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Evening star., 1938-09-02
Analysis of Needs of
Adjacent Maryland Counties.

To the Editor of the Star:
THE question has come up in the press
regarding the necessity for an audit
of the accounts Of the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission, its office
in the District of Columbia. yet oper-
ating in Montgomery and Prince Georges
Counties, Md.
why not an audit, or, why the rea-
son for one?"
"Politics!" exclaims the commission,
cynically.
The commission is right. It is through
the Maryland Legislature that this COM
mission exists. 1t has been granted
bond issue after bond issue OF many
hundreds of thousands of dollars, re-
gardless of authority from the taxpayers
of the two counties involved. And yet
1t is the property owners who must re-
pay such debt, doubly assured through
a first lien that the commission holds
on all property within its water and
sewer district. BY all means let us have
an audit. 1t is only fair. and being
fair. the commission should not only
consent to it, but invite it. Let us try
it and see.
From newspaper accounts, Montgom-
cry and Prince Georges Counties are in
troubled waters financially. The COM
missions which have entailed heavy tax
alton, as shown on State and county
tax bills. are, first, the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission, which af-
fords water and sewer service to those
who request it. Also it furnishes, with
out such service. noticeable front
foot benefit charge often dispropor-
tionately steep. On one tax bill just re-
ceived by this writer, small triangle
Of land not large enough for a build
ing, its long side on the street, is taxed
by the State and county $102. The
Suburban Sanitarys front foot benefit
tax is $610.
Secondly, there is the Maryland Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission, its
aim to furnish beauty and taxes, the
latter demanded equally, where beauty
is, or is not. And thirdly, the Mary
land Public Service Commission, its
headquarters in Baltimore. This last,
it has been gathered through corre-
spondence, has supervision over the pre-
viously named two other commissions.
These three commissions named seem
to be working together, or as the King
fish" might say, in cahoots' with one
another. That is, If one writes letter
to one commission, he Is likely to re-
Evening star., 1938-09-02

Those who think that symphonic music
is the only great music are mistaken.
The word great" as applied in music,
has nothing at all to do either with size
or commercial success.
Popular tunes which sweep the Nation
are in no sense great. Many a symphony
Is dull.
Some of the Negro spirituals, such as
"Steal Away" and II Want to Be Like
Jesus" are individually great.
The adjective has many meanings. but
when we use it in the sense of q thing
being eminent, elevated, important,
plainly enough we permit the entrance
of the best Of the folk songs OF all
nations.
Neither elaborate, long nor sophisti-
Gated, folk music of the best type-and
we speak of none other-may be great
in the same way complicated symphony
is.
The explanation is easy. Music Is
great, in the sense used, solely in regard
to emotional content.
Good folk music is not, as many be-
lieve, work of little consequence from
composers of little worth.
1t is not always kept in mind that in
the past folk tunes were made up by
music lovers just the same as music is
composed today.
The fact that the composers are un-
known is not something against such
music, but rather to its credit, for it
shows that it was loved and remembered
for itself alone.
***
In Sophisticated music circles, do we
not too often have music which is played
because of name?
Not everything which Beethoven wrote
is great, by any means.
Music is basically emotional, and there
fore thing of mood.
There are good emotions, and bad
emotions; there is such a thing as being
moved and at the same time being left
in full possession of ones integrity OF
thought.
This is what great music does, but
for it.
1t is possible to be moved to tears by
certain movements in Beethovens SYM
phonies, and be left dry-eyed at another
time.
1 Lc lAIle, Ille pace anu lIlc Cdio-
how seldom do they meet, even in great
music?
The sight of grapefruit solemnly
rolling down the aisle at symphony
concert totally spoiled Tschaikowsky'
Fifth Symphony"
So Close to ruin is great art, through
its very inception. fragile as the very
air which bears it!
So it is possible, one may feel. for
anything musical to be great-f 1t is.
Greatness, in regard to things musical,
is not matter of proportions, but of
content; not of end, but OF intention:
not of noise, but of emotional reactions
| to controlled sounds
The standards are many, it must be
| admitted
The universal language, which is
Evening star., 1938-09-02
Tydings Attacked for
Showing ng>Independence of Thought.

