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Evening star., 1938-12-21
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Begging His Favor,

DcSS"S HIS TdNuIs
Dear Santa Claus: Assuming that YOU
really exist
Would you kindly put grownup, just
for once, upon your list?
I dimly recollect it was the custom long
ago
To take a pen as Christmas Day drew
near to let you know
Exactly what would please your CORE
spondent, so that you
Need not be worried guessing as to what
'twer best to do.
I shall not ask for sweets or toys to rob
the childrens store,
But, oh, Id like to have my old time
appetite once more.
And I'd like to have some sunshine of
the kind that used to gleam
Thro' my window when the waking was
far lovelier than the dream.
I'd like to have some song birds, with
melodies so sweet
That they seemed to set the wind-swept
daiseS dancing at my feet.
And I'd like to have my hope and faith
and smiling as of old
Please give me back my rainbow that
shone DER pot of gold.
beg, sir, to assure you that shall ap-
preciate
Your kindly Offices, and hope may re-
ciprocate.
thank you in advance for such atten-
ton as you may
Bestow on the above request.
Yours truly,
OLDEN GRAY.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
More Care Needed

The decision Of Acting Controller
General Elliott which puts the brand
of illegality on loans of more than
$3,0OO,OOO for five cooperative hos
iery mills on Farm Security Admins
tration projects not only is another
cogent argument against any reor-
ganization scheme that would reduce
the General Accounting Office to the
status of glorif1ed bookkeeping es-
tablishment, but is also demonstra-
tion Of the need for even stricter SUI
pervision of expenditures than now is
possible. A definite pre-audit re-
quirement under given conditions
would be a safeguard against such
improper expenditures.
In this instance, the Farm Security
Administration proceeded on the as
sumption that precedent had been
set when two other industrial VEN
lures were approved by the Controller
Generals office, and made the loans,
failing to take into consideration the
difference in language of the appro-
priations involved.
Just how far astray this conclusion
took those responsible is summed up
In this sentence from the decision:
mo showing of necessity in the ad-
ministration of approved projects in
volving rural rehabilitation has been
made with respect to the loans here
in question, and it is doubtful salts
factory showing could be made"
AS further justifying this finding,
Mr.. Elliott emphasizes that the cur
rent Agriculture Appropriation Act
contains $2,O0O,OO0 for liquidation
and management of resettlement
projects to carry out the Bankhead-
Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1887, which
contemplated only that those projects
for which funds already had been
allocated by the President should be
pushed ahead.
Mr.. Elliott's decision probably will
serve no purpose so far as the return
of the money is concerned. Recovery
action would depend on the Depart
ment of Justice, and it is not custom
ary for executive agencies to view
expenditures in the same light as
does the Controller General. Farm
Security officials are seeking recon-
sideration because they want the
record clear, but this is meaningless
from a dollar and cents standpoint.
The often-heard criticism of the
Controller Generals office is that it
is arbitrary, capricious and slow to
act when speed is. essential. But
when millions can be handed out
with pen scratch, it is preferable
If error is to be made that it be on
the side Of the law.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Aviation Forum

Solemn warning has been sounded
by aviation leaders that the United
States must increase it's civil and
military aviation activities, including
research, or this country must expect
to be outstripped by the totalitarian
powers, not only from the standpoint
of national defense but from that of
our standing in the New World.
So grave is the situation regarded
that a national forum has been
called in Washington February 20
and 81 to consider all phases of mill
tary and civil aviation and to formu-
late broad national policies for the
guidance of Congress and the Ameri-
can people.
There is no question that aviation,
now only thirty-five years old, has
already profoundly affected life as
we know 1t today. 1t has compelled the
nations to reorganize their defense
machines and has played a major
role in the fate of nations during re-
cent months. It's effects upon busi-
ness and commerce are equally pro-
found. Not since the days of the
famous clipper ships has any new
agency of transportation so greatly
affected international commerce as
air transportation is promising to do
in the very near future.
Aviation has tremendous promise
as civilizing and unifying force
among nations. It can be made one
of the greatest boons the mechanical
age has produced, if properly used.
1t can, on the other hand, become
one OF the most destructive powers
mankind has devised-capable of
wreaking unspeakable woe among
the peoples of the earth.
The advent of the airplane has
done as much as any other one thing
to bring home to the minds of men
the sober fact that unless something
of the divine spirit is brought soon
into the affairs of men, nations and
civilization are in grave peril. The
thoughts of major war, with avia-
ton unleashed against cities and civil
populations, are fast becoming in
Supportable to sober-minded people.
For these reasons the February meet
ing will be of more than ordinary
Importance.
Evening star., 1938-12-21

