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The Washington times., 1938-01-08

YORK-sunday and Monday: Ty-
rome Power and Loretta Young in
Second Honeymoon: Tuesday and
Wednesday: "Back in Circulation"
with Pat O'Brien. Joan Blondell and
Margaret Lindsay; Edgar Bergen and
Charlie Mccarthy in "At the Races: :
Thursday: Buddy Rogers and Betty
Cradle in "This WAY Please; Friday:
Peter LORE in THANK You, Mr.. Moto,'
Floyd Gibbons in playing With
Danger: Saturday: Boris Karloft in
West Of SHANGHAI" Frank Buck in
"JunEie Menace" also sinking OF
the PanAy"
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

HIPPODROME-sun and Mon
day: JACK Benny and Martha Rave in
Artists and Modsls": also. Bobby
Breen in Make a wish; cartoon and
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

day: Myrna Loy and william Powell
in Double wedding" wednesday and
Thursday: Grace Moore and Melvin
Douglas in I'm Take Romance" Fri
day: KAY Francis In First Lady"
Saturday; Jack Holt IN Trapped BY
G-men," and BeFt Lehr and Alice
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

CENTRAL Sunday and Monday:
Tyrone Power and Loretta Young in
Second Honeymoon; Fred stone in
Quick Money" Tuesday and We'd
nesday: Greta Garbo and Charles
Boyer in Conquest" Thursday and
Friday: Jean Parker and James ELI
son in THE Barrier" Saturday:
Claire Trevor and Donald Woods in
Big Town Girl" and James Dunn in
Living on Love-" Our Gang.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

FUNERAL DIRECTORS
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

FARLAWN-sunday and Monday:
Eddie Cantor in Ali Baba Goes to
Town; comedy; news. Tuesday and
wednesday: Paul Mum in Life Of
Emile Zola." Thursday and Friday:
Errol Flynn and Joan Blondell in THE
PerfoOt Specimen" Saturday: Wheeler
and woolsey in High Fliers"; silly
symphony: comedy. Matinee only,
chapter No. 2. Johnny Mack Brown in
"Mild MNat DAVE"
The Washington times., 1938-01-08
OFFICIAL PROGRAM
Motion Picture Thester Owners
of District of Columbia
R-K-O KEITH'S

Fred Astaire, George Burns and Oracle
Allen in "a DAMSEL IN DISTRESS"
with Joan Fontaine Reginald Gardiner and
Ray Noble, Walt Disney's Lonesome
Ghosts"
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

TVTTE 9th st. Bet. and G
.~rTr Ex-MRs. BRADFORD" with Jean
Arthur and william Powell. Also-The
River" and ''The Plough That Broke the
Plaina +"
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

news Tuesday and Wednesday: Ed
ward Arnold in blossoms on Broad
way; also, Peter LORE in Lancer
Spy. cartoon and news, Thursday
and Friday: Roscoe Karns in Partner
in Crime; also. Dick Powell in stage
struck; cartoon and news Saturday:
Robert Montgomery in Live, Love
and Learn; also, Kay Francis in
Give Me Your Heart; cartoon and
news.
The Washington times., 1938-01-08

CALVERT - Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday: Jeanette Macdonald and
Allan Jones in The FREELY" We'd
nesday and Thursday: Anna Neagle
and Anton walbrook in Victoria the
Great" Friday: Kay Francis in First
Lady" Saturday: Leslie Howard and
Joan Blondell in Stand In"
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Wings in Winter.

Cooperation, rather than competition,
guides the commercial air lines of the
United States in new battle to increase
the safety margin of winter flying.
Based on records which show most
of the accidents which have hampered
the growth of the industry occur during
the season of most difficult flying condi-
tions, the air lines have signed safety
agreement which could well serve as
model for other types of cooperative
effort in other lines of endeavor.
Henceforth, all lines operating over
given route will ground their planes when
the dispatcher of one line decides con-
ditions are dangerous; normal speed will
pe curtailed to allow for reserve horse
power in emergencies; ceilings will be set
to clear the highest obstacle on each
route with only one motor, and minimum
flying conditions at each terminal will
be prepared and adhered to.
The plan is certain of success. In its
principles it is the same as the one
adopted many years ago by the railroads
when the hours of train crews were short
ened. The drive for profits and for win
ming business away from competitors is
forgotten in striving for safety. Speed
and continuous operation records are of
secondary Importance.
That the program is voluntary and
Nation wide in scope is to the credit of
commercial aviation.
Evening star., 1938-10-12

