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Evening star., 1939-02-13
A New Outlook

To the United States Weather Bu-
reau, which today starts it's seventh
decade, may be paid most validly the
compliment that it is "sixty-nine
years young"
1t stands on the edge of a new era
In weather forecasting in which, in
fused with the fresh blood of new
ideas, there may confidently be pre-
dicted advances in the science of me-
teorology which will make the old
methods of foretelling storms and
fair weather seam very antiquated
indeed.
There are two major prospects
ahead. One is long range forecast
ing-predicting the weather for q
week or a month ahead. The other
is much greater accuracy in short
range forecasting. Progress in both
will depend largely on research work
now being carried on at the Bureau.
Notable advances have been made in
the last few years in the develop
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ment Of the air mass hypothesis and
of the theory of potential tempera-
ture gradients in the upper atmos-
phere.
AS the establishment starts its
SEVENTEEN year a completely new
world Is open for the first time to its
investigators-a world which un-
doubtedly holds the secrets of many
of the forces, now unknown, which
govern weather changes on earth.
This is the stratosphere, the region
Of the atmosphere starting about
ten miles above the earth where tenn
perature no longer declines with in
creasing elevation. A decade ago, at
the time Of the first Picard balloon
ascensions, this region was alto
gether unknown. Today it is ex-
plored every day and routine reports
received from it by means of those
marvellous robot products Of human
ingenuity, the acknowledgements.
For the past half century, until
very recently, there have been few
new ideas in meteorology. The ad-
vance of the science of forecasting
has depended largely on the tedious
labor OF making better and better OBJ
servations to fit into unchanging for
mulae. During all this time it might
well have been said that the Weather
Bureau, as we'll as the whole science
upon which it depended, was grow
ing old.
But the new ideas have rejuvenat-
ed it, given it new enthusiasms, new
hopes, and the virtual certainty of
new accomplishments
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years, one may believe, that the making
Of animal stories for grownups has in
creased. One Of the biggest sellers has
been story relating to fawn.
-
If we mix fact with fantasy, 1t helps
the fantasy, and, some will be willing
to believe, helps the facts, too.
All work and no play, 1t has been said,
makes Jack . dull boy.
All fact and no fantasy, might go .
similar saying, makes Jack Tremendously
dull to others.
Mixing the two together with the
spoon Of discretion gives better blend,
and the lasting results are more pleasing.
The incorporation of the weather, at
all seasons. In ones very personal myth
ology, is about the best stroke the nature
lover can make.
If he is real nature lover, he will
be bound to make it, but If he is an anna
teur nature friend, not yet progressed to
the ultimate degree, he will need q little
coaxing Of himself by himself.
Perhaps the best way he can do this
is to compel himself. at first, to look to
the heavens for the weather signs.
Let him compare his own forecasts
With the official ones: let him plant Q
rose bush, and tulips, and become In
terested in gardening.
All these things demand weather In
abundance.
In time, rs he realizes how deeply the
so-called elements touch the lives OF all
living, he will need no prodding to be
interested In wind and wave and rain
and hail and clouds and sun and moon
and stars.
He will find all these things among the
most interesting in all his universe. The
rainy day and night will come to him as
boon. The sound Of hail on his win
dowpanes becomes symphony. The
heat Of summer. the cold of winter, the
tang Of autumn, the smell of blossoming
earth in springtime-these will not be
things to endure, to 60 through, to wish
would pass, in their turn, but great events
In his life, as they really are
The thermometer on the back porch
will be more than an instrument. It
will be faithful friend, to tell him how
to dress, and to defend against the own
ers Of other and less accurate instru-
ments.
Weather, and the legends about it,
come to focus in the human mind.
1t Is perfectly easy to believe, in one
mood, that it is the mind alone which
lifts them from the prosaic duty of being
dull facts, and emblazons them on the
heavens and the earth. and the waters
beneath the earth.
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q "Paulista." fled from Brazil by airplane.
He had just returned from visit to most
OF the European and American capitals,
on Brazilian battleship and in regal
style. In all these countries he had been
received and entertained royalty. Imag-
Inc his chagrin, having to flee from his
country.
Rio Grande de Sui, a state in the
southeastern part Of Brazil, near Uru-
quay, has a temperate climate and is
agricultural 1t is largely populated by
Brazilians of German extraction who
have been there two or three generations.
Prom this state comes both President
Vargas and his closest friend and ad-
wiser, Senior Aranha, who has strength
ened even more the very strong ties
which always bound the United States
of Brazil to her big sister," the United
States of America. With q large pop,l-
lation OF both German and Italian ex-
traction in Brazil, 1t naturally follows
that Germany and Italy do not relish
the prospect of loss Of their trade there.
The two terms of President Vargas
ended last November, but by bloodless
coup over a year ago he removed the
governors Of the various states and dis
solved all legislative bodies, practically
scrapping the old constitution, and thus
= = .'ng absolute dictator. He is now
III "a '';-4 term, thus establishing an
o:.ae.' lz.~eSent in Brazil.
The Brazilian is the most hospitabIe
and warmhearted of humans and such
thing as race prejudice has never
existed there. Brazil is a laboratory in
the process Of amalgamating its various
races; in fact, The mention of race" is
taboo. An innate sensitiveness makes
1t dimcult for them as well as for all
Latin Americans to cope with the abrupt
ness of the critical attitude as well Is
the high-powered salesmanship and
ballyhoo methods of the North Amer
leans. MARY HERMAN
February 10.
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Describes 1880 Revolt
In Brazil.


