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The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-05
MOTHER REMEMBERS

In almost every major public building in Washington there is bronze tablet with the names of men who went from the various de- partments to fight in the World War. Some list hundreds of names.
 Every once in while bouquet of flowers will be deposited at the foot of one of the tablets. Some times it is an ornate bouquet, the formal remembrances of some or ganization to which the dead sol- dier once belonged. Occasionally the bouquet is simple bunch of flowers-one Mama picked out of the garden to leave below her boys name as she headed for town to do some shopping.
 Wars last an awfully long time with mothers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-05

Shy Howard Hughes, who flew around the world in 91 hours, was a half hour late getting to Wash ington to address gathering of newsmen and federalisti. but once
 Continued on Page Seven)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-05
BAN LIFTED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-Doug- las Corrigan, who started off for Californi . recently, spanned the At lantic and landed in Ireland, can spread his wings again at the De- partment of Commerce Aeronauti- cal Bureaus ban on his flying ac- tivities have been lifted. The ban was placed on the Irish aviator be- cause he failed to secure permit to fly.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
Haiti MOdernizes.

A pump-priming program is getting
under way in Haiti with the aid of credit
from the United States. 1t is program
which promises to do much to solve the
republics vast problems of overpopula-
ton and low purchasing power. Roads
are to be built to facilitate the trans
portation of export products to the sea,
and irrigation is to make greater por-
tion OF the exotic Caribbean domain pro-
ductive.
Many direct benefits will accrue to the
United States. with which Haiti has been
closely linked since 1915. All materials
imported for this work must come from
the United States, and must be trans
ported in American ships.
Haiti has lush and fertile soil, a
variety of possible products, and a stra-
tegic commercial location. But it has
been beleaguered by poverty, poor trans
portation, debt, unfavorable trade bal
ances, and lack of markets.
new day is dawning, however. Trade
treaties with the United States and
France are opening possible markets, the
trade balance has become favorable in
the past year, and now internal improve
ments are getting under way which will
integrate the republic and make possible
a better distribution of work and wealth
among the people.
Evening star., 1938-08-15

will have added weight If it is made
when the tests have been conducted
longer and more data is available.
Meanwhile, residents of the area served
by the buses will further their cause by
encouraging rather than discouraging
their use. For If the transit company's
aim is to discontinue the buses, they will
have greater chance of attaining that
objective If their operations under the
curtailed schedule show loss, as did the
former schedule.
When the time comes for the Public
Service Commission to rule on the case,
however, many elements other than
profit and loss figures deserve considera-
ton. One factor should be the home
construction trend toward Rockville. In
the years to come population inlthat area
may be so dense as to make bus opera
tions profitable. The bus firm itself may
accelerate the growth along its line If
adequate service is maintained. At all
events, it should not be permitted to
shirk its public responsibility toward
those who now need its service.
Evening star., 1938-08-15

sents but a single opportunity. The
behavior of the C. I. o. also should be
studied 1t has been charged that John
L. Lewis followers are as dictatorial as
the hated bosses" when and where they
have power to control conditions to their
advantage.
The influence of w. P. A. likewise
ought to be studied. In more than a
few localities there has been complaint
that lieutenants of Harry Hopkins have
cracked the whip" over voters hesitant
to believe that Federal employment on
emergency projects is dependent upon
slavish loyalty to the New Deal.
Mr. Clark's committee similarly might
look into the conduct of National Labor
Relations Board officials. The establish
ment responsible for the administration
of the Wagner Act has been compared
with the Duke of Alva S infamous Council
Of Blood; and not all the criticism di-
rected against it has been unjustified or
unmerited.
But the committee will not need to
be told what to do. It's members are
familiar with prevailing facts. They
know that liberty is suffering at the
hands of reformers as we'll as reaction
aries and 1t will be the expectation of
the country that they will be fearless
in their labors for the protection of the
rights transgressed.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
Lee Boulevard ZOning.

