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Evening star., 1939-01-25
Barcelona and the U. S. A.

With Barcelona finally taken by
the Spanish insurgents, former Sec
retary OF State Stimson's persuasive
plea for lifting of the embargo
against sale Of arms and munitions
to Loyalist Spain necessarily is rele-
gated to the limbo of the academic.
Even If President Roosevelt were
minded to respond to the Stimson
plea, 1t is more than doubtful
whether the tottering republican
government could import sinews of
war in time to stave of its doom.
Colonel Stimson's appeal, set forth
In a letter to the editor of the New
York Times, nevertheless conjures
up issues which this country and
Government, by all the laws OF
probability, some day will be called
upon to face. That is a fair Ger
tainty not likely to be challenged
either by those who think the en-
barge should have been lifted long
ago, or by those who believe its en-
actment on May 7, 1887, lay in the
undeniably best interests of the
American people, and that these in
terests have been well served by the
embargo's maintenance.
One of the soundest notes struck by
President Hoover's Secretary of State
is that decision and discussion of the
embargo question "do not in the least
depend upon theological considera-
tions which may or may not be in
volved in the Spanish conflict On
the contrary, they depend solely on
the interest of our own country
toward that conflict and its possible
results"
In advocating the abolition of re-
strictions against sale of American
war materials to the Loyalists,
Colonel Stimson states that their
government has. been recognized as
"the true government of Spain" and
that such recognition carried "the
right Of self-defense." Under exist
ing international law, the de facto
government Of Spain, he argues, "is
the only party to the civil war which
Is permitted to purchase arms and
ammunition abroad" BY refusing to
sanction such aid to the Barcelona
government, the formerschief Of the
State Department asserts, the United
States abandoned a traditional
policy to which for a century and
half it had carefully adhered, as
means for protecting the peace and
stability of nations, which, like itself,
preferred to live not armed to the
teeth"
Francois banners may be waving
over the great Spanish Mediterranean
port before the American people have
opportunity to read and digest
Colonel stimson's plesdings. What
the United States, as an immensely
more immediate proposition, may
Evening star., 1939-01-25
Letters to The Star
Believes Commissioners
Should Be Retained.

Believes commissioners
Should Be Retained.
To the Editor of The Star:
The suggestion in The Sunday Star that
the President has not filled the vacancy
on the Board of District Commissioners
because he favors one-man administra-
tor for the city government, calls for
the most serious consideration by the
Congress and thorough airing of the
coming Griffenhagen report and numer-
GUS other reports on the reorganization
Of the Government of the District of Co.
lumbia; notably the Prettyfnan report,
which for clarity and common sense far
excels all other such reports so far made
public.
To abolish the commission form of
local government, would, in the writer S
opinion, be disastrous. While there may
have been few exceptions, most of our
city fathers have been progressive, eff
cie:lt and devoted public servants, and
certainly no one can detract from the
excellent job done by the Engineer Corps
of the Army in sending here as Engineer
Commissioner many sterling engineers of
attainment and to whom the city owes a
lasting debt of gratitude for the physical
development of the District.
Not many years ago the United States
Bureau of Efficiency made an exhaustive
survey of the city government and its
agencies, and at that time, the bureau
found the city to have clean and honest
administration and endorsed wholeheart-
edly the commission form Of city govern
ment.
To scrap this form of local government
for a one-man administrator would not
be to the best interests of the citizenry
here, and if such an administrator were
not carefully and wisely selected, he could
do considerable mischief and lean toward
autocracy, dictatorship and demagoguery.
Certainly greater Federal control over
our municipal government would result.
As a native Washingtonian and student
Of our municipal government, it is ferv-
emily hoped that certain members of
Congress will weigh this matter very
carefully before voting to change the
present commission form of city admins
tration. JOHN SMITH.
January 23.
Evening star., 1939-01-25
Hopkins and Business

