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Evening star., 1938-06-09

by one hole. The Brown girl scored
70 against Mrs. Meckley, the same
score as that turned In by Mrs. Stokes,
her semi-nnal rival today.
But Helen DettweiI9, the big
news Of the tourney, plowed
along at an even better clip.
Helen rounded the turn in SO and
had comfortable lead over Mrs.
George F. Hussey Of Army-Navy, win
ming by and 4.
The final rounds in the other flights
were to be played today. leaving only
the final in the championship flight
to be decided tomorrow.
Barnett Moving Fast.
~ Red-headed Bob Barnett, Chevy
Chase pro, is setting a warm pace
for his brother mentors these days. A
qualifier for the national open cham
pionship last week, Bob pocketed today
considerable slice of the prize
money offered in the Maryland State
tourney at Five Farms yesterday.
Bob has been playing very well this
year. He continued his good golf yes
terday, shooting a level par II at Five
Farms to win the pro sweepstakes
tourney, and with Bob Stead as his
amateur partner, he also came in for
nice piece Of the change in the ANA
teur-pro tourney, tying for second
place with a better ball Of 65.
Bob played the mines over
that rugged Five Farms course
in 31-39.
The 81 Is only a shot above the al
most incredible 80 for that stretch
turned in back in 1882 by Francis
Ouimet In subduing George Voigt in
the national amateur championship.
He skidded little on the tougher
back nine but still had enough on the
ball to win the pro tourney by q shot.
Andy Gibson Of Bonnie View was Sec
ond with II, and John Bass of Bal
timore was third with 72 The pros
had a good workout for the P. G. A.
sectional qualification rounds next
week, and it looks as If no one will
crack par in that test. Otto Greiner
of Baltimore won the gross prize in
the amateur sweepstakes with q card
of 73, while the net award went to
Ernie Caldwell, also Of Baltimore.
with 1865. Barnett and Stead tied
in the amateur-pro affair with Bass
and Caldwell for second place at IS,
one shot behind the 81 registered by
Ralph Beach and Otto Greiner.
Evening star., 1938-03-03
Star Commended for
Peace Cross Editorial

To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial headed "Blandensburg
Congestion" published in The Star on
Saturday, February 26. was most en-
couraging to the Keystone Automobile
Club, which for several years now has
been carrying on an intensive compaign
to bring about relief of the conditions
OF extreme traffic congestion existing at
the Peace Cross in Bladensburg. Your
editorial interest in this matter we are
sure will be of the most substantial as
sistance in emphasizing to the Mary
land authorities the need for immediate
remedial action.
For your information, the name of
the engineer of "a local automobile
club credited in your editorial with
devising an effective program for treat
ment of the Peace Cross problem. is Mr..
William S. Canning, engineering direc-
tor of Keystone, who has given much
close. first hand study to this situation
which is of such concern to the thou
sands of Washington motorists who use
the Defense Highway to reach Maryland
shore resorts.
keystone is hopeful that some action
for the relief Of the congestion at Peace
Cross will be undertaken by the Mary
land authorities before the period of
heaviest travel is reached, and is bend
ing every effort in that direction.
GEO. E. KENEIPP,
Manager.
Evening star., 1938-03-03
Representative Kennedy
Reminded of Decisions
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
May comment on communication
from Representative Kennedy in Satur-
days Star, in which he stated:
"* If business privilege tax was
to again be imposed for the coming fiscal
year, then those people residing outside
the District should pay on the same
basis as the residents of the District.
know of many instances in which people
who do considerable business in Wash
ington maintain no Office or organiza-
ton of any kind in the District. To
permit these people to escape the pay
ment of this tax and to apply it to resi-
dents, bona fide business residents, would
give outsiders advantages over the resi-
dents of the District"
Is it possible that the Congressman
has forgotten or is not familiar with
the interstate commerce clause in the
American Constitution? His attention
is respectfully called to the decision of
the Supreme Court in Stoutenburgh vs.
Hennick, 129 U. S., 141, where the de-
fendant was convicted in the Police
Court of the District because he, ac-
cording to information, did engage in
the business of commercial agent for
a firm doing business in the city of
Baltimore without first having obtained
license to do So" The Supreme Court,
through Justice Fuller, declared the i'm
position of the tax invalid in violation
Of the power Of Congress to regulate
commerce.
A later case on the same subject is
that of Stockard VS.. Morgan, 1875 U. S.,
271.
These are only two of numerous de-
cisions on the same subject.
WILLIAM COGGER.
Evening star., 1938-03-03
Increased Speed Is Not a
Cure for Traffic Accidents

