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Evening star., 1938-04-07
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
In praise of music we might mention

In praise Of music we might mention
one feature seldom realized-
Eye saving for listeners.
While the musicians must follow the
swiftly flying notes, and thereby run
some risk of hurting their sight, the
listener is free just not to look at ali
or at anything.
Not that we advocate closing the eyes
while listening to music. No such soulful
pose is necessary.
Especially We could not recommend
a steady stare at the musicians, If
musicians there be, or at the radio or
photograph grille.
Staring is never good and there is no
need for it in listening to any kind Of
music.
Closing the eyes will not help one
to listen better.
Indeed something is lost to music,
when the eyes of the listener are closed.
Music is by no means dreamy thing.
Even dreamy music, if we choose to call
it such, is thing of quickened percep-
tons in the playing.
The best way to listen to music is
to keep the eyes open as well as the
ears.
Keep looking, but let the looking be
around, and not steadily at one per-
former Or the machine.
Nor is there need to turn a certain
side toward the music, as some do, even
if one ear is better than another.
Music worth listening to is pervading.
Eye saving, in our present civilization,
is very much worth while. Music is not
often presented in this light. We are
told that music is good for our souls,
our minds and our bodies. We are
assured it is wonderful, great, invigorat-
ing.
Seldom are We told that it will be
good for eye conservation. So many
temptations are around for eye use that
it is helpful to find some really intriguing
factor which does not require their use
o'ermuch.
The radio and the phonograph, espe-
clally, assure the music listener of real
eyeslght saving.
Listening to any sort of music, whether
instrumental or voice, gives one chance
to not read, not sew, not make other
close use of sight.
Those persons who, therefore, insist on
doing all these things while listening
to music should make quite sure that
their eyes do not need this rest.
X
One OF the poorer features Of the
radio has been the insistence of so
many listeners on talking or working
while listening
1t is really impossible to give music
its proper respect while one is talking,
yet nothing is commoner than to see
a roomful of people supposed to be
listening to the radio who at the
same time are talking away SO loudly
and persistently that the poor instru-
ment cannot be heard above the clamor
Proper listening to music, whatever
its form or agent, means listening to it
with all ones senses.
We do not listen to music with our
ears, alone, but with all our faculties.
This is sort of listening many would
be music lovers have to come by. some
how, If they are to become real listeners
and so music lovers for no friend of
music can be called its lover who
Evening star., 1938-04-07
The End in Spain?

AS the end OF tWenty-one months of
fratricidal war in Spain approaches the
doom of the republican government at
last seems to be sealed FRANCOIS In
surgents have blasted their way into
Catalonia, and with the investment of
Tortosa, are steadily approaching their
goal, the Mediterranean coast. They
have thus cut off the last Loyalist
link between Barcelona and Valencia.
and split Spain fairly in half. Madrid
Is now isolated, and it's fall, to-
gether with that of the seacoast emer-
gency capitals, barring a military mira
Gle, can be but matter of days, or weeks
at most. Foreign aid, especially in air.
craft and artillery, can alone save the
government. There is no sign it will be
forthcoming.
The Loyalists have made a long and
brave fight. But it was not to be ex-
pected they could prevail against Fran
inforced by the Italian and German
divisions and equipment SO lavishly
placed at his disposal, especially for the
1nsurgent end-the-War drive which be-
gan gathering momentum last February.
Madrid's colors will not be lowered in
ignominy. They have flown with glory
through the fuctuating fortunes of
nearly two years of terrific warfare
waged by foe which itself has given
incessant and finally triumphant, evil
dence of tenacity and courage.
The time has not yet come fully to
fix the blame and allot the credit in a
campaign waged on both sides with
relentless fury, as civil combat generally
Is. If the Loyalists, imbued with Com
munist theology. vented their rage
against the church, it's temples and it's
ministers in the early days of the strug-
gle and committed indefensible excesses
against both life and property, so the
insurgents, on occasion, notably the re-
cent merciless bombing of civilians in
Barcelona, resorted to methods that also
II Franco becomes master of Spain,
the nations beyond her shores, relieved
to realize that bloodshed and pillage in
the peninsula are at last at an end. will
watch eagerly and anxiously to see how
an 1nsurgent regime comports itself.
VIII 1t be actuated by the Lincoln spirit
OF charity for all, malice toward none?
The world would not observe without
concern and dismay the venting of
ruthless vengeance upon a conquered
populace, nor would the democratic peo-
piles note without disquiet the extension
OF Nazi or Fascist extremism on the
southwestern tip of Europe. Should
Frances gratitude to his Italian and
German allies take the form of political
or territorial concessions threatening the
position of France or Great Britain, or
both, at the Pyrenees, in the Mediter-
ranean, at Gibraltar, along the Suez,
or in North Africa, that would be mat
ter for the Paris and London govern
ments to worry over and a grave one.
Their pusillanimity in the face of the
Rome-Berlin axis throughout the Span
ish strife would then nave come home
to roost.
Evening star., 1938-04-07
AT Long Last.

