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The Washington times., 1938-10-01
Damn It to He'll, It's
Dangerous

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HK ANY readers will dislike the above heading on
Vl the ground that it is cheap weak writing tactics
to try to attract attention by the use of profane
language.
We agree The reason why we are using that Ian
guage this morning that want to call all the at
tenton we can to ruling day before yesterday by the
Federal Communications Commission.
This seven-member outfit supervises radio. By vote
of four one, with two members absent, the FEC de-
cided Thursday to silence lot of radio stations for
having broadcast Eugene O'Nell's Beyond the Hor-
zon" last July % part of NBC blue network edu-
cational drama series
ONeill is one of greatest playwrlghts; some
would call him the greatest living playwright writing
in ENGLISH Beyond the Horizon" is of his
important plays. The reason given by the FEC for
this ruling was that three expressions in the ONel
play-"damn" "hell' and "for Gods sake"-are
"obscene and indecent"
The FEC member who voted mo" Comdr. T. A:
M Craven, u S. N, Ret, who denounced the ruling
as an FEC attempt to censor the air"
We agree with Commander Craven. And we believe
that now is the time for citizens broadcasters, news
papers, magazines, etc. etc. to get up on their hlnd
legs and do some fighting on Com
LLn1ItS OF mander Craven's side.
~ This paper will not be barred from
Oe''oO' o'"P the mails for publishing the above
headline But readers are entitled to stop reading any
paper whose language they don't ike Barring use
of handful of wel-known English words which all
agree are too dirty to print that the only censorship
to which the press should be subjecreader censorship
The same reasoning applies to the radio. When Mae
West broadcast her Adam and Eve sk months ago.
various Legion of Decency sympahizers had perfect
right to make the protest which they did makeor to go
on and boycott the stations broadcasng the program
or the advertiser sponsoring their protests were not
needed
But the dangerous line is crossed when attempts are
made to have Government cut off newspapers or radio
programs And it is very dangerous line indeed
We have all evidence in the last few days OF the
terrific power of the rado-in Hter fierce war speech
from Berlin in Mussoins various trumpevoce oratlons
in Chamberlan's tiredold-
An instrument OF peacemaker speech
nx1:I:: 1t may we'll be that who
A ever can control a nations
radio facilities in the future will control that nation
If we want a totaitarian United States way to
bring fast is for to take these censorship ru
ings of the FEC without proest-to let the FEC grad
ually increase its power the radio until it the
radio
If we don't want totaitarianism here, must keep
the FEC within bounds, and narrow bounds at that.
We believe that President Roosevelt himself the great
derstand the vital necessity of keeping the radio free
democracy is to survive here We appeal to the Pres
dent to give his personal attention to what the Federal
Communications Commission an agency of his Admins
tration, is doing to the freedom of the radio.
The Washington times., 1938-10-01
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
md addresses Of

Editor should be limited 200 words Names and addresses
writers will %
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40 SoOA oo HO uAS OuI VI III
Germany's greatest states
man, living or dead, made his
third prediction concerning the
Evening star., 1938-01-20

year, except by q permit issued by
the Commissioners. A Arm which dis
charged more would be compelled to
pay the cost Of conveying, pumping and
treating. The Commissioners have sent
favorable report on the measure to
the House District Committee.
Need for similar legislation to apply
in adjoining counties has arisen in
Prince Georges. There another pack
ing firm proposes to erect = slaughter
house. An amazing apparent lack Of
regulations covering such establish
ments has been revealed since the plan
was made known. The proposed site,
near Muirkirk, is outside the territory
governed by the county zoning laws.
The county commissioners say they
have no authority In the case, but the
project must meet the sanitation re-
quirements Of the State Board Of Health.
officials Of the National Agricultural
Research Center at Beltsville, which is
not far distant, have pointed to the
possibility of animal disease contagion
unless proper disposal is made of waste
matter. Adjoining streams drain eventu-
ally into tributaries of the Potomac.
Assuming proper disposal plant is
erected, as it undoubtedly will be, the
case serves to emphasize the need for
foresight in governing growing suburbs.
Industries of many sorts are attracted
to large cities Those barred from the
city proper can be expected to seek
sites in the suburbs. And the suburb
with the least stringent regulations is
likely to get those that the others do not
want.
Evening star., 1938-01-20
Suburban Suggestions.

