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Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-04-20
WOLFE YBALL

The ten teams Of the Greenbelt volleybal1 League
convened last Friday night. April H. at the School
Gym. to start the final half Of play. After a few
more Fricays the volleyba11 will be every
body will turn to softba11 for their and
exercise. Needless to say. everyone is looking for
ward to the start Of the softba1l league, with so
many exciting evenings to spend the diamond.
In the first two games, the Jaybirds turned the
tables on their block rival, the Jaawl,s and hand
ed them their first defeat; while cnipedes got
back into the win column wi tn a victory over the
Cougars. In the second two games, the Airmsters
continued their winning ways with win the
Fortunate creepers, during which tine the Bucks
Kept in the running for top honors with decisive
victory over the Etons.
At 800 PIN. the Jaybirds played again and easily
defeated the Barons while the centipedes their
second victory Of the evening at the expense the
brakes. In the final two games the Jayhawks came
ba ok with victory the cellar-dwelling Cougars
and the Airmas ters made it perfect evening wi
easy triumph the Etons.
Laws and agreements dates to announced later.
Autographed copies Of all the proposals which the
Coo. has to offer to share subsori bers will be
sent out in time to be studied the hearings
and before final adoption.
The Finance Committee and Bylaws Committee Will
have to spend busy month If their proposals pro-
ceed as planned and final adoption place about
May %. If vacati ons do not retard their rorress
they may acconplis all this schedule.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-04-20
COG. RECRGANIZES: PLANS PUBLIC HEARINGS
c1IARE

MEETING OF SHARE SUBSCRIBERS IN MAY
New faces and duties Will appear on the Coop
erative Organizing Committee and the list of it's
activities for the next few months. At special
meeting Of that body Friday night April IA, when
reorgani zed, the following Responsible
ties paired off:
Coo. Chairman Y. R. vo1ckhausen
Vice-Chairman, Secretary and Chairman
Of Bylaws Committee j. P. LOTUS
Assistant Chairman Of Bylaws
Committee 3. P. Yhne1l
Chairman Of Finance Committee and
Treasurer Il. C. Gust
Assistant Chairman Of Finance Committee
and ASST slant Treasurer - 60 Lester Hayes
Chairman of EDUCATE on Committee CO Carnie Harper
Chairman Of Food Store, Barber Shop,
Beauty fer1or Paul Dunbar
Chairman of Drug Store and Valet
Shop George Fair
Chairman Of Theater Service
OCaC1on - Reed Vaughan
The new faces which appeared q result Of the
election April IL those Of Mrs. Harper,
ter Hayes, and B. P. Yhne1lA LOTUS re-elect-
cd that evening.
In preparation for organi zational meeting to
be held between May Is and June !, definite steps
were taken. Tentative bylaws. tentative financial
agreement and management contract Will be discussed
at the April Ct meeting Of the COO. Share sub
scribers and other interested parties Will OPP
portunity to offer suggestions and revis when
public he arings will be held these tentative by
Evening star., 1939-08-04

renew the pledge OF fealty l four
I'VE ask for the of all
function
the few guarantee all the livelihood
the things that make life
That is our platform Upon that platform stand and proud
faith that people
rests true wisdom and the
In that faith
allegiance to Franklin Delano
New Dealers
don't why the eto should have been tied with
johnnie
in politics
y News Feature Inc)
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Washington Observations
Guest CoIumnist Ickes Takes Anti Third Terners
Johnson and Sullivan for q Ride

