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Evening star., 1938-01-09

companionship that he came at length
to enjoy. How ungenerously we cherish
the false reckonings Of men and things.
James j. Hill the empire builder"
once told me that from his valuable gall
lery of Barbizon paintings he excluded
any subject that suggested or portrayed
cruelty or sadness. There's too much
Of 1t In real Hfe," he added. II want
my gallery to suggest the happier, ioright-
er, more promising side of life" There
was something sound in his reasoning.
Applying this to memory, how much
more exhilarating life would be If we
practiced this rule as 1t has to do with
what we store up in the mind. Yes,
there Is virtue, real virtue in being able
to forget incidents, events and even per-
sonalities that have caused us pain.
What capacity Christ had for putting
away from Him the tragic happenings
in His life and the men and women who
misunderstood and abused Him. He
taught Peter mighty lesson when the
disciple asked: How oft shall my
brother sin against me and I forgive
him, till seven times?" Quick came the
answer, II say not unto thee until seven
times, but until seventy times seven"
He would not have Peter cherish hatred
or unforgiveness, even to the extreme
limit Of patience and forebearance.
What an example of cherished hatred
and bitter animosity our modern life
discloses! What dark shadows are upon
the world because peoples and nations
are refusing to forget the somber and
tragic years that are past. They make
a virtue Of vice. They widen the cleav-
age that separates nation from nation,
race from race. Nationalism has taken
on reprehensible form in these latter
years. Its spirit of cherished hate
touches every phase Of life and instead
Of diminishing with the passing years,
1t grows In volume and intensity. 1t
gets the world nowhere and it makes all
men sick at heart. Nothing can purge
1t away saving the spirit of the Christ
who looked not with bitterness but COM
passion on those who slew Him.
We repeat, there is virtue in forgetting
and we shall make little satisfactory
progress until we practice it.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

ton, and Martin Luther. at the Diet Of
Worms. was painfully mindful Of pos
sible consequences when he declared:
Here stand! cannot do otherwisel I
God help mel Amen" At Cambridge
George Washington, assuming command
Of . rebel army. must have trembled in
his boots-he risked the rope completely
conscious Of the danger.
But people, relatively, do not matter.
The ideals for which they strive are
more important than themselves. Miss
Earhart probably is dead. She gave all
that she had in an effort to hit target
too "tiny." The perfection at which she
aimed was beyond her attainment. Her
failure was tragic, yet 1t ought not to be
exaggerated. What really signifies is the
fact that she was not afraid. Her vision,
her dream of victory over circumstance,
survives as her monument.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Art Progress.
We've got ourselves an orchester at Jim
town on the Crick.
We've wanted one for many years, and
now we've turned the trick.
We used to think musicians had to rise
at early morn
To start the daily practice on the violin
or horn;
Each scorning other pleasures. as he
turned with all his heart.
In patience to pursue the cultivation Of
his art.
But lately we've discovered-and we're
listening with glee-
An orchester is not as hard as what it
We've rounded up some jew's-harps, with
harmonicas and such.
A paper and q comb will give an extra
added touch.
A whistle will bring contrast when the
banjos lightly strum.
The one old-fashioned instrument we
cling to Is the drum.
We never mind the classics, which in
former days we'd prize.
Ours is futuristic music, every day more
moderniZed.
We're feelin' most progressive, movin' on
the double-quick,
Since gettin' up our orchester, at jim
town on the Crick.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

