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Evening star., 1939-08-23

water speeding; Sir Malcolm Camp
bell, who also turned to motor boat
ing and who attained an average
speed of 141.74 miles an hour on
water only few days ago; Capt.
George E. T. EySton, present official
world land record holder, and Cobb.
Only the last three of these men have
gone faster than five miles minute.
Campbell did it first in 1885 with his
mark of 301 miles an hour, Eyston
followed in 1887 with 311 miles an
hour. Last year Eyston and Cobb
engaged in a duel for speed honors,
Eyston registering first with 345
miles an hour, Cobb exceeding this
figure by five miles an hour and Eys-
ton coming right back with the world
record of 357.5 miles an hour.
What inspires these drivers to risk
their necks in such attempts to get
nowhere so fast? Can any good come
of the seemingly useless and fool
hardy noncompetitive dashes over
the saline wastes in Utah? Officials
of the American Automobile Associa-
ton, which times the events, say
that these Britishers are wealthy
sportsmen with no mercenary mo-
tives or other incentives beyond an
overwhelming craving for speed rec
ords. But from their experiments
with power plants, body designs,
steering mechanisms, wheels, brakes
and tires have come numerous re-
finements and even revolutionary
improvements in slower types of
motor vehicles. One tire manufac-
turer, for example, has developed
heavy-duty truck tire based on wear
and stress observed during studies at
the Bonneville salt course. Truck
tires embodying the new principles
will be able to take more punish
ment, thus contributing to economy
of operation and to accident preven-
ton, as we'll. Methods OF streamlin-
ing have been revised in recent years
as direct result of observations on
racing car performance Carburetors,
bearings and other component parts
of an automobile have benefited from
the "foolhardiness" of the speed
demons. Back in 1898 the attempts
of the Frenchman, Laubut, to reach
speed of forty miles an hour was
considered the height of folly. Per-
haps it is worse folly to scott at the
seekers after greater speeds-for
whether these daredevils intend to
do so or not, they are making valu-
able contributions to mans knowl-
edge in the vastly important and re-
lated realms of automotive engineer
ing and highway safety.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
"QUANTICO, VA.

Dear Sir:
Your articles in The Star are always
enjoyed by me, and your fund of in
formation seems unlimited.
II wonder If you could tell me what
to do for disease which my cosmos
plants have. They had it last year in
Washington and I notice it starting this
year here.
I'm the crotch appears white sub
stance which looks like spit.
After month or more. the stem of
the plants gets white and lifeless and
the plant dies. friend told me it was
called 'spitbug, but he did not know
what to do for it.
Il tried tobacco dust, but it did not
help. With many thanks for all past
and any future help you might give me,
I am
Yours sincerely, L. P. B."
The spittle bug has been particularly
active in and around Washington this
summer
1t seems to have a curious sort of
cycle. Some years it will deal destruction
to thousands of plants, with emphasis
on cosmos, its favorite host, then the
next year it will seem to disappear.
The cosmos, long a garden favorite.
is the plant which suffers the most
attacks from this little-known pest.
The insect, which is very small, sucks
the juices from the plant, and while
doing SO exudes a Shiny stuff which gives
1t the name spittle bug, or spit bug
The slime is thrown out to protect
the creature by concealing it. This is
one of natures many curious tricks, and
one which, like so many of hers, is not
altogether effective, for it calls attention
to the 'beastie" where otherwise its
smallness might permit 1t to escape I'M
seen until its nefarious work was done.
The only remedy is to dust with a
powder containing derris, one of the
poisonous ingredients sometimes found
in flea powders
Probably a good flea powder which
contained a sufficient amount of derris
(about l per cent. for it is extremely
poisonouS would do the work. but there
are on the market several preparations
containing it, made especially for dust
ing on plants. Cube, another poison, is
in the same general category as derris.
Some of these things come from the
Philippines, where they were evolved by
the natives to poison arrows. Most of
them are purely vegetable" which
means that they can be about as poison
GUS as anything else in the world.
A little of these go long way, that
is why the powder used is practically
the whole thing, with just enough of
the derris incorporated to do the work.
Tobacco dust and such things do
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Mr.. Lusk Corrects
Satisfied Tenants" Statistics.

