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Evening star., 1938-03-31

by some forsythia bushes about is feet
tall which are to be seen at the border
Of big estate.
The bold black branches, black as
ebony from distance, set of the yellow
OF the flowers, which in turn make the
branches stand out as a sort of design.
There is much beauty in tree and shrub
branches, boughs and limbs.
Every one interested in the garden and
in the art of foundation planting should
pay particular attention to the character
Of branch formations.
Often shrubs placed near foundations
are found to have such rugged individ-
uality in their branches that they look
particularly pleasing in winter, when
they, of course, have no leaves or flowers.
Not all shrubs fall into this classifica-
ton. The lilac, by the way, is one of
them, but it is not often seen in founda-
tion paintings. Perhaps this is partly
due to the fact that few persons are
willing to prune shrubs as much as they
should be pruned. Another factor Is
that OF usage; it has not been common
to put nlacs next city houses, although
1t was often done In New England towns
and on the farms of the Northern States.
X
There has been a tendency in recent
years for home owners to belittle such
good old shrubs as the forsythia
Mostly this was done on the curious
basis Of some persons who do not like
cats because they are not dogs.
Some amateur gardeners profess to
despise the forsythia, because, indeed, it
does not have the grace of the abelia, for
instance.
Plants are not to be judged against
other plants so much, as for and in and
by themselves.
II this latter method of judgment and
comparison is used, all plants are found
TO have some good use.
A prominent horticultural writer once
TOOK Hing at the use of meat hedges"
IN suburban developments. The truth
IS that such hedges have proper place,
both utilitarian and esthetic, in such
situations, and no amount of polite
sneering will end them.
Another and greater writing horticul-
turist spoke we'll of various weeds as
dooryard adornments! He knew that
such things, if known and kept within
bounds, often added true beauty and in
teIesC 10 Iounuatlon paintings.
X
Whatever any one says, the fortunate
thing is that the great mass of the
people will keep on planting forsythia.
And they will be right.
Pruning should be done after the
blossoms fade. 1t is a gross grower, and
needs rather severe cutting back.
Lllacs and others, which make their
leaves first, must not be pruned at this
tlme, OF course. Their pruning is to come
after their Towering. This applies to
climbing roses, too no matter how much
the long canes whip in the wind
Another shrub which has done better
than usual this spring is the true bridal
wreath, the Spirea prunifoIia. (The
1orm commonly called bridal wreath has
yet to bloomD The prunifolia form of
splrea has been so covered with tinv
white blossoms that it would seem i'm
possible to crowd in another. This gives
nne deep effect not always secured with
thls shrub. Its blooming close to the
iorsythla has softening effect on the
latter, at the same time it accents it's
color. 1Io
Evening star., 1938-03-31
Won Papen's Next Job.

