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stature and that the New York legi.
Inmate theater would be feeling well II
1t were not that summer is almost
upon it, one aspect of the American
stage has thrived throughout, never
has been the object of sympathy.
This is the theater of hamlets whiol,
did not rise to the rating of "one-
nighter" on road show schedules ever
in the days when "big-time" legit
tapped horns of plenty from coast tc
coast, where a play has been produced
more than $4,000 times though it Is
unknown to the Great White Way
The opus is Aaron Slick Of Punkir
Crick," simple drama Of honest -coun.
try = boy besting -city-slicker pattern
and enthusiastic audiences continue
to hock to church hall, firehouse and
grange auditorium to see 1t performed
by the Young Peoples Society or All
Club.
Recognizing the Importance of these
rural dramas, Columbia has decided tc
bring them to the air beginning on
July in a program series to be known
as For Corners Theater. Plays such
as Slick" Summer Boarders." Aunt
Abby Answers an Ad" and Mrs.
Briggs. of the Poultry Yard" will be
played as intended by the authors by
company Of experienced actors.
Bernard Hermann, STAFF conductor, is
to lead the orchestra In appropriate
music.
ToDkY's PROGRAMS.
MUsIc-Kathryn Meisle. soprano
OF the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany. is guest soloist of the final SUM-
day Evening Hour in the current series
CWJSV, 81. The program:
Overture to The Bartered Bride"
Orchestra.
oerechter oott'" from ''Rienzi.,,
Miss Meisle and Orchestra. washer
Drea. er.s.l lp.an'0mims from nHanI.,s uHanss! .ns
''rhe psy Dty. Is ,,St' " More" Carpenter
''sprinstide' Becker
49, MISS MelSie ana Orchestra
shepneru Fennefs Dance" Gardiner
Orchestra
Overture to The Gypsy Baron" Strauss
America" Trs6it,or.,
Miss Meisle, Chorus, Audience and
orchestra.
Emo Rapee conducts the Radio CITY
Music Hall Symphony Orchestra in
an an-request program with Tenor
Jan Peerce and Soprano Viola Philo
as vocalists tWMAL, 1880 ann The
program:
Overture to Romeo and Juliet"
The Afternoon of a Faun' Debussy
% Seaye Faneiulla" from
La Boheme" pueeini
Miss. Philo and Mr.. Peerce.
Howard Barlow conducts the CO.
lumbia Symphony Orchestra in Mo-
sart's symphony No. 80 in E Fiat
and Kodaly's suite, Harry Janos"
(wJsv, ~.
The Mason City High School Band.
famed throughout the Middle West
as well as In its native Iowa, is pre-
sented in half-hour concert (wJsv,
$500.
Helen Henry, N. 3. c. soprano, sings
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The Weeks Features
Notes on the Programs
Of Next Six DAYS.

Eduors NoteIhee hstngs compiled
zion furnished by the three networks
may be Cancelled subjected
through stations
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japan in South China.

Encouraged to some extent, perhaps,
by the spectacular successes of her Euro
pean allies, Germany and Italy, Japan
has embarked upon her long-projected
new move to break Chinese resistance.
To that end Toxic yesterday resorted
TO the unorthodox course OF notifying
the United States and other powers that
Japanese forces are about to launch a
high powered campaign in South China.
It's major purpose is to cut the Hong
Kong Canton Railway and thus sever
Chang Kai-shek's jugular vein, for the
great British crown colony is the source
through which his armies mainly have
derived their foreign munitions.
In pursuance Of this highly strategic
objective, Toxic urges the Western pow
ers to refrain as far as possible from
moving troops warships and aircraft in
South China" Whether this applies
only to war materiel of the neutrals OF
munitions in transit across their terri
tory to the Chinese is not yet clear. At
any rate, Toxic. with engaging candor.
points out the possibility Of collisions
with Japanese forces, which this week
began landing at Bias Bay, north of
Hong Kong.
What may prove to be of graver import
than Japan's effort 10 deal China
Evening star., 1938-10-13
Urges Complete Isolation
Al Best u. 8. Policy.

