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Evening star., 1938-06-10
Unjust Discrimination.

Legislation is pending in the Senate
designed to correct one of the great in
Justices of the war; as the result of which
q relatively small group of officers have
found themselves barred from all COM
pensatory and retirement legislation
granted to others with whom they served
under identical conditions.
These officers, mostly from colleges and
schools throughout the country, showed
their books and studies aside when the
call to arms sounded and went of to the
training camps in order to be among the
first to get overseas. As q means Of
fulfilling this desire they were ready to
accept anything that would hasten their
transfer to the theater of war and many
Of them accepted commissions in the
regular services, under the designation
Of probationary, provisional and tenn
porary officers, with no thought of max
ing the military or naval service Q
career. After the war they, like the
Evening star., 1938-06-10
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

anything in any scientific relation to
need, but mostly as dictated by caprice
and imitation. 1t will never do for us
to laugh at monkeys in cages too freely.
~
The eye not only Is able to dilate or
make small its pupil, but is equipped
with jutting brows, eyelids and eyelashes.
Each of these does good Job, when
needed, Of shutting out excess light. and
all Of them work together automatically
toward the same end.
A camera and an eye are marvelously
alike in function and operation.
No one would think camera misused
when it takes pictures, but many seem
to fear the results of eye work along the
same lines.
Every day we take millions of "pic-
lures with our eyes, and these would be
impossible without light.
Too much light?
There is Of course, such thing.
Persons afflicted with eye injuries must
stay in dark room. There can be little
doubt that some of the many persons
who wear dark glasses really need them.
But no moderately healthy person
needs to go around in binders, unless,
alas, he or she has become so accustomed
to semi-darkness that an entirely new
visual education must be achieved.
X X "
Fear Of fresh air in public places Is
all the more queer, since 1t is precisely
In such places that fresh air Is needed
most.
Yet 80 out Of 100 persons, sitting down
by a window. will slam it shut at the
very first touch of cool air on them.
You might think they would like It,,
but observation proves that they do not.
Where>th err is in not giving their
skin time to become accustomed to it.
Modern city skin too, is very much Of
cry-baby.
1t sets up a yelp of "too cold" at the
first touch, instead of waiting a few
seconds to see If the air really is cold.
The spectacle of scores of people
huddled together with all windows and
blinds down on beautiful fresh spring
morning is one which would be silly If
1t were not rather pathetic.
Y 4 X
These two fears mean nothing good for
the mass of the American people
AS they shut out the light, their eyes
become more tender, just as their minds
become more afraid
Hence the number of oculists grows
amazingly year by year. Once upon a
time the good eye men in Washington
could be counted on the fingers of one
hand, beginning with the late DR.. Wilmer
Today the good oculists are as the
grains of sand upon the seashore, anc
the end is not yet. Pretty soon there
will be one oculist for every patient.
AS people bar the fresh air, afraid of
the first touch of it. so they pick UP more
and more colds, and sneezing and sniff
ing. instead Of being seasonal, as in the
past, occur the year around
1t is impossible to beat Nature. She
made skins to stand fresh air, and eyes
to revel in light the very food of eye
sight. Let us not be afraid of fresh air
and sunlight, but rejoice in them and be
glad
Evening star., 1938-06-10
Treating the Circles.

Action of the Commission of Fine Arts
in approving the plans for a traffic
tunnel under Thomas Circle removes
the final obstacle to getting the work
under way and apparently commits the
District to this method of solving an
undeniably bad traffic condition along
Massachusetts avenue.
Undertaken only after long and care
full consideration by all public authorities
interested in local traf1ic control and in
orderly architectural development Of the
city, the underpass solution has both
virtues and disadvantages. Ultimate
wisdom Of the plan will be determined
by the yardstick OF time and operation.
There can be little doubt, for instance,
that construction of an underground
roadway along the Massachusetts ave-
nue. line at Thomas Circle will speed up
the avenue trafic at that point. Until
similar development, or some other solu-
ton. is applied to Scott and Dupont
Circles, however. the danger exists of
merely transferring the congestion from
one point to another.
That this possibility exists is realized,
of course, by those who have decided
upon the underpass solution, and prelim-
mary studies envisioning the same treat
ment Of the two other circles already
have been completed.
1t is to be hoped that Congress will
not consider the job done in its entirety,
therefore, until funds have been allowed
for carrying out alterations to the necks
Of other traffic bottles.
And throughout the entire project,
those vested with the responsibility of
protecting the Capitals physical appear
ance cannot be too Jealous in guarding
against lack Of regard for the natural
beauties of the circles.
Evening star., 1938-06-10
Fear Of sunshine. and fear Of fresh

