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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

quaintance, man past TO- If his work
palled upon him, and he responded with
vigor: Il am more interested in it today
than when began it over 40 years ago.
Every case is new case to me, and 60
to my work each day with a sense of
privilege and opportunity"
The great Master, in one OF His difficult
words, had this ideal of zest for work in
mind when He said: IF any man compel
thee to 60 with him mile, go with him
twain" He was attempting to give to life
new and real meaning, to take from 1t
its compulsions and to give it a readiness
OF action and sense of its great priv
ileges and opportunities. He would make
tasks that seem dull and unattractivc
appealing and richly profitable.
At this time of the year millions of our
youth are entering schools and colleges,
and some OF them do so with reluctance
to undertake studies that are exacting
and that call for application and self
imposed discipline. The books may seem
old and unappealing, and yet their hard
lessons must be learned To make these
books have new meaning and to ap-
proach classroom and study with better
understanding of their meaning and pur-
pose means to take from them the grind
and the reluctantly accepted discipline
and to make them vital means to vital
ends. Gladstone once said at the end of
his eventful life that the men who had
rendered the greatest public service in
England had been men who approached
their tasks moved by deep religious
impulse. 1t was the driving force OF a
great ideal that made their work at all
this ideal Of life in the lines:
I'm the worlds broad field Of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be not like dumb driven cattle;
Be hero in the strife"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
A Real Airport

With progress of engineering plans
for the proposed Washington Ma
tional Airport at Gravelly Point,
there is growing belief that the Ma
tional Capital, so long deficient in air
transport accommodations, eventu-
ally will have an air terminal which
will be source of local and national
pride.
Comparative studies of Gravelly
Point and the s28,OOO,0oO North
Beach Airport now under develop
ment in New York indicate that
Washington will have the better of
the two airports by considerable
margin. From the standpoint of
proximity to the cities they serve,
there are few major airports in the
world which will be the equal of the
new Washington National Airport.
Not only will the construction of
an airport at Gravelly Point satisfy
local need of long standing for ade-
quate air transport terminal facili-
ties, but it is expected to bring other
improvements in its wake. The fill
ing will eliminate vast expanse of
shallow, weed-choked river flats
which long have been both an eye
sore and source of peril to increas-
ing numbers of amateur boating
enthusiasts.
There are indications, too, that the
construction, with the attendant
dredging Of nearby river areas for
fill material, will improve conditions
in the river. BY narrowing and deep
ening the cross section of the river,
the fill is expected to increase the
securing action of the river flow and
tidal movements, tending to keep the
channel clear of silt deposits and pre-
vent formation of flats such as those
now existing along the Potomac Park
seawall.
From these standpoints, to men
ton only a few, the construction of
the Gravelly Point airport should be
welcome to all who are interested in
the growth and Improvement Of the
National Capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
FRESH BEGINNINGS
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES FREEMAN D, IL d. D. c. L,
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

To begin q new work with freshened
zest and enthusiasm means to give it a
new meaning and to insure its satisfac-
tory accomplishment. Many, if not most
Of us, have been engaged in form OF
service or professional occupation that
has become monotonous by reason of the
fact that 1t has grown commonplace and
lacking in freshness. Nothing does more
to break down morale or to destroy eff
cheney than to approach things that we
have done over and over again in a me-
chanical and superficial way, thinking
of them as mere repetitions of long
continued occupation lacking both color
and appeal.
Many years ago sat at luncheon with
a great English actor, Forbes Robertson.
The preceding evening I had witnessed
his amazing performance OF one of his
greatest roles-"The Passing of the Third
Floor Back" I ventured to ask him how
many times he had recited the lines of
this remarkable drama Reflectively he
answered. Two thousand or more times I"
the freshness and zest that ne mani
tested after such long repeated renditions
: OF the character he portrayed. With a
touch of fine enthusiasm he said: If I
ever lose my sense Of the deep meaning
of the lines of the play or my enthusiasm
for the delineation of its principal char
acter I shall leave it forever. The lines
were as fresh and meaningful to me last
night as they were when I recited them
20 or more years ago"
1t is the spirit of Robertson that we
need in our life today. There is kind
Of staleness that characterzes much of
our work. We approach it reluctantly
and fail to find in it anything that evokes
our deep interest. 1 asked one OF the
most distinguished physicians OF my &C
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Chest Campaign Begins.