Colonel Franz Won Papen, whose
Shiny trail of intrigue now stretches
from Massachusetts avenue in Wash
ington to the Ball-Platz in Vienna, is
about to be assigned new fields to con-
quer. AS reward for four years Of
underground but triumphant effort in
paving the way for Anschluss, he is to
be given opportunity to employ his
Machiavellian talents as Ambassador to
Turkey.
The Turks are prompt to interpret Won
Papen's new mission as sign that the
Germans intend, as soon as practicable,
to pursue the "Drang mach Osten"
\ (thrust to the EasD policy ordained by
"Mein Kampf," the Nazi Koran, as Ger
many's manifest destiny. Whether Tur-
key comes within the orbit of the
gargantuan territorial feast in the
East on which, according to the Hit
lerian horoscope, the Reich means one
day to gorge itself, is not clear. It seems
more likely that Won Papen's job, in its
initial stages at least, will be to coun-
teract British and Soviet influence in
Turkey, and plant seeds that will make
it easier for German influence, when it
has bludgeoned its way across Central
Europe via Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, to
knock at Turkeys door and demand ad-
mission.
That will prove to be a decidedly tall
order, if the new Turkey which President
Ataturk is building continues to develop
on the scale which has marked it, 10.
Evening star., 1938-03-31
Protests Site and Plan for
the Jefferson Memorial
To the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor OF Tne StAr:
Is democracy dead in America? The
citizens of the District of Columbia and
of the United States do not want useless
pile of stone erected either in the middle
of the Tidal Basin or beside it as a
monument to our beloved Thomas JET
ferson.
Washington and the whole country
needs national auditorium. We should
build such an auditorium now, and as a
gesture of defiance to dictatorship let
us dedicate that national auditorium to
Thomas Jefferson and to the principles
for which he stood-to democracy, to
free speech and free assembly of our
people.
The 1901 plan is already finished-the
Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial at
the ends. the Washington Monument in
the middle, with the White House and
the cherry blossoms" the tips of the
north-south transept. Mr.. F. l.. Ohm
sted, the only surviving member of the
1901 Mcmillan Commission, is opposed
to the Tidal Basin site.
I have heard no one say that he or
she is in favor Of it except the Jefferson
Memorial Commission and I firmly be-
lieve that they favor it so heartily
because that site is so low that 1t would
require more stone and cement than
any other in the city to build the
foundation.
The commission is taking advantage
OF the fact that we, the "citizens" OF
the District, have no suffrage, but I feel
sure that II We had chance to vote on
this important issue-an auditorium
endowed for the use of the people of
the Nation or useless pile of stone and
mortar-the auditorium would receive
our unanimous appreciation.
If the commission and the Congress
should automatically disregard the ear
nest entreaties of the thinking people
Of our country, our beloved patriot
Thomas Jefferson will look coldly down
upon their futile efforts
Their temple by the Basins brim,
pile Of stone will be to him
And twill be nothing more
Let us select another site, one which
is centrally located and one which needs
beautifying, devote the street level en-
tirely to parking and the superstructure
to an auditorium whose seating capacity
shall exceed that of any in America, but
which may be subdivided by sound
proof partitions into dozen smaller
auditoriums for daily use by the civic
organizations of Washington.
Let the Auditorium Committee ask
the Congress for funds with which to
build this long-felt want and "see" If
you can get the Jefferson Memorial
Commission to recommend that as a
fitting memorial their SO ,0OO 900 be used
as permanent endowment and that
this national auditorium be dedicated
to the author of the Declaration of
Independence that government of the
people, for the people and by the people
shall not perish in America at least.
MINNIE FROST RANDS.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Mexico's proposed bond issue to raise
funds for the purchase of appropriated
oil properties words out in dollars to
22,222,222, at the present rate of ex-
change. This too utterly too too" fig
ure is a reminder of a refrain of long
ago that was supposed to be one of the
funniest OF expressions.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Preparations are made in all merri-
ment for college plays which express
sentiments cheerfully but without any
permanence. The man with ideas to
express may be looked for in the circle
of official life rather than in the array
of temporary tinsel.
Evening star., 1938-03-31
March

Over the fields with buoyant stride,
Making pillows of unbleached grass,
March seems carefree, thoughtless
lass,
Not Springs sweet youthful, blushing
bride.
Her coverlet Of snow is worn,
Her bed Of leaves Is tossed and dry;
Wild are the winds that shrek and
cry,
March passes on-April Is born.
-rs-t Monica williams.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Future students OF the United States
Government will be careful to quote
Thomas Jefferson's opinions, but they
will also be expected to state with pre-
cision what Mr.. James A. Farley thought
about various points of law and custom.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Preparations are already being made
for the summer circus which will appear
in brilliancy; yet with solemn reminder
that advantages of impression have
turned to politics and that there is no
prospect of such another parsonage as
P. T. Barnum.
Evening star., 1938-03-31
Styles Change in Almanacs.

uncle Sans Almanac, compiled by
Frederic j. Haskin, is the latest In
almanacs-no advertising, no propa-
ganda, no lengthy tabulations, but a
wealth of everyday information boiled
down for family use-household hints
garden advice, notes on etiquette, point
ers on books and all sorts of political and
economic data besides the usual almanac
and calendar pages. The 1888 edition
has received more compliments from
buyers than any of the previous editions
owing to its new and novel features and
wealth of information. Send for yo,,r
copy now. Ten cents postpaid.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Music calls on youth for present
Interpretation and stands ready with for
giveness for the artist who sometimes
appears to ignore the meaning of the
words as they are patiently translated.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Fireworks and the cherry blossoms
make a combination never to be for
gotten even though they come at a time
when proceedings at the United States
Capitol keep sincere and responsible
citizens too busy even to take look.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

