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The times-news., 1938-12-14
ABANDON BABY. KEEP CAT

LONDON. (UP)-Because they
considered a baby was breaking
up the home" a young London
couple abandoned the child while
on holiday, but they kept a pet
cat.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

The second, imported from France, con-
sists of taking possession OF factory build.
ing and waiting for the employer to come
to terms-a procedure defended on the
grounds that a craftsman is entitled to
possession of his tools.
Shutdown strikes sweep the country in
late winter. They seriously cripple the
great American automobile industry. Eco
nomic recovery, which had been progress
ing nicely, is retarded Why do not the
Governors call out their militias and
shoot or gas the workers out of the fac
tories they are occupying illegally? That
is what would have happened 10 years ago.
1t is not so clear to the Governors now.
They have sworn to enforce the law In the
protection of both property rights and
human rights" When the two come in
conflict what is to be done? The last
election seemed to prove the human rights
element holds the balance of power. Gov
ernors and sheriffs moves warily. The
Federal Government moves not at all.
Even the mails are stopped. Peoples man.
date? Wait and see is the policy. Public
sentiment slow to form, crystallizes. The
Shutdown Is condemned Labor, watching
public sentiment more closely than it
watches the courts stops the sit-down. An
other phenomenon has been born, to die
an early death.
The Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton and the American Federation of Labor
engage in bitter struggle for supremacy.
Pickets patrol the sidewalks Of every Amer
ican city, Sometimes they picket each
other. When the stock market breaks, labor
leaders say it Is vile plot on the part
Evening star., 1938-01-02

Japan captures Shanghai There are
stories Of atrocities exceeding anything
reported in the World War. Success after
success attends Japan's arms.
Other nations are hit by stray shots
from this war. A British ambassador is
wounded by japanese machine gun from
the air. The Russian bear growls men,
acingly from the Siberian tundra. but does
not move. Germany and Italy express
their approval of japanese ends and ideals.
It is a nation against mass Of indi-
viduals. Italy and Japan do not think
there should be masses of individuals.
A great many in the United States and
Great Britain do think so-most sincerely.
The year is near its end when there is
reported the most serious incident OF all.
An American gunboat and three American
tankers are bombed from the air, the gun
boat is sunk in the Yangtse River. Several
are killed, several wounded. Probably at
no time since the sinking of the Lusitania
has the international atmosphere been
more tense. Japan makes profound, and
apparently sincere, apologies finally &C
cepted by the United States
Twenty years ago thousands would have
shouted for war over such an incident
Now nobody expresses such desire-out
loud. War is too terrible now-more ter
rible than 1t was in 1917. The tenseness
passes, but there is an uneasy. feeling
everywhere that the smoking volcano on
which the world has been sitting ever
since the Armistice is nearer to q major
explosion than ever
It is not so much nations or races that
are lining up against each other now. 1t
Is the advocates of two Numerically
opposed PHILOSOPHERS Of life-one might say
two Numerically opposed religions A re-
ligious war is always the most terrible Of
wars. No nation wants to shoulder the
responsibility for starting it.
And, having gotten the world into this
mess 1887 passes into the nirvana Of
years. The church bells ring, the factory
whistles blow, folks sing Aud Lang syne."
and a new year Is born-born to responsi.
bilities as great as have fallen to any year
In 20 centuries.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

Pacific. Somewhere in that great silence
she has vanished
Mans first conquest Of the air was in
bags filled with gas which would float In
the atmosphere like ships In water. Event.
ually he learned to steer them and they
became "airships." Then 1t was found
safer and cheaper to fly through the
clouds like the birds-the way nature in
tended
But some clung doggedly to the old air.
ship-vastly improved it and spent for
tunes on It. Only in Germany was there
luck. There such progress was made that
regular transatlantic service was estab-
lished and conducted without q single
fatality or hint Of an accident.
Then, without warning. the great dirigible
Hindenburg burst into flames over Lake
hurst Airport at the very end Of her voyage
from Germany-the worst air catastrophe
Of the year
But this is not the years worst catas-
trophe in America. The community school
Of village in the East Texas oil fields,
heated by natural gas, explodes-blows up
like big torpedo. Arms and legs and
heads OF the children are parts of the
scattered debris. 1t is 1875 most cruel act
lin America.
A SLEEPY-EYED, catatonic Detroit
Negro boy punches an aging Irishman
unconscious and becomes champion Of the
world. Eskimos in Greenland, bankers In
Gotham. monks in Brookland. gangsters in
Alcatraz. astronomers peering into the far
depths Of eternity on high peaks Of the
Sierras stand breathless over their radios.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
By THOMAS r. HENRY.