To the Editor Of The Star:
In the Evening Star of February "a,
under the title Higher D. C. Speed
Limits Backed" it is reported that
members of the Conduit Road Citizens
Association favor raising the District
speed limits, thereby enabling traffic Ito
move with less congestion and with
safety" and indorses the purposes of the
Washington Criminal Justice Associa-
ton. which is "a fact-finding, fact
analyzing, fact Disseminating body. non
partisan and non-political in character:
protecting the public by swift and cer-
tain punishment for the criminal"
In this connection your attention is
called to report in the Science News
Items, where it is stated that DR.. Lowell
S. Selling of Detroit finds that mot one
out of a hundred of the drivers coming
into traffic court has learned how to
drive his car with competence, tactful-
ness and care for the other fellow" He
found that of the hundreds of drivers
examined, many that were involved in
traffic offenSes were insane; many were
dangerously feebleminded; many were
illiterate, and many were relatively nor
NAL but their thinking processes about
driving were bad.
After driving in congested traffic for
eight years and noting the lack of fore
thought, slow reaction-time, constant
weaving in and out of traffic lanes. and
constant violation of traffic signals by
automobile drivers, am opposed to in
creasing the speed limit in city driving.
At the present time in the 22-miles-per-
hour zones, traffic Including buses and
other heavy conveyances) moves at q
miles per hour COR even faster when
ever the opportunity permits. This
means that by increasing the speed limit
to say q miles per hour, traffic will
move at 30 to 35 miles per hour, which
is too hazardous.
Before we have higher speed limits
let us have compulsory insurance on
every car operator. and corps of traffic
policemen to keep drivers from riding
astride traffic lanes. There will be less
need for appeals for greater sanity in
driving. VIM. w. COBLENTZ.
Evening star., 1938-03-03
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Nothing makes the great average
American more indignant than to in
form him that you have different living
habits.
Different from his, that is.
II he does not 60 to bed until mid
night it seems to be a sort of sacrilege
for any one else to retire earlier.
Strangely enough, if he "hits the hay"
as he still likes to call 1t, at 10 pm, he
seems to flnd something extremely
suspicious about any one who dares to
stay up until II o'clock.
So 1t goes all along the line and all
around the CLOCK.
An even greater affront, if possible, is
to let out that you dare get up earlier.
This is the last straw, the unforgive-
able sin.
Does not he, great fellow, arise at 7
o'clock each morning?
That is the time for getting up,
isn't it?
No one but fool would get up before
am, would he?
Isn't 7 o'clock in the morning the
time everybody gets up?
He forgets that sleeping periods are
more standardized than he, If possible.
Eight hours is "it.'
If one goes to bed at 9 o'clock let us
say. he gets up about eight hours later,
or am
If at 10. then at 6, and so on; it is
purely mathematical.
The great man who sets the standard
does exactly the same. but he forgets
about that in considering others.
He Is SO anxious to blame others, in
the best traditions, that he totally over
looks the plain fact that the old eight
hour sleeping time universally holds
good.
The solution of this problem, of
course, is to go ahead and do as you
please, but never let on.
Keep it all dark secret.
Know for a certainty that as your
habits differ from his. the great stand
ard American, they are wrong.
That if they are wrong. as he sees it,
he will suspect you of milder lunacy in
ratio to the difference.
Especially if you dare get up early.
Too early, he simply will not believe
you at all.
Say IN all truth, "oh, get up every
morning at 4:30 o'clock"
'Ha. ha, ha,' he will reply. stop
fooling.'
That any one in his right sense would
arise at the mythical hour of q, unless
mllkman, is beyond his conception.
1t isn't done, that is all.
He knows better.
EARLY to bed and early to rise" may
have had some standing when Frank
lin wrote It, but not today. he thinks.
He believes that late to bed and late
to rise would be much better slogan
nowadays.
His firm faith in the rightness of his
Evening star., 1938-03-03
Price of One Meal a Week
Proposed to Feed Hungry

