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BAND CONCERT

BY the Navy Band in the Sail Loft
at the Navy Yard at l 80 pm. tomor-
row. It. Charles Benter, leader; Alex
ander Morris, assistant.
Program.
March. Washington Greys" Grafulla
Overture. "A May Day" Wood
Solo for cornet. "Inf1amatus," from
Stabat Mater Rossini
Oscar Short.
Reve Angelique, "Kamenoi
Ostrow" Rubinstein
Hymn, The Church in the
Wildwood" Pitts
Romance, Apple Blossoms"
Mrs. Gillett
Patrol, "Comique' Hindley
Vocal solos,
(a) "Macushla" --- Macmurrough
(b) "Siboney' -Lecuona
Senorita Nina Corinda.
"Bacchanale from Samson and
Del1lah Saint-SaenS
March, Hands Across the Sea- Sousa
Waltz, Beautiful Blue
Danube ---StrauSS
prelude and Fugue in BIB
Minor Bach
March, "Comairons" s"- Benter
March, my Maryland" Migrant
The National Anthem,
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Plan Bag Cooperative.
Costa Rica will form a cooperative
society to obtain jute bags for farmers
at low cost.
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Readers Guide
and
News Summary
The Sunday Star, May 8, 1888.
PART ONE.
Main Ne,DS Section.

FOREIGN.
Diplomatic fight awaits League Council
tomorrow. Page AZ
Hitler and Duce seal alliance in BAN
quet toasts. Page AZ
Chinese Guerrillas strike at foes in
North China. Page Az
Britain and France urge peace on
Czechs and Reich. Page A-6
Big Austrian reforms by Nazis are yet
to come. Page Ais
NATIONAL.
O'Connell and Bernard call off anti
Hague talks. Page Al
Lawrin wins Kentucky Derby by
length; Dauber second. Page Al
New high for w. P. A. rolls predicted
for next winter. Page Al
Administration forces improve control
Of legislative situation Page Al
Ladies garment workers may bolt
c. I. o. Page ALA
Mayer confesses Staying of James E.
Bassett. Page Az
Borah asked to probe Pennsylvania
G.. o. P. Slush Fund. Page AZ
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Suffrage group seeks legal election of
D. c. advisers. Page Al
Dispute perils D. C. housing aid;
showdown near. Page Al
Planners to study eastward develop
ment of D. c. Page A-4
Elsie Janis arrives for War Mothers
service today. Page AS
House bloc formed to seek death of D.
c. tax bill. Page B-1
Commissioners seek action on D. C.
civil service plan. Page B-1
Senate group due to act on Federal-aid
road plan. Page B-1
Fine Arts Commission urges Plaza de-
Velopment Page B-1
Thomas to fight diversion of D. c.
relief funds. Page B-1
Federation protests move to kill pend
ing D. c. tax bill. Page B-1
D. C. jobless tax modification seen
lost this session. Page B-1
SPORTS.
Lawrin scores a smashing upset to
take Kentucky Derby Page B-6
Travis single in tenth gives Mats 5-4
win over Chisox. Page b.
Washington horse show promises hot
closing day Page B-8
Terps in sweep WI, Bethesda High
top in field day. Page B-9
Sketchbook sets new mark in taking
Pimlico Oaks. Page Bio
Potomac, Chesapeake navigation aids
boon to yachtsmen. Page Bio
MISCELLANY.
City news in hrief Paoe A-Q
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Precipitation.

fTeclp1tatlOn.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
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GUERR|LLASD DRIVE
|NT0NORTHCH|NA
1900 Reported Centered
at Peiping-japanese
Base Engu|fed.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Chinese Regular Army enabled,
NTH the help OF large, scattered
forces OF irregulars, to put Jap
anese inuaders on defensive in
North and Central China. Nip
poneSe reuerseS, Uhich began NTH
defeat month ago at TaierhchUang,
hare forced Toxic government to
use part OF drastic mobilization laD
passed at March session of Diet.
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Portia Recognized.