Although, as was to be expected,
strong opposition developed to the
selection Of Harry Hopkins to be
Secretary of Commerce, there never
was any real doubt as to his
ultimate confirmation by the SEN
ate. AS Senator Glass pointed
out, 1t is the traditional right
of the President to choose his own
cabinet circle, and it is not CUSTOM
ary to demand an explanation of the
why's and wherefores. At the same
time, 1t is not only the right, but the
duty Of the Senate to serve as some
thing more than a rubber stamp in
the consideration of presidential ap-
pointments. It is not logical to con-
clude-as Senator Schwellenbach
did-that Senators who opposed Mr..
Hopkins were only trying to discredit
President Roosevelt.
Now that the appointment has
been confirmed after a prolonged
siege of oratorical fireworks, Mr..
Hopkins is free to demonstrate
to the country that he is none
of the things his arch critics
call him and all of the things his
devoted friends, including President
Roosevelt, insist that he is. In other
words, it is now up to Mr.. Hopkins
to prove himself. Already he seems
to have taken certain steps toward
the appeasement of business. After
a series of conferences with business
leaders of the type of w. Averill Har-
riman, chairman Of the Business Ad-
visory Council, MIR. Hopkins has ar
ranged to listen to industry's prob
lens and present his own ideas for
solution OF them at a meeting of the
council here this week.
But the burden of making himself
over into a Good Samaritan of busi-
ness is not Mr. Hopkins alone. The
responsibility is shared by the busi-
nessmen who have been most crit
ical Of his past activities as head of
the Works Progress Administration
and Of the system he has symbolized.
Industry has nothing to gain and
possibly much to lose by refusing to
cooperate with the new head Of the
Department of Commerce, no mat
Evening star., 1939-01-25
Opposes Showing Of
American Flag.

To the Editor Of The star:
Jingoism is on the way back. Soon We
will be swamped with tho same forces Of
unreasoning patriotism" which pushed
us into the war in 1917. I refer to the
showing Of a technicolor American Flag
and playing the "Star-spangled Banner
In some Of the neighborhood theaters.
For those of us who desire internation-
alism and believe in the possibilities Of
brotherly love in political as well as
religious sense. the requirements Of
jingoism are q constant source Of en-
barrassment. We cannt blindly worship
a symbol and remain Intellectually hon.
est. Therefore in silent protest we cannot
stand in theater when this unnecessary
attempt to make us war-conscious Is
thrown on the screen.
January 23. L. WRAY CHOATE.
Evening star., 1939-01-25
Wasted Elouuence.

He wrote speech. With brilliancy 1t
glistened.
When he delivered 1t nobody listened.
The Record printed 1t just as he said it.
Twas sent out through the mails. No.
body read it.
Evening star., 1939-01-25
Asks Caribbean Islands
In Settlement Of War Debt.
January %.


To the Editor Of The Star:
I listened to a group of well-informed
war veterans last night who were dis
cussing national defense measures, pri-
vately and informally. 1t developed in
the end that each of them had reached
q definite conclusion of his own on
very vital phase of this subject. Sur
prise was expressed that none of them
had seen 1t advocated by newspapers.
Briefly, the plan they advocate is that
in the settlement Of foreign debts that
Bermuda and the English and French
islands of the Caribbean be transferred
to or leased to the United States as part
payment.
These would make excellent air bases
for our defense, and our seaboard would
be endangered If they fell into the hands
Of an enemy in wartime. Neither Eng
land nor France could protect them in
war-and the United States could and
perhaps would do so If involved in war;
So why not prepare in advance, while
considering the general subject of de-
veloping outlying air bases?
A WORLD WAR VETERAN.
January II.
Evening star., 1939-01-25

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Dear the name and address OF
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Evening star., 1939-01-25
BIZ Margaret Germond.