To the Editor Of the Star:
As AN humble member Of a sister
commonwealth. am deeply inter-
ested in the vigorous fight Senator Tyd-
ings is waging against the encroachment
of States rights and to maintain his
seat in the Senate. Why should he
be called a Republican, for example,
for refusing to assist in the destruction
of the value of the judicial branch of
the Government by converting it into
a rubber stamp?
The new statement that to frustrate
the President is to frustrate the will OF
the people is wide of the mark. Not
until after the President was elected for
his second term did he pronounce his
decision against the liberty OF the Su-
preme Court which he demanded Con-
gress should endorse. The people through
their Representatives brought about its
defeat. Now in the primaries, when the
people show quite plainly whom they
intend to elect. the President or his
emissaries enter the States to frustrate
the will of the people. The statement
that he came as the head of the Demo-
cratic party not as the President OF
the United States. dual personality.
DR.. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde performance
is ludicrous and cannot be expected to
fool all the people all the time.
Why, recently, have party lines be-
come 50 very important? Were not
two Republicans placed. in 1888, in the
cabinet and have held those positions
ever since and have not other Repub-
licans been appointed for other promi-
nent positions? Is it not evident. IN
this administration, that party is i'm
material?
Moreover. these mongrel. alien un-
American theories, under the name OF
the New Deal do not represent the true
Democratic party, but they have been
cleverly fastened upon the party like
barnacles attached to a ship.
It is hideous spectacle that the whole
machinery of the Government is brought
against Senator Tydings because he will
not become Eyes man." He is fight
ing. not merely for himself, but to vim
dicate the rights Of the Sovereign State
of Maryland, as well as every other
State in the Union. May we remain a
free people free to select our own rep
resentatives, without threats, oppres-
sion or bribery. Such was the purpose
OF the founders of this great republic.
May that purpose never be destroyed.
H. N. CUMMINGS.
Alexandria Va
Evening star., 1938-09-02
Shooting Stars.
By PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Not Annreciated

Not Appreciated.
He could explain most anything
That eer was said or done;
A process Of clear reasoning
For him was simply fun.
And yet his honors were but small,
Likewise his worldly gain:
Folks didn't seem to care at all
How we'll he could explain!
He knew just why men met defeat
When all the votes were cast:
His mind was wondrously replete
With knowledge of the past.
Success smiled forth on every hand
For men of lesser brain
Who hustled round and did things, anc
Just left him to explain.
Evening star., 1938-09-02
Facile Traffic.

The District Highway Department,
moving step by step toward the solution
of traffic problems of today and of
tomorrow, will ask for funds in the 1910
budget to prepare the way for an over
pass which will speed north and south
bound traffic past Water street and the
Tidal Basin.
The project would include the widening
outlet and the construction of a viaduct
some 400 feet long to separate the grades
at the south side of the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing. This plan, to-
gether with the construction of bridge
over the Rock Creek-Potomac Parkway
at K street, will 60 a long way to elimi-
nate the confusion of passenger and
commercial vehicles at two important
points.
The K street bridge is nearer to reality,
borings having been made and the en-
gineering studies being well advanced.
During the morning and evening rush
hours thousands of cars carrying workers
to and from the Government buildings
in the Constitution avenue area use the
parkway At the same time hundreds
of trucks bound for the industrial section
of Georgetown and for Virginia points
by way of Key Bridge use K street. The
result is desperate confusion which is
relieved only by the efficient handling of
the situation by police assigned to the
intersection for the busiest hours.
Conditions at Fourteenth and Water
streets are even worse. The heavy trafnc
Evening star., 1938-09-02
Cardenas' Decision.