Fear OF sunshine. ana fear OF fresh
air
These are the phobias Of the moment
Of modern city people, especially in the
morning
Wherever they are, and however rare
the day in June, they put down the
windows and pull down the blinds
The fresh, cool air of the early morning
means nothing to them except something
to flee from, to shut out, to shun.
Age plays little part here. The young
seem as fearful of breath OF air, or
touch Of sun, as their elders.
They get plenty Of both In sports, but
elsewhere they are as jittery as can be
over two of the greatest blessings we
have.
The streets are filled with young and
old in goggles.
The eye, Of course, is an organ of light,
II 1t Is anything.
Light is good for eyes.
A popular magazine has estimated
that not more than rs per cent of the
persons who wear sunglasses need them
We would 60 farther, ,<and say that not
10 per cent actually need any protection
from sunshine.
An exception must be made. of course.
OF those motorists who drive straight
in rising or setting sun.
Ignorance is great factor in life, and
the millions who wear these so-called
"sunglasses" ought to find out some
thing about eyes.
Women are strange creatures, indeed;
how any of them can imagine that these
binders add to their appearance Is an
interesting speculation.
There is not the slightest bit of fascina-
ton or glamour in begoggled lady.
In addition, she is not aiding her eyes,
but actually coddling them, to their ulti-
mate harm.
If the fad for these binders continues,
in time Americans will be a race of half
blind people. They will become so sensi-
tive to light that they will not be able
to bear ordinary daylight
1t Is even conceivable that in a century
or two they might be as blind as the
famous fishes in the even more famous
caves.
The person who understands that ewes
| were made to handle light and that they
have several protective devices of their
own, far more efficient than anything
made by hands, at first may be inclined
| to grumble at the universal effort to
shade organs that need no shading. -
He will be stopped by the old adage,
"The voice of the people is the voice
OF God" That is, what many persons
do or say must, in sense, be right, be-
cause so universal
This idea comes down through all
races. A comparatively recent paraphras-
| ing of 1t was, Fifty million Frenchmer
| can't be wrong"
No doubt the prevalence Of indoor work
in cities has already created a race of
beings to whom light is strange.
Light actually may hurt such eyes, and
compel some protection. as usual carried
| to extremes. since mankind seldom does
Evening star., 1938-06-10
Local .Jails.

Attorney General Cummings not long
ago described the county and town Jail
problem as perhaps the worst blot on
the American penal picture" He de-
plored the procrastination Of local COM
munities in dealing with this problem.
The spectacle witnessed in Alexandria
yesterday, when twenty-nine prisoners
were turned loose from the crowded.
antiquated town Jail, serves to emphasize
the seriousness of the general penal situa-
ton. The wholesale release Of minor
Offenders was necessary to make room
for new prisoners, it was explained.
The Alexandria Jail, incidentally, is
one of nearly 400 local jails which the
Department of Justice has placed on q
blacklist - with reservations. Federal
prisoners may not be committed to It
except for periods Of less than week.
because Of bad conditions" existing
there, according to department officials
More than 1900 other county jails have
been rated 50 low by the Federal Prison
Bureau that no Federal prisoners are
allowed in them.
Thus, Alexandria is not alone in
tolerating jail conditions condemned by
responsible authorities. In fact. the
Nations Capital has . Jail that Mr..
Cummings, the courts and the District
Commissioners have criticized in severest
terms. Like its Alexandria neighbor.
the District jail Is congcsted and decrepit
and wholly inadequate for the purposes
for which 1t was originally designed.
II the Capital of the United States can
boast Of nothing better than the District
jail, Alexandra and other smaller COM
Evening star., 1938-06-10