To the Editor of The Star:
read with feeling of shame for all
OF us Well-fed people in Washington of
the starving and desperate condition of
so many men, women and children in
our beautiful city and of the possibility
that free lunches to undernourished
school children may soon have to be
discontinued because of lack of funds.
If families are so desperate for food
that men will desert their wives and
children so that these may be eligible
for relief, and when people are so nearly
naked they will steal and house-break
to find something to cover their bodies,
how can we who have an abundance
of food and warm clothing sit down to
our meals with any appetite at all?
If every well-fed family in Washing
ton would give the price of one dinner
week according as they are accus-
toned to eat, so that starving families
might eat frugally, this stigma would
not need to rest upon our fair city.
If some of us feel that we cannot af-
ford it, let us 60 without the meal our
selves and give the money saved to those
who never have square meal. Fasting
is good for both soul and body if done
in q cheerful spirit.
NELLIE HURLEY PUGH.
Evening star., 1938-03-03
Anniversary at Howard.

Howard University, said the Secretary
of the Interior last night in q radio
broadcast, can proudly stand on its rec
ord because its record is fine and
enviable one" No one can dispute Mr..
Ickes on that point. 1t unquestionably
ranks as one of the finest Negro institu-
tions in America.
SeVenty-one years ago yesterday, the
institution was officially chartered by
Congress at time when there was con-
siderable doubt among many people as
to the wisdom of educating the newly
freed slave. Initial funds for the pur-
chase of its site were transferred from
the residue OF the refugees and freed
mems fund by Brigadier General Oliver
Otis Howard, for whom the institute is
named.
The story is told that in the early
stages Of the universitys history will
ingness to apply ones self was the only
credential for entrance and that pos
session of pick or shovel by a candi-
date for admission was considered evi-
dence of that willingness. The story
goes on that an enterprising student
purchased the required implements and
rented them out to applicants for ad-
mission at a very pleasant profit
Today Howard has come a long way,
far even for seventy-one years If its
plant is inadequate as Mr.. Ickes charges,
it is at least being added to at the mo-
ment. 1t has abandoned the pick and
shovel credentials for a high educa-
tional requirement. 1t has an able ard
intellectual faculty, and an industrious
and capable president. At sever-y-one
it is steadily progressing.
Evening star., 1938-03-03

own habits are equaled only by his dis
trust of the habits of others, unless, Of
course, they are the same as his.
In that happy event he greets you
as brother and equal.
That another may have different in
terests never seems to enter his head.
How can anybody so love nature as
to wish to be present at a sunrise?
Sunrise, bah!
Only pagan Egyptians greeted the
sun. He has read book about it, and
recalls that an old fellow named
Akhnaton, or something, led a band of
sun worshippers.
Something mighty suspicious about
any guy who wants to see the sun
come up.
Or watch the first dew on the gladi-
olus blossoms.
Nuts" he says, tapping his head;
significantly he thinks.
= ~
His tapping is, indeed, significant
but not in the way he thinks
1t should be warning to people who
want to be let alone.
Let them agree with him that his
of sensible Americans
Whatever he does is right.
He may not think of himself as a
dictator, but he really is. and as auto
cratic as any man who ever lived.
His autocracy would rule the realm
of the mind.
If he thinks he rules, then he is salts
fed
So the thing to do is to never let on
to him to the contrary.
Let him think he sets the fashion.
He will be happy, and never suspect
that others have different habits
To do him justice, he never stops to
think about others at all. until they
trample his mental toes by daring to
say their habits differ.
Womenkind have been learning how
to handle him for centuries, and any
one who wants to get along" with him
would do we'll to adopt some of their
tactics.
What he doesn't know won't hurt him
we believe that is one of them.
If he doesn't know that your daily
habits are different he will not mind
at all.
The fact that you dare to get up be-
fore he does doesn't worry him at all
unless he happens to be told about it
to his face
Then something traditionally Ameri-
can rises in his mind, and he begins
to feel that his rights are being trampled
on.
Isn't he standard? Don't most of the
people he knows do exactly as he does?
Then isn't any difference an insult?
Don't stir up the animals" 1t is an
old slogan, and one with many good
points TO 1t. Whether or not the animals
are in or out ZOO seems to make little
difference
Evening star., 1938-03-03

it escaped criticism from the dis
gruntled men who invaded Washington.
This happy state Of affairs. so much
against normal expectation, has existed
after the administration was placed in
the hands of Brigadier General Frank T.
Hines, who has just completed his
fifteenth year of continuous service.
There can be only one explanation.
General Hines Is an extraordinary man
and an extraordinary administrator.
Under his direction that branch Of the
Government which might have been ex-
pected to give the most trouble has
given the least.
1t is to be hoped that General Hines is
available to head the Veterans Admin
istration Tor at least another fifteen
years. The possibility that he ever will
be replaced by an equally competent
man is very remote.
Evening star., 1938-03-03

