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Evening star., 1937-07-05
The Hall of Shame.

A"S AA"h Vi p'AhhS.
Nominations for this distinction
have been received from numerous
readers of this column. The citations
of demerit are plainly libelous, but
the names include President Roosevelt,
Mrs. Roosevelt, Associate Justice Butler
of the United States Supreme Court,
Mr.. Alfred Emmanuel Smith, Miss
Dorothy Thompson and-from several
sources-Mr Jay Franklin. Balloting
will now begin.
This is a little more than "a lazy
mans column" The letters quoted
above are offered in evidence of the
bitterness of political feeling now
raging through the country. I have
omitted the gentleman from Buffalo
who challenges me to answer a ques-
ton which he does not state the
North Carolina physician who points
out that my forecast of Senate action
on the court bill in the merry month
of May was completely cockeyed; the
California editor who wants to know
whether the Roosevelt democracy is
communism or faScism; the guy in
Michigan City who sent me a de-
famatory post card every day for a
week, the charitable souls who assert
that l am a paid propagandist" for
the Government; the Youngstown,
Ohio, vigilante who invites me to come
out and be killed, and the people who
urge me to go back to Soviet Russia
instead of to the MayfioWer. Not be-
ing in a financial position to employ
secretary, many letters must go un-
answered or must be content with
such references as these.
New High in Viiificati0n.
1t is probably the sun spots or the
hot weather but the political opinions
of the readers of this column have
| reached new high in intemperate
utteranceS and vllification, malice,
hatred and all uncharitabeneSs. The
battle of ideas is tending to become a
battle of epithets and the steel strike
has aroused the demon in many mild
hammered souls.
l respectfully suggest that We keep
our tempers and our sense of per-
SpectlVe and realize that the world
Will not come to an end if collective
bargaining is established here as well
as it is in England and that social
| reforms are due and overdue in this
as well as in other lands and will be
enacted sooner or later, rage the re-
actionarles never so bitterly.
Copyright, 1872
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the psychological frame of mind of
avoided
tat Department
Sumner Weles
slider anlbassadorship
such already and the
other Joe Davies Moscow.
shop but he gets along spenddy the
himself he looks
He
be at Neither
best appointments of the
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bridegroom Who Missed Rites
Found Stain on Lonely Road

His wedding suit was there, too
AND the unaccounted-for cigarettes
lay near it.
Saturday evening Miss Traub read
the newspaper description Of an un-
Identified man found slain that morn
ing. She and her friends crossed
the Mississippi River to Belleville,
ILL, where the body had been taken,
AT 2 am. she told officers it was
the body of her flance. Henry Groh,
happens half-brother, verified the
identification and claimed the body
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Ammonia Scatters Pickets.

FLINT, Mich. CPl.-Dr. R. Gordon
Brain is psychiatrist, but is was by
accident, not by study. that he dis
covered an effective means Of dis
perslng picket line AS he was
passing a picketed candy shop, DR..
Brain accidentally dropped a bottle
OF ammonia. The bottle broke and
the fumes not only scattered the
pickets, but entered the shop and
temporarily drove out the clerks.
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and into the classified cul But the
nearly 200 fresh political
chiefs dppointve
Point No likewise
the
civil
the
How the reformers swallow all this?
Well, here is their explanation:
at least will
we
of the bill system
this is the certain amendments will it."
They will. b
Attempts will
language the bill limit
seen fit to consider them
But there Will be no viewing with the of the
Government The
But slightly modified percentage Government
jobs the
be only the heel they slng
but its better than
Speaking happened that bill to nut all post
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This Changing World
Sumner Weles Reported to Have Free Hand in
Overhaulng Foreign Service Machinery.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

President OF
of
American foreign especially
another because under the old
in the
Of best diplomats
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ARCHDUCHESS HAS SON
Daughter of Queen Marie of Ru
mania Bears Fourth Child.

