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NEW HOMES

Detached brick rooms, 2 baths. at
tic. One with bedroom and bath on Ist
floor and two bedrooms and bath ON End
floor. One with bedrooms. All with
The above homes are now open Your
promptness is invited to inspect these
most carefully built and complete homes
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BEST VALUE IN CITY.
MODERN-DOWNTOWN

1-R. APT. $50: R., K. 81: R.. K. S55.
FURNISHED AT SLIGHT CHARGE
tor. switchboard service; refrieeration on
house. 1880 r st. NV. Potomac 1900.
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ALL MoDERN; > ROOMS, KITCHEN,
bath, incl. gas, cleo, telephone, FriGldalre,
all for $40. 1925 Madison st. NV.
232 F ST NW-1st FLOOR. TWO ROOMS
and kit; basement room and kit, reaS.
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cOO2 ST. N.W.-1-ROOM STUDIO APT.
Sl5-S30 mo- 2l35 F st.-Large front stu
die room, Sl5-S.O mo. .l2l G ST. or
3 room basement apt, Sl5-S20 mo. Al
loWance for tending furnace. Dist. o655.
DOWNTOWN, 1911 18th ST. NW.-2nd
floor. > rms sleeping alcove. bath, kltch-
enette ElectrollX; adults; refs,
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81 LONGFELLOW ST. N.E-kITCH.. LIV-
ing room. bedroom, elec. refg.; quiet home,
block to bus: adults S42.50. Geo. 539l.
2341 r ST. Sc. RANDLE HIGHLANDS;
3 attractive rooms. porch. private bath;
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l1l3 9th ST. NV ROOMS, KITCHEN
and bath; Frigidaire. Met. 50S4. -
NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE. 1902 21st NV
large room apt, lge. closets, running
water, twin beds living room, sun porch,
semi-private bath and shower; no cooking.
3O2 10th ST. NE-UNUSUALLY BEAU
tful rooms furnished in maple; new
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2-FAMILY HOUSE,
A REAL BARGAIN.

n REAL BARGAlN.
-, 18th ST. NE
Two complete kitchens. baths, etc;
built-in garage: price $3.50: $500 cash
balance like rent. Open for inspection
VIM. M. THROCkMORTON, INC.
Investment Bldg. Dist. 6O92
IN WOODBRIDGE GARDENS.
First showing New detached hrick z
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THE FAIRFAX

o1OO MASSACHUSETTS AVE, NV,
! 50. west of Dupont Circle (2oc taxi 7one)
Apts. of to : rms. and ha., EURN OR UN-
tional. TRANSIENTLY, from, So WEEKLY.
MONTHLY. Splendid restaurant. moderate
prices. A few very desirable apis. at sub
stantia' concessions. Monthly from $50
unfurn., S15 furn., with full hotel service.
Rents incl Elec for Lights and Refr
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DESK SPACE AND TELEPHONE MES
Call National 1899
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READY TO MOVE IN.

See these clean. like new apts: = rooms.
kitchen and bath. furnished $3.50: .
rooms and bath. $40. so. Parking space
One of the best locations in tie city At
Rock Greek Park: near the Million Dollar
Bridge. 24lO 'tnth st. nv. Res mgr
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44O4 WINDOW PL. NV.

(Out Mass. ave. to 18th ST.. right on
46th ST.. - 2 blocks to Window place, right
to houses. You will see our sign.)
WAPLE & JAMES. INC.
1924 14th st. NV. District 3347
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of these expenditures. 1t would be in
teresting to know how much of this
money would some day return to the
Nation through self-liquidating projects
and how much would come back as
bread cast upon the waters in the form
of better citizenship.
At least hope is dawning. Secretary
Wallace, addressing his home State
Democratic convention, cites figures
which indicate balancing of private
commercial and individual budgets. He
shows that State governments now owe
six thousand million dollars less than
they did in 1880. All this burden, Mr..
Wallace says, is due to short-sighted
Republican policies during the 2O's.
Debts are being paid. But more debts
are plling up. The situation is some-
what similar to that of a low-salaried
man patronizing a loan shark. He
spends his life paying debts, but never
quite gets out from under. His big
hope lies in sweepstakes ticket.
But so far no one with an astronomer
flair for long rows of zeros has devised
a sweepstakes which will meet the
present situation.
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Gem of the Ocean.

