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Evening star., 1937-05-03
Japan's Anti-Armv Vote,

japanese voters have registered in no
uncertain tone their hostility to a mill
tarist- t-dominated national government.
In an election precipitated by the Hoya-
shl cabinets dissolution of the Diet
month ago, the government parties
won in landslide proportions. An over
Whelming majority of 466 parliamentary
seats has been captured by the Minseito
and Seiyukai, the sworn political foes
OF the premier and the soldiers alleged
to be the evil power behind the govern
mental throne. Thus the cabinets
charge that the civilian elements were
obstructing legislative progress through
unpatrlotlc motives has been sternly
rejected by the people. BY their ballots
they have rebuffed militarism, repre-
sented by the government, and de-
manded constitutonalism, represented
by the parties.
The result, despite its decisiveness,
does not mean the expulsion of the
repudiated regime from office. To that
extent the civilians victory is hollow
one. Under japanese law the govern
ment may continue to WELD power unless
1t chooses to resign in consequence of a
parliamentary vote of censure. Whether
the Minseito and Seiyukai leaders will
attempt to provoke such action when the
special Diet session is opened in Mid
summer or permit matters to drift until
the next regular session In February.
has not yet been indicated. An adverse
vote would give Premier Hoyashi the
option of retirement or ordering a second
dissolution and another election. In
light OF last weeks experience, it would
seem doubtful that the army CLIQUE
would invite repetition of disaster at
the polls
On the eve Of the recent voting, it was
revealed that the government is plan
ming drastic electoral reform that would
lead to Fascist parliamentary system.
Under it, political parties would be
doomed to either impotence or extinc-
ton. Toxic in that event would become
counterpart of Rome. If the election
on April 80 denotes firm determination
on the peoples part to curb the army
controlled system which has shaped
their destinies for the past six years,
thrown the country's economics into seri-
GUS QlSdrraV and undermined tbo nv,
pres external relations, the government
will not find it easy to Italianize Japan's
public life. Whether the militarists will
now exhibit sufficiently enlightened SELF
interest to read the handwriting on the
wall or will ride roughshod over the ma
tons expressed will is the question. On
their decision hangs an issue momen-
tous for Nippon and for world peace.
Evening star., 1937-05-03
Dog Exemption Bill Will
Open Vivisection Question

10 the Editor Of The Star:
Painful though it may be, I am glad
that the dreadful subject of vivisection
seems finally to be reaching the stage of
open discussion through the introduce
ton Of the so-called dog exemption bill
by Representative Quinn in the House
and by Senator Frazier in the Senate.
woman medical student recently
came staggering into a local corner drug
store asking for a restorative, sick with
the laboratory scenes she had come FROM
A clerk added that he had recently seen
a farmer bring in two bags of struggling,
frantic cats to be sold for experimental
purposes, and that in this very store the
agonized screams of tortured animals
could often be heard coming from the
adjacent laboratory.
And all this within a stones throw of
the headquarters of the Washington
Humane Society, dedicated to the pro-
lection of defenSeless animals.
II the cruelties perpetrated behind
laboratory doors were done in the open
l believe all persons that ever loved
faithful, trusting dog or cat or other pet
would rush forth in mob to stop these
denominations and rescue their helpless
victims.
Does any one still think that the end
justifies the means because invaluable
medical discoveries have been reached
by methods against which all spirit of
decency and compassion revolts?
Then let him write to the Vivisection
Investigation League, 88 Lexington ave-
nue., New York, for a copy of pamphlet
entitled "The Futlity Of Vivisection" in
which the highest medical authorities set
forth their conclusions that no scientific
discovery worthy of the name, or of any
benefit to humanity, has ever been ar
rived at by the dastardly and cowardly
cruelties of vivisection
T. H. RUSSELL
Evening star., 1937-05-03

