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Evening star., 1938-07-26

ton will be readily solved. Once our
down town streets and our arterial high
way streets-all Of them-and on both
sides-are cleared of rows Of parked ma
chimes, deaths and injuries will drop
promptly trafic through our congested
areas will flow smoothly, and there will
no longer be the need for widening our
admirable streets at the cost of priceless
shade trees and thousands Of dollars.
Every one knows this. Yet because
there has developed q fiction that any
owner Of an automobile in Washington
has a personal claim upon more than a
hundred square feet of the public high
ways as a private parking lot when he
can find it, and because the potential
Today howl of those who assert that
fiction to be fact-no enc in authority
seems to have the courage or the vision
to act.
Until such q one steps forward-in-
evitably to be hailed as q great bene-
factor Of the whole communicative 10
cal traffic problem can never be solved.
STEVEN GREY.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Ineffective Reforms.

Professional radicals habitually deny
to their opposition the virtue of un-
selfishness. 1t is part of the stock in
trade of the revolutionary orator to in
sist that all who do not agree with him
are controlled by "the profit motive"
economic determinism," greed and lust
for power" Yet a moments thought
should suffice to convince any rational
mind that these wicked and sinful pur-
poses much more definitely characterize
the socialist or communist agitators
themselves. Even when they employ the
language of altruism, their objective is
not altogether disinterested. Like the
princes of privilege" they want the
good things of life with as little effort
as possible.
1t follows that the public at large
ought to cultivate sensible skepticism
concerning the value of reform theoreti-
cally guaranteed to provide advantages
for the underprivileged one-third of
the population "ill-nourished, ill-clad
and 1ll-housed." An act of Congress is
not necessarily practicable simply be-
cause 1t is humane The Nations recent
experience with prohibition ought TO
serve as warning to the dreamers who
believe that paradise can be attained by
legislative processes. Missionaries un-
doubtedly are sincere when they insist
that men may be regimented into health
and happiness, prosperity and peace by
law. But the verdict Of history supports
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Revoked Licenses.

II a case in point is any criterion, the
monthly publication Of the membership
in the Suspended Drivers License Club
Is about as popular as Washington hu-
midity, but should be one of the best
guarantees against second offenders in
the driving -while-drunk and the hit
and-run categories.
The case referred to was of a fearful
wife who once complained bitterly to a
newspaper that published such a list
because her husbands name, like Abou
Ben Adhem, led all the rest on it. His
permit had been revoked, she argued
in substance, so why add to the punish
ment by making him lead-off man in the
driving -while-drunk suspension column?
The wife was told that her alcoholic
spouse occupied his position of promi-
nence in the roster by reason of the
alphabetical letter with which his name
began. She was further advised that it
was undeniably proper to publish the list
If it might prevent killing by dis
couraging driving while drunk.
The protestant then revealed that the
real rub was caused by the barrage of
sympathetic telephone calls she was re-
ceiving from her neighbors, who all ex-
pressed distress and sympathy that her
husband had lost his permit for driving
while drunk.
Drunken drivers and others whose per-
mits are suspended by the Department
OF Vehicles and Tratac are potential
killers. They should be removed from
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Government and Medicine.

The United States Government already
is deep in the field of medicine.
The Nations hospitals for veterans, its
medical services for the Army and Navy,
Its National Institute of Health, with one
OF the most efficient medical research
laboratories in the world, the far-nung
activities of the Public Health Service,
OF the Children's Bureau, of the De-
partment of Agriculture constitute an
impressive set-up, rivaled by no other
country. We have gone far to protect
the health of the citizens.
But in the past the actual practice of
medicine, the relations between the in
dividual physician and the individual
patient, has not been considered a Gov
ernment function, with the quite limited
exception of the care of persons entitled
to be considered as Government wards.
1t may be that all this is to be changed.
There can be hardly any question, after
the national conference held here this
week, that there is an increasingly great
public sentiment for the extension of
Federal services in various directions.
The needs, it is obvious, are great.
They are so great that many people are
impatient, unwilling to recognize the
complexities of the problem, impatient of
the traditions of the medical profession
which have endured through the ages
by passing through the filter of the sur
vival of the f1ttest. They are likely to
look upon medical services as something
that can be bought and sold like shoes
or potatoes. If folks are shoeless or
hungry the Government may, and usually
does to some degree, supply the wants.
1t folks are sick, and unable to buy pri-
Vate medicine, why, it is asked, should
not the Government give them public
medicine?
The problems of keeping people well
are not quite SO simple as the problems
OF feeding them or clothing them, how
ever complex these may become at times.
They are difficult because there is no way
to supply in wholesale quantities the most
essential thing in medicine, the relations
between one individual and another.
These cannot be bought in carload lots
to meet emergencies. They cannot be
stored in elevators like wheat or corn
Whatever program is adopted must be
formulated with this in mind. Other
wise it is bound to be indifferently bene-
f1cial to the people. The physician must
remain "the master in the house of medi-
cine He must be kept free from politi-
cal control. Any set-up which has not
his complete approval and sincere CO.
operation hardly can hope to succeed.
A larger Government activity in the
field of medicine should come gradually,
with much testing and proving, through
the expansion of the functions which
already exist.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

