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Evening star., 1938-09-09
Charges Injustice Against
Transit Employees.
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
THE recent evaluation OF the Capital
Transit Co. by the P. U. c. brings
to mind some of the other transactions
of this company since its control was
assumed by an out-of-toWn holding
company. When the said company first
announced the acquisition of many new
one-man cars the plan was roundly de-
nounced by several citizen associations
and labor unions as tending to increase
unemployment. The officials of the
company then announced that there
would be no reduction in the number
of men to be employed by the company.
OF course. ones common sense would
argue against this statement-else why
one-man cars? The older employees
numbering some several hundred are
forced to submit to stiff physical ex-
animation, which very few are expected
to pass. The others are to lose their
regular runs and step back to the So
called Swing" runs-which means work
a few hours, lay off few, resume work,
etc. until days work is accumulated.
The majority of these older men have
been forced to leave the car barns
where they have been employed most
Of their lives and go to work from sub
urban barns. Many own homes in the
vicinity Of their old places of employ
ment and will find it almost impossible
to continue to live in them and work in
places at the other side of town What
makes 1t still more unsavory is the fact
that these men stood by the company
during two strikes and were promised
at those times some sort of preferential
treatment. After all, men are not en-
ployed by the same organization for 80
years or more with any sort of bad
records. The reason the local railway
union is not protesting is quite simple.
Being young union it has few old
members, and these few are easily out
voted. The younger men supplant the
older employees in the choice of runs,
receive more pay, and quite a few of
the new members receive regular work,
while the old men are relegated to
"extra" work. And again the union
recalls that these men refused to strike
during two previous walkouts. So these
men, after lifetime of service, are the
recipients of the rankest ingratitude
upon the part of the company officials.
r. M. BAYER.
Evening star., 1938-09-09

The lady would not have approved
Of the caramels.
mo wonder you are fat" she would
have said, loft1ly.
Still, h!kers often feel the need Of
little refreshment as they go along.
Good caramels are chock full Of good
milk
very sustaining" said Templeton
Jones, as he set out.
y \ 4
He covered the first mile, according
to his pedometer and watch, in the
specified time
Nothing like a good walk" said
Jones, rolling along.
1t was hot in the sun. The day was
cool in comparison with most we have
had this summer, but it was still warm
enough in the sun in midafternoon.
Jones felt he could walk forever. He
remembered the theorist who taught
music as walking, saying there was no
piece OF music in the world to which
one could not walk
Jones thought that today he could
walk to the end of the world to Ravels
"Bolero." Just sort of prance along,
growing louder and stronger as he went
X X X 4
His sense of timing being good, he
pulled his watch out Of his pocket at
precisely the right moment for his
second mile.
Fifteen minutes was up.
But what was the matter with the
pedometer?
"The things broke" murmured Jones,
giving 1t jog.
1t only said half a mile!
Something wrong with it," grumbled
Templeton Jones, trying a few steps.
Faithfully the pedometer went clock
clock-clock- clock.
This noise was so loud that Jones
pocket when he passed another pedes-
trian, which was seldom, for people do
not walk any more, at least in cities.
X X X
Templeton Jones kept on walking.
He walked, and he walked and he
walked Like the famous calf in the
song, he rambled all around, all around
the town, oh, didn't he ramble, he
rambled, he rambled-
Till he took out his watch again.
They're all wrong" said Jones, in
complete disgust.
His total mileage, after walking for
full As minutes. was but miles!
X
Being an honest man, Jones had to
admit that his watch and pedometer
probably we're right
1t was he who had slowed down.
A psychological factor enters in the
succeeding miles.
After that snappy first mile. the walker
tends to 60 slower and slower, and this
makes him feel that he is walking vast
distances.
A mile, after all, is no mean distance.
A mile is we'll, mile
A mile in a strange neighborhood, too,
seems lot more than mile in one S
own. That's the psychology of it.
Try it and see.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
The Memorial Foundation.

