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Evening star., 1938-01-03
and any other program for the reduction
Of executive axpenditrres.


Of executive expenditures.
The Virginia Senator articulates the
views Of thousands when he. says the
myth of spending ourselves into pros
perity has been exploded. Noting that
the Nation now is in the eighth con-
secutive deficit year, he calls the situa-
ton facing the country "perilous" and
points to the possibilities Of huge savings
through elimination of waste and ex-
travagance due to overlapping and dupli-
Gated activities of hundreds of Federal
bureaus.
Senator Byrd is no mere theorist. He
was largely instrumental in keeping Vir-
einia on a pay-as-you-go basis-much
to that States advantage. When he ap-
peals for the ak for Federal expendi-
lures and the continued application of
fiscal brakes through the controller gen.
eral, one wonders why the rightness of
his proposals does not prevail without
debate The fact that they are subject
to controversy indicates the power of
the bloc in Congress willing to try new
and questionable theories.
Amid the hue and cry over monopo-
listic evils and the alleged sins Of
Americas S sixty families" Senator Byrd's
utterances come as sane warnings of
real dangers. The steps outlined would
be quickly taken by any well-managed
business firm or private family faced
with a comparable financial crisis. They
may not be pleasant but in previous
emergencies they have been proved to
be sound.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
'sPeace at Any Price, Even
If 1t Must Be Fought For
To the Editor OF The Star:

10 the Editor OF The Star:
In view Of the many discussions Of
pacifism and militarism and the silly
Ludlow resolution introduced in Con-
gress, would like to say a few words in
the cause of peace. To begin, I want to
state that I am a pacifist and I believe
in peace at any price," even if we have
to fight for it, and the surest way to
have peace is to be prepared and ready
to fight for it.
If the United States had Joined with
the other nations of the world in the
League Of Nations after the World War,
and given notice to the world that it
was prepared and ready to fight for
peace, in all probability, the affairs of the
world would not be in such state of
unrest and on the brink of q general
world war as they are today, and the
Panay would not have been SUNK
E. M. BLACKWELL, u. S. N.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

situations too much thought Is not good.
Let us put it that way, rather than to
say 1t Is bad.
Consider walking a white line on the
floor.
Any one can do 1t, because no thought
at all Is given to the matter.
One just walks forward, and there he
Is, all the time directly on the line, not
missing it for a single step.
Raise that line, making 1t wire, as
little as foot. and not one person in a
hundred could walk more than three
steps without falling of.
Raise 1t to 10 feet and not ore person
In thousand could walk more than one
step.
Raise 1t to 100 feet and most people
would fall at the first step.
They would be so frightened, and
think so terribly hard of the difficulty,
that their very thinking would make
them miss their footing.
The same thing might be worked out
with plank a foot in width.
On the floor, nobody would be unable
to walk it.
Raise it foot in the air, and every
and sure.
The higher it got, the more people
would think about the difficulty, until at
certain height not more than one in
ten would attempt it.
There is nothing either good or bad"
said Shakespeare, "but thinking makes
1t So"
Boethius, Roman statesman, rather got
kIao Inv In hn~ l>,y
stating:
so nothing is wretched unless when
you think it."
writer we call shakespeare" got his in
spiration, in the given case. Whoever he
was, he was a devoted student OF an
tiquity, and knew all the books.
How to carry tray was not exactly in
Shakespeare's line, but it we'll might have
been, for it is curious investigation,
and he loved them.
1t is possible to so worry ones self
with life that it becomes not worth the
living for very perplexity.
It is here that such motto comes in
very neatly. 1t is in all such cases,
whether physical or mental. or partly
both, that the difference between good
thinking and bad thinking counts a
great deal.
Sometimes by taking too much thought,
whether in carrying tray, or trying to
help friend, We overdo, and cause the
very catastrophe we fear.
Often it is better to go ones way, and
let the matter right itself, as it SO often
does.
This is the elemental wisdom of the
race, which, widely applied. turns what
might seem the merely callous into tri-
umphant overcoming.
Trust all in Gods care
Let go
Let slide
However one chooses to put it, there
Is much healing and soothing in the very
idea.
The balance somehow is kept truer, if
we do not strive too nightly for desired
result, If we carry our head high and let
the tray take care Of itself.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON

The Little Pine Tree.
Along the starit road we rolled,
When holida-s were through.
A small pine traced an outline bold
Still fourishing anew.
1t has fine and sturdy grace.
While Drawing sleet and snow
And hoping to attain a place
'Mongst merry lights aglow.
Out in the cold, neglected quite,
With but rugged bloom,
1t stands where far stars shine so bright
To cheer it in the gloom.
Perhaps for sparkling gems 1t yearns
And song and laughter gay,
As an expectant fancy turns
Unto holiday.
And, like the humblest Of US all,
A chance 1t seems to see
That fortune may send him a call
To be . Christmas tree.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

name was known throughout the coun-
try for his brilliant dispatches from the
war front in Ethiopia and Spain. His
by-lned typewriter Snapshots OF the
War;" written during the italian invasion
Of Ethiopia, and Notebook Pieces" from
Spain appeared in The Star.
His work won him honorable mention
for the Pulitzer Prize in 1882, but his
enduring monument rests in the files of
hundreds of Associated Press member
newspapers throughout the country.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
The Rumanian Danger.

AZ" WCChly ClldVlOIlS Oh Fuly ears
Ago in The Star" ever afforded a more
graphic example of history repeating
itself than yesterdays reproduction of
review Of the European situation pub
lshed on January 2, 1888 Half a CEN
tury ago, it was the aspirations of
Austria Hungary and Germany to COM
pei ''rectifcation" of Russia's western
frontier that filled the Old World with
gloomy uncertainty worse than war
itself" Today, due to sudden whirl of
the Rumanian kaleidoscope, Europe rocks
with alarms and forebodings no less
ominous than those generated by Hun
garian Premier Tisza's plot to strip
Russia of about a quarter of her finest
European territory. Now, as then, Con-
tinental peoples and governments shud-
der over the prospect of a clash of ten
million armed men representing the
forces of the old triple alliance-Ger-
many, Italy and Austria -Hungary-and
their satellites, on one side, and those
of France and Russia on the other.
International alignments differ some
what from those of 1888, but underlying
conditions are fundamentally the same.
Establishment of Germanophile, anti
French and generally pro-Fascist regime
at Bucharest, has impelled Paris to take
drastic measures to quench a European
confagration in the making. France has
proclaimed virtual embargo on arma-
ment shipments to her allies, Rumania
and Yugoslavia, because of their growing
friendship with Germany and Italy. The
third member of the Little Entente,
Czechoslovakia, seat of the great Skoda
munitions works at Pilsen, has been
urged by the French also to shut of that
source Of military supplies, on which both
the Rumanians and the Yugoslavians
have long drawn. Since France in 1922
began forging her chain of Central Euro
pean friendships as bulwark against a
revenge-seeking and territory hungry
Germany, Paris has loaned the Bucharest
and Belgrade treasures nearly S1,O00,-
100000. Much of it was in credits for
purchase of French munitions.
Money talks and it is not improbable
that French francs will speak to King
Carols new anti-Semitic premier, Oc-
tavian Goga, In tones that will induce
him to watch his step before swinging
Rumania into the Nazi orbit. Paris neatly
times its admonitory action to coincide
with German Air Minister Goering's
impending arrival at Bucharest. An arms
embargo is likely to give similar pause to
Yugoslavian Premier stoyadinovitch's
firtations with Italy
Thus, King Carols lust for dictatorship
on r-Mussolini lines, plus his ex-
ploitation Of the intrigues and fanatical
Jew-hatred Of Rumania's political gun
men, sets alight new fires Of anxiety and
suspicion in Europe. Besides its peril to
peace and that fragile structure called
collective security, reaction at Bucharest
aims another blow at the harassed DEM
ocratic powers. It looks suspiciously as
If recent events having demonstrated
that they are unwilling or unable to
check aggression by Far Eastern expo
nents Of Fascist theology, the Berlin
Rome axis, with its Central European
branches, thinks it safe to risk similar ad-
ventures in Europe. It would be bold
prophet who would say the gamble Is
destined to fail.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Only One Remedy.

