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Evening star., 1938-03-26
Baby Bonds.

An analysis of publicity on the Gov
ernments so-called baby bonds again
shows that the New Deal cares little
about consistency.
While most New Deal agencies merrily
continue their spending program and
their spokesmen often smear" advo-
Gates of thrift, the Treasury Department
breaches the virtue Of saving through
baby bond posters displayed in every
post Office. Furthermore 1t was with
obvious pride that the Secretary Of the
Treasury announced that sales Of the
bonds, which are sold at rs per cent Of
tke;r worth at. maturity, have reached
~ ,584 100000 on the basis of that value.
-31e number of purchasers exceeds
42ooo 900.
The bonds have obvious advantages.
They are Notwithstanding. Being regis
tered, there is small danger of their being
stolen. They tend to give an ever
increasing number of Americans per-
sonal financial interest in their Govern
nent. At present market values they
yield larger return than most other
Government securities.
Likewise they haye certain disadvan-
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Halls Bills for Creation
of Bureau of Fine Arts
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor of The Star.
Think of it, one hundred and how many
years, without Bureau of Fine Arts, in
this wonderful United States of America,
and then two breakfast table ingredients,
coffee" and pepper" Senator Pepper
from the Southeastern point and Repre-
sentative Coffee from the Far North
western point of those United States,
start fine arts movement! Wonderful!
Wonderful!
Does it not make real craftsman, a
creative artist, feel encouraged and hope
full that surely some humans with money
will learn to appreciate a portrait and
the difference between a portrait drawn
from the human being, independent of
the assistance of machine-made photo,
in getting the soul of the human on
canvas, and that which is a machine
made likeness only?
Think of this wonderful countrys
Supreme Court justices portraits being
copied from machine-made photos for
that wonderful marble mansion called
the Supreme Court Building! Have they
culture? What is culture?
Real creative artists will be saying,
God bless Senator Pepper of Florida
and Representative Coffee of Washington
State" and they, Pepper and Coffee,
surely will start the thought that will
prevent Europeans, in the future, from
calling us the uncultured race of beings
that worship money only, if they get
their bill for a permanent Bureau of
Fine Arts through this Seventy fifth
Congress. M. A. r. STOTTLEMEYER.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Shooting Stars
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

The Genius Fad.
A person once was satisfied his daily
task to do,
And turn to thought or pleasure when
the time for work was through.
A few braved many hardship to attain
artistic praise,
But everybody wants to be a genius
nowadays.
Each little girl expects to be a motion
picture star,
And wear her hair In ringlets and
possess q motor car.
Each little boy has fancies in precisely
similar ways,
For everybody wants to be q genius
nowadays.
Everybody learns to dance or sing lit
tie bit.
Everybody acts upon the stage and
makes q hit.
No one seems to like a plain, straight
forward job that pays.
Everybody wants to be genius now
adays.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Historic Background of
Persecution of the Jews

