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Evening star., 1938-10-29
IUTHER'S HOME LIFE
is DR.. SNYDER'S TOPIC
Song Service to Be Conducted at
et. Paul's Lutheran Church
in Evening.

At st. Paul's Lutheran Church TO-
morrow morning DR.. Henry w. Snyder
viii speak on "A Kings Penknife." :"
A song service will be conducted in
the evening and the pastors address
will deal With "Luther's Home Life" !"
The DR.. Samuel Domer Bible Class
will be guests on Monday evening Of
Mrs. J. Harry Jones, 1888 Euclid
street NV. Wednesday evening de-
votional service. The Young Peoples
Club will be guests Thursday evening
1T the home Of Misses Josephine and
Virginia Norneet. 3752 Oliver street
NV. Assisting as hosts will be the
Rev. Mr.. Dunlap and Melvin Steen.
DR.. John T. Huddle, pastor en-
eritus. will odiciate ut the IL am
service on November in honor Of
the e6th anniversary of the Sunday
school,
Evening star., 1938-10-29
REFORMATION NOTED
Grace Lutheran Church to Honor
Anniversary Of Movement.

Services tomorrow at Grace Luth-
eran Church will honor the ami.
versary of the Reformation movement
in history out Of which our present
Protestantim has come. At IL am.
DR.. Gerhard E. LensH will speak on
IT Luther Were Here Today"
Confirmation instruction Is being
conducted twice each week by the
pastor. The Sunday class Is held at
$50 pm. and is for adults as we'll
As young people. The subject Of DR..
Lenski's address tomorrow will be
Our Duty Toward Our Neighbor"
The Saturday class, exclusively for
young people, met at 10 am.
Evening star., 1938-10-29
Harry Holmes to Speak.

Harry Holmes, associate secretary
Of the World Alliance for Interna-
tional Friendship Through the
Churches, win deliver the principal
address before the Christian En-
deavor Alumni Fellowship on Novem-
Der 20 at 3 pm. at the New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Evening star., 1938-10-29
TEA FOR MEMBERS
Wallace Memorial Church Plans
Are Announced.

DR.. c. E. Hawthorne, minister Of
the Wallace Memorial United Pres
byterian Church, will preach 1T II
o'clock on Ambassadors for Christ. -
The pm. service will be in the
charge Of the young people, as 1t is
young peoples night in the monthly
schedule. Miss Josephine Davis, pres
ident of the Senior Christian Endeavor
Society, will preside. At 5:45 pm.
the two societies will have . tea for
members, alumni and friends, honor
ing the 28th anniversary Of the young
peoples organizations of this church.
Evening star., 1938-10-29
MOMENTUM TOPIC
Sherwood Presbyterian Minister
Announces Sermona

The Rev. Thomas Law Coyle will
preach at the Sherwood Presbyterian
Church tomorrow at $50 and IL am.
on The Inner Drive" and at 8 PM on
Momentum"
The annual visitation campaign viii
be launched tomorrow under the direc-
tion Of . committee composed Of 10.
seph Coe, Shell Davis, Herbert Me.
meyer, Herbert statsir, Albert Chip
man, Lyle Werth, Mrs. Eulalo Gibson
and Mrs. William Wiles. One hundred
teams Of two persons each will visit
people In the community - . simple
expression Of friendly interest.
Evening star., 1938-10-29
ANOTHER REFORMATION
is LUTHERAN SUBJECT
Rev. J. A. Pfeiffer to Speak at
Takoma Park Services Tomorrow
NorninU

Another Reformation Needed will
be the sermon title Of the Rev. J.
Adrian Pfeiffer, pastor of the Takoma
Lutheran Church, at the reformation
service tomorrow at IL O'Clock. Miss
Mary Cleveland, China missionary, will
speak at 8 pm. at the annual thank
offering service, under the auspices of
the Women's Missionary Auxiliary of
the congregation.
A junior church service will be held
November 6, under the direction Of
Mrs Harvey Brake, sr.
At the congregational meeting on
Wednesday evening the following were
chosen as vestrymen: Harvey Brake,
ST.; Carl Hickman, Phil johnson and
Ralph Mahr. j. j. Gruenbaum was
reelected treasurer and j. Wayne
Potter as financial secretary.
Evening star., 1938-10-29
Qhristian mystifa
Lecture on Cosmic Subsistence by
DR.. F. Homer Curtiss

Nov. 3-Cosmic Rays.
Nov. 10-Two Selves.
Nov. 17-Adam and Eve.
Nov. 24-ThanksRiving Service.
9. c. NJ. Chapel 35Os Quebec St. NV
pm. every Thursday. Discussion and
healing service Questions answered.
prayer service at q am. and 1918 pm
daily Take McComb st. bus to 35th and
quebec or Wisconsin Ave. car or bus to
Idaho Ave. Collection
Evening star., 1938-10-29
Daughters of the King.

