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The Washington times., 1938-09-15
Last Nights Fights

AT NEW YoRK-Lew Fsldman, t3ss
New York. decisioned Eddie zivic, 1SAs
Pittsburgh (S).
The Washington times., 1938-09-15

Pat Abbot, Hollywood movie ex-
ira, and the sole surviving Cali
fornian also qualified for the Sec
ond round of eight. defeating
James E. Sonny" Frazer Of Alb
secon, N. j., by 2 up. Abbott was
never down and always seemed to
have the issue well in hand. He
reached the turn In 80 and was
two up on Frazer.
Joe Thompson, the Canadian, a
familiar figure in Metropolitan
circles last year when he was a
member Of the Lakeville Golf Club
of Great Neck. N. Y, squeezed out
10 hole victory over Walter Blew
ms, the stocky little night watch,
man of Kansas City. Mo. The
scoring here was not up to champ
ionship calibre. Blevins went out
in ~ and returned in Al for an
80. Thompson went out in IL and
returned in AZ for similar result
Dick Chapman, cree vic h
strong boy, in a grim tussle with
T. Suffern Taller, Of New York,
emerged a Cup winner and was
to meet the opposition Of Good.
man in the fourth round Of the
afternoon. Both Chapman and
Taller went to the turn in the par
of 81 and were even.
The breaks were just enough In
Chapman's favor to turn the
issue. Taller had two puts late in
the match which stopped on the
lip of the cup but baked at enter
ing. A trap at the tenth put
Taller down. He squared at the
eleventh but went down again
with three puts at the twelfth
A bird trap shot also cost him the
short thirteenth.
Chapman gave one back with q
third-putt at the fourteenth, but
three holes later. with a birdie
three at the seventh, closed Taller
out.
The cards:
The Washington times., 1938-09-15
KINGSLEY VICTOR

KINGSLEY VICTOR
In the lower half of the draw
the first victory went to Edwin
Kingsley, the Utah entrant, who
by 4 and 8 squelched the preten-
sions Of the last Of the New Eng
lander, Alfred Crossley. Out in
80, Kingsley was three up at the
turn and won the next two to 60
five up.
Frank Strafaci. metropolitan
champion, Of New York, lost to
Chris Brinke, Of Detroit, 3 and 2.
A stymie, the sixth he had en-.
countered since the matches were
open Wednesday. cost trafaci the
ninth hole and enabled Brinke to
draw even. Frankie blew a five
footer for his four at the tenth
and went two down at the twelfth
where he trapped his drive and
ultimately missed another short
putt.
the turn.
The cards:
Brinke-
Out ............ 54S56 - 5-A2
In ........S..... 45A3 50
Strafaci-
I'm ............. S4s s44A4
Willie Turnesa, Of Briarclift
Manor, N. Y. eliminated Johnny
Fischer Of Cincinnati. 1885 title.
holder, 1.up, in q match that
went 40 holes.
Il THIRD ROUND
Johnny Goodman (omaha, Neb.) de-
featod Jim French (san Francisco)
Pat Abbott tAltadsna, caD defeated
Jim Fraser (Absecon. n. J), two up.
Joe Thompson (Hamilton, Ont) de.
feated Walter slevins (Kansas city,
one up (1s holes).
Dick Chapman CGreenwich. Conn
defeated 7. sutfern Taller (Nsw York;
Edwin Kingsley tMasna, Utah) ds.
feated wiltred crossIey. tDedham
Masa), 4 and 3.
Mel Harbert (Clay, n. " defeated
Gus Moreland (Peoria. Ill.), and @
Chris Brinke Birmingham Mich) de.
fsatsd Frank strataci (Great Neck. N
~, 8 and Q.
wilns Turnesa (Brtareuff Manor
In. ~, defeated Johnny Fischer Ccin
leinnGti), one up Gao holeS).
The Washington times., 1938-09-15
One Up on Opportunity:
Giants Rap Answered
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N. |. FLAG RACE CLOSER
THAN A BARBERS BREATH
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

NEW YORK. Sept 15-The Giants raped twice the
door opportunity The Pirates dropped
two as neatly soused jugger.
The Cubs coping in Boston at the time and the
National League race is closer than BARRIERS breath
The Washington times., 1938-09-15
GOODMAN WINS,
MORELAND BOWS
IN AMATEUR GOLF
Continued From LIST Sports Page