ioned by nature when in mood for
creating illusions. To thoughts seldom
voiced by those who look upon such
scenes, Miss Schaffle gives poetic ex-
preston in
Snow Reveries.
Snow seeps into the forest
Through the many tangled branches
OF the trees,
Covering the dainty tracks
OF the shy soft-eyed deer,
The rabbits and the birds.
Snow blankets all the ugliness
OF narrow city streets,
Hiding, for an hour,
The dirt and squalor of the tenements,
Creating in their stead
White fairy palaces.
Oh, that the whiteness of the snow
Might fall upon my life!
Covering its ridges and its ruts
With gentle beauty,
Bringing peace and coolness
To my time-worn soul!
An especially relevant reflection re-
lates to that persistently active mechani-
cal creation by which mankind measures
and crowds or wastes the hours marked
of In universal terms as
Time.
Clocks are such urgent things! They
bind the will
Close in confinement to their silly tick,
Counting persistent seconds day by day,
Keeping us conscious of insistent Time,
OF work unfinished and Of lines unsung,
Because we cannot make the measure
rhyme
Nor finish half the tasks we have begun!
Why not proceed as children do at play?-
Unmindful of fleet-footed weeks, nor
flick
Creative passion month by month, until
The creeping years shall summon all our
powers
To sleep away more unrecorded hours!
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And here is a tribute to those little
fellows, any one of whom in this country
may one future day be the star per-
former in some drama of life that merits
the off hour labor of
The Newsboy.
A cry is heard in the street
Toward the end of the night,
A patter of little feet
In the trembling, faint gray light:
''Wuxtra!" "Wuxtra!"
The passing Of soul,
The winning of fight,
The crowning Of king,
Are thus heralded through the night:
"Wuxtra!" "Wuxtra!"
A dedicatory poem appropriately pref
acing the volume has a distinctive
beauty and charm as gift
To My Mother.
pr,iig you dew-damp violets in spring
And in the summertime spend long
hours
Searching the woods to find fresh fra
grant flowers
To cheer you. In the withered fall I
bring
Bright leaves that flame throughout
these wooded lands
To place in your tall vases. But now
that frost
Hal come to nip the leaves, feel quite
lost
My heart is full but empty are my hands!
So will sing for you song Of blooming
OF sunny lands a-flower all the year,
In whose warm climate one may never
hear
The warbling songbirds and the distant
booming
OF the great ocean cleaning in the sun.
love you, Mother-Now my song is done.
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The poems are arranged in the volume
in the order of their composition, though
there is no notation to mark the period
Of their writing. Yet the change In merit
and In mature reflection Is discernible
in the poems themselves as they sing
their way through girlhood and young
womanhood. The work Of Miss Schafle
shows talent and holds q promise Of
sturdy growth.
Evening star., 1939-01-25
Early TraininT,

"A boy should be taught to take his
own part" said the earnest citizen.
"Of course" answered the pessimist.
1T will save him some trouble In the
school yard. But no matter what you do,
he'll probably grow into the habit Of
hanging onto strap and letting any,
body In = uniform tell him to step
lively"
Evening star., 1939-01-25
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the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to IL or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication of special dispatches
herein also IRE reserved
Evening star., 1939-01-25
COMFORTING,

They say you are but the servant of
big business" said the reproving friend.
WELL" answered Senator Sorghum,
"the position has its advantages. OF
course. it's more agreeable to be the
boss-but after all, the servant isn't the
one the grand jury goes after"
Evening star., 1939-01-25

There is no such thing as entire fall
ure." said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown.
There Is always something you can
make success of II it's only cutting
grass or shoveling snow,"
Evening star., 1939-01-25

Henry George Gave Economic
Remedy 60 Years Ago.
70 the Editor Of The Star:
For six long years tho administration
In Warrington has been vainly trying at
Evening star., 1939-01-25
Dangerous Etiquette.

II think" said the young man who
had just arrived in Crimson Gulch, that
I shall make few informal calls"
stranger" said Bronco Bob earnestly,
don't do 1t. Whether you're calm,
raisin' or layin' down, take my advice
and observe all the formalities Of the
game"
Lots O folks" said Uncle Eben, els
jes' as unreasonable in der ambitions as
man dat thinks he can run . auto
mobile jes' cause he's expert at pushin'
. WheelbarroW."
Evening star., 1939-01-25