1ne DlStrlct commissioners have Strad-
oled the local tax question again, as
they did last year, merely forwarding to
Congress without recommendations of
their own the separate programs favored
by the citizens committee and by their
committee of District officials.
Representative Nichols of Oklahoma,
chairman of the subcommittee which
will prepare District tax bill, indicates
that regardless of what the Commits
sioners may recommend-if they recon-
mend anything-his subcommittee will
write the sort of tax legislation that he
believes Congress will approve.
In other words the wishes of the Dis
trict taxpayers amount to nothing. The
wishes of the District taxpayers, as
voiced by the committee the Commits
sioners designated to represent the tax
payers, made little if any impression on
the committee of District officials which
drew up separate tax program. The
wishes of the District taxpayers made
little if any impression on the Commits
sioners, who continue to avoid the op-
portunity for leadership and regard
themselves merely as liaison agents be-
tween the community and the Congress.
And Mr.. Nichols himself seems to attach
no importance to what the community
may have to say about local taxes The
important views are those of the four
hundred and thirty-hve Representatives
and ninety-siX Senator'S representing
every community in the United States
except the District of Columbia
Those of our citizens who have been
lukewarm on the subject OF representa-
ton for the District in Congress should
find fresh food for thought in a condition
under which they face annual, bhstering
increases in taxation and are deprived
not merely of all voice in deciding how
their tax revenues are to be spent, but are
denied in addition the privilege-no mat
ter how painful it may be-of deciding
how they are to be taxed.
Beginning this week two separate COM
mittees of the House will function for the
District taxpayer, one of them preparing
bill to spend his tax revenues as the
committee and other Federal office
holders decree; the other devising new
ways to soak him with heavier taxes
The taxpayer can squirm and submit to
another dose of increased taxes on top of
the large dose Of emergency" taxes ad-
ministered last year, or he may under
take to do something about it. And the
only thing he may reasonably expect to
do about it, under conditions which be-
come more intolerable each year, is to
identify himself energetically with the
groups now working for the right of
national representation for the District
and crown that work with success.
Taxation without representation is as
tyrannical today as it ever was. It will
continue to exist in the District-as it
has continued to exist elsewhere-as long
as the taxpayers swallow it. The fact
that it is becoming increasingly hard to
swallow should by now be generally ap-
parent.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

Politicians sometimes seem puzzled,
but Mr. Bernard Baruch manages to
retain the patient smile Of the man
who has a pretty clear idea Of what is
going to happen.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.
Untinely Jag


King Winter, grown weary Of Icy sway,
Decided to take a short holiday.
Chickadees chirped in the bright sun
shine,
Gay rivulets sang to the fragrant pine,
The flowers awoke in the warming earth
And wondered If now they might come
to birth.
Then the Monarch of Storm in the
frozep North
A furious message radioed forth;
Sent Sleet and Hail, with their biting
sting,
To arrest the flight of the recreant king.
The chickadees flew to their sheltered
hooks,
Hushed was the song of the caroling
brooks,
King Winter resumed his icicle reign.
And the flowers all went to sleep again.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

The calculation indicating that sixty
American families have been getting
all the money does not seem so formid-
able when the stock ticker brings a
truthful reminder of the many more
families that have been in vigilant pur-
suit of a share, for the purpose of using
1t in defense of the national integrity,
Evening star., 1938-01-03

Sun spots are mentioned in accounting
for high prices. There are things that
nobody asked for and nobody thoroughly
understands and cannot be taken into
account IN the management of earthly
affairs.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

New York is a great old town. So is
Jersey City. If there is any little thing
the big town IS liable to forget, Mayor
Hague will undertake to make it clear
even if he has to give up the ease of
present surroundings in order to move
into the U. S. Senate
Evening star., 1938-01-03

Chang Kai-shek resigns as premier
in order to concentrate his attention on
fighting. His successor is DR.. Kung, who
has two American college degrees which
suggest abilities In contest as well as
the accomplishments of the student.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

Sports still count for a great deal in
American life. The defeat of Alabama
In football means more to numerous
citizens than the political tests some
of her prominent people are compelled
to meet.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Humane Diplomacy.
from the New York Sun.