After an interlude of more than four
years, the office OF the United States
attorney for the District again takes
cognizance of the woman lawyer in the
appointment OF Mrs. Grace Brown Stiles
by United States Attorney David A. Pine
as one OF his assistants.
Former United States Attorney Leslie
c. Garnett, Mr. Pines predecessor, had a
decided feeling against having woman
members of his prosecuting staff and
Mrs. Stiles is the first woman to be ap-
pointed to the staff since the incumbency
of Leo A. Rover, Mr.. Garnett's predeces-
sor, when Miss Pearl Mccall and Mrs.
Rebekah Greathouse were his assistants.
In announcing the selection OF Mrs.
Stiles, Stephen P. Haycock and William
s. Tarver as appointees to three Of the
four vacancies in his Office, Mr. Pine has
shown commendable absence OF sex pref
udice and has placed the accent on
youth. All three appointees are rela-
lively young and have studied at WASH
ington law schools.
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service, especially as 1t relates to the
welfare Of children. The program they
have arranged translates gratitude for
the heroic dead into dedication Ito that
cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion" Thus the sig
nificance of the memorial is symbolized
in action, and the idealism of the SOL
diers and sailors for whom it was raised
is carried on toward an endless future.
1t would be difficult to conceive of
any process by which glorious traditions
could be better maintained or pre-
served as living forces. Nowhere else
In the District and at no other time is
the spirit Of Washington as a city more
notably dramatized. Tomorow's observ-
ance should bring together a large, a
reverent and profoundly appreciative
assembly at the beautiful white marble
Doric shrine in the magnolia grove OF
West Potomac Park.
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Maltese Views Britain and
France as Next AggressOrs
To the Editor Of The Star:

10 the Eoltor OF The Star.
From the Malta Chronicle, a local
newspaper, I gather that The Wash
ington Star, after condemning the
pUsillaimous attitude of Britain and
France toward the relationships as
weakening American sympathy for
their cause, nonetheless AYERS:
ut can hardly be doubted that If in a
clearly defined cause Britain and France
should be locked in a life-and death
struggle with the forces of tyranny and
aggression, our sister democracies
might look confidently for full-hearted
American support. Reuter-.
I am fully aware of the insigniflcance
Of my humble position and I earnestly
wish my pen in a masters grip, but
am quite convinced that in the next war
Great Britain and France must neces-
sarily be the aggressors!
Although 1t looks paradoXical. 1t Is
nonetheless the truth or much too
near it.
The bold plan of Herr Hitler and
Signor Mussolini with its outlines
clearly spread before my eyes is evolving
its1lf without hitch. Against it stand
out an unknown Russia, France with its
shaky government and Great Britain
with premier who looks much more
like the prudent county squire than
Great Britain's prime minister with vital
interests all through the world over
DR.. DANIEL MARGUERAT.
Sliema, Malta.
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Fiat Paper Currency
Is the Fruit of Lies

To the Editor of The Star:
The dollar has been deprecated
10 SO los grains, from 258 to IS 5i2l.
1t is irredeemable, fiat; you can't cash it.
Congress spends by the billion more than
it receives, creating debt, deficits, for
which obligations are issued. The Fed
eral Reserve Bank, on complying with
certain conditions, can issue currency to
the par of the obligations held. The
debt, the bank credits and the currency
go up; the more such currency, the less
it is worth; the less it is worth, the
more must be spent; more debt; more
currency. etc, and more taxes! More
pay? No, not proportionally. The
worker pays rent. which pays taxes: the
worker buys from a retailer; the price
pays taxes; the retailer pays the whole
saler who pays the manufacturer who
pays the producer who pays the worker
who pays, etc. The process is taking
its natural course; now $4,000 900 900
are requested; note that appropriations
increase each year; this is one of the
foundations of the spiral, the whirl of
the wind we have soWn, having eaten
the fruit of lies tiat paper money! and
trusted in our multitude of mighty men.
as Hosea would tell us.
EDWARD HENRY NEARY.
Port Washington, N. Y.
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Constructive Patriotism.