lem of Constructive resistance" has a
curious fascination. He knows from his
reading of history and his experience that
there is little efficiency in disagreement
for its own sake. But he also under
stands that society suffers when it too
readily gives consent to every experiment
of predominant political group. Even
in the United States, if any useful form
of democracy is to survive, there must be
constant and consistently intelligent
skeptlcism. Desperate Germany, per-
haps, may have had reason to accept
the leadership of the Nazi chieftain in
1888, yet continued submission to his tenn
peramental and quixotic whim might
bring about another crisis as grave as
that of 1918. America likewise would
be rlsking too much if it were not ra-
tionally agnostic about the proposals of
radical change which the New Deal has
sponsored-the present campaign to re
organize" the Supreme Court among
them.
But Mr.. Hamilton deserves commenda-
tion for his liberal insistence that the
opposition should generously appreciate
the genuine services" of the party in
power. 1t is well to remember the need
to be fair and just The fact that
President Hoover was professionally
"smeared" ought not to be an excuse for
general and all-inclusive condemnation
OF everything his successor does or tries
to do
Evening star., 1937-05-03
Concerning the Beggar
Situation in Washington

To the Editor of The Star:
In connection with the series of
articles you are writing relative to pan
handling in the District, wish to call
attention to the following
Wednesday evening, about 5 pm,
was parked near the Corcoran Art Gal
lery, Seventeenth street side, and
watched a man approaching motorists
and pedestrians for money. He ap-
preached five people and received money
from two, and then he crossed over to
the other side of the street and ap-
preached man who was at the bus
stop awaiting for the bus. He returned
to the side of the street where I was
parked and approached the same couple
who had given him money and the lady
told him they had given him something,
which he denied. He finally went off
toward Eighteenth street on New York
avenue.
This man and others of the same type
should be stopped from annoying people
around the city. From Sixteenth street
to Eighteenth street seems to be the
territory they select about o'clock.
Y. G, MILNE,
Evening star., 1937-05-03
Duty of Opposition.

There are two schools of thought about
what the attitude of citizen to his gov
ernment should be. Both were illustrated
over the air during the week end radio
entertainment of Saturday and Sunday.
The duty of opposition in a democracy
ton, chairman of the Republican National
Committee, and the contrary point of
view was exemplifled in report from the
Foreign Policy Association to the effect
that there is increased grumbling in Ger
many, but no indication of danger for
the Nazi regime
Every free country" Mr.. Hamilton
argued, needs both responsible gov
eminent and vigilant and vigorous op-
position. The task of opposition is
not single task. 1t has in reality many
tasks. Some are negative Some are
positive. All are legitimate. All are
essential" The sentiment so expressed
is good American doctrine
But the Foreign Policy Associations
findings gathered by John c. De Wilde,
reflect different psychology as we'll as
different conditions. Critics of Hitler, it
is said, complain about his mistakes, but
their carping "does not take the form of
opposition in principle" and the dictator
is not imperiled because he is prepared
to nip in the bud any organized move
ment of dissent"
For bystanding philosopher the prob
Evening star., 1937-05-03
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Grand Dad.

All realize the rapid pace
That modern life must hit
And fear that for dwelling place
Earth soon will be unfit.
We speak with great ancestral pride
OF military kin
Who labored hard to help decide
Which troops were going to win.
Now hero worshipers display
Extravaganza anew.
wish they'd think about the way
My Grand Dad used to do.
My Grand Dad for a walk was caught
When ere to work he went.
The transportation price he thought
Would help to pay the rent.
He ate homemade lunch
And sought no viands strange.
He never tried to play a hunch
Upon the stock exchange.
Himself and family were not clad
In fanciful device.
He did not seek each feeting fad
Unless he had the price.
Perhaps the times which now we blame
With cheer we might get through
Could we economic, the same
AS Grand Dad used to do.
Evening star., 1937-05-03
Vandalism.

Vandalism reaches a new high in a
Wanton act just committed at Plymouth,
Mass. Some unknown person-perhaps
a group-has daubed Plymouth Rock,
one of the most cherished souvenirs of
the early days of American settlement,
with smear of red paint, the removal of
which will be difficult and will possibly
not be entirely effective.
This is an uncommon manifestation of
the spirit of destructiveness which pre-
walls among a certain type of people,
who delight in marring, defacing and
even destroying objects of beauty and
historical significance. Whether in the
present instance the paint was daubed
upon the Rock by merely wanton rascals
bent upon the playing of prank or by
Communists who thus undertook to ex-
press their disapproval OF the American
form of government is question that
is agitating the authorities at Plymouth
1t might be either.
Washington has suffered from such
actions in the past. Vandals have broken
bits off sculptures, to be carried away as
souvenirs; have disflgured beautiful sur
faces of stone with names scrawled upon
them, have stolen loose and unguarded
articles of historic moment from collec-
tions. In earlier times much of this sort
of thing happened in the Washington
Monument, where the memorial stones
inset in the inner walls Of the shaft, gifts
of States, patriotic societies and dis.
tinguished individuals, today bear the
marks of this spirit Of irreverence and
Evening star., 1937-05-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

