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The Washington times., 1938-11-15

SIlduIIOl 1lOWlIlS, anu 4IlS
Shamrock I'll be wearing!
"Whiskers on EN-"
Mr.. Feldman pulled from his
pocket an orange-c overed d
volume and turned to page 752.
Here's q little thing that
should go good with the Navy"
he said. Il dashed it off this
morning at breakfast. That's
the way Joe Feldman works.
When a song comes into his
mind he sets it down, no matter
where he may be. It's called
Mary Want to hear it?"
WITHOUT waiting for a reply
w he started off:
"When you're on the ocean the
ship is in motion,
"The reason is just purely set
entitic.
But When you are lonely just
call on her only,
"She sure can talk and oh hoU
so prolific"
mot so lousy?" asked Mr..
Feldman with a peculiar CLINT
in his eye.
" A SWEETHEART" I told
"A him hurriedly. Nov
what seems to bother my CORE
spondentS most is the fact that
you have never had a song pub
lished. How does that fit in
with your claim to be the
worlds greatest as well as most
prolific song writer?"
I'm glad you asked me-" re-
piled Mr.. Feldman, because it
is time the world knew. The
song publishers, Irving Berlin,
Shapiro and Bernstein, all of
them, FEAR Joe F'eldman. Mr..
F'eldman now has over 750 "a
cal1ber hit numbers. Song writ
ers and song publishers know
that if Feldman'S material ever
hits the air waves, the movies
and the song counters, he would
DEADLOCK the music busi-
ness"
How Gomez" I asked.
"SS1MPLE as Mr.. McLough-
~ Inns LYRICS" Mr.. Feldman
answered. Gordon a nd Revel
are supposed to be the leading
tunesters in the game. They
have written this year only
three hits. Berlin wrote two hits
in that time. Rubin and Warren
wrote one hit. Robin and Rain
ger wrote three. Rodgers and
Hart wrote one. They are the
top writers-if you except Field
man, whom they are trying to
freeze out. Among them they
have produced a total of ten hits
for the year.
Nov compare these men with
Feldman. In the year 1888 alone
Feldman wrote 285 songs HIM
SELF, not counting the one in
collaboration with Mr.. Phillips.
Out of these 285 allow the aver
age failures, nine in every ten.
That would still leave Joe Field
man with % hits for the year,
or almost three times as many
song hits as all the top tune
smiths combined"
Mr.. Feldman picked up his
orange book and threw this over
his shoulder:
$50 what have you got? Joe
Feldman is three times as good
as all the best song writer's put
together. Amt that enough to
scare any song writer?"
Copyright, 1898. by Washington
HeraldTimes
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mo. A self : re-
specting girl does
not accept lifts
from strangers. A
girl sometimes does
not realize j JUS t
what she is doing
when she steps
into a stra n g e
m a MS car. She
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always forms the wrong opinion
of girl who accepts his ride.
If she does it just to save car
fare she doesn't show good
sense or nice breeding. Women
should protect their good repu-
tations."
X \ X
Mrs. Margaret Miller, 1000
block Eighteenth St. N. E., long
distance operator:
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doesn't stop to think that she
might be getting into trouble.
She should not only be afraid
of physical injury, but also of
giving herself a bad reputation.
A girl is doing wrong in accept
ing a lift even on days of the
very worst weather."
X X X
Mrs. Vallie Quinn, 1900
block Pennsylvania Ave. S. E.,
beautician:
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play a muSi-
c al in stru-
ment and 1
am a very
poor reader
of music, but
I am a little
b e t t er off
than he is, in
that I di d
m a n a G e to
have some of
m y S o n g S
nnhliShnd I
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"a girl is espe-
cially foolish if she
does. She certainly
is taking a big
C h a nee, because
you never can tell
what kind of a per-
son is behind the
wheel when she ac-
cepts the lift. If a
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"A girl is absolute
ly foolish to take
such a chance. Of
course, there may
be times when con-
ditions Justify a
girls accepting a
lift, but she is TAX
ing a chance just
the same. A man
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Absolutely not.
1t is a dangerous
thing for a girl to
do. She certainly
puts herself at the
mercy of the man
if she accepts a
ride, not knowing
in advance any
thing about his
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character. I don't think really
decent men try to coax women
into their cars, and even if the
man turned out to be a gentle
man, the girl cheapens herself
by accepting the lift"
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No, d e f initely.
It's dangerous, per
fectly silly and
shows lack of good
taste on the part
of the girl. A girl
who allows stran-
gers to pick her up
must be over anx.
iouS to meet men.
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Is Hitler Losing His Grip?

