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Evening star., 1938-08-01
Deserved Honor.

The recent action of the American
Library Association in electing Repre-
sentative Ross A. Collins of Mississippi
to honorary memberhip is well deserved
recognition of a public official who has
done much to further the cause of educa-
ton during more than fifteen years in
the House
In a nation in which more and more
emphasis is being placed on educational
opportunities for all the people, it fol-
lows that adequate library facilities be-
come essential. Mr.. Collins has had
the vision to recognize this fact and to
bring it to the attention of Congress
without lessening his efforts on other
important legislation.
The residents of the National Capital
have had special reason to appreciate
the cultural efforts of the Mississippian.
AS chairman of the House Subcommittee
on District Appropriations he has con-
sidered the needs of Washingtons Free
Public Library system as sympathetically
as he has regarded the advancement
of educational facilities throughout the
country and with the same insight into
its value.
In the last Congress, for example, he
had included in the new District Ap-
preparation Act provision setting aside
part of the citys municipal center site
at John Marshall place and Pennsyl-
vania avenue for new public library
building at some future time, together
with 100000 to prepare the plans.
Statistics show that during the past
twenty years Washingtonians have been
turning in greatly increased numbers to
their Public Library and its various neigh
borhood branches. This fact renders
more valuable the steps that have been
taken by Mr.. Collins and his associates
on the District Subcommittee of both
houses to extend these facilities.
Referring to him in the Congressional
Record recently, one of his colleagues,
Representative Cannon of Missouri, had
this to say of Mr.. Collins:
Judging from the bills he has intro
duced in Congress, we cannot escape the
fact that his chief aim has been to
make the world better place in which
to live, to improve education whenever
an opportunity presents itself, and to
provide for the facilities by means of
which a good and useful education may
be obtained by the lowliest citizen, pro-
vided he has the ambition to work for
it."
Largely through the efforts of the
Mississippian the Library of Congress
today possesses the valuable Vollbehr
collection of incunabula Last year he
introduced bill, which it is expected
will be revived in the next Congress,
to authorize creation of five regional
national libraries at large centers of
population throughout the country to
supplement the work of the public library
system.
Legislators of this type are a decided
asset to the Nation in the halls of
Congress.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
A Free Country.

Frank j. Hogan, newly elected presi-
dent Of the American Bar Association,
sounded timely warning when he told
the delegates to the organization s
Cleveland convention that the United
States will not remain a free country
for any Of us unless 1t remains a free
country for all of u.s.
1t is important to bear in mind that
Mr.. Hogan's admonition was not neces-
sarily aimed at the policies of the pres
ent administration alone, for he em-
phasized that encroachments on indi-
vidual liberties guaranteed in the Bill
of Rights are intolerable, whatever their
source. BY taking that position he fore
stalled any suggestion that the atti-
tude of the bar is merely one of OBJ
structing current governmental policies
for selfish reasons.
In proposing the creation of a COM
mittee of bar association members to in
vestigate infringements of civil rights
and to undertake a defense of the ag-
grieved party where such action seems
desirable, the new president took long
forward step, and the association, by
adopting that proposal, has definitely
placed itself on the side OF liberal
action.
The knowledge that vigilant COM
mittee of able lawyers will be watching
for any and all invasions of traditional
American liberties should prove an ef-
fective barrier to those who would fur
ther their own ambitions in complete
disregard of the rights of other men.
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Hogan and
the bar association will receive the
wholehearted support of the public in
their new undertaking.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

itarian states for political supremacy in
the new world. Political penetration
inevitably follows the economic. There
is ample proof of that. Thus the ques-
ton of whether Latin America is going
to follow Germany, Italy and Japan
ideologically hinges to large extent
upon whether it follows them CONNER
cially.
In the face Of vigorous competition
from Great Britain, France. Germany,
Belgium, Sweden. Japan and Italy
through their government export credit
agencies American exporters have long
needed just such service as the Export
Import Bank now offers them. The only
regret Is that 1t was not instituted
long ago.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Says Republicans Are
Forming New Party.
To the Editor of The Star.