To the Editor Of The Star
Last week The Star published a letter
signed Satisfied Tenant" t"-may his or
her tribe increase-in which it was
stated that in speech to the Cosmopoli-
tan Club said that there is about IL %
vacancy in houses and apartments in the
District, that at the present rate vacan-
cies will perhaps amount to 17eo by
November 1st."
I made no such statement before the
Cosmopolitan Club or in any other place.
II is so far from the actual facts as to be
ridiculous. Were it true there would be
today about $4,000 empty houses and
apartments in the District alone and
$4,000 by November 1st, and this is
conservative estimate.
I do not have an exact figure for the
vacancy in all residential types of dwell
ings, but it probably does not exceed 4Gc.
1t may be higher by November list, but
any overall increase will probably not
exceed 1T.
Because this misQuotation has received
considerable notice, it is requested that
you publish this letter.
Very truly yours,
RUFUS S. LUSK.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Meeting the Challenge

The prompt and determined meas
ures taken by the British and French
governments in the wake of an
nouncement of the German-Soviet
non-aggression pact will have a salu-
tary effect upon Europe's critical sit
uation, but whether this demonstra-
ton of preparedness to meet the
challenge of Germany, with Russia
neutralized, will stave off the i'm
pending disaster is uncertain.
British and French cabinet meet
ings yesterday produced display OF
strength which should convince
Chancellor Hitler that his spectacu-
lar diplomatic coup by no means
intimidated the governments at
Paris and London if that was, as
suggested in some quarters, its pur-
pose. They absorbed the shock with
no evidence of weakness or hesita-
ton.
First and foremost of the counter
measures was the summoning of the
British Parliament to assemble tomor-
row to act on a government request
for virtual dictatorial powers to meet
the emergency, the kind of powers
with which the government of Pre-
mier Daladier is already invested.
Complementary to this was the re-
affirmation in clear and unequivocal
terms of the British pledge to assist
Poland's defense, the summoning of
100000 reservists by France and Brit
ish mobilization of 100000 soldiers,
sailors, flyers and civil defense per-
Sonnel.
The democracies were taken un-
awares by Russia's sudden shift to
negotiations with Germany at mo-
ment of difficulty in the Anglo
French diplomatic and military dis
cussion, but they were not so stunned
that they were unable to meet it with
sweeping measures of their own.
Britain and France have shown
themselves coldly realistic in acting
on the assumption that, even if the
diplomatic and staff talks should pro-
ceed in Moscow, there is now no room
for Russian participation in the stop
Hitler" peace front.
Although Britain has reasserted
her pledge of assistance to the Poles
she is confronted with inexorable
geographical difficulties in protecting
Polish territory from German con-
quest. Poland relies upon itself
for the defense of its land. Britain
and France are painfully aware that
a military conquest of Poland, as
dramatic and tragic as it might be
in itself, would in the long run be
merely incidental to what would
follow. Their retaliatory moves,
whatever form they might be, would
be exerted elsewhere.
Although the hour is late the ex-
plosion is not yet inevitable. The
calamity could be STAYED off by two
methods, new appeasement or de-
termined show of strength. Britain
and France have chosen the latter.
Evening star., 1939-08-23

interchange Of the worlds products
is desirable and of too great i'm
portance to suffer dislocation at each
instance of diplomatic "misunder-
standing" In fact, in both Great
Britain and the United States there
is no statutory provision by which
this commerce might be interrupted
in peacetime. When and If peace
gives way to war, however, it is
equally obvious that termination of
such exchanges should be immedi-
ate and complete.
Meanwhile, continuance of this
commerce quite probably will be of
great military significance.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
AGRICULTURAL Exemptions