Continued From LIST Sports Page
seventh where a 20-footer found
the cup and this put him six up.
French, who had been in two
traps and three-putted one Of the
greens, holed q cross-country putt
at the eighth for a deuce and
turned in 81 and five down. It
was here that Goodman strayed
from the straight and narrow and
tossed off three holes in a row
traps snaring his approaches at
the tenth and eleventh and the
woods Turing his slightly sliced
drive at the long twelfth.
GOODMAN COMES BACK
But the champion had enough
in reserve and. after having the
thirteenth and fourteenth with
bogies, annexed the next two with
pars, French being short at the
one and trapped at the other
The cards:
The Washington times., 1938-09-15

of whiskey we think can't be beat!
Just Try M & M-tOday Get a bot
tie at your package store on the way
home tonight. You'll say it's the
grandest whiskey you ever tasted at
anywhere near M&M'S modest price!
Evening star., 1938-11-08
Cheering the Chest

An audience of more than four
thousand people, assembled in Con-
stitution Hall last evening, cheered
the Community Chest. Such
demonstration Is unusual. 1t would
seem to signify public understand
Ing as we'll as public appreciation Of
the cause represented in the annual
campaign for funds to meet human
needs In the District of Columbia.
Miss Dorothy Thompson, woman
Journalist, had summarized that
cause in moving terms. She had
appealed directly and without apol-
ogy to the individual. If you are
glad that you are still a free citizen
OF rich democracy when the lives
Of democracies are at stake" she had
said, "give as a testimony that you
wish to remain so. For the price of
freedom is responsibility, and the
basis Of democracy is brotherly
love-"
The emphasis on the duty of
mercy was justified. In recent years,
unhappily, there has developed
among thousands Of Americans will
ingness to leave to the Federal Gov
ernment the whole obligation to
relieve the sufferings Of the poor.
But now 1t has been amply dem
onstrated that a substantial portion
OF the relief load must be carried
Evening star., 1938-11-08
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Government publications have under
gone great transformation in the last
few years.
Instead of the often dull tones and
drab bulletins, familiar not only to resi-
dents Of the National Capital but also to
persons all over the country, series of
sparkling issues on multitude of SUBJ
jects has come out of the Government
Printing ONCE.
A splendid example of this determi-
nation to keep up with the spirit of our
times in things typographical was placed
on this desk today. 1t was won for this
column by recent article here on the
dangers OF tree surgery work.
This series consists of Tree Preserva-
ton Bulletins Nos. to 8, issued by the
c. c. c., United States Department of
the Interior, National Park Service. The
bulletins are by A. Robert Thompson,
forester. The issues consist of seven
brochures, neatly punched, and all the
holes coinciding, for wonder.
We do not expect to be climbing trees
soon, unless the Martians get after us,
but II they do, we will carry these bulle-
tins aloft, especially the one on Safety
for Tree Workers"
Here is a work which nobody who
climbs trees, either for pleasure or profit.
ought to be without. 1t is the biggest
10 cents worth in the world for the
tree climber.
Those nasty little men from Mars
will find it hard to follow the climber
who goes up with the proper clothing,
ropes, ladders, and tools, and who knows
all about tree telling. brush and wood re-
moval. transportation, spraying, fumiga-
ton, first aid and poisonous plants.
Almost every one who owns a tree is
tempted, at times, to climb it, in order
to do some necessary work, such as
saving off q dead limb. or catching
caterpillars.
The best advice, in all such cases, is
succinct:
DON'T
But If you insist, find out something
beforehand about how to handle vo,1r-
self in a tree.
1t is not as easy as it looks.
~
Don't just hang onto one limb.
If 1t breaks, you are out of luck, for
sure.
But If you divide your weight by using
two limbs. not one you still have a hold
if one limb breaks.
Don't shinny up tree.
1t is done in the best amateur So
ciety, but men who work on trees know
better.
They use safety rope.
A figure eight knot, on your safety
rope, Mr.. Thompson tells U.s. may pre-
vent bad fall
AS for ladders. dearly beloved of ANA
teur climbers. they are not to be relied on.
Rely on your safety rope" the forester
tells us.
Evening star., 1938-11-08
Lest We Forget