A GREAT many of the members of
the rank and file of the Republican
party are organizing a new Republican
party to be known as the industrial
Republican party and the first candi-
date for President will be a leader of
one Of the great labor unions. The old
guard of the Republican party is en-
tirely controlled by the money interests.
and these interests are not in favor of
advancing the common people and the
laboring man and woman. Here are a
few principles of the industrial Repub-
lican party. All citizens so years old or
over to be given pension of S100 per
month, this amount to be spent by each
pensloner every month. the money to
be raised by transaction tax to be COL
lected by the United States Government.
When the wage Garner has toiled for
4O years or more he should be retired
with a monthly pay check that will
enable him to live in comfort for the
rest of his days. He should not be
relegated to the junk heap the same
way we do worn out machine. No
matter in what position We serve,
whether as an executive in business or
as wage Garner in the shop, in the
office or digging bitches, We are simply
supplying one another's needs. We are
all interdependent on one another. A
pension should not be left to the dis
cretion of employers or to the State
Legislature. All immigration should be
suspended for 10 years, as we have more
people now than we can employ. There
should be a college education for all
young men and women, to be payed for
by the Government when the parents
are not able to send their children to
college. Intelligence will do away with
wars and crime, and positively no taxes
will be levied on private homes.
DIR. G.. M. FISHER.
Patterson Greek, W. Va.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

What we are trying to get at is that
Hawaiian music, as we know it today,
is real music of a superior type, far be-
yond our own "hillbilly" songs.
The simple character of solo chorus
harmon1Zed chorus and instrumental
chorus, following one another, is the
same in both, as it is the same in most
folk music, but the Hawaiian tunes, and
even their limitations, have slower basic
rhythm, closer to the genius of swing"
than many suppose.
This heart throb Of Hawaiian music,
like the steady surf of the great Pacific,
is felt in all these compositions, whether
waltz. tWo-four time, or four-four, and
whether in compositions devoted to the
two main themes of all it's musicians
praise of Hawaii and praise of the be-
loved-or in the faster songs in march
tempo.
A positive genius in composition was
needed to take the old missionary
hymns, and from them as starter" to
make songs SO suggestive of moonlight
and palm trees.
1t. has been done. Even the strictly
American limitations still cling closely
to the main themes, and hold fast tc the
rhythmic sloWness of the underlying ac-
companying structure.
Even the somewhat vulgar dance
songs of the natives have none of our
sly vulgarity, too often displayed in
popular music, but the wholly natural
raWness of life itself
The number of these songs is very
small, in comparison with the number
of songs devoted to such themes as
exile or absence from the islands, long
ing for return the sWeethearts and
flowers of Hawaii.
A current OF sadness runs through
even the most boisterous of the hula
dances. The native musicians, as would
be expected, play and sing all Hawaiian
songs best, but next to them come the
work OF those Americans who understand
their life and ways and what they are
trying to do with their music.
Introduction of the violin into the
string ensembles of strictly Hawaiian
bands is step backward; nothing can
replace the steel guitar, properly played
Even this modernism, however, cannot
spoil anything SO essentially right.
To us this is the marvellous thing
about this music, this rightness, though
composed of such diverse musical ele-
ments as the Portuguese guitar. the Ha-
Wallan musical soul, and American pat
terms.
Out of these, and the Pacific night,
the HaWallans have welded a musical
whole of which any people might be
proud. To think Of these songs as mere
jingle is to hear them merely on the
surface. These simple songs are so
genuine they become art They are
honest music without pretence or fub-
dub. They make you homesick for
Hawaii even if you have never been
there
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Rheims and Rearmament.
From the Rock Island Argus.

