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Evening star., 1939-05-30

lawn mowers, of trombones and over
coats-in fact Of any stolen article
transported from one State to an
other? There is a reasonable limit
beyond which Federal policing can
not go without encroaching on state
police powers. There is justification
for Federal Jurisdiction in such seri-
GUS interstate criminal offenses as
kidnapping, white slavery, bank rob-
berry and the like. The Supreme
Court has upheld the constitution
ality Of such an exercise of Federal
police authority. Even though the
constitutionality of an extension of
this jurisdiction to violations of the
petty larceny type were unques-
toned, it is obvious that line must
be drawn somewhere if our present
system Of divided Federal, State and
municipal police authority is to con-
tinue. Congress should follow Mr..
Roosevelt's suggestion and give most
serious consideration to "the ultimate
implications of legislation of this
type"
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Urges Construction Of
Nicaraguan Canal.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The logic of the arguments of Presi-
dent Somoza of Nicaragua in favor of
the construction Of the Nicaraguan Canal
Is self-evident to any one who gives the
subject sufficient consideration. His sug-
gestlon that w. P. A. workers be utilized
on the project is a very feasible one.
Undeniably this would furnish employ
ment to many still out Of work who have
been unable to find openings in existing
w. P. A. enterprises
President Somoza calls attention to an
important fact when he contrasts the
friendly feeling now prevailing between
his nation and the United States with
the unfortunate MISUNDERSTANDING and
suspicious of the days when American
marines occupied the Nicaraguan capital
and ports. Under Franklin D. Roosevelt
the American Government is the good
neighbor" of the republic south Of the
Rio Grande.
Under President Roosevelt, the mailed
fist of Yankee militarism no longer is
thrust menacingly in the face Of the
Nicaraguans. With fraternal and SYM
pathetic feeling prevailing between the
two republics instead Of hostility and
fear, the canal again becomes possible.
Aside from potent commercial and mill
tary reasons for it, there Is the point
that it would contribute so deeply to
cementing international good will.
LINN A. Z. GALE,
May 40,
Evening star., 1939-05-30
MARYLAND Parks

Maryland and District of Columbia
officials have laid the groundwork
for extensions of much needed park
ways in rapidly growing Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties. Under
the generous provisions of the Cap
per-Cramton Act, Washington's two
border counties are due to begin pur-
chasing land for park systems which
will utilize the natural beauties of
rivers and streams, become the back
ground for important highways and
enhance the attractiveness of the
communities.
One system will extend along the
Anacostia River tributaries from the
District line to Beltsville. 1t will
embrace the Indian Creek area, the
Northwest branch to the Montgomery
County line and Sligo Creek to Ia
koma Park in three-pronged unit
to be known as Anacostia River Park.
The other system consists of the
dual George Washington parkway on
both sides of the Potomac River in
Maryland and Virginia. A start on
this system has been made in Vir-
ginia, and Maryland has authorized
a sl50,000 bond issue to finance ac-
quisition of land in Montgomery
County on a matching basis with
Federal funds.
Both systems have been planned
carefully in coordination with Wash
ington park authorities so that the
entire National Capital area will en-
Joy uniform park development. In
connection with the Shepherd park
way in the District, for example, the
Anacostia River Park will provide an
unbroken park system extending
along the entire southeastern bound
ary of the District for a distance of
10 miles and to Beltsvile in Mary
land. Plans call for the ultimate use
of this parkway as the right of way
for the projected Washington -Balti-
more motor parkway which will be
similar to the Mount Vernon high
way.
Such planning assures the distinc-
tive development of the counties
affected. Future generations will
reap the benefits of the foresight and
vision of those who have mapped the
course to be followed. The co-opera-
tion Of private citizens with the
county, state and Federal authorities
who are furthering the projects will
bring them to reality in the not too
distant future.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Memorial Duy