Once again voteless washington
suffers the humiliation of standing
by, mute and helpless, as 40,0O0,000
privileged Americans troop to the
polls to elect another Congress of
the United States-a Congress which
taxes the District of Columbia
without representation as unjustly
as the Great Britain OF George
III taxed the founding fathers.
Times have changed in the inter-
vening 165 years, but with respect to
more than half million Americans,
the system against which Samuel
Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson, Patrick Henry and George
Washington rebelled Is precisely
what 1t was in 1776. From a great
body of citizens, qualified by every
right conferred by their Constitution,
the most precious privilege of free
people-that of determining its des-
TIMES by the ballots withheld. All
concerned should remember that
shameful fact on this biennial elec-
ton day-the more fortunate in
habitants of the States, as well as
the Washingtonians condemned to
Involuntary inactivity at the polls.
The United States is in the closing
months of the sixth year of an era.
The New Deal has richly earned that
appellation if by it is meant dras-
tic break with old-established tradi-
tions, precedents and concepts of
American Government. The verdict
of history, with its wide perspective,
will probably have to be awaited to
determine whether the New Deal was
a blessing or blight for an America
which had reached great heights and
high standards of living for all
classes of its people, long before the
dispensation which overlook the
country in 1893 was ever conceived
by brain trust.
1t Is easier to envision what the
judgment Of posterity is likely to
be in regard to the fate under which
a suffrage deprived Washington was
compelled to suffer. The chances
are that coming generations will call
1t not only unfair and unjustifiable,
but incredible and incomprehensible.
They will wonder why and how
Nation welded to the square deal,
with whatever mixed emotions it
received the New Deal, permitted a
populous, law abiding, liberty loving,
tax-paying community at the very
seat of Federal Government to be
banned from the ballot box, without
rising, in "the spirit of '76," to de-
mand the abolition of a discrimina.
ton that has no warrant in law, in
morals or in fundamental fair play.
Disfranchized Washington, daunt-
less in the determination to see this
political indignity removed, appeals
to the voters of the Nation today to
remember the un-American position
prevalent on the Potomac and re-
solve to right it without further de-
lay, through necessary action by
Congress.
Evening star., 1938-11-08

through such private agencies as the
Community Chest.
Miss Thompson challenged the
conscience of her country when she
declared: "The Community Chest
really belongs to the community, and
its moneys ere distributed without.
regard to politics, race, religious or
social creeds." She cited sacred
names as exemplars OF her phil
osophy-Henri Dunant, Florence
Nightingale. Clara Barton, great
spirits who rose above the everlast-
ing battle to serve God and His
bewildered, troubled children self
lessly and without regard to limita-
tions Of prejudice. To emulate
them is q privilege as well as an
obligation. The alternative Is grad.
ual decline into complete degenera-
ton. No wonder the audience
cheered.
Evening star., 1938-11-08
Wages in Steel

With its accompanying recon-
mendations for further study of the
geographical differential and of the
status of small concerns in competi-
ton with the great ones, the proposal
of the Department of Labor for the
fixing of steel wage minima in con-
nection with Government contract
work would seem to be an equitable
one.
Developed out Of months OF con-
sideration by the Public Contracts
Division, the proposal calls for
minimum of 62.5 cents per hour in
steel plants doing Government work
in thirty-siX States and As cents per
hour in the remaining States, the lat
ter being in the Southern area.
According to the findings OF the
Contracts Division, the figures de-
cided upon already prevail in a large
percentage of the industry and their
imposition upon competitors for
Government jobs would work no real
hardship. There are good reasons
why steel companies paying the
prevailing wage rates, either volun-
tarily or by union contract, should
not be left at a competitive disad-
vantage in bidding for public jobs
against concerns which have held
down their labor costs.
Exception to this generality may
be found, however, in the circum-
stance of small firms bidding against
the large ones where the marked in
equalities in other competitive fac
tors might we'll distort or completely
overbalance the Importance of varia-
ton in wage scales.
The question of freezing geo.
graphical differentials should be con-
Sidered most carefully, both from the
standpoint of effect on Government
bidding and the effect such an
advantage might eventually bring
Southern industry as compared to
that OF the rest of the country. In
this connection, Of course, many
factors other than wages must be
considered.
With the whole question to be the
subject OF further public hearings
and consideration, 1t may be felt
that the Public Contracts Division
has laid a sound basis for co-opera-
ton by the steel industry.
Evening star., 1938-11-08
Excellent streamlined drawings sho