ing about "the third term" Funny
how these sit-tight columinators
have become alarmed at the wide
spread sentiment for the reelection
of the President. Mark has finally
admitted, under pressure, that he
was an active Progressive in 1912
and supported Theodore Roosevelt
for third term. But Sullivan, like
Johnson, is a lawyer and therefore
we'll equipped to argue lovingly how
many ex-New Deal officials can sit
on one lotus leaf. He argues caus-
ticelly that a third term for
Franklin D. Roosevelt would break
a sacred tradition but that a
third term for Theodore Roosevelt
wouldn't have been a third term at
all. Gen. johnson suggests the same
thing in his Look article but he
doesn't labor the point as does Mark
probably because he has a better
sense of humor.
According to these eminent men,
bers of the Hate Roosevelt Club"
the issue turns on the question of
when is third term a third term,
or isn't it?" They would have it ap-
pear that third term isn't third
term if there Is an interval of one
term. will leave it to these word
jugglers to persuade the people that
while three are undoubtedly three,
two plus one do not make three. And
how can they reconcile their two
plus ne-do-not- -make-three theory
with what they insist that Washing
ton and Jefferson and Jackson ad-
vocated?
4
When'S Term Not Term?
Mark Sullivan makes another
point Theodore Roosevelt had sue
ceeded President Mckinley when
the latter was assasSinated and so
he did not serve eight full years.
Therefore, he had not served two
terms and was entitled to another
even If that other would have put
him in the White House for a total
Of almost twelve years In other
words, term isn't a term unless it
covers four years and a man is en-
titled to serve two terms or eight
years.
On the same reasoning President
Roosevelt is qualified for reelection
next year. He was sworn in on
March 4. 1888, and his present term
will expire on January 20, l941. This
is six weeks short of the eight years
that Mark Sullivan. and johnson,
too, say that any President is en-
titled to.
Senator Burke, of Nebraska, made
a speech on June 10 against the
third term or even second one. He
lugged up real Big Bertha called
President Buchanan, from which he
fired the following dud:
Il would incline to leave it to the
people of the United States" said
President Buchanan, WITHOUT in
cooperating it in the Constitution. to
decide whether a President shall
serve longer than one term"
wonder if Senator Burke has ever
reflected that if Washington or JEFF
ferson or Madison or jackson had
served a third term, there wouldn't
have been any President Buchanan
Or President Harding either.
xk
The Way Out.
These worried, f1urried opponents
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Civil War
ExiIes' Fate
Is Recalled
CoIonists Introduced
Dentists, WotermeIons
Into BroziI
BY PRESTON GROVER.


Just as Washington is preparing
for the international conference here
early in September on the German
exile question, there comes a report
of what happened to a band Of
American exiles driven abroad by
one of our own tragedies-the Civil
War.
OF the hundreds of Southerners
who went to South America after
the Civil War, most were absorbed
into the Latin American communi-
ties to which they emigrated. But
a sorrier tale is told of one COM
munity of Confederate exiles who
attempted to found settlement on
the Amazon in Brazil.
The story comes from William C.
Burdett, United States Consul Gen.
eral in Rio de Janeiro.
Brought Dentists to Brazil.
Villa Americana was founded in
the rich Sac Paolo district of South
ern Brazil
Most of them prospered and lived
happily" says Mr.. Burdett. The
families and descendants OF this old
Confederate breed mostly from
Texas and Alabama have scattered
through Brazil, many to take dis
tlnguished roles in the life of the
nation. Most of them are Brazilian
citizens but few retain American
citizenship
TO the Villa Americana colonists
is ascrlbed the introduction into
Brazil OF dentists and watermelons,
but the colony can be credited with
many less tangible contributions to
Brazilian progress"
In Argentina exiles have risen to
| high navy command.
Yet sad was the fate of another
colony, Santarem, 600 miles up the
| Amazon. 1t was one of the unhealth-
lest. fever-ridden parts of the world.
Many of the exiles. without adequate
tools and unprepared for jungle life,
moved 1900 miles southwark to
Villa Americana.
Disease Decimates Settlers.
"Santarem colony dropped into
obscurty,' says Mr.. Burdett. THE
odds were too great. Too determined
to give up, the settlers were deci-
mated by tropical disease. The sur
vivors married into Brazilian FAM
lies. and finally all trace OF the
colony. as colony. vanished.
Il visited Santarem in MAY. 1898.
and found little to recall this last
stand of the Confederacy. There is
only one survivor of the original pio-
/ neers, Mrs. Riker. a very wrinkled
and bent old lady who came out from
! Alabama as young woman in 1866.
/ She still understands English but
has forgotten how to speak it. With
an obvious shortage of this worlds
| goods, her house was clean as a pin
and with the neatest flower garden
in front.
-Four thousand miles from home,
this amazing, unreconstructed old
lady still carries herself with an air
that was certainly acquired far from
the Amazon"
If there were a wide-open, rich
country now, as Brazil was at the
end of the United States Civil War.
there would be more hope for the
increasing crop of German exiles.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

of third term have one way out,
which is the democratic way. They
might leave the whole question to
the people to decide. The people are
supposed to rule this country, even
though Tory columnists and reac-
tionary politicians sometimes be-
come inflated with the notion that
they have to save the people from
themselves.
(Released By the North American
Newspaper Alliance. lne)
Evening star., 1939-08-04
BY the Associated Press.