the agnostic's attitude Of doubt. II .
magic wand could be waved over the
United States today and poverty abol-
ished by the gesture, the old struggle be-
tween the "haves" and the "have nots"
would begin again tomorrow. Sharing
available wealth by arbitrary dictation
would result not in satisfaction but
rather in still greater inequity, still Bit
terer struggle, than any existing now.
The gains of industry under current con-
ditions are socialized to approximately
an ultimate degree through taxation.
Yet the average thoughtful citizen
does not wish to be regarded as COM
pletely pleased with the status quo.
He Is both willing and anxious to CO.
operate in any and every reformatory
effort which has any reasonable chance
Of success in practice. What he OBJ
jects to is experimentation for It's own
sake. He does not aspire to the role Of
complacent guinea pig in a New Deal
laboratory.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Lauds Fair Treatment Of
Colored Boys In Soap Box Derby.

To the Editor Of The Star:
pERMIT me to congratulate The Star
and the other agencies which spon-
sored the Soap Box Derby for the good
sportsmanship shown in the arrange
ments for and the publicity given the
little colored boys who took part. The
trend toward the recognition Of the
Negro minority as an integral part Of
the functioning citizenry of the metro
politan area Of Washington Is a healthy
indication of the growth toward democ-
racy and away from provincialism.
In most recent parades and play exhi-
bitions, the spirit of fair play and toler-
ance has been marked. OF course, there
are yet many men and women in high
and low places who are still child-like
in their prejudices, and whose egos must
be inflated by stepping upon the person.
ality Of other individuals or races, or by
the means Of avoiding grant to the
minority Of the placement that worth
or right should determine.
Possibly, the best example of practical
democracy is seen At our local ball park.
Here, good-looking and bad-looking,
young and old, men and women, white
and black, sit side by side and mutually
suffer or thrill in the throes or joys Of
the game. Let us hope that the day is
not far distant when colored boys and
men will meet competitors In all sports
where they are recognized as symbols of
the fundamental elements of character,
or the embodiment Of the skills we love
to watch. How much real Christian and
social good could come to Washington
If the institutional heads would encour-
age more events like the Soap Box Derby.
Again, let me commend the liberal
management of the derby, and let us
hope that it is the forerunner of finer
mutual respect among minority and
major groups to the end that our city
can eliminate some of the costly areas
of segregation anG separateness, and
save us money for culture and social
good will. Z. B. HENDERSON.
Falls Church, Va.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