Excellent streamlined drawings show
Just how and why.
4 r X
Rope, Knots and Climbing" Bulle-
tin No. - will tell the home owner as
much as any book can as to how to
climb safely.
The bulletin on general spraying
practices will be a Ife-saver for many q
tree, if its excellent precepts are put
into practice.
Don't spray any trees when the temp
erature is 80 degrees or higher. especially
when the sun Is shining"
Why?
The answer:
Burning of the foliage may result"
Here Is another good one: Don't ap-
ply poison sprays after the trees start
to drip"
Why?
This decreases the effectiveness of the
material and wastes it,"
Why shouldn't one allow spray ma
terials to pollute streams and ponds?
Because insecticides and fungicides are
deadly to fish. Simple enough, but many
persons, unfortunately, do not think of
that angle Of it.
Don't combine oils and lime sulphur
in the same solution or follow one after
the other"
Again, why?
Because the combination will cause
definite injury to the tree"
~
National Park Service standard for
mulae are given, with a full calender
OF spraying operations, the principal in
sect and controllable diseases affecting
important trees and shrubs in Eastern
national parks.
Soap, SO beloved of the amateur gar
den sprayer, is given the follow char
acterization: Soap is a good wetting
agent and spreads we'll but is of no value
as sticker since it washes off readily.
1t usually is unsafe for use with arseni-
Gals but is excellent with nicotine COM
pounds"
We might go on endlessly quoting
nuggets of wisdom from these fascinat
ing books.
Even the average person who loves
trees often fails to realize Just how much
they mean in his life.
The loss of a good tree is always a.
grievous thing. The men who make it
their business, both in public and pri-
vate service, to take care of them. de-
serve our sympathy. Theirs is dam
gerous business. But it is one which
does great service to man as we'll ss
to his trees. Trees grow not only in the
soil, but also in the hearts OF men.
Careless and inexperienced persons
ought never to be permitted to touch a
tree, for when they do they touch far
more than bark.
Such publications as these are of the
highest type. We are happy to add them
to our library, and to feel that if we
must climb tree, some day, we will be
able to 60 about it in as workmanlike
manner as possible.
Evening star., 1938-11-08
Copper Beech.

Etched in lines of burning gold,
1t stood against the glowing sky:
Still as Norseman king OF old
Listening for Odin's battle cry.
A proud and shining god of light;
A Viking, who. upon the sea,
Fired his ship and so took flight
To far Valhalla's mystery.
Thus flaming out in copper fire,
1t stood in majesty, until,
Leaving a darkened funeral pyre
The sun went down behind the hill.
MARION H. ADDINGTON.
Evening star., 1938-11-08

IN part. Will you through the medium
OF your paper permit me to quote this
declaration in full, that there may be no
misunderstanding as to its scope and
import.
Lord Balfours declaration of Novem-
Der 2, 1917, is as follows:
q His majesty's government view with
favor the establishment in Palestine of
a national home for the Jewish people
and will use their best endeavors to IA
cilitate the achievement of this object.
1t being clearly understood that nothing
shall be done which may prejudice the
civil and religious rights OF existing non
Jewish communities in Palestine, or the
rights and political status enjoyed by
Jews In any other country"
RABBI 1sADoRE BREsLAU.
October 20.
Evening star., 1938-11-08
The Automobile DEGREES

After getting OF to a false start
nearly year ago at Milwaukee, the
Department of Justice has announced
that it is getting somewhere in its
much-discussed antitrust proceed
ings against the big three" Of the
automobile industry-Ford, Chrysler
and General Motors. Baked in its
first efforts to indict the trio when
a Federal Judge objected to activity
Of department attorneys in seeking
consent DEGREES prior to conclusion
Of grand jury hearings, the Govern
ment transferred It's case to South
Bend, Ind, and obtained indictments.
Thereafter the negotiations for con-
sent DEGREES were resumed.
Now Attorney General Cummings
announces that the negotiations
have been successful in the Ford and
Chrysler cases, but unsuccessful in
the case of General Motors. Accord
ingly, he has taken steps to nolle
PROSE- all charges again Ford and
Chrysler and, at the same time, to
prosecute vigorously" the case
against General Motors.
The consent DEGREES filed In the
Ford and Chrysler cases must not be
regarded as admissions of guilt, Mr..
Cummings points out, nor as a con-
viction of either company, since there
was no trial and no presentation Of
a defense. They are voluntary agree
ments to refrain from certain prac-
tices in the automobile finance field
that the Government had regarded
as detrimental to competition among
independent credit agencies. Trust
Buster" Thurman Arnold predicts the
DEGREES will prove beneficial to the
public and to every one concerned in
nationwide marketing of automo-
biles."
The Governments victory in this
phase Of its antitrust crusade cam
not be said to be complete, however,
unless the prosecution OF General
Motors, biggest Of the "big three" :"
reaches conclusion satisfactory to
the Department of Justice. II Gen.
eral Motors should be acquitted, it
would be unfair to hold Ford
and Chrysler to the voluntarily i'm
posed restrictions of the consent de-
crees, and provisions have been
inserted to meet such an eventuality.
Success Of the administration whole
antitrust drive in the automobile
field will hinge, therefore, on the
epochal showdown in court between
General Motors and the Government.
Evening star., 1938-11-08
lnter.American Unitv