To the Editor OF The Star:
When We come to trace the history of
prejudice against the Jew and to seek
its cause, We are led by many labyrin-
THAN paths through shadows of doubt
and mystery to a remote antiquity. To
ascertain the real beginning of Jewish
persecution, We must antedate the
Christian era by several centuries. We
must go back to the days of ancient
Egypt. Social discrimination and ostra-
cism seem to have been keen and bitter
even in those early days.
To my mind the ghastly feature of
Jewish persecution is the fact that it was
probably created and brought to earth
in serious form by the refusal of the
Jews to yield the divine unity of Jehovah
to the polytheistic demands of ancient
Rome. Jewish monotheism, which civili-
zatlon today prizes as its most precious
jewel, was then sought to be destroyed.
The civil and religious differences be-
tween Jews and Romans were at once
fundamental and fatal. The Romans
founded the worlds greatest physical
empire. The Jews founded the earth's
most lllustrlouS kingdom of the spirit.
The Romans would brook no earthly op-
position, and the Jews would submit to
none but God. On the other hand, the
religion of the Jews and their law were
identical. To submit to the worship of
Roman gods was not only an act of
treason to Jehovah bat was also an
abrogation of Jewish nationality and a
repeal OF all Jewish laws.
1t is my humble opinion that the
marvellous contributions of the Jewish
people as whole to the spiritual and
intellectual wealth of the world entitle
them to the gratitude and homage. not
the hatred and persecution, of mankind.
Truly, If gratitude were supreme virtue
OF nations, as it should be of individuals.
there would never be any organized gov
ernmental persecution of the Jews. The
civilized nations of this earth are too
deeply and everlastingly indebted to the
Jews to be able ever to cancel the obli-
cation. They should at least treat them
with humanity and accord them those
considerations which are the absolute
essentials of happiness in a civilized
state. WALLACE JACK KIMBALL.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Books and music go hand in hand
and, thanks to modern science, we can
carry them that way.
In the right hand, book, and in the
left, a phonograph record.
The album of records comes closest to
a book.
An individual record, from such an
album, seems much as II q page were
lifted from book aid brought to
audible life before U.S.
Once you have fallen in love with the
cleaning black surfaces Of our new rec
ords, you have new enthusiasm in life
This is not only for the music there
from, but also for the disc as an indi.
vidual thing in itself.
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Record surfaces have grown quieter
over the years.
1t seems to some of us that they have
become much blacker and glistening,
too.
Not all records are alike, of course: the
better quality of material and workman
ship speaks for itself. Such discs dc
not collect dust as much as others. In
a normal household they can be put
away for weeks, and come out at last
without speck of dust upon them.
The booklover. perhaps, of all per-
sons, finds the records interesting,
partly for the reason pointed out, that
they are so much like books.
They form an extension, as it were,
of his book shelves.
The analogy is carried forward by the
fact that the best way to keep records
Is in albums in cases.
Bookcase manufacturers have missed
bet here, it seems. Had they made
their standard book sections just few
inches deeper, and perhaps a bit taller,
they would have provided perfect ac-
commodation for phonograph record
albums.
AS it is. the disc enthusiast must pur-
chase especially constructed cases for
the purpose or have them built to order.
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The use Of albums gives to the indi-
Vldual records certain dignity which
they do not possess by themselves.
This is strange thing.
A movement of symphony Is great,
in itself.
A single disc which contains the Sec
oAia hiofciiiCiit lct US say, 1IOIl beeLnO-
vens second symphony, provides the
listener with beautiful music
Yet when this record appears with
others, containing the entire work, the
owner has something more, not only in
regard to musical extent but also as to
spirit and intent of composer, leader and
orchestra.
Shall We not include, too, in a pecu-
liar way, the recording engineers, as
they are called?
Surely they have a great deal to do
with the way the music comes off the
records.
Engineer" is bad name for them,
but that is what they are called, and it
is true that they handle acoustics and
physics and much more
Their intent joins with that of the
composer, to give the listener what he
intended. The strange thing is that
sometimes product is offered the public
which is not good product 1t will
remain a mystery why the companies
Evening star., 1938-03-26
COrrects an Article i'm Star
Concerning Czechoslovakia

To the Editor of The Star:
Under the heading Serious Defects in
Czech Defense" in The Sunday Star of
March 20 a writer tells us lot of inter-
esting things that are not so. Czecho-
slovakia, according to him, Is "a nation
born in Pittsburgh, Pa" That statement
was probably intended as witticism, but
1t Is only piece of nonsense. The Czeclls
and the Slovaks have been settled in
their present home since time immemo-
rial. Czechoslovakia was not born" as
new state, it was simply reconstructed
All of its present territory was included
in the old Moravian kingdom of Rostislav
and Svatopluk. When the kingdom was
broken up by Magyar invasion in GOT,
Morava became part of the kingdom
of Bohemia. In 1926 Austria, Bohemia
and Hungary, three independent coun-
tries, united under the House of Haps-
burg for mutual protection against the
Turk. In the World War Austria Hun
gary became an ally of the Turk; its
raison d'etre disappeared, and the mon
archy disappeared with it, breaking up
into its original constituent parts.
In this country, according to the same
writer, Czechoslovakia is known chiefly
through the trade mark on cheaper
crockery." A recent publication of the
Department of Commerce, Foreign
Commerce and Navigation of the United
States for the Calendar Year 1885, Vol
ume l." shows on page 1911, items 535O1
and 5350.2, that in 1886 this country i'm
ported from Czechoslovakia 172, IT'S dozen
OF domestic crockery valued at 1923, TAT.
From % other countries we imported S.
O64,2l dozen valued at $2,948,583. A
simple division will show that Czecho-
Slovak crockery averaged in value 81 20
a dozen, while crockery imported from
other countries averaged 582 cents a
dozen. The cheaper" crockery evidently
came from other countries and was
doubtless imported because Americans
wanted cheaper crockery 1t should also
be noted that in 1886 crockery represented
less than l per cent of our imports
from Czechoslovakia, which totaled $23,-
294,828.
From the article quoted the reader
learns also that the bulk of Czechoslovak
industries, including Skoda's main plant
at Pilsen, is located along the German
frontier" Well, in a sense, all Bohemia
is located along the German frontier, but
the distance from Pilsen to the nearest
point on the German frontier in the Bo-
hemian Forest is more than 76 miles in
straight line.
What the article says about the plans
OF the French general staff and the de-
fenses of Czechoslovakia is likewise inter-
esting and just as reliable as the rest.
j. J. KRAL.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