Memorial Day this year perhaps
has more poignant meaning than
may commonly distinguish it. The
lost heroes of the Squalus disaster
still rest under the sea and the saved
still tremble in remembrance of their
narrow escape from a like fate.
Thousands mourn for those who
most recently gave their all that
the Nation might survive. But the
thoughtful citizen understands that
courage is no casual phenomenon,
that sacrifice is a constant and nee
essary price which humanity must
pay for civilization, that the living
are privileged to continue to breathe
the air of freedom only because the
dead have willingly inundated them
selves to that purpose.
In its origin the practice of deco
rating unforgotten graves was
limited to the soldiers of the War
Between the States. The people of
Petersburg, Virginia, are believed to
have inaVgurated the custom, and
the wife of General John A. Logan
is supposed to have been the first
to suggest its expansion. BY 1899,
however, the annual commemoration
was extended to include the casual
ties of the conflict with Spain. 1t
followed, logically enough, that
Americans who perished in the
World War also should be honored.
And now the well-beloved departed
of every period of national history
are accorded the homage of flowers.
Memorial Day at last has universal
application throughout the United
States. 1t has become a day for
heartfelt reverence for every spirit
that ever served in any useful,
self1ess way the welfare of the
country.
To some, 1t may be, the democra-
tization of the occasion is unjusti-
fled; but to far more numerous
public it is right and proper that
none should be neglected. The rela-
ton between the past, the present
and the future is tie which cannot
be too strongly supported What
ever Americans shall be in time to
come depends upon what their fore
fathers have been. That is the law
OF nature and of God. The living
gratefully acknowledge the debt in
the name of those yet to be born.
So the traditions which have made
the Nation worthy of the last full
measure Of devotion" are maintained.
1t Is, then, a holy and a sacred
moment that is observed on Memo
rial Day. Such is the conviction of
a multitude not insensitive to the
obligations of patriotism and the
privileges of liberty secured and de-
tended under the Stars and Stripes.
Evening star., 1939-05-30

John Burroughs once said that he
thought rain AS necessary to the mind as
to vegetation.
Certainly nothing stirs the very heart
Of a gardener more.
Even If the peony blossoms are to be
ruined, or very nearly so, the late after
noon downpour Is necessary.
Somehow the night rain, except for the
sleepless soul, is not 50 welcome. For
one thing, 1t cannot be seen. Its music
salutes the ears, but the visual beauty
Is concealed by the veil Of night.
Later afternoon rains, no matter how
much they may upset the returning
workers, offer more visibility.
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1t is possible to pretend indifference,
or to be SO busy at other things that 1t is
possible to hold the raindrops out OF the
mind.
Interest is what lets them in.
Here is another field from which many
persons bar themselves, simply because
they will not take the slight trouble to
be interested
A high wind which blows down their
roof-yes, that might receive attention,
but gorgeous afternoon rain, hardly
ever.
If their attention Is called to it, they
placidly say, "Yes, very interesting" but
you can tell by the tone Of voice that
they are bored
Those OF us who like the rain will
never forgive them for this.
They keep out the moisture from their
brains as they do from their houses,
then smugly take pride In the former
as in the latter. But 100 pounds of
150-pound human are water; the blood
like milk, is mostly water; all the dy-
manic processes of the system, including
that of metabolism, take place only
because of the conductive power of this
substance.
Reasons for soaking the system, in
ternally and externally, in water, are
many.
1t is imagination which puts the rain
into the mind. 1t is water in, not on,
the brain. It is more the sheen of water
the placid silveryness of it, the sound
Of it, than anything else.
X
What the home gardener wants from
rain is the thrill Of it, and the only way
he can get that is to think first in terms
OF his plants.
Real plant liking automatically makes
q rainy day friend.
There is something in the sight of
good rain which is inexplicable.
Who is there who has not watched
thundershoWer, and suddenly felt at the
very time desire to put the thing into
words which somehow would bring to
others the elusive quality so wholeheart-
edly felt?
Yet who, in the whole gallery of let
ters, has ever succeeded in doing 1t? For
Evening star., 1939-05-30
G-Men and Cows

