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MUDDY SHOES DIFFERENT

Tim went, like a tornado.
"Hennie," Hugh said, II know
Tim was going to tell me he was
sorry not to respect my wisdom,
but that he felt you and he had a
right to go against it. And you
were dreading I'd suspect you of
overurging him, but you were go.
ing to stand by him and say moth
ing about that. wonder just how
you knew, in time to stop him,
that it wasn't going to be neces-
sary for him to defy his father"
Hennie said, trying to think just
how she had known that, "Why
:. you were sort of different IT,. il.
I don't know there was mud
on your Shoes" That sounded so
silly to her that she laughed apollo
getically.
For a second Hugh looked
startled. Then he said, Mud on
the shoes is good for a man, I
guess. Maybe I'll have it oftener
after you get that farm. Not that
She picked that up in a flash.
"Oh, yeS!" she exclaimed. "A lot.
You must keep an old pair Of
heavy ones there. Won't you?"
He said he would.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
VACATION PLACES

THE ELIZABETH HOTEL 112 ST,
JAMES PL.. Atlantic City, N. ]. Phone
49264. Special rates Government Empl.
ENJOY summer at fashionable Virginia
Beach, Va. Furnished apartment for
rent. Write DR.. A. M. Gray. Fentress. Va.
Herald and Times Classified ads give
you twice the circulation for only one
price.
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statesmen

TWO new car and two used car saleSmen.
Chance for live wires to make easy
money Selling low priced car with one OF
Washington's leading dealers. Good propo-
sition to right men. Must be hard workers.
See Mr.. Kay, Coast-In Inc, 4O7 Fla.
Ave N e.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
SERVICES
FIX IT
NIGHT OR DAY

24-hour service. Night and Day. the
of the advertisers appearing in this column
For the present. W. A. Toler & Son are
featuring the vacuum cleaning and repair
ing of furnaces. However. this firm is
always ready to doctor any of your plumb
ing or heating ailments. And. like the
directory in which they appear, they sDon-
sor 24-hour service.
Plumbing and heating service is among
the many services found daily IN this
column.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
HELP-WOMEN

BEAUTY operator to learn complete course
1434 Park Road N. W.
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EMPLOYM ENT
HELP=MEN

AUTOMOBILE mechanics and helpers. Ap-
ply Merrys Auto Repairs, rear 1911
Pa Ave. N. W.
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= Frigidaires. General
Electrics, Westinghouse. Leonards. Kelvi-
majors. Coldspots. other standard makes.
Rebuilt and guaranteed as low as $24. so.
Brand-new 1887 refrigeratOrs at greatly re-
duced prices. Easy terms. Electrical Re-
frigeration Service Co., Washington's Oldest
Dealer, 1918 l4th st. N. W. Decatur 1910.
Open daily to p. m. Sundays to p. M
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
HORSES
INTERPRETATIONS

A MARES, 4 work horses. 3 mules. lie
M St. s. E. ATT. 2731.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19

MR.. ST. ORR will be in room 20. Cairo
Hotel for several days to select four
high school graduates under 20 years for
perm anent travelling position with L. z.
Light Co. Your appearance and ambition
will govern selections. Apply Q to 3
and ewes Do not phone.
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FURNITUHE-BU o SOAU
i BUY FURNITURE. DI. 1888
1 PIECE OR 1000. DAY AND NIGHT
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LOST

FRATERNITY pin. shape Maltese Cross.
Phi Lambda Epsilon; initials r. CS:
mr.. 18th, SITS. N. W. Mr.. Smith, MA. O4O2.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19

HALF PRICE FOR CASH
The Herald Times now offers a fiat cash
rate of IA cents per line on SITUATIONS
WANTED ads to run in both the morning
and evening papers or on Sunday.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19
VACUUM CLEANERS

EUREKA, $6.76: Hoover. $3.50: Electro
lux, with attach, $14.6O: many others:
bond Ruar- like new: homo dem: any time
Best Brands Co. sos 18th N. W. MA. TITS.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19

SEVEN young colored men from FL years
to 25 years. Neat appearance, to learn
serving in restaurant. References. Write
Box Cas- Herald-Times,
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BOATS FOR SALE

