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Evening star., 1938-11-12
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. 7RAcEWELL.

A correspondent wants to know what
has become of Spinoza, the milk-white
spider which lived on the phonograph lid.
The last we saw OF Spin he was swing
ing gayly from long strand of silk at
tached to the kitchen light.
He was dangling freely at about feet
from the point OF attachment.
His objective seemed to be bowl of
flowers which had been placed for the
time being on the small shelf at the rear
of the gas stove.
There's Spinoza" we shouted, and
There he goes!" in almost the same
breath.
Almost quicker than the eye could
follow he sailed across the room toward
the flowers.
Whether it was his own motive power,
or the heat from the single burner at
work on the stove, he made time.
Straight for the bowl of posies he
went, disappearing in them, his long
strand Of silk following behind him.
1t was the last we saw Of Spinoza.
Did he really get among the chrysan-
themums, or was he finally engulfed in
the gas burner?
One witness said there was no doubt
of his landing on that tall yellow mum
in the center of the bouquet
Another declared, with equal convic-
ton, that the small spider was burned
to death.
The fate OF spiders indoors is not a
happy one.
They are chased with brooms, pestered
with cloths and often pursued with fly
swatters.
Their marvellous homes, constructed
with infinite care, according to classic
patterns, are destroyed without thought
by creatures of another species.
1t must be heart rending, to spinner,
to come home in the evening from the
great distance of across the universe
room), to find all that one left SO i'm
maculate in the morning gone forever
from these earthly precincts
There is more building material, of
course, where the other came from, but
1t Is no fun to start construction all over
again at the end Of each day, and to
realize that the power which swept away
the web can sweep ones self away with
as little regard
1t is fortunate for a spider to find a
house in which spinning is an ad-
mired art.
There are spinners and spinners.
There are spinners of yarns, and spin
nerS of silk
Among all the spinners, none is better
at 1t than a spider.
Most often he plies his art in the yard,
between dawn and sunset, but now and
Evening star., 1938-11-12
Nobel Prize

The Nobel literature award fit
tingly pays tribute to a great novel
which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1882,
and last year was the medium
through which a fine actress won the
award Of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences
The gripping tale of the struggle
for existence of the Chinese peasant,
Wang, and his wife O-lan portrayed
in "The Good Earth" is so full of the
milk of human kindness" that it
touches fundamental human emo
tions of high and low alike. Pearl
Buck has written other novels but
not other Good Earths." And its
basic appeal inspired Luise Rainer
into one of the finest performances
Of her career in the screen portrayal
of O-lan.
The internationally of real art is
well demonstrated in this book, writ
ten about China by an American to
win Swedish prize.
Evening star., 1938-11-12
Mature Lover Urges
Tax on Cats.

To the Editor of The Star:
AS lover of nature, always welcome
cold weather as time when can close
the windows of my home and shut out
being slaughtered by our dear friend the
house cat. I dread spring as a time
when the windows must be opened, even
though I may love the return of song
birds and scent of growing things.
If your are suburbanite, you doubt
less are familiar with the slaughter of
birds, squirrels and rabbits that goes on
day and night. Somehow, the tearing up
of nests during the day does not seem
to attract much attention beyond the
pitiful screaming of the parent birds, but
at night a feline raid on nests really is
terrifying, with its accompaniment of
pitiful chirping and screeching.
While winter is giving us a respite
from this slaughter, wouldn't it be
good idea to consider plans to give
safe welcome to the birds when they re-
turn next spring? A few years ago this
section was known as one of the finest
songbird refugees in the world, but the
most casual observer must have noticed
that the number of birds is falling off
rapidly-in fact, certain species are dis
appearing.
Wouldn't it be possible for our bright
Congress to take up the matter of tax
on cats, with double-edged result-a
reduction in the number of killers and an
increase of revenue for sorely pressed
District of Columbia? Every dog owner
pays tax, and more or less willingly.
The revenue is used to pay for damage
that other dogs may do-and it is very
small-and the remainder goes into gen.
eral funds. But the tax does more good
In another way-it reduces the number
of stray dogs, unhappy devils who scurry
for poor living and wind up under the
wheels of autos.
The tax on cats would work no hard
ship on the real lover of cats Gf any.
BY paying small sum, he still would
have his cat, just as the canine admirer
shells out. The big advantage would lie
In limiting or wiping out the tremendous
horde of unwanted cats which, ill-fed at
home q not fed ut all, is forced to kill
Evening star., 1938-11-12
A Blot on Civilization

