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Evening star., 1937-07-27
COUNTRY BOARD.

VACATION or week end: lovely country
served home grown. w D. Bromley Grey
stone Fruit Farm. Edgemont, Md.
COLORED-Catlett. Va-Boarders wanted.
Come and enjoy nice Summer home
country food: near the Sou Railroad; S12
week. Mrs. Jessie Essex tcolored). Box
5. Catlett, Va
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ROOMS FUR. & UNFUR.

10 yh ST Sc, APT. 3-FRONT ROOM
newly decorated; reasonable. Person good
character and habits Call after 8. "A
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1923 M ST NV or y largo Ink or
sleeping rooms front connecting bath;
unusually cool; 50 to SIS week
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FAIRFAX HOTEL.

CORNER MASS. AVE. AND nlst ST.
Apartments l to rooms and bath. hotel
service optional: special Summer rates
Excellent restaurant. DELIGHTFULLY."- cool
roof garden. D. E. STEPHAN mgr
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DOWNTOWN-Beau large cool airy
room, private bath; twin beds; windows.
kt1 S0th g
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LIVE AT SCOTS

=, LIVE q SCOTS
Aho set acquainted with the kind of
trends YOU like to know Meals are better
than mothers, A wide choice OF food al
all times. includlng hot homemade rolls
aho preserves. Rooms. near shower baths
nave running water and studio furniture
Rates. So 80 to S45 Come ioin our
6lcycle rides and picnic parties. 1896
list ST NV, North 5000
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goa 18th ST. NW.-Cool, twin beds, next
bath: contln. h. W. phone. single So
double. $50 each per week.
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Before deciding see this beautiful cor
ner. rooms. Kitchen and bath furn..
So 80: another rooms kitchen and
bath; unfurn.. Ike new S47.5O AT Rock
Greek Park. nea" Taft Bridge 24lO 2Oth
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NR. COL. RD.--l5 MN downtown Ige
A.. m. M. bath, me-cooked meals
htSo a basement apt. SOB Belmont Rd,
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lG27 N ST. NW.-One and two rooms for
Housekeeping also large basement room,
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lisp EMERSON ST. BET. ANDF NE
and $40; Frlgidaire yard %. ~
SOMPLETELY FURNISHED 5 ROOMS
nv nv aug. and Sept, excellent location
North ,;.6u-W Low Pm,
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MT PLEASANT 3343 Eth ST. NV
Large cool front room. first floor. private
bath kitchen optional; rcaS. Col. 9;43
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I145 F. ST. NV,

I1I5 F. ST. NV
one room. Kitchen and semi-prvate
phtn' nlcely furnished; light and refriger-
RDRER
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.:25 INGRAHAM ST. NW-Master bed
room. private bath with shower excellent
meals, Phone Randolph GSSH
l426 COL. RID NW.-Cool attractive
single and double rooms twin beds, home
cooked meals; adults; reas
THE PORTNER. 18th and you ste
Nlcely turn. room. twin beds excellent
meals; S}5. Apt. l6l
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1877 10Th ST. N.W.-Cool quiet single
rm.: also large rm.. md floor. front.
I TRANSPORTATION at corner-Conn. ave
and Taft Bridge, pleasant room, private
home; semt-prlvate bath shower. Potomac
Evening star., 1937-02-20
Sit 1t Through!

The refusal Of the owner of one of the
old, artistic homes in Alexandria to
permit sightseers to enter her home as
long as their pilgrimage includes
similar visit to the historic home now
occupied by John L. Lewis has placed
the Rector's Aid Society Of st. Paul's
Episcopal Church in Alexandria-spon-
soring such tours-in an embarrassing
situation. To cut the home Of John L.
Lewis from the list In order to appease
the feelings Of the owner Of the other
home would, it Is plain, not be salts
factory solution. It would be equally
unsatisfactory to cut the other home
from the list. And the fact that Mr..
Lewis has bought the Col. Richard Brand
Lee home and intends to move in soon
promises further complications.
But there is modern way of dealing
with such things and the ladies of Alex
andria might as well face realities.
They should either move into Mr.. Lewis
home and sit down, remaining until Mr..
Lewis publicly repudiates the sit-down
strike, thus removing the objections Of
the owner Of the other old home,
or they should move into the home Of
the objecting owner and there sit down
Evening star., 1937-02-20
Proposed Court Change a
Mandate of the People

