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good politics With thinking
and national
to Isolate Iowa other from national politics. This
probably symptom Of the breakdown State sovereignty
slow suicide Of State rights in goth century
tits the happy
sve Republican, Gerald Nye feels hesitation calling
OF In Who reelection
author OF the neutrality
national partisan committee
liberal writer's editors the Craftsmanship
venerable Dr. Charles A.
citizens Wisconsin,
chuset
Mr. candidacy
Senator Homer Washington.
This
the purely domestic decision Of the
Mr. Nye continue
being openly resented the
rising to protest against this
North Dakota State elections.
simply do whywth going President
OF the United States his
chles OF political administration should
naona politics who their
10 promote election
are pledged support their policies Not
pey in the 1ckesHopkins
wish there Of that the
roosevelt regards loyal New Dealers
wide
There final question:
Wilson Ii called
was sent out to against Reed the
MADE this mddlng State
hanos down. For nearly 20
Wilson's and Gamale
HARDING Ohio
White House to take hand primaries have
taboo he the the people down
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bombing of Canton, caused the 1lth-
hour proposal. The country will re-
joice to know, in light of war events
in both Europe and the Far East,
that Uncle Sam doesn't intend to be
caught mapping in protecting himself
against air attack.
Besides the $l3,000,000 appropria-
ton, Congress empowered the War
Department to contract during the
coming fiscal year beginning July
for Sl0,000,000 of anti-aircraft ma
teriel, to be paid for later. So the
100000 in strengthening the national
defense against such ghastly vista
tions as are laying Barcelona and
Canton in ruins, while outraged civil
ization stands by and does nothing
but moan How terrible!" Incidental
ly, Army anti-aircraft preparedness
is, Of course, quite apart from the
Nays air defense facilities.
Few citizens know about the highly
perfected mechanism available to
meet the menace from the sky, which
will unquestionably be the dominant
and perhaps the decisive feature in
future war. Aircraft alone enabled
Mussolini to subdue Ethiopia. 1t will
be mainly responsible for Frances VIC
tory in Spain if the insurgents win
which is by no means certain. It Is
dealing China more destructive blows
at Canton than any of Japan's mill
tary victories thus far, even If it re-
mains problematical whether air
"frightfulness" will serve the intended
purpose of undermining Chinese mo-
rale or only stiffening it. A few de-
tails illustrate the effectiveness of
anti-aircraft equipment. The present
3-inch gun, standard in nearly all
armies, has vertical range in excess
of $500 yards Searchlights used at
night to illuminate aerial targets can
pick them up at ranges up to 10000
yards-roundly six miles-under con-
ditions~of good visibility. Each gun
battery has four .50-caliber machine
guns for local protection against low
flying enemy planes. Anti-aircraft
3-inch guns have a rate OF fire Of
from 20 to rs rounds per minute, each
round being carefully aimed.
\ i X
Speed in meeting air attack is
primary. Anti-aircraft guns are mo-
bile, can move over the road at clips
up to IS miles an hour. They can
be placed in firing stance, from travel
ing position. in about 10 minutes,
whereupon fire can be opened on any
target within range in a very few
seconds. In general. anti-aircraft
guns are so disposed as to permit
firing on bomber at $4,000 feet
altitude for at least one minute before
the bomber reaches the point OF bomb
release. Guns are generally grouped
in batteries Of four. Each battery is
able to deliver from 80 to 100 aimed
rounds per minute. The projectile is
filled with bursting charge and is
timed to explode at the computed
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to sharpen up their kitchen knives"
for use against certain prescribed
politicians. In the $50 days he had
written five books, swelling his vast
collection Of books on biography,
politics, economics, literary criticism,
history and what not to probably well
over 100. talked to him once in the
Cafe Des Lilas, fragile, deaf, bearded
old man with a contentious, blazing
mind.
In 1928 he was in Jail for four
months in somewhat anti-climactic
adventure for one who was to be
garlanded as an immortal. Three
members Of the Chamber Of Deputies
were kidnapped and fed castor oil
Mussolini is said to have got his broad
prospectus Of Fascism from Maurras
and the bald head of one Of them
was painted with violet ink and glue.
This inspiration greatly amused and
inspirited the Royalists, led by Leon
Daudet and M. Maurras.
In 1925 NJ Maurras was sentenced
to two years in prison. the charge
being that he had threatened to kill
the minister Of the interior. Among
the causes Of his incarceration in
October, 1886, was conspiracy evidence
in the assault on Premier Leon Blum.
His books and virllent editorials
against democracy in the Royalist
paper translated into many languages,
are the fount Of Fascist doctrine all
over the world. His hatred of democ-
racy is savage and vitriolic. He Is
witty, learned, brilliant and he has
the most excoriating and corrosive
vocabulary in France, even more in
temperate than his famed disturber
Leon Daudet. He is 10 years old.
Anatole France slyly intimated that
the academy was just lot Of sissies.
1t may be that they are out for more
fortnight immortals.
tCopyright. 193s.)
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ary groups in the Republican party
who blindly believe that without yield
ing an inch to social progress they
will be the simple beneficiaries OF New
Deal blunders nor need there be any
hesitancy to support liberal Democrats
who have had the courage to make a
fight against dictation by the man
who would be boss of the party. The
bloc could pledge its members to vote
for. Democrats in some States and
Republicans in others, moving from
side to side in each election, Furnishing
the crooked and the grafters who mis-
use taxpayers money for selfish polit-
ical purposes and upholding the men,
irrespective Of party, who stand for
decent Government. An Independent
Voters League could remake both ma.
1or parties by sheer force of numbers
and the decency of its platform. Until
some such coalition group is organized,
the New Deal will control future
Congresses pretty much as it has the
one which is about to adjourn.
(Copyright, 1881
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Washington Observations
Bombings in China and Spain Seen Squirting White
House Move to Bolster Air Defense.

