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the tax laws to suit the business groups.
1t has forgotten wage and hour controls,
to which employers objected. 1t has
voted new subsidies to the growing num-
ber OF unemployed and has given FARM
ers control plan. It may provide def
mite help to the railroads.
After that, according to present plans,
Congress will go home and wait for the
fall elections and for recovery.
4 4 4
Diligent inquiry among those who are
best able to look ahead reveals recog-
milton that the elections will come, but
conviction that the recovery is much less
likely, under the circumstances, to de-
velop In any substantial manner. The
reason for this conviction on the part of
the economists is that the United States
refuses to recognize that the changes
taking place in the world are breaking
down the controls that once made pos
sible an automatic operation of the Ma
tion's economic machinery. Mr. Hull is
consistent in trying to permit a rebuild
ing OF those automatic controls, but he
Is meeting nothing but disbursement
As consequence, the Nation is enjoy
ing another rather painful lesson in
practical economics. That lesson may
continue of and on until the President
and Congress learn 1t and act accord
insly. Right now, the program calls for
letting business men alone.
toopyrisht. PasJ
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ssWATCH YOUR STEP"
BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES e. FREEMAN d, L. d. D. c. L.
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

This legend Is 80 universally used that
1t may be its implications are largely dis
regarded. Its purpose Is self-evident. It
Is an admonition designed to warn the
careless OF making misstep, and its
purpose Is not alone protection, but
the protection OF our neighbors.
AS an admonition it applies to every
incident and situation in life. 1t is de-
signed to compel us to consider the ulti-
mate outcome of every step we take and
to reckon with the cost 1t may entail. An
ancient writer speaks Of careful walking
as follows: See that ye walk circum-
specify; not as fools, but as wise" Liter
ally, this means, Walk with care, looking
about you, exercising both caution and
judgment" In a further admonition he
speaks Of "redeeming the time" which
means buying up the opportunity"
The whole suggestion is that he who
walks with caution, watching his step
and does so with regard to environing
conditions, takes advantage of recurring
opportunities, guaranteeing to himself
both security and gain. 1t is a fine ad-
monition and 1t certainly has application
to our modern world, even as it has
application to every phase of our life.
Nations, states, organizations, society,
business and the individual, trace most
If not all their misfortune to step care
lessly taken, or taken without regard to
where it leads. There are so many blind
guides" in the world that we need in
creased traffic service, more police and
semaphore signals to save us from mis-
hap and misfortune The real purpose
of Stop" and 60" signs is to save the
majority from the recklessness and follies
of the selfish. irresponsible, thoughtless
minority. Confusion exists in the traffic
lanes today. Movement is swifter, more
intense and more hurried than it has
been; there Is increasing need of caution
and yet we disclose less OF it than
hitherto.
There is a notable building in Paris.
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been spent In the last five years for
this purpose, the Senate Unemployment
Committee was told yesterday. This is
an appalling sum of money.
But 1t is hard to consider the Civilian
Conservation Corps entirely as q relief
organization. or even as primarily such
1t has far transcended the purpose which
served as its original reason for being
If its accounts were squared very likely
it would be found to have paid large
dividends on the investment, both In
the improvement Of the forests and
parks Of America and in the salvage of
human lives.
So it seems likely that the c. c. G.
will remain and will deserve to remain
permanent institution when all othe,
relief organizations come to an end.
Or will they ever come to an end?
1t begins to look as If the end were
far of.
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BOYS Club CAMPAIGN.

The Star gladly commends the cam
paign which opens today in behalf of
the Metropolitan Police Boys Club.
Funds in amount Of seventy-five thou
sand dollars will be solicited to support
q work already demonstrably successful
and to expand that work into fields as
yet untried. Included in the budget
are necessary expenses for the main
tenance Of medical and dental clinics,
. camp and farm, as well as half
dozen club headquarters In various
neighborhoods within the District of
Columbia.
Washington, as many of its residents
know, has been backward In the de-
velopment of facilities Of the kind which
the Boys Club prowdks. Literally thou
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A Permanent C.. C.. e..

