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Evening star., 1938-01-18
The American Press.

Bruce Bliven, editor of The New Re-
public. was happy choice for the first
Bronson Cutting. memorial lecture. His
subject also way a fortunate selection.
The late Senator from New Mexico surely
would have been pleased by both. He was
a philosophic liberal in all the good i'm
plications Of that phrase, and he loved
untrammeled thought and unhampered
thinkers.
Surely, Mr.. Bliven paid Mr.. Cutting
the noblest kind Of homage when he pre-
ferred to speak about the American press
and approached his theme constructively.
Other men have discussed journalism in
the United States with prejudice and
rancor, forgetting that it has been q
natural, gradual and not altogether an
Independent or self-governed growth.
Newspapers, these critics have failed to
notice, have been largely what their
readers have demanded that they should
be. They have sprung from the people,
developed with the intellectual and
spiritual progress Of the people, been held
back or pushed forward by the people.
1t follows that Mr.. Bliven was COM
menting on American civilization when
he declared that the American press sis
still the best in the world" In negative
language, he pointed his moral to this
effect: The weakness of American jour-
nalism > merely reflects the weak
nesses OF our society ~ = whole" Loei-
cally, then, the strength Of the average
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the spirit Of man. which. looking ut life.
and wondering about 1t, refuses to truckle
to those features which it does not ad-
mire.
Henleys proud boast. that his head
was bloody, but unbowed," was an
adolescent gesture, magnificent, but
juvenile.
Real life not only bloodies your head,
1t bows it, too.
1t is easier to take 1t, II you know
Beethoyen's music. which, at its best is
a sort Of emotional thinking about life
tAt its worst-and it is never really
bad-it is merely pleasant tinkling music
Of the Mozartian order)
|. The greater the musician, the more
he thinks, in his music, but to at
tempt to understand" him through
everyday logical thought processes is to
be hopelessly on the wrong track
1t is because thousands Of amateur
music lovers try to do this, that the
world is so filled with perplexed people.
II they would stop trying to under
stand" and would just listen, instead,
they would be converted to music as
emotional thinking, and be able to "get
IT IN the only way possible, by finding
an agreement between their own emo
tlons and those Of the composer.
Has an animal meaning. and have
no meaning?" Walt Whitman asked him.
SELF
Great music gives US the meaning of
ourselves. in all the real emotional fiow
OF which We so often are made heartily
ashamed. by educative processes, and
which we require the rest of life to find
again.
The smiles We give, and the tears we
shed, these are the real stuff of music.
ranging all the way from the elemental
rhythm OF the dance band to the i'm
mortal works Of the masters as played
by the great orchestras.
Life is not one thing. only, but many
things and all things. But it seems sure
that it was always conflict of a gigantic
type to the mind and heart which were
Ludwig van Beethoven. It is this stress
and strain, this grimness, which he felt
so terribly, and expressed so beautifully,
that appeals to the mature listener.
Young people may say they like him,
but they would be monsters il thev
really did. He is not for them, although
certain OF his lighter works must attract
them, too. These works are few in COM
par1son with the numbers written in the
fight of life" style.
Even in the midst of the lighter melo-
dies. as may be found in the second and
sixth symphonies, there is an undercur-
rent Of unrest and recoil which is at
tanned by q mastery Instrumentation
such as few others ever attained
Wa0nor ic cn,,rd <,,.,,
parison. "a butler masquerading in the
masters clothing" as Jean Sibelius saws.
The way horns and strings are han
died in Beethoven is q language of its
own. talk of the heart, beating 50
steadily but destined to end as all hearts
have ended. This is master music of
the grimness, the terror the fight Of life,
which must be met by the triumphant
JOY OF the undaunted. We knew: we
had known all along. but somehow had
not realized just what We knew. or how
much. Now we know, and, STRANGELY.
are not afraid.
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reappear to ask II they may "stay on. !"
Mr.. Hillcrist has forgotten their exist
ence. The battle started for them has
swept over them and beyond them.
Violence itself dominates the scene; not
the purposes, good or bad as they may
have been, for which 1t was unleashed.
The whole struggle, as Mr.. Hillcrist
sadly confesses. is "a skin game" in which
nothing has been gained, everything
lost.
OF course, the drama is fable. The
author meant it so. It was q favorite
theme with him. In one form or an
other, he used it repeatedly. He wanted
his readers to comprehend the fact that
the end does not justify the means in
variably. If the old cottagers were
Belgium. as many supposed. and the
Hornblowers Germany and the Hillcrists
England. who was the victor? The
answer is plain. Each nation. each class,
each individual suffered for the madness
Of recourse to strife.
Mr.. Galsworthy's sermon deserves at
tention today. Again the world is rife
with conflict. In the Orient Japan is
endangering herself in the effort to con-
quer China; in Spain civil war re-
morselessly is decimating radicals and
conservatives alike: elsewhere the threat
OF still more dreadful clashes is only too
clearly manifest. And the United States
is not exempt from danger. Glass strug-
gle can be as costly as any other kind.
Before America abandons democracy for
state socialism, it should be remembered
that the economic and cultural interests
OF millions Of her people are correlated,
not to politics, but to business.
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daily chronicle Of news and opinion must
be the strength-the justice and equity,
the charity and ellow-feeling-of the
community which 1t serves and by which
1t is supported.
Mr.. Bnven asked his audience to be
faithful to the proposition that "free
press is absolutely indispensable to the
functioning of a democracy" He might
as reasonably have argued that demo-
cratic dynamic-an active passion for
liberty-is imperative to the survival of
any free expression. The Nation must
want all the high values of life II it is to
possess them Likewise. it must be willing
to earn them--to labor and to suffer for
them. They are not, they cannot be,
they ought not to be unmerited or un-
deserved.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
Another Failure.