u VOW that 1887 has passed on, there
N remains the sad duty of writing
v his obituary.
There are few who will say a
good word for him. He was boasting,
staggering, fighting, unscrupulous fellow
Much of his behavior was weird and repre-
hensible.
He was born just 366 days ago with
church bells ringing, humble folk praying
and singing hymns cocktail glasses tinkling
merrymakers wearing pink and green paper
caps and singing Aud Lang syne." It
was a clear cold night in Washington,
with the moon rising late and floating
high among the stars.
What was this newborn 1887? Was it the
thoughts, acts, ideals and illusions of all
men while passing through few hundred
billion miles of space-time, about halfway
between the outer edge of the Milky Way
galaxy and the constellation of Sagit-
tarius the Hunter? Was it an aggre-
cation of about 100000, 600 ,0OO, 900 000,-
100000 discrete particles of real time-as
conjectured by some recent mathematicians
and all the things that were thrown into
1t and all the ripples and froth they caused?
We know only that he was all that has
happened to all Of us since we sang Aud
Lang Syne' last and the Christmas lights
went out and the red candles were taken
from the windows. Time, for all of us. still
radiates from, ourselves or some event in
our immediate neighborhoods.
~ *
THE infant 1887 was born under an evil
star.
The night Of his birth 9O,OO0,000 miles
away on the flaming face Of the sun dark
spots were getting thicker. They were
whirlw1nds. millions of square miles in
area. in the stars atmosphere of fire. On
mountainous all over the world astrono-
mers were watching them and counting
them.
Calico saw them first, nearly 500 years
ago. Since then they have waxed and
waned in numbers every II years They
will hit maximum in the middle of 1898.
Somehow or other, many believe. they
govern the destinies of man. Times Of
abundant sunstorms have been times of
war, famine, pestilence and depression on
earth-perhaps. Nineteen-seventeen was
sunspot year. Nineteen-twenty-n was
another.
This is trifle more than gross super
stition. For one thing, the sun emits
more ultraviolet light during these tenn
pests. This light cracks up the molecules
Of the earths atmosphere Perhaps We
are all drugged or drunk from breathing
these cracked molecules which, like cham
payne. creep up on a fellow. They are
said to have that effect. Mankind is ire
sponsible.
Let us say that it was under the influence
Of this cosmic highball that 1897 COM
mitted his most obnoxious and irresponsible
crimes *
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT is inaug-
urated as President Of the United
States for the second time-the first inaug-
Evening star., 1938-01-02

1t is life reduced to Its fundamentals-two
unarmed men, mostly naked. fighting with
their fists until one Of them can fight
no more.
The new fall hats the women are wear
ing look like small. inverted peach baskets
trimmed with ribbons. Skirts are shorter.
too creeping up toward the level Of the
middle 20's, when they were only slightly
below the knees.
Stocks begin to drop, for the first time
notably since 1884. Americans awske sud-
denly to realization that they are caught
in a business depression-called now. q
recession. It has come upon them I'M
aware. Steel production is down one-third.
The public's memory of 1929 is fresh.
The public trembles
The fall races at Bowie, Laurel and
Pimlico are crowded. War Admiral, Sea-
biscuit and the others have their moments.
They also. blindly and dumbly, have
stumbled into history. Gambling passion
grips the public, as it. always does in times
Of uncertainty.
Folks dancing the Big Apple-revival
meeting translated to dance noor 1t Is
q combination of hillbilly square dance
and going under the power"
The orchestras play "You Can't Stop
Me From Dreaming" New slang in WASH
ington: II amt talking" borrowed from
gangland "drizzlepus." tiresome person:
Jump" meaning IT; Say DOPE" friendly
greeting.
Women wear Russian style hats. Black
wells have q revival
+
IN JANUARY the men with rifles were
crawling on their stomachs through the
snow on the Iberian Peninsula
To the rest Of the world it was not such
. significant thing then. Few knew what
it was all about. For the most part, it was
looked upon a just another Spanish family
squabble.A
But As winter turns into spring and
spring into summer 1t becomes apparent
that here Is the spark which may set the
world on fire. The Spanish government
Is liberal-too liberal. say some, who re-
sent the trampling on vested rights. The
rebels are exponents Of anotber philosophy.
Evening star., 1938-01-02
An Informal Biography of Tempestuous Old Year