Nlnety-f1ve years ago, when "Colum-
bia, Gem of the Ocean" was written,
American clipper ships were the DOM
mating factor in the worlds maritime
commerce. In the past two years dis
aster and disturbances have brought
to the public in a dramatic fashion
the fact that of all the maritime ma
tions America is among the most back
ward
Charges have been made and to a
great extent found true, that American
ships are old, inadequate, and obsolete
that American officers sometimes are
inefficient and improperly trained; that
seamen are inexperienced, and that
stewards are insolent It has been
charged that crews know nothing of
actually handling lifeboats and fire.
fighting equipment.
The American public demanded that
something be done. And the Maritime
Commission is doing it.
Under construction are 33 new ships,
with plans calling for so more year
for five years.
A cadet system has been established,
with 400 young men now in service, for
the training of boys with suitable edu-
cational background for licenses as mer-
chant officers.
A school is to be opened in Septem-
Der to train unemployed seamen and
officers who have had two years or more
at sea.
The Maritime Service has been estab-
lished offering membership to seamen
and officers fulfilling the training re-
quirements of the Coast Guard. To
remain in this they must return to the
Coast Guard for a month each year for
additional training. Continued men,
bership means higher pay and bonus
for the men, but it means greater eff
cheney and safety for the public.
In January Congress will receive from
the commission a plan for the training
of boys as seamen.
Before the new fleet is completed crews
will be available which will have train
ing equal to the best in the world. There
is every reason to believe that through
the alert program of the Maritime Com
mission, Columbia once more will be
the Gem of the Ocean.
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Astronomical Finance.

The pipers bill is now more than
twenty-one thousand million dollars.
Another little item of three thousand
seven hundred millions has not yet gone
on the books.
For six years this has been going
on in an effort to push back the oceans
of red ink which were flooding the
industry of the Nation and engulfing it's
individual citizens. This is the first
time the whole check has been totaled.
The Treasury Department reports
that more than sixteen and a half
billions of this was appropriated by the
Federal Government and five billions
by the State governments to meet the
emergency. The two largest items were
for highways and conservation.
Unfortunately no breakdown is avail
able-a complete one hardly could be
arrived alto show the investment value
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Rules for Living.

The periodical edition of the Way of
Life as 1t Must Be Lived in Greenbelt
Is now available
Specific and final as each succeeding
edition sounds another always is found
necessary. And while each issue is care
ful to point out that the rules are not
needed for ninety per cent of the resi-
dents. it would seem that the remaining
ten per cent are an intractable lot.
This time the shepherds of the Gov
ernment's flock point out that mops
should not be shaken on the heads of
passersby. This is very important"
Judging from the type of warnings is
sued so often stranger would feel it
very unimportant. One would judge
from the elemental nature of the rules
that mop dust would find an affinity in
the hair of Greenbelt's ten per cent.
Clothes lines, previously barred after
four o'clock in the afternoon, now must
not be strung on porches because they
are unsightly. Provision is made in the
Easements.
Water from the community washing
machines must be emptied into the
laundry tubs and not on the floor.
And to prevent accidents in dark
halls and stairways baby carriages, tri-
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Business Upturn.

The July business upturn reported by
the Federal Reserve System is encour-
aging, whatever its cause, for it marked
a reversal of the customary seasonal
slump at this time of the year. While
an improvement over period of three
weeks is no guarantee of recovery, 1t
does hold out some hope that the de-
preston has spent its force.
Without doubt, the energetic drive
OF Secretary Ickes to get the Public
Works Administration recovery funds
into circulation as speedily as possible
has played part in the rise in indus
trial production figures. The influence
OF the P. w. A. money to date probably
has been largely psychological, since 1t
has hardly been in trade channels long
enough to produce direct effect.
What the result of Mr.. Ickes' outlays
will be several months from now is a
subject of conflicting speculations. Ad-
vocates Of the pump printing" theory
OF recovery hope that some lasting bene-
fetal consequences will arise, but its op-
ponents point to the latest experience in
purchased recovery as evidence that
such efforts are successful only so long
as the Federal Government continues to
disburse large sums of money.
In that connection it is interesting to
note that poll of leading economists by
the Associated Press revealed a surpris-
ing unanimity of opinion to the effect
that better times are at hand The
economists, however, were unwilling to
engage in long-range predictions, none
of them being willing to forecast a con-
tinued improvement beyond next spring.
That is about the time the stimulating
effects of the spending pre- gram will be
slowing down.
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''HAVE WE GROWN CALLOUS?'
IGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D. D.. L. D., d. c. L..
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON

Harden not your hearts," was the
admonition given to an ancient people.
It was an appeal to them to keep their
minds and hearts open, receptive and
sympathetic Our world today needs to
heed this admonition. Our daily press
presents to us each morning and evening
stories of such cruelty and barbarism
that we read them with increasing in
difference or refuse to recognize the
gravity of their implications. It is
doubtful if any period in the history of
mankind has been marked by more Of
Savagery in the conduct Of wars than
we have witnessed in these more recent
days. Not only in the strife of nations,
but within the restricted area of our
own community and national life, we
receive daily reports of atrocities and
crimes that suggest a form of moral
turpitude revolving and nauseating.
Apart from the influence these stories
have upon those of mature life, what
must be their effect upon the youth?
Obviously, We must always have, in
world such as ours, crimes and disorders,
but what appalls us in the present situa-
tion is that crimes seem to grow in
violence and malevolence and wars have
come to set aside all the rules and prac-
tices that hitherto obtained. The wan
ton and designed destruction of nom
combatants, of innocent and unoffend-
ing women and children, is phase of
warfare peculiar to our modern world.
1t is reversion to the type of savagery
that marked the pioneer days in our
country 1t may be that these modern
horrors will cause such revulsion of
feeling that it will result in the exter-
mination of the war spirit.
1t is clearly evident from evidence
we have of mans hate and fury that
civilization 1--WE sometimes call it Chris
tan civilization') has made little, if
any, advance One of the attending
evils and it is a threatening one, of
these later exhibitions of savagery, is
the growing callousness that marks our
daily reading of them. At the first
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we are appalled, then Mortified, then
slckened; after that a reaction sets in
and we accept them as matters of daily
occurrence.
All this brings wildly to mind the
scene near Jerusalem long ago when a
morbldly curious crowd of men and
women stood silently or mockingly by
to witness the cruciixion of Jesus Christ.
In this wicked Staying Of one who had
exhibited nothing but an excess of kind
ness and whose forgiving spirit did not
foresake Him even on the cross, we
have an example of cruelty and bitter
hatred such as the world has never
before witnessed. 1t was said that even
the Romans with all their inhumanity
in warfare would not resort to the
cruelties of crucifixion.
1t is the spirit of Him who hung upon
the cross that this tragic era greatly
needs. There seems to be little hope
OF the survival of the things that are
dearest and most wholesome in life
without a return to the teachings of
Him who gave His life for the salvation
of the human race. We have certainly
discovered that mere ethical systems or
well conceived moral standards do not
tinung peace, 1t is becoming increas-
ingly evident that the conflict today is
between the man on horseback and the
Man on the cross. We must make
choice Of one or the other Either we
are headed for increasing hate, issuing
in bitter and cruel strife that may re-
suit in the breakup of our boasted
civilization, or we are at the dawn of
new era where the life and teachings
of the Man of Nazareth are to govern
us in all our national and international
relationships. No middle course presents
itself. If normal, sane and Christian
conditions are to be restored, the prin-
ciples of the Christian religion must be
expressed in other terms than those of
mere credal profession. They must be
made active and governing in every
phase of our life.
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now is to be made by the National
Economic Committee. That commits
sion worked for four years, reporting
in 1902 with 18 large volumes of testi-
mony and conclusions. The commits
sion had a conservative membership,
including Boise Penrose, Republican
boss of Pennsylvania.
This commission, 36 years ago, said
that Federal supervision of large cor
porations doing an interstate business
was of primary Importance. 1t recon-
mended as one means of supervision,
compulsory Federal incorporation of
these business units. with compulsion ap-
piled through use of the taxing power.
Once forced to incorporate through the
Federal Government, lever would be
provided to force reforms in corpora
ton practice.
When it came to dealing with mo-
nopoly powers in the hands of corpora
tions, the commission recommended
four remedies as follows:
"U The destruction of the monopoly
by direct action of the Government;
(2) immediate control by the Govern
ment of the business of the monopoly;
CD return OF part OF all the monopoly
gains to the people by appropriate taxa
ton; "a the removal of the cause of
monopoly by the removal of any special
privileges through which monopoly be-
comes possible or Injurious
A New Deal committee, SO years later,
is unlikely to 60 as far as committee,
heavily weighted with business men,
went SO years ago in laying down sug-
gested rules to govern the relationship
between private business and the Fed
eral Government.
In fact, guiding officials suggest that
business cooperation at this stage might
help to show the New Deal to be less
radical in some respects than the Re-
publican regime ut the turn Of the
present century.
tCopyrisht. 1889
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Radio Propaganda.