1t is hoped that the provision for
numerous functionaries will not recall
that ancient aphorism of the farm, "a
boy is boy; two boys are half boy,
and three boys are no boy at ALL"
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Having written another book Mr.. Elm
stein may be again expected to concern
himself with science without attempting
to correct irregularities which may
occur in the State of New Jersey.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Those who laugh so cheerily at the
Senate's reorganization vote have still
of Representatives shows its wisdom in
knowing when it has had enough.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Parents who are inquiring for their
children are now considered fortunate
if they do not have to make it clear that
they are letting the police know as little
about their troubles as possible.
Evening star., 1938-03-31
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Evening star., 1938-03-31
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Era of Great JOyfuIy

Era of Great Joyfulness.
Why shouldn't we be full of cheer,
In spite of problems grave,
And words that move us to a tear
Because folks won't behave?
Though grief so grim may overtake
Our spirits unawares,
There's everything We need to make
Us all forget our cares.
How can the world help being gay,
In face of trouble slight,
+ With motion pictures all the day
And radio all the night!
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Despite numerous new songs, it is
understood that presidential preference
still turns to home on the range, where
the skies are not cloudy all day."
Evening star., 1938-03-31
Just CuriOsities Now.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Premier Mussolini has been given
Emperor Halle Selassie's crown, but he
sends it to the museum. Crowns are
museum pieces in this day of dictators.
Evening star., 1938-03-31
These Peculiar Thirties.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The 1930s, it appears, will be remem-
bered in history as the era of the New
Deal. imitation, and deck of playing
cards consisting of five suits.
Evening star., 1938-03-31
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Evening star., 1938-03-31
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Evening star., 1938-03-31

Jud Tunkins says de man dat gifts tired
of his old friends is de one dat goes to
town and buys gold bricks.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

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Evening star., 1938-03-31
Forgivinr but Not ForsetfuI.

F0rgiving but Not ForgetfuI.
Were you ever double-crossed in your
political career?"
Several times" answered Senator
Sorghum. "But never twice by the same
man."
Evening star., 1938-03-31

WASHINGTON, d. C.
THURSDAY March 81, 1888
Evening star., 1938-03-31

A reader can get the dns,Der to am
question OF fact by Driting The Epentno
Star Information Bureau, Frederic j.
Haskin, director, Washington, D. C.
Please tnclose stamp for reply.
Evening star., 1938-03-31
The Dictator.

Inc DICTATOR.
His life is either gay or grim,
AS strange adventures thrill him.
One day the crowds are cheering him:
Another they may try to kill him.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Q. What are Sudeten Cermans?-
M. F.
A. They are the Germans, about $780,
600 In number, living in the Sudetic
Mountain region Of Czechoslovakia, in
Bohemia and Moravia, near the German
border. They constitute crucial ire
dentist problem for the Czechosloyak
government.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

@. Who has the largest individual COL
lection of spoons?-H. w.
A. According to Better Homes and
Gardens, DR.. Ella K. Dearborn of Port
land, Greg, has a collection of 1850
spoons from all parts of the world.
Evening star., 1938-03-31

leadership" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, requires a man strong
enough to accept blame as well as
flattery."
Evening star., 1938-03-31
The True Song.

The True Song.
Singing-not hoping to rally
The crowd to mood for the fray.
Singing-contented to daily
In tune to the mocking birds lay.
Not in q selfish endeavor
To fashion the thought of the throng,
But singing, as life sings forever,
Just for the sake of the song.
"A man is wise," said Uncle Eben, IF
he can realize dat he has made mistake.
He is still wiser If he can keep dc In
formation 10 hiloel3."
Evening star., 1938-03-31

Q. What disposition was made Of
George Washington's slaves?-S. B. p.
A. George Washington was the owner
OF 124 slaves when he died. In his will
he gave the slaves held in his own right
their freedom on the death OF Mrs.
Washington. 1t was, however, found
necessary, for prudential reasons, to give
the slaves their freedom within one year
after Washington's death.
Evening star., 1938-05-30
MRS. STANLEY, INJURED,
RESTING COMFORTABLY
Wife Of Ex-Assistant Attorney
General Was Hurt in Crash
of Two Autos.