From the Rock Island Argus.
The great bells in the Cathedral of
Rheims. in France, chimed again the
other day for the first time since the
World War They rang out over the
Wne-clad countryside a deep-throated
note of peace and liberty.
Yet, ironically. at almost the same
time there came word of France re-
arming at such a rate that by 1910 she
will have at least million men under
arms. A day or two later it was an
nounced that France, which in the
1840s abolished the death penalty for
spying in peace times, has re-estab-
lished it.
Thus while on one hand the last
vestiges of the World Wars destruction
are removed, the world begins, on the
other hand, to forge new guns for the
next. Daily it becomes clearer that
what we call peace in Europe and most
Of the world is no peace at all. 1t is
merely an armed breathing spell be-
tween wars
The Cathedral of Rheims, 800 years
old, was one of the first casualties of the
World War. It was reduced to she'll
shattered hulk by German siege guns.
Now, thanks to the munihcence of John
D. Rockefeller this noble Gothic monu-
ment is restored.
On the occasion of the rededication of
the edif1ce in which French kings were
crowned years ago, the highest repre-
sentatives Of the government and the
church assembled. They stood with
barred heads before the flag which Joan
of Arc once carried through that mighty
nave.
They thrilled to the words of Cardinal
Suhard, speaking as the legate of the
Pope, as he said, "This rebuilt cathedral
Is by nature and vocation durable and
eternal because it symbolizes country
that is the champion of all measured
liberties and the trustee of the peace of
the world"
And that liberty, he went on, lib
erty that "emerges new again in the
foremost place of our present preoccu-
pations, consists of the supremacy of
the human person.
America is proud it had part in 1917
and 1918 In helping France maintain
that liberty and voice of faith. 1t hopes
that such ideals will forever motivate
France. America is proud that one of
its citizens helped Lafayette's country
restore such symbol as Rheims two
decades after the World War. -
Evening star., 1938-08-01
III tightening the Belt.

Japan mas been engaged in taking
up the slack in her economic structure
ever since the war in China spread to
the Yangtze Valley and presented the
prospect of a campaign lasting from
three to five years with the added
threat of then having to fight Russia in
weakened condition
Few news reports have so Illuminated
the effect that this tightening of the belt
is having on the japanese standard of
living as the report of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce of
trade with Japan for the first five
months of 1888 and the description
from Toxic of the movements to reduce
the length of match sticks and the tan
ming of rat skins for leather.
The bureaus report was important
for the tacit acknowledgement it gave
to the effectiveness of consumers boy
colts as popular sanctions against ag-
gressors. But it did even more. It
dealt a blow to complaints that in
creased expectation of American raw
materials is helping Japan to continue
her warfare by providing the necessary
raw materials, sinews of war
The principal items in the report were
tie revelations that American exports
to Japan declined about 35 per cent in
the first five months OF 1888, as COM
pared with the same period of 1887, and
that American imports from Japan had
declined about 20 per cent in the same
period
The deep inter-relation between these
two sets Of figures lies in the drastic
financial retrenchment adopted by ia
Fan in order to conserve all her re-
sources for the prosecution OF war.
American imports from Japan have OBJ
viously been hard hit by the boycotting
Of Japanese goods by Americans who
disapprove Of the japanese aggression.
Cotton textiles, rayon, toys, raw silk,
silk textiles, knitted goods, porcelain and
lumber bore the heaviest part of the
slump.
The loss in foreign exchange which
this decline entails would be enough to
reduce American exports to Japan by
an approximate amount, for japanese
policy under the import licensing sys-
TEN has been to attempt to balance i'm
ports against exports as nearly as pos
s.ble in order to prevent the gradual
depletion of the gold reserves. But on
top of this the Japanese people have
been admonished to cease buying those
luXuries ana seml-luxuries which re-
quire the expenditure of foreign eX-
change in the purchase of materials
abroad for their manufacture. This lin
itation of consumption has been carried
into the major industries which use raw
materials required for war purposes,
such as cotton, iron and steel, copper
and lumber.
The result has been a sharp depres-
sion of the standard of living in Japan
and consequent loss of large part OF
the gains Japan made toward Western
standards Of living during the past
seventy years. But that is the cost The
japanese people must pay for the ag-
gresslve activities OF their militar.stic
government.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Wisdom Displayed in.
Handling Children.
To the Editor of The Star