The Civilian Conservation Corps pre-
sumably Is to be classed as a relief
agency. Its establishment was one of
the Presidents earliest moves to lift
some Of the burden of caring for the
Jooless from the local agencies. Its
ranks were open only to young men
with destitute families, or who were will
ing to assign major part of their nav
to such families. A good many boys in
relatively comfortable circumstances fell
In this second class. They were actually
willing to pay for the opportunity for
adventure and life in the open.
This Is the one form Of relief which
has been subjected to the least criticism.
Under the able direction from the first
Of Robert Fechner it seems to have
escaped almost completely the attacks
which have been directed at one time
or another against most New Deal
relief agencies. The only complaints
that have been heard have been to the
effect that c. G. c. camps are military
training camps in disguise. If that is
the case the boys are enlisted in the
sort of war to which there is no objec-
ton and from which there is no escape,
the eternal struggle against the destruc-
tive forces of nature.
Now it is the sincere hope of every
body that the need for any kind Of
Federal relief soon will come to an end.
A total Of Smost $4,000. 900 900 has
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1t Can't Happen Here.

flcture city In which one man had
monopoly of the business of treating
the sick. Such man would possess
arbitrary powers of life and death over
a considerable element of the population.
He might easily be the most terrible
tyrant in human history. There have
been parallel cases in some primitive
societies where shamans have built up
tyrannies compared to which that of
Ivan the Terrible was mild and
beneficent.
1T can't happen here" of course,
because organized medicine in the
United States has adopted a universal
policy against the practice of medicine
by any but an individual Nobody can
hire doctor to work for him for
salary and collect the fees for his
services to others.
If the situation were otherwise it is
not altogether unimaginable that some
ruthless individual of great wealth or
some equally ruthless corporation might
employ staff of physicians on chain
store basis, effectively stihe competition
of individual practitioners by suinous
fee-cutting or even terroristic tactics,
and put itself in the highly profitable
position of being the only available
agency for rendering medical services
to the sick
The picture is fantastic. Theoretically
1t Is not impossible. movement in that
direction is even probable If organized
medicine relaxes its basic policy of re-
stricting medical practice to individuals
who have met standard requirements of
education and competence.
Such monopoly might be, of course.
highly idealistic and competent. Very
likely it would be highly efficient,
Monopolies usually are-at least until
they are well-established and start to
make their piles"
And it is one of the clearest lessons
OF history that the benehcent tyranny
OF today usually becomes the cruel,
costly, ruthless tyranny of tomorrow.
Any undermining of the independent
status OF physicians in Washington is
weakening the bulwarks which now pro-
tect the public against medical tyranny.
Nobody has for one moment questioned
the motives of this organization STYLED
Group Health Associates. Nobody has
ever attributed to it anything but an
earnest desire to give the public cheaper,
better medical service than it now is
receiving.
But it also is only fair to point out
that human freedom has been under
mined before by equally idealistic organ
izations. 1t is likewise only fair to point
out that the benefits 1t promises are to
be had only at a eventually, 1t
Is possible, an unspeakably terrible price
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formerly church, that has this signifi-
cant designation: "The Court of Lost
Footsteps" When the court terms are
about to begin, clients come to this
Court Of Lost Footsteps" seeking lawyers
to represent them. These many clients
come with their multiform problems
seeking to find the way by which they
may recover that which they have lost
from one cause or another
There are places and seasons in which
we may recover our lost way. Lent is
such season. Its primary design Is to
rediscover the ways that are the safest,
the most wholesome and that give the
most enduring satisfaction. It is a sea-
son whose purpose is valid, sane and
deeply practical 1t challenges us to
watch our step, to fit ourselves more fully
for the pilgrimage of life, to make us
more reflective, more considerate in all
our habits and practices. The hurry of
life as well as its confusions destroy its
poise, its confidence and its serenity. We
lose the sense of direction and sometimes
our consistent place in the scheme Of
things.
Note the crowds on our city streets,
moving, ever moving with relentless
haste. After the hurry what is at jour-
ney's end? A brilliant writer puts 1t
thus: "'Where are they going?' 1 asked
the eavesdropper as he stole round the
world to me. They are hurrying,' he
said. 'Hurrying whereof I asked. God
knows he answered"
Watch your step" says Lent, with its
days designed for contemplation and re-
Election. Watch your STEP" says Con-
science. suddenly aroused from it's sup
pressed exercise. Look where you are
going, else you may find you are on
detour instead of on the main highway.
We need such periods, not only to slow
down the pace, but to recover our sense
Of direction. See that We walk circum-
specify docking around, not unwisely
but wisely, buying up the opportunity as
YOU co."
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sands Of youngsters have had no oppor-
tunity to manifest their natural gre
garious instinct in constructive leisure
time occupation. They have played in
the streets, unguided and undirected, in
constant peril of trafnc and even worse
accidents. Maj Ernest w. Brown,
superintendent of the Metropolitan
Police, took hold of the problem in 1884
because he was convinced that 1t was
related to juvenile delinquency. He
was correct In his judgment. Figures
carefully compiled from precinct records
show that arrests for felonies committed
by offenders under seventeen years of
age have fallen from 354 in 1888 to %
in 1887.
But without regard to crime and its
correction, the Boys Club is worth while.
1t promotes manliness, health, tolerance
and charity, fellowship and cooperation
among children who soon will be adult
citizens. Surely no argument is wanted
to convince the public that money
voluntarily contributed to be spent to
such an end is money wisely invested.
The same community which recently
honored itself by oversubscribing the
fund for the National Symphony orches-
ira certainly will not fail in a cause of
equal, If not superior, importance.
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A Changing Changer.