less of other factors, does not get the
acceptance of President Roosevelt.
Neither does he go along with the argu-
ment of utility, company executives that
they don't dare spend money for expan-
sion because of fear of Government COM
petition. A break in the impasse be-
tween the Government and the utilities
seems to be in sight.
The result of all of this is that Mr..
Roosevelt has been convinced that, bv
exercising leadership and by using avail
able powers, the Government can turn
the course OF business and can set under
way a co-ordinated recovery program
that will result in an absorption of all of
the Nations unemployed within a rea-
sonably few years. But to reach that
goal OF full recovery and full EMPLOYMENT
requires cooperation between business
and Government and labor OF a kind
that has been lacking in recent years.
Several reasons exist to suggest that
the needed cooperation may now be
possible.
One reason is that the present depres-
sion has been severe enough to convince
most Of the battlers that there Is little
to be gained by continual fighting.
Another reason is that the Supreme
Court now seems to have stepped out of
the path OF the New Deal, adding thereby
to the power of the President.
Still third Is that more and more
people in business have been educated to
the fact that the world has changed in
recent years and that the old rules of the
game no longer work quite as they did in
the good old days.
A flve-year plan, based upon accept
ance OF new rules that can be drafted
after careful consideration, may be the
: answer to the present depression riddle.
Coming moves by the President show
. that he Is convinced that full recovery
can be had through planning.
toepsFishh 1sss3
Evening star., 1938-01-09
"A Worthy 1888 Goal.

With nine State Legislatures meeting
within the next few weeks, q renewal of
the war on roadside ruination is in pros
pect. The National Roadside Council,
composed Of about fifteen organizations,
and other groups are pushing the cam
paign.
Virginia will be one of the States in
which an effort will be made again to
obtain billboard legislation. Already the
Associated Clubs of Virginia for Road
side Development in the Old Dominion
have collected pertinent data for presen-
tation to the legislature on the need for
highway Identification. The organiza-
ton also has made an important contri-
button to the cause of highway better
ment by obtaining pledges from a num-
ber of large concerns to refrain from
using billboards.
New England States have been among
the most active In eliminating ugliness
from their highways. Last year Maine
frightened its signboard law by raising
the nat 81 permit fee to a graded charge
ranging up to IS. A provision under
which cities and towns are given power
to impose billboard taxes in addition to
the State levy also was appended to the
law. In Massachusetts, the Department
Of Public Works is reported to have dis
approved 8l3 billboards and ordered their
removal, while in Connecticut bill has
been offered to confine outdoor advertis-
ing signs to built up" areas.
Meanwhile attention has been called to
. new driving menace-Nghted signs
Their increase has given rise to COM
plants that they confuse and distract
Tho attention Of drivers. This develop
Evening star., 1938-01-09
A Common Faith.

II any proof Of the Importance of re-
ligion in the life Of the Nations Capital
be needed, 1t may be had tomorrow
evening at Constitution Hall. For the
third time in as many years more than
twenty different religious organizations
will unite in a single demonstration of
love for God and man. Separated by
history. they come together for few
brief hours in witness of a common
faith-a rational confidence in their
own power to share mutual experience
Of praise and prayer.
All who dream Of world relieved Of
poverty and war must be encouraged by
such spectacle: all who hope for the
conquest of sin and fear must rejoice
to know that 1t can be presented without
compromise Of any essential tenet or
doctrine. When Catholic and Protestant,
Jew and Gentle, the sons and daughters
Of all races and all countries forget
temporarily the forces which have parted
them for generations. they testify to q
greater compulsion-a basic dynamic
which somehow and sometime can bind
them together in fellowship unbreak-
able.
The example, 50 established. is signif-
cant Of q universal law. Discussed in
terms Of mathematics. 1t symbolizes the
triumph of plus" value over minus"
value in the cosmos. The eternal bright
ness of the starry armament. the rising
and the setting Of the sun, the endless
sequence of birth and death, the longing
of the human soul for perfection and
for peace-al these declare the glory of
His handiwork who made all things
and deemed them good.
Washington is proud Of its experiment
in religious solidarity. Tomorrow even
ing's meeting should be crowded with
people grateful for the opportunity to
contribute to its success.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Diplomats or Spoilsmen?