To the Editor o. The Star:
The arrival Of Senior Oswaldo Aranl,a.
"miniStro de exterior" Of Brazil and until
recently Ambassador to Washington,
brings very wildly to the mind Of the
writer the Brazilian revolution OF Octo-
Der, 1880, while the country was under
martial law. All sections of Brazil were
seething and clamoring for recognition,
some even threatening to secede.
1t was via this revolution that Pred-
dent Vargas swept up from the south
Estate of Rio de Grande de Sub, led his
troops into "Rio" and took possession Of
the beautiful Guanavara Palace, which
overlooked the incompatible harbm Of
Rio de Janiero.
Thus was the present Vargas regime
set up In Brazil more than two years
before our own New Deal" administra-
ton came into power.
The retiring President, whose two
terms were finished, was a most dis
tinguished and conscientious 'Paulista. I"
washington Luis" as he was popularity
called, never capitalized on his position
as President by putting relatives In gov
ernment positions. Being friend of the
relatives, the writer knows this to be true.
President Washington Luis Pereirs de
Souza was forced to fee from the palace,
accompanied by the Cardinal Of Brazil,
who had gone to the palace to be with
the President Is = protection during
those dramatic moments.
!. The President elect, Julius Prestes, also
Evening star., 1939-02-13
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles +. TraceaDeu.

Remember that peal Of thunder and
Hash Of lightning the other evening?
Tradition has 1t that February thun-
derstorm wakes the frogs from their
winter sleep.
Those fellows probably are beginning
to stir restlessly in the mud, anyway.
but it makes nice story.
Man asks for little explanation. here
below, nor for that little long. He seems
to prefer it rather on the silly side. The
grounding and his shadow, for instance.
Snakes are supposed to feel the first
rumbles of thunder, too.
Such naive stories are placed in sea-
sons when such things happen, that is
all, and point to nothing except the de-
sire for some sort of relationship.
The mind realizes that there is moth
ing wider than the gap between the
living thing called man and all the other
Lying things.
1t tries to bridge the gap by inventing
some story or other.
1t Is amazing, how trifling the story
may be. to give complete satisfaction.
4
Legends concerning the fishes and the
birds and the beasts are almost as nu-
nlerous as the creatures themselves.
They range from the rarely beautiful,
such as that Of st. Francis preaching to
the birds, to the one about the bluejays
communing with the devil on Fridays.
The first is reflection of love. the
second Of dislike.
Some one loved st. Francis and the
birds; some one heartily despised the
jaunty bluejays.
The face of nature is 10 hostile, ut
times, that mankind instinctively hugs
to its breast any explanations which
seem to draw the two worlds-man and
the other creatures-together.
That is why 1t has always seemed to
us that what used to be called nature
taking" is no crime at all. but an inter-
esting attempt along these lines.
It does no harm to our understanding
Of the rabbit to fancy him dressed in
trousers and waistcoat.
1t may do good.
If we try to enter into the daily life
of fox, or moose, or even a fish, to
the extent Of picturing his triumphs and
failures. We know him better, as the re-
suit.
We come to look upon him as breath
ing, living thing, not just some sort of
animated object.
No one can picture the good done to
the cause Of animal protection by aii
the children's books and stories relating
their little lives.
1t has been a happy sign in recent
Evening star., 1939-02-13

been based, including the military
alliance with Czecho-Slovakia and
the mutual assistance pact with
France.
Litv!noff is supposed to have
broached the Black Sea compact to
Southeastern European diplomats at
Moscow, whom he addressed as mem
bers of "the former Balkan entente"
The commissar Of foreign affairs was
assumed to be referring to the weak
ening of the Balkan bloc, composed
ct Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and
Rumania, by the recent Italo- -Yugo-
slavian rapprochement and by Ger
many's penetration of the Danubian
Basin through the dismemberment
Of Czecho-Slovakia and the Reich's
newly acquired influence over Hun
gary.
The totalitarian powers, it goes
without saying, would not permit the
Baltic-Black Sea-Mediterranean tri-
angle, which comes into being with
an insurgent-ruled Spain, to be men,
aced, as it would be by the constel-
lation of force which the Soviet is
said to project. Neither in military
or economic strength would the latter
be a match for the power inherent
in the totalitarian triangle, to say
nothing of its Far Eastern branch,
Japan. But If Poland could be won
to the Russo-Turco-Ruma Bull
garian-Grecian aggregation, the die
tatorships and their satellites would
face a counterweight in Eastern Eu-
rope that could not be laughed of.
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Co-ordinuted Effort