1t Is fact OF history that the most
passionate apostles of change are tenn
permanently quixotic. BY habit they
swing from one extreme to another.
Their advocacy of fluid social conditions
appears to trace back to their own
intellectual and spiritual instability.
Some Unborn tendency to experiment
seems to be responsible.
The case of John L. Lewis, militant
leader of the c. I. o., may be cited by
way OF Illustration. Just now he is
making good his threat to break with
President Roosevelt, forgetting that the
New Deal has been in large part his
own creation and that he personally
is to blame for some of its major errors
The great number of strikes since 1898
cannot be explained by any theory
which omits consideration of the
belligerency of the head of the United
Mine Workers of America. Similarly.
the recession which has impoverished
millions was caused by disturbed indus
trial conditions resulting almost entirely
from Federal interference between cap
ital and labor-an Intervention which
Mr. Lewis promoted both directly at the
White House and indirectly at the
Capitol.
But neither Mr.. Roosevelt nor his
opposition need be surprised by the
c. I. o. chairman's detection. Mr.. Lewis
is not distinguished for consistency
except in the doubtful art of being
inconsistent He is running out" on
the New Deal exactly as he ran OUT
on the old. The public has little excuse
for forgetting that on November /, 1928,
ne broadcast to the Nation these senti-
ments: Labor and industry require Mr.,
Hoover's services and genius for con.
structive, industrial craftsmanship, so
that the unprecedented industrial and
business prosperity which he inaueu-
rated may be properly developed and
stabilized and in order, furthermore,
that the way which he has opened to
human and social betterment may be
Widened and made certain for the
coming generations of our people"
Evening star., 1938-03-20
Shooting Stars.
Intellectual Habit.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,

Intellectual Habit.
loved the jokes. the dear old Jokes,
The jokes of long ago.
An ancient wheeze a laugh provokes
With gentle charm aglow.
Like blossoms in the merry spring,
They fade and disappear,
But when the birds begin to sing
They come, another year.
They wear new garb and never find
An audience that's cold.
Tenaclously the human mind
Will to tradition hold.
For old PHILOSOPHERS and laws
A reverence deep we show
And also greet with fond applause
The jokes of long ago.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