The Rev. c. G. Marmion. jr, of st.
Adams parish will be the guest speaker
Tor the local assembly on November ,
at the Church Of the Nativity at 8 pm.
All Daughters are urged to be present.
Evening star., 1938-10-29
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struction,-others either have,
or are about to make, extcn-
sive repairs. Some are carry
ing 4 debt for unpaid balances
on work which has already
been completed. All the money
raised on this particular day
will be applied towards such
indebtednsss and it is earnestly
hoped that all Members and
friends Of the Church will at
tend this very beautiful service.
Evening star., 1938-05-16

April, showing sl3,o7o employees on the
pay roll, representing a decrease OF
1927 per cent in the past year.
Emergency legislation to liberalize
Government lending policies is the
prospective Congressional contribution
to aid the carriers, but, as was said IN
a recent address by r. v. Fletcher vice
president and general counsel for the
Association of American Railroads, this
can be viewed as no more than useful
temporary palliative" AS a supple
mentary move for relief, the eastern
lines are asking the Interstate Commerce
Commission to reconsider the recent
decision denying an application to raise
coach fares from two to two and one-half
cents mile. But even this offers only
limited possibilities.
Congress eventually is going to have
to treat with the whole subject of trans
portation In this country, and that holds
good irrespective Of the outcome of the
present difficulties Of the rail industry.
The recurrent "crises" of the past few
years are symptomatic of conditions that
no longer are susceptible to halfway
measures.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Railroad Financing.

With the railroads formally ANNOUNCE
ing plans to put Is per cent wage cut
into effect on July l, and the brother
hoods countering with equal firmness
that it will not be accepted, the rail
problem is in full flower once more.
Admittedly, situation of the sort
has grave potentialities, but it is hardly
possible that an adjustment will not be
reached, for rail management and labor
have habit of getting together, and
the machinery Of the Railway Labor
Act provides an efacacious method of
conciliation. It is certain, however, that
the law is faced with its gravest test
In proposing the wage cut, which is
Just about twice the size of the increase
granted in 1887, the Carriers Joint Con-
ference Committee painted dismal pic
ture Of the industry:
Railroad car loadings are less than
they were in 1932"-the depth Of the
depression. 1.-THE railroads are receiving
q lower average revenue per-ton mile
than in 1882. Railroad taxes are higher
than 1882. Net earnings are far below
the 1892 level. Yet railway wages are
nov approximately 20 per cent higher
than they were in 1882"
It could well have been added that
employment is down also and that the
spiral is descending steadily, the latest
figures for Glass One carriers, In mid
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Favors Following Law in
Admitting Immigrants

To the Editor OF The Star:
A clever article by Miss Dorothy
Thompson was published in The Star
on May 49, 1888, to the effect that the
League of Nations could protect refugees
from police tyrannies by issuing pass
ports. The article, however. appears to
be inconsistent. so far there has been
no suggestion" she says, that this coun-
try increase the quota of its immigrants,
and considering our present economic
condition, 1t would be unwise to do so. y
With this statement the American peo-
pie are doubtless overwhelmingly in
agreement. And the people would not
favor increasing the quota whether this
be done by national legislation or by
administrative Interpretation of the law.
Miss Thompson, it seems, wants to
admit Austrian and German refugees
but she favors admission by an admins
trative Interpretation of the quota law
rather than by a revision Of the law it
self. THE conditions for entry under
the quota law she says, 'can be SIM
plified. This can be achieved if in lieu
Of af1davite Of support from relatives
aff1davits of friends willing to assume
the financial responsibility, lor of organi-
cations willing to take the same risk.
are accepted. Or afidavits which will
permit the refugees to bond themselves
The simple truth is that this would
create loophole to admit the refugees
in question. Knowing that the American
people do not want additional immi-
grants, Miss Thompson would have an
administrative body get around the will
Of the people by an administrative in
depreciation which would have the same
effect as revision of the law. She adds
she intends Ito take some time of and
do small book about them"
Our State Department more nearly
represented the will Of the people when
it announced the appointment of the
International Refugee Committee that
no country would be expected or asked
to take more immigrants than are per-
mitted under its national laws Let us
stick to this policy. GEO. w. BUTTS.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Crime in Washington.