The movement inaugurated sixty five
years ago to vest in the President author
ity to veto individual items in an appro-
priation bill while approving the rest of
the measure appears to have met another
defeat. The full Senate Appropriations
Committee has approved the action of
its subcommittee in striking from the
Independent Offices supply bill a House.
approved provision giving the President
the item veto power.
This will come as disappointment to
many who believe real economy in ma
tlonal fiscal affairs will never be realized
until the President is given this power.
Their view has been greatly strengthened
by the attitude of this Congress in
ignoring economy recommendations in
connection with the farm bill and the
highway aid bill
Primarily, of course, the privilege of
deciding how much money shall be
appropriated and how it shall be spent
rests with the Congress, but it is a
privilege that has not been wisely exer-
cised. especially in election years. Some
members Of Congress are we'll aware of
this situation, but, unfortunately, their
genuine ardor for economy has been
chilled by the fear that the present
administration might use the item veto
power to strike back at Senators who
opposed the President s bill to reorganize
the Supreme Court. The President him.
self has made no such threats but some
OF his aides have, and among those who
have been reputedly marked for "polit-
ical death" are several members Of the
Senate Appropriations Committee.
There is the additional factor that
some doubt exists as to the legality of
conferring this power on the President
by legislative enactment, many able
lawyers holding that it must be done
through amendment of the Constitution.
Perhaps those legislators who sincerely
want economy in government but who
are reluctant to vest additional power in
this administration will be encouraged by
recognition of the fact that considerab BILE
time necessarily must elapse before a
constitutional amendment could be sub
mitted and ratified.
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BOOk.Burners Rebuked.

One of the earliest manifestations of
the Na1 alteration, shortly after Hitler's
accession to power in 1888, was the cere-
monial Berlin bonfire of books written
by non-Aryan German authors and
others whose works are considered to
smack OF heresy to the totalitarian cult.
The blaze was destined to become the
first of many exhibitions of neo-pagan-
Ism under the Swastka Doubtless that
sadistic outburst is in the mind of the
group OF outstanding American pub
fishers who have just formally announced
their boycott OF the International Con-
gress of Book Publishers, when it is
transferred, by rotation, this year from
London to Leipzig. In a manifesto,
which constitutes the most damning
indictment of Hitlerism that has ema-
mated from any quarter in this country,
the NaAs are informed that American
publishers would consider it hypocritical
and futile to attend congress in a
country in which the book trade is
gagged. as is the newspaper press The
industry on which the people of the
United States rely for culture in volume
form thus worthily takes it's stand
alongside our great universities, which
year ago declined to participate in the
bicentenary of Goettingen University
on the ground that 1t was planned to
be mere glorification of Nazidom and
Its regimentation OF the arts and sciences.
Names that are household words
among American booklovers-Harpers
Harcourt- Brace, Knopf, Bobbs-Merrill,
Dutton, Crowell, Simon & schuster
Macmillan, Stokes, Longmans- Green,
Covict-Friede. Farrar & Rinehart, Viking
Press, Harvard University Press, Yale
University Press, Random House-are
among the nearly half hundred firms
which decline truck or traffic with the
book k-burners Of the Third Reich Their
stinging words Of condemnation are de-
signed to scar even the callous soul of
Or. Goebbels, der Fuehrer's minister of
public enlightenment" incendiary-in-
chief Of the pyre which saw the works
Of Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Heinrich
Heine, Emil Ludwig, Leon Feuchtwanger,
Erich Rsmarque, Ernst Toller, Arthur
Schnitsler, Jakob Wassermann and
other German literary luminaries 70 up
IN the smoke OF hate and intolerance in
Unter den Linden five years ago.
participation in a meeting in Ger
many" the American publishers declare,
with all the implications Of such CO.
operation. would be 4 contradiction of
the very essence of our function as pub
fishers. Our trade is living symbol Of
the ideal Of free press and it's corol-
aaries-free speech and free assemblage.
We cannot, in courtesy, give voice to our
beliefs At meeting in Germany, nor
ran We humiliate ourselves by going
there and keeping silent about them"
That Is a worthy pronouncement to
Issue from the land in which, as Secre-
tary Hull has just had occasion to remind
Ambassador Dieckhoff, the Bill Of Rights
Is still the law.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
Household Finances.