Mrs. Mary @. Stanley Of Laurel,
Md, wife of former Assistant Attor-
ney General William G. Stanley, was
reported resting fairly comfortably In
Garfield Hospital today after being
injured severely in an automobile
crash yesterday at Three Naples, near
Berwyn, Md.
Physicians believed Mrs. Stanley
was suffering from 4 fractured pei
Wis, but. an X-ray examination was
awaited to confirm: the diagnosis.
Maryland police said Mrs. Stanley
was riding In an automobile driven
by her husband when it was involved
In q collision with q car driven by
George L. Schultz Of Three Naples.
An automobile accident two years
ago near Gibson Island, Md, took the
life of Elizabeth Saowden Stanley,
1S-year-old daughter of Mrs. Stanley.
In Washington, four persons were
injured last night at Albemarle street
and Nebraska avenue in q collision
Of automobiles which police said were
operated by Ralph Fifath, 10. Great
Neck, Long Island, and r. A. Mes
baum. jr., Mount Airy, Md.
Agnes Drew, 10, Of 1885 Upton street
NV; Rita Gilmore, !. 10, Of the same
address; Eleanor Thomardes, 10. Of
5000 Fourteenth street NV, and Will
liam McGovans, Georgetown Univer-
sity student, wer treated 1T George
town Hospital for cuts and bruises.
Police charged Mr.. Pif7ath, with fail
ure to yield the right Of way.
Evening star., 1938-05-30
WEIGHTS PARLEY
OPENS TOMORROW
State and City Officials
From All Parts of U. S.
Will Gather Here.

State and city officials concerned
with protecting the buying public
against such things as short" weights
and misleading labels will meet here
tomorrow for discussion Of their mu-
tual problems at the twenty-eighth
National Conference on Weights and
Measures.
Sessions Of the four day conference
will be held tomorrow and Thursday
in the auditorium of the east building
Of the Bureau of Standards, and on
Wednesday and Friday in the Hall
of Nations" at the Washington Hotel.
DR.. Briggs to Speak.
DR.. Lyman j. Briggs. director Of
the Bureau of Standards, is scheduled
to open the program tomorrow with
an address reviewing new develop
ments in the. weights and measures
field.
Following his address, Herbert b.
Lewis Of the Brown g. Sharpe Manu-
featuring Co. will outline the view
point of industry concerned with in
terchangeable manufacturing toward
the proposal to standardize the inch,
urged by DR.. Briggs at the conference
last year.
Other speakers on the program to-
morrow include DR.. j. Franklin Meyer
of the Bureau of Standards, who will
speak on Labelling of 1ncandescent
Filament Lamps" Alex Pisciotta, di-
rector of the Bureau of Weights and
Measures of New York City. who will
demonstrate fuel-oil meter testing
equipment: Frank L. Harmon, di-
rector Of the Idaho Bureau Of Weights
and Measures, who will demonstrate
new vehicle-scale testing equipment.
and H. w. Bearce of the Bureau Of
Standards, who will discuss parking
meters.
Other Discussions.
Other technical subjects will be dis
cussed in the following sessions, with
election of officers scheduled for the
final session Friday. An evening en-
tertainment session is planned for
Wednesday night, with tour of the
Bureau of Standards laboratories
scheduled Thursday afternoon.
Evening star., 1938-05-30
Officer Arrests His Namesake,
Who Once Saued An0tl1er's Life

Things were dull around police head
quarters yesterday when there came
. telephone call for Detective Sergt.
George Z. Thornton.
Hello, Sergeant" said the voice
over the wire, this Is George Thorn
ton. hear you want to see me-"
That's right" said the detective to
his namesake. "Just tell me where
you are and stay there till I come after
you"
He did, and so Detective Sergt.
George E. Thornton arrested George
Thornton, colored, wanted for investi-
CATION in connection with . purse rob-
berry, and locked him up ct the ninth
precinct.
Such friendly cooperation with the
law was nothing new on the part Of
George Thornton, Sergt. George +.
Thornton then recalled.
The Detective Bureau has had high
yegard for George Thornton sine
Evening star., 1938-05-30