VIENNA. July LP).-The Arch
duchess 1leana, daughter of Queen
Mother Marie of Rumania. gave birth
yesterday to her fourth child, son.
Both were reported well.
She became known to the United
States during tour with her mother
before her marriage to the Hapsburg
Archduke Anton.
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AMERICANS HELD
LANGUAGE THIEVES
English Declared Created
From Varied Tongues of
the World.
HN The Associated Press

BN the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 5.-Americans
were accused today of being the great
est language thieves in the history of
the world"
We not only took land from the
Indians but We sWiped a lot of their
words, as, for instance, potato" and
tomato"
The accuser is Wilfred J. Funk, die
tlonary maker, poet and publisher, who
asserts that four out Of every five words
in the English language are stolen"
Many Kings Responsible.
It's no secret that the kings Eng
ligh' has been created by all kinds of
kings who ruled England-Danish,
Norman, semi-French, semi-Dutch and
German. And it's common knowledge
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by governmental
authorities in la
Dor strife - they
have become the
m os t a I d e II t
champions of the
right TO work
but the women
who study legls-
lative questions
closely have be-
come a prepon-
deran. force in
opposing PreSl-
dent Roosevelt S
plan to tamper
with the Judi
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PREMIER ESCAPES BOMB
IN LISBON STREETS
Salazar Unhurt - Nation Wide
Hunt Is Made for Would-Be
ASSa ssinc

Assassins.
By the Associated Press
LISBON, Portugal, July 5.-Police
pressed nationwide search today for
assaSsins who yesterday attempted to
kill Premier Antonio de Olveria
Salazar, strong man Of the Portuguese
government
The prime minister narrowly es-
capped death when a bomb exploded
on the sidewalk as he left his automo-
bile to attend mass. The premier
was only covered with dust. Windows
were broken in the chapel and the
pavement was torn up.
Why all this excitement" Salazar
asked when crowds rushed I'D TO HIM
after the explosion. We must go in
to mass. The padre is waiting for u.s.
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We, the People
Steel Strike Rouses Demon in Many Mild hammered
Souls, Letters Indicate.

purpose Of helping President Roosevelt
give fair deal to the working people
OF this country. They are nothing but
traitors of the worst kind to the
people who elected them, and I wish
We could kick every one OF them out
of office right now"
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hIIu IIIdI VdIIIIUJ De ODLdlned DV
contact with foreign Office officials
and socialites. Because these are the
main contacts of the American
chiefs of mission abroad, the Gov
eminent only seldom obtains some
real insight on what is going on in
various countries. The State De-
partment gets facts and OCCASION
ally unreliable confidential state
ments from some foreign minister.
But it seldom has q real clir,n nee
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THE opinions OF the Driters this page ou
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented
The Stars EFFORT to gDe all sides OF questions interest its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1937-07-05

short, occasional holidays in the
United States are not helpful. A
few days in Washington, with
occasion visits to the department.
otherwise engaged in a round of
calls and parties with their old
friends are hardly enough to
familiarize them with the new
trends of thought and the changes
in this country. A diplomat who
does not know much about his own
country can hardly be expected to
interpret for his government the pol
Evening star., 1937-07-05
BY JAY FRANKLIN.
ROM G. c. L., Macedon, N. Y
. II note with satisfaction tha


* Il note with satisfaction that
Dorothy Thompson devotes her
column to annihilating you and
your ideas with few majestic sweeps
of her literary paw. You are to be
congratulated. 1t takes lot to make
Dubious Dotty come down out of that
foggy atmosphere, haunted by pale,
screaming ghosts of Hitler and Stain
wherein most of her thought processes
are conducted.
Yours is the only available daily
political comment which I can read
with any degree of satisfaction. Pear
son and Allen are political Winchells
Mark Sullivan is a nit-Wit. David
LaWrence's column has lately con-
tained some of the most abominable
drivel that ever inSulted the intelli-
gence of literate person. Dorothy
Thompson is Lady Macbeth in pink
pants, alternately babbling of indus
trial democracy and screaming with
rage at every actual attempt to at
tain it. In addition, we in this section
are to be regaled with the discourses
of Walter Lippmann, the deodorized
liberal. Words as sharp and keen as
surgeons blade says the blurb. I
wish he would string some of them
together and cut his throat with
them"
Democracy Speaks From Dallas
From p Il
| never had a decent thought for the
people. Any one with the intelligence
OF l2-year-old will Immediately rec
ognize your pitiful trash as paid prop
| aganda OF a rapidly furnishing tin
god. The only reason God lets you
live is to make sane human beings
keep aware of the constant menace
to all government that exists when
we are too lenient to- kill off the un-
fortunate imbeclles such as you May
God have mercy on your filthy soul"
From A. T.. Atlantic City, N. j.
Please tell me the true state of affairs
IN Washington. have always thought
and still do, that Mr. Roosevelt is one
OF the best Presidents this country
ever had, and l, with all the rest
of the people that love him and believe
in him, was so happy when he was
reelected but now it looks as if they
tied his hands, and all the good things
he had told us he would do won't be
done. Did We really elect Landon after
all? Did that rotten crowd really
win? Is it possible that the men We
elected to high office to help President
Roosevelt do things, betray him
! What sort of a rotten bunch of So
! called men are they? His own party
has gone back on him after they were
sent 10 Washington for the express
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Its strange disappearance
made one of the great mysteries
OF the Summer. There was no
secret about where it was hidden
Senator Mckellar had kept it
locked tight in the Post Office
Committee, there to rest ad in
finitum.
But the White House intended
TO get the measure out, so it was
decided tn tllrn tho beat an M,
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What's Back of It All
200 Appointive Jobs Created in Bill Supposed to
Further Merit System.
BY H r. BAUKHAGE.