w ulsCollllllue appropriations OF agraflan
land to permit settlement of American
claims in line with the proposal by Sec
retary of State Hull week ago was a
severe blow at this Governments at
tempt to conciliate its difficulties with
Mexico and impels the examination of
more forceful steps to obtain payment
for the seized properties.
Addressing the first session of the new
Congress in Mexico City President Car
denas declared that the government will
continue its agrarian program-seizures
OF farm lands whether domestic or for
eign owned-and in its reply to Secretary
Hull's recent note will reafirm the poll
cies it has already set forth-that is, rec
ognition of the obligation to pay for
seized lands but no substantial step to-
at this time.
President Cardenas' attitude is small
reward for the patience and forbearance
which this Government has exercised
through Secretary Hull. His reply will
be definite rejection of compromise on
the issue of arbitration, as proposed by
Secretary Hull, and forces this Govern
ment to return to its original insistence
that the machinery of the 1929 treaty
of Washington be invoked for settle
ment of the claims.
1t was only as gesture of good faith
in the first place that Secretary Hull
receded from his original position and
accepted the ter-proposal of Mexico
that new joint commission be appoint
ed to negotiate, rather than arbitrate,
reasonable conditions to such an ar
rangement, one Of them being that all
land appropriations stop before the COM
mission begins work. The spurning of
this condition, of course, invalidates the
commission plan, throwing the whole
matter back on Secretary Hulrs note of
July 21
President Cardenas, being a practical
politician, has undoubtedly weighed the
importance of maintaining his domestic
political support against the importance
of advancing good neighborliness as it
has been so clearly manifest in the recent
relations of this Government with
Mexico.
Cardenas is sitting on veritable vol
cano Beneath him, and continually
pressing him from below, are both the
still large body of landless peasantry and
the radical workers. The agrarian pro-
gram remains after four and half years
the one big prop for his administration.
Without it he would have little hold
upon the masses of lowly Indians who
compose most of Mexico's population.
They would be fit material for any in
surgent general or ambitious politico who
came along. AS long as he continues
appropriations of privately owned estates
he at least gives the appearance of fight
ing aggressively for the peasants.
But the effect of Cardenas' refusal to
discontinue appropriations cannot be lost
in the international sphere. Certainly
the friendship for Mexico which had be-
gun to take form in American public
opinion is vitally threatened, and the
support and cooperation of this country
is essential to healthy solution Of
Mexico's problems.
Furthermore, if Mexico, even because
of the exigencies of domestic policies,
fails to accept the obligations inherent
in good neighborliness it can hardly
claim the benefits thereof, and the
vaunted good neighbor" policy becomes
a snare and delusion.
Evening star., 1938-09-02

1t is urged that motion pictures are
the best entertainment at present before
patient forebearance Of the statesmen
who take the stump in order to establish
a record for both entertainment and
instruction.
Evening star., 1938-09-02
Twenty Years Ago
The World War Day BY Da,
September 2, 1918.

Sedan-the worst one the Germans
ever celebrated British broke through
the Droeourt-Queant switch line, for
IA miles on 6-mile front, taking Neuve-
Eglise and 10000 prisoners. In six weeks,
total of nearly 100000 had been taken.
Americans troops which captured
Voormezele, Belgium, continued on
eastward North of scissors, Americans
reached Terney- -Sorneys and crossed the
st. Quentin. .soissonS road.
Evening star., 1938-09-02
Perils of Peace.

From the Louisville Courer-Journal.
One reason why Europe has suddenly
regained its calmness after its recent
war scare is that war scares are danger
Gus to national economy. Capital has
way of taking flight and depression
is almost as bad as a war.
Evening star., 1938-09-02

Weather reports have long been cited
as examples Of uncertainty. When un-
certainty attaches to prediction, of even
greater Importance, the weather man is
at least to be congratulated on doing well
under the circumstances.
Evening star., 1938-09-02
Decimal Weather.

From the New York Bun.
Since the Weather Bureau provides
thermometer readings in tenths of de-
grees, it might be good idea to carry
this weather out to six or seven decimal
places and then drop it.
Evening star., 1938-09-02

There were fears that this country was
to be subjected to the embarrassment of
a dictatorship. Perhaps the best cure for
such a manifestation is the willingness
of so many people at once to undertake it.
Evening star., 1938-09-02

Mechanicsville, Md, held carnival
and jousting entertainment while SEN
ator Millard Tydings conducted an ora
torical-occasion. Circuses have gone out
OF business, but the native urge for sport
and eloquence will not disappear.
Evening star., 1938-09-02
True Art.