one night seven years ago when De-
tective Dewey Guest went to . house
in the Northeast section to investi-
gate q shooting.
Standing outside . closed door,
George Thornton-the one in jail to-
day-said:
"Mr. Guest, don't 60 in there
that mans going to shoot the first
person inside the door,"
"Oh, I'll bring him out all right,
said the detective.
But as he opened the door. George
Thornton showed him aside and
rushed into the room ahead Of him.
A pistol shot rang out and George
Thornton fell with two bullets In his
abdomen. Detective Guest was not
hurt.
And 50, having faith in the long
memory Of detectives. George Thorn
ton knew he would be treated all right
II he surrendered when hs learned
the ofacers wanted 70 talk TO pa.
Evening star., 1938-05-30
COLLEG|ANSHEAR
REV. v. B. STEH[
Hagerstown Rector Gives
BacCaIaureate Sermon
at Maryland U.
By a stan Correspondent OF The Star.

COLLEGE PARK. Md. May 30
The Rev. Walter B. Stehl. rector of
St. Johns Episcopal Church, Hagers-
town, Md. yesterday stressed the
necessity for belief in personal God
in the baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class of the University OF
Maryland here.
Basing his sermon on a quotation
from ST. Matthew, read by DR.. A. F.
Woods of the university faculty, the
Rev. Mr.. Stehl said I'VE want to know
that God cares for us, that He is a
Father, that he is personal God"
The Rev. B. A. Matzen. pastor Of
the Berwyn Presbyterian Church, the
only other speaker on the program,
delivered the invocation. The service
officially opens graduation week.
DR.. Grosvenor to Speak.
At the commencement exel cises Sat-
urday DR.. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, presi-
dent of the National Geographic
Society, will deliver the principal ad-
dress. DR.. H. C.. Byrd, president of
the University of Maryland, will confer
degrees on TIC graduates of both
the Baltimore and College Park
branches of the college.
Included on the program for grad
uation week is the dinner to be given
by Dean Marie Mount of the home
economics department for graduates
of her class at the Iron Gate Inn,
Washington, tomorrow.
Other Events Scheduled.
Members of the r. O. T. c. will
receive the commissioners at 2:30
pm. Wednesday and the awards as
sembly will be held at pm. the
same day. The senior class banquet
will be held at the Beaver Dam
Country Club at $50 pm. Wednes-
day, followed by the Rossbourg dance
at the university auditorium at 10 pm.
Thursdays events include the
junior-senior German at the uni
versity gymnasium and class day ex-
ercises will be held at 2:30 pm. Fri
day, followed by the commencement
ball at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1938-05-30
MARIJUANA, N0TLIQU0R,
is BLAMED BY SUSPECT
Man Sentenced to 80 Days After
He Falls in Street Several
Times

Luke Hill, colored, about 55, pleaded
not guilty to being drunk on John
Marshall place yesterday when ar
raigned before Judge Hobart Newman
in Police Court today.
Hill, shaking nervously, said:
"I'll tell you the truth, judge. I was
glad the policeman arrested me because
I might have fallen in front Of q
street car or something. hadn't
touched q drop, though. I'd Just been
smoking marijuana weeds that you get
out in the country"
After hearing Policeman p. J. Jor-
dan explain he had arrested Hill after
seeing him fall in the street several
times, Judge Newman remarked, I'VE
ought to indict you. Thatu be 80
days"
Evening star., 1938-05-30
JOSEPH H. BODINE, "a,
DlESAT CROPLEY HOME
Deceased Had Been Merchant In
Maryland for 80 Years.
Funeral Tomorrow.

special Dispatch to The Star.
CROPLEY, Nd, May 80 Joseph
H, Bodine, "a, q merchant here for
the past 80 years, died at his home
Saturday night after an illness Of nine
months.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Ida B. Bodine; q sister, Mrs. jeanette
Doty of Sparrows Point, Nd, and
three brothers, John Bodine Of WASH
inston and Charles and Thomas Bo-
dine Of Cropley.
The funeral will take place at 2:30
pm. tomorrow from the M. E. Church
South ~ Potomac, Nd, burial to be
in the church cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-05-30
5000 CHICKENS BURN

MOUNT VERNON, Va, May 80
Especially Damage estimated at <10.-
600 was caused by q FIRE which de.
stroyed . two-story brooder house near
here yesterday, burning more than
5000 chickens.
The brooder, owned by Charles
Gustaffson, also contained several tons
Of feed and about $4,000 worth Of
equipment, all Of which was destroyed.
The fire was discovered by Curtis
0uekert.