Arlington County's Board appears to
have set an unfortunate precedent in
changing the status of a tract of land
on the Lee boulevard extension from
residential A to local business.
Barely year ago, before the extension
was built, the board carefully changed
all zoning along the route to residential
A, so that Lee boulevard, like the Mount
Vernon Memorial highway, would not
be commercialized entrance to WASH
ington.
Undoubtedly there were unusual cir
cumstances surrounding the zoning
change recently authorized. The tract
Of land was unusual in shape. 1t was
near the Fort Myer stables and laundry
Its owner claimed it was worthless as
residential property. The three MEM
bers of the board who voted for the
change unquestionably felt they were
dealing equitably with a citizen who
found his land valueless under existing
zoning classifications
The two minority board members who
fought the change realized, however,
that often individuals suffer because Of
the way community develops. Further
more, they realized that the line must
be drawn somewhere. To make one
zoning change on the new portion Of
the boulevard was to invite other ap-
plications. Already one is pending for
reclassification. to permit erection of
row houses.
This view of the minority of the
board is shared by large number of
county residents and the County Civic
Federation. In view of their sentiments,
incidentally shared by many outside of
Arlington, the board not only should be
on guard to prevent further extension
of business zoned on the boulevard but
weigh the advisability of resembling the
change that has caused so much dis
cuSsion.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

An architect who may love his own
low garden windows, will sit down to
his drawing board and draw up plans
for house without them, without
thinking that other people might like
them, too.
So wags the world away, but when it
wags out of architectural plans some
nice low and broad windows overlooking
the garden it has not done as we'll by
either architecture or living as it might.
Garden planning should keep in mind
at all stages exactly the same thing
the view from the window.
Even the most ardent dirt gardener
will have many minutes of just plain
looking.
And what could be nicer?
Visual enjoyment of the garden is al
most the main thing, whether one is a
tough-Skinned wight who does not mind
mosquitoes in the least or one of these
hothouse flowers who prefers to see the
garden from behind screens.
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Our especial admiration goes out to
all hardy persons who just dote on hay
ing their meals outdoors
Nothing suits them better than hav-
ing ants in their soup, and mosquitoes
lunching off their legs.
Dishes must be lugged out, dishes
must be lugged back, but they are all
taken in the stride; the pleasure of eat
ing in the open outweighs it all
AS for us, no sooner do We get seated
than an ant drops down the back of
our neck, as the phrase used to have it.
Then somebody overturns the cream
pitcher, and large portion of the con-
tents slides off the right leg, dripping
in a pleasant bovine waterfall to the
grass. where it forms a highly unusual
puddle.
Just about the time one is going to
sample sandwich, somebody SAYS,
Watch out for that ant"
The ants are coming from all direc-
tions. A binocular eye could see them
trooping in from all points of the COM
pass.
Mosquitoes have preceded them, how
ever; these efflcient insects spend their
lives cat least in our Yard waiting for
Charlie to come out.
The moment they see him. they holler
to each other, and wing to the feast.
Then We marvel at the modern lady
gardeners who can stick around in the
yard all day long with practically moth
ing on and never get a mosquito bite
at all.
Elephant hide it must be. There are,
of course, other factors, one of them be-
ing the sensitivity of the individual skin
We saw mosquito bite the other day
which had swelled up an inch across
and more than quarter Of an inch
high all over.
On other people these bites will do no
more than make an uncomfortable itch
ing for a short time
The view from the screened window
has its advantages. then. A little less
shrubbery, and little less light.
But who wants to cut a favorite
evergreen which is doing nicely?
1t makes difficult decision some
times.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
New Parties for Old.