Despite State and county lines which
divide 1t into several component gov
ernmental parts the Washington metro
politan area daily is growing into more
and more of a residential, commercial
and industrial unit. Hence it behooves
those in charge of bordering counties
to watch ever more closely steps taken
by the District Commissioners and
Congress to safeguard the growth of
the National Capital. For the diff
culties which beset the city for the
most part are, or soon will be, faced by
bordering sections of adjoining counties.
Specific instances are not difficult to
site. A few years ago the gas company
sought to erect a storage tank within
the District. Opposition arose to every
site proposed. The company shifted its
plans across the District line into
Prince Georges County, Md, where,
despite opposition in the immediate
neighborhood, the plant was established.
More recently there has been q pro-
longed fight within the District to
prevent the erection of an abattoir in
Benning. One step taken to check the
project was the introduction of a bill
to give the District Commissioners
greater control over the so-called nui-
sance industries through limitation on
the discharge Of industrial waste into
the sewage disposal system. It would
limit the discharge TO 3o,ooo,o 900 gallons
Evening star., 1938-01-20
Brazil Still American.

II credence Is to be placed in one Of.
Washington's most astute newspaper
correspondents and trained political
observers, Turner Catledge Brazil, far
from having gone Fascist, is still true
to the democratic ideals of Pan-Amer-
icanism. Mr.. Catledge, member Of
the New York Times Capital staff, has
been at Rio de Janeiro since the first of
the year X-raying the politico-economic
situation created by President Getulio
Vargas coup detat of November 10.
While he points out that conditions are
in the melting pot, Mr.. Catledge's early
inquiries and observations convince him
1t is at least premature to conclude that
the Amazon republic has renounced
Amerlcanism for Nazi-ism or Fascism.
These assurances will crafty the Gov
ernment and people OF the United
States.
The circumstances accompanying DR..
Vargas usurpation of autocratic power
and the authority since vested in him
were designed to convince this country
that the dictatorial concepts associated
with the names of Hitler and Mussolini
had at last taken root in the Western
Hemisphere. Mr.. Catledge's investiga-
tions supply plentiful evidence to justify
anxiety on this score, even though he
reports an eager universally Of desire
among Brazilians of all classes to dis
abuse foreign peoples of the theory that
the unitarian" regime Of Getulio Vargas
is in fact brother under the skin to the
"totalitarian" idealogy OF Berlin and
Rome.
Mr.. Catledge, conscientious reporter
that he is, makes due allowance for the
appearances and protestations to which
the observer, especially if he is a North
American, is subjected" but he is never
theless constrained to think that "a Pam
American trend in Immediately future
development" is to be looked for Though
President Vargas has intrenched himself
IN once Tor another SIX years, and Is IN
as indisputable control of Brazil as any
Fuehrer or Duce could be, life and times
at Rio and elsewhere flow along in un-
trammeled fashion.
While the Washington press gallery
scribe obviously prefers the role of his
torian to that of prophet, in an ad-
mittedly mercurial situation, he seems
inclined to think, on the basis of things
as he finds them, that Brazil will make
haste slowly in the process of evolution
into which she suddenly plunged ten
weeks ago, and ponder we'll before ex-
changing Pan-Americanism for the re-
its complete antithesis.
Evening star., 1938-01-20
Mothers and Babies.

1t is the fashion to speak well of
motherhood and babyhood, even to extol
them as things of inexpressibly infinite
beauty and value.
In the last two or three generations
here in the United States we have
reached the point Of giving them little
more than lip service and have made
sincere effort, at least, to render mother
hood less agonizing' and dangerous and
babyhood less tenuous and precarious.
Before that we, and the rest of the
white race, suffered by comparison with
the 1roquois Indians who. without writ
ing any poetry about it, actually had
done something in the way of maternal
and child welfare. Still Our record is
nothing to boast about. The necessary
process Of replenishing the American
population is attended by more than
10000 deaths Of mothers and babies an
nually, including tas stt11boen and those
Evening star., 1938-01-20