month. Its consummation will ter
inmate negotiations which will have
begun almost exactly year before.
In volume Of trade, the pact is
relatively insignificant, compared to
the figures represented by the agree
ments with Great Britain and Can
ada. In its political implications the
Turkish deal will measure up to the
Importance of any of its round dozen
and half predecessors and outstrip
many OF them, for it is an indirect
blow at the economic philosophy pill
loried at Lima by Secretary Hull as
the destructive system which Nazi
Germany is trying to impose on the
world. To lapse into the slang of the
prize ring, the Turkish agreement is
solar plexus blow for the Reich.
Only this fall Hitler's minister of
economics, DR.. Walther Funk, went
to Ankara to extend the government
German commercial credit OF $75,-
100000 for expenditure on arma-
ments and industrial development
under Nazi tutelage. The transaction
betokened Hitler's purpose to revive
the Berlin-Baghdad dream that went
glimmering with the World War like
so many of Germany's plans. With
the conquest of Austria and the dis
memberment of Czecho- -Slovakia, the
Nazis signifled their intention of re-
suming the Drang mach Osten where
it was left off, after Versailles.
The American Turkish reciprocal
agreement provides mutual tariff
concessions on products yet to be an
nounced. The United States will
grant to all countries except Ger
many the same concessions made to
Turkey, the Reich being excluded
from those benefits because it dis
eliminates against American trade.
The pact is the first of its kind to be
concluded with a Near Eastern coun-
try. Economics Minister Funk also
visited Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. On
his return to Berlin he ventured to
claim that together with Turkey,
those countries form a kind of
Balkan axis which reaches from the
German border to the Black Sea.
Now that Cordell Hull is talking
Turkey, the Nazi-Near East axis does
not seem to be revolving quite so ex-
clusively in Germany's direction as
DR.. Funk's pronunciamento made
out.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
THIS AND THAT
By Charles +. TraceUeH.

building, to see the fresh cold victim
walking around aimlessly, sneezing in
one room after another, depositing mil
lions Of germs as he goes.
They are restless, Ill at ease and should
be home in bed. But II they will not
take that common sense step at least
they might remain in their own Offices.
But no, they insist on visiting around.
Many strong persons who can hight"
a cold, as they phrase 1t, will not re-
member that their success may not ex-
tend to other people There are many
types Of colds, some affecting the
stomach; one person will be able to
resist one type, perhaps, to fall a ready
victim to another.
1t may be realized that II all persons
who ever catch colds-and this means
practically every one-would start doing
little individual thinking upon the
subject, out Of the total result might
come much good. There is no reason
for the individual thinking that all such
matters should be left to the doctors.
Those worthy gentlemen have so much
to do that they would be glad for little
help. That until recent years they have
not concerned themselves much with
prevention is not to be wondered at.
II colds ever are to be ended, the ini-
tiation must come from the people and
not from the doctors. It may be that
130,000,000 minds, all thinking about
colds, would in the end do far more than
the scientists. 1t must not be forgotten
that in the total population there un-
doubtedly are thousands OF persons who
are yet to be scientists.
Who knows but that the real war
against this disease may be started by
some one as yet unknown to fame?
In the meantime the individual suf-
ferer has his part to play.
He should not take it lightly, nor let
others Sneer him down, as many OF them
will try to do.
Those who suffer most from colds will
find, In all probability, that nobody can
do them as much good" as themselves,
because real success in this warfare
comes In securing the attack.
Getting the jump" as it is called,
upon the common cold, when it strikes
is half the battle, if not more.
1t means that one must recognize the
danger period of chilliness, just before
dinner, and guard against it.
1t means that unusual symptoms must
be recognized as such, not as mere va
carries, but as real symptoms, even if the
doctors recognize them not.
One of these symptoms, seldom rec
ognized as such, is sudden irritability
OF temper, especially when directed
against persons who do not deserve it.
Sudden desire for certain types of food
especially those usually known as heavy
is sure-f1re cold indicator for some.
II these pre-symptoms can be caught
and acted upon at once a cold may be
nlpped in the bud almost before it starts
Above all things. be sure to keep warm
just before dinner. Dinner will take
care of itself.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Critics Advised to
Hear Both Sides,