The best interest Of the United States
will be served by our complete isolation
from Europe except commercial inter-
course and the most formal social rela-
tions.
Our interests lie right here In the
Western Hemisphere, and we should put
forth every effort to promote the most
cordial and intimate social, cultural.
business. financial and economic rela-
tions with the peoples and governments
on this side Of the oceans.
Every dictate of self-tnterest and pru-
dence requires that we should maintain
an impregnable national defense. and
that we should call conference OF all
the nations of this hemisphere for the
purpose Of considering our common COM
mercial and defensive interests and vel
fare. and to that end enter into treaties
with them of a defensive and offensive
alliance against the rest of the world.
This hemisphere is the last hope Of
humanity for the preservation OF de-
mocracy and individual liberty. and let
us not delude ourselves into the belief
that greed and envy will not cause the
totalitarian. dictatorship countries Of
Europe and Japan to attack the coun-
tries of this hemisphere in time.
ALEXANDER 3. LANIER.
october 7, 1898.
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Roadside Billboards
Disgust This Traveller.
- A. .AIA ~.

On 4 recent tour Of the interesting
places in this country drove from Phil
adelphia to Washington on the main
highway and I was inexpresNvely dis
gusted with the degradation Of the beau
tiful boulevard by q continuous line Of
roadside advertisements.
1t would be bad enough to have such
an approach to any other city in the
country but to have one Of the main
entrances to our beautiful Capital 10
cheapened and vulgarized seemed to me
unendurable. Millions Of State and Fed
eral money have been spent to surface
and grade that highway according to the
most modern findings Of the engineers
and then. for few thousands of dollars
to abutters, every esthetic value of the
entire distance has been sacrificed. Does
this not represent q real betrayal Of the
faith OF the country In its lawmakers?
To whom can We citizens turn for
redress? Is there any one in Washing
ton or out of it who Is concerned to pre-
serve the beauty OF our highways and
spare us the revolving details about auto
mobile accessories, whisky's virtues and
the thousand other dull and unimportant
items which obscure the view for thou.
sands of miles of our roads?
CORNELIA JAMES CANNON.
October 7. 1898.
Evening star., 1938-10-13
Grand ulusion.'

Washingtonians currently have oppor.
tunity to zee great motion picture pre-
sentation Of the humanitarian case
against war. 1t is French production
and bears the title, Grand Illusion" in
obvious reference to the truth that armed
conflict is . contradiction of the funda-
mental reality Of fellowship among men.
Made and shown just now, when the
world trembles under the threat Of an
other catastrophe like that Of ,19l4-lols,
1t deserves the thoughtful consideration
Of people everywhere.
OF course. there are multitudes who
require no further education in behalf
of peace. Yet even those who remember
all too vividly the horrors and sorrows
OF nearly . quarter century ago would
have their convictions strengthened by
so compelling a sermon as this film rep
resents. It teaches the fact that the race
Is united in its natural routines of life,
its normal motives and aspirations, its
common destiny. Even the so-called
professional militarists" understand and
sympathize with each other. Death itself
does not divide the folk. Rather, 1t REIN
forces the bonds which relate the popu-
lations Of different nations.
Grand Illusion" illustrates the arti-
ficial character of war. It shows strife
as an arbitrary interruption Of civiliza-
ton. And it proves its inefaciency. Love
is not stopped by mass murder. kindH-
ness Is not inhibited altogether by 1t,
suffering does not persuade individuals
to hate other individuals like themselves.
Instead. the human spirit triumphs over
the carnage. Guards are glad when
prisoners escape, enemies share a mutual
delight in heroism, frontiers are imag-
mary lines, the makers of wars are far
away. What truly matters is not differ
ences, but fundamental verities like
laughter and tears, food and hunger. the
warmth of friendly tire and the bitter
cold without. 1t is for better compre-
hension Of the humane realities that this
celluloid drama was intended. Such a
purpose, richly fulfilled. merits COM
mendation.
Evening star., 1938-10-13

crushing military blow ut Canton is the
peril Of resultant Anglo-Japanese COM
plications. News that $4,000 or 10000
troops have disembarked on the South
China coast caused London forthwith to
remind" Toxic that any damage to
British interests might involve risks for
Anglo-Japanese relations" Britain has
no right to protest Japanese operations
against Canton that are confined to
Chinese soil, but any attempt to inter-
fere with ingress or egress as far as Hong
Kong or adjacent Kowloon-both Brit
ish-is concerned, would set the stage
for trouble. Downing Streets warning
suggests it does not consider such =
danger altogether remote, London's anx-
iety may be whetted by Japans some-
what truculent desire" to be notified by
the powers ten days in advance" II
sheer, necessity" requires them to move
land, sea or air forces, which might 9TH
erwise encounter unforeseen incidents"
with Japanese troops.
Great Britain's vast commercial stake
in Chino. far greater than that Of any
other country, ramifies from the Hong
Kong area. Japanese domination Of that
region would spell ruin for British trade.
There is the further disquieting specter
of Japanese naval and air bases in South
China, which could menace Hong Kong.
Perhaps the TOXIC militarists will pres
emily discover that Anglo-Frcnch sea
power is not so hamstrung as 1t was q
month ago and is prepared to offer ade-
quate resistance to Japanese pretensions
in either Hong Kong or nearby 1ndo-
China.
Evening star., 1938-10-13
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES 3. TRACEWELL.