ences, with one building and a small
faculty and student body, is now a we'll
knit educational organization worthy to
be called the seat of Catholic learning in
America.
Today on its campus Archbishop Mich
ael j. Curley Of Baltimore, the chancel-
lor Of the university, will proclaim its
golden jubilee-its completion of fifty
successful years.
Today, beyond the arts and science
courses of undergraduate education, the
institution includes schools of sacred
theology, philosophy, law, canon law,
social work, nursing, education, archi-
lecture and engineering and graduate
school of arts and sciences.
Its Brookland campus is colorful with
the habited members of the Catholic
religious orders and the annual meetings
of the American hierarchy in the heart
of Catholic community as well as with
lay students in the fresh vigor of youth.
BY its contribution to education,
Catholic University has made contribu-
ton to Washington and thus to the Ma
ton. May its centennial date show evi-
dences of fifty more years Of even further
progress.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Listing Foreign Agents.

Those who looked for sinister revela-
tions in the list of agents of foreign
principals" made public by the State
Department must have been disap-
pointed The list resembled country
club roster rather than catalogue Of
spies and subversive propagandists. In
cluded among the registrants were for
mer American Ambassadors, repre-
sentative in Congress, two British
baronets and numerous lawyers. pub
ucity men and trade experts.
There is no occasion for surprise in
the fact that familiar, reputable names
crowded this list, the first to be issued
under the new law requiring registra-
ton Of every person or firm serving as
agent in this country Of any foreign
government, firm or individual. Nor
does any opprobrium attach to publica-
ton of the names of persons engaged in
such legitimate occupations as come
within the purview of the very broad
act.
Neither Congress nor the State De-
partment intended to stigmatize all who
Evening star., 1938-10-12
IL Duce Follows Suit.

Germans have a famous idiom-
"macht schule' Oiterally, makes
school') which means that new idea
catches on and produces converts and
imitators. Hitler at Saarbrucken on
Sunday told Great Britain she would
run the risk of German wrath were "a
Duff Cooper, an Eden or Churchill to
become prime minister instead of "a
Chamberlain" Before the echoes OF
that warning had died down, Mussolini
at Rome was hurting somewhat similar
defiance at France. Whatever else may
be said of the Fascist axis, it is display
ing a we'll co-ordinated brand of team
work.
II Duce's peeve derives from British
delay in implementing the Anglo-1tal-
ian pacts of April 16. He is displeased
that the agreements cannot become ef-
fective until Parliament passes upon
them. The Fascist Grand Council con-
venes on October 18. Mussolini is anx-
ious to plume himself before it on the
deal with Chamberlain. Postponement
is correspondingly irksome, and 1nfor-
malone Diplomatica, Rome foreign Of
flee organ, was told to shoot off some
appropriate barbs in Downing Streets
direction.
While Great Britain is feeling the lash
of the Palazza Venezias scorn, even more
vehement cracks are taken at France.
The dictator's favorite mouthpiece, Vir-
ginio Gayda, is belaboring Premier
Daladier for "ingratitude" for not recog-
nizing the part Mussolini played in bring
ing about the Munich conference and
preventing war. Informed international
quarters in Italy now believe that II
Duce will demand that France renounce
her alliance with Soviet Russia as an
essential part of any Franco-Italian
reconciliation. The French are said to
be on notice that they need not expect
re-establishment of friendly relations
with italy at bargain rates.
indicative OF the MOOD IN winch MUS
solini finds himself is Signor Gayda's
reference in Glornale dItalia to France S
"avid egoism, overbearing pretentious-
ness, general jealousy, intrigue, continue
Gus hostility and unremitting march to-
ward the depths of subversiye crimi-
nality." If the Fascist branch of the
Munich peace syndicate are keen for
European appeasement, it can hardly be
said that either the senior or Junior
member of the BerlinRome axis, who
ever that may be, is going about it with
Chesterfieldian finesse. Each of them
seems to think bludgeons better than
bouquets.
Evening star., 1938-10-12

