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Evening star., 1938-03-27

thoritieS on business and finance have
blamed much of the trouble on these
two taxing principles and pleaded with
the administration for modification.
That some members Of the Senate
Finance Committee concurred in this
criticism was known months ago, but
with the House vested with sole power
to originate revenue legislation the
upper branch OF Congress was etfec-
lively stymied.
Eventually, by sufferance OF admin
istration leaders, the House early this
month did approve certain notifications
in the tax laws and their handiwork
came to the Senate Finance Committee.
The results-complete elimination Of
the undistributed profits tax principle
and transfer Of capital gains to sepa-
rate flat-rate classification rather than
treatment as ordinary income-have
been speedy and certainly gratifying.
True, the committee action is only a
single step In hazardous path, with
the full Senate membership and the pit
falls of conference consideration yet to
be encountered. 1t is encouraging, how
ever, to note the conclusive majority
mustered In committee and 1t is not un-
reasonable to hope that their sincerity
and determination to effect urgently
needed tax reforms may be transmitted
to colleagues on both sides of the Capitol.
Evening star., 1938-03-27

fertilizer are proving successful and COM
mercial concerns are reported to be start
ing production. President Roosevelt Is
OF special message to Congress.
At the same time, important work has
gone ahead in reforestation, in checking
erosion that rapidly was destroying the
farm land Of the region, in teaching new
methods to farmers and in helping them
to set up cooperative marketing and
cooperative buying agencies.
The attitude Of Congressman from the
States affected by the Tennessee Valley
Authority suggest that the people In the
area find its work to their liking.
\
But troubles have beset the experiment
almost from the start. These troubles
have grown out of faulty administrative
methods that were corrected only after
special survey made for the President
more than two years ago, out Of clashes
OF personality between DR.. A. E. Morgan
and his colleagues, and out of the deter
mined opposition of the private utility
industry. The utility fight now is about
won. The clash Of personalities is In the
process OF correction by the attempted
displacement Of the former chairman.
Once the political clouds Of the present
blow away. the country can watch this
planning program operate free from the
obstructions Of recent years. Then it will
be able better to make up its mind con-
corning the value Of the experiment,
t0opyright, lo3e.)
Evening star., 1938-03-27
STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. Z, l.,
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.
l Warning to America,

Every now and again familiar legends,
like the one we considered last Sunday,
watch Your Step." arrest us by their
challenging significance. What differ
ence In tho annual toll of disasters and
tragedies might be recorded If these SIM
pie, sane rules were scrupulo.lsly OBJ
served. We pride ourselves on the laws
and rules we make to regulate us in our
daily course. We placard highways and
streets with signs, green lights and red
lights, symbols of one kind and another,
all of them conceived to serve our phys
ical well-being. Long observation of
them dulls our sense OF their value and
when they interfere too much with our
designs or interrupt us in the prosecu-
ton Of our willful purposes we ignore
them. and sometimes we pay the penalty
or others do for our careleSSnesS.
Just now this legend, stop, Look and
Listen" is warning that we Of America
need to solemnly heed We are a bit
forgetful of some of the old and tested
rules that we have long observed as q
people. There are those in our Common
wealth, some in public places, who are
needless of the landmarks that have long
occupied conspicuous place on the high
way Of the Republic. Thoughtless and
indifferent people who have greatly
profited by the old signs would change
them substituting for them legends i'm
ported from nations and peoples whose
traditions and ways are wholly alien to
America. Even the wisdom of those who
have been the trailmakers OF the Repub-
lie is challenged and now and again their
moral worth called in question. In some
groups, frequently in so-called exclusive
circles, American standards and Ameri-
can ideals are ruthlessly attacked. Our
policy OF freedom of speech Can unchal-
lenged policy in itself is abused and
voluble minorities boldly press their
strange propaganda.
Among other wholesome legends that
compel us to stop, look and listen" is
the one we grave on our coins, In God
We Trust The legend is a little less
conspicuous than it was once, but as vet
1t has not been efiaced Possibly 1t Is
Evening star., 1938-03-27
New Police Court.