The American people have the
reputation OF being the most gener-
Gus in the world. 1t therefore is un-
necessary to argue the humanitarian
appeal of the annual Community
Chest campaign, which will be for
mally launched tonight, to the resi-
dents Of the District of Columbia.
Men and women either instinctively
feel an obligation, responsibility to
share their resources with their less
fortunate neighbors, or they are dead
to the impulse of mercy.
Yet there is reason enough to
Justify plea for the Community
Chest as the most efficient method
and means thus far devised for prac-
teal charity Not everybody under
stands that the agencies cooperating
In the local aspect of this years
Human Needs drive are interested in
saving money. 1t is not commonly
comprehended that a dollar given
may be dollar wasted, unless pro-
tected by experience and wisdom in
administration. Hence, it is urged
that contributors study the technique
of the Community Chest and its con-
stituents. The public has been in
vited to visit the different agencies
and to watch them at work. Such a
pilgrimage is convincing adventure
into another world-a world where
every penny counts, where every
penny must do full duty in actual
application to relief Of suffering.
A few words also should be said IN
answer to the suggestion that the
task OF caring for the poor, the dis.
tressed, the sick. the very old and
the very young should be left to the
Federal Government That notion
Is as unrea sonable as it is unworthy
1t should be obvious that President
Roosevelt meant what he said when
he declared that local philanthropies
deserve support in their own right:
that they must continue to function
If the national program of recovery
Is to have a chance of success. The
Federal Government could not as
sumo the whole burden, ought not
to be permitted to assume it in any
circumstances.
Giving is a privilege, one of the
greatest and most precious
democracy allows 1t should be
guarded by use. The Community
Chest provides the opportunity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Appreciated.

Appreciated.
The parrot swinging on the perch
Has vocabulary small
And unenlightened by research
And yet tbs pleasant after all.
When our discussions seem to tend
To candidates and trades and tricks
To have some faithful biped friend
Who isn't talking politics.
I listen with friendly sigh
To what he utters DER and DER,
Here is no cry for sordid pie; =
He wants a cracker, nothing more.
How we'll his speeches seem to flow:
Profane, perhaps, but ne'er prolix;
The only orator know
Who isn't talking politics!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Housing Agreement

Nathan Straus, United States
housing administrator, and John
Ihlder. executive officer of the Dis
trict Alley Dwelling Authority, are
to be commended for having finally
brought their negotiations for a Dis
trict housing program to the point
where both sides are satisfied and
only the preparation and signing of
the necessary contract remain to be
completed.
The United States Housing Au-
thority and the District Alley DWELL
ing Authority have been seeking the
same objective, but were forced to
approach it along different routes.
It has been no simple task to make
the provisions of the United States
Housing Act conform in their en-
tirety to the peculiar conditions ex-
listing in the District of Columbia
At the same time there have been
differences Of opinion between hous-
ing experts on the best policies to
be pursued in providing low-coSt
housing to the lowest income groups
After extensive negotiations involv-
ing give and take by both sides, diff
ferences Of opinion have been sub
stantially reconciled and the District
will shortly witness demonstration
here of loW-cost housing undertak.
ings on the largest scale ever at
tempted in Washington.
While details of the agreement re-
main to be explained, both sides hav-
ing adopted the wise policy of a tenn
porary moratorium on public discus
sion, 1t is understood that the con-
tract will provide for a ninety per
cent grant to the District Alley
Dwelling Authority and that the ten
per cent contribution by the local
authority demanded under the
United States Housing Act will be
Forthcoming without committing the
municipal government to further in
debtedness. At the same time, a
wise policy in relation to subsidies
seems to have been agreed upon I'M
der which subsidies will be granted
according to the ability to pay Of in
dividual tenants, and not applied ar
bitrarily to all tenants.
Nobody knows where the United
States Housing Authority's gigantic
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Mobilizing Industry.

