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Evening star., 1938-11-13
CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL
THE RIGHT REV JAMES E. FREEMAN D. d. L. D. D. c. l.,
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

Definitions and qualifying terms change
their content and connotation with each
new age. 1t was quaint saying in the
church some years ago where an attempt
was made TO- segregate and classify widely
differing elements: Orthodoxy is my
doxy, heterodoxy is your doxy." The
times that stressed these differences were
unhappy and improbable. Happier days
are at hand and heresy trials are out
of vogue. The sharp distinctions we were
wont to make in an attempt at class and
racial classification are, we hope, less
popular than they once were; at least
their connotation has undergone
marked change.
Unhappily, the postwar years have
witnessed fresh exhibitions of racial and
class distinctions and widened the
breach between diverse peoples and races.
Just now in critical and trying situation
we are using old terms, and with increas-
ing insistence, to classify forward looking
and conservative men and women and
to segregate them according to their
prejudices and conceits. There is moth
ing new about this tendency. There has
always been and-always will be sharp
difference between those who believe in
the god of things as they are, and those
who
Seeing far an end sublime,
Contend, despising party rage"
We are all agreed that new occasions
teach new duties" and that to live pro-
gressively is to accept with ready and
plastic minds changed conditions and
new opportunities. The danger of too
great emphasis upon distinctions and
classifications is that too frequently they
are born of an unjust and ungenerous
spirit that issues from conceits and preju-
dices. Coercive measures born out OF
an unwillingness to recognize another's
consistent point of view are fraught with
perils to the common veal.
In the realm of religion nothing is more
inimical to Its course than bitter contro-
versies between men of different house.
holds of faith. Under our form of gov
ernment such controversies and hatreds
are definitely prescribed. Would that a
like prescription were conspicuous in
other departments of life. That we are
faced with world situation that calls
for generous and dispassionate judgment
is clearly evident. 1t calls also for the
recasting OF many OF our conceits and
Evening star., 1938-11-13

insular outlooks. Some OF us who were
temperamentally conservative, under the
pressure of events have become liberal,
liberal ct least to the extent of giving
honest and open-minded consideration to
new plans and new systems. This Of
necessity we must do If we would keep
step with the demands and exigencies of
new age. We shall hardly win the con-
f1dence and response Of the conservative
and reactionary by condemning him for
the slowness Of his perception or his
failure to give quick response to new
schemes and policies. We believe that
Jesus Christ was great liberal: that
His whole plan for better world order
was so far in advance of His time that 1t
brought Him ultimately to the cross.
Had he been satisfied to make His King
dom otherworldly, to apply His ethics to
the concerns Of mans life beyond the
grave, He would not have incurred the
hate of the ruling classes Of His country.
He refused to be partisan when over
jealous disciples sought to inhibit one
who was not accredited as His follower.
Forbid him not" He said, "for there is
no man, which shall do miracle in My
name, that can lightly speak evil of Me-"
Liberality of view and a readiness to
recognize new judgments and to adapt
ourselves to new situations is the hall
mark OF a balanced, flexible mind Ma
turity Is bound to bring with it fixity of
conviction, and it is well that this is so;
it does not and should not deny us the
privilege of evaluating new viewpoints
which changed conditions inevitably
bring. No finer example of this might be
cited than the capacity and flexibility of
the teachings Of Christ, as contained in
the Gospel, to meet the needs of diverse
peoples and races and changed and
changing world conditions The princi-
pies He enunciated do not change, their
application does Bigotry, bias, intoler-
ance, these can have no place in a con-
sistent following of the Nazarene. He
gave love Of ones fellows a supreme
place in His scheme of right human rela-
tions We shall be, and we ought to be,
both conservative and liberal in our
judgments and opinions, conservative in
maintaining fundamental principles; lib
eral in our method of applying them to
new conditions as they arise. The old
maxim is pertinent: I'm essentials, unity;
in non essentials, liberty; in all things,
charity"
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constant vigilance. It is the effort
of commercial interests to exploit
the natural resources of the park
areas. A campaign is being waged
at present by private groups to divert
the waters Of Lake Yellowstone for
commercial irrigation. This is Just
one of many similar efforts to lessen
the value OF the recreational facil-
tiles for private gain. Only in the
last few years have agreements on
the matter of numbering and grazing
been worked out.
These great national Fairgrounds
have been proved of such tremend-
Gus value to the life of the Nation
that every citizen should strive to
protect and enhance them.
Evening star., 1938-11-13
Civil Service Test