SpinoGa, the pet spider, has returned.
He was discovered the other evening
on his old site, the lid Of the electric
phonosraph, waving his snowy legs
placidly in satisfaction.
He likes Hawaiian music.
Spinoza, called Spin" for short, fairly
dotes on the walls and slurs Of the steel
guitar, the cat-like, bounding voices Of
the native singers, the swing Of the hula
dances.
He has grown from his original size
Of one thirty second of an inch diam
eter, and now boasts himself another
thirty-second Of an inch larger.
Milk-white all over, his legs now are
really visible, whereas in the past We had
to take them on faith. unlaas q reading
glass was brought into operation.
"spin." the spider. more than lives up
to his name.
His spinneYets 60 into operation every
time the lid is raised and returned.
He takes up a position Ut the left front
corner Of the lid, Just q quarter Of an
inch from the spot the corner would
touch the machine when lowered.
This makes the crushing of SpinoEa Z
possibility at every lowering Of the lid.
. possibility which the creature seems
TO take into consideration.
We are willing to swear that spin"
takes this peculiar position each and
every time purely out of . certain sar.
donic malice at us for disturbing him.
He seems to like the trip aloft, with
the lid as 1t is raised, but to resent the
down trip.
Any one who has taken an elevator
can sympathize with him.
His many legs seem to go back on him,
evidently. He no longer trusts himself
to them.
But he has an ace up his sleeve, rather
up his spinnerets.
In them he has one of the most won-
derful "life-lines" in all the world, the
famous substance known the world
around as web.
This webbing is his to command, and
how he brings 1t into action At the hrst
sign Of the downward journey on the
lowering lid!
Racing easily to the aforementioned
corner. "spinoz" starts to spin.
So quick that the human eye cannot
follow his processes, he Clues the end of
the line to the corner, and then swings
himself into space.
Down he goes-down. down, for four
or five inches, which. In contrast to his
size. is equivalent to 4 man throwing
himself over the side Of very tall build
ing on 4 rope.
Any one who has seen an intrepid per-
son do such feat is willing to hand 1t
TO man or spider who is able to perform
1t.
We recalled . tow-headed fellow who
was working on the construction OF q
tall downtown building.
n kindly, courteous. fresh faced man
Of about thirty.five years. he had no
more heaitation about stepping out 4
Evening star., 1938-10-13
Labor Probe Needed.

4neIe Is mucn virtue IN the suggestion
that presidential fact-f1nding commits
sion be named to study all aspects of the
disruption in the American labor move
ment, such study to be directed toward
. reconciliation Of the differences. There
are q number of valid reasons why such
. study should be made, irrespective Of
whether any beneficial results come from
the offer Of John L. Lewis to resign as
chairman Of the Committee for Indus
trial Organization If William Green will
relinouish his post as president Of the
American Federation Of Labor.
For nearly three years labor has spent
an inordinate portion OF its energies
fighting itself, with the actual cost OF
such struggle coming not only from the
purse of labor but of the entire Nation
During the entire period, recrimina-
tons have been frequent and the blame
has been laid freely upon the doorsteps
Of both sides, but never from the outside
has there been any authoritative or effec-
tive analysis of why the labor movement
was split or what should be done to conf
pose the embattled factions Efforts to
achieve peace, or even to place RESPONSE
bility for war, have been left almost en-
tirely to those involved in the conflict, all
Of whom unfortunately are prejudiced.
That such recourse has failed to bring
an end to the struggle is the best argu-
ment in favor Of more positive depend
enos upon outside influences.
To be effective, of course, q fact-find-
ing commission must be composed Of
persons free Of advance commitment on
the issues involved. but preferably pos
sessed Of sympathetic understanding Of
the fundamental objectives and prob
lens Of organized labor. Such qualifca-
tions might make the selection of COM
mission difficult but certainly not impos-
sibls. Meeting these qualifications, a
commission would be possessed of suffi-
cient prestige to insure the support of
public opinion in influencing the leaders
Of labor to be guided by the eventual
findings.
While such commission would not
want to undertake too extensive an in
vestigation. it might see fit to link it's
probe Of the intra-labor quarrel with
current demands for amendment of the
Wagner Labor Relations Act. The
A. F. of L. is seeking several amendments,
which, in substance, would prevent inter-
prstations of the act which it considers
unduly favorable to the c. I. o. Amend
ments also have been sought by industry.
and since any revision Of the Wagner
Act is apt to have an effect on harmony
within the labor movement, 1t would
seem desirable to consider both at the
same time. II possible.
With little or nothing to lose in any
event and much benefit to the Nations
economy at stake, the idea surely is
worth a trial
Evening star., 1938-10-13