IL Is an interesting coincidence,
on which more stress is likely to be
laid at Toxic than in the United
States, that yesterday brought forth
two important administration an
nouncements-one, by President
Roosevelt. that concrete steps are
now being taken to mobilize the Ma
tons industrial preparations for de-
tense by the State Department and,
two, by the State Department, that
this country does not recognize the
new order in Asia" proclaimed by
Japan last week. This coincident dis
closure of American purposes does
not, of course, concern directly CO.
related matters. Yet it does empha-
size the determination of the United
States not again to be caught nap
ping in the field of military and
naval preparedness should events
make it necessary to defend basic
and vital interests and policies.
BY way of confirming the Govern
ment's previously avowed intention
to rearm swiftly and extensively, in
response to developments in a world
wherein force instead of the rule
of law and reason" as Secretary
Hull termed it, seems again to be
enthroned, s22 100000 World War
ordnance plant at South Charleston,
West Virginia, is to be reopened, for
important purposes not publicly re-
vealed, and the New Orleans Navy
Yard, unused since 1921, will be re-
commissioned. The West Virginia
plant, built in 1917 to make armor,
gun forgings and projectiles, has
been idle for eighteen years.
These moves in the direction of
industrial preparedness are in pur-
suance of the quiet but comprehen-
sive plans carried out by the War
Department during the past year,
under the direction of Colonel Louis
Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War,
to link up Americas vast and highly
efficient manufacturing plants far
in advance for the emergencies of
war. 1t is the policy of the admin
istration that this LAND of unlimited
possibilities, as one of the former
Ka1ser's economic explorers called it
after an exhaustive survey of our
industrial resources, shall not again
be taken unawares by the exigency
of UNEXPECTED international conflict.
We declared war on Germany in
April, 1917. 1t was July, 1918. before
we were able to pull our full-and
decisive-weight in the Allied boat.
Field Marshal Hindenburg, in his
World War memoirs, gives principal
credit to the mighty industrial effort
of the United States in 1918 for
the final defeat of the German war
machine.
AS to Japan. she is now on firm
notice that this country does not
acknowledge the validity of Tokio's
disregard of treaties guaranteeing
the territorial integrity of China or
of its threats to close the open door
The United States position with
regard to the situation in the Far
East Secretary Hull bluntly in
forms Japan, remains unchanged"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Ambition,

Ambition.
80 you want to become an ambassa-
dor" exclaimed the man of power
Eyes" replied the opulent person.
Il thought you were devoted to your
automobile. When did you become inter-
ested in diplomacy"
II am not especially interested in
diplomacy. What want is to get some
position where I'll have Government pro-
lection against arrest for violating the
speed limit"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

An Oklahoma biochemist states
that women require only eighty per
cent as many calories as men en-
gagged in the same kind of work. Do
not let this declaration tempt you
too greatly to invite a feminine CO.
worker out to lunch or dinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

In 1881, when the public debt was
twenty billion dollars, Democrats
were declaring that the other party
had brought US to the verge of bank
ruptcy.' If that was the verge, then
we must be about halfway down at
this writing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Morning In Rock Creek Park.


When mornings sun was high you took
me out
From indoor tasks into a gypsy dream.
Those things can wait" you said, and
so they could.
Not 50 October color In q wood.
Beside a placid autumn tinctured stream.
And there where time was not nor any
strife
We felt a part Of such serenity
A silent precedence that all was we'll;
Heard the small sound Of oak leaves
as they fell,
And watched the leaf-craft drifting to
the sea.
ALICE LAWKY GOULD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Twenty Years Ago
The World War Day by Day
November 6, 1918,

The British advanced their whole line
an average depth OF six miles. The
French smashed across the Aisne at
many points and advanced to the north
of it. capturing much material. The
German armistice delegation was passed
through the Allied lines.
Americans advanced to within easy
view of Sedan and reached the outskirts
of Mouzon. The enemy began to evacu-
ate their strong point of Stenay. East OF
the Meuse, slow, steady progress was
made, opening the way for an attack on
Nets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

Should any cynic be in doubt about
the future of his country, he might
discover medicine for his skepticism
in the number of hopeful souls who
take out patents on inventions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Unsightly World.

From the Macon telegraph.
The New York fellow who offers to
sell an eye for $1,000 probably feels that
now with one eye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
No Competition.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The inscription, Lord, Make Us Free"
has been removed from Munich monu-
ment. Hitler wants no outside inter-
ference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
The Offensive Defense.

From the Winston Salem Journal.
The way of cowardice may be that Of
peace, but lot Of bullies won't fght
when and II their intended victim dis
plays q wicked right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Hitler's Standing.

From the Winston-Salem journal.
Other European statesmen feel they
know now where Hitler stands, but Der
Fuehrer probably would count it favor
If they would let him know.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

The Williamsburg restoration is all
wrong, declares Frank Lloyd Wright.
And we were all enjoying it so!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
Preaching and Practice.

Save money-'tis the safest plan,"
Trust magnates counsel us anew.
And each keeps saving all he can
His own, and other peoples, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06

"A man is liable not to get much credit
in this world" said Uncle Eben. If you's
prosperous dey1l mos likely say you has
mo- luck dan sense, an If you's unpros-
porous deyu say you didn' hab much Of
eithse."
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Hard Luck

The troubles which some folks have had
They use for conversation;
So much, instead of being sad,
They seem like relaxation.
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Confused,

THAT man Grafton Grabb says he re-
CARDS himself as the architect of his own
fortune"
Architects had nothing to do with his
fortune" answered Senator Sorghum.
THE people he stood in with were the
contractors"
Envy" said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town, lis generally due to the way you
let your imagination run away with you
in picturing good times that others are
not really having"
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Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