To the Editor OF The Star:
In the article of Dorothy Thompson
published in The Star of February
10 she joined the ranks of those
political commentators who oppose the
proposed changes in the judiciary and
read in the Presidents recommendations
to Congress an assumption of personal
power" and the establishment of dan
gerous precedent.
Amidst all the hue and cry of dictator
ship may it be remembered that the
President has not issued nor has he
expressed any intention of issuing an
executive order or proclamation to change
the membership of the Supreme Court.
In his attempt to establish check on
the present power of the Supreme Court
to defeat the indicated dictates of the
American people he merely has recon-
mended certain changes and referred the
matter for disposal to the elected repre-
sentatives in Congress.
Under theory of government which
has the rule of the majority as its ideal,
in a government of checks and balances
such as ours. is it not in keeping with
democratic principles that the final con-
troll rest in the legislature as that depart
ment of government which is account
able and most responsive to the electo-
rate? So long as President Roosevelt
continues to refer to this body those func-
tionS conferred upon it by the Constitu-
ton, can it be said that there be any
usurpation of dictatorial power?
The possibility that the Congress of
the United States may vote to reform
the court is not the result of a personal
control sought by the President over the
Legislature, but is due to the choice by
the people of representatives of political
principles and ideals similar to those of
the President. More justly the absence
of strong dissenting minority party in
Congress can be placed upon the shoul-
ders of the Supreme Court. The impasse
created by its literal and narrow con-
struction of the Constitution so united
the American public in a vociferous vote
of protest as to wipe out any effective
opposition to the party in power. Herein
lies what more reasonably might be con-
Strued as the establishment of danger
Gus precedent.
One of the principal objections to the
proposed changes is that the President
has sought to effect them without resort
to amendment to the Constitution. 1t is
difficult to see that an amendment Is
desirable If the result may be achieved
under powers granted by the Constitu-
ton as it now is written. If the purpose
of the amendment is to provide the peo-
pie with an opportunity of an expression
Of their opinion, such a process, in the
present instance, would appear to be a
duplication of effort, vote merely for
the record. No one can doubt that the
dictate of the electorate in November
demands an adoption of the policies of
President Roosevelt and release from
the domination of deciding vote in q
decision by the Supreme Court.
Respectfully submitted,
M. r. POLLITT.
Evening star., 1937-02-20

cede that the town in which he makes
his headquarters Is even less definitely
correlated to the rest Of the country. The
District of Columbia was established to
be equi-distant from the remote South
and the remote North and still is pos
sessed of that geographical significance.
In latitude and longitude it remains what
1t was designed to constitutes seat Of
the Federal Government convenient to
the principal focal points Of the Nations
community life. Its atmosphere is far
more notably American than that of
Manhattan Island.
Centrality, however, is not merely
matter Of location. Rather, it is an
affair Of the heart. If the people under
stand Washington properly, there never
will be any question about the position
in their affection which it occupies.
Here, by the conscious wish of the
founders Of the Republic and not by
any accident of chance, the institutions
Of democracy are assembled in single
centripetal organization. All the far
flung interests of hundred and thirty
million men, women and children are
gathered here In one interdependent
unity of mutual fellowship and service.
New York may resent the fact. It is
possible that some shortsighted indi-
vidual might wish to retire the Federal
Government to the status of a neglected
sideshow Of Forty-second street. But
the majority of patriots are endowed
with greater pride and greater love. The
city in which every American has the
right to regard himself as being "at
home" is central in the mind Of the
masses. And that is the reason why Mr..
Mellon chose Washington for his gallery
and Its beautiful treasures.
Evening star., 1937-02-20
Cites Taney as a Case
Of Antiquated Justice