In times Of rain. 1t is easy enough to
spot ones acquaintances with gardens.
They are overjoyed.
Persons without gardens put on 4
long face and wish the rain would quit.
The home gardener 10 ~ bright ~ the
sunshine.
He knows all the good the water is
doing his grass, his flowers. his shrubs,
his trees.
He knew better than apartment dwell
ers that the city and suburban sections
really had been UNDERGOING . drought,
and that the rains, particularly those
at night, were 4 real godsend to all
things which grow in earth.
Lawns which the evening before had
looked yellow and parched, now were
getting their old green back.
Shrubs of all kinds had Strengthened
their limbs, revived by the fluid flowing
through them.
The gardener could picture each little
cell filling out, thereby straightenting
the dropping branches and curled leaves.
This strengthening process went on
despite the apparent dropping toward
the earth of the whole plant, due to
the exterior moisture on the surfaces
OF the leaves.
And the rain was still coming down.
People without gardens could not un-
derStand 1t.
will it never quit?" they asked de-
jectedly.
The gardener hoped 1t wouldn't
IA p0ir HE
plants, but also for itself.
There is something primitive about
q rain, going on all night long, which
appeals to all persons, gardeners or
others, who try to keep their senses at
tuned to the necessary.
There Is such q pow-wow going on all
the time, in hundred different ways, in
favor of unnecessary things, which have
really nothing to do with 4 happy life,
that often 1t is dihicult to think about
essentials. Even when one Is able to
do so, often 1t is best to say nothing
about ones quiet discovery.
Let the rain speak.
Its drops are eloquent Of something or
other, as they fall all night long on the
roof, trickle down the pipes, how along
the sidewalks, make little puddles every
where.
Few sounds are more pleasing-pro-
vided the aforementioned tuning OF mind
and spirit have been attended to-than
this.
1t has engaged the attention Of story
tellers and poets through the centuries.
1t has brought happy thoughts, sad
thoughts. and no thoughts at all.
Some like best the sound OF rain on
. tin roof.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Protests Editorial
On Rosendahl Interview.

On Rosendahl Interview.
To the Editor Of The Star:
YOUR editorial of July 10, in which
you attempt to prove the military
value Of airships was surely an un-
scientific bit OF propaganda, written
without scientific thought. Your data
on damage inflicted by airships in the
last war was correct, but you failed to
stress that times have changed since
1914 and that 1t Is now 1888. Weapons
of offense and defense also have
advanced. We have today swift pursuit
planes and light bombers which could
pick the slow-moving airship to pieces
at leisure through their much greater
speed and maneuverability. And who
could miss 80 gigantic a target as a
two-block long dirigible with todays
modern anti-aircraft guns? The days of
the Zepplein bombiAgs of London, or any
city. are over. Germany shall not be SO
foolish as to offer milliondol airships
as mobile targets for enemy aircraft. 1t
shows = great ignorance of the subject
in question when one compares present.
day defense measures with those Of 20
years ago.
You say that 1t is impossible to sell
hel1um to Germany because OF her ag-
gressive nature. but since the airship
has been proved an out-moded war
weapon does 1t not show that we are
somewhat jealous Of German CONNER
cial progress? Furthermore, I have
heard no loud protest when we sell air
plane"a far more deadlier war weapon
to foreign nations. Who knows
whether these airplanes will not be
used to bomb innocent civilians? Nor
does the Nation protest when we sell po-
tential war supplies to Russia, England,
France, or South America.
No, the whole helium situation seems
to me to be q malicious piece of propa-
ganda instigated by certain politicians
who use 1t as 4 means of gaining their
own ends, by appealing to a certain class
OF our population. I respect Comdr.
Rosendahl because it was 4 noble peace
gesture on his part to attend a celebra-
ton in q nation for which we have only
hatred. It proved to the Germans that
there are still Americans who are will
ing to look facts in the face in spite of
the malicious turmoil around them.
c. BRADFORD.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Puerto Rican Headache.