The section of the Fair Labor
Standards Act exempting agricul-
tural workers from its provisions has
presented the Wage and Hour Divi-
sion with one of its nicer problems,
deciding when persons who work
with agricultural products become
industrial laborers subject to the acts
requirements. This borderline is diff
cult to discern, but Administrator
Andrews attempts to fix it with his
Interpretive Bulletin No. Ia. 1t dis
closes, for instance, that those who
feed livestock down on the farm are
exempt from the acts demands for
maximum working week and min
imum pay, while those who feed live
stock at the stockyards receive the
acts protection.
Again, workers engaged in produc-
ing and then distilling oleoresin to
make gum resin and gum turpen-
tine are exempted, But, says the bull
letin, "if turpentine and resin are
derived in any other manner, as by
digging up pine stumps and grind
ing them or by distilling the turpen-
tine with steam from the oleoresin
within or extracted from wood, as
distinguished from the living tree,
the exemption is inapplicable to the
employees engaged in such opera
tions." A vegetable grader is exempt.
A vegetable peeler is not exempt.
The Barden amendment to the
Fair Labor Standards Act presented
to Congress last session would have
greatly widened the agricultural ex-
emptions. Administrator Andrews
objected to the proposed amendment,
and his interpretive Bulletin No. IA
indicates that he has drawn the line
of exemptions for farm laborers as
fine as possible. There are times,
however, when this line wanders so
OBVIOUSLY and inexplicably that to
the layman it has the appearance
OF worm fence. Workers on a
worm fence, incidentally, would
probably not be exempt Sitters on
worm fence would be exempted.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1DeH.
absolutely no good with such insects
as the spittle bug.

absolutely no good with such insects
as the spittle bug.
Il
All dusts, of whatever nature, must be
continuously applied to be effective.
Not only that, but the dust must be
put on completely each time.
Dusting with the so-called Massy dust
for black spot of roses must be every
week, at least, and oftener, if rain in
tervenes
AS to the best time to dust plants,
that is matter Of dispute. We have
seen solemn injunctions to dust right
after rain, and in the morning when
the dew is on plants. Sometimes other
times of day are advocated.
The important thing, however, is not
so much the time of day, as the COM
pleteness with which the job is done.
Often the undersides of leaves are
missed, and that is just where the pest
goes. Even the tiny aphids, or plant
lice, have real intelligence, and run
around to the underside of leaves every
time, where they are just as safe as If
place.
In going after the spittle bug, all
crotches of a cosmos plant should be
busted, on general principles, with stress
laid of spots where the sticky emulation
is apparent.
Inspection should be made the next
day. If there is evidence of fresh exu-
date, more powder should be applied at
once.
Fresh poWdering after a rain is essen
tial, since the previous powder has been
washed away
Powders containing the derris deriva-
tive work by giving the pest something
to eat. So he must be kept plentifully
supplied, not only to take care of him but
of his increase.
There is no question but that the care
OF garden ornamentals becomes more
arduous year by year.
Every so often a new enemy arises In
the garden, to chew this or that plant
to pieces, or to ruin its root system.
Now the Japanese beetle is spreading
slowly but surely, authorities tell US,
despite all the efforts made to control it.
Various dusts have been used, but some
of them ruin the fertility of the soil on
which they are placed
An insect enemy of the beetle has been
imported from Japan, and is said TO give
the best results in control to date, but
who knows what plants will be harmed
in turn by the natural enemy of the
japanese beetle?
Recognition of the enemy at work is
the first step in control of any enemy or
pest The next is to know the proper
remedy The next is to apply it. And
the fourth, let us insist, is to apply it
persistently
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Wants More Work
For Old People.
To the Editor of The Star.