If President Roosevelt has his way,
the G-men will not be called on to
chase cattle rustlers, horse thieves
or hog stealers across State lines. He
has just vetoed the so-called Federal
cattle theft bill, under the far-reach-
ing provisions of which special
agents Of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation would be required to
track down persons who knowingly
transport in interstate commerce
stolen livestock of any kind, or the
carcasses or hides thereof. The legis-
lation was backed chiefly by men,
bers of Congress from the Far West,
where cattle kidnapping is still too
prevalent.
Under such law, it would be per-
fectly proper for the owner of a COW
which has been abducted over
state boundary to demand action by
the F. B. land it would be the legal
duty of the bureau to respond to the
limit of it's Notwithstanding, it is
presumed, specially trained cow
boy squad with lariats and other
cow-catching equipment. For it is
part of the G-men's work to recover
the stolen goods as we'll as to nab the
absconder. II, as the President said
in his veto message, the Federal Gov
ernment is to extend its Jurisdiction
over stolen cattle, swine, sheep,
mules and their component parts,
why should 1t shut its eyes to thefts
of dogs and cats, Of bicycles and
Evening star., 1939-05-30
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trdcepell.

here the secret principle eludes even the
masters. We do not know single cele-
brated incident, in which rain has been
made part, which manages to convey
this secret rejoicing over a rain.
Every person sincerely interested, how
ever, knows 1t perfectly.
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Sometimes rainbow at the end causes
an elation Of mind and heart which has
had its backward echo in minds and
hearts over the centuries.
Still this is not 1t.
The eternal symbol for hope is not
enough.
The secret Of the rain, we think, is
beauty.
Abstract beauty once was thought fit
meat for men, but today it is rather
frowned upon. We must have utility, or
fake beauty made by men who cannot
make 1t In the old standard ways and
therefore draw up new ways which they
try to cram down reluctant throats,
whether or no.
1t was once fashionable to regard
beauty as fixed in design and mind, but
today We are told to look for new hori-
Zons
There is even dread of talking about
beauty, just as many shrink from a con-
sideration of ethics.
Fortunately the utility of rain is one
with its beauty.
1t is possible to regard it with real
affection, not indifference. If one is in
terested in gardens and their inclosed
life.
The plain benefits Of the water to the
plants make the observer happy.
No matter how introspective, here for
once he is outside himself. He watches
the rain, he notes the good things it
Goes for the plants; he cherishes every
sweep across the grass, he rejoices with
the millions of blades.
No two rains are alike.
Those who may think they are do not
watch them deeply enough. The water
Is not sinking through to the mind as it
is to the plants. the grass and the trees.
Every rain has its own signature, made
by the exact combination of strength,
velocity of wind, and need in the garden.
The latter cannot be left out of con-
sideration. No two ways about it, rain
is vastly more welcome-and good-in
the minds consideration, when it is
needed by the plant life in the yard.
And in the neighborhood This must
not be overlooked. Good rains, in time
OF need, give freshness to the entire
living space of the community. The
rapid transit of the drops livens and
freshens the very air, giving it electric
qualities, charging it SO that the dark
ness keeps it alive and fresh until the
morning. 1t is no wonder that some
thing of this effect finds its way to the
properly tuned mind.
Evening star., 1939-05-30

democratic government more firmly
entrenched than that which ruled
from 1881 to 1895. Allied with France
and Great Britain as a democracy, 1t
might have made fantasy Of 1taly's
Mediterranean ambitions. SO the
transformation of Spain into an asset
for the axis was essential II Italy
ever seriously expected to win Medi-
terranean hegemony.
AS Italy's legionnaires return
homeward the basis for that hegem-
ony is laid. No matter whether
Italy strikes next month, next year
or in five years, as long as Fascism
and the axis hold can be preserved
on the Iberian Peninsula, Italy offers
a dangerous threat to British and
French power from Gibraltar to
Palestine. Italy can we'll use
period Of peace to consolidate and
strengthen this hold on the in
land sea.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Tea VS.. Coffee

Lewis Wlrtz has been sentenced in
Pennington, Me-, to thirty days for
vagrancy. He had already chosen as
his life career the task of conducting
an inside investigation into every
calaboose in this land of liberty, and
this, to him, was merely the next
one on the list. No premonition
warned him Of what fate had up it's
sleeve. To his horror he was served
tea, instead of the coffee to which
his system had become accustomed
from the patronage of numerous jails
throughout many years. On the
principle that the customer is always
right, he made vigorous protest to
the authorities. AS a qualified ex-
pert, he said, his opinions must be
respected, and demanded that i'm
mediate steps be taken to remove
from the fair name of Pennington
the hideous stigma Of being the only
town in the United States guilty of
giving tea parties for its municipal
guests.
The trouble doubtless has arisen
from the adjacence of Maine to Cam
ada, nation that is constructed to
run on tea. 1t has got that way from
belonging to Britain. Tea makes the
empire tick and holds 1t together
during the spasms which now attack
it on an average Of once every two
weeks. Coffee, however, is the dish
Of the Great American Bum, both in
the jungle and in the jug. It has
made him what he is, and he is salts
fed. More than that, it is vitally
necessary for his proper development
as picturesque feature OF the Amer
ican landscape. When ripened into
full bloom and vagrancy he relieves
the monotory of the view along the
right of way of the Denver and Rio
Grande. Shut off from that vital
fluid, coffee, and forced to subsist on
tea, he would wither and fade to such
an extent that he would be forced to
scrap his sacred traditions and pro-
Saically 60 to work.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
At the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier

Who lies within-is he indeed unknown.
This soldier of the war who fought and
died2
Must he identity forever hide
Beneath this monument Of cold gray
stone?
o, say not, for If Paul upon Mars Hill
The Unknown God to Athens could pro-
claim,
So we today may know-God Is the same.
He speaks today as then-thou shalt not
kill
The voice of youth with eager right to
live,
OF maid, OF wives, whose hopes lie
blighted here,
Plead now with Him who came on earth
to give
More life and Danish from our hearts
all fear
o, let us hear God speaking from this
tomb,
And cease to war and give His love more
room. MONICA WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Italians Leave Spuin

Departure Of additional thousands
OF italian troops this week from
Spain where they helped during the
last three years in smothering
democracy in another European ma
ton is happy augury not only for
Spain but for all Europe and closes
chapter in European history which
Will stand for long time as the most
constituencies example of interven-
ton in the domestic affairs of an
other nation.
AS much Joy as the embarkation
OF II Duce's troops will cause not only
In Europe but in America, too, there
remains to be done lot of arithmetic
cal juggling to reconcile the number
now leaving for home-variously put
at 10000 to 19.400-with the 10000
or $4,000 Italian troops which were
admitted to have been sent by Italy
to Spain during the course of the
war. Hitherto only few thousands
had left. Unofficial estimates of the
number fighting in Spain ran as high
as 10000 and 100000. The disparity
is enough to Justify little skepticism
as to whether General Francisco
Franco is parting with all his Italian
fighters.
In any event, reduction of the
number of such troops, regardless of
whether many still remain, is good
sign that Spain is looking, at least,
toward peaceful reconstruction and
that MuSsolini does not expect rela-
tions with France to become so
serious that he will need his full
strength in Spain. Meanwhile, Gen.
eral Franco is demobilizing his own
forces, turning his men into the more
constructive occupation of rebuilding
the country.
For Italy the Spanish adventure
has been costly not only in human
lives but in wealth. Whether it has
been worth the price only the future
can tell. Certainly without Italy's
intervention General Frances forces
would have been in grave danger of
defeat early in the conflict, in which
case Spain would have had leftist
Evening star., 1939-05-30

ormation of the race (always except
ing politicians) at the expense of the
taxpayer. Results, to date, can hardly
be considered constructive, in view of
existent conditions. Certainly, no one
objects to right reform but shouldn't
criticism, like charity begin at home?
Our political glasshouse is hardly stone
proof And the notion that only New
Deal politicians are princes of purity and
tit to govern the people reaches a high
point in absurdity.
OF course, the novel theory that we
can borrow our way out of trouble and
that business must be more or less Rus
sianized' before it can properly func-
ton will receive a major test in 1910.
In the meanwhile, there is little we can
do except to grin and bear it, although
it is certainly no laughing matter. The
return of business confidence is con-
spicuous by its absence.
E. K. GOLDSBOROUGH.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Wants United States
To Raise Tariffs.

