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Ed snatched at the bill.
UNATTENDED GOOD DEED

"Give it back!" he walled. 'You
can't take that money! I gotta
keep it because ;" He staggered
back against table as McGurk's
fist crashed upon his mouth.
Laugh that Off" In a flash
the lunchroom proprietor stepped
to the cash register, flattened the
$40 bill in one Of its drawers. flung
some notes and silver on the coun.
ter. Here's what's coming to you
rat! Now get out! And stay out!
II l ever catch you around here
again :"
"But-but!" Ed mumbled. "You
don't understand! That twenty
I need it :"
McGurk, white with rage, seized
his mwelcome customers collar
in one hand, showed the change
into the mans pocket with the
other. An instant later he had
rushed him, still protesting to the
door.
Out" he roared. With a we'll
directed kick he sent Ed sprawling
to the sidewalk. Muttering furi.
ously, he sepped back inside, slam.
ming the door behind him.
Groggily Ed picked himself up
from the sidewalk, stared through
the window Of the restaurant at
McGurk's scowling face. For a
moment he thought Of going back,
then, wiping the blood from his
lips, shook his head. With a help
less shrUg. ne moved along the
street. ED done all ne could to
keep from passing the money. No
chance Of getting IN the restau.
rant to tel McGurk that the 20.
dollar bill was the phony one
Doyle had palmed off on him for
two good tens.
He patted the $40 40 that lay in
in his pocket. Real money. Enough
to take him back 70 Millersville
back to Mary. And ne had the res.
taurant's address on the ticket
Some day he'd be able to return
the money. Ed Wills headed to.
ward the railroad station smiling.
The sunlight, he noticed, was the
color of Mary's hair.
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deeper hunger arose. To hold
Mary in his arms, kiss her! If
only there were some way to cross
the hundreds of snow-covered
miles between here and Mllers-
vile! To try to walk it, in this
weather, was impossible. But I'M
less he could find Doyle, force him
to make good
"Al right" McGurk's voice was
biting. Gimme the check and
beat it! You're no advertisement
for a respectable PLACED"
HE'LL PAY 1T BACK
Ed stood up, his face red under
McGurk's bitter scorn. With an
apology to the waitress for not
giving her a tip, he turned once
more to the counter.
Sixty cents, boss" he said,
handing the punched slip of card
board to McGurk. Maybe 1
crowded the mourners little, or
dering that hunk Of pie, but it
looked so good :"
"All right :. all right" McGurk
grumbled, about to tear the check
up. Ed stopped him.
Don't do that" he objected.
I'm no hobo. If I hadn't been
gypped out of the dough was saw
ing Well, some day when 1
get back to Millersville, I'll send
you the cash. swear l will. Here,
gimme that ticket" He reached
over, picked up a bit of paste
board.
Bunk" McGurk growled.
You're just a cheap chiseler like
the rest of 'em! If my best Gus
toner hadn't stuck his oar in,
you'd never have worked me for
that feed! Now beat i'll" He
stopped abruptly, staring.
Ed had produced a frayed
leather wallet, was slipping the
meal ticket into it. And quite un-
noticed by him something small
and crumpled had fallen out.
Something dull green in color
which fluttered noiSelesSly to the
linoleum-covered floor.
With a swing of his arm Nc
Gurk raised a hinged section of
the counter, stepped into the main
room. The small, green object still
lay unnoticed near Eds foot. A
numeral showed clearly at one cor
ner of it the figure o." fol-
lowed by zero. Snarling, McGurk
bent >. when he stood up again,
he held $40 bill in his hand.
you lousy four-flushing crook"
he shouted, his eyes blazing. $50
you were holding out on me, were
you? With a twenty in your
jeans :"
Ed snatched at the bill.
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s Rush,
By FREDERIC ARNOLD RUNNER, JR.