The new $1,5OO,0Oo Police Court Build
ing which opens Monday not only is a
welcome addition to the public buildings
Of the city, but also may prove step
toward better law enforcement.
No one in recent years has relished
any duty which required his attendance
at the old, crowded and, to put it
mildly, insanitsry building. Without a
doubt this aversion to going to Police
Court is partially accountable for the
small number Of persons which have
appeared at police line-ups in an effort
to identify crime suspects. A victim Of
a petty larceny or other minor crime
would rather not prosecute than be
forced to spend day or so in such a
structure as the old Police Court.
But witnesses will not be the only
group that rejoices in the opening of
the long-sought building. The judges
will have chambers described as the
"last word in convenience and beauty"
Jurors, court attaches and, last but not
least, the prisoners will have larger,
cleaner, brighter quarters. BY its very
nature the Police Court dock must house
persons who habitually are not overly
clean. This means that the prisoners
detention rooms must have constant
attention If they are to be kept sanitary.
1t is to be hoped this will be done in
the new building.
Even as "stone walls do not prisons
make" fine buildings do not necessarily
make good courts The personnel of
the bench is the priceless ingredient"
Of a good legal tribunal. In this respect
Washington has been quite fortunate.
The new court will, at long last, afford
a proper setting for the administration
of police and traffic law.
A growing city can never consider its
building finished, however. and open
ing of the new court serves to emphasize
the need for modern quarters by two
Of its closely allied agencies-police
headquarters and the jail.
Evening star., 1938-03-27

one recognizes these faults more clearly
than the local officials of the penal sys-
tenn. No one pleads more loudly for
their correction. Their appeals have won
the sympathy and support of Attorney
General Cummings, who has no official
Jurisdiction over local institutions, and
of the judges of the Police Court. These
officials have taken the trouble to visit
the penal establishments and see for
themselves the gravity Of the problem.
President Roosevelt, in letter to the
prison research group, said: II am sure
that your findings and recommendation
will receive tne thoughtful consideration
of those upon whom rests the RESPONSE
bility for legislation and for the admin
istration Of the District government"
That would seem to be broad hint that
the White House wants action on the
report.
Action of the sort recommended by the
P. I. r. A. requires money, however.
Coupled with the question of appropria-
tions is the vital question of whether the
funds should be supplied by the Federal
Government or local taxpayers or both
and to what extent. The Budget Bureau
must be won to any plan for large ex-
penditures, in any event.
If Mr.. Roosevelt really wants action at
this time word to the Budget Bureau
would speed the plan over its greatest
hurdle and would pave the way for the
thoughtful consideration" asked of Con-
gress and the Commissioners.
Evening star., 1938-03-27

less frequently recognized than formerly,
but IS an animation of national faith 1t
still stands. It is an affirmation that ex-
presses the faith of the founding faith
ers, even as 1t expresses the faith Of the
strong and valiant men who have guided
the ship of state IN troublous times. This
IL not matter that concerns only those
who make our laws and regulate our
commerce; 1t Is more than q platitude
time honored and respected whose impli-
cations are largely ignored; 1t Is a funda-
mental animation of belief that deeply
concerns every interest of our life. Its
acceptance and the reliance 1t implies
has to do with those intimate concerns
most vital to the assurance of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
In setting our house in order, In at
tempting to secure the resumption OF
normal ways with normal prosperity we
need to be admonished by the record OF
the past that we have attained our
greatest heights enjoyed our deepest sat
isfaction, when we have been true to our
avowed ideals and recognized that safety
and security resided in following the way
wisely planned by those who have made
and preserved us a nation. The world
outside our borders is seething with un-
rest; governments change their course
at the behest of some dominant and
capricious personality or at the instance
OF some small group like the one that
President Wilson aptly described as
little group of willful men," Minorities
set aside the will of majorities and ma
tlons and peoples reel and stagger under
burdens too heavy to be borne
Ac uQ 10 Il
them we are resolved to do, let us look to
1t that we mend them according to the
American pattern, and in that pattern
morality and religion occupy a command
ing and indispensable place. We are
moving into future that at present is
obscured by mists that rise out of inde-
cislon and conflicting opinions, but as we
move along our chosen way we will watch
the dangerous crossroads that are marked
by the old legend, stop, Look and Lis
ten" We will be true to the faith of our
fathers. America will be loyal to its an
cient watchword: "1n God We Trust"
Evening star., 1938-03-27
Sea Power on the Danube.