I have long been a firm believer m
democracy as the best form of govern
ment for the people, but we still have
long way to travel to convince all the
people that it is the best. This is due
in large part in this country to the
manhandling of the constitutional rights
of citizens under the Constitution of
the United States
All citizens of the United States are
supposed to have equal rights under the
Constitution, but with the advent of the
machine age the civil rights of the
people have taken a great setback, under
our form of democracy where justice no
longer exists when it comes to employ
ment of older men in competition with
the younger ones. The older men are
grossly Disseminated against by both the
government and industry.
I do not believe in age limits, I believe
a man or woman who is mentally and
physically able to work should be given
employment and not placed on Govern
ment or State relief rolls.
w. H. JEFFREY.
Norfolk, Va.
August 10.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
OId-Aqe Benefits

chairman Altmeyer OF the Social
Security Board made an important
point in his National Radio Forum
discussion of Social Security Act
changes by stressing the necessity
of maintaining the old-age insur-
ance system on basis where it will
be free of the something for nothing
taint.
The clanor of the ToWnsendites
and allied schools whose ideas on
adequate pensions are limited only
by very elastic imagination was re-
sponSible in no small degree for the
liberalized benefits that will become
available to superannuated wage
earners by reason of the new social
security legislation. 1t is with timely
force therefore that Chairman Alt
meyer "adorns a tale" by explaining
why eligibility requirements have
been frightened as a compensating
factor.
"The new eligibility requirements"
he says, "are an attempt to solve the
fundamental problem that arises in
the early years of any contributory
social insurance syStem-namely, to
provide benefits that are reasonably
adequate and at the same time in
sure, as the system natures, a rea-
sonable relationship between con-
tributions and earnings on the one
hand and benefits on the other hand.
This is essential if we are to attain
in this country self-earned rather
than a paternalistic form of social
security
He might have added at this point,
too, that far more stability will be
lent to the social security structure
if it is the product of the self-de-
pendence of the people.
Pertinent in this connection is Mr..
Altmeyer's defense of the insurance
plan as now conceived against
charges that it tends to discourage
initiative and thrift. Instead, as he
emphasizes, it is designed solely to
afford a minimum basic security to
the individual or the family-"a
backlog so to speak"
That is sound principle that
never should be lost sight of.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Rain

Who has known rain along a city street
Has seen the giant buildings blurred
expanse
Enwrapped in fringed, gray shawls, as
paupers dance,
Yet shaking gold of lights to passers' feet.
Who has known city rain has likely seen
The sun of daffodils against the gray
In flower carts vendor wheels away
A thin-clad vendor, stopped and old and
lean.
But, oh, in country lanes the rain NAV
drip
through aspen trees, where rustling
leaves unfurl,
And waken from wet moss an earthly
smell.
Or, in some forest lodge man may sip
The brew of rain that seeps through
pines to pearl,
Besides an ebon lake, white asphodel.
BARBARA sCHNnTT WHITNEY.
Evening star., 1939-08-23

like herd of cattle being piloted by
hired hands over a railroad crossing.
AS motorists We have had altogether
too many unpleasant experiences with
the police and traffic courts, being ticket
ed and penalized for infractions of minor
traffic rules. AS pedestrians We were
immune from such interference until
the adoption of the pedestrian traffic
regulation. That the regulation is doing
the greatest number of people some
good goes without saying Evidently it
is the motorists who are the bene-
hclaries for pamphlet published by
the American Automobile Association
declares that motorists can move eight
times faster in city traffic than persons
afoot. ANNETTE Joyce
August 21.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Business As Usual