may be to large extent preserved. The
fact that some learned activities remain
in some animals after more or less ex-
tensive removal of the cerebrum points
to the fact that the individual animal
learns, and that the subject of habit is
primarily the individual and not a cor
tical area.
Can we conceive of a mechanical
system of connections readjusting itself
when half of the whole system has been
destroyed. Yet if We say that the brain
uses the organism and that the brain
is a purely mechanical, non-vital mech
anism, we must think of way in which
machine can be cut in two and the
remaining half pull itself together and
do the work of the whole. Evidently it
is the individual who uses the organism
and readjusts the cerebral connections
by powers possibly only to living being
and inconceivable in purely mechan-
Eal structure. Mechanism as a COM
plete explanation of the living organism
has broken down under the stress of
clinical and experimental research"
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Unemployment Payments.

Sponsors Of both the Federal and Dis
trict laws to set up the social security
program conceded freely at the time Of
their consideration that an element Of
trial and error reasoning was necessarily
present and that there would be prompt
legislative improvement of such pro-
visions as might be found in need Of
change.
In nearly three years of experimental
ton with the District unemployment
compensation law the local administra-
tive officers have found several aspects
of the law which might be revised with
resultant good effect to employees, to the
contributing employers or to the ad-
ministrative set-up.
One Of these possible notifications
would affect the local tax rate, now
estabhshed 6 Q permanent dgue of
Evening star., 1938-03-26

tages. They are not negotiable. They
pay no interest until they mature at the
end of ten years, hence widows and ell
derly persons, who need an income now,
do not find them an attractive invest
ment Some flnanciers feel that money
placed in q bank or building association,
which usually is invested locally, does
more good to a community.
Without a doubt the bonds have
proved popular with the public. Sales
have averaged $1,720,375 a day since
they were placed on the market, March
/, 1885, and only per cent Of the pur-
chasers have exercised their right to
turn them in for cash before maturity.
About IS per cent Of the purchasers were
individuals, small investors buying them
out Of income. Nine per cent of the
sales were to banks, but this does not
prove that the bonds are unpopular with
such fiscal institutions. Each bank is
limited in the amount 1t can purchase.
Moreover banks in general have to keep
most of their funds in securities from
which they derive an income prior to
maturity.
The extent Of the baby bond sales
proves again that thousands of Ameri-
cans need little encouragement to prac-
tice personal thrift, regardless of what
policy is followed by their Government.
1t shows, too, that they still have conf
dence in the financial stability of the
Government. 1t Is the solemn duty of
all public officials to see that such con-
fldence has not been misplaced.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
permit such records to get In the hands
of buyers at all