range Of the target. When 1t bursts,
1t spreads fragments throughout an
area somewhat larger than football
field. Any target within this area
(area centered at the point Of burst)
when the burst occurs is likely to
be brought down. An anti-aircraft
battery Of four guns costs $l80,000,
complete with fire. control equipment.
One round Of ammunition costs $40.
Thus, If battery blazes away for q
full minute, 1t fires some $4,000 worth
Of ammunition.
All-important in anti-aircraft oper-
ations is the fire-control system. It
takes a duck hunter to appreciate its
beauties and possibilities. The heart
of fire-control is the director Its job
is to calculate accurately and contin-
uously the location of the point in
space, ahead Of the target, at which
the guns must be pointed in order to
make hit. A duck hunter doesn't
aim directly at a fast-f1ying bird. He
leads" his target. The anti-aircraft
gunner also LEADS" his target by a
distance sufficient to allow for the
travel Of the target during the time
1t takes the projectile to go from the
gun to the target. For very long
ranges this time may be as much as
80 seconds. A 240-mile- -per-hour
bomber would travel two miles in that
time, and the guns would have to
be pointed two miles ahead Of the
target, to hit it. The vital spots
which anti-aircraft gunners want to
hit in an enemy plane are the pilot.
the motor or the gasoline tank, or all
three. The director is equipped with
powerful telescopes enabling operators
to keep them trained accurately on
the target as it moves in its path
across the sky. An important fire.
control auxiliary is the sound locator
which detects the presence and direc-
ton of hostile planes at night.
X II X
How efficient is anti-aircraft artil-
lery? Well. the only opportunity to
judge of its value under today's bat
tie conditions is afforded by the Span
ish civil war. Reports reaching this
country comment on the outStand-
ing capacity of these guns and credit
them with bringing down about 30
per cent of the planes put out of
action.
X X
On matters more or less directly
concerned with air warfare, especially
its effects on civilian populations, two
distinguished general officers of the
United States Army are sailing for
Europe this week. They are Maj. Gen.
Charles R. Reynolds, surgeon gen.
eral, and Maj. Gen. Allen w. Gullion,
judge advocate general They were
appointed by President Roosevelt to
represent the United States at the
conference of the International Com
mittee on Military Medicine, convened
by the grand duGal government of
Luxembourg for July IA. Another
delegate will be Medical Director
Hugh De Valin, who is in charge at
our Paris Embassy of United States
public health activities in Europe. In
connection with the Luxembourg meet
ing q conference of international
juridical experts will deal with mat
ters of aerial protection against gas
attacks.
(Copyright, 1889
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who contributed heavily to it and
thus it became an easy target for
New Deal. attack. A Nationwide or
ganization Of independent voters con-
tributing from 81 to $l00 apiece and
with no contributions above that sum
allowed would be free from the
objections leveled heretofore. Like
wise no matter how the movement
was bombarded by the New Deal
smear" bombs, the fact that such an
independent group insisted on honesty
in elections and had as its main plat
form the eradication Of graft and
crookedness in Federal politics would
make its appeal effective with the
rank and file of American citizens
who want above all things to maintain
Democratic principles Of honesty and
fairness in the conduct Of Govern
ment, believing that no reforms" sup
posedly in the public interest are
worth getting at the expense Of un-
moral procedures.
Such bloc Of independent voters
need not ally itself with the reaction
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SECURITY ACCOUNT
REMINDER ISSUED
Board Tells Students Planning to
Work This Summer to
Obtain Numbers.