7 RIB
a In
days civil a
of politicians is going reform.
And for the first time
be chance that will really taken
The
decided full
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WILL SELL
AT REASONARYE nrsro

AT REASONABLE DISCOUNT
Wen secured temporary End trust notes on
new p c. and Montgomery County Homes
date with interest at go. Also several de-
IerIed purchase money monthly payment
2nd trust notes running from two to seven
years.
Address, Box l38-E, Stor Office
Evening star., 1937-07-05

More than 100000 graduated
from 10000 mass education classes in
China in the last year.
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N''' IL 4 Ehhbo o4N.
TINE Maharajah of Darbhanga
buys Marie Antoinette's dia.
i mOnd necklace for $4,000.
That seems dirt cheap, consid-
ering that the gullible Cardinal de
Rohan paid 100000 livres, or about
$4,000 900 for it, with the mistaken
idea that he was buying 1t for the
Queen. The lmperSOnatlOn of the
Queen by that little strumpet the
Demoiselle d'Ohvia, meeting the dumb
cardinal in the grove of Venus, the
slick operations of the fake Countess
IamOtte-Valois, the forged letters
from the Queen to the cardinal
there's yarn to remind every re-
porter he was born too late-and one
TO give the Better Business Bureau
high blood pressure.
The Maharajah with his nine pal
aces, his jewels, silken robes, elephants
and gold plate, is quite spot Of color
in the news on his own account, need
ing no adventurous diamond glitter
to light him up. In the service of
the dramatic unities of history, ii is
just as well that the necklace went to
him rather than to Henry Ford. Fore
shorten history century and a half.
set moonlt terrace scene at the
TrianOn and the MaharaJah could
walk on without makeup
A few years ago he was stepped up
tn Mo Na y a RI n q
making him something quite special
in that line He is 80 years old, with
a stable kingdom and fathomless
treasure vaults all his own, and a
great hand for throwing big parties.
When he was delegate 10 the India
Round Table Conference in London
in 1881, he placed on the head OF
each of 200 dinner guests a chapet
Of pure gold. While this was going
on, IN the ''millionalres' wing of one
Of London's grardest hotels. second
story men were loOting his adjoining
suite of $4,000 worth of Jewels. That
would be just pin money to the Maha-
raIah, but he did get Scotland Yard
on the job, without results. He's a
crack polo PLAYER and daring auto
racer. His principality is a fiat, fer
tile agricultural state. His jeWel-in-
crusted palaces are at Darbhanga,
Calcutta Simla, Patna. Allahabad,
Benares, Delhi, Mozafarpur and Pur-
nesh.
Martin Niemollcr, the submarine
| commander one Of Germanys heavi-
/ ly-garlanded heroes after the War.
| His destruction Of enemy shipping
was pretty nearly a record. And now,
! having become the Rev. Martin Me
moeller. he's in jail. having resisted.
unsuCceSsfully. the seizure of his
church by the NaZis.
Tall, gaunt, grim. haggard. a re-
ligiOuS authoritarian and zealot. he
was an ardent Nazi, with the start
| OF Htler'S putsh. DR.. Holzmann,
rival cOntrOversialist and antl-Nazi,
reminded him in 1882 that free
/ dom, like peace. was indivisible. and
/ that the wreck Of civil liberties would
/ also end religious freedom. Pastor Of
( the most fashionable church in Ber-
( lin, Rev. Niemoeller sllenced his ad-
verSary with apocalyptic thunders.
eXalting the au-poWerful state. He
was interrupted by a jater.
(Copyright. 1881
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All this will take place at the
hearings on the Government re-
organization bill. This newly
framed measure is a good political
bill, carved by good politician
out of the more idealistic magnum
opus of the Presidents Committee
on Administrative Management of
the Federal Government.
X x
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pubic opinion than at any
time since they won the right to vote.
Not only have the wives of workers
been influential in insisting that law
lessness and anarchy be suppressed
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Court Change
Is Opposed
By Women
Crux Of Problem Was
Touched By Groups
Resolution.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