q CUPPOSE strong anti-Semtc movement should build
- up in this country and that suddenly mobs should
form in principal cities and loot Jewshowned stores
of all kinds; and that police should stand idly by
We would call it anarchy. 1t would mean that respon-
sbe government had abdcated been forced to abdi
cate to the bornhief element which always cuts loose
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I'm dead set
against girls ac-
cepting lifts from
strangers. It's quite
common for young
men to catch rides,
but it certainly is
n OF the proper
thing for a girl to
do. In a sense a
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as soon as it feels authority relaxing.
We've had and halted such things in
this country-looters shot in Rhode
Island after the recent New England
hurricane, looters bumped off by SOL
diers enforcing martial law in San
Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
Hitler's police have not shot or shot
at or otherwise interfered with the
looters of the German Jewish proper
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There must be many women
who encourage men to offer
them lifts, judging from the
many men who bother respecta-
BILE women who happen to be
walking down the streets alone.
I've read of so many things in
the paper about girls getting
hurt by taking lifts"
y y
Emmett Mcmahon, 1900 block
TLjrJ c. NJ Wy .1.
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Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District of Columbia since
January /, 1888, is graphically
shown by the death watch.
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ties. And witnesses report these mobs have been made
up largely of hungry people who ate the stolen food
The logical thing to expect next when lot of German
somachS again begin gnaw past endurance is for Ger
mobs to loot Gentle stores Indeed this has already
been foreshadowed by the recent mob attacks the
palaces of Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich and Car
dna Inntzer of Vienna.
We think all this indicates that Hitler no longer
control his people; that he losing his grip the born
thief element-in super-orderly and super poced
Germany. This explosion of hungry mobs, plus the
Hitler governments levy of billion-mark "fine"
German Jews, indicates that Hitler has turned
much German wealth into armaments that he can no
longer provide for the necessities of all his people.
Unless the United States prepared go into another
against Germany, do not think should take
any official action against that country Unoffcialy,
of course, contribute to re-
Lei HHLeT lief funds for German Jews, and
Hmm Himself we might loosen up our mmigra-
tion quotas as regards them And
we should all resolve anew to tolerate no European
hatreds here-hatred for any racial religious or
nomic group.
But let's not fly off the handle. It seems inevitable
that Hitler will reach point where he will have to start
to keep his hungry and frantic country from blow
ing up under him and his National Socialist Party We
do not how Hitler could carry such for long
Hitler appears to be doomed, whatever he does.
The wise thing for the democracies we believe is to
let Hitler start the fight not to attack him. The Kaiser
started the fight in 1914-and the moral force of world
adherence large any other single factor in his
eventual defeat, overthrow and exile.
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By Frank Romer
XERxES

NOTHING and no one
~ dared oppose his
wishes or delay this Per-
sian tyrant's plans. When
a wind-raised sea Destroy
ed a bridge Of boats built
at his order, Xerxes not
only beheaded those in
charge Of the project. but
"punished" the sea. He
had the surface Of the
water struck with three
hundred lashes!
Copyright 1888 by F. Eomer
The Washington times., 1938-11-15
Tree Choppers Were Defied

WYE ALL KNOW the story about George Washington
w He cut down cherry tree when he was little boy
and was sorry he did it. But he wouldn't lie about it.
There isn't anybody sitting in Congress who could be
said to even approach George Washington in mental stat
ure patriotism and other attributes But we should ex-
pect degree of truth from of them-and it would
appear that the truth is not in them The promise was
made last spring in the matter of the preservation of the
famous cherry trees when the scandaous bill to spend
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The Inquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times in
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Should a girl accept lifts from
strangers?
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THE ANSWERS