To the Editor of The Star:
want to compliment The Star on its
fairness in the publication of letters
from correspondents. While do not
agree with word your correspondent
Neither German nor Jew" says, do be-
lieve in the Latin saying: Audio alteram
partem. Only when the other side is
heard are we in a position to know that
truth which makes us free of bigotry and
misunderstanding
We are told that only after reason
able methods had been used did Ger
many resort to harsh methods in its
treatment of Jews. The highbinder and
plug-ugly do no more; only after they
have told you more or less considerably
to hold up your hands do they riddle you
with bullets. To quote the late Chief
Justice White, to state the proposition
is to answer it.
We are next terrified with the thought
that If we help the Jews We must per-
force aid the Chinese and the Spaniards
and perhaps the Arabs. Is it not better
to be so blessed as to be able to help all
the unfortunate than to be unfortunate
yourself? Is it better that we should
mar and scar the souls of our own gen.
Grafton and of generations unborn by
failing in mans dire need? The other
mans extremity is our opportunity, and
you don't Of necessity have to take q
man into your own home in order to help
him.
Neither German nor Jew" next COM
plains that Jewish clients are turning
from business and professional men
with a tinge of German blood. The
Jews success in business shows that he
is too farsighted for so shortsighted q
policy. The sensible man Is not swap
ping horses in midstream without am
pie provocation. The few motivated by
narrow considerations are not an index
of the many.
Yes, this is a changing world, and, we
hope, for the better; but nothing lasting
has ever been founded on bigotry and
hatred and injustice and inhumanity.
The source of the Presidents so-called
pro-Jewish policy lies in his elevated
sense of justice and decency and hu-
manity-on that good will whose prelude
we find in the anthem sung at Bethle-
hem two thousand years ago-"On Earth
Peace, Good Will to Men,"
December Z: HERMAN FELTER.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
What Is the best time of day to catch