RAIsED-DECK Cabin Cruiser. 40 II. long.
IL #. 8 in. beam. mahogany finish. COM
pletely inclosed deckhouse. screened: 100
h.p. Buda engine. Box 364. Annapolis Nd.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19

MEN (2)-Clean cut, ambitious for steady
employment good starting pay. Refer
ences. Apply 8 to 8, Room 205, 1927 Eye
ISt N, W.
The Washington times., 1938-05-19

WINDOW DECORATOR and card writer:
must have sufficient department store
experience to plan modern display: best of
character references required: splendid OPP
portunity offered. J. C. Penny Co.. Alex
andria, Va. Phone Alex. 40.
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circulation campaign. Chance to travel.
See Mr.. Murray. Room 400, 1919 = st.
w
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SAME OLD NEIGHBOR

At the old corner, he got up and
stepped off. He walked slowly
down the block. Curious that a
neigh borhood should have
changed so little. But it had Away
been independent of fashion-a
place to live. The row of brick
houses, so familiar, three stories
high, three windows wide, with
brownstone steps - there they
were. Number twenty-one was as
neat as he and Laura had kept Vt.
On its lowest stone step sat a 6.
year-old, contemplating the world
In spring.
"How's everything with you?"
Hugh ventured, so that he might
pause and glance about.
The little boy thought and fl
nally found an answer. Il do not
have to go to dancing school," he
pronounced, his face a grin.
And presently, passing the cen
ter house, Hugh saw above the
shattered lower half of the low
windows, the tops of the heads OF
small unfortunates, bobbing in
and out of time to thin, EN-
phatic piano. The end of the next
block he remembered as the limit
to which they'd thought it safe fol
q firstborn to ride his velocipede
The houses now began to be shift
less looking. There was the vacant
The Washington times., 1938-05-19

WE PAY CASH FOR OLD GOLD
SELINGER'S 818 y ST. N. ".
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22

which necessarily involves large OUTLAWS
of public funds. II they are guilty of
the corruption" and want of decency"
alleged by DR.. Morgan they should be
relieved of their duties at the earliest
possible moment. And by the same
token, if DR.. Morgan's charges are with
out basis in fact, and as yet he has
produced no evidence in support of
them, that fact should be made clear.
This is the primary issue in the whole
controversy and there could be no justi-
f1cation for delaying its adjudication
while the committee members journeyed
to Tennessee to ascertain whether T. v.
A. is being efficiently conducted, or what
the private utilities may be doing to
hamper its operations.
Having decided to hear the directors
first, the committee also acted wisely in
deciding to give DR.. Morgan free access
to the records of T. IA. Adoption of any
other course would have led to the sus-
picion that an attempt was being made
to suppress the facts. As matters now
stand, if DR.. Morgan fails to substantiate
his charges. the responsibility for this
whole unpleasant episode will rest
squarely on his shoulders and on his
alone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22
For Something, Thanks!

In deciding, after mature elaboration,
against meddling with higher-grade
appointments in the independent
agencies, the Senate has moved in the
right direction, even though there is
faint suspicion that dam trade figured
prominently.
AS the Independent Offices appropria-
ton bill emerged from the Senate and
went to conference it carried two
amendments: One specified that experts
and attorneys in the Social Security
Board, receiving $1,000 or more annually,
could NOT be paid until they had been
appointed by the President and con-
firmed by the Senate; the other applied
this same provision to all independent
establishments, but exempted employees
already on the rolls, or any who might
come in under civil service. The Social
Security amendment was the same that
was put through last year, while the
amnibus proviso was an adaptation to
wider field Of principle that has been
written into other measures.
Summed up, the amendments were
designed to arrogate to the Senate the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22

appointive power that properly should
rest in administrative officers.
The House, which has been distinctly
averse to having the Senate oversee non
civil service appointments, held out
against the amendments, and there the
matter rested for several weeks, along
with the Gilbertsville, Kentucky, dam
provision. also pressed by the Senate
and rejected by the House.
Eventually, the House agreed to the
Gilbertsville project, and in due course,
the two job amendments were stricken
out in conference
A trade is of no particular credit to
anybody, but blow at job-grabbing is
always cause for qualification.
incidentally, ray of hope for merit
system advocates is seen in the measure,
now in conference, for the creation of a
Civil Aeronautics Authority. With ex-
emptions that are proper, the measure as
it came from House and Senate provides
for civil service appointments, and that
is as it should be. Certainly, the air
industry is no place for politics. But
neither are other fields where Congress
has failed to recognize the fact.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22