George Washington's dream OF the
National Capital being a great port as
an outlet for the rich Ohio Valley
probably never will come true, but
it is certainly probable that he would
join the huzzahs of the citizens at the
news that the long-aWaited water front
improvement program will begin in about
two weeks.
Washingtonians who 90 down to
the sea in ships" for pleasure or busi-
ness should soon witness the disappear
ance of some of the eyesore docks and
Wharves that currently grace the Capt.
tails Potomac outlook in some instances
and form insecure platforms for a few
devoted followers of Izaak Walton. The
first years work is to be on two of four
contemplated yacht basins.
The present program, authorized in
1885, receives its first appropriation this
year, but general agitation for some
water front improvement has been going
on for many years.
A gratifying feature of the program, it
might be pointed out, has been the fair
ness of the Federal Government in as
suming its rightful share of the cost, in
recognition of its ownership of the PROP
erty and therefore, it's responsibility in
improving it. Out of the entire cost of
oh ~
set at less than 100000, to be paid over
an eight-year period.
1t would be equally gratifying and no
less justifiable were Congress to recog-
nize the Federal obligation to the Ma
tional Capital in the matter of general
expenses and observe even the sixty
forty division of financial responsibility
called for by unrepealed substantive law.
Evening star., 1938-04-07
Protests Against Proposals
And Trends of the Times
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
This is letter of protest from one
Of 1--WE the People, publish it or not,
as you see fit.
protest the use of $500,000 asked for
the building Of the Jefferson Memorial
"at the present time" when there are
so many people in need. I am sure
Jefferson, if living, would also protest,
when that money could be used to help
people establish a business of some
sort, or would help to keep home over
their heads. What greater monument
is there to Jefferson than the Consti-
tuition of the United States?
Iprotest the use of the marihuana weed,
as I understand it is the most dangerous
narcotic known. It should be destroyed,
as there are plenty of other materials
from which hemp, paper and other COM
modities can be made. protest the num-
ber of stores selling alcoholic liquors.
In my neighborhood, just two blocks
away from the commercial zone, within
two squares there are from eight to
ten stores selling liquors.
Il protest the sale of firearms. There
should be more stringent law against
selling them.
I protest against young women max
ing such immodest exhibitions of their
bodies, especially in the photographs
in the papers, even the schoolgirls in
outdoor drills could really wear a little
more covering and still be athletic. I
protest against girls and women risking
their lives driving through lonely places.
1t makes my heart sick to read of the
terrible tragedies that are an everyday
occurrence.
I am hoping people will awaken to
the fact that the high ideals of life
are worth while and that the use of
them will bring US all back to normality.
MRS. M. MAY.
Evening star., 1938-04-07
1ndiscreet Speeches Menace
To Democratic Government
70 the Editor Of TIE Star.