What Is the best time OF day to catch
q cold?
Every one knows that this common
illness has a definite period of three
days to run its course, after which the
sufferer usually is better-or worse.
It Is not usually recognized that there
Is one particular time of day during
which there is more chance of ones
catching cold than at other times.
This dismally magic hour is just before
dinner, or supper. say between and
6p.m.
Bodily heat seems to be far less than
at any other time Of day. There is one
period, the so-called ''wee small hours" !"
when bodily heat is as low, but it is
conserved by plenty Of covering at that
time.
The danger time, just before dinner,
needs special watching by the large
number of persons who are susceptible
to the great American disease
1t is period of taking it easy, and the
tendency, in the modern home, which
perhaps is almost always too hot, is to
throw off clothing.
When this is combined with sitting in
chair by the window, very common
situation is created, wherein it is much
more easy to catch cold than at other
times.
Even the best weather stripped win
doWs permit some small amount of cold
air to get in.
Especially in homes where radiators
have been removed to the interior Of
walls, the seated person may be ex-
tremely close to a window, with no
protective blanket of warm air.
This slight chilliness is all the more in
contrast with the feeling of warmth
which pervades the system after dinner.
This is known to every one, this pleasing
after-effect of food, but the preliminary
sense Of slight coldness Is not so COM
monty recognized.
If the chill is allowed to persist, and
the body is not warm at the time Of
eating, the good meal may do more harm
than good.
These are the observations Of one who
has made the study of the common
cold" his province for many years out
OF sheer personal necessity, in the first
place, and then from curiosity, because
he recognized that whatever affects the
individual life is fair game. Yet there
are many persons who think that be-
cause there are doctors the individual
has no right to think about his own well
being
If more persons would realize that the
common cold, for instance, is very, very
personal matter, but one which, mis-
handled, is foisted upon many innocent
persons, there would be not only far
more health, but a great drop in the
economic loss caused.
X
Sheer carelessness caused by failure to
think even little. results in persons with
very bad colds visiting all their friends,
especially in offices.
1t Is q common sight IN anv 1oroe
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Defends Civil Service
Weather Scientists.
To the Editor of The Star.

Conceding that every presentation
made in your New Weather Chief" edi-
torial of December 10 is substantial, the
question naturally arises: Is there moth
ing to be said defensively about the
civil-service scientists in this bureau,
who, through the years have labored to
make the Weather Bureau fulfill its Or
ganic mission? Where does the mooted
element of career service" fit into your
comment? Where does the merit sys-
tenn" adjust itself in this proceeding?
Surely there are in this Federal Or
ganization men skilled in meteorology
who could have advanced in line with
career-service principles to high office.
Maybe the policy is to crate vocifer-
ously, in specific assemblages, about "ca-
reer service" but not to strengthen its
tenets in practice? Public enlightenment
on this score would be helpful to a COM
mon understanding of the situation.
December 10. LOUIS v. WOULFE.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Says Supreme Court
Rebuked Communists.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
1t may have escaped the notice Of
many of your readers that Communism
was given well-deserved wallop last
week when the Supreme Court refused to
review a Circuit Court decision that
held strikes on the high seas to be prima
facie evidence Of mutiny and requires
that shipping companies shall be certain
that their employees are amenable to
discipline. Thus, they are free to exer-
else wide discretion in selecting en-
ployes and are enabled to reject those
tainted with the disease of Communistic
doctrines. In other words, henceforth
Americans will be on guard as our ships
sail the seas. ALI praise to our highest
court! Also to that Circuit Court!
December 10. AMERICAN.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Uncle Sam Talks Turkey

No neater bit of shirt-sleeve diplo-
macy has been achieved by the State
Department in many day than the
reciprocal trade agreement with Tur-
key. So far the pact is only in the
initiated" stage, which means that
it has been stamped 20. K" in both
Ankara and Washington, but formal
signature is scheduled for next
Evening star., 1938-12-21

ment along this line Arlington County
will find itself up the creek without a
paddle.
Let I. M. Grey take up the fight for
more and better buses and he Cor she)
will find an army of supporters.
l am not a native of Virginia but live
there now and would be delighted to
help In any way to remedy the condi-
ton that every bus rider in that section
knows exists. SUPPORTER
December IL.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
December 8,
Urges Stricter Regulation
OF Motorists.