What mental pictures do people have
OF the peoples OF the past?
One Washingtonian, when he hears
the term Anglo-Saxon, Immediately and
always thinks OF group OF men barking
one-syllable words at each other.
Those strong words, as they are
termed, invariably of just one syllable,
are so universally laid at the door OF
the Anglo-Saxons that they are all
their modern descendant can think OF,
when he hears the name
Great are the one e-syllable words, OF
course, but what would our language be
without the Latin and Greek derivatives,
especially?
Practically all peoples and languages
have contributed to the English
tongue, as written and spoken today,
SO that even the famous man. -on-the-
street is wiser than he knows.
A word should be said particularly for
the Latin and Greek derivatives
No one should permit any one, at
any time, to sneer these down, as second
to the strong Anglo-Saxon words"
Our writing and speech would be
poor, indeed, If confined to one-syllable
words of any lineage. There is differ
ence between parading such words, and
using them honestly, because they seem
to be exactly the right words for given
meaning, time and place.
The big idea of all writing and speak
ing is to say what one means to say.
There lies the glory, the difficulty, and
sometimes the failure, of the tongue.
One ofthe best ways of knowing some
thing of the glory of it, is to use all words,
of whatever descent without undue en-
phasis on any one sort.
1t is impossible to have good English
If stress is placed upon selection alone.
The very genius Of the tongue lies in
the fact that it is a good medium for
thought expression.
Thought must be left free to flow.
Flowing thought
That Is what creatures given speech
aim at, and the one best way to make
thought flow, as If with ripples of water,
is to remain free to concentrate on
thinking, not word structure
The thought is the main thing.
The words come, or ought to come,
entirely secondary. This does not mean
that the right word for the right place
Is not to be sought. Word selection is
pense of thought.
1t is only when the thought swings
wide and free that the words can take
care Of themselves. And it is only when
the words, in very great sense, take
care of themselves that the reader or
hearer will read and listen to good writ
ing and speaking
A great acquaintance, then, with the
best words in the English language is
the one prerequisite.
The well read man" he used to be
called.
Nothing quite takes the place of much
reading. To get this essential back
ground, so that the right word comes
to mind when it is needed, without
laborious search, it is necessary that one
shall have read. much
Then the right word is at hand, when
wanted, without any undue worry over
it. 1t must be stressed that nothing is
here implied to the effect that working
over what one has written is not a
good thing.
If Kipling found it indispensable (see
his last book, Something of Myself)
almost any one else may.
There is no gainsaying, however, that
the constant writer or speaker, even
Evening star., 1937-05-03