Only the La Toilette brothers and
their closest confidantes know the full
implications of the announcement that
they will seek to defeat Senator Duffy,
New Deal Democrat, with a Progressive
nominee in the Wisconsin senatorial
race this fall.
To an outside observer perhaps the
most important clue contained in the
informal announcement of intention
given out here by Senator Bob La Fol-
lette was his suggestion that there
must be realignment of political
parties on the basis of issues. We are
trying to form a party of members who
are thinking along the same lines"
That such a realignment might be a
salutary development in American
politics is extremely likely. At the
present time, loose applications of the
terms liberal and "reactionary" have
cut SO far across party lines that the
labels of Democrat and Republican have
become largely meaningless; to say
nothing Of the confusion which has been
imposed upon the voters by outside"
applications of these measuring rods to
local candidates of both parties.
But where the idea of new liberal
party, the Progressive party, for instance,
may be excellent in theory, the near
insuperable obstacles to displacing
either or both of the existing ma jor
parties are plainly obvious. 1t should be
noted that the greatest of these obstacles,
incidentally, would not be the leadership
Of the two parties, regardless of how hard
they might fight to prevent their or
CARNATIONS being cut from under them,
but rather the lethargic loyalty of mil
lions OF voters to a party label In
many cases this loyalty dates back
through generations to the reconstruc-
ton days and the certainty with which
it accounts for an, important num-
ber Of votes each election year has be-
come an established part of American
politics.
The La Toilette brothers know all this,
of course, and their evident determine
tion to proceed in spite of the difficulties
in their path proves beyond any doubt
that they were not bluf1ing even a little
bit when they announced establishment
of their party on a national basis. Per-
haps third major party will be 4
continuing result.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
Speed. Obscured Signs and
Parking on Highway.

To the Editor OF The Star:
REING something of a novice as a
driver of an automobile. am
frequenter of the memorial boulevard to
Mount Vernon. Since have been driv-
ing on this beautiful road the speed
limit has been increased to 55 miles an
hour. When I first began to use this
roadway the speed limit was As. AS
understand it, the Federal Government
uphclds State laws when Federal high
ways are within State lines In Vir-
ginia anything over As miles an hour is
reckless driving and the driver exceed
ing that limit is subject to arrest and
fine. Has the State of Virginia in
creased the speed limit on State roads?
If not why increase the hazards of driv-
ing on the memorial boulevard?
When the speed limit was IS miles,
fast drivers never kept below so or 55
and I have one friend who boasts of
driving from his home in Alexandria to
Pennsylvania avenue in Washington in
II minutes Now that the limit is
raised l presume my friends running
time is reduced to or minutes
There are other dangers on the me-
mortal boulevard. The roadway was
laid in three and four lanes. From
Belle Haven to Mount Vernon the
cracks and crevices which have grown
between these lanes have grown to such
proportions in some places as to be
dangerous to tires and in turn to the
riders. Is it no ones responsibility to
watch this roadway and keep it in per-
feet condition? Many Of the signs at
the side OF the roadway are OyerproWn
by vines, which are pretty and attrac-
tive, but If the sign is obscgred how cam
1t be read?
Several times in the course of drive
to Mount Vernon and back have
come upon cars parked on the roadway
and without lights. And U turns on the
boulevard in places not designated for
such turns are more than frequent. Is
there no policing of this drive? And
why not. MARY WRIGHT.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
Stanislavsky.
From the New York Times.

From the New YORK Times.
Unlike many great artists, Stanis-
lavsky was abundantly reVerenced in his
own day. Forty years ago, when the
incipient Art Theater drew the exalted
spirit out of Chekhov's The Sea Gull"
Moskow knew that something great was
stirring. Fifteen years ago, when STAN
islavsky and -Dantchenko
brought their footloose company to
America. We knew that the rumorS OF
greatness were not excessive. In the
early days of the Soviet Union the Art
Theater with its bourgeois background
was vaguely suspect. But there came
time when the Soviet overlords of art
were sufficiently settled in their minds to
value the Art Theater and it's illustrious
director. For the rest of his days STAN
islavsky was honored and cherised for
the genius he had bestowed on the
world.
He was q distinguished figure; tall,
full of grace, prematurely gray at the
age of 80. But his greatness rose not so
much from the force of his personality
as from the modest idealism Of his char
acter. He was passionately sincere in
his devotion to art. In collaboration
with Nemirovitch- -Dantchenko and other
members of the company he developed a
philosophy Of realism in acting. 1t is
known everywhere as "the Stanislavsky
method" and widely taught in dramatic
schools. But the real Stanislavsky
method cannot be taught to any one less
perceptive than its founder, for it is
full OF ethics. principles and spiritual
aspiration. At bottom it is the artistic
mediation OF a great man.
He did his work well. He mastered
himself. He created a noble theater.
He generously wrote out his experience
and freely passed it ON to other people.
For he was an artist without gaps or
dark corners in his character code
Of principles fully Illuminated by his
way of life. At the age Of rs he Is en-
titled to rest. Those of US who are left
know that a hero has lived among us
and left us a rich heritage.
Evening star., 1938-08-15