The Social Security Board today
reminded students who will enter COM
mercial and industrial employment
this summer that they must equip
themselves with social security ac-
count numbers in order to enroll for
old-agae insurance.
These account numbers are neces-
sary whether the employment is part
time. temporary or permanent. it was
explained by John j. Corson, acting
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amount sudden
ly recommended
by Pre- S ! d e n t
Roosevelt lowing
to a contingency
which arose after
transmission o +
t he regul ar
budget" 1t has
not been dis
closed what this
emergency is, but
the Capitol takes
for granted that
air warfare in
Spain and China,
particularly t h e
savage .JaDaneSe
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the latter promise,
and M. Maurras
becomes an i'm
mortal by q ma
jority of one vote.
He had spent
$50 days In Jail
on a charge Of
having urged the
Assassination a Of
l40 members Of
the Chamber Of
Deputies who had
voted for sane.
t ! ms against
Italy; also on q
charge OF inciting
tha Trnr ,L ~1-~l<
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Degree Given 1t. Mann.

1t. Richard L. Mann, son Of Mrs.
c. H. Bull of the Barr Building. grad.
uate Of the Naval Academy, today re-
ceived his degree Of bachelor Of civil
engineering from Rensselaer, Poly
technic Institute, Troy, N. Y.
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and file party workers. Alone
among the eminent officials of the
New Deal, he knows the local
party politicians, their habits,
appetencies and first names. For
this reason, some men around the
President fear him and his influ-
ence.
He lives simply, does not drink
or smoke, and goe out little. His
days are dedicated to his party.
Unhappily, his devotion to his
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his disagreement
the fall elections Then will be think
thinks very different Big Jim would hold all the
Democracy together middle
aggresvey New Deal platform aggesvey
leader.
The two have been
team but unless the other come
when the team will suffer the fate
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director Of the Bureau Of Old-Age

director of the Bureau Of Old-Age
Insurance.
The board estimated-on the basis
OF figures from the Office Of educa-
tion-that 100000 students will be
graduated from high schools and pri-
vate preparatory schools, and that
approximately two-thirds of these, or
slightly more than 100000 will pursue
their education no further. In addi-
tion, about 10000 students will be
graduated from colleges and univer-
sites. This means that more than
a million are potential additions to
the ranks of wage earners.
Students and teachers who will
work only during vacation also will
need account numbers.
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BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

~ NE Of the last acts Of the wan
I ing session of Congress was
the authorization of $13,-
100000 expenditure for ex-
panding the Arny's anti-aircraft
equipment, which is manned by
Coast Artillery troops. OF that sum
$6,000,000 represents an additional
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HE opinions OF the Ders this page their oDn
necessarily The Stars Such opinions are presented n
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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Wlthln the Demo-
cratic party.
The one out
standing defeat
the failure of the
bill to reorganize
the executive de-
partlnentS con-
tainS the answer
to the question
Of why Mr. RooSe-
welt W S not
beaten more often
on i'm port t a n I
matters of legis-
lation, such as.
for instance, he
restricting of the
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Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Maurras Leaves Prison
and Wins Place in
Academy.
Academy.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON,

Dy LEWCEI r. FANIONs
w YHEN Charles Maurras came
M out Of the Sante Prison
" " last year, he was met by q
committee of distinguished
Frenchmen, who nominated him for
the Noble peace prize and said they
would make him q member Of the
academy. They have Just fulfilled
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We, the People
Why Bar Administration Leaders From Backing
Primary Candidates, Columnist Asks.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

ME Iowa Democratic primary fight between the New Deal Representa-
tive Otha D. Wean and the anti-Roosevelt Senator Guy
Gillette But in the senaorshp
interesting q politics
Gettes efforts to the complaining
outside interference"
particular he complained Of Mr. Thomas the
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Reforms Up
to Voters
Bloc
Fight on Merger Bill
Shows Value of
Organization.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