The United States, after due consider
alton. has decided not to become COM
peti.or of European nations in their
efforts to propaganda South Amer
lea. 1t had been suggested during the
closing days of the past Congress that
this country should seek to counteract
cultural radio propaganda broadcast
to our Southern neighbors by Germany
and Italy.
The new cultural division" of the
State Department is said to be opposed
to any drastic departure from our tested
and proved policy of encouraging
friendly relations through regular chan
nels of diplomacy. commerce. travel and
the like. Uncle Sam, in short, is en-
deavorlng to be a bona fide good neigh
bor' ready to swap cargoes and pas
sengers by sea and air and even to send
naval and military commissions to ad-
wise in the common cause Of pan-Amer-
lean defense.
If, in addition. we began to fill the
ether with short-wave propaganda of
the direct and obvious type, our friendly
relations with our good neighbors of
the Southern nations might easily be
imperiled. Little has been accomplished,
in the long run, by similar high pressure
radio propaganda from totalitarian
states across the Atlantic. Germany,
for example, found not so long ago that
her missionary work by radio was capa-
bic of back-fring all the way from
Brazil
The State Department has made
sound decision in refusing to resort to
methods designed to thrust North
American propaganda, under the thin
guise of educational programs" upon
the intelligent ears of our Latin Amer
ican friends. Any attempt to force our
culture" on our neighbors might meet
with keen resentment and undo years
OF careful diplomacy.
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Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

"The old controversy over the posi-
bility of living one hundred years" says
~, The Star of July
auestiolidole 28 1888. has broken
out again in France
Centenarlans' where NJ Levasseur
has communicated to the Academy Of
Sciences the results of some inquiries
he has recently made. 1t appears that
thirty-seven persons claiming to be CEN
tenarians were discovered in Bavaria by
the officers who took the census of 1871
but investigation proved that all but one
were in error. In Canada. out of 42l
reputed cases. only 81 could produce
satisfactory evidence of any sort con-
corning their age and of these only nine
brought proofs that they had really
passed the hundred-year limit. In France
180 claimants were reduced to 16 by the
governments search into their ante
cedents Undoubtedly a vast amount of
fraud, some of it conscious and some
the result of ignorance or carelessness,
is practiced upon the public in this
matter of claims to extreme longevity.
Among the peasantry of Europe. partic-
ularly of the illiterate and dependent
class. there are no standards in use for
measuring the passage Of time. The
terms ten years and twenty years,
when used to express the notion of how
far apart certain events in their lives
are. convey to the minds of these people
only the general idea of shorter and
longer periods of past history, which,
by being added together, produce often
startling aggregate. The only way
that investigators can get anywhere near
the truth in such instances is to insist
upon the claimants casting his memory
back to some occurrence of general pub
lie interest of which the date can be
positively ascertained, and giving a
proper test of the keenness of his recol-
lection thereof. Even this, as can be
readily understood, may sometimes be
| misleading. but it is the farest gauge
yet discovered and at all events serves
to eliminate a good many bogus cases
from the list of possibilities"
''The great American fashion of cele-
brating every noteworthy event and
r.;a.;o every period of extraordi-
1piuehiio nary progress by fair -
., says The Star of July %,
VI Z alis' 1883, has been followed
this year more assiduously than ever
before. perhaps. IN the history OF the
country. The Cincinnati exhibition does
not satisfy all Ohio and hence Cleve-
land and Columbus are going to see
what they can do to rival it. Augusta,
Ga, is soon to call all mankind to come
and admire her achievements. and in
Buffalo, N. Y. similar preparations are
making. Virginia is not to be left in the
lurch, but steps to the front with a
worlds fair at Richmond This last affair
comes near enough home to be of spe-
cial interest to the people of the District,
who would rejoice to see their next
neighbor regain her proud eminence in
the sisterhood of States. She can do
so only by developing the natural re-
sources which have hitherto lain almost
untouched and of which she is blessed
with a great abundance"
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
peace, It's Wonderful"