Good management of domestic
finances requires HOUSEHOLD
BUDGET BOOKLET. This timely sc-
counting booklet offers the last word
in thrift budgeting and records. Pre-
pared especially for 1888. Contains 81
pages with 20 pages of text and IL
ruled accounting pages. The text indi-
Gates how the family income should be
apportioned. how savings accumulate,
and presents rules for prudent buying
Of supplies. furnishings and equipment.
The special accounting pages are tabu-
lated for daily itemization of expenses
and income. Start NOW-keep q record
OF your income and outgo. Know where
your money goes. Ten cents, postpaid.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff has made
q protest oficially against remarks by
William E. Dodd. recent Ambassador to
Germany. Ambassador Dieckhoff has
eeen his duty and has done it. He has
many friends who will hope that his
unsuccessful interview will cause no un-
friendly repercussions in Berlin.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

A sense Of human sympathy asserts it.
self on behalf of Chief of Police Brown.
who is expected to keep order among
automobiles. Mr.. Brown maintains
genial personality in spite OF the fact
that his task sometimes seems beyond
reason.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

Some Of the gentlemen whose duty
1t is to ny million dollar machines seem
even more helpless than the person
who collects $50 for lifting a sight
seer over the muddy waste of q rustic
shop field'
Evening star., 1938-01-18

Indians. when they visit this National
Capital. are always little Disappointing.
While they may show the earnestness of
the late Will Rogers, they are never as
funny.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

President Roosevelt Is still remarkable
for his surprises. During his campaign
ing he said nothing of what might be
done with the U. s. Supreme Court and
his discovery later of what may be done
with holding company is startling.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

The bath tub asserts itself as a symbol
of power. AS homes are built the bath
room calls for especial mention in the
plans and specifications, although, as
the years creep on, the politicians are
likely to command discreet restrictions
as to its employment.
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of Jersey City not to accept appoint
ment to the Senate but to remain in his
present job and fight it out with the
G. I. o. organizers who wish to come into
his city Is just another factor which Is
causing political chaos.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

President Roosevelt contemp]ates the
holding company with the question as to
whether it has due facilities to cultivate
the art OF letting go.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

Battles are lost and won on Chinese
territory while Russia slowly, but perhaps
surely, decides what she is going to do
about 1t.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
X. L. S. Awry in His Verse.

From the Joplin tMo) Globe
Robert Louis Stevenson was more of
a novelist than poet. which may explain
why one little verse he wrote doesn't
read right today. 1t ran: The chill
dren sing in far Japan: the children sing
IN Spain: the organ with the organ man
Is singing in the rain"
Evening star., 1938-01-18

The economies planned run into big
figures and so do the expenses which
confront us. AS great authors assure US,
the Nation faces world crisis.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
Shooting Stars.
By PHnANDH JOHNSON.

The Laugh Cure
When Evolution brings a thrill.
We're happy and contented still.
To Friend Babboon our hats We doff
And say, Lets try to laugh 1t off."
When Einstein sets a puzzling pace
That leaves us lost in Time and Space,
We do not argue with the Prof.
We simply say, Let's laugh 1t off,"
When politicians grow too warm
And threaten temperamental storm,
The Public does not scold or scott,
But simply tries to laugh it of.
A Sense of Humor, after all,
Our Common Sense serves to recall,
Perhaps we'll even cure a cough.
II We can only laugh it of!
Evening star., 1938-01-18
Senatorial Sapience.