others, returned to civil life and many
of them went back to schools and col
leges to complete their courses.
When the bonus was granted to all
qualified veterans, they held that this
group, being in the regular establish
ment, was not entitled to the bonus and
other benefits. BY q splitting Of tech
nical and legal hairs, the provisional
officers have been denied all recognition,
although they performed the same duties
and fought under the same conditions
as other officers who entered the war
and served under some other designa-
ton.
Congress in previous sessions has recog-
nized this discrimination and has passed
legislation to correct 1t, but the Presi-
dent of the United States has rejected
the legislation both times, and on no
stronger premise than precedent. The
President held that he would not ap-
prove bonus or other benefits to these
veterans because no President ever had
approved compensation benefits for
veterans. Previous vetoes had been over
ridden.
Congress, having recognized the in
justice by the passage of legislation on
the two previous occasions, should not
delay the two pending bills longer than
is necessary to put them through the
legislative routine. II the President
insists for third time on relying on
precedent as an excuse for further re-
lection, then the Congress should follow
its own precedent in previous veterans
compensatory legislation and override
the veto, thus removing an unjust dis
elimination.
Evening star., 1938-06-10

While there is no tendency to en-
courage dream Interpretation. for any
thing more serious than an insight into
policy" prospects, curious amount of
attention is paid to presidential dream
in connection with aviation locale. The
dream Is at least respectable assurance
that the President has a very serious
proposition definitely in mind.
Evening star., 1938-06-10
Expectantly Awaiting
Jay Franklin on Iowa

To the Editor OF The Star:
Now that Iowa has had the temerity
to give Harry Hopkins q well-deserved
kick, and has registered its overwhelm-
ing approval Of Mr.. 0illette's efforts to
prevent the rape Of the Supreme Court,
1t is to be presumed that the agile and
tacile columnist, Mr.. Jay Franklin, will
tell us Gin elaborate detaiD just what
State happen to be.
We look forward with a great deal Of
interest to Mr.. Franklin's fulminations
ON the subject. Mel. SMITH.
Evening star., 1938-06-10
Shooting Stars.
By PHIIANDKR JOHNSON.
Motor Car.

Motor Car.
My motor car! How kind you are!
New thanks must contrive.
You carried me both fast and. far,
Yet I am back alivet
My motor car, you cause a jar.
Your methods might be worse.
'Mongst factory men you are a star
And I o faithful nurse.
Evening star., 1938-06-10

Florida has become famous for the
interest taken in its affairs by distin-
guished men since Ponce de Leon. The
record is brilliant, but not permanently
significant, excepting as a matter of
poetry.
Evening star., 1938-06-10

AS the season progresses it becomes
evident that the record OF baseball de-
pends more on the progress Of expert
trading than it does on the distinguished
participation in the opening game at
Washington.
Evening star., 1938-06-10

The public is still closely interested in
the Dionne quints. They are almost old
enough to demonstrate that they are
products Of exceptional and most care
full supervision.
Evening star., 1938-06-10
A Tip to Graduates.

From the joplin (Mo.) Globe
Perhaps it should be timely to remind
this years crop Of graduates that 10 per
cent Of those going into the grocery busi-
ness fail while 10 per cent Of those going
into matrimony succeed.
Evening star., 1938-06-10

AS events are going at present, Mr..
Farley may feel it desirable to 60 abroad
again and make another heartfelt salu-
tation to the blarney stone.
Evening star., 1938-06-10

The regularity with which Finland
transmits her debt payment serves to
stimulate an argument as to whether
that country really knows her politics
In It's modern form.
Evening star., 1938-06-10
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Evening star., 1938-06-10
Duplex Angling.

From the Yakima Republic.
Why any man would want to fish with
two poles is beyond our understanding,
unless he wanted to double Ids stories
about the big ones that got away.
Evening star., 1938-06-10

While much Of seriousness is being said
to students, great deal Is being offered
by the regular politicians of the Nation
which must command deep respect.
Evening star., 1938-06-10
Elastic Legislation.
Prom the NeN YORK sun.