The second annual report OF the WASH
ington Criminal Justice Association
shows what an aroused community can
do in improving law enforcement.
In its two short years Of existence, the
association has been instrumental in
exposing shortcomings and effecting re-
forms in methods of apprehending. de-
tanning and prosecuting criminals in
the District of Columbia, with the result
that Washington is fast losing It's un-
savory reputation of being a safe place
for law-breakers.
Thus the report reveals that although
the number of crimes increased in 1887
as it did in many large cities-the police
solved a greater percentage OF crimes
than in 1886 and hardened criminals
were dealt with more severely-and
justly-by the courts. These conditions
have had most salutary effect in the
field Of criminal law enforcement in
general.
1T would appear that definite prog
ress is being made in the community's
desire to reduce crime in Washington
the association announced.
There is yet much to be done, how
ever, according to the report.
A so per cent increase in serious crimes
charged against juveniles has prompted
the association to give special attention
to the problem of juvenile delinquency
in the District.
An increase in the use of probation
despite the inadequacy of the local SUI
pervisory staff leads the association to
believe that a careful study of the use
of probation and parole in Washington
is advisable
The bail-bond system, the association
asserts, is urgently in need of an over
hauling and housekeeping.
Ways and means of speeding up prose-
cution are being studied, in cooperation
with the District Attorneys Office and
the courts
These and other problems are indica-
tive of the size of the task which the
association has volunteered to tackle on
behalf of the community. Happily, all
of the city's law-enforcement officials
have evidenced willingness to collabo-
rate Fundamentally in the undertaking.
Such an alliance of the forces of right
BUSINESS in a city is plain warning to
the forces of laWleSsneSs.
The Criminal Justice Association de-
serves the commendation of the citizens
of Washington for its part in hosting a
danger signal that even the less intelli-
gent of criminals can understand and
obey.
Evening star., 1938-05-16

dogs imposed when the town was opened.
And like that ban they probably are
desired by a majority of the residents
After all, the Government is their land
lord and landlords traditionally set up
rules for tenants. The Greenbelt rules
may appear to be more drastic because
they are in print. But that should pro-
mote understanding Of what is expected.
The new rules make 1t more obvious
than ever that Greenbelt Is not for the
rugged individualist. Their promulga-
ton reveals how the Government thinks
model community should be run.
There is food for thought in the refiec-
ton that, In their zeal for uplift, leaders
of the Nation some day may try to have
all the people live In model commu-
mites.
Evening star., 1938-05-16

Recently this column gave advice as
to the best way of handling phonograph
records.
The writer then promptly broke his
first disk in 20 years.
The Romans had a proverb for it.
The delicate balancing on middle
finger and thumb, as advocated here so
earnestly, is still good advice, but we
wish to add to it.
There is nothing gained in breaking
something unless further good pro-
cedure is learned as a result. Govern
ment officials take noticeD
Always brush and otherwise dust the
shining black phonograph records over
q rug.
Not over hard wood floor!
All woods, alas, are hard to one OF
these brittle products OF engineering
and artistic skill.
Balancing a disk on the fingers, In
order to keep from touching the grooves,
is the proper way, no doubt OF 1t, but
further correctness calls for dustlng
them over rug.
The record instanced slipped out OF
the left hand as the brush was applied
with the right.
It lit squarely on edge.
The shock was enough to shiver neat
crack all the way from the rim to the
center label.
A phonograph record somewhat resem.
bles window glass.
1t has remarkable tensile strength, but
cracks very easily and readily at tap.
subject of a popular song, but that Is
the best one can say for it; mostly such
a record is a dead loss, hopeless beyond
power of redemption.
Sometimes cracked record, by care
full gluing, can be kept playable,
perhaps, but it will always possess the
bothersome tick, tick. tick, tick, With
every revolution of the turntable.
No glue should ever be placed in the
grooves. The only feasible method Is to
glue the smooth outer rim, SO that 1t
will hold the remainder of the record,
and preventing it from splitting farther.
quick-drying cement should be used
A small bit is smoothed over one side Of
the crack, only on the rim, usually not
more than a quarter of an inch wide,
and often less.
The surplus cement is brushed away
smooth. then the record is turned over
and the same treatment given the rim on
the other side.
If the break has been a smooth one.
this method may save some priced record.
1t is not a feasible method, in most
cases, and is good only for some older
pressing that is "out of print"
Often the phonograph is against a
wall. with few feet of wood floor around
it before the rug begins.
The temptation is to brush the record
while standing in front Of the machine.
Don't do it!
Make this pleasurable and safer task
back on the rug.
A slip will not occur often, but when
it does it probably will be purely acci-
dental.
This means that it will happen. as
most accidents do, when one is totally
unprepared.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Plain Justice.