Patriotism ought never to be mega
tive in character. A natural love OF
country, it would seem, should be mani
tested in constructive ways. The spon-
sors of the annual commemorative OBJ
servance at the District World War
Memorial tomorrow have had these
thoughts In mind. May Day was chosen
deliberately for the occasion because
unhappily, subversive demonstrations,
sadly in need of refutation, customarily
are planned in Europe, if not in Amer
lea, on May each year.
But the cooperating organizations,
Including the American Legion and the
American Legion Auxiliary, have other
purposes than merely contradiction
OF anarchism and communism. They
want democracy to be creative. Hence
the stress they put upon community
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In those days, Mr.. Clark points out.
Virginia was sort of "never-never
land to Europeans. This feeling was
shared by Shakespeare. who is supposed
to have gotten the idea of The Tenn
pest" from explorers accounts of the
Wild men and strange gods encountered
in the colony. Squirrels that flew
were objects of particular interest
James the First wanted to see one of
them. That such an animal as the
,opossum could exist was almost unbe-
lievable.
Economically the chief interest in
Virginia was in the possibilities of pro-
duclng silk there. BY daring to smoke
pipe and afterward preaching the
virtues OF tobacco in his native land
Ihomas Harriott did a good service to
the virginia coloniSts. but one fol which
he was not thanked by the English
government. In 1922 James the First
ordered the setting up of silk works and
the planting of vines to produce wines.
neglect to plant vines and mulberry
trees was to be punished. It seemed
lncomprehensible in England, Mr..
Clark says, that the colonists should
neglect grapes and mulberry trees in
favor OF "smoakie witch" against the
use OF which the king himself wrote a
violent diatribe
But In spite of it all tobacco flourished
and the silk worms died. Thomas Har
rlott buried himself in mathematics and
won for himself at least footnote in
all histories of the science-still smok-
ing his pipe. BY the end of his life he
was only one of vast COMPANY of
hundreds of thousands throughout Eu-
rope. Tobacco was soundly established
as the basic crop of the New World.
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Entente COrdiale Revived.

Agreements destined to be of pacific
influence upon the dynamite laden inter-
national situation have been reached at
London between Great Britain and
France. They comprehend nothing less
than restoration Of the Entente Cor
dale, which twenty-four years ago found
the Western democracies in a fighting
combination which doomed German pur-
poses to dominate Europe. What Prime
Minister Chamberlain and Premier Da-
ladier have just achieved is an IRON
clad defensive alliance in all but name.
Its avowed object is identical with that
which inspired the World War compact.
On land, on sea and in the air Britain
and France covenant to pool their war
resources to degree never dreamed of
before 1914. Nothing betokens the mag
mtude OF the streamlined entente more
lmpressively than the plan for division
OF the high command If the two powers
require again to march shoulder to
shoulder. A French general will COM
mand the combined armies, a British
admiral the allied navies and a British
air marshal the united aviation forces
from the moment an attack on either
country is launched.
There are also arrangements for Joint
purchase of equipment, including aircraft
from the United States, as well as food
stuffs and other essential sinews. British
reserve stores Of ammunition, mechanical
materiel and oil will be set up in France
to obviate the necessity of shipment
across the channel. To enable the
French to buy supplies in Czechoslovakia,
Rumania, Yugoslavia and Hungary,
British credits will be at their disposal.
The purpose is not only militarily to bull
Wark the allies, but economically to sus-
tain the Central European states men
aced by Germanys Eastern designs. The
plain objective is to pit Anglo-French
financial strength against German pres
sure to acquire Rumanias oil, Hungarys
wheat and Czechoslovak armaments and
to win that race before any new develop
ment of Nazi aggression.
Britain apparently maintains non
commitment about Czechoslovakia. She
is unwilling to exceed Mr.. Chamberlain's
no guarantees" declaration in March.
Eager to assure herself Of the British
alliance, France seems ready to limit even
her own military obligations to the Rhine.
1t begins to look as if Czechoslovakia may
be headed for the fate which successfully
overlook Ethiopia, Austria and republican
Spain, as far as any prospect of Anglo
French rescue is concerned.
The London-Paris axis is well timed to
counteract theatrical reafirmation of
the Berlin Rome axis while Hitler basks
next week in red fire reception by
Mussolini. No matter how spectacular
Roman holiday II Duce stages for Der
Fuehrer, the disquieting apparition of
Nazi divisions at the Brenner will darken
the picture. When France constructs q
Paris-Rome axis on the London Rome
model, the Reich will be confronted by
an Anglo-Italo-Fren combination
bound to give even victory -crazed and
power-drunk Berlin furiously to think
1t will checkmate the Germans aspira-
ton to be monarchs of all they survey
from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
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STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field.
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