Prom the Lawrence Journal-world
Senator Pittman sees in the bombing
of the Panay and the Smelling of q British
gunboat deliberate attempt to run the
foreigners out of China. It's hard to
fool those Senators.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

Japan is quoted as saying she will press
the Asiatic war to finish. The kind of
finish possible is not definitely an
nounced.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

Out-of-town offenders afford a major
crime problem for this city. The same
thing is said by other cities. Criminals
have acquired a way of moving about.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
The Essentials.

From the Louisville Courier journal.
"stubble grass helps hold soil in the
dust bowl" That is. where there Is stub
ble grass and there u any soil to hold.
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Elimination.
From the saginaw News

From the saginaw News.
Fewer mules are being used on farms,
according to recent report. Maybe
this just proves the world doesn't COM
promise with stubborness; it eliminates
It.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
Breaking the Bad News

From the Baton Rouge State Times
Humorist: Shipwrecked sailors who
were rescued recently from a small island
in the Pacific had been out of touch
with civilization for several years It is
being broken to them Is gently as
possible.
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Republican Agreement.

From the Louisville Courier journal.
&c. o. p. wings agree upon . head"
Now, If they can get the tail to follow,
it will be q bird.
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Easy Chair Statssmanship.
DO you enjoy speeches over radio?'
YES" answered Senator Sorghum Il
can listen to the speeches without feel
ing that any influential colleague has
his eye on me to see whether applaud
loudly enough at appropriate junctures."
Jud Tunkins says music Is beautiful
accomplishment, but the hardest Of all
instruments to play successfully Is the
cash register.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

"shorter hours" said Uncle Eben,
"ain' much good to . man dat uses up
AL his extra spare time crap shootin.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
Assertion az Power.

II rule the earth" man said one day
And gave his head naughty toss.
A cold germ came along that way
And said, Nov tell me who Is boss~
Evening star., 1938-01-18
Perfected Mechanism,

Perfected Mechanism.
The auto very soon, We know,
Human intelligence may show,
And will with ease be taught to stop
At sight Of any motor cop.
Evening star., 1938-01-18

ITO the man who thinks always Of
himself" said Hi Ho. the sage Of China
town. comes disappointment because
the world seems to show him 20 little
worth thinking about"
Evening star., 1938-01-18

@. In what year did Helen Keller grad
uate from college?-C H.
A. She was graduated with honors
from Radcliffe College in 1904.
Evening star., 1938-01-18
Carrying the Key.

Does your wife permit you to carry q
latch key?"
"Oh, yes" said Mr.. Meekton. Il am
always expected to be at home early, so
as to let Henrietta in"
Evening star., 1938-01-18

Should farmers perfect a central
organization, and should the c. I. O..
succeed IN its objectives-as it will
these two organizations, standing to-
gether, would exert an enormous infiu-
ence. You can see what would happen
II they decided to do something.
The white-collar groups, taught by
distress and dangers Of not being or
ganized, are rapidly unionizing. Indus
try already is strongly organized. It
remains only for the farmers to form a
solid front and stand shoulder to
shoulder with the other unions"
Lewis adds that naturally one of the
'by-products Of such union of farmers
and white-collar and industrial labor
would be political"
Mr.. Lewis is politically minded. there
seems no doubt. He is one of the spon-
sors OF the American Labor Party, which
was organized in 1896 in New York and
which is now seeking to spread into New
Jersey and other States. He gives the
farmers one sound piece Of advice, how
ever. Il do not advocate such an organ
ization "a farmers union) as q device
Tor getting more money from the Fed
eral Government. That Is shortsiehted,
I think that farmers organization
similar to the G. I. O. should devote
itself to the correction and control of
distributing and marketing"
The farmers without = c. I. O. union
and united front have proved suf-
ficiently powerful politically to get q
good deal of money from the Federal
Government up to the present. And
the Government, having obtained their
aid at the polls by It's generosity, is not
likely to forget how that aid was OBJ
tanned.
The decision ef Mayor Frank Has,ae
La gaceta., 1938-08-02
LOS PRIMEROS BATEADO-
RES DE LAS N Ii
GAS