Mrs. Jean Brown, 1400 block
Spring Rd, N. W., housewife:
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girl might even be endangering
her life to accept transporta-
ton in the automobile of a man
whom she has never seen before.
1t is always wiser to wait for
street car or bus and be sure of
a safe arrival at home"
x X X
Mrs. Pearl Barrentine, 1000
block Eighteenth ST., Arlington,
Va, cafeteria employe:
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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE


the wtersw be
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WIIIeS JdIIIeS MCLOUglIIu OF
2102 o Street, N. W.:
Like Mr.. Feldman, I can not
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Chicago Woman
Saves An Elm

base of the tree and defed the choppers swing their
ak on her and her tree
She held her vigil beside her loved elm for two days.
And such storm of protest went up that the mayor had
to rescind the order and the tree spared.
Mrs Walter B. Fry and Mrs E. Humphrey Daniel promi-
nent Washington cubwomen have suggested if all other
means fall that the patriotic lovers of live beauty-in
place of the cold marble-folow the example of the
Chicago woman take their places at the bases of our
loved cherry trees and dare the choppers to chop.
Some way another must see to it that single
tree falls
And rest assured that Jefferson himself would have
that way.
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Third st. N. W., salesman:
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~, -, ~ -, ten million dollars meaning
VO"CU OuCT"ECe less marble in "honor" of Jeffer-
NnfurnI Ron,tu being lobbied through
Congress.
Of course every possible legal weapon must be used to
halt this vandalism of city by the political carpet
baggers who rule and who do not pause for single
second in the sacrifice of natural beauty in favor of cold
marble columns. These latter will be less monument to
Jefferson than they will be example of criminal ex
travagance by who have become so used to wasting
money that they have lost all sense of it's value
Once agai" end the examples crop up so often that
they becor sort of monotonous persecuton-we are
presented with the only ultimate solution the only safe
guard for the residents of the Capital of the Nation
And this of course isvotes for Washington local self
government our city in our own hands
We reminded of the true story of woman of mod
crate circumstances in front of whose home on Chicago
side street there grew beautiful elm tree The city
o;JoI
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ten million dollars on meaning
less marble in "honor" of Jeffer-
son was being lobbied through
Congress.
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va, cafeteria empIoye:
Evening star., 1938-03-19
Price Is Offered
For Hustle Whale
By Smithsonian
Virginia POstnlaster's
Work in Unearthing of
Bones Praised.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Smithsonian Institution has
offered a tentative and undisclosed
amount of money for the bones of a
whale which its scientists said today
were deposited at Hustle, Va, when
the mammal foundered in shallow
water 100000 years ago.
Representatives of the institution
examined the ancient bones yesterday
and recommended they be bought if
the price was right. The market for
fossil whale bones was definitely
bearish," however, they added
Smithsonian officials praised the
work of Barbee Spindle, jr, post
master at Hustle, Va, and the work.
men he employed for the care they
had taken in unearthing the whale
bones. Although they were unframed
in such work they did an exception
ally good Job" in recovering them,
they said.
DR.. c. w. Gilmore and Dr. A. Rem
ington Kellogg, two of the institu-
tion's experts on ancient animals, de-
clared the bones were definitely those
of cetothere. or whale bone" whale,
instead of those of zeuglodon, or sea
serpent. as they had been incorrectly
identified before
Smithsonian officials said because
the bones deteriorated rapidly when
exposed to the air they would be of
little value within few months un-
less properly treated.
Evening star., 1938-03-19

+ I S.J
Thursday. which was broadcast
throughout the world, was interpreted
as bearing on such developments as
the German coup in Austria and ia
pans invasion Of China, this was the
first direct statement by the Secretary
applying the principles outlined in
that speech to the Austrian incident.
Technical Steps Necessary.
THE events pertaining to the
changes which have taken place in
the status of the Austrian Republic
will necessitate, on the part of the
Government of the United States, q
number of technical steps, which are
now being given appropriate consider.
ation." Mr.. Hull said.
He declined to elaborate on this
statement other than to indicate the
status Of the American Legation in
Vienna and Of the Austrian Legation
here, customs. tariff provisions and
other details of normal relations be-
tween the countries were among the
technical steps being studied.
These phases Of the mechanics of
the governmental functioning will
have to be readjusted in the light of
the concrete developments, Mr.. Hull
said.
His announcement revealed that
Mr.. Prochnik informed the State De-
partment on March II that Austria
had been incorporated in the Ger
man Reich. Previously the German
Ambassador had informed the depart
ment that he had assumed the func-
tions heretofore performed by the
Austrian Ministers.
Mr. Hull said the department had
no information concerning report
printed in a copyrighted story by the
Philadelphia Inquirer today that a
group of American newspaper men
had been approached with proposal
to establish chain Of pro-Nazi, anti
Semitic newspapers throughout the
United States. Mr.. Hull said he was
not certain whether the matter was
worthy of investigation by the de-
partment.
According to the Philadelphia news
papers dispatch, the 1S American
newspaper men before whom the pro-
posal was laid in a meeting at the
Austrian Legation here last Sunday
refused to become parties to the under
taking. The newspaper men ap-
preached were said to have been en-
ployed to combat boycotts of Ameri-
can-made goods in their sections.
Source of the funds for financing
the proposed newspaper venture was
not disclosed, according to the dis
patch, although it was said printing
facilities would be provided by men,
bers of the American Volks-
h,1nS
Evening star., 1938-03-19
PR0CLA|MS APRIL 6
ANNUAL ARMY DAY
President Issues Proclamation
for Military Celebration
THROUGHOUT Country