I'D WILLIS stared with hungry eyes through the steamy
~ window of the lunch Impossible he found, to
wrench his eyes from the crusy oaves of bread the golden
hrnun MES the luscious. Glove studded ham.
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Evening star., 1938-06-20

fore in serious danger Of defeat. More
over. he is familiar with the fact that
erstwhile Republicans who supported
him in 1882 and in 1895 have been re-
turning to their natural alignment and
he desires to halt their detection by
personal appearance before them. His
faith in his power to charm the multi
tude still is strong, and he means to use
it again as he has on previous occasions
with results already historical. The
opposition would be stupid, indeed. II 1t
did not recognize the logic Of his reason
ing in the circumstances.
Yet it may be wondered whether the
tour will justify Mr.. Roosevelt's hopes
to any degree commensurate with the
labor involved. A series of "flreside
chats" probably would serve almost as
well. The mass reaction to the physical
phenomena of leadership is hard to
estimate. Movie audiences nowadays do
not applaud the President when he is
portrayed on the screen as they once
did. The crowds that gather at railroad
stations to stare at him are not entirely
composed of enthusiastic adherents.
Many are attracted by mere curiosity.
some are frankly hostile and make no
pretense of any other attitude.
Mr.. Roosevelt, however. is not de-
ceived. He CANDLES his personality
against his critics, fully aware that he
must fail in part. The question is:
What portion of the population can he
hold during the next two years? A
small fraction may be enough to guar
antee as much victory as he wishes. It
is to win that shifting and unstable per-
centage of the total electorate that he
is starting shortly on his crusade.
Evening star., 1938-06-20
The Moon Is Disturbed.

from the Charleston (W. Va) Mail.
Comparisons may be odious but some
times they may also offer solace. Though
great many people believe that this
modern world is upside down and hay
wire, at least our troubled planet has
not lost its way and deviated from it's
assigned orbit.
Astronomers were thrown into con-
fusion not long ago when they discovered
that the moon was not where it should
be at given moment. Calculations dis
closed that the satellite had varied
from its orbit by six seconds, one-tenth
OF a minute. To add insult to the in
jury of the astronomers who have
labored for years to calculate the moons
orbit. their own earth was blamed for
the deviation
Following as it does the recent near
approach of a large meteor, the moon S
eccentricity caused by the earth would
seem to indicate that our globes woes
have not been confined at home. II
the principle Of concomitant occur
rences holds true universally, then 1t
appears that we not only have upset
ourselves but have extended our in
fluence considerably beyond our own
comparatively Insignificant planet. And
it is no mean accomplishment to dis
turb the regularity Of q celestial body's
long established orbit.
Probably about the time the as
tronomers have plotted the new orbit,
things will subSide and the moon will
return to its previous routine, entailing
more orgies Of figuring.
Evening star., 1938-06-20
The Montana Rail Horror,

The history of railroading in this
country contains no more ghastly record
of disaster than that which occurred
early yesterday morning in Montana,
when an express train plunged into
raging torrent through bridge that had
been undermined by cloudburst just
a few minutes before. The present
record of the casualties is incomplete.
but 1t seems certain that more than
sixty persons lost their lives.
The train was one of the best equipped
and fastest on the line, an express. APP
parently there was no warning of the
conditions ahead when it approached
the bridge. 1t would seem, in fact, that
there was no knowledge of the storm that
had just burst in the valley above the
railroad crossing. One report is that the
creek bed was almost dry short time
before the arrival Of the train. the storm
coming with extreme suddenness and
causing the deluge that swept down the
watercourse so swiftly that there was
no chance to escape disaster, short of
the halting of the train before reaching
the bank. 1t is stated in the dispatches
that the train was travelling at such high
speed that the engine literally leaped
across the water course to the far side.
This suggests that there was no pre-
caution whatever against the possibility
Of weakened bridge, a fact which
should be taken into consideration in
determining the responsibility for the
disaster.
Undoubtedly there will be an investi-
CATION, to determine if possible whether
there was any neglect of inspection and
warming, whether there was adequate
precaution in the matter of signals, Just
what was the record of earlier visitations
of this nature at that point. If the
cloudburst, as it is termed, was of rarely
exceptional character it may have been
considered by the railroad authorities
that there was no occasion to make the
point of approach place of compulsory
stopping to make certain of the security
of the crossing. This region, however, is
not infrequently visited by sudden, fierce
transforms, and this is condition to be
borne in mind in railroad operations.
1t is the exceptional but nevertheless
possible condition that should always
govern in the adoption of safety meas
u-es. The maintenance of a speedy
schedule is by no means so important as
the positive assurance of security in a
region where nature is given to spas
modic fury. before which the compare
lively frail structures made by man may
yield.
Evening star., 1938-06-20
Coast-to-Coast Service.
rom the Providence Bulletin.