conversationalist, comes to point In his
pilgrims progress when he discovers that
he is about as good az ever he will be,
or can be.
He cannot be "hot and bothered" con-
stantly by recourse to dictionaries, word
books and the like. He has too much
to say! He has such short time in
which to say it!
Therefore he evolves what used to be
called his style" good old word which
seems to have gone out, along with many
another good word and that which 1t
represented, but which deserved better
fate. and, no doubt, will come back in
again" almost before we know It,
This style has been said to be the true
rejection OF writer or speaker. While its
poSsessOr may fall into word and con-
struction habits which at times he might
better vary, it may be said for him that
each such favorite is true reflection,
and therefore honest to degree
Each favorite word Is tool which he
has found to be good tool, one which
serves its purpose excellently, and which
Is better than any other one for the
exact purpose.
Look into the yard, and see the man
with the post hole digger
A wonderful tool, post hole digger,
but what else is it good for?
There is perhaps no other tool which
illustrates better the single purpose of
all good tools. That is why the carpenter
has to have chest of them.
A real handy man may get along with
saw, plane and hammer, but the real
carpenter can do much better Job with
his many assorted tools.
Writing and speaking are related
crafts which require tools, too.
The person whose tool chest tmind)
is best filled with the tools of his trade
tWords) will instinctively reach for the
right one.
Then, and then alone, writing and
speaking become real pleasure. Other
wise they are pure work.
And surely there must be something
OF delight which flows out from speech
and writing when it is created easily
and happily. He has the pen of a
ready writer" is an old tribute, which
really means something, because it is an
honest admiration for the man or woman
who writes without creaking.
This happiness flows out of all such
work, and helps make the charm, the
verve which appeals to the reader or
nearer, although he may not stop to
realize just what it is or how it comes
about
Use all words, then, without discrim-
ination, for they bespeak a well stocked
tool chest.
A bias for words of one syllable is
wrong. A too strong liking for Latin
| derivatives is wrong. These are matters
which should be settled in youth once
and for all. They are what school is for
Afterward it is only necessary to use
| the right word at the right time, to try
| honestly to say what one wants to say,
| in the simplest, most direct way pos
| sible. Any ornamentation will arise
| solely as a result Of what is being said,
not because it is sought.
Our beloved English language is as
wide as the world, and almost as old as
time. Whatever a mind wishes to
express may be expressed in 1t, If we
| know how. Said that is, as well as
words can say anything. In the proc
ess let us remember the Anglo-Saxons,
the Latins and the Greeks, and all the
rest Of them.
Evening star., 1937-05-03

selfishness. Fragments Of the great
bronze doors of the Capitol have beef
broken of, to be carried away as relics
OF visits to the city. Even large statues
In the public parks have been disfigured
Occasionally the perpetrators of these
outrages have been caught and punished.
There is, however, no complete protec-
ton against them. Reliance must be
placed in the supposed respect of the
people for works of art and for historic
memorials ard structures. At Plymouth
the outrage is the more grievous because
of the utter wantonness of such an act,
which indicates most lamentable disre-
gard for decency. If the perpetrators of
this act of wantonness can be found, they
should be so severely punished as to dis
courage would-be imitators.
Evening star., 1937-05-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

national chamber at its recent annual
meeting In Washington revealed a con-
spicuously conciliatory attitude toward
the New Deal, compared to former years,
though leaving no doubt it will maintain
eternal vigilance respecting developments
harmful to business.
There was a bit of excitement over
at the Federal Communications Commits
sion the other day when it was an
nounced that al Smith had arrived and
was seeking an audience. Instead of
being the former Governor Of New York,
the visitor turned out to be young
lawyer by the same name, who is mayor
of the thriving little city of La Porte,
Ind, which nestles picturesquely in the
northwestern corner Of the State Tapped
by the southern waters of Lake Michi-
gan. Accompanied to commission head
quarters by Representative Pettengill,
Democrat, of the Indiana district in
which La Porte is situated, the Hoosier
AL Smith disclosed that his business con-
cerned the ALLEGATION of a wave length
and establishment of radio station in
his home town, famed throughout the
Middle West as the Maple City,"
Eloquent tribute was recently paid on
the floor OF the House by Representative
Powers, Republican, of New Jersey, to
John Pugh, veteran clerk of the SUBJ
committee on Army and Navy Appropri-
ations. Mr.. Powers described Pugh as
one OF the underpaid Government en-
ployes who saves Uncle Sam hundreds of
thousands OF dollars year and is not
getting one-tWentieth of what he is
worth. He is the real spark plug OF our
committee" said the Jersey Representa-
tive. Mr.. Pugh has been assistant clerk
of the Appropriations Committee since
1914 Marylander, formerly employed
in the Navy Department.. He was a
valued lieutenant, successfully, of famous
Appropriations Committee chairmen like
Good of Iowa, Madden of Illinois, An
thony Of Kansas, Wood OF Indiana, Byrns
of Tennessee and Buchanan of Texas.
Nobody in Washington, in or out of
Congress, the War and Navy Depart
ments, has the dollars and cents OF
national defense so masterfully at his
flngertips.
Capt William D. PuleSton, who has
just retired from active duty with the
Navy after IS years service, will devote
himself for the immediate future to
completion of new and comprehensive
biography of Admiral Mahan, based on
a wealth Of fresh material. He hopes
to finish the book during the next year.
Capt. Puleston's last post was as head
of the Intelligence Division of the Navy
Department. Born in Florida he was
graduated from Annapolis in 1902. He
won the Navy Cross for outstanding
service in 1917-18 as commanding ofdcer
Of the destroyer escort force responsible
for conveying American troops and sup
plies through the submarine zone. Pules-
ton has already written two standard
naval works-"High Command in the
World War" and The Dardanelles Ex-
pedition."
AS honored members OF the elite
British Order of the Bath, all three OF
Uncle Sans coronation envoys-Special
Ambassador Gerard, Admiral Rodman
and Gen. Pershing-are fully entitled to
climb into the fancy togs-silk knee
breeches and all the trimmings-pre-
scxibed By London court etiquette. Mr..
Evening star., 1937-05-03
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.
Diferential