A passing salute. 1t would seem. is due
to the memory of the first white man
ever to smoke a pipe-or use tobacco in
any form.
His name was Thomas Harriott. He
is known to fame, and has couple of
paragraphs to his credit in the Ency-
clopedia Brittanica, as a mathematician
and astronomer. He was the fellow who
invented a device which has become so
commonplace that few realize 1t ever
had to be invented-that is. the device
of using the symbol x with a small 3
above and to the right Of 1t for x cubed
instead of writing it xxx.
Without this invention Of Harriotts
the language of mathematics would be
very clumsy, and he is given due credit
for it. But to Austin H. Clark, National
Museum biologist, he owes the rediScov-
cry of the exploit that entities him to a
place as folk hero of the white races
just as the first Indian to eat an oyster
was the folk hero of the red race.
There is the old story of Sir Waiter
Raleigh smoking pipe and his fright
ened servant throwing bucket of water
over him. It may or may not be true
But if true, Sir Walter didn't get the
nicotine habit of his own initiative. He
learned it from Harriott. Mr.. Clark
learned about it from the mathema-
ticians own account of his experiences
in the new land of Virginia published in
1888, and now forgotten. He told about
it in recent Founders Day address at
the Medical College of Virginia.
The Indians, of course, had been
smoking for countless generations, but
apparently it seemed to the first white
men who came in contact with them
a vile and silly practice of savages.
Some of them may have tried it before
Harriott and suffered the customary
agonies of the small boy venturing for
the first time upon the practice. If so,
they discretely said nothing about it.
The mathematician naturally was a
man of inquiring mind, not impressed
by current prejudices. He tried the
Indian vice, liked it, became an enthusi-
astic apostle of the virtues of tobacco,
and pressed the clay pipe upon all his
friends, including Sir Walter, and
preached it's virtues for the rest of his
life
To tobacco he attributed the good
AACuAeAA Va WIG AAAuApAAo. oy ouChllk ~
through pipes of clay" he wrote, they
purged all gross humours from the head
and stomach, opened all the pores and
passages of the body, preserving it from
distractions are breaking them, whereby
they notably preserve their health, and
know not many grievous diseases
wherewith we in England are often
afflicted"
Harriott. Mr.. Clark finds, was the first
man of science to visit the New World
He graduated from oxford in 1880 and
was engaged as a teacher Of mathe-
matics in Sir Walter Raleigh'ss family.
In 1885 Raleigh sent out his second ex-
pedition to Virginia under the command
of his cousin. Sir Richard Grenville, and
appointed the tutor of geographer. The
scholar did good job In 1888 he pub
lished Brief and True Report of the
New Found Land of Virginia" in which
he described the Indians and their GUS
toms and mentioned 86 kinds of birds
and 20 varieties Of mammals, as well as
various 11Shes and plants.
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Self-Esteen.

Bell Esteem.
Although thousand birds may sing
A thousand strains OF music sweet,
The crow will spread his sable wing
And holler with a pride complete.
No matter what man may hear
OF eloquence from day to day,
He wants the neighbors to draw near
And hark to what he has to say;
For nature, though her gifts be few
Lets every living thing rejoice
And lend ecstatic ear unto
The sound OF its especial voice.
And If buzz saw could, somehow,
Be made a vital, sentient thing,
Should John Charles Thomas make 8
bow,
Twould say, Shut up and let me sing
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Town Elections.