Report comes from Washington that
the United States Maritime Commission
has approved the application of the
Baltimore Mail Steamship Co. to trans
Ter its five combination passenger and
cargo vessels to the intercoastal serv-
ice. That means a limping revival of
the almost abandoned marine passenger
service between the Atlantic and Pacific
Coasts
Only a year ago this shipping route
through the Panama Canal was highly
popular with coast-to-coast travellers.
There were three lines affording almost
continuous communication and they
were all literally patronized, but now
there remain only the West-bound trips
OF the Dollar Line ships, not more than
fortnightly at best, in connection with
the company's ound-the-world service
The New York-San Francisco schedule
of the Grace Line has been completely
abandoned, and so has the service main
tanned by the Panama-Pacific Line with
Its three luxury ships. California, Penn
sylvania and Virginia.
All that has remained has been the
west bound service of the Dollar Line
and the extremely limited passenger ac-
commodations available on occasional
cargo vessels. The sudden deprivation
has been severely felt by travellers be-
tween the Atlantic Coast and California
who preferred the ease and luxury of
the water route.
The loss will now be partially repaired
by the transfer of the five ships of the
Baltimore line to the intercoastal serv-.
Ice. These vessels have hitherto been
operating between Baltimore and Nor
folk and continental European ports.
Evening star., 1938-06-20
Letters to The Star
The Massacre Of
st. Bartholomew's Day.
To the Editor OF The Star:

The Massacre Of
st. Barthol0mew's Day.
To the Editor Of The Star:
THE letter in your issue of June II
puts the blame of the massacre of
the Huguenots on Catherine de Medici,
the French Queen, and is perhaps as
good a defense of that event as it is
possible to make AS for the authority
whom the writer cities. know nothing.
On the other hand, we happen to have
in our possession one of the bronze
medals struck off by Gregory Kills
order, which gives the Popes name and
eff1gy on one side and on the other side
a portrayal of the Huguenot sufferers as
with an angel carrying cross and drawn
sword and the words ''Strages Ugono-
torum," the Slaughter of the Hugue-
nots." On the ground are portrayed the
victims begging for mercy and being
killed. When the news of the tragedy
reached Rome, the cannons of st. An
gelo were fired of and a TIE Deum
sung in ST. Marks Church. In spite
of the appeal of Cardinal Montalo,
afterward Sixtus v, that the rejoicing
would give the world reason to be-
lieve that the church was thirsting
for blood. the commemoration continued.
Three years before the event. the pontiff,
according to Lord Acton, wrote to the
French King: when God has given you
and us the victory, it will be your duty
to punish heretics with all severity and
thus avenge not only your own wrongs,
but those of Almighty God" And citing
Saul's destruction of the Amalekites, he
went further and said: Under no cir
cumStances and for mo consideration
ought the enemies of God to be spared"
When the massacre was completed,
Gregory wrote to Charles TX that the
news was better news to him than the
news of a hundred victories at Lepanto"-
the defeat of the Mohammedan fleet by
Don John. This and much more of the
same sort will be found in Lord Acton's
Correspondence" and his History of
Freedom" Lord Acton lived and died
in the Catholic Church. In his Faith of
Our Fathers Cardinal Gibbons expressed
his "detestation of that inhuman
slaughter" but made the plea that "the
Roman pontiff had nothing to do with
the perpetration of the tragedy and
that religion had nothing to do with it
and Gregory was utterly ignorant OF It,"
Gregory's predecessor had written to
Count Santifiore ''to take no Huguenot
prisoner, but kill every one that falls
into your hands" Fortunately, the old
theory that if not converted, heretics
should be killed. expressed by Thomas
Aquinas and Cardinal Bellarmin, has
been set aside. A better principle now
holds and historical misunderstanding
are not apt to hasten the day OF mutual
toleration and friendship.
DAVID SCHLEY SCHAFF.
Evening star., 1938-06-20