An opportunity for a real test of
the effectiveness of the Federal civil
service In protecting from arbitrary
discharge those who give long years
OF efficient service to the Govern
ment was provided last week when
the Federal Communications Com
mission took action resulting in the
dismissal of two employees. The en-
ployes were under civil service, both
had good efficiency records, neither
had any charges against him, nor
was either given a hearing before
being ousted.
The commission, by a split vote,
abolished its examiners division, and
the position of chief of the informa-
ton service, which left the then
heads of these branches without
positions. Previously, the chairman
Of the Communications Commission
had asked the Civil Service Commits
sion to blanket those and other Jobs
out of the civil service, but when the
civil service body looked coldly on
such proposal the other method
was devised and carried out. This
was done despite the fact that the
act creating the Communications
Commission provides that the posi-
tions in question shall be filled in
conformity with the civil service
laws.
At the same time, the Communica-
tions Commission indicated that it
still intended to have an information
service by naming a man to study
and report to the commission "as to
how the collecting and dissemination
of information can best be handled,
give some initial help in handling it
and render such other assistance to
the chairman and the commission as
relates itself to the task" Thus,
the commission did indirectly what
it could not do directly with the
sanction of the Civil Service Com
mission.
Commissioner T. A. NJ Craven, one
of those who. opposed the move, told
the commission that II am con-
cerned with reference to the effect
on civil service in government of &C.
ton such as that taken" It has
been his contention that service in
the Federal Government in the nom
policy-making positions should be
Evening star., 1938-11-13
New Pact With Canada

1t must be matter OF great salts
faction to Secretary Hull that within
a few hours after the New Deals
reverse at the polls, Canada an
nounced the conclusion of a new
reciprocal trade agreement with the
United States. The Hull program of
economic disarmament" came under
considerable fire from the Repub.
licans during the recent campaigns.
At least two of their recovered House
seats-in the eighteenth Ohio and
first West Virginia districts-are
locally claimed to have been wrested
from their present Democratic oc-
cupants, Representatives Imhoff OF
Ohio and Ramsay of West Virginia,
because they had supported the
Secretary of States policy Of trade
appeasement as the foundation Of
international peace.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King,
who personally negotiated the first
reciprocal pact with the United
States in November, 1885, is happy
to be able to state" at Ottawa that
new agreement between the Domin-
ion and ourselves has been reached
on broader and more comprehen-
sive lines" as result of negotiations
which have been proceeding for the
past eight months. The Canadian
Liberal government has also expert
enced- hostility to its program of
reciprocity with the United States.
Mr.. Mackenzie Kings Conservative
antagonists, indeed, are already said
to be preparing for intensified objec-
ton to the new agreement, on the
ground that Canada may be sur
rendering Empire tariff preferences
in return for what may prove fleeting
advantages in our market, should
last Tuesdays elections foreshadow
the doom of New Deal control at
Washington.
1t is interesting to learn that the
King government will defend re-
neWed reciprocal relations with the
United States on the ground that,
profitable as trade advantages to the
Dominion may be, it is more i'm
portant that Canada contribute her
bit to cementing Anglo-American
friendship at this critical time in
world affairs. Ottawa is under the
impression that the long delay in
effecting the new pact, which has
been under consideration since last
April, is due to correlated difficulties
created by coincident negotiations
between this country and Great
Britain, which have not yet even
tuated in an agreement. It is now
suggested that announcement of a
new pact with the Dominion is the
certain forerunner of Anglo-Ameri-
can agreement, and that both
treaties may be signed simultane-
ously here in the near future under
somewhat ceremonial circumstances,
Evening star., 1938-11-13
Split in the C.. |. o.