No manifestation of the Modification
Of Austria outstrips in menacing posi-
bilities or audacity of conception the
plan to create a German war fleet on
the Danube. Through Anschluss, the
stream Johann Strauss made famous
becomes not only the Reichs longest
river, but also its waterway to all Gen.
tral and Eastern Europe-Czechoslo-
vakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and
Rumania. The blue Danube now carries
German authority straight down to the
Black Sea. No wonder the project to
have swastika flying men of war ply its
placid waters already fires the imagina-
ton OF Hitlerites to point at which
they envision the possibility of Ger
many's turning the flank of the British
navy" despite the notorious Ribbentrop
deal, by which Britain, two years ago,
doing bit Of Versailles paper -scrapping
on her own account, assented to a Ger
man navy third the size of her own.
Warships are not new departure on
the Danube. Even decrepit postwar
Austria maintained a tiny craft which
served about the same purpose as our
revenue cutters. During the World War
the Danube fleet then of more formid-
able caliber, had a considerably more
potent role. A pair of it's monitors fired
the first shots at the Serbs along the
sava. They covered the capture of Bel
grade, aided MackenSens final drive
across the Danube that put Serbia out
OF the war, and played an important
part in the conquest of Rumania in 1916.
OF interest to Americans in the Danube
naval plans is the circumstance that the
Austrlans were inspired to found their
river fleet in 1865 by our Civil War ex-
periences. Vienna concluded that its
problem on the Danube was not unlike
the situation which found the Union and
the Confederacy in possession, respec-
lively. OF the upper and lower reaches of
the Mississippi.
Undoubtedly Hitler is fascinated bv
the strategic possibilities of free access
to the mouth of the Danube-the Black
Sea-" as General Goering's organ. the
Essener National zeitung, puts 1t. The
river fleet scheme synchronizes with re-
neWed demands of free passage for the
British fleet through the Dardanelles
and the Bosporus into the Black Sea,
to which control of the Danube's head
waters now gives Germany a direct ap-
proach. A war feet riding it's azure
currents will supplement the German
Berlin-Baghdad airline, to be converted,
beginning today, from mere mail route
into passenger service.
Military representation on the great
stream which touches-with one excep-
ton (Czechoslovakia) - states which
greet the formation of a greater Reich
with confidence" significantly observes
the government Deutsche Allgemeine
zeltung, will not fail to strengthen this
confidence and underline the task of
common security against the East"
Since time immemorial the world has
joked about the Swiss Navy" The
"seacoast Of Bohemia" has also been a
merry jest. Landlocked Central Europe.
as result of illimitable Nazi dreams,
may yet figure in the worlds marine
history.
Evening star., 1938-03-27
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star
The mystery OF the "Keely motor"
claimed to be a perpetual motion engine