find themselves required to register as
agents for foreign principals" al
though careful drafting possibly would
have spared many registrants the trouble
OF complying with the law. There are
times, however, when the public interest
demands that respectable citizens and
organizations submit to certain restric-
tions or regulations in order to bring
under control forces using respectable
pursuits as mask for anti-social or
anti-government activities. Thus, the
Federal firearms law requires registra-
ton Of certain guns by their owners,
many of whom are law-abiding citizens.
The Government does not expect the
underworld gunman to register his weap-
ons, but If he is picked up with an un-
registered gun in his possession, he may
be prosecuted. So, too, with the sub
versive agent who is unwilling to con-
fess his activities to the State Depart
ment-he can be prosecuted effectively
for non-registration, whereas it might
prove exceedingly difficult to convict him
under any other Federal law.
Registration under the firearms act or
the foreign agents" act, like finger
printing, is an identification procedure
feared by none but criminals or other
enemies of society. There is one phase
of the agents registration law, however,
that should be examined carefully. This
has to do with the disclosure by the
State Department, for public consump-
ton, of the compensation received by
each registrant. This intimate informa-
ton may be of value to the State De-
partment, but apparently it serves no
useful purpose in the hands of the gen.
eral public beyond gratifying curiosity
over the other fellows income. A fair
test of the law probably will reveal
other defects that should be corrected by
the next Congress.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

note on a great organ would be as salts
flying as q symphony In the grand
manner.
It may be that there nave been some
musicians In the worlds history who
have so been satisfied with single tone,
mysteriously filling a void IN heart, mind
and spirit. Perhaps Cesar Franck was
such soul.
Most listeners, however, can claim no
such mystic satisfaction.
They must have their bass snugly
dovetailed into the musical fabric of the
piece. Let us add here that the term, a
piece of music is good term, and used
by all musicians. In recent years ten
dency has arisen to frown upon it, as II
1t were not a good term, but the wise
will pay no attention to such trend.
The bass, they find, furnishes about IS
per cent Of their enjoyment of a piece
OF music.
They see music as a structure, whether
large or small, light or heavy makes no
difference; towering structure going
up into the sky, and, like all structures,
1t must be based on something, and be
made out Of something.
The basis is the universal appeal Of
music, which makes it the only true
universal language; the building material
is mind, body and soul stuff, the INTEL
lectual, physical and spiritual bricks and
stones.
Whether great or small music 1t must
have an idea in it somewhere. So many
listeners make the mistake of thinking
this idea must be scaled to their own
lesser appreciation. That is why inno-
vators in music always are looked upon
aSkance.
Their ideas may be new. but they must
be ideas of some sort. Most often the
idea takes the form of melodic line, as
the custom is to call it. Here again
many listeners make the mistake Of
thinking the song pattern must be along
a simple plan, or at least plan whose
formation is known to them.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. Put on a disc of Honneger's
Chant of Nigamon," and hear nothing
remotely resembling an ordinary melodic
pattern. Yet idea is there, just as it was
in Wagner, when he shocked his musical
world.
If we see music as towering structure,
we see at least three -fourths of it bass.
This means that all the rest, the beau
tiful towers and spires Of our cleaning
Tai Mahal of music, is but one-fourth
of the whole, though, it must be ad-
mitted, the crowning fourth.
The deep satisfying bass, the har-
monic structure, is what courses In our
musical blood long after the song /!
forgotten.
We think we are in love with the tune
little or great tune, but all the time it is
the satisfying texture of the bass, the
deep everlasting arms of the harmony.
which cradles mind and spirit.
No musical experience makes you un-
derstand this quite so well as playing an
electrical record on an old machine,
and then putting the same record imme-
diately on good electrical phonograph.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Red Whiskers.

Perhaps 1T can't happen here" But II
it ever does the freckle- -beflecked little
girl who has tried so hard to blot out the
reddish specks on her nose with lemon
juice and May dew can stop her beauty
treatments and take heart. For Professor
Hans Guenther, Hitler's outstanding ex-
pert on what makes Nordic, has told
the world that freckles are one Of the
signs of Nazi thoroughbred.
He is not sure it is an infallible sign,
but he does know that certain other
"lower" races are unable to raise q
freckle. However, he has hit upon one
almost infallible guide, one that stands
out like shining light, as it were. If q
freckledfaced young man can grow a
full red beard, Herr Guenther can mark
him at once as full-blown Nordic. And
he has excellent authority: Emperor
Frederick I, who was a Nordic, had a
beard so red and full he was named Bar
barossa.
The relationships of an individual and
his government seem difficult enough
when the details of persons income are
spread out for the public to gaze upon.
Life would seem intolerable If one were
forced to wear red whiskers to guarantee
his civil rights. They have their ad-
vantages in isolated circumstances, as a
personal trade mark in Senator Lewis
case, or merely as means of worrying
ones friends. But a mass movement
toward red whiskers could only bring one
solace: There are so few horses left to
scare.
On the whole Nordic beavers are fitful
things. One never knows where they
may be found Many a dark crown tops
a chin full of rosy filaments which have
never seen the light of more than a day
or two. And in Northern Africa is q
tribe of Arabs, obviously descended like
all Arabs from Semitic beginnings, who
boast bright red whiskers and prominent
freckles.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
What constitutes the real charm OF