The Jefferson Memorial project is
finally getting down to bedrock. En-
gineers have made test borings which
show that the foundation of the much
discussed structure must go down in the
earth approximately ninety feet to reach
a footing OF solid stone.
The borings constitute the first
tangible move toward actual construction
OF monument that long has been the
subject OF official controversy. The de-
sign, the site and the cost Of the memo
rial have been severely criticized and
stanchly defended. The last Congress
finally approved the project and author
lied start on construction as soon as
final designs for the building and plans
for its landscaping have been completed.
The borings just made at the Tidal
Basin site will enable those in charge Of
the undertaking to get closer to the
bottom Of the question as to what the
imposing edif1ce actually will cost. The
data obtained by the tests indicate the
necessity for some expensive foundation
work If the massive stone superstructure
is to rest on firm footing. The problem
is more difficult than that which con-
fronted engineers in the building of the
nearby Lincoln Memorial, where bedrock
was encountered from A to 65 feet below
the surface Of the ground.
The findings of the engineers would
seem to give some weight to the claims
of critics that the memorial will eventu-
ally cost considerably more than its
sponsors estimated in seeking congress
sional approval OF the debated plans.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
A Great Public Work
And the Needed Money

From the Arkansas Gazette.
Work on the s54o0o,0OO dam on the
Red River, near Denison, Tex, can start
as soon as funds for 1t are made avail
able. The plans have been drawn. The
Army engineers are ready 70 60 ahead.
This project, which is marking time, Is
exceeded in size and importance only by
the Boulder. Fort Peck, Shasta, Bonne-
vile and Grand Coulee Dams. Texas.
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana will
share in its double benefits-the pro-
duction of hydroelectric power and the
control of floods in the Red River
Valley.
But Congress authorized the Denison
Dam without appropriating funds to
start work on it. If the next Congress
makes an appropriation 1t may be pos
sibla to begin construction late next
year. The only other possibility Is an
allotment from relief and recovery funds
or some other source.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Maryland's Molly Pitcher

A modern Molly Pitcher has appeared
on the firing line in the spirited sena-
torial primary battle in Maryland, and
her appearance is threatening to put
present-day political chivalry to a severe
test. She Is Mrs Maude Toulson, post
mistress of Salisbury, Nd, down on the
Eastern Shore. She was likened to the
Revolutionary heroine by Representative
David j. Lewis, in whose behalf she has
been accused Of entering the campaign
trenches in violation Of law and civil
service rules.
The original Molly Pitcher manned a
cannon at the battle Of Monmouth and
received the personal commendation Of
General George Washington Mr.. Lewis
heroine has been aiming her guns at
Senator Millard Tydings, whom Mr..
Lewis is trying to unseat, and the
reverberations have reached all the way
to Washington.
The case of Mrs. Toulson was brought
to public notice by Senator Tydings,
who is as chivalrous as any one toward
the fair sex, up to certain point. That
point was reached in the case of Mrs.
Toulson, so far as the Senator was con-
cerned, when, according to his charges
to the Sheppard Campaign Expenditures
Committee, she told Eastern Shore post
masters to get out and work for Lewis"
and proceeded to show them how. He
accused her Of taking Lewis campaign
advertisements to newspapers and urging
editors to publicize the Lewis cause
all this during the hours she was sup
posed to be serving the Government as
head of the Salisbury post ONCE.
MIR. Lewis grew fervently chivalrous
in defense Of Mrs. Toulson, whom he
described in speech as "one of the
modern heroines Of peace" He implied
that Senator Tydings had forgotten his
gentlemanly qualities by attacking a
LADY, That was before Senator Shep-
pard of Texas, and a gentleman if ever
there was one, had stepped into the con-
troversy with a matter of fact an
nouncement that his committee has in
vestigated Senator Tydings' charges
against Mrs. Toulson and reached the
conclusion that they lin the main are SUBJ
stantiated.' However high her motives,
the committee declared, Mrs. Toulson
was not justified in violating the law
or the regulations Of the Federal Govern
ment relating to Federal employees in the
postal service" The law, it was pointed
out, forbids Federal employe from CIV
ing anything of value, including serv-
ices, to a Senator or Representative "for
any political purpose" and the postal
regulations preclude undue political ac-
tivity" by postmasters.
With this announcement the COM
mittee turned the case Of Mrs. Toulson
over to the Attorney General and the
Postmaster General, both of whom, by
the way, are famous for their chivalry.
Perhaps they will flnd a way of reconcil-
ing personal gallantry with official duty.
Their handling of the case will be
watched with national interest, not only
because of the woman angle" but be-
cause it may settle for all time the ques-
ton Of how far postmasters may 70
before entering the forbidden field of
undue political activity"
Evening star., 1938-09-09

