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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12
Ship Owners PLIGHT

President Roosevelt has put for
ward a three-point plan designed to
aid seamen beached by the Neutrality
Act and ship owners whose business
has been destroyed or curtailed as a
result of the adoption of that legisla-
ton.
Whatever the result of the effort
to provide relief for American ship
ping from the consequences of neu-
trality measures, there is an imme-
date and pressing problem to be
dealt with in the thousands of Amer
lean seamen who have found them
selves out of work. In recognition
of the urgency of the situation the
President quite properly has acted
promptly in cooperation with the
leaders of the maritime unions to aid
the ship workers, for there can be no
question about the Governments
obligation to make some provision
for them.
Similar arrangements also should
NC llldOC III OllC Sll1p OW1lClS VIII
are faced with loss as the result of
the Nations determination to avoid
incidents which might embroil the
United States in war. 1t is in the
national interest that these ships
stay out of belligerent waters; it is a
national responsibility to make some
compensation for their losses.
Exactly what means will be found
to do this remains uncertain. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has suggested the
possibility of using some of the idle
vessels for Government transport
purposes in shipping of strategic
materials which the Government is
importing from various parts of the
world and of rubber and tin imported
under the barter deal with Great
Britain. Inasmuch as practically all
these goods come from outside the
war zone there should be no difficulty
in utilizing American shipping for
their transportation.
Senator Wheeler of Montana in a
speech Friday night at New York
advocated reimbursement of ship
owners as we'll as seamen for losses
incident to the Neutrality Act, and
suggested that earnings for the past
ten years might be used as a basis
for computing compensation. Cash
reimbursement might also be con-
sidered.
There is also the prospect of diver
sion of vessels to the Latin American
service, if the expected increase in
trade with our sister republics of the
Americas materializes. These pos
sibilities for expanding mutual trade
between the Americas will be con-
sidered by the Pan American Com
mittee on Economic Corporation,
opening it's sessions here Wednesday.
AS the readjustment to war condi-
tons goes on and some ships find
employment in other than European
trade, the net effect upon American
ship owners will be more definitely
revealed. Whatever it finally is
found to be, the Government should
plan to take appropriate compensa-
tory action, for it has vital interest
In the preservation of the American
merchant marine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12
ARMISTICE DAY, 1889
BY the Right Req. James E. Freeman D, IL. d. D. c. L..
Bishop of WASHINGTON.

The 21st anniversary Of Armistice Day
finds America true to its pledged faith.
Our Western World still pursues the
pathway Of peace. It still believes that
the council chamber, with the employ
ment Of pacific and equitable measures,
is superior to the arbitrament Of arms and
the undecisivc methods of the battlefield.
It continues to believe in the validity and
binding power Of treaties and adheres
with scrupulous fidelity to interna-
tional agreements consistently entered
into. Beyond its broad and fertile do
main 1t covets not the territory of any
nation, and lives in amity and peace
with neighbors, near and far. Long cher
ished have been the hopes and expecta-
tons Of our people that new age was at
hand, an age where happiness and pros
perity, order and peace should be the
rich and inalienable rights and privileges
of men and women everywhere. The
very skill and ingenuity of the inventor
and mechanic had so far advanced the
closer knitting of the ties of comrade-
ship, had so promoted the means of COM
munlcatlon, that recourse to arms
seemed increasingly improbable. Here
in this Western World the peoples Of
North and South America had advanced
so far a community of common inter-
ests that frontiers were undefended and
armies and navies furnished the means
for finer expression OF mutual admira-
ton and good will. A Pan-American
union and a sense of kinship with the
peoples of Canada made unnecessary a
constabulary, saving only for the promo
ton OF interests common and identical.
The two Americas, North and South had
tons; neither rivers, seas nor mountain
ranges divided peoples bent upon the in
crease of fraternity and better under
standing of each others needs. Here
indeed had come at last demonstration
Of the ideal given to mankind by the
Prince OF Peace: Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself."
This is Armistice Sunday here in
America, sheltered America, but it cam
not be an America unconcerned and I'M
moved by the course Of events in Europe.
1t is an America that must continue to
be neutral in word and act, but it cannot
be an America immune to the ills of
other peoples
This is a time when we are compelled
to look to our weaknesses and vices and
to set our own house in order-to set it
in order. not alone that our own inter-
ests may be served, but that we may be
in a position to serve disillusioned and
distracted peoples everywhere America S
role must be that of the Good Samaritan.
Such a role calls for reafdrmation OF
the faith and ideals upon which the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12
A Great Ship Hunt