It Is closely akin to the Fascis,, Of italy
and the Nsziism Of Germany.
Thousands Of Italians are in the rebel
ranks, unoficially, Of course. Italy, 1t is
reported, is fighting Spain without having
declared war, by the ruse Of encouraging
enlistments In the Fascist army. MANY
Germans enlist also. German and Italian
airplanes are reported on the rebel side.
Russian airplanes are shipped to the 10y
alists. Thousands Of Americans, English
men and Frenchmen-without any ofiicial
announcement whatsoever-are in the gov
ernment ranks.
The whole Western World seems to be
fighting each other in the mountains of
the Iberian Peninsula.
The fate Of battle veers back and forth
Madrid holds firm. The capital of the
Basques, Europe's mystery people, falls to
the rebels after making a desperate de-
fense. Germany, without declaring war,
bombards loyalist town. Mysterious sub
marines appear in the Mediterranean
Neutral ships are torpedoed Russia, in
pdl ClCOldl, IIIcdIcIlS vengeance.
Italy makes little pretense that she is
NOT actively, however unoffcially, engaged
in the Spanish war. A son of II Duce is
rebel aviator. Another son Of II Duce
comes to the United States to study mov-
ing picture making. The stars at Holly
wood snub him-and rise several degrees in
the estimation Of their countrymen.
And as autumn fades into winter the
situation in Spain remains unchanged with
both combatants locked In a death grip.
The men with rifles still are crawling
through the snow on their stomachs-and
thousands are dead and thousands OF homes
are in ruins and thousands are fatherless
They know what they are fighting about
now-these poor men with rifles. On sec
ond thought they probably dent know. but
the rest Of the world does know and takes
sides according to its sympathies.
A TTENT1ON is focused on introver.
China
When England. France. Germany ana
North America were lands of painted bar.
barians. China developed one of mans
greatest civilizations. She also developed
the philosophy that material progress wa
not worth the price a people must pay
for 1t and that there was nothing worth
fighting for She became land OF indi-
vidualists Each mans kingdom was
within himself
The Western World forged ahead. China's
equally introverted neighbor. Japan.
changed her whole philosophy Of life.
adopted the ways Of the white races and
outplayed them at their own game. She
sought deliberately the place in the sun
which China has foresworn.
Now the two diverse cultures and philoso-
phiess clash. Japan attacks China. ruth
lessly, 1t seems to Americans. Twenty
years after the greatest war since the
Armistice shakes the world. China fights
back, brayely and, for time, successfully.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

Of capital to discredit them. Industrial
leaders say the demands Of labor are so
excessive they cannot meet them and make
money. ~***
A TITANIC mass of wet, cold air hurting
around the world five miles over the
earth is stalled above the Southern Appala-
chians, and the cosmic mechanics can't
get it started again. Rain, rain rain, as
in Noah's day, but colder, drearier rain
than fell in Mesopotamia.
The Ohio-"beautiful river"-overhows
causing the most damaging floods in Amer
lean history. Louisville, Cincinnati Padu-
cab, Evansville, Pittsburgh, Johnstown are
under water. Gas, water, electricity, fur
naces, roads, railroads are cut off, For
few millions of Americans life reverses
to the horse-and-buggy days and beyond
even to the cave man days. It is terrible
warning of the inverted pyramid structure
OF civilization upon whose stability we bank
everything. little push from a cold
wind and it topples over.
Here in Washington we sit in furnace
heated rooms with loud-speakers turned
on. We hear weird messages from rescue
boats rowed in pitch blackness over the
streets of Louisville. week ago Louis
vile families sat listening to their radios
in just such rooms in houses on those very
Hooded streets. Now they are refugees
IN the dark. The same might happen to
us any day. How? Nature doesn't tell.
II we knew, we could prevent 1t from
happening. +***
ONE of history's most amazing incidents
Of royalty and romance moves to new
climactic heights
On May IL, as an estimated three million
persons crowd the streets of London, the
crown of rulership of the British Empire
Is placed on the head Of George vi. Be-
side the grave-faced monarch stands his
Scottish-born queen, Elizabeth.
Not present at the ceremony is Edward,
Duke Of Windsor, who i've months earlier
had nenounced his throne in order that he
might wed "the woman love-" Mrs. Wallis
Simpson. American-born, Mrs. Simpson's s
divorce from her British army officer hus-
band becomes effective In April. On June
3, Edward and Mrs. Simpson, are married.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