Reception Of a new Minister from
Nicaragua reveals that formal speeches
are now snapped without being read.
Somebody must have pointed out the
clause in the Constitution about cruel
and unusual punishment.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
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Evening star., 1938-01-03

When Kipling wrote Lest We Forget"
he made no reference to the intention
of the Japanese to keep us thoroughly
reminded.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

The President reads words of "Tinv
Ilm,' but he also has some things of
his own to say in indicating the pros
poets for the year of 1888.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
An Unhealthy Region.

From the South Bend Tribune.
It seems that Japan isn't the healthiest
p1Aca IN th9 world for 4 pacidst.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Cell Rent.

From the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch.
Los Angeles County supervisors now
want jail prisoners to pay rent for their
cells. Il thay refuse will they be evicted?
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Russia's Election.

From the Williamsport Sun.
No one in Russia had to stay up all
night to learn the outcome of the
election.
Evening star., 1938-01-03
No Further Backslidinr.

No Further Backsliding.
Perhaps he was erratic
In his New Year contributions.
He resolved in terms emphatic
To make no more resolutions.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

The Evening Star Newspaper Company
Main once: 11th st. and PENNSYLVANIA Ave.
New York once: ITO East 42nd st.
Chicago ONCE: 435 North Michigan Ave.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

II have concentrated SO much on try
ing to say wise things" said Hi Ho, the
sage OF Chinatown, that I often became
absent-minded and did foolish things"
Evening star., 1938-01-03

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Collection made at the end Of each month or
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Evening star., 1938-01-03
As Nature Takes Its Course.

As Nature Takes Its Course.
"ChiIdren are very destructive"
(Which is rather fortunate" said the
nervous lady. soon all the drums and
other noise making devices will be broken
and cleared away"
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Night Final Edition

EVENING and sunday-65c per mo. or 15c per week
Tho Evening Star---45u per mo. or LOG Der week
The Sunday Star Observation-Disclosures per COPY
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Dron In Prices,

We now observe with glad surprise
Occasion to economic.
The dinner charges, we perceive,
Are less than those on New Year eve.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

"Talk amt de bes' way to git attention
foh good advice said Uncle Eben.
"When de traffic officer blows . whistle
everybody stops an ustens" .......
Evening star., 1938-01-03
The Dentists Reinsurance.

In fancy we hear the dentist saying
to a certain President of the United
States: This isn't going to hurt. We
have nothing to fear but fear"
Evening star., 1938-01-03

Jud Tunkins says it's wrong to gamble,
but there's no use at all in trying to per-
suade recent winner to repent.
Evening star., 1938-01-03

WASHINGTON, d. c.
MONDAY January 3, 1888
Evening star., 1938-01-03
Keeping Before the Public.

Keeping Before the Public.
"Why do you insist on getting into this
argument?",
1--WE got to contribute my share OF
talk" said Senator Sorghum, "in order
to avoid being overlooked. Craftsmanship
now requires publicity, same as any other
line Of activity"
Evening star., 1938-01-03

Delivered by Carrier-City and Suburban
Regular Edition
The Washington times., 1938-08-30
F.B.I. POLICE
SCHOOL OPENS

The ninth session of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation National
Police Academy began yesterday
at the Department of Justice with
the representatives of 81 police
forces in attendance.
Private John F.. Dent, Of the
Prince Georges county MdO force,
is. the only policeman enrolled
from the District area.
Among the lecturers to appear
before the students are: DR.. Ed
gar C. Higbie, of Wilson Teachers
College, Judge Alexander Holt
zoff, special assistant to the Attor-
ney General; E. K. Jett, of the
Federal Communication Commits
sion; DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald,
District coroner; Rev. E. A. Walsh,
of Georgetown University. and
DR.. John Bertram Whitelaw, of
George Washington University.
The Washington times., 1938-08-30
COUNTY DELAYS
row HOUSE 0. K.