Saw a man trimming his evergreens
the other day, and thought what rare
sight it Is.
OF all garden material, evergreers get
pruned the least, in every practice. and
that means your yard and my yard and
everybody else's yard.
Both broad and narrow leayed sorts
stand for years, growing taller and taller,
and wider and wider, and more ragged
all the time.
People hesitate to touch them, some-
how fearing that they do not respond
TO the laws which govern other plants.
Everywhere are brown and almost
dead specimens of spruce. cluttering up
windows. cutting off light, having no
happiness themselves, as plants, and
giving none to other forms Of living
things.
Evergreens can be pruned easily
enough. Perhaps it is q psychological
matter, after all, not lack of pruning
shears.
Rhododendrons commonly 60 for long
periods without saw or knife touch
ing them, when all the time they would
be the better for q cautious taking of
of ends of branches.
1t takes about a month for new
shoots to put forth from cut places on
the rhodes, but any one who undertakes
this work can rest assured that they
will do it in time.
Growth in such a soggy summer as
this has been rapid. ~
Those who may have permitted
rhododendrons on the north side OF the
house to obstruct the view, cutting off
that most pleasant garden view, should
gather up their courage and pruning
shears at the same time, and make
headway.
Views from other windows in the
home may be cut off by other types of
evergreens. Many of these were put in
by real estate men whose chief desire
was to get quick growing material.
Years 60 by. and the specimens grow
all over the place, as the saying has it,
blocking windows cutting of light, max
ing living rooms in many cases as dark
as twilight.
Every window ought to have its view.
but too often overgroWn shrubs and
evergreens prevent it.
In most cases it will be discovered
that the trimmed plant which permits a
good view from a window also gives the
best appearance from outside.
Not all houses. of course, afford good
view OF the garden.
Many homes have been built with
high windows in the back wall This
probably makes for good furniture place
ment, but it is sadly on the minus side
when it comes to affording a good view
Of the garden.
In almost every home which has the
dining room on the back and which at
the same time has big windows which
give a good garden view. the members
OF the houshold use this room as a real
living room.
This comes about because there is
nothing finer than this view: it is really
too bad that in all too many homes it
has been cut off completely by mistaken
planning.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
Sees Third Term Aim in
Roosevelt ManeuverS.
To the Editor OF The Star:

Roosevelt Maneuvers.
To the Editor OF The Star:
EOR some time past have been von-
dering whether the people of this
country are fully aware of the possibil-
ity-or even. say, probability-that Presi-
dent Roosevelt is aiming al third term.
Certainly all of the present indications
point that way. Take the negative side
first. He has not declared himself on
the subject. Whatever references he has
made to the matter have been vague and
veritably insinuating in their suggestion
of the possibility. Unlike his cousin,
Theodore, he has never said that under
no circumstances would he consider a
third term, and Theodore had a far bet
ter excuse for such an aspiration, for
his first term was only a partial one.
He was elected only once, not twice, to
the Office.
Whatever the President has said that
might be construed as bearing upon this
matter has, in my judgment, been in
dicative of at least a desire If not
purpose to pursue his policies Of gov
ernment through another period, reckon
ing the five and a half years since his
first Inauguration as less than half of
the full course necessary for the accom-
plishment of his aims.
Certainly the course he is now pur-
suing Of taking a direct part in the elec-
ton of Senators who will serve for six
years from January l next suggests that
he is greatly concerned in having q
compliant upper house. He would be
likely to have an obedient lower house
in any case. assuming his pursuit of his
present plans. The hold-over members
of the Senate from January. 1889. will
play an important part in the enact
ment of laws which fit into the present
pattern of Mr.. Roosevelt's hypothesis of
government.
Indeed it would be altogether unrea-
Sonable to assume that all this present
political activity in the States to affect
favorably to him the complexion of the
next Senate is intended for the benefit
of a successor in the White House, un-
less the President picks the man him.
self and forces his choice upon the
nominating convention. He is quite
capable, think. of doing just this But
I believe that stronger hypothesis is
that he designs these present move
ments in the States as contributing to
his own assets in the Seventy seventh
Congress.
OF course, We will never get an ex-
plicit and altogether trustworthy state
. ment OIL this matter of third term from
the one source competent to make such
q declaration-the President himself. He
has had too many opportunities to make
sucn statement and has passed them
by to warrant any expectation now that
he will declare himself before conven-
tion time in 1910. And so say that this
question is up to the people Of the coun-
try-and up to them now as well as in
l94C-and the hope of every true Ameri-
can, with an honest desire to see the
fundamental principles of our Govern
ment as George Washington defined
them maintained in the election and not
the self-election of the Chief Executive.
ROBERT ROWLAND.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
Rockville Buses.