Frequent reports during and after
the World War period that with the
knowledge of all concerned there
had been a continuing exchange
among belligerent nations of essen
tial war supplies never failed to cause
a measure of surprise among those
who believed that state of war was
one of complete and unrelaxed hos
tility.
1t seemed incongruous, for in
stance, that the warning govern
ments could close their eyes to the
sale by their producers or manufac-
turers of the very supplies which
might be dealing death from the op-
posing lines to their own soldiers.
That such exchange took place, even
If through supposedly neutral third
party, ranks among wars contradic-
tions. The apparent inviolability of
headquarters of the rival high COM
mands> during heavy artillery fire and
destructive air raids might be cited
as comparable phenomenon.
Yet as all Europe strains its every
resource to prepare itself for another
war, similar developments are being
reported daily.
From London, for instance, comes
the news that German purchases of
British-owned, rubber and copper
have speeded up noticeably since the
first of August, that delivery dead
lines of September l have been set
for most transactions, and that the
drain upon Britain's own available
supplies of these very essential war
time commodities has reduced them
to less than seventy per cent of stocks
on hand three years ago.
At the same time, German pur-
chases of oil, copper, scrap iron,
aluminium and other valued supplies
available in the United States like
wise have held to high rate.
Obviously. of course, the orderly
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Render Unto Caesar

Discussions of sociological and eco
nomic problems of modern living in
the sessions of the summer school
of Catholic Action in Washington
reflect trend in democracy as con-
ceiyed by Americans which can bring
new strength to the principles of
popular sovereignty in world rap
idly dividing between state socialism
and autocracy.
The proposals made at the meet
ings at the Mayfower, particularly
those suggesting the formation of
lay organizations of church men,
bers in each community to discuss
local problems and assume leader
ship in social action, are similar to
those undertaken by groups within
various other organized religions, by
leading interdenominational or
ganizations such as the Federal
Council of Churches, and by several
extra = denominational groups. In
regard to the Catholic Church,
this trend is a complement to the
decision of the American hierarchy
year ago to incorporate into the
currlcula of the church's schools a
greater emphasis on the Christian
concept of the duties of citizenship
and the moral obligations of the
individual in his relation to the
state.
This is to be the theme of the Will
Jamestown Institute of Human Rela-
tions, which opens next week at
Williams College: citizenship and
Religion-a Consideration of Amer
lean Policy With Regard to the Rela-
tions of Church and Synagogue to
the State"
American democracy represents
one of the great strongholds of the
middle way in political thought. 1t
is the straight route to individual
liberty through popular government
rather than a compromise between
complete subjection of the individual
to the state, and complete and final
sovereignty of the popular will. 1t
represents the sovereignty of the
people tempered by justice and moral
right, or, in specific sense, by what
is frequently referred to as the Chris
tlan code, although the same moral
law is adhered to in it's general
aspects by Judaism as we'll as by
Christianity. This trend cannot be
referred to as new. 1t is one which
has guided many thinkers in their
studies of social and political prob
lens. In a restricted sense it led the
Pilgrims to their haven of Protes-
tantism in Massachusetts,, and it led
the Catholics of st. Marys to their
haven in Maryland. 1t is the general
ity of the trend, rather than it's
novelty, which makes it significant
at this time.
If individual liberty is to exist, it
must receive its strength from a
sound understanding of its true
principles by the individual it pro-
tects. 1t must be protected alike
from the sword of totalitarianism
and the torch of mass immortality.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Bar Association President
Praises Star Editorial.
To the Editor of The Star:

Permit me to express appreciation on
behalf of the Bar Association of the
District of Columbia, and myself as WELL
for the splendid editorial appearing in
your today's issue entitled "A Necessary
Change"
The writer of this editorial shows
fundamental and thorough concept of
the situation, as we'll as thorough
knowledge of it.
Being native Washingtonian, and
having spent my entire life here, feel
that the city of Washington is fortunate
in having The Evening Star. The paper
has always stood for the best interests
of Washington and for all reforms which
appear to be for the good of the entire
community SETON DARR,
President, Bar Association of the
District of Columbia.
August 81.
Evening star., 1939-08-23

According to science, each mood
aroused by various sorts of music has
corresponding color" Some Of
the more modern compositions are
equivalent to little more than spots
before the eyes.
Evening star., 1939-08-23

A western attorney declares that
f1rewater returns Indians to their
primitive state" 1t does far worse
than that; in their primitive state,
according to most early explorers,
they were pretty good guys.
Evening star., 1939-08-23

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the use for republication Of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
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herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1939-08-23
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