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. A.
There's no light on his miners cap,
No sunshine seeps along his 600
foot shaft James Newman drills
and blasts in darkness-just as he
has for 10 years.
Mr. Newman is sightless, blinded
in a blasting mishap in 1929. He
waited until his wounds healed, then
back he went to his claim and his
cabin in the Wasatch Mountains
just east of Salt Lake City.
Now his mine runs 600 feet into
the hillside. He tunneled every inch
of it, drilling, blasting, mucking,
rail laying and tie cutting. The shaft
is 8 feet high, planned that way so
he won't bump his head.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Blind Gold Miner Digs Shaft
Far Into Hill Hunting Pay Dirt

Mr.. Newman can tell exactly
where his drifts lead off from the
main tunnel Only one factor in his
quest for pay dirt" stumps him
he must depend on friends to de-
scribe rock that may contain ore
He's taken out some gold, but the
"strike'-that goal that leads all
miners on-still eludes him.
Now As. Mr. Newman, a bachelor,
lives the year out alone at his mine,
coming to town about every three
months for supplies.
Friends marvel at how deftly and
quickly he finds his tools and fires
his shots
TT isn't nearly as dangerous for
me to fire blasting powder in the
mine as it is to cross a street in the
city, he said.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

ballad, The falthIeSS one VINO done
her wrong ''swore that he'd ever be
faithful, true as the stars above"
Well, on June q, 1886, an elderly
Texan named Garner told a crowd
of 100000 Americans at Philadelphia
that:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is
my leader, my commander in chief.
In this presence, before this null
titude, and with the stars of Heaven
to bear witness to nv covenant, I
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Lusk Warns Against
Too Much Building

Declaring that there is about II
per cent vacancy in houses and
apartments in the District, Rufus
S. Lusk, chairman of the Taxpayers
Association, in addressing the Co.'S
mopolitan Club last night at the
Carlton Hotel, warned against the
possibility of overbuilding.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Woodrinq Soils for ConuI

NEW YORK. Aug. 4 GP).-Secre-
tary of War Harry S. Woodring
sailed yesterday for the Panama
Canal Zone to study the problem of
enlarging the canal and strength
ening its military equipment.
With him were Mrs. Woodring
their three children, Maj. Gems. B.
H. Sunderland and Joseph o. Maui
borgne and Capt. Townsend Griffiss
Evening star., 1939-08-04

At the present rate, Mr.. Lusk
estimated, vacancies will perhaps
mount to II per cent by November
He objected to the United States
Housing Authority's plan for build
ing units, marking off the cost, and
charging the tenants only such rents
as would provide for the upkeep.'
So-called "slum clearance he con-
tinued, is mostly myth, as slum
dwellers usually cannot afford the
rentals in the new housing units.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

hadn't F. r e q
Vile an d I
started out to-
gether as cub
reporters lon g
ago in the days
of the fine Chi
cago Record? A
request fro m
such an old
friend is not to
be denied, even
t h o u g h Mrs.
Eleanor M. Pat
terSOn may mar
vel at the te-
merity of any
one DrODOSinp
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Communists to Meet

The District Communist party will
hold an outdoor meeting tonight at
7:3O o'clock at Sixth and N streets
NV, to discuss campaign in sup
port Of the anti-lynching bill in
Congress, The meeting is arranged
Jointly with the Frederick Douglas
Branch Of the Communist party.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

During Frederic William Wile's
absence on UdcdtiOn his tri-Deek-
IN "Wdshington Dissertations"
are being ,Dritten by a series OF
notable guest columniSts.
Today's contribution appears
under the signature OF Harold l..
Ickes, Secretary OF the Interior.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Wonderbirds to Hike