From the New York Sun
Senator Thomas of Utah demands an
elastic wages and hours bill. Some fears
.haves already been expressed that in its
final form 1t will be so elastic that it
will snap right back in industry's face.
Evening star., 1938-06-10
There Now.

Prom the Nashville Banner.
Said Secretary Morgenthau on Govern
ment and business, Il don't think we can
get anywhere fighting each other" Yes
~ can. We're thseo now.
Evening star., 1938-06-10

1t may yet be the privilege of Mayor
Hague to refer to New York as the well
developed but slightly erratic town Just
across the river from Jersey City.
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SliGht Comeback,

Slight Comeback.
will the folks give you applause when
you speak at homer"
II suppose so," answered Senator
Sorghum. "But I'm going to use radio
and the really significant criticisms will
be those I am unable to hear"
Evening star., 1938-06-10
Mysterious AIoofness.

I looked race horse in the eye
And asked him how to make bet.
Said he. THAT is for you to try;
I've never solved the question yet"
Evening star., 1938-06-10

"It Is q mistake" said Hi Ho, the sage
Of Chinatown, ITO believe that the sound
Of artillery can be substituted for the
arguments of simple honest speech"
Evening star., 1938-06-10
simplifed.

Father" said the small boy, what
is the Ku Klux?"
MY son." replied the serious citizen,
at appears to have been an organiza-
ton intended to conduct human affairs
by means Of eccentric spelling and .
piece OF rope"
Evening star., 1938-06-10

All Other States and Canada
Evening star., 1938-06-10

'Dar Is 50 much music bout love-"
said Uncle Eben. dat gal has to stop
an think bout whether she'd prefer
to give her heart an hand to basA.
Z baritone u tenor"
Evening star., 1938-06-10
NeedfuL.

They swiftly hurl cannon ball
And glory hAstens with q viii.
TO show we're needing, after all,
A first-cfass undertaker's skill.
Evening star., 1938-06-10
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Evening star., 1938-06-10

Q. What proportion Of unemployed
women are past 40 years old?-B. K. L..
A. OF those applying at public en-
ployment Offices, one-third are more
than 40 years OF age.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-11
81 Job Permanent .
By GRANVILLE FoRTEscUE

GONE swell cook LADY, said Jack Tlden finishing his
" last morsel and hashed brown potatoes land
,,o,, think Won want to be actress"
Evening star., 1938-08-13


to purchase would be raised soon. He
said about two months would be re-
quired to complete plans for remodel
ing Sutton Hall for use as temporary
hospital of about IS or more beds.
pending construction Of a larger hos
pital.
Mr.. Kirkpatrick explained the hos
pital will not be used for mental cases.
alcoholic or drug addicts, victims Of
tuberculosis or epilepsy.
He told the board that the hospital,
designed only for G. H. A. members,
also would be available to county resi-
dents in emergency cases.
G. H. A. turned to the Arlington
County site after request to operate
q hospital in Chevy Chase. Md. had
been denied by the Montgomery
County Board of Commissioners
The medical cooperative was forced
to its own hospital project after. Mr..
Kirkpatrick charged. the medical So
ciety had succeeded in barring the
Group Health surgeon from existing
Washington hospitals, thus preventing
G. H. A. providing surgery and other
hospital care for its own patients.
Now Has $500 Members.
G. H. A. now has about $500 men,
bers. with a total of 5000 patients, in
Guiding the families of members,
among whom there are many cases
awaiting operations.
Sutton Hall Is . large, two-story
brick and stucco house. elaborately
HANDICAPPED with boxwood shrubbery
and flowers. There are other build
ings on the property.
I'VE consider" Mr.. Kirkpatrick said
that We have obtained the most at
tractive hospital site in metropolitan
Washington"
These developments came Is coun-
sci for G. H. A. went into conference
over the question Of what procedure to
adopt in meeting the suit filed yester-
day against G. H. A. by three promi-
nent physicians, seeking to restrain
and enjoin" it from engaging In the
practice of medicine.
E. K. Neumann and A. Blaine York,
attorneys for G. H. A., have 20 days
in which to file whatever action is de-
termined upon in the latest court
battle over the cooperative medicine
dispute.
Evening star., 1938-08-13
Parking
Continued From First Page)