What constitutes the real charm Of
music?
When we think of the vast difference
between a typical Hawaiian hula and a
Beethoven symphony, We may feel at
first tnat there is no specific answer.
II we look further, and especially if
we listen better, we will come at last to
the belief that the real appeal can be
isolated.
1t is what is commonly called the bass.
Hula or symphony, the underlying
structure OF tone Is what makes it music,
and this is in no way forgetting the song
pattern, the working out the melodic
invention, the tempo, the now famous
melodic line, the score and one feature
without which music Is not music, as we
know 1t.
The accompaniment, broadly speak,
ing, is what makes our music enjoyable.
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This is proved to one through the ears.
The phonograph, in its old and mod
ern forms, is the best instrument for
this.
Two instruments, rather, since both
the old acoustic and the modern elec-
trical phonograph are needed.
The Older gramophones relied solely on
the laws OF acoustics, hence they are
called acoustical.
The new ones, now so popular, rely
upon electricity, both for the making
of records and the playing back Of the
same.
1t is only when the two forms are
played side by side that the difference
can be appreciated, and then 1t is real
ized instantly that the great difference
Is in the bass.
This difference, however, would be
only theoretical If 1t were not from the
effect following, this effect being the re-
action of the listener on hearing an elec-
trical recording on an electrical machine
after playing for some time electrical re-
cordings on an old acoustical machine.
The difference is astounding in the
ears, and in the effect produced in a
sensitive listener. 1t must not be thought
for moment that all listeners to music
are alike, or that this effect will be pro-
duced on every one.
The musically elect, in other words.
have world Of enjoyment all their own.
These are not only music producers, both
composers and artists, but also good lis
teners. For the latter music Is something
not to be spoken of lightly, or taken just
as good exercise for the feet and legs.
4 + 4
The surge of the bass, the accompani-
ment, broadly speaking, is what gets
the sensitive listener as he first puts on
good recording, after an absence from
his electrical gramophone.
The harmonic structure may not ex-
actly send shivers of appreciation down
his spine, but it does something more
sensible, it makes him realize, perhaps
for the first time in his life, just how
much of his enjoyment in music comes
from this part of the scale.
Those low, satisfying tones are much
more than the mere sounding of such
notes in themselves, of course. II 1t
were not so, the mere pressing OF bass
Evening star., 1938-10-12

developed into yearly production equal
to our present imports.
From IS years Of study of mineral
deposits in the Rocky Mountain States
(after II years in Africa and 4 in Rus
sia) the writer states unreservedly that
the United States has just as great
wealth in her West and South, i.e., min
erals and chemical deposits. as any ma
ton possesses. Our mineral deposits are
close together, i.e. in the Dakotas, Wy
oming and Montana. The deposits Of
one mineral found in Russia will be one
or two thousand miles distant from the
next one. Africa is the same, except that
the largest diamond mine premier Dia-
mond Mining Coz and the worlds larg-
est gold field, the Rand. are only ap-
proximately so miles apart. both located
on the Transvaal high veldt.
urge and plead for the prompt de-
velopment of our own ample and easily
reached mineral and chemical resources.
j. B. CARPER,
Engineer Gealogst.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Proposes Building
OF Square Gardens"


To the Editor of The Star:
At the present moment the question of
ROW houses in Arlington County is
prominent. The nature of building de-
velopments in this county is of impor-
tance to Washington and to the whole
country.
There is one possible form of de-
velopment which has been given far too
little attention; it probably offers the
best solution of the traffic problem and
of Fairgrounds for children.
This is the square garden" of Lon
don. England, which was a prominent
feature of the growth of this city
hundred years ago. The only equivalent
in this country of which myself have
knowledge is Gramercy Park, New York.
For through traffic we may have a
wide road with no private houses facing
it. For private houses we turn of from
this road and enter large square.
Houses are built around this square, and
there Is a garden in the center, fenced
off from the road. Residents have keys
to the gates of this garden, where
children may play in safety.
We may have rows of houses around
this square, and there may be apartment
houses. Properly designed these are
unobjectionable, and they have impor-
tant points of economy and convenience
in their favor. The essential thing is to
have ample open space in the center Of
the square.
1t is not too late for several fine ex-
amples of this form of development
in Arlington County, If men really in
terested in the welfare and beauty OF
the Nations Capital would cooperate
to secure it. HERBERT CARTER.
october 8, 1938.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Urges Development
OF U. s. Mineral Resources.