Germany through the ages has
taken almost more pride in the claim
that she is a "Kulturstaat," nation
OF culture, than in the fact that she
became world power through the
blood and iron" cult of militarism
and war. And the Germany that
gave the world Schopenhauer, Me
tzsche, Goethe, Schiller, Heine, Marx,
Wagner, Beethoven and Mendels-
sohn, and, in our time a Sudermann,
Mommsen, a Strauss, a VirchoW,
an EinStein, an Ehrlich and Thom-
as Mann, deserved the title. II the
Reich's contemporaries ever doubted
that the Germany they once re-
spected and admired for her intel
lectual and humanitarian achieve
ments has effaced itself, this weeks
orgy of anti-Semitism in Berlin,
Munich and Vienna Is enough to re-
move that uncertainty. The whole
sale, systematic destruction of syn
agogues, the looting of Jewish busi-
ness establishments and the pillage
Of private homes in all parts of the
country can only be described as a
blot on civilization.
The pretext for this carnival OF
savagery, an expression of tribal
fanaticism without parallel even in
Nazi Germany, in no wise palliates
it. One must hark back to Attila the
Hun for its like. The excesses Sprang
from the mad act of a seventeen
year-old Polish Jewish boy in shoot
ing a minor German diplomat at
Paris to avenge the fate that over
took the youths parents and thou
sands of other hapless Jews dumped
heartlessly on the German-Polish
frontier to starve and freeze to
death. To condemn a whole people
TO ruthless persecution by pogrom
on such pretext comes with partic-
ularly poor grace from a regime
which four years ago, under Hitler's
personal direction, carried out a
whole series of cold-b -blooded mur-
ders of its alleged political foes.
The shades of Roehm and Schleicher
rise in ghastly mockery OF Goebbels'
alibi that the Jews are the victims
OF "the justifiable and understand
able indignation of the German
people over the cowardly Jewish
murder of German diplomat"
Civilized mankind Is as little likely to
swallow that plea in extenuation
as it will be to accept Goebbels' con-
tention that the anti-Semitic fury
was not of Nazi official origin.
1t is improbable that Germany will
pay any attention to world protest
against these horrors, or against
those threatened as still to come,
such as re-establishment Of the
Ghetto. But that does not absolve
humane peoples everywhere, includ-
ing our own, from the duty of re-
monstrating with all the force at
their command against an outrage
which staggers civilization. Such ex-
pressions will restore no synagogues,
rebuild no devastated stores or
homes, liberate no inmates of con-
centration camp. But they will put
Hitler on notice that the liberation
OF such things by any government
pretending to membership in the
family of nations strains that rela-
tionship to the breaking point.
Evening star., 1938-11-12
Shooting Stars.
Financial Ghost Writer,
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

Financial Ghost Writer.
My Uncle Jim, he made speech,
Twas full of thought sublime.
It's mighty echoes ought to reach
The corridors of time,
And shake their vast foundations sure
With its reverberant notes,
And incidentally secure
My Uncle Jim some votes.
But when we stanch, determined men
Heard what he had to teach,
We found out also that the pen
Is mightier than the speech.
For, while we gazed with trusting pride
And craned our royal necks,
The rated foeman, just outside,
Was busy writing checks.
Evening star., 1938-11-12

down their normal program. 1t is,
however. equally incumbent upon
members of the congressional COM
mittees in whose hands lies the Dis
tricts financial fate to see that the
education of Washington youth and,
indeed, adults, is not seriously af-
fected.
Evening star., 1938-11-12

for its living, thus cutting down on our
bird life
Certainly this is no time to permit an
intentional reduction in bird life, with
all sorts of insects invading the country
side. Unless We act in defense of our
feathered friends, We stand to break up
our whole scheme of natural beauty by
increasing our common enemy. the insect.
NATURE LOVER.
November 10.
Evening star., 1938-11-12

One Of the best aspects of the
recent political findings in Maryland
is the fact that Elkton will now rate
an Importance commensurate only
with her geographical position, her
Industries and her natural charms.
The Free State must be feeling very
much like an individual who has just
had cinder removed from his eve.
Evening star., 1938-11-12
Equality.