Accurate forecast of the effect of
withdrawal of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers from the
c. I. o. is difficult so soon after the
action.
A powerful and progressive union,
the Garment Workers as an inde-
pendent union may become an ef-
fective instrumentality for reconcil-
ing the A. F. L. and the C. I. O. On
the other hand, its members may
themselves become parties to a new
and bitter war in labor's ranks If
their withdrawal should precipitate
membership raiding competition
with the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, still member of the C. I.
o. As third possibility, the I. L. G.
w. may simply stand indefinitely as
an independent labor faction in
much the same way the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen has remained
aloof from other railroad unions.
For all who have the real good of
labor and other national interests in
mind the first possibility is most de-
sirable. Three years of strife be-
tween the c. I. o. and the A. F. L.
have cost much and virtually every
one would welcome a reconciliation.
Although the decision of the Gar
ment Workers to maintain no ties
with either of the main wings of
labor may deprive them of direct in
huence in the A. F. L. and C. I. o.
councils, the very action of scorning
both must surely give pause to the
opposing leaderships. Contributing
to such line of thought as this is
the very recent and apparently seri-
Gus threat of the Teamsters' Union
to withdraw from the A. F. L. unless
every effort is made to settle the
tntra-labor quarrel.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that
the action of the I. L. G. w. has been
expected for several months, it can
not be denied that the departure
is a serious blow to the c. I. o. Pos
sessed of an ample treasury, the de-
parting union made substantial con-
tributions in both money and pres
tige in the early days of the c. I. o.
history, and neither can easily be
spared by the John L. Lewis organ
ization.
Nor can the c. I. o. and the A. F. L.
ignore the studied criticism in the
resolution of withdrawal adopted by
the I. L. G. w. board, blaming the
labor controversy for the election
setback suffered by the progressive
and liberal forces" and warning that
perpetuation of labor's strife through
existence of two national organiza-
tions would prove ruinous to the
well-being of the workers, as well as
to the general community"
Labor's leadership might we'll re-
view its position in the light of this
and other recent developments. To
do so would react to its own ad-
vantage as we'll as that of the coun-
try.
Evening star., 1938-11-13
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Unending.
The wind is telling story
AS it sweeps DER hill and vale,
And the moon in her distant glory
Smiles at the quaint old tale;
A tale of the morn's bright cleaning,
A tale of the noon so clear,
A story Of daytime dreaming
And Of night with its shadows drear.
The stars are carelessly smiling,
And the rippling waters flow
Laughs at the wind beguiling
With this tale of long ago.
And the days and the nights succeeding
Ravel and weave and blend,
While the world laughs on unheeding
The story that has no end!
Evening star., 1938-11-13
School Spirit
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
Walt Disney is being sued because
Snow Whites song in "The Seven
Dwarfs," Some Day My Prince Will
Come" sounds like Yale's ."Old Eli
March" He might have known some
thing like that would happen when he
accepted q degree from Harvard.
Evening star., 1938-11-13

Gas masks are being supplied to
the Irish peasantry. It was thought
that years of inhalation of peat
smoke had rendered them immune
to practically everything on that
order.
Evening star., 1938-11-13

One of the very best places to stick
those stickers which are intended to
qualify and make possibly inopera-
tive pledges to the Community Chest
is in the nearest wastebasket.
Evening star., 1938-11-13

President Roosevelt may find his
new little dream house" rather COM
forting and consoling these days.
Evening star., 1938-11-13

Certain Of last Tuesdays election
results were somewhat reminiscent
OF the title "Mutiny on the Bounty"
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Evening star., 1938-11-13
Back to Earth.

Cautious.
$50 you don't think well Of airplanes?"
mo, SIR" answered Farmer Corntossel.
"You see, I've got all my 'rangements
made to run for sheriff. Chauffeurs is
bad enough. I don't want folks to ex-
pect me to sit on the edge of cloud to
keep aviators from violatin' the speed
regulations"
Evening star., 1938-11-13

Not Fooled.
AFTER ALL" said the earnest citizen,
you are but servant of the public"
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum,
"and as a rule the public is a careless
and rather good-natured sort of boss,
easily flattered, and exacting only when
you are honestly trying to do something
for its benefit"
"Contentment," said Hi Ho, the sage
OF Chinatown, may be better than
riches, but there is no way to negotiate it
at the landlords Office or the grocery
store"
Back to Earth.
Some soaring statesman every day
Drops with doleful thud.
He thinks himself second Clay
And finds his name is mud.
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Winners and Losers,