who die during the first month Of life
from prenatal causes.
This Is the population Of . fair sized
city. Some Of this loss is not prevent
.able. Any gains against it depend on
further medical research. Probably
some Of It will always be inevitable.
About half of it is preventable by the
universal application Of principles which
doctors and nurses know already.
Whose fault is It? Nobody's, specif-
ically. The greatest number Of mothers
and babies die in areas. or economic
conditions, where they are nobody's re-
sponsibility. At least 100000 persons
in the United States, 1t is pointed out by
DR.. Martha Eliot Of the Children's Bu-
reau, live more than 30 miles from the
nearest hospital and on roads impossible
for doctor at least part OF the year.
To devise means Of meeting the situa-
ton was the purpose of the Conference
on Better Care Of Mothers and Babies
held here this week, with some Of the
country's foremost authorities contribute
ing to the discussions. The problem
seemed to resolve itself into one OF wider
distribution of knowledge, prenatal care
and reasonably sanitary obstetrics. Re-
search, as In so many fields. has gone
far ahead Of practice.
The problem is neatly summed up as
follows in the report Of the findings
committee which was presented to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and in which he expressed
great interest:
In more than 1000, 900 families in the
United States in a single year the
birth of child is the most important
event of the year.
In more than 100000 of these families
the death of the mother or the baby
brings tragedy
The committee sees one line Of attack
on the problem through amending the
Social Security Act to authorize the ex-
penditure of larger sums for maternal
and child health services. It would apply
social security at both ends Of the age
scale.
This is bound to happen some time, II
not now.
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been the possibility Of extreme sensitiv-
ity to physical clues. In this case the
subject had no possibility whatsoever
OF seeing the cards. or the face of the
experimenter. If anybody actually pos
sesses such hyperaesthesia, Dr. Warner
says, 1t Is as marvellous as ESP itself.
DR.. Rhine himself presents evidence
to prove that possibility of sensory per-
ception has been thoroughly ruled out
In the Duke experiments. But the most
devastating bit of shrapnel is reserved
for note at the end of the journal-the
Following statement from Dr. Burton H.
Camp, president Of the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics:
DIR. Rhines Investigations have two
aspects, experimental and statistical.
On the experimental side mathematic-
lans, OF course. have nothing to say. On
the statistical side, however. recent
mathematical work has established the
fact that. assuming that the experiments
have been properly performed, the sta
tlstical analysis is essentially valid. If
the Rhine investigation is to be fairly
attacked 1t must be on other than mathe.
mattcal grounds"
Evening star., 1938-01-20
They Try 1t Again.

The House Subcommittee on District
Taxes is more changeable than the
weather, moving from one tax to another
by hts, by starts and by the obliging MIR.
Seal, the corporation counsel. who can
dish up a new tax-any new tax-in
twenty -four hours.
Latest decision, apt to be changed at
any minute, is to slap an income tax on
the District after all, not as a substitute
tax. not with any regard to the equities
involved In such a drastic increase in
the total tax burden-merely as another
tax.
Representative Nichols, chairman OF
the subcommittee, voted against the in
come tax and is obviously displeased, as
he has full right to be, with the whole
business Colleagues on the full commits
tee will doubtless support him, ashamed
Of the shenanigans.
But as long as the subcommittee voted
for local income tax, its members are
to be commended for deciding to include
Congressman among the taxed. Opening
this whole subject Of exemptions from
income taxes, Federal and local, enjoyed,
respectively, by State and Federal office
holders, may be neficial--especially in
a campaign year when members of the
House will be explaining so many other
things to the taxpayers back home.
Members of the House may decide, this
year, to smack District income tax on
themselves and other Federal employees
In washington so that they may go back
home and inveigh against high taxes
with that true eloquence that comes only
with deep feeling. That will place them
In a much more advantageous position,
with heavily taxed voters, than they
would enjoy should they try to exempt
Themselves and tax everybody else.
And If the District can legally tax the
incomes Of Congressman and Federal
employees there is no sound reason why
the Congressman and Federal employees
should longer enjoy their sweet exemp-
ton from State income taxes back home,
or why State employees should longer
enjoy the even sweeter exemption from
Federal income taxes.
Mr.. Dirksen, who pants so hotly for a
local income tax, is doubtless anxious to
end all such exemptions. He is as anxious
to subject his colleagues and other Fed
eral employees to District income tax
rs he was last year, when the House
thrice turned him down.
Evening star., 1938-01-20
Capitol Employe Favors
Saturday Liquor Bill

