, in
deed, in the actual, not the figurative
meaning.
Time will tell another tale. The plants
will nestle against the slabs, will draw
strength from their presence, will grow
at last to occupy all available space
How real rock plants love their rocks
is shown by the way they often stretch
out their heads over them, when the
earth pockets permit them to go no far
ther in that direction.
Such is their love for their dear rocks
that they stretch and stretch, until the
casual observer would think them to be
growing up from them. If the hand
sweeps back mass of the foliage, how
ever, the stalks will be shown to be
growing far to one side,
Evening star., 1937-05-05

that it should be. Progress in large part
depends on being fearless Of fear.
suggestion Of rational discrimination,
however, may be offered. There are, in
controvertibly, some risks which it is
foolhardy to attempt. The power of an
on-rushing locomotive or of carbon
dioxide in confinement is too great to
challenge with impunity. And the
vicarious satisfaction of such competi-
ton is too slight to gamble for. No
stunt" which represents a moments
fun for lifetime of disability or sudden
destruction is fair game" The odds are
too heavy.
Evening star., 1937-05-05

claims and credentials to the London
Embassy Tor X-ray scrutiny of their
eligibility. One of the rigid rules during
the reign of George V and Queen Mary
barred divorces Whether the embargo
prevails under George vi and Elizabeth
is not officially known at Washington.
In Queen Victorias time a famous
American woman long resident in Lon
don had the reputation of carrying
enough guns to assure presentation of
practically anybody she sponsored. Such
days are gone.
In sending Dr. c. T. Wang as Ambas-
sador to succeed DR.. Alfred SEE, China
maintains the tradition of being repre-
sented in the United States by graduates
OF American universities. Ambassador
SEE took his degree at Cornell, preceding
what was destined to be period of
nearly quarter Of a century in his
country's diplomatic service, including
two separate missions alternately in both
London and Washington. Dr. Wang
was student at the University of Michi-
gan in 1907-08 and received an A. B. at
Yale in 1910. 1t was while minister
OF foreign affairs in the then radical
Nationalist government at Marking that
DR.. Wang in 1880 proclaimed unilateral
termination of extraterritoriality in
China, action ignored by the powers.
canon de Valera, architect in chief of
the newly declared sovereign democratic
republic" Of Fire, was born in the same
State and year as President Roosevelt
New York and 1882 Author of the
independent constitution and Fires pros
pectlve first chief executive, Mr.. de
Valera had q Spanish father and an
Irish mother. He left the United States
in early youth for education and up
bringing in Erin and did not return to
native American heath until he came
here as first apostle OF the Irish Re-
public.
Secretary Henry Morgenthau might do
well to corner Belgian Premier van Zee
land in Washington next month and
extort from him the secret OF budget
balancing. Van iceland has not been
finance minister in either of his two
governments since March, 1885, but the
success of Belgiums devaluation and
various conversions of her public debt is
mainly attributed to him. Two years
ago the budget was threatened with a
deficit Of 100000 900 francs. Today it
is balanced, despite tax reductions
roundly totaling that amount. The gov
ernment has had to borrow only $780,
600 900 francs Of fresh home money The
gold stock of 1000, ,0OO, 900 francs is fully
restored to the old level. All these op-
erations were carried out amid big
program Of public works for reduction
OF unemployment.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Chairman James M. Lands is due to
retire June to become dean of Harvard
Law School September /. Reports are
current that his commission colleagues
want Lands to remain In ONCE through
out the Summer because of q number of
important issues that may be hanging
fire and about which he has special
knowledge. F. D. R. is expected soon
after his return from Texas to indicate
who Lands successor will be. Talk
persists that the brilliant young lawyer
economist is in the top rank Of posi-
bilities for new Supreme Court Justice
ships-n and when.
(oopy5isht 1ee7J
Evening star., 1937-05-05
A Wise Committee Action.