this city and further evidence Of justin-
cation for an equitable Federal participa-
ton in the Districts expenses as provided
by unrepealed substantive law.
Until Congress chooses to comply with
the existing fiscal law, residents OF other
States who may have cause to come
here to work may continue to enjoy the
wil}y-nilly benefac:ions Of the District
taxpayer until adequate legal protection
is provided. such as a compulsory tuition
law for non-residents In District schools.
or the Government assumes a Just finan-
cial responsibility in the operation Of
the Capital.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
THIS AND THAT
by CHARLES &. TRAcEWELL.

Tho lady writer, In the most casual
paragraph, said that none OF her lady
readers would be bothered with hips II
they would walk 3 miles every day at
che rate Of l5 minutes per mile.
Templeton Jones. whose problem is a
stomach, rather than hips, solemnly
agreed. as he happened to note this
item In his reading.
Wonder who told her that?" he
asked himself.
Any one can walk q mile in is
minutes. Of course, provided the feet do
not hurt.
1t is the subsequent mileage at the
same rate which causes the trouble.
Jones had tried 1t, and he knew.
+~+ ~
Nothing will prove to the average city
resident how soft he Is quite so we'll as
a walk of 3 or miles at fairly con-
sistent pace.
The start may be easy, almost gay,
but by the time the second mile Is
covered the legs may begin to feel tired.
really walks. j.
most persons never realize this. This
that there would be no large hip problem
If one would walk miles day at the
rate of Is minutes per mile.
1t Is not the first mile which counts,
but the second and the third, providing
the clock Is counted as well as the
ground covered
Jones proved this to himself. and all
others interested, by providing himself
with a pedometer. sometimes ignorantly
called pedal meter.
The pedometer is small watch like
device with hands and a movable lead
weight. The latter jogs up and down
with the step.
The device must be set to the users
step. Unless this is done for each person
using 1t, and the setting then tested by
walking measured distance, the pedo-
meter can mislead as easily as tell the
correct distance walked.
1t is because some users refuse to go
to this trouble that this handy little in
strument has been regarded more as a
plaything than scientific device.
Jones had tested his pedometer,
regulated to the length of his average
step when walking at fairly fast clip.
He suspended it in his pocket with
confidence.
He knew it would tell the truth pro-
vided he walked evenly.
He also carried watch, to furnish
sort of check on the pedometer If
he walked his first mile in exactly Is
minutes, as he thought he would, he
would be able to tell whether he was
slowing down on his second.
This is highly important in this sort
of amateur walking
1t is, as the lady truthfully said, the
continued walking at the same speed
which gets results.
X Il
Jones put half dozen caramels in
his pocket, too.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Youthful Vandals.

The, average adult is sympathetic with
youth. But there are occasions, now and
again, when grown-ups have reason to be
critical of boys and girls who, despite
home and school training. insist upon
behaving like savages. For example,
there Is no excuse for being patient with
young trespassers who seem to believe
that new houses are being built only to
be wrecked. Reports coming in from
Washington suburbs indicate that many
residential properties under construction
have been damaged by Juvenile iutruders
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Lunch Licenses.