Voters in nearly q score Of nearby
Maryland towns will go to the polls
Monday to choose municipal officers.
Many, staying away from the polls, con-
slider balloting of minor Importance, re-
gard the candidates lightly and take their
campaigns as a joke.
1t may be true that, as a class, town
ofaceholders and candidates take life too
seriously. But if there is any joke in
connection with their election it is ON the
thoughtless voters who do not consider
it worth their while to cast votes. Their
attitude paves the way for most of the
vices in American politics. The "big
bosses" who run powerful political ma
chimes for selfish motives are able to oper-
ate solely because of the indifference of
the electorate. Most Of them learned that
such Indifference existed when they were
small town ward heelers."
That this indifference exists on the
very borders OF the National Capital is
evidenced by the fact that uncontested
elections are the rule rather than the
exception in nearby towns. When con-
tests do develop they frequently result in
a healthy airing of municipal affairs.
The widespread reluctance to run for or
accept municipal jobs is difficult to un-
derstand when it is remembered that
many noted public men, including Calvin
Coolidge, began their careers as town
officials. Although town governments
handle many affairs directly affecting
the welfare and safety Of children, few
women have been candidates in nearby
municipal elections.
For all the public indifference, Mary
lands municipalities have had high type
administration. It is true that in numer-
Gus instances public officials have been
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returned year after year because of work
well done. County political machines
almost invariably have kept out OF town
campaigns.
But 1t is equally true that many mat
tiers could be administered better, many
needed improvements accelerated. No
doubt economies could be effected
through consolidation Of town functions.
The whole structure of State and ma
tional government would improve If
Americans would learn that not only pol
itics but political economy begins at
home.
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES &. TRACEWELL.

warfare.
The other method is to temper in
stinctive resentment with common sense
seasoned with big dash of tolerance.
When a garden begins to worry you
too much, whatever the cause, it is not
worth while.
It may require years to prove this to
the gardener, but it is q wisdom which
will come in time.
The new gardener, of course, cannot
be expected to know it., except by a sort
of good instinct which some fortunate
persons possess.
The rest Of us must learn, from dear
experience, slowly and painfully, that
nature is large, that she contains multi
tudeS, and that If We leave the garden
to her in time she will bring things out
right for the location of that particular
garden.
Thus, If she thinks more Of her s1uir-
rels. on Livingston street, than she does
OF her dear tulips, she will permit the
rodents to dig up all the bulbs She
will allow them to eat all of Mrs. IL
pears and consume most of her nice
walnuts.
And must Mrs. L not resent this?
X X X 4
Only for a time.
The remainder of her resentment Is
against herself. 1t will not harm the
squirrels. They will know nothing
about it.
Let her give up tulips, for year or
two, and go in for other things Of the
sorts which squirrels do not like.
In time she may even be able to
sneak in few bulbs, and catch the
rodents off guard, after they have been
eating the tulips down the street in Mrs.
Jones yard
rels for time, Mrs. L. You have had
more than your share of 1t.
\ X
Those who have tried both methods
know from experience that there is no
other way.
All things in all neighborhoods 20 in
cycles. That, too, is natures way. One
season the police dogs hunt in packs.
The next year there are few police dogs.
One year the pigeons make nuisances
out OF themselves The next there may
be only a few, the owner thereof hay.
ing moved away.
1t Is almost comical, at times, to
watch these changes, and to listen to
people foam at the mouth and then to
see the thing they foamed at quietly
disappear under their very eyes.
The foamlng is worse than waste OF
energy; it is harDsful to the person who
foamS.
This attitude is difficult of attainment.
but worth the price. Under its benign
influence garden becomes really gar
den, whereas before it was partly a
nuisance, pain in the neck, as the
youngsters say
Common sense must season tolerance,
but the main ingredient is an amused
pleasure in watching what happens.
Once this is cultivated, the squirrels
become tolerable, also the pigeons.
The gardener soon sees that cats have
been catching birds for centuries, and
yet the tribes of the air are very much
with us. If cats were their only foes
they would have far easier time of it
than they do.
The gardener who can look life and
his garden in the eye, and see them as
they are, without frills or t1ubdud, Las
found his best protection against the
things Of nature which he may not alto
gether like.