10 the EQltOr OF Inc star.
The Monopoly Committee of Congress,
from its quiet non-spectacular investiga-
tions into all the phases OF business, in
dustry and commerce of our great coun-
try, will eventually come to the con-
clusion that the monopoly most impor-
tant to be regulated is that of key min
erals and fiuxing chemicals.
That is: Manganese, cobalt, tin mica,
titanium, vanadium, platinum, potash
and other chemicals
The United States pays, according to
the very competent statisticians of our
Department Of Commerce, an average of
two billion dollars per year for the fore
going elements-outgoing to foreign la
Dor, machinery, banking and transporta-
tion. Conceive how many new jobs the
United States could create at home by
producing two billion dollars Of key min
erals and chemicals In the States and
Puerto Rico.
The United States has a semi-devel-
oped country in the II Rocky Mountain
States, from Mexico to the Canadian
border, and Puerto Rico. This can be
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Discusses Polish Seizure
OF Czech Territory.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
In defense, by DR.. Oscar Halecki, OF
the recent Polish seizure Of Czechoslo-
vakian territory, as reported in The Star
of October g. 1898, there appear some
very important omissions. May I point
out some facts on the other side OF this
story?
DR.. Halecki is quoted as saying that
the recent seizure by Poland merely puts
the boundary back where it was in 1918.
But he fails to state how Poland hap
pened to be holding this territory at that
time. He fails to state that Poland her
self had seized this territory by force,
at the close of the World War. although
this territory had been included Tor
hundreds of years in the lands OF the
Bohemian crown and had not been
part of any territory recognized as be-
longing to Poland. He also fails to ex-
plain that subsequently, after some dlf-
ficulties, the Czech and Polish authori-
ties agreed upon temporary boundary
pending final settlement of the dispute
by an international commission, but Po-
!ond failed to honor her agreement to
await the results of this arbitration and
proceeded to treat this temporary
boundary as permanent by having dele
gates elected from the disputed terri
tory to the Polish Parliament. There
upon the Czechs, seeing that Poland had
no intention of submitting the question
to arbitration, sent in troops TO occupy
the territory. Subsequently, the confer
ence of ambassadors at Paris induced
Poland and Czechoslovakia to accept
partition of the territory along the
boundary which was in force until re-
Gently.
Poland thus received territory which
had not been regarded as Polish De1ore.
But she was not satisfied with part OF
it; she wanted all Of it. In fact, Poland
had no sooner regained her freedom at
the close of the war than she began
grabbing territory right and left-from
Czechoslovakia. from Lithuania. and
even from Russia. That is what brought
on the "Bolshevik INVASION And that
also explains how Poland has larger
minoritieS than any other country in
Europe. And she is still looking for more
territory to grab. Even today there are
reports that she Is plotting with Hun
gary for the establishment of common
olish-Hungarian frontier, plan which
could not be realized without the seizure
of intervening Czechoslovakian territory
which is peopled by neither Poles nor
HungarianS.
DR.. Halecki also fails to point out that
Poland does not accord her minorities
the treatment which she demanded for
the Polish minority in Czechoslovakia, or
that the Teschen territory in dispute was
rich in coal deposits.
EDW. WOLESENSKY. =
october 8, 1888.
Evening star., 1938-10-12
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,
Improvement.

Improvement.
I likes to hear de man dat come
A-Stumpin' roun' de State;
When he starts in a-speakin' some
De SCUM is simply great!
His voice it do seem mighty sweet;
Oars only jes one thing
He needs to make it all complete
I wisht he'd learn to sing!
Oar is such beauty in each word
Dat 1t would be sublime
If now an then you only heard
Some music and some rhyme.
OF course he's made a mighty name
But when dem echoes ring
can't help wishin' jes de same
Dat he would learn to sing!