With two out of four new ambassador.
ships going to career men in the diplo-
matte shake-up just announced by Pres
ident Roosevelt, far higher average of
political" appointments is achieved
than used to be the rule in those good
old days when to the Nctors belonged
all the spoils. With promotion OF Assist
ant Secretary Of State Hugh Wilson to
the smbassadorship to Germany and OF
Norman Armour. Minister to Canada, to
the ambassadorship to Chile, seasoned
foreign service officers receive merited
recognition. Joseph P. Kennedy's assign
ment to the blue ribbon post of the
Court Of ST. James comedies with i'm
pending reciprocal trade agreement ne
gottations with Great Britain. Seldom
has there been more timely and appro-
pirate diplomatic appointment than that
of the chairman of the United States
Maritime Commission to the London
Embassy. He is literally the man of
the hour.
AS far as the personal qualities Of
Joseph E. Davies are concerned, no
criticism attaches to the Ambassador
designate to Belgium, even though his
maiden venture In diplomacy. as envoy
to the Soviet Union, brought no laurels
to American statecraft. Perhaps If he
had contrived to be something more than
an itinerant sojourner in Moscow Mr..
Davies might have done better job In
cementing Russo American relations But
mono Of these considerations has any
thing to do with the fact that in order
to find more congenial post for heavy
contributor to the Democratic national
Campaign Committee, one of our ablest
Foreign Service men-Hugh 8. Gibson.
has been booted out of Brussels. It has
apparently not yet been decided what
will be done to, with or for Mr.. Gibson.
There were suggestions that he might
be offered the vacated assistant secre-
taryship of State. 1t is very much to be
hoped that Secretary Hull will insist upon
retaining Hugh Gibson's services in
some major capacity. When the world,
In President Roosevelt's recent words,
is 'in tension and disorder" it is no time
to dispense with diplomats Of the ability
and experience Of man who has spent
thirty years in nearly dozen different
countries as q member Of the Foreign
Service. II there was ever q moment
when mere campaign angels whether
deserving" Democrats or Republicans
have no place In diplomacy, that time is
now.
There Is an ugly suspicion that Hugh
Gibson is on the way out because he Is
close friend of Herbert Hoover.
Whether there is ground for that insinu-
alton or not, his retirement would be q
blow to the career idea in the Foreign
Service, which the President and his
Secretary Of State have done 50 much to
develop and maintain.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

Russia has contributed some Of the
most remarkable entertainment the
world has known but has allowed too
much fighting to interfere with 1t. We
recall Jojo the dog-faced man or the
beautiful Circassian lady only to find
them overwhelmed by symbols of regal
and tmplacable fierceness.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star
Washington's street railway needs of
fifty years ago were thus discussed in The
Washington's Street n'al narv " ' IN
Railway Requirements. 1888:

Washington's Street 's, nsrv " 's IN
Railway Requirements. 1888:
THE an
nouncement that Washington needs
some additional street railway facilities
has brought down upon Congress food
Of applications for franchises. Roads are
proposed to run from everywhere to no.
where, with unlimited privileges OF ex-
tension, the cars to be propelled by elec-
tricity, cable, steam and horse power,
respectively. and to run some at grade
and others at an elevation. If fraction
of the proposed bills were passed the air
as we'll as the surface of the earth would
be full of transportation facilities. So
completely is the field occupied prospec-
lively, both in variety of motive power
and in selection of route, that 0ne latest
Of the succession of street railway kings
are compelled to exercise considerable
ingenuity to find an opening. It only
remains for the members of some new
company to announce that they are asso-
ciated together to ask the privilege Of
firing the citizens of the District out
of an air gun or cannon (patenteO from
Tenleytown to Agassiz Park and return,
with the privilege of using as inexpensive
a form Of equipment as may be desired
and of paying to the District nothing on
any account whatever. Then the list
will be full.
Suburban Washington, or the District
in general outside of Washington, not
reached by steam railroads, or neglected
where 1t Is reached, needs additional
transportation facilities. and few Sec
tions OF the city proper, of which the
needs are evident, will be improved by
new railways or extensions of those which
exist. But the greatest care will be re-
quired in granting single new franchise
to prevent the occupation and spelling
OF resident streets in sections already
fairly well supplied with cars or herdics.
Unnecessary annoyance and damage to
citizens as well as Disagreement of the
surface of the city should be avoided.
washington among the great cities is
as a woman among men. Denied su-
premacy in business affairs, it finds its
strongest recommendation in picturesque
beauty. It should take womans care of
its appearance. The city's most urgent
need in respect to street railways is not
that cars should be run by every mans
door or on an elevated road by his Sec
ond story window, but that the condi-
tions Of railway travel should be i'm
proved, that grooved rails should be sub
stituted for the horse as motive power,
that cars should run more frequently as
well as more quickly to prevent over
crowding as far as possible, that the rate
of travel along the lines should be rea-
sonably uniform and not at railroad
speed past the transfer stations and at q
snail's pace elsewhere on the route, and
that in the case of any new lines or
extensions, and as far as possible in the
case of existing lines, these servants and
masters of the public be required to pay
roundly to the District for their fran
chises or as substitute to share their
profits with the community"
Evening star., 1938-01-09