A definite move toward the rejection
of the proposed location of the Jefferson
Memorial, at the Tidal Basin, was made
yesterday when the House Committee on
Library, which has jurisdiction, voted to
report favorably resolution forbiddine
the use OF that site. Chairman Keller
OF the committee states that a COM
prehensive report will be drafted that
will recite the objections to this site and
the estimated excessive cost of the
proposed memorial at that location.
This should dispose of the matter. 1t
should furthermore lead to a renewed
study OF the project by the memorial
commission for the selection of another
situation whether change in the design
is undertaken or not. A suitable and
commensurate memorial to Thomas
Jefferson should be erected at the Capital,
On this score there is no dissent. There
is even a strong public sentiment for
it. But the location Of the memorial
should not entail the sacrifice of one of
the Capitals chief charms, park which
has become famous throughout the world
for its beauty
The matter of cost is altogether within
the province Of Congress to determine.
Similarly the adoption of design is a
congressional prerogative. Advisory sug-
gestions and recommendations are not
in themselves conclusive. In this case
there is merely an interruption of the
procedure, in the action of the House
committee which, to be final, must be
Endorsed by the House itself, of which
there should be no question.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E, TRACEWELL.

Inc greatest failure IN the average
rock garden is the use Of stone pieces
which are not large enough.
Slabs, rather than rocks, should be
used in practically all situations.
Nothing is more common than to see
rock garden 80 overgrown with its
flowers that its rocks do not show at all.
The only way to avoid this is to use
materials which are large enough and
heavy enough to withstand these enectS
of growth.
Where the newcomer to rock garden
ing usually makes mistake is in the
belief that the rocky parts Of his garden
must stick up.
So he selects small stones, appalled,
by their comparatively large size in re-
lation to the little new plants he sets
out in the earth pockets.
What he cannot realize is how the
plants will grow, II they like their situa-
ton, and how the rocks will be smothered
in them.
Then the peaks of rocky material,
sticking up over the tops Of the plants,
will seem rather absurd, so that the
honest mind, looking at them, will
wonder why they are there at all.
Properly selected and placed, rocks
never have that effect on the beholder.
They seem at all times, whether in
the new or old garden, to belong" as
by divine right.
It is divine right of course, if anything
is divine right-a real right OF eminent
domain, in sense.
Certain plants like a rocky place to
grow.
How they love to cuddle alongside,
seeming to derive strength and even
nourishment from the apparently hostile
material
Rocks to genuine rock garden plants,
or those we call so, are in sense hosts.
They supply them with moisture and
a certain amount Of shade. Even some
form of nourishment comes from the
very slowly dissolved out over the years.
Above and beyond these material ad-
vantages which the rocks give to rock
garden plants there is the psychological
side. It is coming to be more and more
recognized that intelligence resides in
all things. Not human intelligence, Of
course but intelligence. The most in
animate things we know are abounding
energy of the spheres. If life, then in
telligence, for even the most unintelli-
gent seeming things are not so, but
stuffed and crammed with understand
ing, provided that man has the key to
open their mysteries and understand
at last what they have to tell him.
Select rocks right, for the new rock
garden, and when 1t is old 1t will show
the results by well-balanced and at
tractive arrangement rocks with plants
giving that true effect so often sought
and so seldom achieved.
1t may be believed that this unwanted
result is brought about mostly through
fear of too large rocks.
Slabs, as we have said. are necessary,
not peaked and jagged boulders. A few
Of these, perhaps, may fit in, according
to location, but in the main the rocks
used should be from three to four feet,
or even more, on a side.
This will permit the step-like arrange
ment seen in the better rock gardens
and also prevent the entire growing over
OF the hard materials, for it will be i'm
possible for even the most thriving
plants to completely cover them.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.
The Summons

The Summons
No more the wind is clustering; the
softer Maytime breeze,
As tiny buds are clustering, Just stirs
the leafing trees.
No rain of sparks Is showering from
pine logs as they burn;
The fireplace is Towering with dafYodil
and fern.
The wide outdoors is beckoning; birds
fly aloft and sing;
In Joy that knows no reckoning We, too.
are on the wing.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
Home Life.

"You attend many bridge games and
lectures"
II. enjoy them," admitted Miss Cay
enne.
Don't you think woman's place Is
In the home?"
eyes, but not necessarily her own
home"
Evening star., 1937-05-05

How far society has departed from the
old horse and buggy days" is illustrated
by the CONSERVATION shown when labor
difficulties voice a threat that maybe
for while there will not be any more
automobiles.
Evening star., 1937-05-05

Voting machines are favored by many
citizens. There are, of course, fears that
gamblers who dabble in local politics
would study them to see whether they
can be made to slice out campaign
rake-off.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
Unrestricted Planting.