window on the 10th door than the rest
Of US over . doorsill.
*A 4 -
Out he would 60, hanging onto . rope,
Just ss Spinoza does to his silken strand,
and he would think no more Of his feat
than the spider does.
"Spin" seems TO be the perfect realiza-
ton Of the magicians dream, as he hangs
there between lid and rim OF the
phonograph.
To the so-called naked eye there seems
to be nothing there but air and spider
the silk line A absolutely invisible, for
Spin" Is very young, and his lines have
not achieved the material substance Of
older members Of his tribe.
His ID q Rossamer line, indeed, the sort
that scientists might like for their flne
instruments, but probably could not use
because they would break them with
their coarse handling.
Not 30 Spinoza, however; he manages
his thread 50 delicately, with the wisdom
of centuries Of spiders, that it remains
intact, and is reeled up again in his
abdomen at will.
This will, 1t must be said, depend
greatly upon the guiding hand at the
machine.
The brain guiding the hand fears that
a Grass utilitarian lowering of the lid
might crush the arachnid.
This fear. therefore, compels several
tentative coverings, to see whether Spi-
noza Is determined to stick 1t out on his
line, or Is willing to draw it in and escape
to the sure safety of the top.
Usually 1t requires several such lower
ings to induce him to use his will power
in the matter.
He bangles gaily in space. his invisible
line waving to and fro, equivalent to
dangling half way down the face Of the
Monument.
At last his will power begins to operate.
He determined to do the perfectly SEN
sible thing in what seems, alas, at times
q perfectly senseless world.
He reels in his line, and comes up with
1t on the rush.
He scurries across the lid to the center,
there defying fate and fortune to do
their worst.
The lid Is lowered, the music begins.
spinosa stands entranced, waving his
legs menacingly in time.
y
The approaching finger approaches, but
Spinoza has learned by this time that it
means no harm to him.
He runs playfully forward, as if about
to seize the digit and bite out q huge
chunk.
He turns suddenly, runs away across
the lid. tiny white streak on the ma.
hogany, making for his secondary re-
treat, the upper corner At the back, right.
He huddles down into q tiny crack
which has developed there. He thinks
himself hidden from the world.
This must be the place he hides in
during the day: But when evening falls,
and the lights are on, spin" comes out
to play, and to listen to the music. and,
no doubt. to catch himself some dinner.
IN the classic spider fashion.
Evening star., 1938-10-13
Correction of School
Bus Situation Urged.
To the Editor Of The Star:

have read With considerable interest
the article published in The Sunday Star
Of October entitled. Crippled Children
Denied Benefits Of School Because
Shortage Of Funds Limits Bus Routes"
First Of all. should like to state that
! am tn complete agreement with the
views expressed by Mrs. M. j. Hanley,
chairman Of the District Parent Teach
ers Association Congress Committee for
Handicapped Children that 1T Is tragic
that we have all that fine equipment
especially for such children at Langdon
School and they cannot share its bene-
fits just for the lack Of few dollars to
run the buses bit farther.
The situation as related In the article
above referred to is not new one. The
same conditions existed during the
school years Of 1888 and 1895. At which
time the same identical excuses were
made by the school authorities. Can it
be possible that the School Board is just
beginning to realize that there is some
thing wrong in the management Of that
school? From my observation the great
est trouble has always been with the
buses which furnish transportation to
and from the school. It appears that it
has been the policy Of the school authori-
ties to arrange with the bus companies
for such transportation. The bus COM
panies in turn employ drivers and help
ers who are accountable not to the school
authorities, but to the bus companies.
and any complaints as to the service fur
nished must be made to the companies.
which alone had authority to reprimand
or discipline such employees.
It appears to me that unless some bet
ter arrangement can be made with the
transportation companies it would be far
better for the authorities to purchase or
rent buses necessary to transfer the COM
paratively few crippled children of school
age In the District Of Columbia to and
from school, and hire drivers and helpers
to operate them. This arrangement
would put the school authorities in direct
supervision and control of the buses and
those whose duty it would be to operate
them. Tho School Board would then be
IN 4 position to direct the operation OF
the buses as they saw fit At any rate. I
think 1t Is high time that the School
Board should make an investigation and
determine where the trouble Is And make
an honest effort to have 1t corrected. No
doubt the board is hampered In its acttv-
tiles by lack Of proper funds. That Is
always an excuse.
II 1t Is the lack of funds-let us get the
funds. II 1t Is due to lack Of proper
management, let us have it corrected. In
any event. let Us no longer be q party to
such 4 pitiable condition which renders
1t impossible to furnish to those unfortu-
nate children the BENEFITS which It was
the intention to furnish by the establish
ment of the school. It was not dimcult
to convince Congress Of the need Of such
q school. It should not be hard to con-
vince it Of the need Of transportation to
and from the school. E. l.. CORB1N.
October II, 1888.
Evening star., 1938-10-13