NHE women of America are at
the moment playing more
vital part in the formation of
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Speaking of civil service, what happened to
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Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Maharajah of D arb
hanga Pays $4,000
for Diamond Trinket,
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.
.HE Maharajah of Darbhanga
buys Marie Antoinettes dia.
L mOnd necklace for $4,000.
That seems dirt cheaD cOnSid-
Evening star., 1937-11-14

Land Is being granted to soldiers who
want to become farmers on generous
terms and with attractive financial
assistance.
Six and . half million acres Of good
undeveloped land are said to remain
In Ethiopia, whereas Kenya has only
three and . half million and 1angan-
yika less chan two and half million.
All OF which !. temptation enough to
economically ambitious powers. In
line with the Italian exploitation,
which many residents here still regard
with skepticism, the British govern
ment Is now reported to be launching
q campaign Of settlement to "fill up
the empty spaces Of the empire" OF
which Kenya is regarded as the
choicest.
Likelihood Of war over this border
although very much discussed, is re-
garded here as very remote. But Brit
ain has sent to Kenya as governor q
man who was air chief marshal at ths
time of his selection In London ane
with him has come something new t,
Evening star., 1937-11-14

Kenya, . contingent Of bombers Of ths
Royal Air Force, soon to be increased
and stationed at Nairobi. The Kings
African rifles have been strengthened, /,
by recruiting and roads to the Ethi-
opian border have been closed under
strict surveillance. Gas drills In Nai-
rooi and Mombasa and otf er prepa-
rations make 1t clear that Britain In.
tends TO keep these East African terri.
tories.
What pert, IT, any, TIE Ethiopian
refugees will play In all these inter-
national politics remains to be seen.
They are obviously more liability
than an asset at the moment.
toopyrisht. 1887. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Inc0
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since the victims were two women and
two children who had strayed behind
the company and who were entirely
without defense.
Today there Is 80 sign Of human life
on the plains except for very occa-
sional caravan of Boran or Somali
herdsmen who come down from the
far wilds with goats and shabby cat
tie for the Isiolo market. They are
q picturesque lot, In their primitive
goatskin garments and armed with
spears made In their own forges. They
are bitter enemies Of the Ethiopians.
Refugees in Large Numbers.
Into this desolate and inhospitable
country, the refugees of the Italian
invasion have been coming in large
number. They come from all parts
Of Ethiopia and have endured the
greatest privations to reach this haven
Ret, where this lion tragedy oc-
cured, Is a mere camping ground on
the northern edge Of the Kirsut Des.
ert. There are springs here and the
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herdsmen stop to refresh their stock
and I'LL their water bags for the long
pull Of several days to the next water
hole.
Coming to Ret. the Ethiopians, num-
bering about 80, stopped for water.
An Askari, or native policeman OF
the Kenya service, was with them, so
that they must have been well advised.
For some reason, which no one has
yet been able to learn. the two wom-
en- and two children fingered behind
the rest. Whether they stayed the
night Is not clear. but presumably
they intended to follow Immediately
or were just outpaced and not missed
Which is to the lions liking. for he
always stalks and attacks from the
rear.
The three lions which made the
attack are known to hunters who
have been to Ret this season-they
travel together in pride" as is also
lion habit and are said to be more
than usually large and bold. Thei
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work WAS swift, ~ was that Of their
scavengers, the vultures, for only the
bare bones remained to greet members
Of the party who went back to look
for the stragglers.
The same lions recently raided q
party Of native goatherds. whose
thorn stockade was not high enough.
5000 Have Entered Kenya.
More than 5000 OF these intrepid
Ethiopians have now crossed into
Kenya, together with 600 Eritrean
soldiers who have deserted the italian
colors. The government, faced with
q genuine emergency, for the refugee,
are in bad physical condition and have
smallpox and q wide variety of de.
ficiency diseases, has concentrated al
these people and isolated them in the
foothills outside Isiolo where the wateI
Is plentiful and they can be properly
cared for Doctors have been working
steadily for weeks to stamp out tn.
communicable diseases, have set VI
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Ethiopians Fleeing to Kenya
Beset by Lions and Wild Foes
Presence of 5000 Fugitiues From Italian
Control in British East Africa
PrOues Big Problem.