UHreStfICLe0 PI8nClME.
The statesman tells Of crops and rains.
The farmers way he notes.
He plants his speeches with great pains
That he may harvest votes.
And as with industry and grace
He goes about the State
He knows no limit to the space
That he may cultivate.
1T looks like . mistake" said Uncle
Eben, "foh a man to make too much
money, II he don't know nutdn to buy
VII It except trouble"
Evening star., 1937-05-05

In case of subway for the District
OF Columbia, Dupont Circle will be
point Of significance and will still honor
the name of great old admiral.
Evening star., 1937-05-05

Money has been spent by Mr.. Ickes
and Mr.. Hopkins at rate that appears
to recognize competition as the life of
relief.
Evening star., 1937-05-05

Too much may be expected Of a Post
master General, If, in addition to serving
in his official capacity, he is expected to
be Past Master of Politics.
Evening star., 1937-05-05

Women are clever politicians who
sometimes attain their most powerful re-
suits by allowing the men to wear the
uniforms.
Evening star., 1937-05-05

Music has charms, but the United
States Supreme Court refuses to har-
monize in any parody which runs Home,
on the Rearrange"
Evening star., 1937-05-05
Change Of Form.

We wonder why, when children show
AS fathers tell, such wondrous wit,
So often as they older grow
They get completely over it!
Evening star., 1937-05-05

ITO believe you are right" said Hi Ho,
the sage Of Chinatown, means but little
benefit to any one unless you can bring
your belief to proof"
Evening star., 1937-05-05
Missed All Around.

From the Omaha World-Herald.
The girl who fired six shots at her
teacher because her grades were low
also funked, it may be said. In marks
manship.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
Sweet Consistency.

From the Cincinnati Times-staI
In Columbus the workers Alliance
protests against soup kitchens, then
dines-at soup kitchens. That's the kind
Of world we live in.
Evening star., 1937-05-05
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Evening star., 1937-05-05
FuturiStic Politics,

why do you show so much hesitancy
about the way you vote?"
I'm looking to the future" said Sen
ator Sorghum. IF anything goes wrong
with plan I am under political obli-
cations to favor, want to be able to
remind my constituents that had my
doubts about it all the time.'
Evening star., 1937-05-05

Jud Tunkins says you mustn't expect
too much of q man whose idea OF econ
omy is to save enough money to put q
good bet on horse race.
Evening star., 1937-05-05

@. Where is the largest Unitarian
church in tn World?-N. R.
A. Peoples Church in Chicago is tho
largest. 1t has $500 members.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-02-08
BRISTOL PROS
TO PLAY Poll.
Visitors Have Won II
Straight-Game to Be
Played on Stage

Anxious tho swing into their Sec
ond game since reorganization the
strong, sharpshooting and speedy
Poll basketball combinations were
prepared to take on the Bristol Pros,
q collection Of high and prep school
graduates, who will come to Water
bury Wednesday to oppose the high
scoring combination which Manager
Ed Fitzpatrick and Coach Tom
Wagner have put together. Its con-
vtncing victory over the st. Johns
Big F Of New Haven, who never lost
q local game until they encountered
Calland, Stetkowicz, Bill Sweeney,
Matty Sheehan, Dick Tuckey, Kraft
and Longo.
Know Their Stuff
The visitors farom the Bell City
incmlude Louis Albertelli, former
Bristol High star and captain of the
state championship team of 1885;
Jimmy Pickett, highest scorer in
Bristol this season, and last years.
captain of the BriStlo Shamrocks;
Truskowski, Pascucci of Bristol High
and Sumeld Prep; Parsons and
Roberge, former members of the
state title holders; and Johnny
Kelly, ex-high schol star and one
Of he leading scorers in the New
Departure league this season.
The Bristol Pros have won their
last twelve games and are in the
running for the semi-pro champion
ship Of the city with the Bristol st.
STAINS, all Of which points OF fine
exhibition Of the hoop game on the
stage Of the Poll theater Wednes-
day night.