To the Editor Of The Star:
Eighty years ago come next March, an
aged jurist peered out over the Supreme
Court and began reading an opinion.
History will not bear out the contention
Of your Associated Press staff writer
that he was in vigorous physical health.
So frail had 81 years rendered him that
his voice was scarce more than whisper.
For over three hours he mumbled on
yet only when the written text Of his
words were available did even his hearers
know the momentous thing that had
transpired. For the first time in over
so years, and the second in the history
Of the Nation, law Of Congress had
been declared unconstitutional. Some
Of his colleagues had urged upon the
Chief Justice the expediency Of dismiss
ing the Dred Scott case for lack Of
Jurisdiction.
Roger B. Taney was an impeccably
honest man. A sincere man. A man
devoutly religious. And what he did
stands today as commentary upon
consummate evil that well-intentio
old men may do. An awakened social
conscience. both North and South, had
come to recognize the inherent wrong
OF human slavery. Between the hot
heads OF the South and the rabid aboli-
tionists Of the North was a strong
middle-of-the party intent upon
such control and compromise as would,
they hoped, in the fullness of time bring
a peaceful solution. Now they stood
stunned. For Taney, out of touch with
the then social trend, went far afield to
declare that under the Constitution
nothing at all could be done by the
state about slavery. Four years later
millions of men were at each others
throats. The final solution was written
in their blood. OF the three prime
causes of the Civil War. most historians
give the first place to the Dred Scott
decision.
Our conservative friends, solicitous for
the stability of our country, may well
ponder this page of history. Democracy
will survive as an orderly process only
so long as the will OF the majority
finds reasonably prompt acquiescence in
government. Millions OF common men
constituting a resistless majority have
come to believe that this America can
be made into a better, fairer place for
them to live in. Yet for many years
the Supreme Court has been packed by
property minded administrations with
men now old and out of touch with
these modern social trends. Among
them are several whose philosophy and
temperament lead them to go ever
farther afield in attempting to thwart
the hopes of these millions. Like Taney,
they piously lament the condition but
declare that nothing can be done about
1t.
If the President has found constitu-
tional way to unpack the court, the
sooner 1t is done the better it may be
for American democracy.
DWIGHT T. SCOTT.
Evening star., 1937-02-20
''BilliOns for Defense''
Editorial Commended
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial last Saturday on Bill
lions for Defense" should have been read
by every one who wants to think clearly
on the subject. You refer to the fact that
Great Britain expects to spend $7,OOO,-
100000 by 1912 for defensive purposes.
And you further state: "Britains new
program follows the almost equally vast
arms expansion arrangements launched
by France. The two countries are in
spired by the same reasoning-that Ger
man rearmament and unabashed ter
ritorial aspirations require peoples whose
possessions the Hitlerites avowedly covet
to grid themselves, on a scale unap-
preached in peace times, against posi-
BILE aggression"
The situation in some respects is a
peculiarly anomalous one. When the
Nazi government first entered upon its
treaty breaking program the war-weary
Western powers, with public opinion in
different and even hostile to active re-
prisal measures, actually spurred the
progress of that program through policy
of non-intervention. That program be-
came bolder and bolder until the Sc
curity of France and England was openly
jeopardized.
The anomaly consists in this: That q
policy Of pactfism On the part Of the
Evening star., 1937-02-20
Fox Hunting as a Sport
is a Revolving Spectacle