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first. In the early days Of broadcasting
she sang on the air In Denver, Colo,
with George Morrison's Orchestra.
9. What is the largest salt water game
fish ever caught by woman?-M. j. S.
A. In 1882, Mrs. Eastman Guild caught
a Pacific black marlin Weighing 1923
pounds OF Cape Brett, New Zealand.
Q. Which of the cabinet members
broadcast most in 1857. KIN
A. Postmaster General Farley, with II
broadcasts. while Secretary Of Agricul-
ture Wallace was second with 16, and
Secretary Of State Hull spoke IL times.
9. When was the pin and Link rail-
road car coupling discontinued In the
Omitted States?-W. A. w.
A. Railroads first started changing
from the pin and Link coupling when
Ezra Miller patented his automatic
coupler in 1868. BY 1870 1t was in gen.
eral use in the Middle and Western
States and a few years later In use on
most Of the railroads in the United
States. The Pennsylvania Railroad in
1878 made the Janney coupler, which was
patented by E. H. Janney in 1877, stand
ard equipment for its passenger cars.
In 1887 recommendation Of the Master
Car Builders Association for the adop-
ton Of vertical plane couplers discon-
tinued the use Of the pin and link
couplers on all roads. The Janney
coupler was made standard by this -.
Sociation In 1883.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-03
YANKEES WILL PLACE
BALL CLUB IN EASTON

Recently Daniel M. Henry went tc
New York and while there closed a
deal with the New York Yankees to
put a baseball club in Easton. The
arrangements are somewhat similar
to those in Cambridge, where the ST.
Louis Cardinals operate.
The Yankees promise to place a
club there, supply the manager, and
Easton is to do the rest. Last year
there was a great deal of dissatisfac-
ton over Doc Jacobs pocketing all the
profits of the season, which amounted
to several thousand dollars if reports
are true, and Easton getting nothing,
after spending several thousands in
building new stands, etc.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-03
Other Nations Emulate
Our Good Neighbor Policy

Rehabilitation Supervisor of FSA.
Interested farmers are urged to
make their applications for these
loans as soon as possible, at the Of
flee of Mr.. Foster, in the Post Of
flee Building, Salisbury, Maryland, in
order that all arrangements may be
completed in time to meet spring
planting requirements.
ITO provide for the best use of the
loans, a farm plan based on estimated
crop yields and livestock production
is worked out by the borrower, with
our cooperation" stated Mr.. Foster.
"a Home Plan which provides for
meeting most of the food needs on
the farm is drawn up by the farmers
wife, with the guidance of our Home
Management Service, Miss Susan v.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-03
FIRST REGIMENT
M. N. G. TO HAVE
MODERN RIFLES

The Chief of the National Guard
Bureau in Washington this week an
nounced that the First Regiment,
Maryland National Guard, will be is
sued 600 of the most modern and eff
Gent semi-automatic rifles yet deve-
loped in this country.
The new rifle, nown as type MI are
capable of a sustained fire of thirty
shots a minute, and in exhaustive
tests have proven much more effic-
lent than the Springfield, now stand
ard I'M the Regular Army and Nation
al Guard.
Only four National Guard Regi-
ments in the country have been select
ed to be equipped with the new rifles,
and the First Regiment was picked
due to it's long record of excellence in
small arms fire. Commenting on the
decision of the National Guard Blu
reau to issue these rifles to the First,
Colonel d. John Marley, Command
ing Officer of the Regiment, said:
"It is interesting to note that our
Regiment is the second National
Guard outfit in the country to receive
the new rifle, and is the only unit
to be SO equipped east of the Missis-
sippi River. This action is due to
the high standing of the First Infan-
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-03

Hill. The drawing up of these plans
is as essential as the funds loaned in
helping the borrower to get back on
his feet. Unless it is possible to work
out plans which are sound and practi-
cal, and which insure repayment, rural
rehabilitation loans are not made"
Where debt adjustment is neces-
sary to place farm on sound basis,
this service is worked out through
negotiations between debtor and cred
itors prior to the making Of the loan,
Mr.. Foster pointed out. Where heavy
equipment and breeding stock can be
more economically provided on a
joint-use basis, loans will be made
to groups of farmers for cooperative
purchase of such facilities.
Farmers should note," Mr.. Foster
stated, "that all services of the Farm
Security Administration are absolute
ly free of charge. They are invited
to consult with us on their problems"
To qualify for an FSA rehabilitation
loan, the applicant must be a bona
fide farmer unable to secure adequate
commercial credit. He must be living
on productive farm capable of sup
porting his family and repaying the
loan on the basis of an approved farm
plan.
Applications for assistance may be
mailed to the FSA office, or farmers
may apply in person on Mondays and
Saturdays, between the hours Of 9
A. M. and p. M.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-03