Winners and Losers.
Opinions differ more or less
And praises mingle with rebuke;
What one man calls q great success
Another VOWS was just q fluke
Evening star., 1938-11-13

"Some men," said Uncle Eben, "ain'
satisfied to quit when dey's done bought
gold brick, but keeps payin' storage on
Il an haidin' It fur Q risa."
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observation that the future apparently
Is going to provide very different story.
Official Department of Commerce fig
ures show that, during the first half of
1888, in most Latin American nations,
the United States more than held its
own with its sales to these nations. This
country increased the proportion of the
Brazilian, Argentine, Cuban, Chilean,
Peruvian and other markets that it filled.
The Germans at the same time lost heav-
lily in the Argentine market and made
small progress elsewhere. German gains
were largely at the expense of the British,
although the total German trade, even so,
was only fraction of that of the United
States.
But the significant signs are found on
the other side of the trade balance sheet.
While the United States, thus far, is
holding its own in sales to Latin Ameri-
can nations, it is reducing sharply its
purchases of goods from those nations.
Atthe same time, Germany, while barely
holding its own in sales to these nations,
is increasing sharply its purchases from
them.
The hard fact is dawning on the
American State Department that the ma
tions to the south are tied economically
and culturally much more closely with
nations in Europe and Asia than they are
with the United States. An effort now is
to be made to divorce politics from trade
in Latin America
Trouble possibilities lie in the fact that
the totalitarian states insist on using
trade as means of selling not only their
goods, but their political ideas a. well.
(cooyright 1o3S.)
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The Washington times., 1938-01-13

its great 24-cylinder Duesenberg
motor, succeeded in withStanding
the challenges of the italian craft,
thus preserving to America speed
boat prestige gained over a period
of years.
Herb Mendelson, as they have
it in sporting parlance, is a great
guy. He and his beautiful wife,
Marie, are known all over the
country wherever motor boat races
are held. They entertain friends
lavishly, and Mrs. MendelSon is in
ternationally known as a charm
ing hostess.
NSEPARABLE PAIR
Wherever Herb goes, Mrs. Men
delson accompanies him. They
are inseparable. Their children,
too, are widely known in the
speed-boat world. When Herb,
"just for the fun Of it," started
building speed boats, he named
each one Madoshumi, for his chill
dren. His several craft, known
under the name Madoshumi, were
as famous in their day as his
Notre Danes Of these past several
years.
Herb got the name Madoshumi
by combining MA for Marjorie
his oldest daughter, now a stu
dent at nearby Arlington Hall;
DO for Doris, his second daugh
The Washington times., 1938-01-13
TICKETS ON SALE
FOR BANQUET

The general ticket sale for the
Touchdown Club banquet is-slated
for January is in the Willard
Hotel, it was announced today by
General Chairman George Bro
beck. About 200 of these ducats
will be available, as the remaining
300 have already been subscribed
to by members of the club. The
event is listed for the Willard
Hotel, February 2.
Already plans are nearly COM
pleted for the entertainment for
the evenings program, with Mar.
shall Goldberg, great University Of
Pittsburgh halfback, one of the
honored guests.
The Touchdown Club will fol
low the plan of last year in max
ing awards. A cup will be given
the leading high school and the
leading prep school football play.
ers in the District, the high school
officials making the selections.
The Washington times., 1938-01-13

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Jan. 13
G.N.sO.-Boby Riggs of Los Ange.
les, second ranked tennis player
in the nation and topseeded in the
current meet, today combats Will
mer Hines, Hollywood, Cal, in a
quarterfinals match of the Nautt.
lus Hotel tournament.
Another quarter-finaI m a tch
pits Weston Painter, Milwaukee
and Wayne Sabin, San Francisco
While most of the play con
sisted of doubles matches yester
day, Elwood Cooke, Portland
Ore, and Frank Kovacs, Oakland
Cal, advanced to the semifinalI
in the singles division.
Cooke eliminated fourthseedec
Martin Buxby, Miami, 6-3, 6-3
and Kovact ousted George Pero
also of Miami, 60, 60. Painter
defeated Marvin Anthony o.
Miami Beach, 2-6, 81, IS, II
a third-round Skirmish.
The Washington times., 1938-01-13
Mendelson Deserves Honors