throughout Inc Vastly QeepS' OF
the North and South Atlantic great
ship hunt is in progress. Europe's
five most powerful men of War-the
British battle cruisers Hood, Repulse
and RenoWn, assisted by the French
battleships Dunquerque and Stras-
bourg-are engaged in a day-and-
night vigil to drive Germany's two
raiding pocket" battleships, the Adj
miral Scheer and the Deutschland,
off the seas. The German vessels
slipped through the British blockade
last month and, because of their
speed and heavy armament, remain
a menace of utmost magnitude to
allied and neutral shipping. 1t was
the Deutschland which captured the
City of Flint while she was en- route
to Manchester, put prize crew
aboard her and precipitated an inter-
national controversy which involved
five powers-''neutral" Soviet Russia,
belligerent Germany and Great
Britain, and the noncombatant
United States and Norway.
The allied navies' attempt to round
up the Admiral Scheer and the
Deutschland revives the heroic odys-
sey of the imperial German fleets
celebrated raiding cruiser Emden.
Few, if any, records in naval annals
compare with the achievements of
that far ranging cruiser, whose
sphere Of operations comprehended
the seven seas. It happens to be
exactly twenty-five years ago this
week that that gallant will-o'~ the
wisp was destroyed in a desperate
battle in the Indian Ocean by the
Australian cruiser Sydney, thus end
ing one of the most romantic chap
tiers in the World War.
Emden's feats were such as to JUS
tify the old saw that truth indeed is
stranger than fiction. Before the
little cruisers flag was hauled down
she had in fewer than one hundred
days captured or sunk twenty-seven
vessels and eluded a grim and re-
morseless search by warships of Brit
ain, France, Japan and Russia At
one stage of her glamorous career
Emden was being chased by seven
teen allied armed craft. Not the
least of the cruisers fame sprang
from the knightly conduct of her
commander, Captain Karl Won Muel-
Ter. who treated captured seamen
with unfailing courtesy. Britain
came to honor his memory almost as
much as Germany did.
The task of capturing and Destroy
ing the Admiral Scheer and the
Deutschland promises to be much
harder nut to crack because of their
far greater mobility and capacity for
dealing out punishment to assail-
ants. Either or both of the pocket
battleships would be no match for
the 42,5O0 ton British Hood - the
worlds greatest warship-or for the
26,500ton French battleships taking
part in the pursuit. Should the Ger
man raiders meet up in squadron
strength with any or all of the allied
warships a spectacular naval engage
ment would almost inevitably ensue.
The allies are throwing against the
German raiders the same prepon-
derance Of overwhelming power
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12
Strikes and Lockouts

Denial of unemployment benefits
to employees of the Chrysler Corpora
ton on the ground that these funds
cannot be used in financing a labor
dispute" is plainly in line with the
law of the State of Michigan, and the
policy involved may be expected to
receive public appreciation in cases
where it can be demonstrated that
the employees stopped work of their
own volition in connection with a
labor dispute.
The fundamental purpose Of pro-
viding unemployment compensation
Is to alleviate the distress of those
who have lost their jobs as result
of circumstances over which they
have no control. Negotiators in the
Chrysler dispute have been dead
locked for more than a month. Pay
ment of unemployment benefits
would cost about $4,000 week and
1t requires no great flight of the i'm
agination to conceive of a situation
in which all funds available for bene-
fit payments might quickly be con-
sumed in payments to strikers.
1t is worthy of note, however, that
in this case dispute exists as to
whether the employees are on strike
or have been locked out. The Michi-
gan Unemployment Compensation
Commission ruled that under the ex-
listing State law, which bars pay
ments when unemployment is due
to "a labor dispute" it is immaterial
whether there exists in fact strike
or a lockout, and consequently no
finding was made on this point.
That apparently is correct inter-
probation Of the law, but if the dis
pute ultimately is to be submitted to
the voters OF Michigan, as is likely to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12

