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Evening star., 1938-03-18
j. s. WORKERS MAP
LABOR BOARD PLEA
Cafeteria Group Protests
Rejection of Demands
for More Pay.

Leaders claiming to represent 10
per cent Of the workers in IA cafe
terias in Government buildings today
planned an appeal to the Labor Rela-
tions Board from the action OF the
trustees OF the Welfare and Recrea-
tional Association Of Public Buildings
and Grounds, Inc, in rejecting their
demands for better wages, hours and
other benefits.
At their meeting yesterday the
the trustees refused to recognize the
United Cafeteria Employees Local In
dustrial Union, No. All, c. I. O.
afnliate, as the sole bargaining agency
and suggested the local appeal to the
Labor Board. which probably would
call an election to settle the question.
F. w. Hoover, the associations gen.
eral manager, said the union was ask
ing for increases of from so to IS per
cent in wages. an eight-hour day. time
and half for overtime, one day =
month cumulative sick leave and 4
day and q half q month cumulative
annual leave.
The employees are granted neither
sick nor annual leave, although each
is given his birthday anniversary off
and bonus is paid around Christmas
in lieu of annual leave. Mr.. Hoover
said. He added the trustees are op-
posed to sick or annual leave for per
deim employees, but favor the eight
hour day in principle while believing
1t impractical at this time.
1t WAS pointed out that following
the District Minimum Wage Board s
deliberations the Government cafe
terra workers will get $l8 for a 49,
hour week and $3.50 for q 4O-hour
week, effective April /. The change
will not affect the cost of food to the
consumer. but prices will go up, Mr..
Hoover said, If the union demands
are met.
Evening star., 1938-03-18
Club Will Hear Lomax.

Alan ,Lomax Of the Library Of
Congress will speak on Negro Work
Songs" ct = meeting Of the Cosmos
Club in the assembly hall at 8 pm.
Monday. Mr.. Lomax will sing and
play recordings of some Of the
rhythmic native Negro chants.
Evening star., 1938-03-18
Redmond Paroled by Nice.

Blondell E. Redmond. who was con-
victed Of larceny in Montgomery
County last November, was one Of
three men paroled by Gov. Nice today,
according to the Associated Press.
Redmond was sentenced to two and
q half years and would have finished
his term in May, 1899. The Governor
said the parole was unopposed by the
committing Judge and prosecuting at
torney, and recommended by the
Parole Commission.
Evening star., 1938-03-18
FALSE REPORT LEADS
TO NUMBERS SEIZURE
Colored Man and Woman Arrested
and $500 and Slips Held
by Police.

A false report of fight late yester-
day led to the discovery by police Of
m alleged numbers agency" in the
TOO block Of Gresham place NV.
Ten persons were arrested at the
place and about 5000 in change and
= quantity Of slips were confscated,
police reported.
Two Of the prisoners, Dave Kauf-
man, 30. and Emma Randall, 80. col
ored, were charged with operating =
lottery. The others were released to
appear later as witnesses.
The fight call. police believe, was
telephoned by some one who sought
revenge" after having an argument
with operators of the place.
Evening star., 1938-03-18
MONUMENT STAIRWAY
TO CLOSE TILL APRIL 13
Emergency Exit Platforms and
Doors to Be Installed
After Monday.

Beginning next Monday, the stair
way OF the Washington Monument
Will be closed to the public until
April 1s to permit installation of en-
ergency exit platforms and doors. This
Will not interfere with the elevator
service. national park officials an
nounced today.
They explained that when the new
equipment is installed it will permit
the immediate removal of passengers
should the elevator become stalled
between landings.
Evening star., 1938-03-18
Welfare Aide Named.

FAIRFAX, Va, March 18 (Spe-
ciaD.-Miss Ida Jones has been
named Virginia Public Assistance
Clerk by the Fairfax County Board
OF supervisors on the recommendation
OF w. Travis Wilson, superintendent
of public welfare. Miss Jones formerly
was connected with the county health
Evening star., 1938-11-10
The Next Congress