From thu Louisville Courier-Journal
An Assistant Attorney General holds
that drugstore which sells only sand
wiches isn't required to take out a res
taurant license. Nevertheless, the fel-
low who does have license probably
regards 1t as "chiseling" on the privilege
for which he has to pay.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Man on a Bicycle.

oA1Co NdpOleOn, the man on horse
back has symbolized aggression and
conquest. Some one has just invented
new figure to personify the conqueror
complex-"the man on a bicycle" The
f1rst to earn the sobriquet is Adolf Hitler.
It Is bestowed in token of his designs
on Czechoslovakia. Hitler is called the
man en- a bicycle" because, like the rider
OF two-wheeled machine, he must keep
moving or tumble
Dictatorships like the Naz regime have
to progress or risk the fate of Humpty
Dumpty. Stage by stage, Germany's
man on a bicycle has pedaled from VIC
tory to victory, thanks less to his skill
than to the nervelessness of his neigh
bors. Remilitarization of the Rhineland:
defiance Of the rearmament clauses Of
the Versailles Treaty; reoccupation of
the Saar; recreation of the German
Navy and air force; absorption of Aus
tr1a constitute no mean record of sue
cesslve achievement In five years--yet
one at which Hitler cannot and must not
stop If he is to retain that prestige at
home and abroad upon which alone
autocrats thrive and survive The man
on q bicycle must ride and ride. In
cessation of his pace lies disaster, inevi-
table and inscrutable.
Hitler busters about Germany's capac-
ity to sustain itself for years to come"
His purpose is to Danish from his an
guished peoples memories the nightmare
of the blockade which starved the old
Reich into surrender in 1918, to persuade
them that never again shall they suffer
such humiliation. 1t was primarily in
terms Of food that the Nazi autocra.
harangued the Nuremberg congress and
glorif1ed Germany's self -suf6ciency. Hit
ler's designs on Czechoslovakia, like the
annexation OF Austria, assume their real
significance when viewed simply as
marches toward the Reichs greater goal.
That goal, be it ever borne in mind, is
from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
Its cleaning objective is conquest of
the oil fields of Rumania Those once
brought under Nazi control, the Hitler
war machine on land, sea and air, mech
anized and motorized to the nth degree,
like all modern fighting establishments,
would be self-sustaining with respect to
what has become the paramount, the
one indispensable sinew of war. It might
be all but invincible. German scientists
have worked wonders in producing "Er-
satz" (synthetic) oil, but the achievement
holds out only remote hope OF adequacy
tor major war.
The man on the bicycle, therefore,
must needs steer and wheel necessarily
IN the direction of oil. Just beyond
Czechoslovakia lies the promised land
Rumania. On the map, Hungary blocks
the way, but Hitler and Horthy have
Just taken steps to see that when the
Na1 bicycle gets that close to Constanza
1t will meet with no serious distractions.
Thus, while Germany bluffs and stalls
at Nuremberg and Praha this fateful
week end, and the British cabinet pre-
pares to meet in emergency session next
Monday and put an end to vacillation,
1t will promote understanding Of the
catastrophe that may be just around the
corner, to realize that for it the man
on the bicycle will bear chief RESPONSE
bility, and why.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Twenty Years Ago
The World War Day by Day
SeDtember q. 1919.

The Allied advance was much slower
now, and there were no great offensive
actions, although Servais was taken,
south Of the Oise, and constant pres
sure put on the enemy.
The Germans enjoyed a comparatively
peaceful day, possibly entertaining hopes
that the big push was now definitely
stalled. Nevertheless, their main forces
continued to retreat, what fighting
there was being engaged In only by
their rear guards.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Expensive Votes.

From the Hutchinson (Kans) News-Herald.
Ida A. Beloof, Socialist candidate for
Governor, received 10 votes in the Au-
gust primary election. c. Floyd Hester,
Prohibitionist candidate for Governor.
received 81 votes. These votes cost the
people Of Kansas at least 500 apiece.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
The Most Attractive.