The mystery Of the "Keely motor"
claimed to be perpetual motion engine,
Keely Of u disco.rs W. " nftu a' vaars .n. POM
Motor. according to the following
news item in The Star OF
March 10, 1888:
'Keelys secret Of the manipulations of
his mysterious motor, which he has so
securely guarded for many years, in spite
OF the efforts for disclosure by dissatis-
fled stockholders of the motor company,
is at last to be divulged. Judge Finletter
handed down an opinion in Philadelphia
Saturday, in the suit brought by Bennett
c. Wilson, who claims to hold an assign
ment OF Keely's motor invention, made
to him in 1859, which grants an order for
the inspection of all the motor machines
as made by Keely and compels him to
explain the theories of their workings to
Wilson and such experts as may be
named. Mr.. Wilson c. Strawbridge, the
patent attorney, will as Wilson's coun-
sci present to the court for its ap-
proval an order prescribing the method
of inspection"
Despite this move the true secret of
the Keely motor was not disclosed until
after the death of the inventor" which
occurred nearly 10 years later, when it
was found that the motion was impaired
to the mechanism by concealed COM
pressed air lines.
The cooks OF America, in solid array,"
says The Star Of March 20, 1888, armed
Mr u,nd.rb;,4,, with carving knives
1A1' '"hooA oii's and skillets, de-
Imported Chef. mand their rights.
The cause of this
perturbation and indignation is the an
nouncement that Mr.. Vanderbilt pro-
poses to import $4,000 chef, a fellow
Of infinite fancy, upon whom and in
whose dishes are no flies. The native
cooks demand to know If the law against
the importation of contract labor, which
can shut out an English clergyman under
contract to perform services in New York,
fails to apply to Vanderbilts chef OF the
lofty imagination, and they evince q dis
position, if answered in the Affirmative, to
pronounce our boasted civilization fail
ure. our system of protection against for
eign competition snare and delusion
and our discriminating law against the
importation of contract labor an injuri-
GUS fraud"
The March blizzard of fifty years
ago was vigorously employed as an argu-
ou.rLayu;. ment against the
0ne"o "AeS continued use of
in the Blizzard. overhead electric
wires in cities. The
Star of March 81, 1888, says:
Great complaint has been made in
New York City because the electric lights
in the streets were turned of during the
recent storm and those unfortunates who
were obliged to be out at night were
scarcely able to find their way about.
An expert electrician, however, is quoted
as saying that had the current been
turned on as usual there would have
been thousand perils added to those
which were suffered as 1t was. The
broken telephone wires, dangling against
the lighting lines, would have carried the
powerful lighting current in all direc-
tions, setting fire to houses and stores
and dealing death to every man and
beast that came its way. Could more
striking argument be adduced in favor Of
stripping the poles and burying the wires
underground"
Evening star., 1938-03-27

Americans still like to sing opera even
though it invites new interest on the
part OF orchestral accompanies. The
true musician still enjoys an oppor-
tunity to study effects in all languages.
Evening star., 1938-03-27

President Roosevelt may find that he
has power and persuasion to direct the
peace of North America even while new
quarrels arise just across the water.
Evening star., 1938-03-27

What with cherry blossoms in Potomac
Park and new chimpanzees at the Zoo
Washlngtonians will have plenty to see
today.
Evening star., 1938-03-27
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Safety First.

what made you favor votes for women
so strongly2 Did you think they were
likely to vote for you?"
mot exactly that" replied Senator
Sorghum, but ! was sure they'd vote
against me if I went on record against
them"
Evening star., 1938-03-27

Jud Tunkins says the impression that
a dollar is worth only fifty cents depends
a great deal on whether said dollar is
bein' spent or pursued.
Evening star., 1938-03-27
Heavy.

Heavy
Though words but airy trif1es seem
When uttered In debate,
When put on paper by the ream
They come to tons Of weight.
Evening star., 1938-03-27
Art Is Long.

Art Is Long.
"A drop of ink makes millions think
It did in days gone by.
The eager mind Is now inclined
To watch the pictures fly.
Ten thousand feet of art complete,
Devised with patient skill,
Is now employed in celluloid
To land one little thrill.
II believes every word In the Bible"
said Uncle Eben, "but don't believe
everybody dat tries to do heap of ex-
plainin' bout what to believe. std O.
lettin' me do my own believin'."
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1.-THE wisdom Of our ancestors was
great" said Hi Ho, the sage Of Chinatown,
'but not great enough to teach us to
profit by it."
Evening star., 1938-03-27