Of buyers at all.
One thing Is evident, that many per-
sons do not recognize off-key rendi-
tions when they hear them. Especially
this seems to apply to record listening.
They are so busy trying to "cstch" the
melody and other well known musical
ingredient" that they do not realize
the sour quality Clatness) of some OF
the discs they listen to. This has long
been failure of the records, and has
not entirely been corrected even by
electricity.
1t Is fortunate for the makers, in such
instances, that SO many of their listen
ers are unable to detect the difference
They are pitch blind" rather than deaf
They are fortunate, perhaps.
1t Is unQueStioned that the happiest
persons with gramophone discs are those
good souls who do not know good ones
from bad ones, in respect to recordings
Thus the famous person who has
amassed more than 5000 discs for him
self in 10 years-What shall we say of
him except that he is easily pleased?
A more critical listener and purchaser
could not find that many records, in all
the catalogues, which would suit his ear,
no matter If he had nothing else to do
and all the money in the world.
He is too critical?
** ~
1t may be. But the critical person Is
the true saviour of all the arts, not music
alone.
He it is, and she it is, who compels
the artist to do the best he can
Without the critical purchaser, there
would be only vitiated art, in any
branch.
Even the most inspired artist works
with one weather eye on the possible
admirer.
In the old days of acoustical record
ing, the piano was the black beast"
the terrible child" of the recording
profession.
Try as they would, with the most emf
nent artists, the resulting discs were
anything but truly pleasing.
At best, they were simply the best
that could be done, at that time
At their worst, they were terrible.
Yet many uncritical purchasers placed
these on their machines, and sat back
with pleased air-especially if guests
were present-defying the world to say
that disc which cost 50 and had a
famous name" on it could be anything
other than perfect.
q The piano, today, is one of the best
recorded Instruments
This gain, alone, if there were none
other, would more than justify elec-
trical recording
Records placed in albums are protect
ed from dust, kept from bowling, and given
the dignity of book.
If they are placed in unlettered al
buns, they have certain air of mystery
about them.
This is the way we like them best,
and can recommend it highly Even
books, one may think, might gain some
thing from lack of lettering on their
backs
Then one would have the charm of
preliminary discovery every time he took
them down.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

per cent Of each eligible employers
pay roll Since the Federal rate is also
established at per cent and credit
granted for local taxes paid may not
exceed 80 per cent Of the Federal levy,
the result is that District employers
are paying the required per cent
to the District fund, but are being
credited with only 81 per cent against
the Federal tax. Paying the additional
0.3 of one per cent to the Federal Gov
eminent, the employers thereby con-
tribute total OF 3.3 per cent of their
covered pay rolls.
In all but one STATE the local rate has
been set at 90 per cent of the Federal
rate, the effect being that 81 per cent
is payable to the States, with the O.3 per
cent due the Federal Government bring
ing their total only to an even per cent.
Most States had such rate relationship
specified in their acts; few, including
New York only recently, have amended
their laws to that effect.
Although officials of the local admin
istration are convinced that the per
cent local tax is yielding considerably
more than is needed for benefits as now
scheduled, reduction of this below 81
per cent would bring no actual benefit
unless the Federal rate also could be
revised downward. The reduction to
81 per cent, however, would involve no
conflict with present Federal law and
would relieve the employer taxpayers
of an appreciable and unnecessary per-
centage of their tax obligation.
1t is to be hoped that the District
board, freely acknowledging the valued
cooperation Of Washington's business
interests, will do them the service of
supporting an amendment to the tax
rate and urge Congress to bring the Dis
trict IN conformity with the States.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Corrects Quotation as
To Use of Paregoric

10 the Editor Of The Star:
In The Star Of March 20 was quoted
as saying "in my f1fty-three years of
experience in the drug business I do not
recall paregoric ever having been taken
for its narcotic effects" :.
What said was that ordinary cough
syrups, containing such small amount
OF narcotic as to remove them from the
stringent restrictions of law governing
the sale of narcotics, were not used for
any narcotic effect.
Paregoric has often been used for the
effect of the opium it contains and as
the Board Of Pharmacy is advocating
more control over the sale of this pre-
paration you can see the ridiculous posi-
ton the statement as printed places me
In. AUGUSTUS c. TAYLOR
1Tsddent .. Q. Board of Pharmacy.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Tax Relief at Last.