From the Joplin (Mo) Globe
Mere popularity doesn't prove much.
Box-ofice records show that the most
popular attractions in America today,
politicians excepted, are not actors like
Paul NUM-. but 9-year-old girl, an ice
skater, duck and a dummy.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Police Personnel
Increase Urged.

To the Editor of The Star:
THE major and superintendent of po-
lice recently has recommended an
increase Of 156 additional men for open
ing new precinct and strengthening
other precincts. In my opinion said in
crease is urgently needed. It certainly
behooves the Commissioners, the press,
citizens and other groups to present a
united front toward pressing for the in
crease as sought by the major.
Congress should not stint the District
in service upon which the lives of so
many citizens and the safety of property
depends I think the Police Department
ranks first among the important
branches of the District service, thus
warranting the best personnel and man
agement obtainable. Under Mai. Brown,
I am glad to state. all requirements are
satisfactorily fulfilled.
The Fire Department, in my opinion.
ranks second in importance. Under the
Evening star., 1938-09-09

Everybody agrees that this is an age
OF transition, yet Hendrix Willem Van
Loon, skilled in the science OF history,
declares: THE more things appear to
be changing, the more they remain the
same"
Evening star., 1938-09-09

There are two periods In life when it
is good to travel-when one is too young
to know what 1t is all about and when
one is too old to be scared to death about
even the worst Of human troubles.
Evening star., 1938-09-09

An "emergency' becomes 4 "condi-
ton" when the politicians succeed in
prolonging It indefinitely.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Analyses w. p. A. Loan
To Senator Tydings. =
To the Editor of The Star.

D REPRESENTATIVE LEWIS attacked
Senator Millard E. Tydings for TAX
ing monetary advantage Of the Roose-
velt administration after opposing these
measures On the Senate floor. What Is
Evening star., 1938-09-09

It might be feasible to write the his
tory of human experience in terms Of
the failures OF sociologists.
Evening star., 1938-09-09

There are ideals which are fearfullv
expensive when they are put into effect
at the cost OF other people.
Evening star., 1938-09-09

Reformers customarily reform all their
neighbors before they attempt the task
Of reforming themselves.
Evening star., 1938-09-09

able command Of c. E. Schrom, chief
engineer, 1t is in fine condition and Is
capable OF rendering the best of service.
HENRY +. ASH.
Evening star., 1938-09-09

One Of Davy Lewis difficulties is that
OF explaining that he sympathizes with
John L. without being related to him.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address of the uriter,
although the use of pseudonym for
publication is permissible. Please be
brief!
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Not Distinguishable.

'Tis hard to tell II pessimistic shouts
Which sound when politicians bicker
Arise from men with patriotic doubts
Or from the chronic kicker.
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Extremes.

For any one to hide his light
Beneath q bushel-'tis a crime:
But that fact doesn't make It right
To hunt the calcium all the time.
Evening star., 1938-09-09

de bes' wish you can make fob a
natchelly lazy man dat has curly hair
an plays de guitar" said Uncle Eben.
rs dat he'll git bald young an hab
Shetmat!z IN his dngerA"
Evening star., 1938-09-09
Effort,

80 you are studying psychology"
Eyes, have been studying it for some
months"
Making any progress?"
mo. Haven't gotten past the defini-
ton yet"
Evening star., 1938-09-09
DeSirable Ability.

so you think that man has the faculty
Of populariMng himself?" said the politi-
clan.
II am sure Of It," answered Senator
Sorghum. II have seen him laugh at
the same story half q dozen times with
out letting on that he has heard 1t
before"
Evening star., 1938-09-09
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@. What is the highest temperature
ever recorded in the United States?-
H. S.
A. The highest temperature recorded
in the shade in the United States was at
Greenland Ranch, Calf, 1874 degrees F.