Gradually the ground is being pre-
pared in the United States and the
twenty other republics of this hemi-
sphere for a concrete agreement for
military and naval cooperation In
time of war.
Coming as it did almost within
month of the opening of the Eighth
1nter-American Conference at Lima.
Peru, the radio address by Under
secretary Of State Sumner Welles
Sunday night laid a foundation for
what may develop there next month.
Mr.. Welles climaxed his brief re-
marks with the significant statement
that besides making sure that
we are in position to defend our
selves from all aggression from what
ever source it may arise" we intend
ito be prepared to join with our fell
low democracies of the New World in
preserving the Western Hemisphere
safe from any threat of attack,
This was the other side of the pic
ture painted by President Roosevelt
little more than a week earlier when
he told the New York Herald-Tribune
Forum that I'VE are determined to
use every endeavor in order that the
Western Hemisphere may work out
its own interrelated salvation In the
light Of its own interrelated expert
ence."
Mr.. Welles seemed to go much fur
ther than merely to expand the Mon
roe Doctrine with a specific promise
OF armed assistance to all of Latin
America. He proposed that all the
fellow democracies of the New
World" join in preparing for the
threat of attack.
Little criticism could be made of
such an effort. Nor are there
grounds for criticism in letting those
whom we regard as the chief threat
to this hemisphere know what we are
doing. Fortnight and foresighted
preparedness often prevents threat
from ever becoming actuality.
The necessary condition to such a
capitalization of the American re-
publics into unit for defense pur-
poses, however, Is that adequate ma
chinery be created to prevent its dis
ruption from the inside. Although
the Chaco dispute was ultimately set
tied, the peace machinery proved
effective only after Bolivia and Pa
raguay had well-nigh exhausted
themselves in war.
The inescapable conclusion is that
the prerequisite to such q program Is
an efficient method for pacific settle
ment Of inter-Amsrican disputes.
Oversealous attention 10 the former
Evening star., 1938-11-08
iDeplores Assault Charge
Against Berwyn Farmer.
tn the Editor of The 9tar.


The story of the "Berwyn battle" Is
quite intriguing. Three unspanked and
undisciplined young ruffians made an
unprovoked and uncalled-for attack
upon poor poultry farmer who was at
tending to his own business. These drug
store cowboys hit him in the head with
q stone. He defended himself against q
felonious assault and was placed under
bond as a man who had committed q
crime; his assailants went free.
Why is all this? Because the boys are
young and innocent? Well, hardly at Is.
Might we suspect that our leading citi-
zens as represented by Mr.. Cooley have
not the voting power and influence rep
resented by a college professor? 1t makes
big difference whose OK is gored in
Berwyn, as in all communities. Assault"
for the farmer; prank" for the assail-
ant-maybe he was celebrating Hal
loween, too. CARL GORDON.
Alexandria, Va, November l.
Evening star., 1938-11-08
How to Tell Fortunes

FORTUNE TELLING is a booklet
showing how to read fortunes in a variety
OF ways. 1t tells what the stars predict:
what the lines Of your hand foretell, and
what your dreams mean. 1t also tells
how to read cards; how to interpret tea
leaves and coffee grounds, and contains
wealth of interesting facts on signs,
omens and superstitions. This kind Of
study is great fun and affords endless
amusement for parties. Order your copy
OF this fascinating publication today. In
close ten cents to cover cost and handling.
Evening star., 1938-11-08
Shift In Government
Hours Opposed.

10 the Eoltor OF The Star:
The recent shift by certain Govern
ment departments to 9-4:30 hours has
brought inhu:nan traffic conditions to
Washington's streets from 8 80 to 9 and
from 4:30 to S. The cost thereof to
thousands Of citizens in loss of time and
nervous wear and tear is surely far
greater than any possible gain which
the Federal Government may realize
through complete synchronization of its
Washington activities.
1t would seem that In the interest OF
the orderly functioning of the commu-
nifty Of Washington the departments
concerned might be gracious enough to
return to their previous basis of earlier
opening and closing.
CONSTANT SOUTHWORTH.
November /.
Evening star., 1938-11-08

without adequate preparation of the
latter might leave the Americas with
less unity than they have now. So
the chief emphasis at Lima will
have to be greater coordination and
perfection Of the present peace ma
chinery, with the project OF armed
cooperation hinging upon the prog
ress made toward the former goal.