The attempt, presumably by Puerto
Rlcan Nationalists, to assassinate Gov
ernor Blanton Winship with the result
that two are dead and more than
twenty injured is only the latest epi-
sode in long series of terroristic out
breaks.
1t was by very narrow margin that
repetition of the Staying of Colonel
E. Francis Riggs, insular chief of police,
in 1886 was averted. The promptness of
the police In returning the fire Of the
assailants undoubtedly prevented the
outbreak from having more serious con-
sequences.
That this should be the last of such
occurrences in the little Caribbean is
land is hardly to be expected, although
greatly to be desired. For nothing
has been accomplished yet in the di-
rection of clarifying the ambiguous
status Of the Puerto Ricans.
Although the Nationalist party itself
continues to have only a handful of
MISUNDERSTOOD out of nearly 100000
population-the rise of nationalist senti-
ment in the island has been marked, and
many who have hitherto stood for a
continuing relationship with the United
States, with the prospect of winning
some form of statehood or territorial
position within the United States, have
turned toward separatism, although they
do not countenance the terroristic activ-
tiles of the followers of Pedro Albizu
Campos, now with seven other National
lists in the Atlanta prison after convic-
ton for sedition growing out Of the
killing of Colonel Riggs.
There is grave responsibility upon
the United States for the destiny of the
island-arising from its cession by Spain
at the end of the Spanish-American
War. Although the Puerto Ricans are
citizens Of the United States their is
land is not accepted as an incorporated
part Of the United States in the same
sense that Hawaii and Alaska are so in
corporated. The immediate need is for
thorough-going clarification OF the re-
lationship in which the island stands to
the United States. The choice is be-
tween independence and ultimate state
hood, perhaps by means of preliminary
territorial status. A plebiscite to de-
termine exactly what the wishes of the
Puerto Ricans are would certainly be in
order.
Meanwhile firm, but humanitarian,
steps are necessary to prevent the ardor
OF the young headstrong Nationalists
from plunging the island into a bloody
internal struggle which can only defeat
the ultimate achievement of a more
clearly defined position for Puerto Rico
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Shooting Stars.
By PHnANDER JOHNSON.
Az Time passad

As Time Passed.
Il shall not run for ONCE"
A statesman said one dav
Il shall return to private life
And try to make it pay"
Il shall not run for Office"
He vowed a few weeks thence
Unless the country's need of me
Seems urgently intense"
I shall not run for Office
Unless-well, 1t depends
My interests are in the hands
OF my devoted friends"
And later on he murmured,
There's nothing to be said"
And at the finish did he run?
He did. And he ran like Ned!
Evening star., 1938-07-26

Harry Hopkins says that reliefers
favor the New Deal because nobody else
but Roosevelt has any constructive pro-
gram for their accommodation. He for
gets that the Socialists and Communists
are not altogether lacking in original
genius. Given the chance, Norman
Thomas and Earl Browder could think
up plan to share the wealth that would
skate circles around w. P. A.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

Investigation Of the movie monopolies
may disclose, among other things, the
reason why producers insist upon happy
endings for such stories as Under Two
Flags" 'The Dog Of Flanders" and 'The
Outcasts Of Poker Flat" Best-selling
classics for generations in their original
form, 1t might be supposed that "a decent
regard for the opinion Of mankind" would
halt the "improvers."
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Tempting Hot
Weather Dishes.

An array of delicious sandwiches,
salads, soups and hors d'oeuvres to add
variety to the summer menus. There
are inviting fruit salads With . special
recipe for dressing. For Sunday night
suppers. unusual club plate comhtna-
tions as well as 10 different kinds Of
sandwiches. Every hostess and home
maker should want to serve the various
hors d'oeuvres described, and gain Q
reputation for her hit dishes. Three
hundred fine tested recipes. Fifteen
cents, postpaid.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Twenty Years Ago
The World War Day by Day
July z6. 1913.

Continuing the attack on Fere-en-Tar-
denois, the allies made steady advances
against this important point. Both hanks
Of the salient were advanced.
Elsewhere, the British captured Chau-
nuzy, while the French and Americans
took ouiehy.le- Chateau, preeipitatins an
other German fetreat.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

Along about 1878 President Roosevelt's
eighth grandchild may be running for
the office now occupied by Grandpa.
The family has the habit OF leadership.
and If w. P. A. still is doing business
forty years hence the dynasty probably
will continue to be in power.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Responsibility for
Appalling Traffic Toll
"a tha 1dtfne ~ YYhn Dkay.


\ s A resident Of Washington for many
\ years, ask the courtesy Of your
columns to voice my amazed and be-
wildered reaction to the attitude Of our
municipal authorities toward the grave
traffic problem with which our city is
faced.
There can be no doubt in any reason
ing mind as to what lies behind Wash
ington's appalling trafic record. Scores
of deaths, hundreds Of injuries, clogged
traffic flow, disguised visitors, expensive
and destructive street widenings with
which we are annually confronted trace
back to one single major cause. And
that cause is the antequated and pre-
posterous permitting Of down town and
arterial highway parking.
Once Washington's leaders, including
our municipal authorities, the Congress
of the United States and our news
papers will face that self-evidsnt fset,
the trahac problem In It's every ramifica-
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Grateful for The Stars
Soap Box Derby Article.
To the Editor Of The Star:

IT WAS pleasure to see something
occupying the front page Sunday
morning that had nothing to do with
either foreign or domestic affairs, politics,
marital troubles, criminal acts, etc.,
namely "The Soap Box Derby" with
headlines, pictures and nice articles.
The most important possession in our
world is our boys and our girls, and
though the public, Of course, demands
other news, I'm happy you have featured
this event, which will furnish many
happy memories and will create still
more worthwhile effort among our chill
dren. We really live by the good We do.
Best wishes for another century Of
SUCCESS. ELMA P1NNEY CAFKY.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Italian Aryans.
From tn,

From the Nashville Tennessean.
The Italians, having imported the
German goose-step, now proclaim them
selves to be "aryan," too. Apparently
the goose came along with the step.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

A general European settlement of
turbulent affairs is said to be in con-
temptation by Hitler. The trick will be
universally hailed as excellent If he can
perform 1t. He has demonstrated ex-
traordinary power. The use to which he
can put 1t is still a matter for proof.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
The Autocratic Spirit.

IHc HuVUCT&CIC Sp1f1t,
Would you advise young man to 70
into politics?"
Advise him?" repeated Senator Sor-
ehum. mo. If saw that he could be
useful I'd order him to go into politics"
1 have made strange vocal sounds
and called them music" said Hi Ho, the
sage OF Chinatown. They have been
OF benefit in teaching me to appreciate
silence"
Evening star., 1938-07-26

One advantage is claimed for the lat
est trans-oceanic flyer. Nobody was in
position to stop him and ascertain
what kind of a union card, If any, he
was carrying.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Aerial Surveys and
The National Deficit.
tn the Editor Of The Nt.ar.

To the Editor Of The Star:
r ECEN1LY The Star published an ar
- ticle on a large saving made by
Army engineers in food-control work
here through the use of aerial surveys
made by the soil conservation service of
the Department Of Agriculture. The ar
ticle pointed out that the mapping Of
the Anacostia watershed by means of
photographs taken from high attitudes
had eliminated the necessity for a great
deal OF costly surveying on land.
This method Of surveying should prove
very valuable to other branches of the
Government. OF course, 1t would re-
quire some one like Capt. A. w. Stevens
with q 500-mile camera to do the Job
right, but just imagine the amount that
could be saved If Capt. Stevens would
only make an aerial survey Of the ma
tional deficit? P. @.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

A girl in South Carolina says that she
is grateful to President Roosevelt be-
cause he has doubled her wages. She
forgets that he has cut the dollar in
half
Evening star., 1938-07-26

It has been anciently remarked that
"two heads are better than one" This
does not necessarily apply to aviation
achievements.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

In horse race recently High Finance
won by a dozen lengths and Balanced
Budget was practically left at the post.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
A Long Contract.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gasette.
If Japan goes ahead until China Is
conquered. the ambitious little nation
won't be a menace to other countries
for long time to come.
Evening star., 1938-07-26
An Opportunity Gone.

HH opportunity U0ne.
why so pensive?" inquired the radio
advertiser.
1 was thinking about the marvellous
age reached by Methuselah," answered
the manager. What a man he would
have been to broadcast patent medicine
boosts"
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance
All Other States and Canad,
Member Of the Associated Press

4, The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication Of all news dispatches
paper and also the local news published herein.
herein also are reserved.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

Politicians are plausible fellows, but it
may be wondered If even the most skill
ful Of them ever succeeds in convincing
his wife that black is white,
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Ready for Food.

From the Williamsport Sun.
Mosquitoes we are told, can 60 six
weeks without food. Most Of those We
encounter seem to be at the end Of their
six weeks fast.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

the streets through revocation Of permits
and If publication Of the names In any
way contributes to enforcement of the
revocation and prevention of q second
onense, 1t is justified.
Evening star., 1938-07-26

DE Good Book tells us how to do
right said Uncle Eben, and It's better
den one O dem law books dat makes
you pay every time you learns Do. verse
an ehapters."
Evening star., 1938-07-26
Various Kinds.

Across all kinds OF men you come.
AS through this life you trudge along
Some of us make mistakes and some
Are just habitually wrong!