AS the years pass, new experiences
come to statesmen. Secretary Hulls
recent speech was heard the world over,
even at time when war closed parts of
the earth to ordinary forms of COM
munication. Radio never functioned
more nobly than it did in carrying the
Hull message, In all languages.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

Radio speakers, having mentioned the
same men quite often, go into history
and bring forward the name of Grover
Cleveland. It is proud name and be-
longs to man who worked hard for
honors and yet who stood ready to sacri-
flee distinctions as he heard the call of
duty.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

Spain drops an occasional intimation
that she too has art treasures as well
rs fine citizens who are well worth
preserving for future reference.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

The storm at Hollywood is soon for
gotten as new events arise. California
has always been surprising in eocen-
tricities. AS its moods have changed
1t has often proved startling-never
uninteresting.
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After all. Ethiopia may look to Europe
1or suggestions OF course of conduct
that will show an appreciation of a
peaceful situation arrived at after some
difficulty.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

Mussolini may have encouraged his
son to become an expert in aviation,
which risks putting a young man into
trouble but also proves one of the short
ways of getting him out
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Amended Quotation.

"All the worlds a STAGE" quoted the
constituent.
ITS more like screen" said Senator
Sorghum. "The camera men have been
so enterprising that some of us statesmen
begin to look like motion picture actors"
Evening star., 1938-03-20
The Human RIiz.

The Human Biz.
Oh, do not be a blizzard, friend,
And when the sunshine seeks to lend
TO earth some loveliness and Joy,
With searching chill seek to destroy.
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Hopeless.
There is no use of trying to improve
my husbands mind" said Mrs. Cumrox,
with sigh.
"Why do you despair"
II took him to an art museum yester-
day. He thought the Venus de Milo WAS
an. advertisement for an amateur swim
ming contest"
"A true friend" said Hi Ho, the sage
OF Chinatown, lis one who does not envy
or fear you even though you are able
to do him great favors."
A Crowded Existence.
The farmer has busy life
That brings both pleasure and alarm:
He joins in every verbal strife,
When does he get the time to farm?
Some folks" said Uncle Eben, kin
fall down on der promises in q way dat
makes you apologize foh putin en- to
Dc treble Of explainin'."
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Jud Tunkins says he wouldn't object
10 women smoking in public If more of
'em looked as if they really enjoyed it.
Evening star., 1938-03-20