President Roosevelt today issued his
annual Army Day proclamation, CALL
ing for a military celebration through
out the United States on April s, the
goth anniversary of this country's en-.
try into the World War.
In the proclamation Mr.. Roosevelt,
as commander in chief of the Army
and Navy, ordered military units in
this country and its Territories and
possessions to cooperate with civic
organizations in appropriate observ-
ance of the day.
The annual Army Day demonstra-
tions are authorized by congressional
resolution. Governors of the various
States, under this resolution, are re-
quested to issue similar proclamations,
Evening star., 1938-03-19
CONFERENCE is HELD
AT MINERS COLLEGE

Miner Teachers College was acting
as host today to regional conference
on vocational and secondary school
problems.
At the morning session, DR.. Charles
H. Thompson, professor Of education at
Howard University, discussed "Voca-
tional Education and Guidance Of
Negroes" DR.. Garnet c. Wilkinson,
first assistant superintendent Of schools,
presided.
Various panel discussions were to be
held this afternoon. Teachers from
Pennsylvania, Delaware. New Jersey
and Virginia were attending the con-
ference. E. A. Clark. president Of
Miner Teachers College. is general
chairman. and r. NJ Mattingly, prin-
cipal of Cardozo High School, is chair
man of the Program Committee.
Evening star., 1938-03-19

turn here from his last field as
signment in Indiana.
Besides having been stationed at
various places throughout the States.
Mr.. Leavitt's work had taken him to
Alaska, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico
and Hawaii
During the World War he was an
officer in the Army Engineer Corps,
having been commissioned in 1917
and assigned to the 25th Regiment
Of Engineers. In France his COM
pany was transferred to the 29th
Regiment of Engineers, and took part
in many important surveys and engi-
neering work overseas. Later Mr..
Leavitt was made topographic officer
of the 9Th Army Corps.
After his discharge from the Army
in 1919 he rejoined the engineering
staff Of the survey. Mr.. Leavitt's home
here recently had been at the Cavalier
Hotel, $500 Fourteenth street NV.
Active in the American Legion and
the Masonic fraternity, he was a
member of the Bethesda Chevy Chase
oot Va oAAS AS6AOAA, VIC ASAoo oOuSC
of Masons at Houston, Mo-: Royal
Arch Chapter No. 80, at Rollo, Mo-;
the Washington Commandery, knights
Templar, here, and the Aloha Temple
of the Shrine at Honolulu
Mr. Leavitt is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Alice Leavitt; a brother,
Edwin Leavitt, Tucson, Ariz.; two
sisters, Mrs. Serene Phemister and
Mrs. Duncan Christie of Houston, Mo-,
and nephew, Lieut.. Carl Christie,
U. S. NJ, now stationed at Annapolis.
Funeral services will be held at II
am. Monday at the Fort Myer chapel.
Rev. DR.. John C.. Palmer, pastor of
the Washington Heights Presbyterian
Church and grand chaplain of the
Grand Lodge Of Masons in the Dis
trict, will officiate. Burial will be In
Arlington National Cemetery.
Evening star., 1938-03-19