The Senate Finance Committee has
placed tax relief for business above the
punitive and unstable theories of taxa
ton advanced by President Roosevelt
and his assistants. 1t is particularly
heartening that the committee has taken
this step by large and substantial
majority. Ever since the Roosevelt
depression set in, now half year ago,
American business, big and little, has
demanded tax relief, particularly the
repeal of the undistributed profits tax
and modification or repeal of the capital
gains tax. The Senate committee, dis
regarding the demand of the President
that the principle of the undistributed
profits tax be retained, has thrown that
tax out of the window and substituted
q fat corporate rate of taxation which
can be understood. 1t junked the COM
plicated capital gains and losses tax
written into the new revenue bill by the
House and substituted a simplified
structure.
Senate Finance Committee may bring
in more revenue by number of millions
of dollars than the estimated return
under the House provisions. But the
principal gain for business lies in the
fact that the Senate committee has
overwhelmingly put itself on record in
favor of the relief of business from the
constant fear of punitive and unsound
taxation advanced by those who believe
that taxes should be used to reform and
to punish those who oppose them and
their ideas.
The ultimate outcome of this fight
between the President and members of
Congress over taxation is not yet en-
tirely clear. The utmost pressure will
be exerted in the Senate itself, doubtless,
to overturn the action of the Finance
Committee. However, with the commit
tee voting II to against the President
in the contest over the principle of the
undistributed profits tax, the chances
for victory by the committee majority
in the Senate are extremely good.
In the House the administration was
able to put through its revised tax pro-
gram by exerting great deal of polit-
tcal pressure. Sentiment among the
members for the repeal of the undis-
tributed profits tax was very strong,
nevertheless, in that body. Even in the
House the President found it impossible
to have written into the bill as it passed
that body the so-called penalty tax on
closely held or family owned corpora
tions. That provision was knocked out.
When the tax bill is sent to conference,
containing, as it may, the fiat corporate
tax instead of the undistributed profits
growing sentiment in the House against
the tax ideas of the President, the Senate
may be the winner.
President Roosevelt, it has been
hinted-even threatened-may veto the
tax bill if it does not suit him, meaning
II it has been stripped of the kind of
taxation he desires. He has that power,
and then Congress could, if it so desired,
pass the bill over his veto by two-thirds
vote. Failure of taxation by the veto
route, at this time, will not be helpful
either to the country or to President
Roosevelt, however. The country, already
In depression, is not likely to regard
with favor President who opposes his
own will to Congress and to q strong
sentiment among the people in this
matter Of tax relief.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

The voice OF Kentucky is still heard
with interest. Some day it will be ex-
pected to contribute information as to
what becomes of a financial system that
mines gold only for the sake of locking
it back in the earth.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

Gentlemen who attend administration
banquets are expected to be aware of
gastronomic niceties and to express them
clearly. If arguments are to arise they
san be taken into the open where the
entire world may participate.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

1t is not always possible for an ad-
ministration to raise salaries. but the
payment of secretarial wages several
times for the same work can usually be
managed.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

The United States of America has
contributed some wonderful discoveries
to the wealth of nations and will assert
the right to use some of them in self
defense If need be.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
Who Won That War?

From the Nashville Banner.
Coming generations will be pardoned
their bewilderment about just which
side won the war over taxation without
representation.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
No Railroad Surplus Taxes.

From the Indianapolis News.
Even with the increased rates, it
would not appear that the railroads will
be burdened with much in the way of
undivided surplus taxes.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

IT this country has been experiment.
ing with feudalism it is still several
Jumps ahead of the swastika, which
assumes to reassert an ancient and
mysterious authority.
Evening star., 1938-03-26
High Record.

Prom the Louisville Courier er-Journal.
Scheduled airlines in the United States
few l0,61s,964 passenger miles for every
passenger fatality during the last six
months Of 1887. Now let the motorist
and pedestrian try to match that record.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

To keep the last word in the family
Is one Of the most valuable Of political
accomplishments and is not so dificult
when the family Is 4 large one.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

1t is stated by DR.. Arthur E. Morgan
that the President can dismiss him, but
not without arousing a great deal of
curiosity.
Evening star., 1938-03-26

japanese cherry blossoms again assert
themselves as flowers that bloom in the
spring and have nothing to do with the
case.