The statesman of the years gone by
Displayed a solemn mein;
He wore hat severely high
And held pose serene.
He banqueted in formal state
His guest could neer complain
For terrapin was what they ate,
And what they drank champagne.
The statesman of the present day
His JOYS may still increase.
He joins the shouting crowd to say
How wonderful is peace"
The witty sayings from his pen,
Must take the world by storm
And he must show up now and then
In fishing uniform.
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Russia and japan.

Sklrmlshes between Russian and Jap
anese- e-Manchukuoan troops along the
Siberian border have been of such fire.
quent occurrence, and so little has re-
suited from them in the past, that it is
like crying wolf" when there is no
wolf to announce that Russo-Japanese
relations are strained near to the break
ing point.
Hot words. protests and bristling
threats are the sole harvest reaped
from Soviet-Japanese clashes since 1881.
How FAR such antagonistic manifesto
tons can continue without actual mill
tary hostilities is in the lap of the gods.
Any one of the incidents that have oc-
CURED since Japan went into Manchuria
in 1931-particularly that of year ago
over the Amur River islands-might have
led to war, but neither side was prepared.
Japan was either conquering or digest
ing Manchuria; Russia was busy with
her purge of Trotzkyist elements.
1t should not be assumed that it is
simply self-restraint that has prevented
open conflict between Russia and Japan.
Each has been as provocative as the
other, making no pretense of efforts to
conciliate. If past incidents did not lead
to war it was because the parties we're
conscious of some weakness in their own
forces which compromised their pros
poets of victory
But it cannot be expected that mutual
challenges of armed might can go on
year after year without some point be-
ing reached where one side feels strong
enough to carry its point by force That
stage may have already been reached in
the series of clashes which began July
II with the alleged violation of the
Manchukuoan border by Soviet SOL
diers. The Russians claimed that they
were never outside Siberian territory;
the japanese insist that they marched
several miles into Manchukuo.
Now come reports of virtual open fight
Ing between Russian and japanese
troops. That is the way wars begin
nowadays. No severance of diplomatic
relations no declarations of war.
Armies merely match their strength.
The diplomats are forgotten at their
posts, or remain, as the Chinese and
japanese Ambassadors did, merely to
preserve the fiction that there was no
war.
Warfare near the middle of the
twentieth century has become not only
the most barbaric in history, but also
the most laWless. Before 1914 it was
subject to certain customs which ma
tions preserved, even with respect to
their enemies. The mere wearing of
uniform entitled soldier to some rights
from the enemy. But even this CUSTOM
Zoo, has tended to disappear.
Has the Russo-Japanese controversy
entered that stage where alternate SAL
lies across the border are the prelude
to large-scale military operations? Do
these sporadic raids into Siberian and
Manchukuoan territory portend the be-
ginning of another "undeclared war"
like that in China? Only developments
themselves will tell, for the line of de-
marcation between peace and war has
disappeared
All that is known is that if a new
Russo-Japanese war is under way it has
followed the true 1888 pattern.
Evening star., 1938-07-31

Even a President of the United States
must admit the ordinary family respon-
sibilities that may assert themselves.
Along the banks of the Hudson Harlem
ties intend to conduct religious services
after their own fashion. They may be
curiosity is inevitable as to the Presi-
dental familys readiness to extend
them a welcome.
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cycles and wagons must not be stored
there. Imagine dark halls and STAIR
ways in so carefully planned a COM
munity!
The reader really must wait for
further rules, however. The manage
for, in thanking the ninety per cent CO.
operatives, it begs for ANY suggestions
you may have to Offer"
Evening star., 1938-07-31
Twenty Years Ago
The World War Day by Da,
July 81, 1918.

Believing that all opposition had been
destroyed by the furious bombardment of
Seringes the Germans let up and filtered
into the now empty town. Strong counter
attacks of theirs at Sergy and Meurcy
Farm failed
Just as they began to consolidate Ser
inges. they found themselves under Amer
ican fire from three directions. The en-
circling movement was completed, and the
town carried by bayonets. None escaped,
and few prisoners were taken.