To the Editor of The Star:
I note your comments and pictures in
connection with the move for pedestrian
control and am surprised that you should
line up with the traffic director in trying
to shift the blame for the killings on the
streets Of Washington from the drivers
to the pedestrians when you could so
easily take walk around the block and
get few facts for yourself. Corporation
Counsel Seal recently recommended abo-
htion OF the, coroner's jury, and few
people accept their returns as being
worthy of consideration unless they need
the verdicts to bolster their claims.
Thousands of people on the streets
daily see the violations by drivers, all
about town, and while they see careless
pedestrians, for every one careless walker
they see hundred reckless drivers
There is no deep, dark secret about the
conditions on our streets-any one can
get the facts by walking about town and
watching drivers pass red lights, stop
signs, alley stops and violate time and
again the various regulations established
for safety, yet the traffic director and a
few OF his followers apparently ignore
those violations as Of little Importance,
but get excited over pedestrian cross
Ing at other than cross walk
They cannot see drivers taking the
right Of way from pedestrians at the
cross-walks while making right or left
turns. They cannot undertake to hold
up the drivers and give the walkers q
chance to cross where it is or should be
safe, as that would delay traffic. The
all-important thing is to get bunch Of
boneheaded drivers over the streets with
out the slightest delay, regardless of the
danger to life and limb.
A couple of weeks ago list of some
60 persons who had been convicted dur
ing the month of drunken driving was
published, but that created no comment
from the officials-although every one Of
those drunks was potential killer. They
can, and probably will pass the pedes-
trian-control regulation. They passed
the other regulations looking to safety,
but until we get officials who are willing
to recognize the real source of trouble on
our streets and go after the killers in
stead of the dead, there will be no i'm
provement. Patting the drivers on the
back and relieving them of blame will
not solve the problem, and no one who
is familiar with conditions on our streets
today is going to fall very hard for buck
passing that has taken the place Of the
law enforcing. Pedestrians are not fight
Ing any move to make the streets safe,
but they do fight this bunk of controlling
pedestrians and allowing drivers to con-
tinue to run wild.
DRIVER AND PEDESTRIAN.
December 13.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Resents Attack on
Dies Committee.

To the Editor Of The Star:
In The Evening Star of the 18th in
slant. Walter Thompson, signing himself
as Educational Director, Tom Paine
Branch, Young Communist League" at
tempts to slur the attempts of Hon. Mar
tin Dies to arouse the American citizenry
against un-American activities.
For my part would not attempt to
dif1erentiate between Communism and
Nazi-ism, since regard both as abhor-
rent. Moreover, trust that the Dies
committee may widen its scope and that
the Tom Paine branch of the Young
Communist League may come within its
purview. LOUIS P. NAYLOR,
December II.
Evening star., 1938-12-21

1t begins to look as though there
were going to be change in the old
arrangement whereby the broadcast
ing companies have not permitted
any one to 60 on the air Immediately
following a presidential broadcast.
1t would appear that If a man thinks
his statements are unanswerable,
then he should not mind who tries to
answer them, and when.
Evening star., 1938-12-21

A highly prolific writer of sonnets
up in Boston says he can do little
correcting because the minute he
starts tinkering with one of his
brain-children he gets ideas for half
dozen more. The New Deal trans
ferred to the realm of literature!
Evening star., 1938-12-21

Toxic is said to be limiting strictly
the number of relief campaigns
waged therein, She may not realize
it, but she is in for one later on
which will be bigger than all the rest
put together.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Energetic Effort

He strikes pose that is intense,
With happy energy he hollers.
His speeches may not make much sense
But they make lots of dollars.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address OF the
10r1ter. although the use OF q
pSeudonym for publication is per-
'nissible. Please be briet!
Evening star., 1938-12-21
ImDlacable.

what do you think of that officials
decision not to run for Office any more?"
Its all right" answered Senator Sor-
ghum. my only regret is that it cannot
be made retroactive"
Evening star., 1938-12-21
The Game.

The Wall Street game is hard to beat,
Its study isn't any joke
For ere your knowledge is complete
1t usually has you broke.
Evening star., 1938-12-21
Valuation.

"But this prosperity you speak of is
not universal"
Certainly not" answered Mr.. Dustin
StaX, success in business consists very
largely in taking other peoples prosperity
away from them and adding it to your
own"
Evening star., 1938-12-21
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Influence" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, "is personal friendship skill
fully managed so that it will pay divi-
dends"
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