To the Editor Of The Star:
Through your column want to thank
John Elliot for his article in defense
OF the fox which appeared in your paper
Of Monday.
Just such sentiment expressed may in
due course OF time have its effect.
The Star magazine of recent date gave
. good example on its cover of this
society sport, as follows: The hunter in
full regalia sprawled at full length on
the ground, the fox looking on from be-
hind a tree. Oh, well, he couldn't pos
sibly see himself as others see him
(meaning the hunter) or he would not
be so eager to take part in the chase
again.
A group Of humans galloping after a
lone fox and woman sitting astride
a magnificent jungle beast which she
has deliberately hunted and killed is a
revolving sight. oh, woman, where is the
glory ct such price!
-f-t MARY e. CLARK.
Evening star., 1937-02-20

entente powers was the direct cause for
inducing and intensifying war prepara-
tions on the part OF the Nazi government.
What could have been stopped dead at
the threshold with little display of firm
ness and small expense has now through
inaction become a menace of such vast
proportions as to strain the resources and
exercise the fears to the very utmost of
two of the worlds most powerful empires.
Thus the back-breaking rearmament of
Europe and its tense potentiality for war
of the most devastating nature were
openly and inevitably occasioned by this
policy Of pacifism. AL of which means
that no theory should be divorced from
Intellectual considerations, and that no
slogan be made such fetish as may de-
feat its very object If its implications are
blindiy followed. VIM. !. WYMAk
Evening star., 1937-02-20