The Seventy sixth Congress that
convenes in January will be more
deliberative body as result of Tues
days elections.
While the smoke of election battle
still fills the air, the attention of the
voters is centered on how the re-
turns strengthened or weakened the
major political parties. From this
political viewpoint, the decisive gains
made by the Republicans in both
Senate and House obviously will bring
new vigor to that party and cause
its adherents to look more hopefully
toward the future.
But looking beyond the partisan
effect of this swing, and viewing
Congress as a lawmaking agency
rather than as an assembly of so
many Democrats and so many Re-
publicanS, the reduction the people
have brought about in the top heavy
Democratic majorities of the past few
years should, and no doubt will, make
for more careful analysis of proposed
legislation during the next two years.
Under the two-party system of
government, forceful and alert
minority performs useful and de-
sirable function in the lawmaking
process. 1t is safeguard against
hasty and ill-considered legislative
remedies for the Nations ills. Con-
Structive criticism develops angles
OF problem that might otherwise
be overlooked. The difficulty during
the past few years has been that
the ranks of the minority were
thlnned by successive Democratic VIC
tories to such an extent that, in
most cases, the enactment of legisla-
ton was almost a foregone conclu-
sion once the leaders of the con-
trolling party decided to sponsor it.
On few memorable occasions ad-
ministration proposals of far-reach-
ing effect were rejected, but only be-
cause there had begun to develop
within Democratic ranks a group of
lawmakers who spoke out against
measures they regarded as unwise.
OF course the Democrats still hold
substantial majorities in both houses,
but there will be a much healthier
balance of power. Also the tendency
among the Democrats to apply indi-
vidual judgment to economic prob
lens is likely to be more pronounced.
All in all, the Seventy sixth Con-
gress promises to be a more vital
force in weighing and passing on the
proposals submitted to it by the exec
utive branch of the Government. No
doubt there will be suggestions to
amend or perfect some of the eco
nomic remedies enacted in the past
few years, such as the farm program,
labor relations or regulation of wages
and hours. With a good proportion
of new members entering the ranks
on Capitol Hill, it is to be expected
that new ideas concerning these and
other problems will be presented.
One thing is fairly certain-it will be
a lively winter under the big white
dome.
Evening star., 1938-11-10
American Education

Because twenty-five per cent of
the. American soldiers were found
to be illiterate at the time of the
World War, the national spotlight
will be turned this week on the
schoolhouse of the United States.
One of the first acts of the Ameri-
can Legion after it's organization was
the appointment of a committee on
education which, together with dele
gates from the National Education
Association, evolved the project of
American Education Week. Annually,
since 1921, the week that includes
Armistice Day has been set aside to
focus attention on the work being
done and to be done in the schools.
All over the country educational
institutions and associations are
planning special events, including
radio broadcasts, school dedications
and other means of celebrating the
occasion. Parents are visiting the
ScnOOlS TO nnd out just what their
children are being taught. Last year,
according to figures compiled by the
National Education Association, g.
100000 people visited schools of the
Nation during the observance of this
special week. To date twenty-three
Governors of States have issued
proclamations setting aside the seven
days Of this week for special OBJ
servance. A national proclamation
has been issued by President Roose-
welt.
Congratulations to the American
Legion and the N. E. A. for sponsoring
this worthwhile undertaking.
Evening star., 1938-11-10

obstruct q settlement II excluded
from its negotiation.
1t is reasonable to conclude that
Britain's desire to effect conference
adjudication of the Palestine prob
lem springs jointly from her desire
to keep the Holy Land open to Jewish
immigration at this hour of Israeps
supreme tragedy in Central and East
ern Europe, and from the necessity
to safeguard British political inter-
ests in the Near East against the
time when totalitarian powers might
seize suitable opportunity to un-
dermine them. The Anglo-Italian
pact provides for a cessation of Fas-
cist anti-British Vaccinations in the
world of Islam, but Hitler has entered
into no such pledge of elf-denial,
and the Berlin Rome axis might
easily swing to British disadvantage
in the Mediterranean area in the
guise of economic penetration or on
some OCner preCeXC.
If it seems inevitable that the
Arabs will be asked to make conces-
sions to permit Britain to fulfill her
obligations under the Balfour decla-
ration, it is no less obvious that the
more extreme Zionists, too, must
yield ground, especially respecting
their demand for a Jewish state in
all of Palestine, including Trans
Jordan. Jewish leaders may even be
confronted with a proposal to sac
rifce Zionist national ambitions, if
this would pave the way to an Arab
Jew agreement, for it must be ap-
parent to even the most ardent Zion
ist that the Jew can never be secure
in Palestine without Arab consent.
Evening star., 1938-11-10
Thinks Country Should
Uphold Roosevelt,
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
I have read your editorials for some
time and believe them to be open minded
and fair. Probably your comment on
Roosevelt's speech of last Thursday night
was fair, too. 1t must, it is true, be re-
membered, that his interest in Lehman
is strongly influenced by his interest in
the New Deal.
But didn't the President base his ap-
peal upon the fact that Lehman and
Wagner were active liberals? Didn't he
point out how they have served the New
Deal as we'll as other interests of justice
and humanity? If Roosevelt will sup
port a man whom he has politically
fought upon occasion, it seems to be an
indication of a tolerant attitude upon
his part, even if that man is now stand
ing for something that will help the
President great deal. And he would
hardly be expected to support those with
whom he disagrees politically!
Many of the Presidents remarks are
a challenge to all true friends of de-
mocracy. His comparison of the Nation
to factory's conveyer belt was apt, and
should remind us all to do our part in
keeping the machinery running smooth
ly. With the forces, here and abroad,
now working against democracy, those
who wish to see it proved real success
should heed Roosevelt's reminder of Ben
jamin Franklin's words: Eve must in
deed all hang together, or most assuredly
we shall all hang separately"
RosELLA RANDs.
November 4
Evening star., 1938-11-10