70 the Editor Of TIE Star.
If the President is sincere in his ex-
pressed desire for the restoration of re-
covery, I, and believe many thousands
of other citizens, cannot understand why
he continues to permit high Government
officials to 60 on making public speeches
which tend to lessen business confidence.
Local newspapers give prominence to
an address made by Mr. Aubrey Will
liams, assistant administrator of the
Works Progress Administration, assail-
ing the alleged concentration OF wealth
and indicating that the poor are getting
poorer and the rich richer.
Welcoming in a letter the National
Conference on Work and Security, at
which this address was made, the Presi-
dent is quoted as saying There is al
ways a place in our democratic system
Of government for an open forum for
free and untrammeled discussion of the
problems which clamor for the atten-
tion OF the Government
If private individuals are willing, un-
der the present distressing rationale and
foreign conditions, to make speeches OF
the character Of that made by Mr.. Will
liams, think that they have perfect
right to make them, but it is difficult to
construe the Presidents quoted remarks
as indicating any proprlety for high
Federal officials to make speeches at this
particular juncture which tend to under
mine public confidence and set class
against class
For several days now New Deal leaders
in Congress have been endeavoring to
reassure business, large and small, by
promising taX-relief legislation which
would restore confidence and start busi-
ness moving. Such legislation will not,
however, accomplish its full purpose SO
long as prominent New Deal officials are
permitted to make infiammatory
speeches. Such speeches by private in
dlviduals are unfortunate enough at this
time, but from high Government officials
they are, I submit. deplorable and in
the worst possible taste
With further regard to the untimeli-
ness OF addresses which set class against
class, there would seem to be enough in
the domestic situation to discourage such
addresses, but if more were necessary I
would call attention to the immediate
situation in Mexico, also reported in the
PiCoo, W Vic ClcCI tIldJ IHe Mexican
workers, supported by the Mexican gov
ernment, have seized the foreign oil
properties, valued at 100000 900, and
that there is in that country as conse-
quence, widening economic crisis
AS for the truth of the claim that the
poor are getting poorer, have nothing
10 say here. but the statement that the
rich are getting richer is utterly absurd
III view of the constant breaking up of
fortunes by large public benefactions. by
the high State and Federal inheritance
ana estate taxes and other constantly
increasing local and Federal taxes, and
by the frlghtful losses in securities values
IN the last few months.
HENRY A. HAYWARD.
Evening star., 1938-04-07

with the public or with Congress. If
the commission ignored or never sought
the advice of the Commission of Fine
Arts, what else has been concealed or
ignored which should be known?
An inquiry by Congress, either in the
Appropriations Committee or before
some other committee, should obtain and
make public all the facts bearing on
design, site and cost. Furthermore, it
should decide whether, in view of the
depression and all it means, this is the
appropriate time to begin building ex-
persive marble memorials to jefferson
or to anybody else.
Evening star., 1938-04-07
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Solace.

SOlace.
We sing of soup or cigarettes
Or breakfast food so neat;
Amid his sorrow none forgets
When it is time to eat.
We sing of milk that flows so pure,
And we're convinced at last
That it will help us to endure
The sorrows of the past.
Though figures rise in sad disguise
To tell of trouble great,
We welcome them in glad surprise
When they're brought up to date.
And so, when glory has it's say,
We still have smiles to wear
When some good champion points
the way
To dine without a care.
Evening star., 1938-04-07
Dedicate Tidal Basin
TO Martha Washington
To the Editor Of tn. Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Apropos Of memorials, cherry blossom
time, etc., wonder that no memorials
are erected to our "First Ladies" and
venture the suggestion Of changing the
unromantic name, "Tidal Basin," to
Lake Martha" in memory Of our first
"First Lady," Martha Washington, wife
of our first President. How fitting that
the waters rejecting the stately shaft In
memory Of her husband, George WASH
tneton. should bear her name! Majesty,
beauty and romance blended at cherry
blossom time at Lake Martial This
would be q memorial without cost, 30
vhv not? MRS. I. w. HILL, sr.
Evening star., 1938-04-07
My Heart Is Like a Brook

My heart is like brook that flows
On to the ocean deep and wide:
Losing itself, yet on 1t goes.
My heart is like brook that flows.
Swept and lashed-then quiet repose
Bears 1t on, beyond wind and tide.
My heart is like Q brook that flows
On to the ocean. deep and wide.
Monica williams,
Evening star., 1938-04-07

The anti-reorganizers intend to strike
death blow by omitting the enacting
clause from the bill It is neat idea,
but like other bold enterprises it is
likely to prove deficient in practical
equipment.
Evening star., 1938-04-07

Sick people at Orlando Fla, suffered
tetanus as a fatal result of experiments
to cure cancer. The ailment, mysterious
to start with, meets with new battling
complications as research goes on. Can
Ger remains one of the great mysteries
for which solution is prayed by every
enlightened human being.
Evening star., 1938-04-07
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Evening star., 1938-04-07

The circus is again on its way to show
how smart the elephant is in real life if
not always in politics.
Evening star., 1938-04-07

According to the news photographs
Spain will soon have a busy future of
reconstruction.
Evening star., 1938-04-07
Lessons Needed.