In the realm OF spirit,
In the realm of thought,
Things are never bartered,
Things are never bought.
Wealth is no distinction,
Rags are no disgrace;
Dreams are not reserved for
Those in gold and lace.
Nor is haunting fragrance
OF the damask rose
Less delight to humble
Than to regal nose!
II. p. STOD0ARD
Evening star., 1938-11-12

Walter Johnson, sole Republican
among twenty-one successful can
didates out in Montgomery County,
In some ways reminds one of those
long-ago days when he stood day
after day on the pitchers mound,
with little or no support.
Evening star., 1938-11-12
Easy Pickings
From the Kalamazoo Gazette.

From the Kalamazoo Gazette.
Ten thousand loyal subjects standing
with arms raised in salute to Hitler may
look little silly to most of us in a de-
mocracy, but it must look like a picnic
to a pickpocket.
Evening star., 1938-11-12

"A sardine," it is stated, "has
plenty of room compared to workers
and readers at the Washington
Public Library" And much less
to do.
Evening star., 1938-11-12
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Evening star., 1938-11-12
No Argument
From the Richmond News Leader.

From the Richmond News Leader.
Democracies disagree on many things,
but they probably would be in complete
accord if asked to name World Enemy
No. /.
Evening star., 1938-11-12
A TYNE.

He strives to regulate the land
With constant brawl and bicker.
Some say he's a reformer, and
Some say he's just kicker.
Evening star., 1938-11-12
Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the
Ur'ter, although the use of
pseudonyn1 for publication is per-
n1lSstble. Please be briet!
Evening star., 1938-11-12
Obstinate.

He cries, II never change my mind!"
Such firmness is not strange,
'Tis shown by those, you'll often find
Who have no minds to change.
Evening star., 1938-11-12
Ideal Effort.

Ideal Effort.
THAT speech of yours was very care
fully prepared" said one statesman.
eyes," answered the other. Il took
great pains with it. I don't think
said anything that won't be able to re-
tract at any time without embarrass-
ment"
Evening star., 1938-11-12
Discrimination.

Discrimination.
Politics." said the ambitious young
man, puts many temptations in per-
sons way
Yes" answered Senator Sorghum,
land the worst of it is that it is often
difficult to discriminate between a temp
tation and an opportunity"
Evening star., 1938-11-12

'Dar ain no such thing as real loafin'."
said Uncle Eben. IF you doesn' do yoh
share O. work. you's gotter hustle aroun'
lookin' Seh excuses"
Evening star., 1938-11-12

"Some men," said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, that have the ability to
make money, seem to know of nothing
to do with it except to buy trouble"
Evening star., 1938-11-12

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MOVE FOLLOWS.
DELAY IN HELP.
TO INJURED BOY.
Better Coordination to
Cut Traffic Toll

Hoping to prevent needless loss
of life in the District, Health
Officer George C. Rutland today
revealed plans looking toward ex-
pansion and coordination of the
city's ambulance service.
1--WE have given considerable
study to the ambulance prob
lem" DR.. Runland said, land it
appears that lives have been
lost which perhaps might have
been saved with better service"
CONFERENCE PLANNED
At a staff meeting called yester-
day as aroused citizens protested
the 40-minute delay in securing an
ambulance for a 14-year-old boy
who had been fatally injured in
traffic accident, DR.. Rutland and
his aides agreed to confer with
hospital officials and representa-
tives of the District Medical
Society.
With its existing facilities the
Health Department can not be of
much material aid, but DR.. Rub
land believes that coordination of
all facilities might result in better
ambulance service.
COOPERATION ASSURED
I'VE feel confident" DR.. Ruiz
land said, that the hospital
and the private doctors are as
anxious to improve the ambu-
lance service mere as we are.
"Only good can result, I be-
lieve, if we all get around a con-
ference table, survey the facili-
ties we now have and plan how
they can be better utilized"
Other cities, DR.. Rutland point
ed out, have developed systems
for co-ordinating ambulance IA
cilities and said he believed such
a system could be developed here.
DEPARTMENT HAMPERED
The Health Department, DR..
Rutland pointed out, has only two
ambulances and one of these is
sadly antiquated. In accident
cases Washington must depend
upon the ambulanceS of Elmer.
gency and Casualty Hospitals and
the Fire Department rescue
squads.
DIR. Huhland pointed out that
the Health Departments interest
extends beyond accident cases to
embrace needy citizens who be-
come i'll and cannot afford to hire
a private ambulance to transport
them to a hospital.
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Rutland Plans Better Ambulance Service
Laws to Protect
Parents Invoked:
loan Marsh
Can't Liue
OffDad