Jimmy Fox, la estrella del Bos
ton americana, desplaz6 a Earl
Averill del primer puesto entire
los bateadores de las grandes Ii
gas, con 116 hits, 81 carreras y
$50 puntos de promedio.
Ernesto Lombardi, Ell catcher
de los Roos, ocup6 ell segundo lu
gar, con lob hits, "a carreras y
$50 puntos de promedio.
Averill baj6 al tercer puesto,
con los hits, GA carreras Y 355.
Travis, de los Senadores, apa
rece en- Ell cuarto puesto con 121
hits, 81 carreras Y 37 puntos.
Les siguen Berger, de los Ro-
jos, con 70 hits, 48 carreras Y
342 puntos.
Medwick, de los Cardenales,
con 1l8 hits y SO carreras, lego
a un total de $40.
Greenberg continda a la .ca-
beza de los jonroneros, con 81,
lie sigue Jimmy Fox, con 20.
La gaceta., 1938-08-02

de la nueva historic de amor de
Ramo Florido, sc par6 en- seco,
y separandose un par de metros
de su prima, Ia dijo, en- tono bur
Ion:
-Bueno, Maria, ahora que va
hemos hablado tanto de tt, de
tus papas, y de Pepe, lquieres
que tie de una noticia que va q
alegrarte de segro?
ST. IDe que Sc trata?
DE mi.
De ii?
DE mi, en- efecto. Veras. CO
gete donde puedas: he venido a
anunciarles a tus papas, que me
caso.
Maria lanz6 una exclamation
de gozo sincere.
7iAh, brih6nl Y to 10 tenias
La gaceta., 1938-08-02

-iJesds, que muchacha
mas g~uapisima!-no pudo Dor
menos de exclamar la dulce
ehiquiiia-. ~ que distingui-
ia! ! tiene cara de simpatica,
iverdad?
-Yo estoy loco-repuso ell
ingenlero, resumiendo su EMU
slasmo por la novia ausente.
-1Y quien es, Pedro?
-iAhf estA 10 gordol
-iPor que?
-Poruue Sc trata de una
muehacha humilde, de una DO
pre mecan6grafa de Pepe.
i Uyl Que horror!...
-GLo ves?.. Yo temo que
tus papas me pongan la proa.
Ia pOndran. lPor Dios.
Pedro! lPisasss sassrts soa
La gaceta., 1938-08-02
LOS ATLETAS AMERICA
NOS VENCIERON EN- LON.
DRES

Londres, Agosto z.-Atletas
americanos escogidos vencieron
aver a sus oponentes en- ell esta-
dio de White City, ganando sic
tie tftulos y acumulando una con
siderable ventaja, en- puntos, So
bre sus rivales.
Perrin Walker, de Georgia,
miembro del Club Atletico de N.
York, venci6 en- las 100 y 22O
yardas, derrotando a M. B. O.
sendarp, de Holanda.
Otros de los americanos ven
cedores son Jack Patterson, de
Rice; Allan Tolmich, de la Uni
versidad de Wayne; Chuck
Fenske, de Wisconsin; Corne :
Illus Warmendam, de San Fran
cisco, y Mel Walker, de Toledo,
este 1ltimo de la raza negra.
Patterson triunf6 en- las 44O
yardas con obstaculos y Tolmich
en- las 120 yardas con obstaculos
altos.
Fenske corri6 la milla en- 4
minutes Y 10 segundos.
A. Freck, de Estonia, venci6
a Francis Rayn, de Columbus,
E. u, por solo GA pulgadas, en-
ell lanzamiento de peso.
Ell italiano Oberwerger triun
f6 en- Ell lanzamiento del disco,
con una ventaja de mas de dos
pies sobre Phil Levy, de San
Francisco.
LEGO ell disco del italiano a
l64 pies, 1874 pulgadas.
Estableci6 una nueva marca
con la jabalina Ell hdngaro ].
Varszegl.
La gaceta., 1938-08-02

tan callado. IQuien es ella?,..
La conozco 20? iCalla, 81, Mer-
cedita Norona, ino?
Pedro deneg6 lentamente con
la cabeza,
Maria's Sc habfa acercado a el,
y preguntaba con inmensa Gu
riosidad:
-iEncarnacion, entonces, la
de la viuda de Pla!
Tampoco!
u Tampoco?... SQuien es en-
tonces?... iPorque supongo que
no habras tenido ell NAL gusto de
irte a enamorar de una de esas
chicas caballotes del Norte, de
una extranjera!. L..
-No-sigui6 diciendo Pedro
divertido ante la euriesidad ex-
citada de 81 prima,