To the Editor Of The Star:
The editorial in your paper of the 14th
concerning the bill in Congress to permit
sale OF liquor for two hours after Satur-
day midnight fails to mention a single
good reason for opposing this bill, nor do
I think 1t is supported by the desires of
citizens Of this city.
AS an employe on Capitol Hill for sew
eral years have some special knowledge
OF the treatment afforded District legis-
lation and can understand the attitude
which the local press generally displays,
but as native and lifelong resident I
also have some interest in what goes on
here, and it seems unfortunate to me
that paper as widely read as yours
would not lend some of it's efforts to a
liberalization of some of the absurd
regulations which already are sitting
this over-regulated city.
Like myself, the average Washing
tonian feels it's futile to express an opin-
ion on municipal matters, but in this
instance think your editorial is not sup
ported by reason and have so written to
the chairman of the District Committee
of the House.
r. E. MITCHELL,
Assistant Clerk, Committee on Claims.
Evening star., 1938-01-20
Bartenders' Views on
Saturday Liquor Bill

TO the Dditor Of The Star:
Your editorial, THE Favored Bill" has
been called to my attention. Realizing
Inc stars position on the liquor question
l. OF course. am not surprised. You at
TACK the Dill IN my opinion in a pre-
Judged. pretudiced manner. Let's face
the facts.
Our organization favors this bill to
alio" an extension Of the Saturday night
sale OF alcoholic beverages until 2 am.
we favor this bill notwithstanding it will
mean two more hours added on to our
work week We favor the bill because we
kno" tnat now no one stops drinking at
mlonlght unless their desire is to do so.
Ihey continue drinking illegally and
or1nk more than they would were it pos
slole to continue their parties in legal
lzed licensed place which. of course, is
under police regulation. And right here
allow me to say that the police are un-
oermanned and should be commended,
not criticized by persons with congress
slonal immunity. Congress should give
the major the men needed or stop
knocking.
You ask for IS or 20 reputable citizens
who favor2 There are thousands who
favor.
Hotels and restaurants OF the District
IN this day Of quick transportation are
forced to compete with hotels and
restaurants in nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia, yes even Pennsylvania. The hotels
ana restaurants Of the District taken as
whole are as good as in fact superior
TO- any anywhere, but at the present
time thousands Of dollars are being taken
and spent outside of the District, dollars
tnat are earned and should be spent in
the District. Why? Simply that the rules
here are made for a small country. Q
O'Clock town, and we fail to appreciate
that We really are great city, entertain
ing more visitors than any other city in
the Y. 8. A. with the exception of
New York. We spend thousands yearly
70 attract visitors and then tell 'em II
O'Clock Is the deadline. II we are to at
tract more visitors, more conventions
we must be more liberal as to the other
fellows appetite and habits.
Extending the sale to 2 am. Sunday
Will hurt no one except the bootleeeers-
and we still have them among US
strange as it may seem.
CHARLES E. SANDS.
executive Secretary, Bartenders' Union.
Evening star., 1938-01-20
OGDEN STREET.