uration in January. It is a day OF cold,
driving rain. The inaugural paraders are
drenched Some get pneumonia. But 1t is
altogether cheerier inaugural than when
he first took Office, gloomy March morning
In 1933-the very day when the Nation
plunged to the depths of the economic
depression, banks closing everywhere. long
soup lines before the doors of every mission,
barter taking the place of money, every
body despairing of the future
America has risen long way since then.
Prosperity seems really back again. 1t is
the first Inauguration since repeal, alto
gether the gayest occasion of the sort
for 20 years All the Governors are in
town, members of their stats resplendent
in dress uniforms. Banker-colonels tip
glasses with lawyer-majors. All the State
societies have receptions and dances. Or
chestras play Chapel in the Moonlight"
and With Plenty of Money and You"
But 1887 already is showing reprehensible
traits of his character. A hard winter has
come early to Southern Europe Drifted
snow covers the Spanish mountains. Much
Of the peninsula is under white blanket
Men crawl through it on their stomachs
- - the moonlight, rifles in hand They
are 6paniards and Englishmen and Amer
leans and Russians. They are Spaniards
and Moors and Italians and Germans. For
some reason, which the world does not
vet clearly understand, they are trying to
kill each other.
: It Is not of course. war. That has been
made as clear as mud to everybody. What
ever evil Is said of 1887, let it be put on
record that its career was unblemished
by q single war.
But here in January the men with
rifles are crawling in the snow, and we
/ viii hear more of them later
I ABOR gets unruly. It has suffered dur
, ing the depression. It wants its full
share-more If possible-of returning pros
perisy. It has two brand-new weapons for
getting what 1t wants-the Wagner Labor
Relations Act. approved by the Supreme
Court, and the sit-down strike. The first
makes negotiations with organized EN-
,ployes practically compulsory on INDUSTRY.
Evening star., 1938-01-02

leads to hitherto unnoticed development
Of 1937-Eskimo artists, an Eskimo movie
actor, an Eskimo novelist 1t was the year
with the revival Of Eskimo culture, the
genius Of the biggest-brained humans kept
in cold storage for hundred centuries.
Evening star., 1938-09-11
WOODWARD MAPS
COURSE FOR YEAR
Twentieth School Year to
0pen September 19-NeW
Classes Listed.

The Woodward School for Boys,
1736 g street NV, offering courses
IN both grammar and high school work,
will open its twentieth year on septem-
ber 10. Registrations are expected to
be completed by Friday, according to
James j. King, headmaster.
This year, for the first time, the
school Is planning to specialize in
postgraduate course, designed to en-
able students to pass entrance exami-
nations to the Naval Academy. the
United States Military Academy. or to
other higher institutions of learning
where special work is required for
entrance.
The school has junior school for
boys in the sixth. seventh and eighth
grades, and the high school. In the
latter a college preparatory course is
designed to satisfy the admission re-
quirements Of a majority of American
colleges. The high school also offers
q general course. planned to give a
boy cultural and practical education.
Special training is given the boys
in the school in how to study and
how to read. Each boy has his definite
periods to study and is held to the
prescribed use of such time. Close
personal attention is given each boy.
The school has an auditorium,
equipped with a motion picture ma
chine; library, science laboratory
and study hall. The Boys department
Of the Y. M. c. A., with its trained
staf1, co-operates closely with the
school in giving the boys the advant-
ages Of the departments program.
There are two gymnasiums, two SWIM
ming pools and all physical training,
sports and games are under supervi-
sion. The school has baseball, basket
ball and football teams.
A student council helps determine
policies Of the school and the faculty
shares with the council the RESPONSE
bilities Of student government.
Evening star., 1938-09-11
NIGHT ART is ADDED
Critcher School Curriculum to Be
Expanded for Oct, l OPENING.