A S THE Congress moves toward
~ adjournment, it is worth while
~ noting that in the main Presi-
dent Roosevelt has had his
way even though he has had to ad-
just and compromise here and there
and take heed of discordant notes
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WHITE TRIBE DANCES
Prescott Business Group Gives
Pageant of Indian Customs

PRESCOTT, Ariz., June 13 LP.-
White men and women of the Smoki
Tribe donned Indian raiment and en-
braced crawling reptiles yesterday be-
fore more than $500 persons in their
annual dramatic pageant designed to
preserve early American Indian cere-
monials.
The tribe comprises Prescott busi-
ness and professional men and women
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mention John L. Lewis, who Is .
native Of Iowa. And Mr.. Gillette's
complaints were echoed by the
anti-New Deal Democratic Sena-
tors, who seem to feel that State
political machines are the private
property Of local bosses.
Now I am not con-
cerned with the question Of
whether this Iowa interfer-
ence is a success or a failure.
Obviously. IL it works. IL Is
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The son of obscure Irish businessman
dedcaing
the boys the local organizations
remembers what a long way he has
He he
member the Rockand Democratic
bers his first political
his appointment the New Athletic
able capture Of the craftsmanship all the
He remembers the a
gates for Roosevelt He his triumph
full gratitude
maker Of his
country party comes first
with
disagreement
Big Jim
there all the The President
not hunter.
be Mlard F. Tydings of Mary
Cotton Ed Smith beaten South Carolina
dpoe the Presidense of the
He the opposite side the President
and Iowa, and still the
George Georgia B. N
friends Capitol Hill he described useless
disrupive of party unity
Thus the President
Big There
them Since Farley Wallace
Iowa. however the President said
subordnates single
It's fortunate therefore, that
Alaska and Northwest will Jim
pick the
they be- These tasks
than win thousand
Big Jim just the suggests large pink
raced man pleasant and he
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The three Punic wars between Rome
and Carthage began with . dispute
over the possession Of Sicily.
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The Capital Parade N
Farley Frowns Heresy Hunting Tactics and Prefers
MiddIe-of-Road Candidates for 1o4O

JOSEPH ALSOP AND ROBERT K1NTNER.
TINE present political Aoyss Farley
Democratic
the Democratic National Committee Postmaster
the be found
Office Department.
Of the Hoovermpera which
the Post Office outstanding specimen
a.
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mingses, the Perkinses and the
Farleys are enshrined in opulent
wildernesses of columns and orna-
ments, which suggest only that
they cost great deal Of money.
In all Washington, moreover, the
Farley chambers are by Tar the
most magnificent. The First Ma
tional Bank OF New York and the
Cathedral of st. Paul appear to
have been the architects twin in
Evening star., 1938-06-19

NJ OTHING gives fother pleasure thon howl
~ in his footsteps professionally. The physicon
footl9hts in the some dromo with his son-we hove I.
efforts to dupIicote his fothers success
History records mony sons who hove eqvoI|ed
Since this doy is dedieoted to fother. pictures
United Stotes. In virtuolIy oil eoses the son
achieving in politics like his fother before
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
YOUNG MATRON
DISCOVERED AT
union STATION
Purse and Coat Gone
When Found

A pretty, young washington
matron who left her home at 9
o'clock last night and was found
near midnight in Union Station,
a victim of amnesia, was identi.
fled today by her husband. who
visited her at Gallinger Hospital.
MODISHLY DRESSED
The husband, Harold Nelson. a
contractor with offices at 1928
Connecticut Ave., told officials
that the patient was Mrs. Gather
inc Nelson, 80.
When discovered at the station,
Mrs. Nelson was modishly dressed
in a brown dress and brown shoes
bearing New York and Philadel-
phia labels. She was cold and
hungry and without coat or hat.
She told policemen at the sta
ton that she believed she had
been robbed of her coat and purse.
She said she could not remember
her name or where she came
from, although she thought she
lived in the vicinity of New York.
TO QUESTION FRIENDS
At the hospital today. she still
could not give any clue as to her
past.
At 22o8 @ st. N. W., an address
given by a woman friend, 1t was
found the house was vacant.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04

Marie Conway Coffey, Wash
ington operatic find" will have
the role of Gilda in the opera Rig
oletto to be presented by the Ma
tional Opera Company, of New
York, at the Belesco Theater Sun
day.
The opera will see Mrs. Coffey
in her first formal presentation,
but she is no stranger to local
music lovers. She appeared in
several concerts at Wardman Park
Theater last spring and is a mem
ber of the Webster Opera Guild
here.
In addition to her music career,
Mrs. Coffey manages to keep busy
as the mother of five children,
ranging in age from one to nine
years. Her husband is Edmund P.
Coffey, chief of the Crime Labor
atory of the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
Zoning Board o. KS
Building Request