WOOD, Aug. 4
u.N.S.).-In ruling that
Charles G. Kosher, motion
picture c a m a m a n a n d
father of Joan Marsh, attrac-
tive film actress, need not
pay $4,65O for JOan'S support,
the Los Angeles Superior
Court today had decided
"there must be laws to pro-
tect parents from their chill
dren."
Mrs. Lolita H. Kosher OBJ
tanned a judgment for that
amount against the camera
man two years ago. She al
legged that her former huS-
band failed to pay $3.50 a
month for support of their
daughter after the actress be-
cane Is in 1882, although he
had legal instructions to con-
tinue the payments until
Joan was FL.
ut is apparent" ruled Su.
periOr Judge Robert w.
Kenny, that Miss Marsh did
not need her fathers finan-
cial assistance after Is, as she
was earning more than her
parent"
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BABY SHOW
2 Church CGrniUaLs
Being Held TOniqht

A concert by the Elks Boys Band
and a baby show will feature two
neighborhood church carnivals to-
night.
At the Holy Comforter Church,
Fifteenth and East Capitol Streets,
where carnival will be in progress
until August Is, the concert will
begin at 1880. The baby show
will start at the same hour at the
Holy Name Church, Eleventh and
K Streets Northeast.
Pony rides and a ferris wheel
for children are drawing crowds
to the Holy Comforter Church
affair, which is being given for
the benefit of the new church
building fund.
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Vinton 10 Preside
AT Mexican Par|eV

GN.SO Warren j. Vinton, Of
ficial of the United States Hous-
ing Authority and American slum-
clearance expert, left the Capital
for Mexico City today to repre-
sent this country at the Sixteenth
Congress of the International
Housing and Town Planning Fed
Grafton.
Vinton will preside at the SeS-
sion devoted to housing in tropical
and subtropical countries. He is
chief economist and planning Of
ficer for the USHA.
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plain a divorce complaint filed on
his behalf two days after the
Clipper left for the Orient.
The blue waters of the Pacific
hide the fate of Parker and his
IA companions, including DR.. Fred
Meier and DR.. Earl B. Mckinley,
Washington scientists.
Parker had accepted the man
agement of the Pan-American
Hotel on the island of Guam. Mrs.
Parker demurred at first.
She wrote him a letter apprais-
ing him of her decision. 1t arrived
here the day after the Clipper left.
Previously Parker had decided a
divorce was the best way out. To-
day Mrs. Parker said:
1T was all a mistake. I really
had intended to go with him."
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Oakle, who reduced As pounds
in six weeks, and his wife who
put on Is in three months, parted
10 days ago, friends revealed.
Oakie was understood to have
to a downtown hotel after
their separation, but is now re-
ported out of town.
Officials at RKO Studio said he
is under orders to report for a
picture August IS.
AS in the recent parting of Joan
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Crawford and Franchot Tone,
Jack and Venita informed init
mates they were separating the
best Of friends" Cause of the
separation was a mystery.
Both Oakie and Miss Warden
consulted attorneys, but no steps
have yet been taken toward a
legal separation or a divorce.
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Mexican Desperate
Hanged by Military

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 4 QN.sO.
Southern Mexico's public enemy
No. /, Miguel Rojas, was hanged
from a tree by military authori-
ties yesterday at Zacapoaxtla, in
the State of Puebla. Authorities de-
cided on death by hanging instead
of the regular firing squad be-
cause of the number of Rojas'
crimes. Rojas, who kept the
countryside in a state of fear until
his capture, was said to have
slain at least so persons.
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Sig grid Better; Under
Heart Throb' S Care
ACCOSTED BY PAIR