How oft is genius without heart,
Insensible and cold.
We listeners humbly pay for art,
The singer sings for gold.
Evening star., 1938-09-02
Warning.

Reform shows opportunities
Which we with care must shun,
To backslide with communities
Instead of one by one.
Evening star., 1938-09-02

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Caution.

"Of course you won't object to me as
a candidate because I'm a poor man"
mo" answered the cautious constitu-
ent; mot If you'll consent not to get rich
too quick after you get in Office"
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when you is bein' instructed all to
once" said Uncle Eben, Ito practice close
economy an to avoid hoardin' yoh money.
advice DO git sorta coufusin'!"
Evening star., 1938-09-02
1ngratitude.

"Why don't you tell your constituents
that you are making sacrifice of per-
sonal income by remaining in of1lce?"
Il haven't any faith in that argument" I"
answered Senator Sorghum People
never appreciate what they think they
are getting for nothing
Evening star., 1938-09-02
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Evening star., 1938-09-02

This is very suspicious age" said Hi
Ho, the sage of Chinatown. Even kind
words make men nervous owing to the
fact that they are so often used in dis
honest scheming."
Evening star., 1938-09-02
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Evening star., 1938-09-02

Q. What was the earliest lace making
center in the United States?-H. L.
A. Ipswich. Mass, was the only place
where lace-making was carried ON to any
extent in this country. In a statement
made by Tench Cooke, in an address be-
fore the Pennsylvania Society in 1885,
the lace-makas of Ipswich we're credited
with producing silk lace to the amount
of $4,000 yards yearly. A settlement of
Huguenots In the Hudson Valley intro
duced bobbin lace, but 1t never developed
into an industry.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-09
BY HELEN WELSHIMER
Central Press Writer

New York, July 9-Inquiry into the
shrouded early life of Countess Bar
bara Hutton Won HaughwitZ- Revent-
low today threw new light on the
strange medley of circumstances
which now have brought her at the
age of &c to the journeys end of her
second venture into international ro-
nance.
Little is known of her early years
but that little speaks volumes. For
it reveals that she was a child prin-
cess in an ivory tower insulted by
walls of wealth from the real life "a
round her, as few children of the
modern world ever have been.
She grew up in a world of extra
VACANT fancies, immersed in romantic
poetry and fiction, clustered, guard
ed, isolated, fostering dreams. When
she grew up, she met men but she
did not marry them. She married the
dream prices who came to her in her
lonely childhood in the dream tower.
Her Dream World.
Barbara's own timid essays into
poetry-published in a thin burgundy
colored volume in 1934-clearly re-
veal the dream world in which she
lived. And we ourselves can go back
to Tennyson's Lady of Shalott' for
a hint as to her early years:
But who hath seen her wave her
hand?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-09

ton, Ky, endorsed Barkley's can
didacy by citing his record in Con-
gress in a lengthy and laudatory
manner.
Just before the Presidents letter
to Logan was given out today, new
charges of political activity by the
WPA in Kentucky in behalf of Bark
ley brought a complete denial from
Harry Hopkins, administrator of the
works agency.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican,
Michigan, wrote Hopkins asking
about distribution of groceries or
other commodities in a large paper
bag bearing the name of Senator
Barley candidate for denomination.
Vandenberg had sent Hopkins
photostatic copy of bag which bore
the legend paper bags donated by
friend of Senator Alben w. Barkley."
Hopkins said an unnamed friend"
of Barley had supplied the bags to
a general store across the street from
the WPA commodities distribution
center in London, KY, where ''they
were handed out to any one who ask
ed for them to be used for any pur
pose that they might see fit to put
them"
Meantime, the Presidents first adj
dresses on his western tour dispelled
any doubt for capital politicians as to
the vigor of the campaign he intends
to wage for a clear-cut political di-
vision of '1iberals'J and "conserva-
tives," as he defines them.
In Ohio and Kentucky, he made
sharply clear that he would like to
| have Senators Buckley and Barkley
returned to Congress because of their
| support of administration measures.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-09
Returning to New York from
world cruise i'm 1882. She has
travelled extensively.