Secretary of Agriculture is the one man
among all of those now aspiring to the
Democratic nomination who has q deep
understanding of the economic problems
confronting the Nation and who has def
mite ideas about the solution of those
problems The fact that the farm prob
lem is likely by 1910 to be back again as
q dominant national problem enhances
the political strength Of candidate from
the heart Of the farm belt.
But there still is more than posi-
bility that those Democrats who now
are aspiring to the Job that Mr.. Roose-
welt holds may discover that their pres
ent boss has different ideas.
President Roosevelt may readily have
principal aides to start their political
battling early. BY stirring wide array
of interfamily contests. the President Is
able to keep any one man from gaining
too much political strength.
This means that any candidate who
expects to get the nomination, except
on the basis of wrestling party control
from its New Deal moorings, must have
the backing Of Mr.. Roosevelt. And the
very multiplicity of candidates will make
it difficult for the conservatives to con-
Solidate their strength.
Then there is this further fact: A cat
and-dog fight among aspirants for his
job leaves o President in q strategic
position to settle the fight by deciding to
try for the job himself.
(oopyrisht 1sSs.)
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Foreign Trade Week.

National Foreign Trade Week opens to-
day and for the next six days the i'm
portance of commerce abroad will be en-
phasized througout the land, in the
hinterland as well as in the coast ports
where the comings and goings of ships
that ply the seas have more apparent
relationship to the average citizen.
The expanding role foreign trade is
means of marketing the surplus pro-
duction of American labor, as a means
of insuring both industry and labor
against domestic depression, and as a
means of enhancing the utility of the
consumers dollar-will be stressed in
the celebrations, which are being spon-
sored by the United States Chamber of
Commerce in cooperation with the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce.
A new conception of foreign trade Is
beginning to be manifested. Unlike the
pre-depression belief that foreign COM
merce is valuable merely as an outlet
for SURPRISES produced by American
industry and agriculture, it is being
realized more and more that exchange
of goods with foreign countries is a
two-way proposition and its success in
the long run must be mutual. Com
merce can not move in one direction,
and the volume of that which is bought
from us abroad depends inevitably upon
what we buy from the rest of the world.
Thus We have become more conscious
of imports as well as Of exports. By
smoothing the path for exotic raw
materials and semi-manufactures We
feed the giant factories and industrial
plants which provide millions of our
families with sustenance. Furthermore
we save millions of dollars for all classes
of our citizens, but chiefly those whose
living margin is narrow. How the re-
ciprocal trade program has operated on
behalf of the humblest citizens is
story which has so far been inadequately
told.
Maritime Day, which usually falls on
March o. is being observed tomorrow by
presidential proclamation, and finds the
American merchant marine the one great
unsoived problem in American foreign
commerce. When American ships can
bear at least half of American exports
to the rest of the world and bring us
similar proportion of our imports We
shall have put our foreign trade on a
basis secure against war and the likeli-
hood of withdrawal Of foreign ships from
American service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22