come in time. These objections can
not invalidate the regulation.
THE court Is Of the opinion that
the regulation is valid"
Prosecutions Held Up.
Prosecutions under the recent reg
ulation have been held up in Police
Court, pending the ruling on its va
lidity. Only . few cases are pending
1T this time.
Another case taken under advise
ment by Judge Casey was one by Law
renee Applebaum, 4408 Third street
NV, who was given ticket July 80
after he allegedly parked his car on
Decatur street NV, between New
Hampshire and Third streets, beyond
the yellow stripes marking the parking
limit.
Judge Casey said he would dispose
Of this case Monday and at the same
time impose sentence in the case In
volving Mr.. Divilio.
Mr.. Collins had contended that the
building line varies 50 greatly that the
only method of determining the build
ing line would be to make q survey Of
the property at each intersection. He
also argued there should not be .
general regulation Of this kind to apply
to all intersections because the need
for increased visibility at intersections
varies considerably.
Hundreds of motorists had protested
to the A. A. A. that they did not know
what the yellow markers signified. the
court was told August 4 when Mr..
Divilio's case was heard.
George D. Nelson, assistant corpora
ton counsel, handled prosecution Ia
both caseo, 4
Evening star., 1938-08-13
VIRGINIA LEGION !
FIGHT |MPENDS
Charges of Domination May
Be Threshed Out at !
Convention.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Aug.
IA 1ight against leaders Of the
Virginia American Legion by . group
headed by Carleton Penn, Roanoke
attorney. may be brought to the floor
Of the four-day State convention
which opens at Charlottesville to-
morrow.
The group, which claims support
Of Legionnaires at Roanoke, Danville,-
Richmond, staunton and Bristol. has
accused the Virginia Legion leader
ship Of domination by bosses" and
failure to carry out rehabilitation
work. and claims the Legion mem
bership is declining and that the
Virginia Legionnaire" works under
censorship.
Raleigh NJ FELTON, of South Boston,
the department commander, may re-
view In his report Monday his en-
phatic pre-convention denial of these
charges. Saying that the "self-ap-
pointed and self-anointed reformers"
come from less than per cent Of
the 154 active posts, he asserted that
the Virginia Legion "is in just about
the best condition OF its entire his
tory.
Between 1000 and 1900 Of the
States 1926 Legionnaires are ex-
pected to attend the convention which
Is scheduled TO hear talks by Rep
resentatives Howard Smith and Willis
Robertson, Gov. Price and former
Gov. Westmoreland Davis. Headquar-
ters will be at the Monticello Hotel.
| National Comdr. Daniel j. Doherty
will address the meeting at 1890
O'Clock Tuesday and later witness the
Legion's parade.
Representative Smith. recent winner
Of the Democratic nomination to the
House from the eighth Virginia dis
trict. has been aiding local Conven.
ton Chairman Randolph Perry and
associates in an effort to have the
United States Marine Band from
Quantico in the parade Tuesday.
Evening star., 1938-08-13
MILK REGULATION
DRAFTERS PRAISED
100 Residents of Prince Georges
1aud Committee for Work on
Proposed Grade A Rules.

~ stan Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, Aug. 13.
The committee which has drafted
proposed regulations for grade A milk
in Prince Georges County was COM
mended for its work by more than 100
county residents at a mass meeting last
night. 1t was directed to present its
proposals to the county commissioners
for consideration.
The proposed regulations were COM
pleted recently and have been approved
by both the State Board of Health and
the United States Public Health Serv-
ice. They are similar in virtually every
respect to the regulations in effect in
Montgomery County.
J. L. Holbrook of Brentwood is
chairman of the committee, which
wa elected at mass meeting held
SOM time ago by distributors, pro-
ducese and consumers of milk who
advocated the installation Of grade A
regulations. q