tions into the political wastebasket.
Motorists who use Maryland highways
now pay tax Of cents a gallon "a
cents State, cent FederaD.
But right now, for 2 per cent of the
cost of his $4,000, 900 dream bridge alone,
the State of Maryland can make the
Baltimore-W Washington boulevard safe
and attractive.
All that is needed is for the Governor
or his successor to carry out the enthusi-
astic Endorsements of Mr.. Nice Cd When
he formed the Maryland Highway Safety
Planning Council in October, 1887; (2)
when the Baltimore Washington Boule-
ward Association was formed last jan
uary; t3)-when the Maryland and Dis
trict of Columbia departments of the
American Legion proposed last spring
that the boulevard be made national
highway safety laboratory. We have the
record in our files.
What the people of the boulevard COM
munity and the motorists who use the
boulevard want right now is a highway
that is lighted, surfaced, properly pa
and culverts widened safely.
Last summer the State had no money
to make improvements on the boulevard
Has the financial situation improved?
Last summer the W. B. & A. right of way
was too narrow to meet legal require
ments for highways Has some golden
magic made it wider?
Are the businessmen of the boulevard
community who have spent years and
fortunes building up their businesses, who
have borne the burden of taxation, to
be left high and dry on a third-rate
truck road? The State Planning Com
mission is outspoken IN its determination
there will be no commercial use of the
roadside OF the Nice dream.
Gov. Nice's plan for abandoning the
boulevard will be answered at the polls
by the $4,000 people of the boulevard
community. HAROLD H. BUCKLES,
Field Representative, Baltimore
Washington Boulevard Association.
November S.
Evening star., 1938-11-10
Dewey, Taft and 1910

In cropping for Moses to lead 1t
out of the political wilderness, the
revitalized Republican party has
emerged smilingly from the off-year
elections with a hopeful, meaningful
gleam in it's eye and two magic
names on its lips-Dewey and Taft.
Mr.. Dewey lost governorship, but
he may have gained much more. He
has thrown such a scare into the
wavering ranks of the New Dealers
that he must inevitably be reckoned
with in any survey of the list of G.
o. P. presidential possibilities. In
deed, the young New York racket
buster" seems to have moved toward
the top of the list along with the
neWly-elected Republican Senator
from Ohio, Robert A. Taft.
In their eXuberance the Repub-
licans have refused to be dismayed
by Governor Lehman's reelection in
New York. They regard it as
hollow triumph for the New Deal,
In view of the Governors attitude in
the past toward some of Mr. Roose-
velt's reforms. They are delighted
by the picture of 36-year-old, crime
fighting district attorney challenging
the very best the Democrats had to
offer in the way of experienced, COM
petent opposition-and gaining ma
tional stature by the magnifcence
of his battle.
Out in Ohio the spectacular victory
of the son of the former Chief Justice
and Republican President also has
gripped the Imagination of the ever
hopeful Grand Old Party. True, Ohio
has gained another "favorite son"
prospect in Republican Governor
elect John w. Bricker, who is a
veteran campaigner and a vigorous
fighter, but Mr. Taft has the inherent
advantage of name which has
national prestige and respect, with
out benefit of build-up.
Mr.. Dewey has demonstrated re-
markable attributes as a vote-col-
lector in pivotal New York State, the
forty-seven electoral votes of which
are often decisive in a presidential
campaign. But Ohio also is an i'm
portant State, and MIR. Taft may
reasonably expect its vote in presi-
Dental year. Mr.. Dewey is young
he will be only 38 in 194O-but Bryan
was So when first nominated for the
presidency by the Democrats. Mr..
Taft Is nearly so.
Democratic Chairman Farley skips
blandly over Mr.. Dewey and Mr.. Taft,
however, and "nominates" the vet
eran Senator Vandenberg of Mich
igan, as the G. o. P. presidential
candidate. 1t is quite unlikely the
rampaging Republicans will be con-
tent to let MIR. Farley pick their man
for them, however. Mr.. Farley no
doubt would like very much to forget
Mr.. Dewey and Mr.. Taft-but he
probably will hear whole lot more
about them in the next two years.
Evening star., 1938-11-10
Congestion Cure