HOPING that an experience I had
with a very sensible mother may
lead other mothers to do as this mother
did, I'm taking time to write it.
We live in a good suburban section of
the city, and have large side and back
yard with fruit trees and grape vines
Every summer this fruit is constant
source of worry, as many neighborhood
children come in the yard after it, and
long before 1t is ripe.
I had spoken to several groups of
children during the past week. Last
evening I went to the window as two
little girls were going to the Bartlett
pear tree. They ran when I called to
them; then I saw that my next door
neighbor's porch and yard were literally
covered. with green grapes from our
vines there being no other grape vines
near. That was too much!
1, got the names of these children and
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Shooting Stars.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Nothing Without Labor.


The world goes on improving
At a wondrous rapid pace.
The motor cars keep moving
And the airplanes wildly race.
Every day finds genius talking
OF some swift and strange device,
But you've got to keep on walking
If you haven't got the price.
The great aim is saving labor
But you've got to labor more
To keep marching with your neighbor
Than you ever did before.
Our inventors offer daily
Something wonderful and nice
That will keep life going gayly;
But you've got to have the price.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Twenty Years Ago
The Werld War Day by Day
August 1, 1918.

Gen. Mangin's French-American
Army advanced on a 12-mile front
along the west side of the Champagne
salient, taking Cramoiselle, Meuniere
Wood and Cierges, together with. 600
prisoners against desperate resistance :of
the Crown Princes army.
This made a total of $4,000 prisoners
captured since July 10, and brought the
allied armies into a. good position Ito
outflank the important German point Of
scissors. which was destined to fall uSxt
day.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

Pressed for candid opinion Mr.. Cor
rigan prefers his own homemade air.
plane to the sky-planes that have been
submitted to his inspection. All that he
really seems to need is road map that
will indicate clearly the difference be-
tween Boston and Baltimore
Evening star., 1938-08-01

Promoters of the old worlds fair at
Chicago did we'll with what material they
had in hand, but the lady who had never
seen the streets of Cairo" is a compara-
tive novice in worldly affairs when the
modern type is considered that goes
everywhere and drives her own airplane.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

The American Library Association has
appealed to President Roosevelt to ap-
point professional librarian to sue
ceed DR.. Herbert Putnam. Surely, the
logic Of its plea is plain enough. Even
the most ardent political spokesman
would not want a chief without training
at the head of the greatest photographic
institution in the world.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

One embarrassment in following mod
ern sports seems to rest on the expecta-
tions of an apology from the victor for
not being more fully aware of the ply
sical inadequacies of the vanquished.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

Whenever funds are set aside for the
comfort and convenience of a child star
in motion pictures a tribute is paid to
the artistic memory of Jackie Coogan.
He survived but makes it clear that his
earning capacity has not survived with
him.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
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Evening star., 1938-08-01
Games.

From the Geneva IN. W Times.
A baseball team has to win only one
game at a time to get to the top, and
maybe Its the same with diplomacy
!. and recovery and some Of the other
games" the human race is playing.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

The japanese are keeping their man.
dated islands despite the fact that they
have left the League of Nations. SINH
larly. there may be American citizens
who have taken New Deal handouts and
yet will vote the opposition ticket.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

Presidential experience at sea may
duplicate experience on land. A con-
siderable catch is recorded, but it must
be admitted that some of the biggest
ones got away.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

The art life Of the world may be re-
garded as secure in its progress even
though mistakes are admitted in the
award of prizes for new pictures. AS
events materialize they inevitably in
iuence the progress of art expression
and render what might seem beautiful
to one generation of hideous resentment
to the next.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
W. p. A. Luxuries.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
If the Government will not let those
Joliet Qll) w. P. A. workers have their
afternoon tea, 1t might at least take
them to marshmallow roast once in
a while.
Evening star., 1938-08-01
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Equal RECOGNITION.