The Japanese Emperor can hardly
claim personal secrecy after benefittng in
so many ways by contacts with civiliza-
ton as the world Is learning 1t.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

Theories concerning old diseases con-
tinue to arise. The cancer refuses to
allow itself to be conquered even though
studied in many lands.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

The Japanese have not declared war,
depending on. the ability Of . man to
recognize war when he sees 1t.
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Evening star., 1938-01-09
Complete Possibilities.

Complete Possibilities.
A movie that combines with sound
Displays q wisdom most profound.
It must become Q hit, because
It can provide its own applause.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Making Life Easier.

Making Life Easier.
HAS Congress really done anything to
make life easier?"
mo doubt about it," answered Senator
Sorghum. "The privilege Of putting the
label Congressional on my motor car has
saved me q world Of trouble with the
police"
Jud Tunkins says the rooster that just
stood of and watched the fight is the
one who butts In on the victory and crows
the loudest.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Lure Of . Title.

"Would you marry q man because OF
his title?"
I'm fond Of athletics" said Miss
Cayenne. II might, If 1t was a cham
pionship title"
Evening star., 1938-01-09

Intellectual Economy.
Economy Of thought and word
Is constantly on view.
The old ideas may. be heard
And seem as good as new.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

"Indolence," said Hi Ho, the sage Of
Chinatown, frequently mistakes itself
for patient and superior philosophy"
Evening star., 1938-01-09

"A good straight-out sermon bout hon.
esty," said Uncle Eben, "is liable 70 spoil
many q Sunday chicken dinner.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

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Main ONCE: 11th st. and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York once: 110 East 42nd Ct.
Chicago once: 435 North Mchigan Ave.
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On the campus of the University Of
Chicago, In Richmond and Luray,
Va. and Cranbrook, Mich, are To-
Gated some of this country's finest caril-
Ions. The Methodist Church Tower Of
Philadelphia, the Scottish Rite Cathedral
Of Indianapolis and the Trinity Church
Of Springfield, Mass, also have carillons.
There are approximately 30 singing
towers" in the United States, and fewer
than $50 in the world
Possibly the best known carlton in
America is the Singing Tower at Noun
tain Lake, Fla, built by the late Ed
ward w. Box as gift to America in
honor Of his parents. The tower rises to
q majestic height Of 205 feet, is con-
structed out Of Georgia pink marble and
coquina stone Of Florida. The bells; II
In all, weigh from II pounds to II tons
each. Surrounding the tower are more
than 800 live oaks, each from 80 to 20
feet high.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14
ANNUAL MEETING OF
FARM LOAN ASSOC.