congress mas opportunity TO 90 q
constructive job in giving exhaustive
and sympathetic consideration to the
legislation introduced by Senator
Byrnes for consolidation of Federal
agencies concerned fundamentally
with the problem of unemployment.
With the closely related objectives
of providing either relief or work to
the Nations jobless, the several
agencies dealing with the broad
problem in the past have been CO.
ordinated only to the degree which
the President or Congress have sue
ceeded in defining and providing for
their functioning. Inevitably, in such
circumstances, there has been lack
of integration which would have
made for greater effectiveness in the
whole program.
In his pending measure, Senator
Byrnes has provided for this integra-
ton through the creation Of De-
partment of Public Works, which
would take over administration Of
the present functions of P. w. A.,
w. P. A., c. c. c., N. Y. A., the Bureau
of Public Roads and the Public
Buildings Division. In addition, he
would transfer the Employment
Service to the Social Security Board
and make certain revisions in parts
Of the social security program.
In its detail, of course, it will
properly be subject to controversy,
one element of which already has
arisen in connection with the Sena-
tors proposal that public works be
undertaken on a two-thirds Federal
and one-third local basis financially
and that Federal funds for this pur-
pose be apportioned by a formula of
population and unemployment fig
ureS.
Insofar as such a system might
replace or elevate the standards Of
made work projects as now under
taken by the w. P. A., the proposal
appears meritorious, but in corre-
spending degree as it might tend to
lower the standards of the present
P. w. A. 1t must be considered unfor-
tunate.
For the public works program as
now operated places its initial en-
phasis on projects which add to the
material wealth of the Nation with
secondary emphasis on the furnish
ing of employment. Requiring fifty
five per cent of funds from local
applicants, it thus places greater
financial obligation on the applicants
than necessarily would result from
the Byrnes formula and is bound by
no arbitrary apportionment plan. It
is reasonable to believe that these
and other circumstances have con-
tributed to the relative desirability
OF P. w. A. projects.
At the same time, it is obvious
that protection of these standards Is
essentially matter of administra-
tive good judgment which might just
as logically be applied in a Depart
ment of Public Works, vested with
responsibility for other types Of
emergency operations, as in an inde-
pendent agency.
In its broad outlines, therefore.
the Byrnes plan must be looked upon
with approval.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Alsop and Kintner
Praised for Article.
To the Editor of The Star.

The readers of your paper well know
that the North Carolina Democratic
Club Of Washington is in no way con-
nected with the North Carolina State
Society.
am North Carolinian and do not
deplore the criticism of Messrs. joseph
Alsop and Robert Kintner as expressed
in their column in The Star of January
80, but commend them for the way they
criticized Robert R. Reynolds, Junior
Senator from North Carolina, who is
always seeking publicity, but not the type
that brings him down to his true level.
The North Carolinians whom have
talked with say the article '.hit the nail
on the head" A SUBSCRIBER.
February 10.
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Asks Installation Of
Pedestrian Lights.
To the Editor of The Star.

Asks Installation Of
Pedestrian Lights.
To the Editor OF The Star:
What inscrutable reasons have our
lawmakers for refusing a pedestrian
light" of 30 seconds duration to those of
us that are compelled to navigate on
foot?
Under existent and proposed traffic
law 1t is utterly impossible for aged
people Cor the young, for that NATTER to
cross our crowded thoroughfares with
any assurance they will safely reach the
other side. Reckless and irresponsible
motor drivers will continue to swoop
around corners, oblivious to the rights
of pedestrians, thereby creating hazard
which will remain until stern measures
are adopted to afford some definite pro-
lection.
A brief light for the people, at danger
Gus intersections, would certainly miti-
gate the perils now in evidence. Until
said signal is installed, the long suf-
fering and bewildered walker will con-
tinue to dodge dangerously driven cars,
despite proposed regulation, and in ever
increasing number fall prey to these
modern juggernauts.
e. K. GOLDSBOROUGH,
February 10.
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Shooting Stors
BY PHnANDER JOHNSON.
Taking Chances,

Taking Chances.
No longer the snow dares to glisten
Ger paths that we merrily tread,
And the warm wind half tempts you to
listen
For music of birds overhead.
The world, deceiver, breathes sweetly
A promise of blossoming May,
And you're hopeful and happy completely
On lovely st. Valentines Day.
There's something that bars definition
When springtime comes taunting along.
It seems delightful position
When life is smile and a song.
But Cupids cheat and sinner
If lassie says AYE" or says nay.
It's hard to tell when you're winner
On lovely st. Valentines Day.
Evening star., 1939-02-13

"The Supervisor of the Spiritual
and Philosophical Development of
Nazidom" (whatever that title may
mean) snappily suggests British
Guiana and Madagascar as domiciles
for the Jews. Those would do nicely
until he thinks of some worse place
owned by some other country.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Opposes Plan to
Jail Pedestrians.