ter: sH-U for "shu-Shu," the
nickname of his third daughter,
Shirley, and MI for his son, Mike.
If the MendelSons name an,
other boat for their children, 1t
will have to be Madoshumijo, for
a second son, Joseph Thomas
was born to Mrs. Mendelson three
weeks ago at the Mendelson home
in Palmer Woods, Detroit.
DELAY DEPARTURE
The arrival of Joseph Thomas
has delayed the departure of the
Mendelsons for their winter home
at Miami Beach, Fla. Herb, as
usual, will enter his boats in the
various speedboat classics oi
Florida this season.
Another Detroiter, Richard
Locke, also well known in Wash
ington, has been elected commo
dore of the Circuit Riders fol
1888. Two other sportsmen who
have specialized in inboards
Chris Ripp, of Elmhurst, Ions
Island, and S. Mortimer Auer
bach, of Atlantic City, N. j., anc
Miami, Fla, have been chosen
vice commodore and rear commo
dore, respectively. Ira Hand has
been renamed Secretary-treasurer
Edwin H. Tucker presided at the
meeting Of the Riders.
The Washington times., 1938-01-13
Wrestling
Johns Hopkins Tops
TerpS MGtnuen

BALTIMORE, Jan. 13.-Domi-
mating throughout five of the first
six events, the John Hopkins
wrestling team defeated the Uni
versity of Maryland grapplers here
last night, 2113.
Victors for the Terrapins were
Garrett in the 135-pound division
over Corse; Miller in the 175-
pound class over 10th; and
Krouse over Pollock in the heavy.
weight division.
Bob Vernon, undefeated Hop
kins' 126-pounder continued his
winning way by pinning Rockstrok
in / minute and IS seconds with a
double arm lock.
The summaries:
11S-Pound Class-whelan, of HOPKINS
defeated Aymold. Referees decision
defeated Rockstrok. Fall, I'm. ass, dou
1S5-Pound CIass-Garrett, of Maryland
defeated Corse. Referees decision,
defeated Council. Fall, I'm. 15s., crouch
and half nelson.
I55-Pound Ciass-Captain Ciautice. ot
Hopkins, defeated Arnold. Referees de
cision.
165-Pound Class-Edwards, of Hopkins
defeated BROOKS. Fall, 5m., crouch ant
l75-Pound Class-Miller of Maryland
defeated 10th. Fall, Am. sos, half mel
son.
Heavyweight Clsss-Krouse of Mary
Hand, defeated Pollock. Fail, am. Is.
Ihalf nelson and bar.
The Washington times., 1938-01-13
CardOzO SWamps
Wilmington Quint

Cardozo High School tossers,
leaders Of the South Atlantic
Scholastic Conference, Swamped
the Howard high five Of Whining
ton. Del, A to 25, in the Car
dozo gym yesterday.
The visitors at no time were
able to cope with the fast passing
attack of the local tosSers and
soon found themselves trailing by
wide margin. At half time the
count stood % to IL in favor Of
the Clerks.
Henderson. guard with IL
points and Spriggs, forward, with
II, were high point men for the
Cardozo lads, while H. Scott, for
ward, stood out for the Delaware
courtmen with IL points.
The Washington times., 1938-01-13
By HARRY COSTELLO

Washington devotees of motor
boating greet with applause the
naming Of Herb Mendelson, De-
troit sportsman, as "the outstand-
ing figure in the motorboat sport
during 1897"
Mendelson, well known in Wash
ington, won both the Gold Cup
and Presidents Cup last summer
with his Notre Dame. Clell Perry
was at the wheel in both victories
Mendelson's selection by the
Regatta Riders Circuit Club, a
veteran body of speedboat officials
at their annual meeting in New
York, came as no surprise, for the
reason that no one in the speed
boat world remotely approaches
Herbs record for 1887.
Mendelson, who names his boats
for his alma mater at South Bend,
Ind, built his latest boat for the
express purpose of fighting off the
challenge of Count Theo Rossi,
noted italian speedboat enthu
Siast.
WITHSTANDS CHALLENGES
Both on the Detroit River. in
the Gold Cup contention, and
later on the Potomac, in the Pres
ident's Cup competition, Mendel
cons phenomenal hydroplane, with