be the case, they should consider
carefully whether, while properly
denying benefits to strikers, the stat
ute should not be amended so as to
permit payments in cases where it
can be established that employees
have been locked out through no
fault of their own. In this particular
case the evidence seems to refute the
unions claim that its members were
locked out by the corporation, but it
does not follow from that that grave
injustices will not result in the future
If no distinction is to be made be-
tween voluntary and involuntary
work Stoppages.
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which eventually spelled the doom
of Won Spec at the Falkland Islands
after that German admiral at Coro-
mel had dispatched Cradock's Brit
ish cruiser squadron. But the ATTAIN
tic is long and wide, the German
ships are swift, their armament is
heavy, their commanders and sea-
men skillful and resourceful. It
would be the height of unwisdQm to
hazard the guess that the raiders
doom Is either imminent CT certain.
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Capital Side|ights
By viii P. Kennedy

An autographed sonnet written in the
Adams-"To the Muse of History-Over
the Clock in the Hall of the House of
Representatives" June 5, 1910, has
just been found and hung by Repre-
sentative Sol Bloom Of New York in his
Office as chairman of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee. The clock is one of
the treasured art works in the Capitol,
over the doorway in what has in recent
years been known as Statuary Hall 1t
was in this chamber that John Quincy
Adams was stricken at his desk and died
in an adjoining room, now occupied by
South Trimble, clerk of the House, on
February %, 1848. The verses are:
Historic muse! who from thy winged
Pursuest thy rapid and unwearied
flight;
Recording all that passes in thy sight,
And all thou nearest of the wordy war,
The wit, the wisdom, the conflicting jar
OF ranting, raving parties, day and
night
Beneath the sunbeams or the taper
light
The frantic reason of this wandering
Star.
Oh! Muse historic-in thy march sub
lime
Still urging onward on the wheels of
Time,
Canst thou not whisper to the chosen
band,
But for one day to calm their senseless
rage.
And let thy volume bear one blessed
page
OF deeds devoted to their native land
The Car of History is beautiful sculp-
tural work by Carlo Franzoni 1t is
claimed that his niece, then popular in
Washington society. posed for the figure
of History. The statuary was completed
in 1919 and soon after that the sculptor
died of heart failure while saving cord
wood for exercise in the cellar of his
home.
Secretary of State, wrote to Charles
Bulfinch offering him the post OF archi-
tect of the public buildings at salary
OF $500. He was the son of the second
President and father of Charles Francis
Adams. He served as Senator, Repre-
sentative and President, was member
of the commission that negotiated the
Treaty of Client, was Minister to England
and negotiated the convention of COM
merce with Great Britain. After he had
been President he served eight terms in
Congress.
The Bankheads of Alabama, true to q
family tradition, are in this hiatus of
Congress devoting themselves to the in
terests of the farmers of this Nation who
have been stricken during recent months
by flood, drought and insect pests. These
two brothers-Senator John H. Bank
head and Speaker William B. Bankhead
are pointed out by Senator Lister Hill,
also of Alabama, as outstanding national
leaders of the farmers cause. Their
father, the late Senator John H. Bank
head was farmer who served in both
the House and Senate, and. was known
as father of good roads" because he
sponsored the parent law authorizing
Federal aid for highway construction.
He also was father of the rural free de-
livery system which brought the daily
mails to every farm homestead through
out the. country. The present Senator
Bankhead throughout his nine years
service in succession to his fathers seat
has majored on farm problems, and last
year called conference of Senators
from States affected by the drought,
flood and weevil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12

Those rugged individualists who
leave their party and come down the
hard way on a peak like Mount
Washington might consider for mo-
ment the time, energy and hardships
of the half hundred or more rangers
and volunteers called out to hunt
them over a few thousand frozen
acres
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12

John Martin, dance critic for the
metropolitan press, urges Govern
ment subsidization of the dance. It
would appear that the Government
has enough iitterbugs in its higher
inches now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12

A prankster in North Wilkesboro,
N. c., drained from a big tank the
entire water supply of a section Of
the town. A good sentence for him,
when apprehended, might be to make
him fill it up again with a bucket,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12