facts which not only stare us but which
slap us in the face.
Why should billions Of dollars be left
to the cause of peace and civilization
when modern products Of science destroy
ancient seats Of culture, bury helpless
women and children under tons of debris,
contaminate the native soil of barefoot
Ethiopians with powerful acids poison
the very atmosphere which millions of
non-combatants breathe. and raise to
power modern barbarians who destroy
or exile the worlds most brilliant men?
LEROY L. BRANDT.
October I, 1888.
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Llndbergh Now TO BE
Target Of Communists.
To the Editor Of The star:

And 20 because Colonel Charles A.
Lindbergh is alleged to have privately
said that the personnel situation in the
Russian Air Corps seemed to be in .
chaotic condition, the Communists say
he is 4 liar and that he can't fly and
never could! Also, that he Is a stooge
and an anti. Communist, or Fascist.
1t would Be one Of the strangest things
Of all the strange happenings of recent
weeks If the casual opinion of q modest
and unusually non -committal American
aviator had prevented world war. This
is what the Communists accuse him of,
and they are plenty angry, for they
wanted a WARMTH other people fight
ing it.
Careful observers did not need any
word from Lindbergh to know that the
Russian air force and the whole army
was in q chaotic condition. The fact
that the Communists have been execut-
ing their army officers by Wholesale for
the last two years, and started killing
more Of them on the eve Of q threatened
war u proof Of 1t.
RETIRED ARMY AVIATOR.
October 10, 1888.
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Twenty Years Ago
The World Var Day by Day
October 13. 1918.

At 10 an. Gen. Dehsny's troops as
saulted and took Ia Fere. crossed the
railroad there, and reached the south
pank Of the Serre. They repulsed
numerous and violent counterattscks.
Virtually the entire et. dobain nasdf
was occupied.
In the Argonns. Americans pushed On,
everywhere overcoming resistance. until,
before the day was over, they were en-
saged on the Kriemhild line and had
ostablislaed contact with the French On
the Aank. They eonsoudated tor the
naxt days advance. A
Evening star., 1938-10-13

A new and bizarre ballroom dance IL
promised for Washington soon. 1t Is en-
titled "Peelin' the Peach" and particle
pants shed both shoes and hosiery.
There is one almost inevitable thing to
prevent its success Every one has ex-
perienced that nearly unconquerable i'm
pulse to throw thumb or other tack on
the stage when classic dances are under
way, and in ballroom both inhibitions
and prohibitions will 60 with the wind.
Evening star., 1938-10-13


pigeons have never really desired an
agreement with the Czechs Neither are
the Nazis interested merely in the "ib-
Grafton" Of the Sudeten Germans. Ger
manys aims and ambitions 60 far be-
yond the Sudeten Germans and far be-
yond Csschoslovakia. The Sudeten
Germans with their fancied wrongs and
their right Of self-determination have
merely furnished convenient pretext
for German Intervention In Czecho-
slovakia. Az fast a. the latter govern
ment made concessions to its German
minority. the Nazis raised their de-
mands. They gre still playing the same
game today. The German government
will not be satisfied with any settlement
short of complete subjugation or ruin Of
CSechoslovakia. EDW. WOLESENSKY.
oeNbsr I. 1898.
Evening star., 1938-10-13

The Midwest not only has the largest
farms, but its farmers emit the loudest
squawks. A little fellow in the East
with scanty acres seems, as general
thing, to do fairly we'll and keep fairly
quiet.