and Mexico There it was not restricted
TO the nelghborhood Of cultivated fields.
This region, therefore, appears to be
the native home of the wild grass which
certainly entered into the ancestry of
maize-afld probably the home of maize
itself.
The form of corn still grown by
Guatemalan natives differs little from
that cultivated during the height of
their culture, it was found by other
investigators. A census of farms around
the ancient ruins of Chichen liza showed
an average yield of about 25 bushels an
acre, which compared favorably with
the average yield throughout the United
States.
Another project of Carnegie Institu-
ton botanists in the Maya area has
been the collection of 80 plants which
were most commonly used in the abor-
iginal medicine. Twelve of the 80 have
been used consistently for several hun
dred years for the treatment of specific
ailments. They have persisted in COM
petition with Spanish medicine.
X
A tree-dwelling earthworm, strange
frogs from a mountain-top cloud
~oA oHS~AA4ACAio O4 4d1C anu
nearly 1000 birds-some of which may
be varieties new to science-are included
in the biological collections of DR.. H. G.
Dlegnan. Smithsonian Institution COL
laborator. among the high mountains
and flooded rivers Of Northern SIAM
DR.. Deignan is working chiefly in an
area whose life forms are sparsely rep
resented in American collections. He
has just sent to the United States Ma
tional Museum shipment of more than
1000 birds, including several not hitherto
represented here.
In brief letter accompanying the
shipment he tells of difficulties of travel
in the region. At one time he was forced
to walk for more than 100 miles over
primitive roads from ankle-deep to knee
deep in mud. Crossing the flooded Me
Phi River involved stripping to loin
cloth and pushing the baggage across
in dug-out canoe. He made one long
journey through a roadless region with
railway inspection car" which is
pushed with one foot like a childs
Velocipede.
While most of his material is coming
to the National Museum, the tree-dwell-
ing earthworm was sent to a collector
OF these forms of life in China for
Identification.
Evening star., 1937-02-20
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Finding of the probable native land
of corn in the highlands of Western
Guatemala is reported by the Carnegie
Institution of Washington.
The ancestry of this grain, which now
constitutes the most valuable single
crop produced in the United States and
in one form or another is probably the
dominant foodstuff of the American
people, long has eluded botanists and
plant geneticists. 1t was found only
in the Americas. There can be no
question that it was developed from
some American wild plant during the
relatively brief period of few thou
sand years between the arrival of the
ancestors of the Indians from Asia and
the coming of Europeans.
Yet in the fifteenth century corn as
cultivated crop was grown over the
two continents almost from the southern
tip Of Chile to the Arctic Circle. It's
culture was familiar to the North
American Indians we'll into Canada.
There were numerous varieties, some as
good as any which have been developed
since. Two or three great civilizations
had been built up around the cereal
comparable to the civilizations of
Egypt and Southern Europe and to the
rice civilization of China-and had
already started to decline. 1t was
largely because of this grain that Euro
peans were able to coloniZe the New
World.
But there was nothing in the wild state
which, specifically at least, remotely
resembled it. The general belief was.
however. that the crop had spread
northward or southwark from Mexico
possibly originating with some sport"
of wild grass which the Indians had
perpetuated and developed by cross
breeding until it was capable of very
little further development.
The closest relative yet found is
broad-leaved grass known as teosinte.
1t exists in two species, one an annual
and one perennial, which grow wild
around the margins of corn fields in
Mexico. They are seldom found, how
ever, anywhere but in close proximity
to the cultivated maize. This teosinte
forms fertile hybrids with corn and
there can be little question but that
1t has some place in the ancestry OF the
cultivated grain-although it may not
necessarily be the direct ancestor or in
the direct line.
Until 1882 teoSinte was unknown in
the wild state outside of Mexico. Then
it was found in Southern Guatemala.
Still 1t was in association with cultivated
maize. But the Carnegie expedition
conducted by DR.. Wilson Popenoe of the
United Fruit Co. and j. H. Kempton
of the Department of Agriculture now
has found that it is the dominant form
OF wild vegetation on steep slopes and
tablelands above the Grijalva River on
the border between Western Guatemala
Evening star., 1937-02-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Do you speak to the people you know?
Not every one does, and often by the
sheerest oversight, but 1t Is one thing
nobody ever seems to understand.
It is, in other words, an affront to that
precious personality which. as the ele-
phant is supposed to do, never forgets.
The ego Of man never forgives, either.
That is where an elephant is a better
creature, perhaps, taking him by and
large. He may forget, but man, never.
There Is no chance Of any human
forgetting what Is construed as q slight.
And Of all the sights, this one Of
passing an acquaintance by without
speaking Is the greatest, judged from
the common experience.
n * II
Not many persons do 1t Intentionally,
but that makes no difference at all.
1t is particularly unforgivable, evi-
IDENTIFY, II the eyes are directed squarely
at the person passed up.
why. you were looking right at mel"
The only answer is usually q very weak,
"Oh, was ~"
And then a second exclamation, which
only makes matters worse. II didn't see
you"
Not to see what one Is looking at, when
the what" happens to be q precious
Well. it is the unforgivable sin, all
right.
Every effort Is made, Of course, by the
victim, as he thinks himself, to make
out that the whole thing is a Joke, but
rest assured that thereafter you occupy
less exalted place In his ego than
before.
Yet that very person may. in his turn,
pass another acquaintance by, while
thinking about something or other.
1t is very easy thing to do. but we
would not do as the success books" warn
people against doing it; the very essence
of personality is to be what you are,
within right and reason, no matter what
others think Of you.
This is to get fun out of life, to be
what one is. That is where the getting
along with people" sort of book distorts
life, and would take a great deal of the
Joy out Of everyday living for all those
serious persons who honestly attempted
to follow the rules"
For these rules are boot Licking"
rules. are they not? We are told to do
certain things, and especially not to do
certain things, to please others and not
to displease them.
We are instructed, in other words,
how to work them for what we want out
Of them, to go through life with the
low and groveling attitude Of the typical
lackey, who is dependent upon such an
attitude.
~ n
He is precious sap, indeed, who, not
being Of this type, emulates it even to
get what he wants.
Life isn't worth that-for the type of
mind that thinks it isn't.
Every one knows some one who agrees
with everything said. If you say the
day is fair, he says, Yes, it is a beau
tiful day" If you Immediately say, But
1t looks as If it is going to rain" he will
look knowingly at the sky and agree as
quickly, We'll, it does look rainy, at that"
This change Of attitude could be en-
forced as many times, and as quickly,
as the other cared to carry on the farce
OF such conversation.
Evening star., 1937-02-20
"Not Even Central?"

The Senate Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds yesterday re-
ceived and very properly disregarded q
letter from resident of Bagdad-on-the-
Subway. In the communication it was
urged and argued that Andrew w.
Melons priceless masterpieces of great
art should be shipped from city to city
for temporary exhibition in railroad sta
tions and ferry houses. The logic Of the
writer reached its natural apex in the
complaint that Washington is mot even
central"
But the New Yorker did not define
his terms. If he had done so, it would
have been necessary for him to con-