A vote of thanks is due Chairman King
Of the Senate District Committee for
moving promptly to place Washington
on parity with the rest of the country
in the new public works program.
The inequity Of requiring the District
to repay 10 per cent Of P. w. A. allot-
ments when other cities are given similar
projects on ratio of As per cent grant
and 55 per cent loan is so apparent that
a plain statement Of the case should be
sufficient to win approval Of the correc-
tive legislation In both Houses.
The disparity grows out of the fact
that 1910 was the general P. w. A..
ratio when Congress passed the act Of
1884 authorizing Washington to apply
for projects. Later P. w. A. was author
lied to change its percentage to 45-55,
but the District will continue to be bound
by the old limitation until Congress
amends the separate local statute.
In addition to the unequal loan grant
ratio existing law places the District at
another disadvantage by requiring re-
payment of the 10 per cent at the rapid
rate of $1,O00000 year. and at time
when new tax burdens are being imposed
here to keep the city out of the red.
Senator Kings bill also would remove
this inequality by permitting reimburse
ment over twenty -five-year period, as
would be possible elsewhere under one
of the alternative methods Of procedure
in the pending new work relief bill.
Simple justice calls for speedy passage
of the local measure.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
THIS AND THAT
Rv CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

In this case, quick action will DO little
good
Any attempt to catch the falling disk
probably will cause 1t to go flying across
the room.
1t is better to permit it to fall, but
not on a wood floor.
A rug is best. On such padding, the
chances are that the record would land
without damage to itself or the mind
of the temporarily careless person.
II ~
There is something SO fine about q
good disk that real hurt is given the
mind when one Of them is defaced or
broken.
There are many ways Of damaging
them. One was mentioned previously,
that of touching them with greasy
fingers, or spilling liquids or cigarette
ash upon them.
Another way, and not often mentioned,
Is that of levering record, especially a
12-inch disk, from the bottom OF pile.
This Is one reason why albums are
best But often disks are kept In pile.
Here again, there Is a right way, and
wrong way.
The two popular sizes Of records
should never be kept in the same pile.
This makes for breakage.
Another common mistake IS to keep
too many records on top of each other.
Still third mistake is to attempt to
pry up one record near the bottom Of
a pile, to see the title on the label.
1t is more trouble, but much more ex-
peditious. In the end, to remove all the
records above the one desired.
The disks are curious combination OF
strength and fragility. Ordinarily they
seem unbreakable to a remarkable de-
gree. Then again they shatter at the
slightest touch in the wrong way.
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It always has seemed to US that it Is
a good thing that the records are fragile.
Some way 1t is more BETTING the
character of music, which is sound.
Sound is the most evanescent thing In
the world.
Now it is here, now it is gone.
Until it be evoked again, it is as II 1t
never had been.
Phonograph records of unbreakable
material would not seem exactly right
for these great waves Of sound. so
mighty, in one way, so easily interrupted
by cough.
Not only noises break up the smooth
flow OF sounds, but actions as we'll We
will never forget symphony orchestra
concert at the National years ago.
One number called for the man with
the big cymbals to give mighty crash
near the end. but the fellow began to
make ready at the start.
In few minutes he had everybody in
the audience watching him. He would
stand up, reach his right and left hands
apart. and approach the brazen disks
close to each other, then withdraw them.
He would sit down. Then he would
arise, and go through the whole per-
formance again.
When, at last his grand crash came.
1t was terrible anti-climax, and fell
fiat. But before that he had ruined the
performance for all sensitive persons.
Do not try to play the cymbals with
phonograph records. and especially do
not try to brush them over hard wood
floor.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Will the La Toilette Party
Find the Real Cure for Ills !?
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star
If our press could find space for more
of the low down on English politics. It's
readers would find some interesting