A step has been made in the direc-
tion of solving Washington's peculiar
rush-hour traffic problem. The De-
partment of Commerce will revert to
its $3.50 to 4 o'clock work-day after
only few weeks experiment with
going to and from work on the 9 to
4:30 schedule.
For three years Commerce en-
ployes arose half an hour earlier.
Their discovery of the benefits of an
early start was brought about by a
reversion to the old schedule. This
addition of some $500 people to the
9 o'clock rush was enough to be
noticed in the already serious traffic
condition.
Washington is alone among the
larger cities in the seriousness of the
problem. With ali unusually large
number Of the workers OF the city
being employed in Offices, most Of
them working for one employer. and
Evening star., 1938-11-10
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

These little new squirrels about to 60
into their first winter please us no end.
They may be distinguished at glance
by their short bodies, which look more
stubby in comparison with their tremen-
dous tails.
They are even faster than the oldsters,
if that is possible, and combine with
their quick movements an impish de-
meanor which reminds the observer of
kittens at play.
Those of us who live in the suburbs
usually have from four to six of these
lively fellows in the yard at one time
A few of them, however, are to be found
in most sections of the city where there
are plenty of trees.
There is only one living creature which
likes trees better than squirrel does,
and that is bird Of any species.
While the young squirrels are born
acrobats, their best shows are on the
ground.
1t Is as if they have not yet got their
tree legs, as it were; they have not yet
cut loose from their ties with mother
earth, but still enjoy the feel of the
ground.
BY next spring they will have become
as one with their fathers and mothers
and older friends They will delight in
rushing up trunks and around with a.
great slithering of claws. They will run
to the end of long branches, dip down,
6nuyo QnH fo fr
on the very tip of little branch which
to human observer would not seem able
to bear the weight of such an animal.
That is squirrel life
Today, as if reluctant to leave the
ground, with its many charms, the COLBY
fellows run and jump, race after each
other, take to trees only as last resort
when some two-legged animal becomes
too inquisitive.
The squirrel, at any age, is a creature
made for observation.
All unconscious of the interest he Gre
ates as he scurries around your garden.
he manages to put so much of himself
into the very atmosphere that thereafter
no yard without squirrels ever seems
quite right.
He has all the inquisitiveness of the
monkey, the memory of the elephant,
the intelligence of the dog and the fas-
tidiousness of the cat
With these he combines the agility of
his own tribe, than which nothing can
be more agile.
All of these qualities do not save him.
now and then, from being caught by a
cat. Dogs get great sport in running
him. but seldom manage to seize him.
The cat, being on the agile side itself,
can catch a squirrel, but does not often
manage to keep hold of him.
X
The cat underestimate his intelligence,
we think
The squirrel can play dead" as well
as 'possum. This is maneuver
scarcely within the scope of the cat mind,
and only in the dog mind when it is
forcibly planted there.
Evening star., 1938-11-10
Magicians