When I wake from sleep on clear Spring
night
And the room is flled with divine star
light,
Or a mellow moon from her throne on
high
Silvers all of the couch on which I lie,
With ecstatic beauty my being aches,
And even my very soul awakes.
But when in the night I wake to the rain
It agreeably sings me to sleep again.
The melody of its rhythmic fall,
It's musical tum-tum against the wall,
Or its drip, as the wet trees stir and sigh,
All murmur a slumberous lullaby.
Evening star., 1937-05-03
A Hall of Fame.

Hall Of Fame in the National Cap
ttal is proposed by Representative Tink-
ham of Massachusetts. He has intro
duced bill authorizing an appropria-
ton OF $4,000 to finance the studies and
pay the cost of plans for such a struc-
ture. 1t is designed to house the effigies
OF American statesmen and heroes which
are now placed in the Capitol, some of
them in the chamber known as Statuary
Hall, formerly the hall of the House of
Representatives, and others elsewhere in
less appropriate situations. The bill pro-
vldes for the appointment Of commits
sion of an eX-officio character, compris-
ing the director of Public Bureaus and
Public Parks, the architect of the Cap
ttol, the chairman of the Public Buildings
Commission and the chairmen of the
Senate and House Committees on Library
and Public Buildings.
When in 1864 the old meeting room of
the House of Representatives was desig-
mated by act Of Congress as a hall of
statuary within which should be placed
statues of eminent Americans two from
each State, there was apparently no con-
ception of the inadequacy of such a
chamber for this purpose if all of the
States were to accept the opportunity
OF representation. Nor was thought
given to the risk involved in the con-
centration Of such heavy weights upon a
single floor. Nor indeed was there any
computation of the sufficiency of the
space within the chamber to permit the
placement there of all the statues that
the States might provide.
Fifty-two Of the possible ninety-siX
State representations have now been
placed in the Capitol. Many of these
have been taken or originally placed
elsewhere than in Statuary Hall to lessen
the strain upon the floor and prevent it's
possible collapse. Thus Statuary Hall
is no longer nor can it ever be a pan
theon Of American history. 1t is doubtless
with this thought in mind that Repre-
L
proposition for the erection of specific
hall of fame that will carry out the pur-
pose Of the act of 1864, which authorized
the President to invite each and all
the States to provide and furnish statues
In marble or bronze not exceeding two
In number for each State, of deceased
persons who have been citizens thereof
and fllustrious for their historic renown
or from distinguished civic or military
services"
While many of the statues now placed
In the Capitol are not Of the highest
artistic quality, they are nevertheless
authentic expressions of the public
esteem as the figures of representative
Americans. There is wide range Of
merit in respect to the services of those
thus honored, as there is in the quality
of the art displayed in their presenta-
ton. Perhaps no fixed standard or
artistry or Of qualification for inclusion
in such a gallery of fame can be estab-
lished by law or even by practice. How
ever, it is undoubtedly desirable that the
project initiated seventy-three years ago
should be completed and that a separate
and distinct housing of these repre-
sentations of distinguished Americans
should be provided. To this end the
Tinkham bill merits early consideration
and adoption.
Evening star., 1937-05-03

Gerard and Gen. Pershing received the
Grand Cross of the Bath from King
George v, which gives them the right
to tack G.. C. B. after their names, while
Admiral Rodman is knight commander
of the order. All three of our emissaries
to Westminster Abbey were decorated
by John Bull for their war services.
Ambassador Gerard won the undying
gratitude of our British cousins for his
interest In their prisoners In Germany.
(Copyright. 1872