parallels between our New Deal and the
Tory program of raiding industrial in
come for an orgy of spending on make
shift relief and rehabilitation schemes
Our conservative cousins will go any
length to save to the die-hardS their
stake in the land and its wealth OF un-
earned increment mouting with the
growth of population.
That is Toryism not only in England,
but the world over, and now showing at
it's worst in what Loyalist Spain and
China are up against.
But English Toryism is, and has been
for some time, in dire extremity through
the determination Of His Majesty
opposition" to turn the unearned incre-
ment to public account by the taxation
of land values The fight for this re-
form in taxation has long been out in
the open over there. as the major issue
in both the Labor and the Liberal party
platforms, with strong prospects OF sue
cess in the next general election. falling
another red scare" or other side-track-
ing Tory diversion.
Our newborn Progressive party is out
for an end to paternalistic spoon-feed-
ing. 1t proposes to assure us equality
of opportunity, then let us sink or swim
according to our ability or inclination to
help ourselves. Brave words with a
laissez-faire ring, but the test will be in
how the program is to be implemented.
Land monopoly. our sole Nationwide
monopoly of private privilege which We
inherited from Tory England of the
past. Is the only real barrier to equality
OF opportunity. Is there sufficient un-
derstanding in the La Toilette following
to realize this and, If So will they have
the courage to come out in the open for
the only sure remedy to be secured by
peaceful means as have the Laborites
and Liberals of England. and so strike
real blow for economic freedom? If not,
and should they win out on some So
cialistic hodge-podge OF appeal to the
masses, we will have but continuation
OF the New Deal with the forgotten
man" more forgotten, II not buried out
of sight under a further burden of in
dustrial taxation. The benef1ciaries OF
unearned increment will continue to lap
up the cream. and capital and labor will
keep on in their fight over division of
the skim-milk.
WALTER N. CAMPBELL.
Evening star., 1938-05-16

A new idea has been advanced in New
Jersey, proposal to have all legal holi-
days fall on Monday, irrespective of the
calendar, in order to give plenty of time
for preparation, celebration and recovery.
1t can hardly be expected that such q
move would, under the present regime
affect the delivery OF speeches in that
State by "aliens" from across the bor-
ders, under the present political dis
pensation in Jersey City.
Evening star., 1938-05-16
Utopia, Ltd.

The price Of paternalistic government
In terms of individual loss of liberty
rises higher and higher as the operation
Of the model community" at Greenbelt
gets In full swing. The latest develop
ment is the issuance of a 2,0O0-word set
of regulations and suggestions" con-
corning such details of daily living as
hanging out the wash and use Of chill
dren's tricycles.
Issued by the town manager ito pro-
mote the ideas Of those who provided
us with the community" the edict de-
crees that no wash be hung on the lines
after 4 pm. or on Sunday, that the town
be consulted before planting flower gar
dens, that there be no roller skating
after dark except on certain specified
areas, that the lawns be kept free Of
organized play, that tricycles be banned
from underpasses and approaches to
underpasses and that no bicycles bs
ridden on the sidewalks.
In publishing the Suggestions" the
manager reminded the towns residents
that they are part Of community life
instead Of private PHILOSOPHERS" No
regulations are needed for ninety per
cent Of Greenbelt's citizens, the man.
ager said, expressing the hope that the
other ten per cent would adjust thern-
selves to community life. The express
sion is backed up, however, by the
warning that failure to observe the reg
ulations may put in jeopardy a citizens
continued residence in the town.
Those who have taken homes In
Greenbelt certainly should not be sur.
prised by the regulations. They seem
to be . logical extension Of the ban On
Evening star., 1938-05-16

Harlan County Kentucky, is again in
the news not for a complication Of
feudism this time. but as the scene of
trial growing out Of the Wagner Labor
Relations Act. It will be somewhat of
relief to observe strictly legal question
in process of elucidation instead of the
direct-methods processes of justice that
have heretofore made this small section
of American territory noted for its
social complexes.