pany that refused TO sell. negotiations
are under way for acquisition of the pri-
vate system that serves Knoxville and
the surrounding territory. Chattanooga
has voted for public distribution of T. v.
A. power.
Eventually this sale of power will bring
important revenues to the Government,
whether or not those revenues will be
sufficient to meet the cost to the Gov
ernment of the entire project, plus inter-
est. The earning power Of T. " A. has
been checked for three years by legal
battles that cost the Government many
millions of dollars of income
But power is just one phase, even if q
dominant phase, Of the Tennessee VAL
ley plan.
The same dams that provide power also
provide year-round navigable channel
for 300 miles up the river. Eventually
they are to provide q channel for the
entire distance of $50 miles, reaching to
Knoxville. During 1887 approximately
2500,0O0 tons of freight were carried on
the Tennessee. Important industries al
ready are acquiring dock sites on the
river. Navigation is definitely more than
dream for an area that has contended
with discrimination in railroad freight
rates.
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Flood control also is an actuality, al
though the Gilbertsville Dam, which Con-
gress has rejected at least temporarily,
is a principal link in the plans for con-
trolling flood waters.
An abundance of electric power and
orders from Congress to try to produce q
cheap fertilizer led to experiments that
now have resulted in process for utiliz-
Ing the phosphate rock resources Of the
Tennessee Valley. Experiments With this
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07

a lawn chair in a dark spot near
his house, armed himself with
milk bottle, and began his vigil.
At 10:30 o'clock he saw a man
slink around the house and peep
into the bedroom window. Gillett
made a flying tackle and caught
the man.
He called to A. Blackburn,
neighbor, to telephone police. After
the call went in, Gillett and Black
burn held the captive until police
arrived.
At police headquarters the cap
tive gave the name of Elye Korn,
said ne was % years of age, was
a laborer and declared he had been
in Ell Centro since March. Officers
said he admitted he went to ''watch
a woman undress."
The man was positively identi-
fled by Herb Miller as the man he
caught peeking into a bedroom
window at 1862 Broadway last
Thursday but who eluded capture
in a chase through the neighbor-
hood.
Korn pleaded not guilty to a
charge of vagrancy in police court
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07

Worden, 826.
McCarran led III all the states
II counties. The trend of voting
was much as had been predicted.
Betting commissioners had offered
even money that Hilliard would not
carry more than two counties and
that McCarran's total vote would
exceed billiards. by four to one.
Former Sen. Tasker l.. Oddie was
unopposed for the Republican SEN
atorial nomination. Rep. j. G.
Scrugham had no opposition for
denomination on the Democratic
ticket and Harry Stewart was un-
opposed for the congressional nomi-
nation on the Republican ballot
The most bitterly contested race
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
McCurrun Re-nominoted
I'm Nevada Primaries

RENO, New, Sept. 7. (UP)-Sen.
Pat McCarran, opponent of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's governmental and
supreme court reorganization pro-
posals, was renominated today on
the basis of returns from yester-
days Democratic primary.
With less than so of the states
262 precincts missing McCarran had
a lead of more than three to one
over Albert Hilliard, who campaign
ed on platform of 100 per cent
support for the president. DR.. John
E. Worden, third Democratic can
didate who also said he would be a
solid supporter of the New Deal,
was out of the race almost from
the start.
Returns from 222 precincts gave:
McCaran, 14,755;
Hilliard, 4,747;
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07
Inquest Called in Death Of Count,
Killed in Car with Cigarette Girl

, MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 7. (UP)-An
inquest was called today for Friday
in the auto-crash death of the
Count of CovadonIa. Chief witness
will be Mildred Gaydon, 25 year
old beauteous cabaret cigarette girl
and the last of series of attractive
women to whom the gay and hand
some count had paid attention.
She was held today on techni-
cal charge of manslaughter pend
ing outcome of the inquest.
Meanwhile the body of the count
was held in an undertaking parlor
while instructions regarding funeral
services and burial were awaited
from the counts father, eXiled
King Alfonso XIII of Spain.
The count, fun loving eldest son
of the former Spanish ruler, shorn
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-07

the desire by newspaper proprletorS
for studying vital phases of the
program, and especially the present
proposed PWA loan, and allotment
of 1855 900, Hewes said
The board of directors urges the
approval of the loan as an integral
part of the original power program.
This involves nothing new"
Hewes stated. "The original appli-
cation in 1885 was for $4,662 900,
but limited PWA funds caused a
reduction to $2,76O,OO0. Now we are
applying for the balance in order
to accomplish the original PLAN"
Hewes explained that the haste
in calling the election resulted from
a PWA ruling Whereby all applica-
tions before it, Must have approval
by the voters by October /. This,
~ said, was contrary to previous