To the Editor of The STAR
AS a constant reader of The Star since
1928, wish to commend your editorial
TRAFFIC Education" In my opinion it
Is a serious reflection upon the integrity
and honesty Of the pedestrians in this
city to feel that it should be necessary
to take violators of pedestrian control
regulations away in a patrol wagon.
Eternal vigilance, have found, is the
price of safety on the streets of WASH
ington, and I have no compliment to
pay to traffic directors in this city. If
pedestrians had the right of way on
cross-walks, without being endangered
by turning motorists, who in many in
stances start before the green light comes
on, there might be more cooperation
from them A PEDESTRIAN.
February 8.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Spanish Loyalists Praised
For Gallant Fight.

To the Editor OF The Star:
1t would be interesting to note the re-
action Of the members Of those WASH
ington organizations which favored the
insurgents of Spain If they should read
the article in last nights Star by that
very able foreign correspondent, Constan-
tine Brown. It goes without saying that
1t Is the nature of dictators to stay where
they have once Lit until they are re-
moved by shell fire.
It is an inconceivable tragedy that the
Loyalists, who were outnumbered 10 to
in equipment, could not get supplies to
carry on their gallant fight. Truly, they
will go down in history as "the bravest
Of the brave"-if there Is any one left
to record it.
However, who knows, the tide may vet
turn. The year Is yet young, ye jestersl
]. WELLINGTON SMITH.
February 10.
Evening star., 1939-02-13

The President in asking Congress
for that other one hundred and fifty
million, announces that IAN emer-
gency exists in relief" Said "emer-
gency" seems likely to persist until
about November, 1910.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
On the Hill.

How swiftly speed the days away
That never, never can return;
Vacations scarcely start ere they
Are almost ready to adjourn.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
February 10.
New Dealers Have Made
Eagle q Sorry Bird.

New Dealers Have Made
Eagle Sorry Bird.
To ths Editor Of The Star:
If fine feathers make fine BIRDS" 1t
follows that fowl divested Of its plum
age presents a sorry spectacle. Fine
financial feathers, incalculable in num-
ber, have been plucked from our Ameri-
can eagle by ambitious, irresponsible
New Dealers, and the grand old bird
looks slum, not glad.
Z. K. ooLD6BOROUGH,
February Z
Evening star., 1939-02-13

Hitler, as he sits in his massive
new Office, is confronted by bust of
former President Won Hindenburg.
Would not a mirror be more appro-
pirate for modest Adolf?
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Destruction,

Suppose you succeed in destroying
the corporations" said the theorist,
what would happen them"
"I'd have to begin life anew" answered
Senator Sorghum. MY entire repertoire
of speeches would be invalidated."
Evening star., 1939-02-13

'The problem Of the present-day COL
umnist," said HI Ho, the sage Of China
town, "is how to be financial success
without being a social failure"
Evening star., 1939-02-13
They Still Hurt

From the New York Sun.
The new Federal income tax blsnls
fold ct the top. but the taxpayer con-
tinues to fold at the middle,
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Conscientious.

"Are you willing to chop some wood
for your dinner?" asked Mrs. Corntossel.
Lady" answered Flooding Pete, I'm
interested in the preservation Of de for
ests, an 1t would be agin me principles
to put an ak into one of de monarchs OF
de woods even though he lay dead at me
feet"
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Well Fortified

Prom the Baton Nouse Stats-flnss.
A man in the East states he wears stx
shirts. There Is nothing like being pre-
pared when one endeavors to buy stocsa
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Says Uncle Eben.

Never mind de misty chill dat kovers
,roun de do!
Wes had . heap O. June-time an we,s
gwinter hab some mo-.
violets will tell you bout de summer skies
% blue
Be , little patient. chile! OATS al you
got 70 do.
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 1oriter, although the use OF
a pseudonyn for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1939-02-13
Roosevelt VIII Net
Get Third Term.
To the Editor OF The Star:

AS result of the recent election and
the antd-Rooscvelt demonstration by the
present Congress, the President has defi-
nitely made up his mind that he would
not receive the nomination for q third
time. To avoid q showdown at the next
convention he has made q thinly yelled
admission Of his defeat by suggesting
that successor prepare for the event,
50 that he can say In the end he did
not expect or desire another term-of
course, unless his followers forced It
upon him. FRIsBEY GILBERT.
February B.
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