Expanded for Oct. l Opening.
The Critcher Art School will open
for its 18th year October l at 1916
Connecticut avenue, featuring night
comemrcial art classes among the new
additions to the curriculum.
Registration for the courses, how
ever, according to Miss Catharine
Critcher, director. will be held Thurs
day. The night classes will cover COM
mercial advertising, illustration, letter
ing, poster and color.
Another new feature the school Of
fers this year is the opportunity 70,
professional artists and advanced STU
dents to use life and portrait models
there,
Evening star., 1938-09-11
School Gifts
Dropped Little
In Depression

Total gifts and bequests to higher
education during the depression years
from ls2s-l937 were only slightly less
than those in the earlier and more
prosperous days Of the decade before
1929, according to a survey made
public by the John Price Jones Corp,
New York Embarrassing consultants.
The survey, compilation Of gifts
and bequests to 49 leading institutions
of higher education. showed donations
of s45,573 053 during the 20's and s45,-
094,5l2 from 1929-l937. This reduced
to an approximate $4,000 a year de-
crease per institution in the survey.
The average during the depression
years was sustained, however, by the
donations to the larger institutions, It
was said. Women's and co-educational
institutions bore the brunt OF the
decline.
Evening star., 1938-09-11
new ART COURSES
AT ABBOTT SCHOOL
Training to Meet Requirements
Of Department Stores and Ad
Agencies to Be Featured.

Anne Fuller Abbott, director Of the
Abbott Art School, announces that the
opening Of the school on Thursday will
feature training Of students to meet
the new requirements Of department
store art and advertising agencies.
Miss Abbott has consulted leading
agencies Of the country and visited nu-
merous summer art colonies during the
summer months, and with the CO.
operation Of these agencies and the
Walt Disney Studios the courses this
year will show increased attention to
the relation Of the fine arts to all
commercial and cartoon work.
Airbrush and photo retouching
classes will be held in the evening for
advanced commercial students and
those who wish this subject only.
Sewing and dressmaking will be
given in the Saturday junior school for
the nigh school girls, in the day and
evening school in connection with the
costume design class, and also as q
special class suitable for teachers to
use In connection with home eco
nomlcs.
The interior decoration course has
been completely reorganized. Lectures
will be held in the day and evening
schools by Norma Hansen Kiep and
Phyllis Sjolin, both of whom are pro-
fessional local decorators.
Evening star., 1938-09-11

school, DR.. Fegan made use of the
opportunity to engage in special re-
search at Oxford and Cambridge Uni
versities since September, 1887. He
also observed the work being done in
law at the London School of Eco
nomics.
While at oxford, Dr. Fegan attend
ed the classes of Sir William S. Holds
worth in the history of English law,
as we'll as classes in Roman law con-
Quoted by Prof. Zulueta, another we'll
known authority. At Cambridge he
also specialized In Roman law. The
history of English law is subject
in which DR.. Fegan is particularly in
terested and he introduced such a
course at Georgetown several years
ago.
During his stay in the British Isles,
DR.. Fegan also investigated the op-
erations Of the Inns Of Court in Eng
land. Scotland and Ireland and at
tended trials Of cases in the courts
Of these countries. He also had an
opportunity to study French legal
procedure while abroad.
Students Visit Guatemala.
A group Of Foreign Service School
students visited Guatemala during the
summer under the direction Of Dr.
S. A. Dulany Hunter, associate pro-
fessor of history and foreign rela-
tions. They made study of social
and economic conditions
DR.. Bernard Mayo, professor Of
history and government, has been
spending most Of his time during the
recess at the Library Of Congress
gathering material for the second
volume Of his Life Of Henry Clay"
He is an authority on American his
tory and came to Georgetown q year
or two ago from Johns Hopkins.
Others who attended summer ses-
sions included DR.. Goetz Briefs. pro-
fessor Of labor economies, who lee
tured on that subject at Columbia
University. DR.. Thor Kerekes, pro-
fessor Of history, lectured at the
College Of San Rafael, California,
which is the center Of the Pacific
branch Of the Catholic University of
America.