cal, and that we commend their asso
citation for the betterment of health
But we would like on the one hand t,
know on what grounds you have con
doned such employment of these mem
bers of your society, one your own as
sociate, while on the other you hav'
proceeded against DR.. Scandifio."
Editors Note-The Evening
Star Newspaper Co. employs DR..
John F. Preston as director of its
medical clinic. In this capacity DR..
Preston makes physical examina-
tions of prospective employees, is
available for emergencies which
may arise in The Stars plant, and
certifies sick leave for employees
OR. Preston, in fact, renders
medical services to Star employees
for minor ailments but invariably
refers patients to their family ply
sicians for any but the most per-
functory services. If DR.. Preston
continues to treat a Star employe
1t is in the capacity of a private
physician, for which he is directly
compensated by the individual. In
no instance has The Evening Star
Co. ever made any charge whatso-
ever against any employe for any
service rendered by DR.. Preston or
any of the personnel of the medi-
cal clinic. There are no assess.
ments whatsoever against any en-
ployes for maintaining this clinic
or for paying the salary Of DR.. Pres
ton.
(The Evening Star Newspaper Co.
is not engaged in the practice Of
medicine.)
Spokesmen for Group Health Asso
citation today expressed gratificatio,
over the moral support offered G. H
A. BY President Roosevelt yesterday a
his press conference. The Presiden
said he did not approve of the Med
ical Society's opposition to G. H. A
While he said he thought it "deplor
able" for the Medical Society to Oh
pose steps looking to better medica
care, he gave no indication that h
proposed going beyond voicing al
opinion.
Spokesman for the Medical Society
asked for comment on the situation
said there was no change In the atti
tude of the society, and there wa
nothing to be said at present..
Evening star., 1938-03-19
AUSTRIA IS HELD
VICTIM OF TREATY
Dr.. Walsh Calls on U. S. Not
to Forget Soviet Menace
in New Crisis.

Commenting on "the disappearance
OF another republic of Europe" DR..
Edmund A. Walsh. S. j.. declared in
his weekly public lecture last night
that Hitler, by his seizure Of Austria,
had simply finished what the 1919
peace treaties began in victimizing
that country.
DR.. Walsh, regent of the School Of
Foreign Service of Georgetown Uni
versity, digressed from a discussion
Of the rise Of revolution in the Ameri-
can Colonies to allude to the crisis
IN Europe. and also to Secretary Of
State Hull's ringing defense OF In
ternational decency" uttered in his ad-
dress on Thursday
While sharing the universal sor-
row at the absorption Of another his
toric home of culture and the liberal
arts into the growing maelstrom of
relationships" the Georgetown edu-
Gator said, II cannot blind myself to
the plain facts Of history. Austria is
another victim of Versailles and St.
Germaine. The gloved hand of Nj.
Clemenceau is as visible on the final
debacle as the mailed fist of Mr.. Hitler.
Berlin simply finished what Ver-
sailles and st. German began. She
learned how the Allies regarded Aus
trian sovereignty, and improved on
the instruction in a manner that now
appalls the teacher"
Commenting on the Soviet's bid for
the United States to unite with it in
safeguarding the 'sanctity of interna-
tional obligations" Dr. Walsh added:
so long as the Soviet government, in
hagrant violation of the Roosevelt
Litvinov agreement of 1888 continues
to house, cherish and protect the
Third 1nternationale, and assist in its
avowed program of sapping the foun-
dations of all non- Communist states,
its present indignation has a hollow
ring of insincerity and hypocrisy
which was fairly and squarely met
Thursday by Secretary Hulls ringing
defense of international decency.
THE indecency of Germany should
not cause us to forget the continuing
indecency of the commissars."
Evening star., 1938-03-19
BRAZILIAN FASCIST
REVOLT 1HWARTED.
Killing President Vargas
Charged Part of Plot
by Integra|ists.
By the Associated Press.


RIO DE JANEIRO, March 10
Police announced yesterday the frus-
tration Of a plot by members of the
cnce-powerful Fascistic Integralist
party to assassinate President Getulio
Vargas and to engineer widespread
revolt in Brazil.
Several leaders of the green-shirted
Integralist party were arrested in a
swift series of night raids. Quantities
Of arms and ammunition, said to be
intended for the uprising, were seized.
A radio transmitter and 5000 dag
gers bearing swastika emblems were
taken in q raid on the home Of Plinio
Salgada, Integralist leader.
Salgada, who escaped, was declared
a fugitive from justice; as was Gustavo
Barroso, also an Integralist leader.
Barroso Is a well-known author and
member of the Brazilian Academy of
Letters. who once shouted, Il am good
for 10 men in fight"
Central police headquarters said
revolts were to have been staged simul-
IdllCOuSly ll CllC Col lly lllOl lllllk VI
March IL.
The announcement said a special
platoon of Green Shirts was detailed
to assassinate Vargas, members of
his cabinet and other prominent per-
sons. including journalists, who had
opposed the Integralists.
The authorities said the plot was
centered here and in the States of
Rio Grande do Sui, Parana, Santa
Catharina and Pernambuco.
They reported their investigation
pointed to ramifications in the army
and navy. Prompt action by the
ministry of war checked the threat
from this direction.
With the plot squelched, Vargas
prepared to leave today for a noun
tain resort on q short vacation.