OfOCN 61HGEI.
Dear Sir: am writing to thank you
for your article Con Karl Stanitz, the old
musician), which very much enjoyed.
Il hope you will some time express your
views Of extreme modern music, which
do not understand.
"All great music Of any past period,
Bach. Mozart, Brahms, remains great
music, and all great music of the future
must be based on. the past. but know
that If music is living art today it must
have something to say that belongs to
this century.
so suppose one must put up with q
great deal that seems impudent and
extravagant. We cannot afford to close
our ears. We must remember that art
is not only. aesthetic, 1t is language, and
we shall be wise to acquaint ourselves
with this language, both Of manner and
matter.
"The extreme moderns are as one in
their rejection of romantic moods Surely
music is pre-eminently romantic art.
Some one wrote Of it that 1t is q
species OF emotional mathematics. I am
wondering if the moderns are just max
ing restless search for the new. Reform
in art is not like reform In politics. You
cannot reform the st Matthew Passion
or the fifth symphony. hope my wish
for your views on this subject will be
realized. Again thanking you for your
article, sincerely yours, M. G. W."
= X X
One of the finest things about the new
gramophones and recordings is that it is
possible to play and replay any given
number.
A famous conductor, who helped intro
duce Wagner into this country, said: If
they do not understand him, let them
hear him until they do
Wagner, Of course, was extremely
modern" in his day.
We are used to him. now.
There can be little doubt that the only
way to understand" any music we do
not instinctively like is to listen to it.
All art forms demand acquaintance,
but this is peculiarly true of music, be-
cause music is motion, and only exists
at the time 1t is moving
The relationship between hearing and
memory is not clear The mind seldom
forgets an odor, or taste, but this can
not be said of sound.
Many a person has tried in vain to
recall the bark of a favorite dog, or meow
of a lost cat
Most OF us require many hearings to
impress even the motion of a piece of
music upon the mind.
The tune is easy, for some but this
only when 1t is conventional in the type
which is popular during ones day
ANYTHING out Of the usual makes it
difficult.
We tend to forget that the great music
masters Of the immediate past ages are
our standards.
ANY music which differs from theirs
seems strange to us. This also applies
to music before them-and after them.
Hence part of the strangeness of So
called modern music" lies in ourselves,
that We do not understand it.
Oriental music strikes us much the
same way. because it is in modes with
which we are not familiar. .
The theoretical history Of music shows
the investigator how music grew, and
how rules were built up.
1t is against these formal rules that
modern music rebels.
Careful listening to Beethoven will
show any listener that he violated GER
Evening star., 1938-01-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

tain old rules, which must have upset the
critical listeners Of his day terribly.
Yet this cleavage from the past was
more In his inventive genius than in any
actual violation Of theoretical rules.
Intervals and keys play a most i'm
portant part in what has come to be
called the modern music. They use inter-
walls which long ago were permitted, but
which came to be frowned upon. These
things 90 in circles. They combine diff
ferent keys, 1t seems to the layman most
ly because the experts said they should
not do so!
The result is, at least, something diff
ferent.
The only way for the musical amateur
to "understand' it, to try to find out
what it is ''all about is to listen to it fire.
quently.
Only then has he any right to say that
he either likes it or doesn't like it.
The modern gramophone and records
give him this opportunity. No matter
how much one attends formal concerts,
one seldom hears the same work twice in
q season. Often 1t will be years between
hearings, so vast is the range Of musical
compositions.
If one selects bit of definitely modern
music on records, it is there at all times
for hearing, and the listener has time
to let the music sink into his musical
memory. 1t builds up there standard
of its own. which means more and more
as time goes by.
Then, too, there is something in the very
air and the passage of time which helps
make such music less and less strange
to us.
Pieces which shocked the critics ter
ribly upon first hearing after awhile
arouse no ones resentment, as time gives
them more and more hearings and the
works OF later innovators make them
seem mild, indeed.
This is the fate that has overtaken
Stravinsky.
Regarded as the infant terrible" of
only few years ago, today we find his
more popular works very much liked
by all.
Different intervals. and different keys
IN the same mposition-these signs of
the modern" music have come to be
more or less accepted by the intelligent
listener.
This is day of change, with counter
parts occurring only twice in past
history.
It would be strange, indeed, if this age
did not have something to say musically,
as our correspondent points out.
1t is up to the musical amateur, who
in the last analysis, makes all music pos
sible to withhold too ready adverse
criticism.
Let him or her listen and listen again,
before making any comment.
Snap judgments in musical appreci-
alton. are no more likely to be right than
snap judgments as to people.
We all know how wrong we are in say
ing. after first meeting, Il don't like
him."
In time we come to" realize that
an instant adverse judgment probably
means that we will end by liking the
person very much!
1t may be so with music, in fact it
often turns out that way. Let us listen
and listen again, in order. that we may be
fair to ourself and to the composer.
When We make ourselves familiar with
the new music, we may be surprised to
discover that We really like it.!