, Or at the easement seen her stand?
Or is she known in all the land,
The Lady of Shalott?"
No, she was not known in all the
land-the land where the nickels and
dimes were flowing into the cash reg
listers that still today are ringing up
her fabulous fortune. They did not let
her go to school, not even one of
those ultra-exclusive private schools
where other little rich girls are sent
to acquire some semblance of the
common touch.
She never had a chance to taste
that rough and early shirt sleeve DEM
ocracy that had opened the paths of
opportunity for Grandpa Woolworth
Grandpa Woolworth who himself
before he died acquired delusions of
grandeur and laundering thirst for
royal gestures.
Governesses, tutors, older people in
the service of great wealth reared
her. An only child she had not even
the leveling play of brothers and Sis
ters
Travel, Travel.
she never knew the security Ol one
sandpile, one bed and one swing. She
was always going some place else to
live Her time was divided between
Europe and America. When she sail
ed no one knew about it. Paid guards
walled her from the public.
The nickle and dime princess with
the royal gold hair was born Nov. IA,
1912, in New York City. Her father,
who has been devotedly at her side
in all of her vicissitudes, was Frank
lyn Laws Hutton, Wall Street
broker associated with his brother in
the firm of E. +. Hutton. Her moth
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-09

err was Edna Woolworth, daughter of
Frank Woolworth the founder, for
whom the five and ten-cent store cash
registers rang up $4,000, 900 in nickels
and Dimes Barbara's third of the
estate actually increased to $45,00O,-
600 by the time she was 81, due to
the skillful management of her father
Barbara knew at an early age the
tragedy of violent death which was
to visit her again later in life. When
she was five years old her mother was
found dead on the floor of her suite
at the Plaza hotel, a victim of baf-
fling ear ailment which caused suf-
location This occurred in May of
1917.
Loneliness Increased.
Her mothers death was one of the
few realities that penetrated the sill
ences of the ivory tower. 1t added to
her loneliness, devoted to her though
her father was always
Money, though can soften many
blows.
Money, in fact, was not important
to Barbara because it was so plenti-
full. No wonder, when she grew UP,
she bought whatever she wanted with
it. A castle, prince, a count, pri-
vate railways cars, and once Cana
Walka's $1,2O0,oOO collection of
emeralds.
But she didn't get this flair for
royalty entirely from her own dream
ings. Her grandfather, on her moth
er's side, the hard headed, money
making Yankee storekeeper, from
near Watertown, N. Y, left her more
than money. He willed her his thirst
for power-and a wishful reverence
for royalty.
Next: The Knights Come Riding.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-09
LUCKIES TO BATTLE
ALL-STRAS SUNDAY

The South Henderson Luckies will
play Warrenton All Stars in Pine
Park Sunday afternoon at $3.50 O'clock
1t is expected that either Lefty Sykes
or Lefty Riggan will pitch for the
LuckieS.
A good game is promised and
large crowd is expected to witness
the contest. Last Sundays attend
ance was about 1900 people.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-09
ROSE TOPS LIONS
WITH FL SCORE

The Rose softball team won from,
the Lions 2-1 in their game Friday
afternoon with Rose making hits
and the Lions 4.
Finch was on the mound for Rose
with Hamm doing the catching and
Marbury and Church pitched for the
Lions with Register catching
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-09
ARMORED CAR REGIMENT
is SENT INTO PALESTINE

London, July 9-(AP)-The British
government today ordered an armor-
ed car regiment from Egypt to Pales
tine to help put down spreading Holy
Land disorders. The eleventh hussars
was dispatched to the riot areas to
join two rifle battalions already rush
ed to Palestine. The announcement
was made by the colonial office. The
strength of the regiment was not dis
closed. BIS
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-09
Routh Says Cross
Slew Srgt. Mott

Continued from Page One.)
ed he had not made a statement be-
fore last night because he had seen
that 1.-The boys had ganged up on me-"
When he testified today, Routh told
in detail every phase of the fatal deer
hunt up to the point where the shoot
ing occurred. He then said upon
cross examination that he was 50
nervous he could not remember any
thing else.