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4 U.N.S0.
Sigrid Gurie, film actress, today
was reported as doing splendidly"
by hospital authorities, after she
had been admitted for rest and
observation. Sigrid is under the
care of DR.. Laurence G. Spangard,
her new heart interest.
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DENIES DIVORCE
|. OF CLIPPER AIDE

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4.-Her
dream of life on an island para
disc in the Pacific shattered by
the tragic fate of her husband,
steward on the Hawaii Clipper,
Mrs. Ivan H. Parker, of Los An
geles, arrived here today to ex-
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Bride Of 7 Months
P|unqes TO Death

SOUTH BEND. Ind, Aug. 4
(C.TP.S0.-Mrs. Florence Erath,
20, plunged from a corridor win
dow in the History Tower Build
ing here to her death late yester-
day. She was bride of two months.
Deputy Coroner H. H. Rodin said
the woman apparently was a sui
eide. A note found at her home
stated: II couldn't go on making
people unhappy. This is the best
Way. GOOd-by."
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26 Killed by Bolts
In Poland Storms

WARSAW, Aug. 4 Q.N.S.)
Twenty-six persons were killed by
lightning in various parts of Po-
land today during a series of vio-
lent thunderStormS.
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HECTOR THE DUCK POSES WITH TWO POLICEMEN
Seems to be in High FAVOR Wth Members of the Force
the police blotters the pof"
suited the of old
Here's the record Duck demonstrating
taken Precinct Eight booked charge investigation
released.
Item: calf agtang among Government workers,
Building held
investigation of the price yearlng the
ahead of my story there. Anyway
Item: horse attempting suicide the Bridge
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Probably with exhbtions complex. sign of
Item: mule, arrested booked a charge of lettering
the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge last night
Eleven, and held ncommuncado at the Pound
There be method least
the memory OF the Oldest desk signs of
among our dumb animals hasn't been since day two
when assorted violence broke town.
At that time the history of the
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Washington Times Staff Photo
QnnV ADEC0O

National Capital successfully Unanswered humans back
Of the pillar in the theater of life"
That was the day race horse ran away pig bit Secretary
culture Wallace fell
squad with births
sorts. What a day!
Relative calm being maintained Metropolitan police
ana no further demonstrations expected
though, Major
TELL while the dog days upon u.s."
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HOLLYWOOD, Aug. QN.S.).-Screen Comedian Jack
Oake the who eat fat Venta Warden
actress the wife who could eat an have separated aes
two years of married life it revealed here today
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NAMED ADVISOR

Miss Henry was appointed by
District Commissioners yesterday
and will remain in Washington
until September IS, when she will
turn over her recommends tons
as to how child welfare work in
the District should be conducted.
She will also coordinate the
work now being done by the Child
Welfare League of America and
the Children'S Bureau of the La
Dor Department.
Earlier Miss Henry discussed
Washington'S welfare problem
with Miss Katherine Lenroot,
chief of the United States Chill
dren's Bureau. Miss Lenroot
promised to furnish her with two
assistants, to help in the survey.
TO MEET CITIZENS
Next Monday, Miss Henry will
meet with members of the Citi-
zens' Advisory Committee who
also have compiled data on the
welfare situation here.
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GIRL HELD UP
BY PAIR, ROBBED
OF HER PURSE
Detective to Rescue;
Thieves Get AWAY

Eileen Whetzell, 20-year-old Ste
nographer. was recovering at her
home, 1901 Evarts st. N. E., to-
day from shock and bruises suf-
fered when a thief threw her to
the sidewalk and Snatched her
pocketbook last night at Saratoga
Avenue and EvartS Street North
east.
ACCOSTED BY PAIR
The pretty victim of the theft
told police the pocketbook snatcher
was one of two men who accosted
her about 8 p. m. as she was re-
turning from her work at Brent
wood Village.
Her screams frightened off one
OF the pair, she said, but the other
commanded:
Shut up or I'll kill you-hold
my arm and walk along beside
me-" She refused to do so and
the man threw her to the side
walk.
DETECTIVE TO RESCUE
At this point, Miss Whetzeu ex.
planned, a Twelfth precinct de-
tective pulled his car up to the
curb to investigate the disturb
anCe.
The thief took to his heels and
fled into the nearby woods.