V"o nVUHIHB SIdI NcWBP@ptI VUmp1Hy
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mote boondoggling or armament abroad
in the expectation of getting some indi-
rect benefits in the form of increased ex-
ports. This method was tried during the
1920S, when American dollars built low
cost housing projects. swimming pools,
municipal buildings and other public
works for Europeans. who then conven-
iently forgot to pay the bill.
The result is that 1t Is going to be ex-
tremely difficult to sell Congress on the
idea of adjusting war debts, much less
opening the door to new flow of Ameri-
can dollars into foreign pockets.
And It appears to be almost equally
difficult to sell either Congress or the
country on the unanswerable proposition
that q nAtionalism abroad, particularly
as it extends to England and France,
makes inevitable very drastic changes in
the economic mechanism that causes the
wheels Of business and finance to turn.
Both the people generally and their
rulers insist upon closing their eyes to
the effect of world developments on
national policies.
This is the point that causes the Gov
ernment's principal economists to show
such definite discouragement. They say
that the country seems to be convinced
and this conviction is almost a religion
with the present Congressional If tax
laws can be changed and If the Govern
ment will just appear to be friendly to
business men, recovery will become auto
matte and sweeping.
Mr.. Roosevelt tried to buck that senti-
ment for time and failed. So he Is CIV
ing Mr.. Hull and the internationAlists .
play.
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rule, cannot make headway.
/ Under a democratic form of govern
ment people will endure economic condi-
tions to certain point, and then through
their processes of correction bring about
changes. Under dictatorship people
suffer hardships that would be intoler-
able to people living under a parlia-
mentary government. Thus distress un-
der a dictatorship may go from bad to
worse without concerted action for i'm
provement. If a dictatorship is backed
by party organization and propaganda
force may be able to rule indefinitely and
with apparent ease, since the population
at large has surrendered its rights and
centered all authority in the dictator.
The striking contrasts in the dictator
ships OF Germany, Russia and Italy COM
pared to the democratic form Of govern
ment in the United States are outstand-
Ing. Personal possessions and govern
ment bonds constitute the only private
property that an individual in Russia
may possess. In Germany and Italy pri-
vate property however, does have the
protection of the state. An owners land
in Italy may not be used to produce tho
most profitable CROP but must be used to
produce such crops as may assist in the
nations need. The returns on private
property are determined by the state and
the state may use the savings of the in
dividual where the interest of the state
demands. The savings of the German
people are used to keep the nation armed
and to create work projects for the gen.
eral welfare. On industry heavy levies
are made to pay for export subsidies
The return on invested capital is limited
to minimum and all profit above this
minimum is invested in rearmament
loans. A similar situation exists in Rus
sia except that more of the profits of in-
dustry 60 to improve living conditions Of
the people and not for armament pur.
poses Is In Germany and Italy. Y
Evening star., 1938-10-02

row OF boxes to receive our food cafe
terra style. We ate our supper sitting
on the hay, and that night we returned
to our hunks even happier than if we
had gone on the hike-because this
experience was new and was fun"
The boys are strangely silent con-
eerning their vacations, apparently
preferring to write of pets, hobbies
and, of course, exciting adventures. The
only boy who had anything to say
about vacation was William Shirley,
3l8 Twelfth street NE, and he forgot
to give his age and school,
Bills oversight undoubtedly was due
to excitement over an automobile tour
from which he had just returned. The
trip took him to various points of in
terest in Kentucky, including Bards-
town. wnere Stephen Foster wrote MY
Old Kentucky Home" 1t was "a vaca-
tion long to be remembered" Bill says.
DOROTHY NIESSEN, on the other
hand, spent her vacation at her
home, 52l4 North Eleventh street, Ar
Gngton. Va. Dorothy. who is IA, writes
L am kept very busy every day. I
have received So since the beginning of
the vacation season for taking care Of
small children. also helped my twin
brother to serve papers for two weeks.
have enjoyed this summer very
much"
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They learned 10 stand on it the first
time they tried, but for the first two
days I fell off.
All of us were sorry when the time
came to 60 home, but we are looking
forward to another good time next
year"
1T is very amusing to make things
while home on your vacation" OBJ
serves Eveleen johnson, IL, of Brandy
wine, Md. L have been making scrap
books in which to put interesting pic
lures. have also embroidered a bu-
reau scarf and crocheted a collar and
six doilies all to be used as Christmas
gifts for my friends"
Fern E. Schaeffer. II, of 5l8 G street
Sc, a student at Eastern High School,
spent four weeks in the Shenandoah
Valley, visiting relatives and friends.
Il came near having fatal acci-
dent" she reports. I fell down an
open stairway and just missed an iron
railing. They picked me up uncon-
scious. and I was badly bruised. but
I didn't suffer any broken bones"
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Prize Contest

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Page. Subjects may include ad-
ventures. hobbies. pets-in short,
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be in the form Of letters, stories,
poems. jingles or even bits of
news concerning the activities Of
boys and girls anywhere in the
washington area. Cartoons also
are acceptable, If they are we'll
drawn.
The authors of the five best
contributions published each week
will be awarded prizes of ST each.
Here are the rules:
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the name. age. address, telephone
number if any and school of
the author. This information
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Of written contributions and on
the back of drawings.
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Drawings must be in black India
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