government for their protection pend
ing settlement Of their final fate.
Three lions, attacking the rear Of
small band of refugee herdsmen and
their families, have killed and eaten
four of the number The remains
have just been found. drove 200
miles over volcanic desert country to
inquire into the report which a gov
ernment official has confirmed.
Evening star., 1937-11-14
BY OSA JOHNSON.

LONDON, Nov. 13 (N.A.N.Ao.-On
my return to London from British
East Africa I may now relate another
chapter of horror that has just been
written in the story of Ethiopia. Wild
beasts have set upon and made prey
of remnants OF. the Lion of Judah's
loyal followers. who are still trickling
over the border of Kenya into con-
centration camps set up by the British
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wire barricades and have forbidden al

wire barricades and have forbidden all
visitors.
At the moment, district ofncers In
charge Of the civilians and military in
charge Of the Eritreans, which are
held apart in . camp Of the Kings
African rifles, are organizing the refu-
gees into work battalions and are
building city of huts, with bricks and
plaster of their own manufacture.
There are remnants Of royalty, ~
dirty as the rest and impoverished ex-
cept for Jewels and trirkets which
have little value in this frontier place.
Each refuge is issued q pound Of meat
a day, cooking and baking and knit
ting flourish and every one appears to
be content with his scant comforts.
Italians Laying Roads.
Meantime. through the highland,
which these refugees have surren-
dered, the Italians are laying down
modern roads and efficient airports snc
are building hotels with all the man.
ner Of an invader who intends to stay
Evening star., 1937-11-14
Women Workers Increase.

More than 10,750 900 women were
in gainful employment In the United
States at the time of the 1880 census
almost six times as many a. were 20
occupied in 1870.
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An outstanding value!
Consists Of = dr0pleaf ia
BILE and four Windsor
style chairs finished in
enamel, q 25-piece set Of
dishes and q 26-piecc
tableware set.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1937-02-19
The Sport of Half Wits

In at least one respect, 1887 got
off to a bad start. Reports col
lected by the National Board of
Fire Underwriters show that an
unusually large number of false
fire alarms were deliberately
turned in on New Years eve.
In the city of New York alone,
there were 154 such alarms.
Every false alarm risks the lives
of firemen and the general public.
During a period of seven hours in
New York. on New Years eve,
there were 10 real fires. Coupled
with the false alarms, this meant
that a tremendous number of calls
made it necessary to reduce the
response to each alarm to one en-
CINE and one ladder company.
This reduction in man power and
equipment created all the posi-
bilities for a major catastrophe
when you consider that every fire
is potentially a big fire. Only
good luck and tireless work by
the fire departments saved New
York from serious consequences.
The matter wouldn't be so bad
if "false alarm epidemics" occur
red only at rare intervals. In
every community the false alarm
exists the year round. Some false
alarms are turned in by malicious
persons. Others result from a
''half-wit" sense of humor. And
every one of them risks life and
property and reduces the available
fire-fighting force in case a real
fire starts.
Malicious offenders should be
severely punished, and police must
have the fullest cooperation of
the public to apprehend them.
Turning in a false alarm just
isn't funny.