The average of us who think Of those
in exalted office in the Nation consider
them as being SO engroSsld in material
things that they give little heed to the
practical value of things spiritual.
Several years ago received remark
able letter from the late Calvin Coolidge
that strikingly suggests the basis OF his
convictions concerning the indispensable
place that religion occupies in the life
of the state Referring to an enterprise
in which he had deep interest. he
wrote: This work is to be commended,
because it represents the foundation OF
all progress, all government and all
civilization. That foundation Is religion.
Our country is not lacking in material
resources, and though we need more edu-
cation, it cannot be said to be lacking in
intelligence. But certainly 1t has need
of a greater practical application Of the
truths of religion. It is only in that di-
rection that there Is hope of solution OF
our economic and social problems. WHAT
ever inspires and strengthens the re-
ligious belief and religious activity OF the
people, whatever ministers to their spirit
ual life, is of supreme importance. With
out it, all other efforts will fail. With 1t,
there lies the only hope OF success. The
strength of our country is the strength
of it's religious convictions"
This is the expression of the mind OF
many people today. When President
Coolidge wrote these words the Nation
had not experienced its great misfortune;
as matter of fact it was so confident, so
self assured, that it was losing out of its
life the very qualities Mr.. Coolidge had
in mind. Religion may be less articulate
than formerly, but deep in the hearts of
the people is an unsatisfied desire for
the comfort and peace which religion
alone affords. A great expatriated Rus
sian says: Man cannot stand up against
his own loneliness"
No matter how Indifferent we may be
at times to the high claims of religion,
we feel the loss of its reassuring influ-
ence when an emergency comes and we
are baffled by conflicting voices in the
world about U.S. Well does Mr.. Lippmann
affirm that "unbelief is vacancy The
distracting problems and misfortunes Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22
Action at Last.

The joint congressional committee ap-
pointed to investigate the Tennessee
Valley Authority is to be congratulated
for its decision to begin that inquiry
as soon as practicable by calling Dr.
Arthur E. Morgan, deposed chairman of
the agency, to the witness stand. Charges
made by DR.. Morgan against his former
co-directors, DR.. Harcourt Morgan and
David E. Lilienthal, were of the gravest
character and the country has right
to know whether they were based on
conjecture or facts.
While the Joint committee has been
marking time, DR.. Harcourt Morgan
and Mr.. Linenthal have been going
forward with the business of T. v. A.,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22
A PRESIDENTS CONVICTION
THE RIGHT REV. JAMES FREEMAN D. D, L. D, c. L,
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

life find us confused and COMPOUNDED
when we lack the consciousness OF "a
power not of ourselves" and beyond our
selves, that furnishes direction and peace
on life's darkened pathways. To para
phrase Mr.. Coolidge's observation, the
strength and fortitude of our life Is de-
termined by the strength OF our religious
convictions Much of the literature and
most of the action of our modern world
seems to ignore this age-old fact. On
occasion we give demonstration of what
we hold of religious convictions. again we
exhibit q kind of self-conf1dence that
issues ultimately in the defeat Of much
of our planning.
Mr.. Gladstone, in the late years Of his
life, observed that, of the many outstand-
ing leaders in the state with whom ne
had enjoyed intimate fellowship, an
overwhelming majority Of them had a
deep-seated religious faith, and lived by
1t. If as people we would address our
selves to the building of strong moral
and religious consciousness, the re-estab-
fishing of ways and practices that have
proved their worth in other days, we
would contribute more to the solving OF
our vexed problems than we can accom-
plish through all our multiplied legal
mechanisms and our many laws.
Our crime record alone indicates that
something is basically wrong in our pres
ent set-up. Down at the root of it re-
sides the lack of something in our home
training and in our boosted educational
system. A caustic writer has said: I'VE
are raising up in this country set of
lusty young pagans, and sooner or later
they will make havoc of our institutions. "
TOO caustic,' says the complacant and
self-confident citizen, who thinks super
ficially of the world in which he lives.
But the evidence is too convincing and
the facts too startling They cannot be
refuted or denied. We are faced with as
difficult set of problems today as we
have ever known and religion must play
its conspicuous part in their solution.
Our legislators. our economists and edu-
Gators must recognize this fact. If we
recover our religious faith and live by it.,
we shall be on the way to new day of
happy, prosperous living.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