associates. DR.. H. A. Morgan and David
E. Lilienthal, wanted an investigation
of the Berry claims by an independent
expert before beginning condemnation
proceedings. DR.. Morgan and Mr.. Lili-
enthal issued a statement that the
chairman's testimony raised "false and
malicious inferences." thereby confirm
ing suspicious that all was not well
within T. v. A. itself. Chairman Nor
gan advocates q conciliatory policy
toward the private utilities, while Mr..
Lilienthal and DR.. Morgan have stood
for finish fight" Thus, it is more
than possible that Senator Berry's claim,
important in itself, may lead to a re-
shaping Of T. v. A. policy which in the
long ,un will prove of still greater i'm
portance to the country as a whole
Evening star., 1938-03-03
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field.
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

miles of material was thrown out and
formed deposits 5000 feet thick. Shortly
after the eruption the collapse of one
large crater. miles in diameter formed
system of radiating assures in the sur
rounding rocks. These soon filled with
rich deposits of gold and silver. some
times extending in veins to 7 miles
long.
Several important oil pools lie in VOL
canlc cones in Texas, Dr. Hugh D. Moser
told the group. The ancient volcanoes
OF the coastal plain which extended
through Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi
erupted about 10000 900 years ago, but it
is only since 1915 that their oil deposits
have been known. These volcanoes now
are deeply buried. In the same craters
diamond deposits have been found
The largest eruptive volcano known,
said DR.. c. S. Ross of the Geological
Survey, is in Northern New Mexico 1t
erupted between a million and two mil
lion years ago, leaving crater II miles
long and l3 miles wide. This at one time
contained lake.
Evening star., 1938-03-03
The Berry Leases.

The finding of three-member Fed
eral Commission that the marble de-
posits of Senator George L. Berry and
his associates are commercially worth
less ends, for the moment at least, q
controversy that has been of unusual
significance. The claim of the Berry in
terests, which they valued at more than
S5,0O0,000, was based on leases they &C
qulred to property in the vicinity of
Norris Dam in the Tennessee Valley
The flooding or the threatened inunda-
ton of this land, subsequent to the ac-
quiring Of the leases, made it impos-
sible to quarry the marble, Senator
Berry and his associates contended.
During the lengthy hearings, A. E.
Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee
Valley Authority, testified to his belief
that the Berry group acquired the leases
with intent to defraud the Govern
ment.' Senator Berry denied the leases
had been bought up with the expecta-
ton of,suing the Government and coun-
tered with the assertion that he had
been robbed" by T. V. A. The COM
mission did not undertake to pass on
this disputed question of good faith, and
it remains an issue which every citizen
is free to decide for himself.
The hearings, however, brought into
the open another and as yet unsettled
question-the serious split among the
directing board Of T. v. A. The public
disclosure of this long-suspected dissen-
sion has resulted in the introduction of
several resolutions in Congress calling
for an investigation Of T. v. A. and
there is strong likelihood that one of
them will receive favorable action.
In the course of his testimony, Chairman
Morgan expressed displeasure because his
Evening star., 1938-03-03
Story of Old Nose and His
Ok Applied to New Deal
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
In the speeches of the administra-
ton SpokeSmen these days we don't hear
reiteration of the charge that big busi-
ness conspired to cause the Roosevelt
depression in order to put the admin
istration in bad. Is 1t possible the
Roosevelt board OF strategy came to
the conclusion that the charge was just
too assinine for anyone outside the
walls Of nut asylum to believe? If
that is the case the strategist's have
made tactical error. They should keep
pounding away at it. They should al
ways bear in mind that they long ago
ceased appealing to the thinking people
OF the country. There are millions who
swallowed that speech made by Mr..
Ickes, and inspired by Mr.. Roosevelt.
They will continue to believe that sort
OF hokum as long as they continue to
get howery promises and what they con-
slider a good price for their votes in
the form Of relief, political jobs and
subsidies.
When the administration blamed big
business for causing the Roosevelt de-
preston 1t was the same kind of rea-
soning IN cause and effect that once
came to the attention of my father:
Many years ago, down on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland there was an old
colored man named Nose Tingle. He
lived out in the country about six miles
from the county seat. One day my
father met Nose on the street in town.
Hello, Nose" said father, "how is
everything out your way?"
"Tolable well. Mist Eugene, sub, tolable
we'll" replied Nose "'ceptin' 1 sho' is
plumb disguised wild my ole OK
Why, Nose, was under the impress
sion you thought old Rock was the
greatest OK in the county"
Did uster think so, Mist Eugene, but
I sho' hates de sight of him now Dat
OK done cause me a heap o trouble,
sub. 1t was like dis, Mist Eugene:
Las SADLY was on my way home from
town. Been doin' my dealin' you know,
sub. Had ole Rock hitched to de cyart.
l got right in sight o my house an
what does 1 see? l see dat good-fer-
nothin' long-legged Jim Dennis a.
chasin dat young wife O. mine eroun'
de house. seed dat sompin' was wrong
an l tries to git dat ole OK to walk
fastuh. You think he do it? Nav sub!
twis' his tail. Nav sub! l beat him
eroun' de haid wild my whip Nav sub!
l kick him in de ribs. Nav sub! He
jes too mean an stubborn to walk no
fastuh Pear lax he jes tryin' to spite
me. Well, sub. Mist Eugene, befo' I
could git to de house and stop it don't
you know dat scoun'el Jim Dennis done
ketched my wife and kissed her fo-five
times right spang in de mouf! An,
tuthuh-en-mo', Mist Eugene, she done
kiss him right back, An every bit of
1t was ole Rocks fault, Mist Eugene,
fer not walkin no fastuh."
S. H. MUMFORD.
Evening star., 1938-03-03
Flapping Their Wings.