The Annual Meeting of the Wor-
cester County National Farm Loan
Association was held in Snow Hill,
on January 18th. The meeting was
we'll attended by members and friends.
Mr.. Held from the Federal Land Bank
and Mr.. Gren, from the Farm Credit
Administration, attended the meeting
and explained matters of interest to
the members.
The secretary reported very IA
vorable years business, the farmers
of this county are taking advantage
of the low interest rates offered by
the Federal Land Bank on farm mort
cages in increasing numbers.
The members elected from their
numbers, the following members to
hold office as Directors during the
year: George Hale Harrison, Presi-
dent; George H. Truitt, Vice Presi-
dent; Willis C. Hall, J. v. Bryde,
Preston Jones, Directors; J. v. Bryde,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14
POCOMOKE GUARDS BEGIN
SEASON With SALISBURY

The Pocomoke Guards Basketball
Team opened their schedule last night
against the St. Peters Club, one of
the strongest teams of the Salisbury
City League.
This year the Guards have the fol-
lowing members on the Squad: Tom
Miller, Guard; Boots Nelson, Guard;
Collie Miller, Forward; Ed MCGEE,
Guard; Herman Phillips, Forward;
Joe Levin, Forward; Harold Matthews,
Center; Irving Lambertson, Center {;
Buddy West, Forward; and AL Hay
man, Forward.
The Cambridge Collegians have
been booked to play at the Armory
for Thursday of next week. The
Cambridge Collegians won the Sails
bury All-Shore Tournament last year,
and are one of the fastest teams on
the shore.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14
FIRE AT EXMORE
THREATENS THE
BUSINESS AREA
Starts In Big Building Of c. J
Prettyman And Spreads
Across The Street
LOSS is ESTIMATED
TO BE ABOUT $4,000

Fire threatened large part of the
residential section of Exmore Monday
night, when a small blaze, discovered
back of the large C. J. Prettyman
building, at $50 o'clock by a passer-
by, had, in less than an hour swept
through the two-story, $50 foot long
Prettyman structure; jumped across
the street destroying the building OF
the Eastern Shore Bay Company; the
residence occupied and owned by Al
bert Shelton; greatly damaging the
residence of Nile Corbin, owned by
James Ashby; the residence of J. A.
Heather, owned by the Bank of Nor
Hampton, and doing considerable
damage to the big plant of the Ex-
more Coca Cola Bottling Works. 1t
was miraculous that the latter plant,
involving a $4,000 enterprise, was
saved.
The losses from the fire are esti-
mated at $4,000; only partially COW
cred by insurance. The large Pretty
man building and it's stock was val
ued at $25, 900, with only $1,000 insur-
ance.
Exmore, with no fire engine, was
helpless; and when Cape Charles,
Eastville, Onancock, Tasley, Parks
ley fire companies were able to reach
the scene, great damage had already
been done. The fire was, however,
controlled by the five volunteer fire
companies and without their assis-
tance it would be hard to say to what
lengths the fire would have extended
through the growing little Northamp-
ton county community. Salisbury,
Pocomoke, and Chincoteague fire COM
panies were notified, and stood by to
render assistance if necessary.
The Prettyman building, erected in
1924, was occupied by G. P. Pretty
man, large produce dealer and brok-
er. engaged also in the sale of feed
and seed, wholesale.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-01-14
MASONIC PAST MASTERS
met THURS. IN BERLIN

The oath annual meeting of the
Past Masters Association of Somerset
and Worcester counties was held in
Berlin, Md, Thursday afternoon, jan
uary 18th.
The business meeting convened at
2:3O o'clock, when the Past Masters
degree was conferred upon the newly
elected Masters of the various Masonic
Lodges in the two counties. Officers
for the Association were also elected.
In the evening dinner was served
to the members and guests at 1880
o'clock.
A number of Past Masters of Po-
comoke Lodge No. 17s, A. F. & A. NJ,
of Pocomoke, attended the session.
Alton F. Mason is the newly elect
ed Master of the local lodge and re-
ceived the Past Masters degree.