The Star Of November S, 1888, prints
the following letter from T. H. Bart
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-02
Sill a Week Minimum

THE drive to kill the wage-hour bill grows more ridcu-
i lous and disgusting the closer it gets to the
showdown before the House-Senate conferees.
First the bills opponents mainly from the South beat
q proposal to fix minimum wages at 40 cents hour
and maximum work weeks at 40 hours, with provision
for Government board to allow dfferentias in favor
Of regions where living costs were low.
Now the bills opponents still mainly from the South,
saying the South must have differentias after all
because the new bills nationwide minimum wage of rs
cents hour and maximum work week of A hours
would be too hard on Southern employers.
What these persons trying to tell is that ma
Jorty of people in many of States believe $11 week
Is too much pay Southern workers. We cannot believe
WocL R;u any appreciate number of Americans en-
terrain any such delusion.
Al beSt The bill has been shot full of holes any,
way by various pressure and privilege groups The fish
ing industry would not have to pay its minimum Is cents
an hour or observe its maximum 44-hour week. Neither
would small county newspapers farmers retail stores or
ship About the only big industries to come un-
der it would be textiles, STEEL autos and mines.
The bill is aimed primarily at the famous "chisel-
ing 1920, who will sweat labor at the lowest pos
sble wages and whose cutthroat competition unless
checked will force and more of the decent 800
to reduce wages and step up hours
We skidding down this deflation spiral as the
wage-hour fight goes Mass buying power-the
thing that keeps business going in a system such
n1 ours-s shrinking while obstructionists
People pOt t1ne. '",0 "s"M anu 49,
partial roof over hours
The President is being told that he must keep his
mouth shut State political questions; must express
preferences between aspirants for congressional
jobs whom he knows to be hostile to his social well
fare program and asprants he knows to be friendly
to that program.
We hope the President will toss this advice into
the ashcan; and that he will proceed to build bon
fires under the congressional opponents of the wage
hour bill. He do that by going their heads
and appealing to the people who sent them to Wash
ington by asking those people to say with ballots at
the next election whether they believe $11 week
Is really too much to pay an American worker
the NewYo Daily
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-02

Holy Roman Emperor. I hope
Hitler visited her tomb on his
recent visit to Vienna. His
ideas and those Of the old lady
run along the same lines. She
sought to gather everything
into the palm of her hand.
Around Maria Theresa's huge
copper, iron and bronze home
are grouped 10 iron and bronze
collins in which lie that many
OF her Is children. The most
notable absentee is Marie An
toinette, Queen of France, she
who was beheaded during the
revolution.
If Mr.. Hitler, he Of the iron
heel, desired proof of the loyalty
of Austria to the Hapsburgs
here was the place to find it
among the ghosts Of the long
dead and recently dead rulers.
Everywhere, up till two days
after the triumphal entry into
Vienna of Der Fuehrer, there
were fresh flowers-on the tomb
of Maria Theresa, dead more
than $50 years, and piled high,
sweet and fresh before the
portrait of Karl, the last en-
peror, dead little more than a
decade and buried for the
present in his place of exile,
the island of M a d e ir a, and
there Karl will remain, for
royal dynasties and honor to
them do not fit into the Nazi
program.
FLOWERS, fresh picked and
L kept fresh in these great
cool vaults, were heaped high
on the catafalque of the EN-
press Elizabeth, Francis Joseph's
wife, who was murdered IN
Italy. That is, the flowers were
there till Austria was annexed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-02

EROM September of 1887 to May of 1888 there were
l. brought to Washington by the Institute of Criminal
Science 26 of the nations leading criminoogsts rep
resentng every field in that Category Warden Lawes
DR.. Ernest R. Groves of the University of North Caro-
lima and Joseph Fshman, among other penoogists,
biologists, psychiatrists
Among them DR.. Frederic Wertham, of Bellevue
Hospital, New York, who predicted that Robert Irwin
would commit the kind of crime he did months be-
fore it happened. All these experts criminology
have said that every criminal released from penal
institution will recomm that crime he gets the slight
est chance.
They have advocated life segregation of these
knowing, with their trained viewpoint that repetition
Is inevitable.
Yet repeatedly freed from Institutions to do
did the Negro who upon his release from prison. at
tackled 13year-old Maryland girl. Does it not seem
that common would make imperative imme-
date revision of laws this subject, just the
laws against kidnapping revised after the Lind
bergh case?
Surely in this instance acceptance of the expert view
that there cannot help but be repetition-woud
to make life segregation certain preventive, at any
rate than is the increase of penalty which
has failed to stop kidnapping.