A six-mile rough going" hike
has been scheduled for Sunday by
the Wanderbirds. The mixers will
leave from in front of the National
Iheater at 9 am. and journey to
the south branch of Pohick Greek.
va. The crossing to the main stream
will be made at Mermaid Pool.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

that I write column" So here
goes.
Gen. johnson wrote a piece re-
Gently for Look in his best Hugh
and Cry" style. There is an old
saying that it is not news when a
dog bites a man. However, it is
always news when man-biting
man takes another nip. Since he
was writing on the third term, y
it is natural that the general should
have eXuded objurgations from
every pore.
Gen. johnson has had a distin-
guished career as soldier, lawyer
and an administrator.
xx
Victim of Non Sequitur.
AS columnist he is worth every
cent he is paid for the pure enter
tainment that he affords, but we
don't have to believe everything we
see on the stage. Different people
become addicted to different habits
The gallant general is a victim of
the non sequitur. Take, for ex-
ample, this article of his, wherein
he jitterbugs against a third term
for President Roosevelt because:
(a) The Secretary of the Interior
merely wants to hold onto his job
(sicD (b) Mr. Ickes is not DEM
ocrat." (c) "Mr Ickes himself
couldn't be elected dog catcher on
any ticket" I'd Tn Chicago he
was a perpetual always
a bridesmaid, never a bride" (This
gem has more news value than a
man-biting man because even Mr.
Ickes does not know that he was
ever candidate for anything ir
Chicago te) "Ickes and Wallace
are Republican apostates." 90 Hop
kins is reported previously regis
tered as Republican" (g) Mud
dom Choice Johnsonese) Perkins
and Janissaries like Corcoran
Frank, Henderson have no forth
right political allegiance" III
Some of them tNew Dealers
helped prepare Mr.. Ickes' trial bal
loon in Look" (Another John.
sonian waif and stray % mo.
body said there was (any constitu.
tional prohibition against a thirc
term)" % He Uckes) is a vet.
eran at purging and splitting q
party -" (k) This crowd (Neu
Dealers has been working on the
patient for seven years" Cd 81
don't think Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.
Ickes are liberals u, etc, etc, etc.
Explosive Petulance.
ments against third term-fol
President Roosevelt. Surely, 81
much explosive petulance is no
worthy of man who. between fit!
of excitement, is first-rate lawyer
The General ought to be able to dt
better than this, even with a bac
case.
I have always had sneaking lik.
ing for old Ironpants," as West.
brook Pegler calls him. and SO I viii
be willing to move over on the lotus
leaf to which the general has con.
signed me in his article and make
room for him. Because by the time
I become a tenant of that lotus lea.
I suspect the general will be looking
for company. He and I can sit or
the same lotus leaf and do the con.
templating he suggests.
X x
The Hate-Roosevelt Club.
| Mark Sullivan has also been writ.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

would greatly
already been suggested that proclaimed
nfame
would discussed distance blockade Panama
Altogether the
irresistible
reached explosion expected
he Mort Amerca
Evening star., 1939-08-04

tlal nomination
1t is important
not so much be-
cause it is a for
NAL svowal by a
prominent Re-
publican, but it
gives the coun-
try the first ink
ling of what the
r e p u b ! i c a n S
" ould do if
elected.
Though it is
always danger
Gus in politics to
be too explicit,
At ~.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

commercial word reached this country
series incidents along the usual by which the japanese
Chinese soil What
negotiation directly threaten
Chinese silver in the British banks at Tenn II
will
requesting 10 times that amount in the
concessions Shanghai
Evening star., 1939-08-04

have racked the souls of Tory DEM
ocrats and have caused many poll
ticians to shudder. For the chief
tain of the c I. o. referred to our
Vice President as "a or-baiting.
poker playing, whisky drinking, evil
old man named Garner!"
If organized labor plans purge
of politicians who draw to an inside
straight and ingurgitate the jocund
julep. who will be safe? The real
rrro NAV, ~ floa ou,;c
Evening star., 1939-08-04
We, the People
New Dealers Seen Opposing Feror Of Lewis Attack.
But Nevertheless God to Hear Corner Criticized
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

For months the friends of
reading
nomination Cactus blsn
with hope chest hitherto avoided
Now as nconvennt porcupne in the pamas John
object"
his peace Mr. Lewis broke the wedding
Evening star., 1939-08-04
The Capital Parade
Hull Fovors DiseipIinne japanese If They Don't
Behave; Experts See Grove Results
BY JOSEPH ALsOP and ROBERT KINTNER.