Il am teaching my little boy not to be
afraid Of the police" said Mr.. Chuggins
II want them to be his playmates."
That's fine idea"
"It's first rate so far but have got
to teach him not to play rough and shoot
at them when he loses his temper"
Evening star., 1938-04-07

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Evening star., 1938-04-07
Market Wizard.


The statesman meets friend of old
And says with manner blue:
"The things that you have bought and
sold
Have brought me grief anew.
Close to the market would live,
And listen to your song
Although the tips you gladly give
Still put me in all wrong"
Bill, the baggage master, says he can
remember when the initials A. F.. l..
stood for Actors Fidelity League instead
OF American Federation of Labor, but
he didn't get any more laughs then
than he does now.
Evening star., 1938-04-07
Quick Change.

Quick Change.
"You look worried" said the friend.
Il am worried" answered Senator
Sorghum. I'm afraid my eyes are fall
ing. I am amazed by the rapidity with
which the black ink in a political plat
form can turn to red in the speeches it
inspires"
Aren't you afraid you'll have trouble
in keeping all the promises you made
before election?"
"Yes,' replied the man who needs
the salary, "but it was question be-
tween me and few promises as to
which of us should be broke
"A woman in great affairs insists on
being obeyed," said Hi Ho, the sage
of Chinatown, "even though she may
require the execution of hundred men,"
Evening star., 1938-04-07

@. What does a mouse weigh?-W.
L. D.
A. A full-size mouse weighs about
thirty grams or slightly over an ounce.
Evening star., 1938-04-07

@. How long have contraceptives been
knoWn?-R. L.
A. The earliest known reference to
birth-control methods was inscribed on
Egyptian papyrus in 1850 BIC.
Evening star., 1938-04-07

@. In how many foreign places does
the Associated Press have correspond
ents?-E. w.
A. The Associated Press maintains cor
respondents in 252 foreign centers.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
POLICE BOYS CLUB
BENEFITS RELATED
Inspector E. J. Kelly Tells
Congress Heights Group
of Work.

Youngsters no longer say Cheese
1t, the cops" when playing in the
nelghborhood street, but Look! Here
comes our pal, the policeman" so
said Inspector Edward j. Kelly of
the Metropolitan Police in speaking
before the Congress Heights Progress
slve Citizens Association, meeting
last night in the Congress Heights
School.
The Police Boys Club, organized by
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintendent
OF police, now numbers 1O,542 bows
with five clubs throughout the city
and one boys camp in nearby Mary
land, Inspector Edwards said.
These clubs, Inspector Edwards de-
clared. afford the underprivileeed
youths of the District with recrea-
tional facilities that will not only keep
them out of mischief but will make
them buddies with the police officer
ION the beat"
The association voted a donation of
IS toward the drive for funds to con-
tmue maintenance of the club.
At the suggestion of Edward j.
NeWcomb the group commended Sta
ton VOL for its broadcast of the
traffic cases each morning.
Otto Garnand. president of the as
sociation, welcomed % new members
into the group and praised the BODY
on reaching a total membership of
123.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
KENILWORTH GROUP
INDORSES RACING
Citizens Association Also Calls
for Support of Police
Bows Club.