EquaI HcCOgn1tlOn.
You think of course, that rich and
poor ought to be treated alike?"
eyes," answered Mr. Dustin Stax, "at
least they should be provided as nearly
as possible with equal facilities for con-
tributing to our profits"
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@. Which of Gainsborough's portraits

A. His portrait of Elizabeth, Duchess
of Devonshire, was mysteriously stolen
in London in 1875, Immediately after 1t
had been purchased by Messrs. Agnew
The picture was taken to New York
and Chicago, and in April, 1901, 1t was
traced by American detectives working
for the Agnews. 1t was then sold to
J. Pierpont Morgan, sr
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Improved Plans.

ImprOVeU FIanS.
Good luck informs us that we shall,
AS moral thought prevails,
Build another hospital
And not so many jails.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

WASHINGTON, d. C.
MONDAY August l. 1888
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Forever Changing.

FOreVer CnanS1ng.
A generation new will rise
Its strange ideals to disclose,
And pictures queer will meet our eyes,
With contrasts between "these" and
"those."
Evening star., 1938-08-01

while half the world is walking"
said Uncle Eben, "de other half is going
to sleep. We has to divide around even
de privilege Of loatin' time
Evening star., 1938-08-01
Crudely Estimated,

CrudeIy Estimated,
Think Of the old-time statesmen who
were content to live modestly for the
sake of fame!''
EYES," answered Senator Sorghum, "I
am inclined to think that a number of
those old-time statesmen were artistic
successes but financial failures"
Evening star., 1938-08-01

1--WE weep over tales OF sorrow" said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, yet our
eyes brighten with strange joy as we
prepare to inf1ict it in war"
Evening star., 1938-08-01

@. Is it true that at one time only
those of royal blood could wear furs?-
F. L. K.
A. In the civilization of medieval Eu-
rope fur was emphatically a luxury. AS
such its use was forbidden by the church
to monks and to all but the highest &C.
cleSiastics. Among the laity it was
carefully regulated by severe laws. None
but those of royal blood were allowed to
wear certain furs and in general per-
sons social Importance could have been
estimated by the amount and nature of
the fur he wore.
Evening star., 1938-08-01

reader can get the ans,cer to ann
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ming Star Information Bureau, Frederic
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Please inclose stamp for reply.
Montana labor news., 1938-09-01
WHAT The MAGAZINES
ARE SAYING

The children of the age assert that
their youth is harder than ours was:
necessitous, full of risks, completely
insecure; whereas we grew up in
the economic security of the bour-
geois age. But they over-estimate
the Importance of the material fac
tors, the shift from ease and safety
into shabbiness and heroics-though
we elders too have had to get used
to that shift in our old age. Far
more important is the fact that they
have lost knowledge of culture" in
its higher and deeper sense; of work
for its own sake, of individual re-
sponsibility, of individual painstak-
ing. AS a substitute, they must take
refuge in the group.
For the collective is a comfortable
sphere by comparison with the in
dividual-comfortable to the point
of laxity. Youth loves for its own
sake this absorption into the mass,
this complete relief from personal
responsibility. 1t has not much con-
Germ with the goal of the march.
Challenged to define more precisely
the qualification it gets, it displays
a distaste for further analysis. The
mass intoxication which releases
youth from the burden of its ego is
a goal in itself; the ideologies in
volved-Socialism, the State, the
Greatness of the Fatherland-are
more or less subordinate; they are
decidedly secondary, indeed superflu-
GUS. The main thing is the intoxica-
ton, the release from the ego, from
the obligation to think-in short,
from moral and reasonable obliga-
tons altogether. From fear, too, OF
course-the fear of life which urges
youth to huddle close, to feel the
human warmth, to sing right Justify.
And this is the aspect Of the situation
which most of all helps us to pity
and to observation-disclosures Mann,
in The Atlantic Monthly, August.