A good rib-saver for mature males
crossing busy intersections. is to get
directly behind a member of the
opposite sex and let her run inter-
ference for him. Ladies do not often
jostle oncoming ladies, but they show
little mercy for mere man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12

Perhaps the pluck shown by the
Firms may be due In a degree to the
fact that their consciences are clear.
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things and the studies follow much the
same line save that the emphasis Is
placed on ordnance rather than on horse
and foot. The course now Is 10 months
and graduates are commissioned in the
Royal Artillery, the Royal Engineers or
the Royal Corps of Signals.
The abandonment or suspension of the
system represented by these schools is
far more drastic step than would be the
abandonment of West Point in the United
States, because the United States never
has had anything like the old British
Army system.
In earlier times the colonel of a regi-
ment owned his, regiment and hired it
to the King. He received so much per
man and so much for supplies. He
expected to make substantial profits and
almost always did so. While the regi-
ment ownership system expired more
than a century ago, still regimental
officers had many perquisites, and 1t was
not until 1873 that an army reorgan-
ization act put an end to the buying
and selling of army commissions. A man
might have important qualifications, but
he could not get commission until he
bought it from the government On the
other hand, if a commissioned officer
wanted to retire, he had an asset and
could sell his commission for a good
round sum. All that is gone now, but,
nevertheless, Sandhurst and Woolwich
men occupied social position of very
high standing. With this fresh democra-
tization. that is gone. too. Whether
there ever will be a restoration will
depend, probably. on how long the war
lasts and its issue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12

"oA tlA-lo ClldI tIllS country mas refused
to accept goods from abroad in exchange
for its own goods. The American people.
through their Congress, have baked at
the idea of improving their standard of
living by taking more British clothing,
more French linen, more of many other
products of foreign industry in payment
for American products that these coun-
tries required.
Gold that can be buried seems much
more desirable to Congressman than
goods that can be enjoyed.
At any rate, in wartime belligerent
nations would have difficulty supplying a
surplus of goods to pay for the things
they need, so that this method of pay
ment is difficult, if not impossible.
But Britain and France do have i'm
portant investments, representing own
ership Of producing industries that the
United States might absorb with profit
IN exchange for the products of Ameri-
can industry and agriculture.
British investments within the United
States and Canada still are substantial
and those In Latin America are large.
Sale Of securities representing ownership
in these industries can be made within
the United States to American interests,
yielding dollars that then would be
available to buy goods.
This very process in fact, is going on
at present on a moderate scale.
However, so long as Britain can ex-
change gold Of highly doubtful future
value for American products of high
degree of usefulness and of high prac-
tical value, this method OF exchange will
be most widely used. In the end, Uncle
Sam will hold the bag and viii wonder
what to do with 1t. -s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-25
APPOINTMENT OF
ELLIS ANNOUNCED
NEW ASSISTANT ATTORNEY
GENERAL TO ASSUME
DUTIES AT ONCE

TALLAHASSEE, Jan. Is. -
Ems Attorney General George
c. Gibbs has announced the ap-
pointment of Thomas J. Ellis of
Miami as a new assistant attor-
ney general. Ellis is expected to
take over his duties here imme-
diately. He will succeed William
P. Allen of Barlow, who is going
into private practice with j.
Velma Keen of this city.
Ellis has made name for HIM
self as a brilliant young lawyer.
1t was he who handled the legal
work of incorporating Miami
Shores Village, Florida's fastest
growing town, which last year
led every city in the state with a
gain of 96 per cent in new con-
struction. He was educated at
Washington & Lee University,
and at Washington University in
st. Louis.
The legal firm of Clark & Ellis,
which was formed in 1929 at Mi
ami. will be dissolved in order
that Ellis may assume his new
position at once.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-25
MOTORCYCLE OF
EASTERN ASSN.
MADE UP OF MOSQUITO
CONTROL. WORKERS
FROM NEW YORK