In Milwaukee the other day the
American Racing Pigeon Union held
a banquet at hotel, and as part of
the entertainment they hired ma
gician who, among other tricks,
whisked away a tablecloth and re-
leased twenty pigeons. His magic,
however, was strictly one-way af-
fair, as he was quite unable to lure
the pigeons back. For days after the
party was over the hotel employees
were extensively and expensively en-
gagged in that uncongenial task, with
the aid of ladders and other prosaic
and non-magical paraphernalia; and
at the latest report had not yet COM
pletely succeeded.
This shows one Of the greatest
dangers in hiring wizards in any
capacity, including that of econo-
mists, agriculturalists or statesmen.
They put on a grand show while it
lasts, but when the party is over
some one else has to clear up the
debris usually left behind; and un-
happily the cleaner-uppers never
seem to be possessed of the gift of
necromancy themselves. They are
just plain people who have to spend
time and money on a thankless Job,
and who take the blame if it isn't
done quickly and cheaply. It is not
known just why no exponents of the
black or white arts have specialized
in reverse magic to follow up the
performances of their more spectac-
ular brethren. Until this happens
1t seems at least possible that any
and all resort to abracadabra may
not be worth the cost.
Evening star., 1938-11-10
Urges America to Care
For Own Needy First.
To the Editor of The Star.


To the Editor of The Star:
In the November issue of The Star
I read with much interest letter signed
by A. T. Jackson. That letter is full of
real truth. How do I know? I am now
and since 1880 have been going through
the mill. I have worked when I could
find work. I am marine machinist.
w. P. A. rules, have been informed,
are that one must be in one county one
year to secure employment. You are
then voter. How is one going to remain
in one county one year if he or she can
not find employment or cannot get re-
lief? Our relief agencies are concerned
more in sending boatloads of foodstuffs
to the Spanish people than in trying to
reduce the misery in America. Did
America start the Spanish war?
The problem of why we who are en-
titled to first preference but generally
take the crumbs If any are left is just
this: The working men and women of
the United States are simply just pawns
Of Government that loves to stick its
nose into mess whenever possible. If
it isn't Italy and the Spanish war it's
China or Hitler. A few days ago letter
appeared in The Star signed by "Jo-
sephus." He admits the Jew is no farmer
and cites his own failure at farming.
But he wants the Government of the
United States to import refugee Jews
and send them to the Big Bend section of
Washington and give them 10 or 20 acres
of land. Let us see how this sums up.
The taxpayers of the United States
sink a lot of money into Grand Coulee
Dam, but we Americans are not invited
to 90 to Washington State with gift
of 10 or 20 acres of good land and
three or four room electric heated and
lighted home and Government aid to
stock the land. What difference does it
make if our own 10000 900 unemployed
have to stick in the big cities and worry
about where the next handout will come
from? What difference does it make If
we clamor in vain for justice?
Yes, let's throw down all barriers and
import all those who cannot get along
in other countries and set them up in
business at the expense Of the taxpayers
of our own country-a country that can
not find way to reduce suffering
among its own people, but has plenty to
help out any foreign element.
Let us clean up our own back yard be-
fore we try to solve a problem that in
no way concerns us. If am out of one
State year lose my begging rights
Europe or China and live for years and
retain their citizenship and we can send
warships to protect them.
Better listen to Senator Borahs advice
before it is again too late.
LEON G. MACDONALD.
November 2.
Evening star., 1938-11-10
No Palestine Partition

Convinced at last that the parti-
ton of Palestine into independent
Arab and Jewish states would create
political, administrative and racial
difficulties so great that this solu-
tion is impracticable," the plan rec
opmended last year by the Peel
Commission has been scrapped by
the British government. Instead, an
early conference of Jews and Arabs
will be convened in London. Should
1t fail to reach acceptable conclu-
sions, the Chamberlain government
proposes, in light of facts and con-
ditions which the round table devel-
ops, to take matters in it's own hands
and announce the policy it proposes
to pursue.
These arrangements put both par
ties to the Palestinian racial feud
on notice that Jew and Arab. alike
must come to London in the give
and-take spirit unless they wish to
incur the penalty of an imposed
adjustment of their rival claims.
That Britain considers the question
one affecting the whole Arab COM
munity is manifest from the purpose
to invite Arab delegates from outside
Palestine to confer in London. They
are expected to exercise a moder-
ating influence on the die-hard Pal
estinian Arabs, and, besides, might
Evening star., 1938-11-10

all Of them keeping practically the
same hours, the situation is pressing.
Traffic Director Van Duzer believes
at least $4,000 other Federal employees
should 60 on an earlier schedule. In
this he has the support Of the ma
jority of motorists, and bus and street
car riders who are obliged to get to
work by o'clock. The evening rush
Is somewhat less pressing, due mainly
to a diversion of interests, but it
appears even worse in the light Of
the fatigue of the day.