Germanys international relations. Her
diplomacy is more reminiscent of bull
in china shop. Air Minister Field
Marshal Goering has just proved that
unlike other Teutonic practices as most
Nazi methods are, they run true to form
with respect to clumsiness. In a speech
on the third anniversary of the Reichs
air force, der Fuehrers second in COM
mand categorically threatened that Ger
manys mighty sky war-machine is
ready to be used "recklessly and ruth
lessly' to protect the ten million Ger
man national comrades" if oppressed
beyond our borders"
That Goering is alluding to Austria,
whose Nazis are already at all but civil
war with the Schuschnigg government,
and to Czechoslovakia, whose three
million Germans likewise await Berlins
signal for action, is obvious 1t is both
the brutal candor of the outburst and
the moment chosen for its delivery that
wrong things Nazi Germany has done
at the right time, for it follows by
bare fortnight Hitlers peace" pledges
to Austria and assurances of the Reich's
desire for tranquil relations with all its
neighbors.
One wonders what emotions such
bravado generates in the trustful bosom
of Prime Minister Chamberlain, who is
about to do bit of bundling with the
Fascist dictators. Goering's TRADE syn
chronizes with the discovery that Mus
solni is already hedging on the with
draWal of Italian troops from Spain.
Thus, far more promptly than even he
could have anticipated, Captain Eden's
theory that II Duce's deeds would be more
reliable than his words has been clas-
sically vindicated. Perhaps Mr.. Cham
berlain now recalls that it was his
father, Joseph Chamberlain who, on a
famous occasion when a. certain con-
tinental power sought deal with Great
Britain, observed that who sups with
the devil needs long spoon"
Ambassador Dieckhoff's assurance to
Secretary Hull that German citizens in
the United States are debarred from
pernicious political activities here COIN
cided with the disclosure that some four
hundred thousand German national
comrades" are domiciled on our some
times too hospitable soil. They are not
oppressed comrades, but to people adept
at stretching a point, it is conceivable
that the Germans air force might some
day find it meet to clear for action even
on behalf of the transatlantic sons
of the swastika. 1t is doubtless a far
fetched thought, but it is none the less
intriguing that the Haunting Of German
air power dovetails on revelations that
men and women of Germanic origin have
been trafficking, or attempting to traffic,
in our air defense secrets.
Hence. it is not only Austria and
Czechoslovakia but even remote America
which take note of his Goerings saber-
rattle that while the German air force
is "a guarantor of German peace" he
openly confesses that terrible will be
the result when the command for attack
comes Then, he declares, I'VE shall
become the terror of our enemies
Nothing shall malt us from unrestricted
frightfulness. All obstacles will be over
come, wherever we find them"
Thus must Attila the Hun have
spoken. The "scourge of God" too,
might have been whistling to keep up
his courage.