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. 25
FNS).-A motorcade of mem
bers of the Eastern Association of
Mosquito Control Workers from
New York, New Jersey and Della
ware, are making a tour of Flor
ida to inspect the outstanding
salt marsh work being done here.
The Florida State Board of Health
headquarters at Jacksonville re-
ports that the visitors will also
spend considerable time at re-
search laboratories in the state,
especially at those conducted by
the Volusia County Mosquito
Control Board at New Smyrna,
the u. S. Bureau of Entomology
at Orlando and the U. S. Public
Health Service at Miami.
The visitors are being accom-
panied through the state by Rus
sell Broughman of Jacksonville,
secretary-treasurer of the Florida
Anti-Mosquito Association and as
sistant engineer of the Florida
State Board of Health, and DR.. w.
B. King, director of the U. S. lab
oratory at Orlando.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-25
SOCIAL CALENDAR

THURSDAY
Everready Star Club all day quilting party 10 Residence
of Mrs G. N. Goshorn.
Meeting Key West Lions Club, Stone Church Annex $50 p
Concert by Key West Hospitality Band Bayvew
Rotary Club meeting 1915 m. ST PauPs Annex.
First Winter Meeting of Pan American Poetry Society with
dian program scheduled. Open to winter visitors
Residence of Mrs Eva B. Warner, Division street.
Fleming Street Church Brotherhood Club 74
William
WomanS Club social meeting with Miss
Ketchings and Miss Camille Pierce. p Woman's
Clubhouse
FRIDAY
Song and Dramatic Recital by Edward Brigham, basso
Convent of Mary Immaculate.
meeting honorng matron and 1880
m. Scottish Rite Temple.
SATURDAY,
President Roosevelt Birthday Ball. 9:30 Raus Club.
SUNDAY
Key West Hospitality Band Art Center Park
--ONDAY-
Regular Club meeting to winter visitors 730
m. Art Center.
tuesday, ~.
Church Service Club to winter visitors 500
m Church Annex. Ets9Fax 81 isxst6A {5f
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-25
PRAISES WORK
OF EXHIBITOR
MRS. HAZEL MALONEY is
DEMONSTRATING FOR
KEY WEST

Letters from Orlando, where
the exhibit of handicraft speci-
mems are on exhibition, prove
gratifying to those who have re-
ceived them as they evidence the
appreciation of the work done in
Key West. One letter in particu-
lar, from Mrs. Ruth B. Owens,
area supervisor of the Division of
Women's and Professional prof.
jects, is extremely interesting.
key West, she writes, should
be very proud of Mrs. Hazel Ma
loney could the people there
see how well she is demonstrate
ing the exhibits from Key West,
Everyone is interested in our
crafts. The exhibit is really very
good.
Wish that every one could see
it and see Mrs. Maloney giving
her demonstrations Tell the
county commissioners and the
city council that we are making
good use of our every opportun-
ity".
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-25
Seminole Authority
Speaks Tomorrow

Pan-American Poetry Society,
which will meet at 7:30 p. m. at
the residence of Mrs. Eva B.
Warner on Division street Thurs
day night is expected to be bril-
liant gathering.
Deaconess Harriet M. Bedell of
Everglades, Fla, who is an au-
thority on the Seminole Indians,
has been secured as the principal
speaker. Theme of the talk will
be on a comparison of the ST.
honey Indian of Cuba and the
Seminole of Florida.
A musical program in accord
with the address will also be pre-
sented.
Miss Marie Cappick, we'll
known author and poet, is presi-
dent of the Society. Winter visi-
tors and the tcitizenry of Key
West are invited.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-25
RETURN FROM
STATION WORK
OTHERS COME BACK WITH
CARL ROM, RADIO
ELECTRICIAN

Carl w. Rom, radio electrician
connected with the lighthouse
service in Key West, who had
been making the required chang
es in intensity of the light at
American Shoals, returned Mon
day afternoon on Power Boat
81 of the lighthouse departments
Seventh District Fleet.
The lights, both white and red,
are now in operation, the white
having been raised from 10000
candlepower to 100000 and the
red light from $4,000 candlepower
to $1,000.
Returning on the boat with Mr..
Rom were additional keeper John
N. Roberts, who had been assist
ing inF the Identification of the
light, and keeper r. c. Roberts.
who is home for his regular
quarterly leave of absence.