Civic groups in the Rockville area have
followed a wise course in deciding to
service now being furnished them until
the expiration Of the four-months' trial
period originally agreed upon.
1t is doubtful whether the Maryland
Public Service Commission would change
the length of the period provided for
the test unless most extraordinary argu-
ments were presented.
Although some civic leaders already
are convinced that the service being
rendered is unsatisfactory and a further
trial is unnecessary, 1t must be borne in
mind that their plea for better service
Evening star., 1938-08-15
The Clark Committee.

The nine distinguished lawyers ap-
pointed by President Frank Hogan to
the American Bar Association special
Bill Of Rights Committee will deserve
and surely will possess the confidence of
the public. Grenville Clark, of New
York was an ideal choice for chairman,
and his colleagues are men equally well
known and as highly respected.
OF course, the promptness with which
Mr.. Hogan has acted in naming the
group will be applauded. The need for
defense of freedom is immediate and
great numbers of citizens will agree in
the hope that the committee may find
It convenient to 60 to work at once.
Mayor Hague's arbitrary denial of the
right of free speech In Jersey City repre-
Evening star., 1938-08-15

trious political family, winning the Re-
publican fight in this field, national in
terest in Ohios gubernatorial choice
should carry over easily until Novem-
ber"
Certainly there has been, and will be,
much excitement springing from Ohios
keen gubernatorial contest, but. it would
seem expedient to advise, this excite
ment is due not at all to any participa-
ton on the part of Mr.. Taft in the race
for the Governors chair Mr.. Taft is
quite content at this time to bend all of
his efforts toward making himself a
member of the Senate of the United
States.
Mr.. John W. Bricker is the person who
has been chosen by the Republicans of
Ohlo to oppose the Democratic nominee,
Mr.. Charles Sawyer, in November. 1t is
safe to say that Mr.. Sawyer will do his
share to keep things popping in Ohio.
so for the sake of the author of Political
Puzzles let us hope that Mr.. Bricker
will reciprocate with a campaign that
will knock the Nations eye out.
Mr.. Taft could do no more.
MARIBETH PATTERSON.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
Bootlegging Up to Date.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Federal agents apprehend a bootleg
liquor ring in New York that made their
stuff out Of sugar, dry cleaning solutions
and shoe polish. Just a hangover from
prohibition days, but one would think
they would have heard about repeal.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Ambitions.
I long to be a fnancier,
One of the kiting kind,
With very little in the bank
But millions in my mind.
Or else a politician gay
For whom the people shout,
With very little work to do
But heaps to talk about.
Or, an inventor I would be
And go my whole life through,
Enjoying fame because of all
The things hoped to do.
Or, I would be a novelist,
And comfortably shirk
And let the man who writes the ads
Do all the real work.
Evening star., 1938-08-15
Twenty Years Ago
The World Var Day BY Day
August Is, 1918.

The Canadians took Fransart. Par
villers and Demery. They were i'm
mediately counter-attacked strongly, but
beat this OF. taking 260 prisoners and
infiicting 1900 casualties.
The Germans held on to Roye desper-
ateiy, but the allies were Closing in on
it. The French penetrated Bois des
Loges, only 4 mile from the Roye-Las-
signy highway. Thirty thousand pris-
oners reported taken since August ..