The Sacks bill for the establishment
OF District race track and the legal
1zation Of pari-mutuel betting was in
dorsed by KenilWorth Citizens Asso-
citation at its meeting last night in the
Kenilworth School The association
has advocated the track for the past
several years.
William Webb, chairman of the
Police and Fire Committee, called on
all Washingtonians to support the
Police Boys Club and commended
the police for the work they are do
ing in the clubs.
A Senate bill to require the record
Ing of all deeds of trusts and mort
cages on real estate was favored in
a resolution by Earl Dillon, chairman
OF the Laws and Legislation Com
mittee
Repairs to Olive street between
Douglas and Quarles streets NE. and
the repaving of a wash-out on Forty
fourth street NE. were asked. Mrs.
Harry w. Kent, chairman of the
Fairgrounds Committee, reported that
several children had been severely
poisoned by poison ivy and poison oak
on public lands in the 14OO block of
Forty-fourth street NE. and called
for the District to burn over the land
IN an effort to eradicate the weeds.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
DEFENDS PLANTS
IN GEORGETOWN
Speaker at Meeting OF
Progressive Association
Asks Cooperation.

Defending commercial plants against
q recent resolution Of the Progressive
Citizens Association of Georgetown
condemning nuisance industries" H.
r. Harrigan, manager Of the District
OF Columbia Paper Co, asked for CO.
operation of the association at its
meeting last night in the Curtis
School.
"No industry should be a nuisance,
and there are ways to keep them from
being" Mr.. Harrigan said. THE prob
lem of smoke dirt and noise can be
almost entirely eliminated by a fac
tory being made into building of
beauty; being a great help to a COM
munity instead of nuisance"
He agreed that the smoke laws in
the District of Columbia are not un-
reasonable, were, in fact, quite salts
factory and correct"
The association went on record as
favoring legalized horse racing in the
District after Mrs. Eta Taggart spoke,
saying: Morals cannot be legislated,
as We all know, and such legalization
would bring in vast revenue to WASH
ington, helping alleviate District
taxes" Legal racing. she said, would
lessen crime if carried on under proper
regulations.
Mrs. Elizabeth Draper, the associa-
tons president, appointed Mrs. w. D..
Owen and Mrs. Jesse Sutton to inves-
tigate the possibility of having the
brick sidewalks in residential George
town repaired, and to emphasize the
need of removing the abandoned car
tracks.
A resolution was passed directing
that letter of commendation be sent
Theodore w. Noyes, editor of The Star,
on his many years of work for suffrage
IN the District of Columbia. It was
also asked that letter of the same
nature be written Wilbur Finch for
his work on local suffrage.
Evening star., 1938-04-05

luton reiterating its 0;sapproval Of
legalized. horse racing in the District.
A letter from supt. of Police Brown,
in which he stated his opposition to
horse racing in the District, was read
to the association.
Charles A. Sanger, jr, representing
the Junior Board of Commerce, ap-
peeled to the association for support
in the cleanup campaign" spon-
sored by the board. The association
voted to support the campaign.
A committee to recommend nomi-
nees for Office in the association was
appointed by the presiding officer.
The committee is composed of Edward
G. Potter. Mrs. Wilbur La Roe, jr., and
Maj. c. M. Exley.
Charles d. Hamel, vice president
of the association, presided at the
meeting, which was held In the Ben
Murch School.
Evening star., 1938-04-05
GROUP VOTES POLL
ON D. C. SUFFRAGE
Forest Hills Citizens Will Get
Association QUESTIONABLE to
Determine Stand.

The Forest Hills Citizens Associa-
tion voted last night to send out
questionnaires to members to deter
mine its stand on suffrage in the
District. Edward c. Potter, chair
man of the Committee on National
Representation. said that a full ex-
preston of opinion of the member
ship was necessary to determine to
what extent the association favored
suffrage.
Opinion is divided, he said, as to
the desirability of national represen-
tation alone or that of municipal
suffrage as we'll
The association also passed a reso-
Evening star., 1938-04-05
SPELLING BEE SLATED
Local Team Will Meet Baltimore
Club April 90,

CIup April %.
The Capital City Spelling Club is
planning to send a team to Baltimore
on April % to spell against a team
from the Waverly Spelling Club of that
city on Paul Wings program over
Radio Station WBAL. The local club
will meet Wednesday at Mount Pleas
ant Library to select the team OF
five spoilers to send to Baltimore for
the occasion.
An attempt will be made Wednes-
day to reorganize the junior spelling
club here at a preliminary session at
the library at Z o'clock.