try in small arms firing and our show
ing in the Pershing Trophy matches"
The Annual Horse Show of the 10th
Field Artillery will be held February
10th and 18th in the riding hall of
the regiments armory at Pieksville.
The best hunters and saddle horses
in this section of the country have
been entered in the show, which is
attracting wide attention throughout
Maryland and nearby States. On Fri
day night, Feb. 10th, classes for hunt
ers and jumpers will be shown. On
Saturday afternoon there will be a
pony show. Saturday night will see
more jumpers and saddle horses per-
forming, and there will be a special
class for polo ponies. Capt Samuel
S. Murray, 10th Field Artillery, is in
general charge of arranging the af-
fair.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-03
Newspaper Men UncoUer
Scheme For Big Deal

Under this contemplated arrange
ment there would be no restrictions
on the amount of oil shipments to Ger
many because Mexico would not be
limited by its own ability to absorb
the goods received from Germany, as
payment. The American reporters
were on the trail of huge interna-
tional scandal, and if it is carried thru
it will make Mexico the sales agent
of Germany throughout Latin-Amer-
lean countries.
Naturally, this would demoralize
trade and economic conditions between
the United States and Latin-Amer-
lea, and throw thousands of Ameri-
can workmen out of employment
throughout the United States.
Of course such piratical practices
as are used by Mexico will undermine
the spirit of the Lima Conference, and
defeat the rebuilding of healthy econo-
mic conditions between the Ameri-
can Republics, including our own.
American newspapermen covered
themselvs with glory in making this
sensational discovery-fraught even
with war dangers. The Times man
explains that he is serving as warn
ing to other correspondents of the at
tempt to cut off impartial news at it's
source"
In a leading editorial The New York
Times praises the accuracy of all of
Mr.. Kluckhohn's reporting. "The
Times is sorry to lose a good reporter
in Mexico City," says the editorial
and adds that cit believes that it's
own loss is less serious than the loss
of confidence and of respect which
the Mexican Government incurs, when.
after censuring its own press into a
state of helplessness, it attempts to
censor the press of good neighbor."
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-02-03

Among the many diplomatic events
Of recent weeks have been efforts OF
many Latin-American nations to take
our good neighbor policy at face val
ne and live up to the high ideals OF
the Lima Conference.
Any friendship, whether of man anG
man or nation and nation, is a two
way exchange. There is a give and
take of ideas or goods or companions
ship that makes it worth preserving
It will be true of our Pan1American
relations. They will buy from us
other things being equal, if we will
buy from them, again if equality
exists. AS we help them to economic
prosperity, as they buy our surplus
goods, so will our friendship flourish.
And the average citizen can help
The New York Herald Tribune, New
Deal foe but supporter of our foreign
policy, suggested an apt method in its
editorial columns by saying: "The
man in the street daily makes a more
important contribution to solidarity
than all the diplomatic gestures put
together. We refer to his consump-
ton of coffee, which supplies bond
between this country and Latin-Amer-
lea stronger than any treaty ever writ
ten and growing stronger, if the stat
istics of the coffee trade are any
criterion. These indicate an increase
m imports for 1888 of 2OO,OOO,OOO
pounds over 1885, the biggest year in
the trades history. In other words,
we have taken into our innards a
pound and a half more coffee a person
than last year and above pound more
than we ever took before. IF that
doesn't implement the good neigh
bor' policy, what will?
"And yet" continues the Tribune.
I'VE can do better, according to Mr..
G. w. Sharpe, president of the Asso-
ciated Coffee Industries and spokes-
man for the coffee trade. Here is a
chance for us to expand whit he calls,
and rightly, a major contribution to
the peace and welfare of the Western
Hemisphere We suggest that the
temptation to indulge in that extra
cup is enhanced by the thought that
ones appetite is helping the State
Department"
Well said, and a good reason for in
dulging in that comforting and leis-
urely second cup. IF another cup of
our favorite beverage will help solid
hy our friendship with neighbors to
the South, and help preserve our
American continents for democracy
then, by all means, Polly-put the cof-
fee pot oni