ARLINGTON, Va, Aug. 80.
Action on the application of IL
building developers for permission
to erect row houses in Arlington
county was deferred by the Airing
ton county board today until Sep
tember 20 after Commonwealth
Attorney Lawrence w. Douglas ad-
vised the board that it could not
act until the matter had first
been passed upon by the zoning
board.
Motion to defer action made by
William A. E. Shea, was carried
by a vote of to l. George M.
Yeatman, avowed opponent of row
houses, was the dissenting mem
ber.
Yeatman had first offered a mo-
ton to deny all applications for
row houses in the county, but was
defeated for want of a second. Pro
longed applause of his motion,
however, came from the IS or
more residents who attended the
meeting.
The Washington times., 1938-08-30
EXTRA SESSION
Doctor Group Silent
On u. S. Probe

CHICAGO, Aug. 80 G.N.S).
For the. second time in history, a
special session of the American
Medical Associations house of
delegates was called today.
The call was issued less than a
month after the Federal Govern
ment announced it planned to in
vestigate the medical association.
The Department of Justice had
charged the association monopo-
lized the medical field.
DR.. Morris Fishbein, editor of
the ANA Journal, said the special
session was called to discuss a ma
tional health program and "any
other business" the house of dele
gates might wish to take up. He
would neither confirm nor deny re-
ports the "other business" might
include discussion of the impend-
ing Government probe.
Date for the special session was
not Immediately fixed.
The Washington times., 1938-08-30
Cottage City Baker
Killed by B. @. Train

COTTAGE CITY, Md, Aug. 80.
An inquest into the death Of Al
bert Weidman, 38, of 20 Spa ST.,
Cottage City, has been ordered
for Thursday evening before JUS
tice of the Peace and Acting Coro-
fer M. E. Rian.
Weidman died instantly of a
crushed skull yesterday morning
when he was struck by a Balti-
more and Ohio passenger train
near his home.
Mrs. Lillian A. Weidman, mother
Of the dead man, said she had not
seen him since he left for work
Saturday at 3 p. m. He was en-
ployed as a mechanic in a Wash
ington bakery
The Washington times., 1938-08-30
CEN. TSCHAPPAT
RET|RES AT 81

Mai. Gen. William H. Tschap-
pat, distinguished Army officer
who recently completed a tour
of duty here as chief Of ord
nance, will retire from the service
tomorrow on reaching the age
of 81.
He was assigned as an instruc-
tor in ordnance at West Point,
and during the World War was
ordnance officer at Newport
News, Va, and on the technical
staff here.
He completed his tour of duty
as chief of ordnance in June,
and has been on leave since.
His home Is in East Falls Church.
The Washington times., 1938-08-30
Missing Nun
Feared Dead

Fear that Sister Mary Berna-
dette, who disappeared Sunday
from the Convent OF the Sisters Of
Visitation at Alta Vista, Md, may
have met with serious injury or
death was expressed by police to-
day as the third day of the search
for the nun passed without any
trace of her.
More than 800 CCC boys, Boy
Scouts, citizens and police have
taken part in the search
The Washington times., 1938-08-30
FATHER CALLS
OFF SEARCH FOR
CIRL--SHE'S WE'D
Message Says Couple
on Honeymoon

Alexander E. Green, of 1854
Stuyvesant Pl. N. W.. called off
the police from a search for his
pretty 19-year-old daughter. Betty.
today. She is still missing, Mr..
Green doesn't know where she is,
but he does know that she now
has a husband.
GETS MESSAGE
Mr.. Green received a telegram
from his daughter today, which in
formed him she had eloped yesterN
day with his erstwhile employe,
John DiggS. %, a mechanic. who
came here from Warrenton, Va.
The telegram was sent from a
Washington office. 1t stated she
had eloped with Diggs, but didn't
say where they had been married.
1t also stated they were going on
a honeymoon and would keep her
parents advised as to their
whereabouts.
GRADUATED IN JUNE
The girl graduated last June
from Woodrow Wilhon High
School and went to work as her
fathers secretary. 1t was while
she was thus employed that she
met DiggS.
Yesterday the police were asked
by her parents to search for her
after she failed to return from
what she said was a visit to
North Beach, Md, with DiggS.
The Washington times., 1938-08-30
Red Cross Will Hold
Training Institute

The Red Cross will hold two
day training institute for nurses
who teach home hygiene and care
of the sick. Glasses will be held
next Tuesday and Wednesday at
the District Chapter House, from
10 a. m. to 5 p. m. They will be
in charge of Mrs. Charlotte M.
Heilman and Miss Iona L. TrOtt,
acting national director Of Red
Cross nursing.