situation, which
situations
discipline the
inclination behave
And the only discipline
In the backwas denuncaon the
Evening star., 1939-08-04
One, Two, Three

The question of not whether or no the
foreign concession rights will be maintained but whether no the
build Eastern The
merely incident of empire building 1t is
obvious that the American policy now to
substantial obstacles in Japans way
If Japanese tactics should change American public opinion
policy would certainly be modnd
Otherwise, there only out
disciplinary which the State Department is
Cd gesture suc
recall Ambassador Toxic 90 mild economic
goods 80 absolute embargo exports and imports from japan
foolish CounterVallng virtually
worthless the since the great bulk of japanese I'M
Thus the only eHecVe
action which already lightly talked
of possible"
Evening star., 1939-08-04

apparent. The Department, un-
doubtedly egged on by the White
House and encouraged by favorable
public opinion, has at last made up
its mind to take no more nonsense
the nonsense in question being
the Japanese drive against the for
eign concessions and all foreign
rights in China.
Meanwhile, japanese assaults
on the foreign concessions have
been, if anything, intensified Since
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Told Him He Can't Be President
The charge of labor batting is n

The OF batting
has been freely and approvng stated land denied that Mr.
Garner violently the strikes
tension of labor organization by the
Dixon The
Democrats seemingly united
merc life and death large number of Southern
What John therefore S
party that he holds Garner responsible for the Southern
C.
be
simply not going to be
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Taft Drops
Guard by
Platform
Specific Views Permit
Factions to Bore
Into Weaknesses
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

An event of national Importance
is the announcement by Senator
Robert Taft of Ohio of his can
didacy for the Republican presiden-
Evening star., 1939-08-04

centages of the oil, scrap iron and
cotton she so desperately needs for
her Chinese adventure. She is vir-
tually denuded of foreign exchange,
being reduced to day-to-day de-
pendence on profits on exports. Hav-
ing no ready money, it will be ex-
tremely difficult for the japanese to
lay in reserve supplies of the COM
modities from which an embargo
would cut them off. At the same
Evening star., 1939-08-04

HE opinions OF the DrtterS this their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN Te
Stars effort to gtve all sides OF questions OF interest to It's
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
ImmovobIe, Irresistible

the of experts embargo not possible
probable the japanese
warlke shrewd we-infomd
will heading
While predictions amSt would
results calmly for depends
Evening star., 1939-08-04
By HAROLD L. ICKES.

When Frederic William Vile paid
me the compliment of asking me to
pinch-hit for him once during his
vacation, I willingly consented. For
Evening star., 1939-08-04

that Mr. Garner labor batter
sheep and catemen "exorbant of This
which his fellow the
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Franklin and Garner

Although New Dealers are inclined deplore the or of the
hurts They have long resented what they
President and the New Deal the 1886
Of
old
Evening star., 1939-08-04

The way Out.
These worried, f1urried opponents
Evening star., 1939-05-22
Memorial 10 Gen. Scott
To Be Unveiled TODAY

A tablet in memory of the late
Maj. Gen. Hugh Lenox Scott, chief
of staff of the United States Army,
will be unveiled at Washington Ca
thedral at pm. today. The pres
entation address will be made by
Gen. Maxwell Murray. commander
of the Washington Provisional Bri-
gade. He will represent the Sec
retary of War and will be accom-
panied by 1t. j. w. Totten, U. S. A.,
as aid.
The Right Rev. James E. Free
man, Bishop Of Washington, will
accept the tablet, and Miss Anna
Hunter Scott, a granddaughter of
Gen. Scott, will unveil it.
Prof. L. Wardlaw Miles, chairman
OF the English department, Johns
Hopkins University, wrote the in
scription for the tablet, reading in
part: "A soldier, valiant in action,
wise in counsel. he successfully waged
war to bring peace, and by a rare
combination of simplicity, integrity
and courage, he was able to know
the hearts of alien peoples and
to turn suspicious enemies into
trusting and loyal friends"
The tablet was designed by Miss
Louisa Eyre of Philadelphia and
is the gift of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Frederick Houston.
The public is invited to attend.