To Raise Tariffs.
To the Editor Of The Star:
What is the matter with this admin
istration?
One of its ailments appears to be an
acute attack of "goodneighboritis."
A certain man who posed as being a
good neighbor, generous, big-hearted,
frequently gave to people who had no
claim on him things for which his own
family were in great need. He had
"goodneighboritis
AS mans first duty is to his imme-
diate family, so is governments first
duty to its own people.
Our administration, posing as a good
neighbor to the various countries of the
world is Systematically reducing the
tariff on their goods that they bring
into the United States
Many of those countries pay starva-
ton wages, so they bring their products
here and sell them for less than We can
produce them in this country For ex-
ample: In Cyprus women are paid 10
cents day for lace making. In Ru-
mania mans wage for from 10 to IL
hours work in mill or on a farm is
equivalent to 12l2 cents Of our money.
In China woman receives Is cents
day for working in factory-25 cents
a day is high wages for a man. In
nearly all foreign countries wages are
very loW-nowhere in the world are they
as high as in the United States.
This administrations policy of sys-
tematically lowering tariffs on imports
and the constant crcwding up of the
price Of labor by labor unions compel
very many Of our factories to be closed,
throwing the people out of work and
so have put millions of our thrifty in
dustrious, self-respecting citizens on re-
lief
If tariffs were raised sufficiently to
compel importers to sell their goods for
the amount it would cost our people to
produce similar products, our factories
could open, our people return to work
and they would have money with which
to buy the things they helped to make.
Our stores are filled with goods marked
MADE in Japan" or Mexico or Swift
zerland," or France" or England" etc.
A tour Of inspection will convince the
most skeptical that goods marked Made
in United States" are the exception.
If this acute "goodneighboritis," with
its serious complications, does not soon
receive drastic treatment it may prove
fatal to this administration and to the
country at large. J.E.W w.
May Is.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
May 20.
Disagrees With Policies
OF the President.
To the Edit

" tHc EoltOl OF ne star.
Acute need exists for few simple les
sons in elementary economics for the
figureheads and top apostles of the New
Deal. This was never more clearly DEM
onstrated than in the latest speech of
Mr.. Roosevelt.
The message contained no idea less
original than the now familiar one of
creating more purchasing power" out of
more-and still more-deficit. That this
famous scheme has always been followed
by Stagnation the moment the appropri-
ated primer gave out means nothing to
our present great minds.
Mr.. RooseVelts speech, behind its con-
vincing presentation, carried this clear
warming to the common man: If after
six years of bungling, empty promises
and waste, you want real improvement
in your lot, drop faith in political creeds
The only way to divert your professed
leaders and saviors from paths of fall
lacy is for you to vote for cleanup next
election and remove political hindrances
to recovery.
For when the causes Of the present
national plight are offered once more
as the magic solution. what hope has
the common man from politics?
May Is. WALTER BAHNSEN.
Evening star., 1939-05-30

international tennis seems to have
gone haywire. At Warsaw recently
Menzel, playing formerly for Czecho-
Slovakia but now for Germany, beat
Bawatowski, who used to play for
Australia but now strives for Poland.
Ethiopia may yet win the national
championship.
Evening star., 1939-05-30

The ivory billed woodpecker is Said
to be the rarest bird in the U. s.
Probably the commonest Is that little
one that keeps busy telling things
that do not concern him.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Tribute Paid Work
OF o. H. p. johnson.
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
In the death Of o. H. P. johnson the
Children's Hospital has suffered an ir-
reparable loss. For more than 26 years
he served as a member Of the Board Of
Directors, then as president Of the board
until Ill, health made it necessary for
him to relinquish some of his RESPONSE
bilities. But he never lost interest in
the hospital and until his death served
as chairman Of It's Finance Committee.
Mr.. johnson set an example of unsel-
fish devotion to civic duty which will
remain as an inspiration to those who
served with him.
May 26. CHARLES d. DRAYTON,
President of Board Of Directors
of Children's Hospital.
Evening star., 1939-05-30
Asks Whether Americans Will
Buy Books or Cemeteries.


To the Editor of The Star:
The World War found the United
states Government in the hands of an
administration which professed to know
more than all Of the 12O million Amer
lean people. Putting slogan before sense.
they gave our boys grand send-of1 to
Flanders Fields that their broken bodies
might form row upon row a pitiful re-
minder that they had died for they
knew not what
For the honor of a cemetery "oyer
there" our Government paid to France
approximately $2,56O, 900 for purchase OF
land, establishment of cemeteries and
for maintenance
Yes, indeed, if we want our sons to
die abroad, we must pay for the privilege.
Today, we have again a troubled
Europe, and again an administration
that thinks in rows. This time, will the
people of the United States keep their
sons at home and buy them books, or
will they send them across and buy
them cemeteries9 AMERICAN.
May 29,