The Board Of Zoning Adjust
ment, created recently to iron out
difficulties arising from building
construction in the District, ap-
proved one appeal heard at its
opening session yesterday and
withheld decisions on the four
other cases.
The successful applicant was
W. c. Zimmerman. He was
granted a permit for an extension
and Enclosure Of a rear porch at
5OO4 Arkansas Ave. N. w.
The cases on which decisions
The Washington times., 1938-11-04

were deferred included the re-
quest of the National Rifle Asso-
citation to use headquarters at
1884 Sixteenth st. N. w. as an
educational institution; proposal
to store and clean carpets at II
U st. N. W.; a request by Mary L.
Hutchinson and Lloyd F. Slack to
build a gas station at 1924 Pennsyl-
vania Ave. N. W., and an appeal
by w. c. and A. N. Miller to
construct a gas station at 1885
Massachusetts, Ave. N. w,
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
SCHOOL UNITES|
ITO PICK NAMES|
FOR TIGER CUBS
Peter Pan Youngsters
/ Determined to Win

Blackie? 0rowly, Jumbo?
Mitzi? How about Stripes?
Reddie? Well, Frankie, then?
Pupils Of the Peter Pan School
had their heads together today,
amassing . pile Of work for
young Jimmy Smith, the boy
Judge Of the Tiger Naming Con-
test, Of the Patterson Newspapers.
MEETING HELD
The kids at Sixteenth and Park
Road held a preliminary meet.
ing on the topic yesterday, and
plan q visit en- nnasse to the
Washington Zoo, where the two
nameless Bengal tigers are quar-
tered. in q day or So. y
If the honor Of naming these
cubs must go to a grade school
child in Washington, as Dr.. viii
liam Mann hopes, then the honor
ought to go to old Peter Pan, the
pupils opine.
They're going at it in q thor
ough manner, to say the least.
Data on the Tiger cubs is sup
piled by their teacher, Miss Ada
Brady. When the reporter and
photographer called around tosee
what progress Peter Pan had to
offer, they got an eyeful.
BLACKBOARDS COVERED
On one blackboard tn ere was
the remarkably lifelike sketch Of
one Of the tigers by little Joan
Barnard. th1rd-Tade pupil. And
another whole blackboard was
covered with tentative names for
the Zoo inmates.
And while this was going on, the
mailman carted in another load
of letters from Washington, Vir-
ginia and Maryland children, each
containing q name for the cubs,
and . note explaining the Selec-
ton.
That's all you have to do, you
know, to win the honor of naming
the tiger cubs, and earning for
yourself one Of the three prizes
Of $40, SO. and IS, and 100 free
passes to the Loew theaterS, Capt.
tol, Palace and Columbia.
You can pick out any name you
like, and the name will be given
fullest consideration.
A SAMPLE IDEA
Just to give you an idea, one
young realist today suggested
NIP and Tuck-because If they
could get at you, they'd nip and
tack you, all right"
So get busy today, kids, and
send in your suggestions. Write
to the Tiger Naming Contest Edi-
tor at the Patterson Newspapers,
1917 H st. N. w.
Every school child in Washing
ton and the suburbs, and every
child Of grade school age, whether
or not he attends school, is eligible.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
Masonic Fete!
LODGE HONORS
LIP. STEUAR7

Washington Centennial Lodge
No. IA will honor its past master
and grand master, Leonard P.
Steuart,. who is now Grand Master
Of Masons in the District Of Co.
lumbia, this evening. The event
will be a ladies' night with dane
ing at the Willard Hotel.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
NeIO Models Ready:
STAGE ALL SET
FOR AUTO SHOW

Washington's nineteenth an
nual Auto Show opens tomorrow
morning at II o'clock in the Chevy
Chase Ice Palace, in the 4400
block Of Connecticut Ave-, when
Francis G. Addison, jr., president
Of the Washington Board of
Trade, will formally declare the
biggest show ever" to be under
way.
The Washington times., 1938-11-04
Club
Luncheon TODAY

The weekly luncheon Of the
Reciprocity Club is scheduled for
1890 p. m. today at the Mayflower
Hotel.