What point the exact sciences have
reached" says The Star of May 16 1888.
lis shown in very
odhais on lhe striking manner by
Planet Mars. the lively discussion in
progress among as
tronomers concerning the origin and
character of the canals believed to have
been discovered on the planet Mars.
That they are canals and not rivers is
assumed by Schiapparelli and Perrotin
from the fact that they are parallel,
straight and that they increase in num-
Der between the periods of observation,
qualities not found in any natural sys-
tenn of watercourses known to US. But
along comes Prof Proctor with his
blunt British skepticism and attacks this
pretty theory by showing that. II the
rivers of the planet were overhung for a
part of the year with a heavy mist the
appearance to the eye of an observer on
the earth would be just like that which
led the continental astronomers to as
sert the existence of artificial channels.
Some force is added to this argument,
moreover, by the circumstance that, al
though Mars is only about one-sixth the
size of the earth. the supposed canals are
from fifty to eighty miles wide. To bring
this home to the mind of the reader. let
him imagine the planet Mars expanded
to the size of the earth and the United
States laid out upon its surface; then let
him fancy a canal artihcially construct
ed as wide as the State of Pennsylvania
and extending lengthwise the full width
of the United States from ocean to ocean
nc
series of them following parallel lines"
THE question has already been raised
in London just how far the famous Peo-
pies Palace Is q success.
People says The Star of May IT,
Palace 1888. Its design, as every
one admits. is admirable.
The working man of London had no
places of recreation before the palace was
built except the grog shops, the cheap
shows and assembly rooms, and here and
there a religious gathering place Where
secular books and newspapers were also
sometimes distributed. Now he is well
come to come when he feels like 1t to the
great institute dedicated to his use,
where he may read or look at pictures or
have free lessons in some branch OF
learning or a game or chat Win a
friend with as much freedom as II ne
were a member Of an expensive and
aristocratic club. But what impresses
every visitor at the palace is the absence.
or at any rate the sparse sprinkling. OF
the genuine Giles with his collarless
neck and his hobnailed shoes. So
good many worthy persons have con-
Guided that the experiment is failure
and that the workingman would rather
stick to his pothouse than accept the
offer of better things held out to him.
But this is a mistake. Admitting that
only a small part which the projectors
of the palace especially aimed to reach
have profited by it so far. there is no
occasion for Encouragement. The move
ment thus started may be slow. but 1t is
sure. The people who do make use OF
the palace and especially appreciate its
privileges are the young men and women
of the middle class in London life. They
have meager incomes and constant
aspiration toward lettering their condi-
ti0nS"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22
William W. Spaid.

Washington financial and civic leaders
pay glowing tributes to William w.
Spaid. head of one of the Capitals lead
ing brokerage houses, whose sudden
death yesterday saddened legion Of
friends. Every tribute declares that his
real worth extended far beyond the
realm of finance.
His work in behalf of the Community
Chest was always dependable and valu-
able; his Emergency Hospital aid keenly
appreciated by the heads of the insti-
tuition; while his service on the District
Welfare Board. which position he
accepted at the urgent request OF
Commissioner Allen. was even more far
reaching. Everything you see makes
your heart ache, he told friends. adding
that the great problem is when prison
inmates are discharged and everybody
is against them.
Only his intinates will ever know how
many people he helped in their time OF
greatest need. Money and effort meant
little to him if he could get some one
in trouble back on the road to happiness.
Born on an Ohio farm, he was self
educated. He was success in banking
before entering the brokerage field.
A man of highest ideals, he condemned
every financial practice which he con-
sidered unfair to the investing public.
His services to the Washington Stock
Exchange, District Bankers Association,
American Institute of Banking and
stock exchange firms with home Offices
outside of New York are lasting memo
rial to him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22

New York City is to have a splendid
exposition, but Chicago will be permitted
to persist in doubt as to whether the
Atlantic seaboard will ever produce any,
thing in song as remarkable as the Lake
Shore plaintive reminder that "she had
never seen the Streets of Cairo"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22

AS between Hitler and Mussolini, the
world watches with eager interest to
ascertain which will eventually become
ton of who shall undertake the COM
plete civilization of the Eastern Asiatic
Coast will still call for consideration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22

Too much importance should not be
attached to the fact that Mr.. John L.
Lewis had luncheon a6the White House.
Many distinguished citizens have at
tanned to this honor without finding that
it affected their material prospects in
economics or politics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22

Some remarkable results have been
noted in the list of long odds horses
the world over. Figuring odds is one
of the delicate occupations in horse
racing and upsetting them is still de-
pended on to give real interest to the
sport.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-22

Musically speaking, Mr.. Ford has
drawn artistic attention to some of the
most poetic plots in international litera-
ture. None of them, however, seems to
throw practical light on the great
complications in which he and fellow
motor manufacturers find themselves
involved.