Cut grass clippings. Tor such use, are .
great deal Of failure.
Ono advantage Of humus Is that it
il . beautiful color. We do not mean
che ccm,,osted material from leaves and
garden refuse, but the real hunus dug
out Of old lake bottoms. This is beau-
tiful material, to the gardening eye:
when slightly damp 1t Is the color Of
old loan, tho sort one reads about, but
seldom sees.
It should not be spread thickly, but
sprinkled around In the bare spots.
It gives . sort Of cushion to . sod, .
cushion on top. to protect from heat.
1t has some fertilizer value, and q
great deal Of esthetic value. Few
lawns are perfect. or even approaching
perfection. A sward may be patchy, and
still retain q very nice appearance, pro-
vided bare light colored soil spots do
not show. II humus did nothing more
than blend these in with the grass, it
would be well worth the price. but
those who have used it freely will be
willing to swear that the grass is bene-
flied in every way.
Peat moss is really peat made by
nature from certain moses. There are
now on the market both the imported
European peats and the type culled in
Florida.
Since all peats have a slightly acid
reaction, it may be questioned whether
they are best for use on lawns in which
the Kentucky blue grass forms large
part of the mixture. since these grasses
like an alkaline soil. and benefit from
the generous use of lime.
Probably the acid reaction of peat
is not sufficient to be of any moment
here What is helpful Is the moisture
content, and the covering from the
hot eye Of the sun.
Lime of the agricultural type prob
ably should be used a great deal more
freely than it is. It's sweetening effect
. on the soil is not just imagination.
Another item which must not be for
gotten by the would-be lawn repairer
at this time Of year is seed.
Seed, itself, let us insist. is good to
plant at any time of year. The birds
may eat a great deal Of it, but some
of it remains, to grow into lusty plants
1t cannot be said too often that
lawn Is a collection, a colony, OF grass
plants, just as a hedge is an orderly
row of specimens of some woody ma
terial.
One of the best habits the lawn
maker can get into is to have a pound
of some good mixture handy, and not to
be afraid to use 1t, even in June, July
or August.
This procedure absolutely no pun in
tended will mean extra care to keep
such plots wet, and also make more
necessary than ever some good cover
material. such as the peat or humus
mentioned.
Neither of these materials offers any
handicap to the fresh new grass blade
as tender as 1t is. II we could view
through a microscope a small patch
freshly seeded and covered thinly with
humus or peat moss, no doubt it would
resemble a field Of giant boulders, be-
tween which the new blades had all
the room in the world to come up.
1t is helpful thing to believe that
all nature is working to make ones
lawn good. In view of the apparent
stubbornness of grass at times. particu-
larly in this June, this Is wholesome
belief 1t gives heart and courage to
the equally stubborn human who says,
despite appearances. You shall be a
good lawn"
Evening star., 1938-06-20
Bargain Rates.

Like so much other special-interest
legislative action, the refusal of both
House and Senate to accept a presiden-
tial veto of the measure to extend the
emergency low interest rates on farm
mortgages held by Federal agencies OBJ
viously is actuated by political considera-
tons.
Many Of the Senators and virtually all
of the Representatives from the areas
that benefit most by the interest rate
subsidy are facing their celebrates in the
fall. To deny that the gift Of low in
terest rates on mortgages is any less an
influence in swaying voters than are jobs
on w. P. A., protective tariffs or other
forms of government largesse would be
merely begging the question.
1t is begging the question also to
argue that such gift to the farm vote
is balanced by some other benevolence
to another group Of citizens. Two wrongs,
or miscarriages Of judgment, do not
make one right.
The point may be raised. OF course,
that the Judgment Of Congress was cor
rect in enacting this legislation and that
of the President was faulty In vetoing It..
If so, the logic is not readily apparent.
The act Of 1887, also passed over a
presidential veto, extended for one year
the 3'a per cent rate on mortgages held
by the Federal Land Banks, and for two
years the 4 per cent rate on mortgages
issued by the Federal Farm Mortgage