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Evening star., 1939-07-19
Angus McNeiIl Was Well
Known Is CartOOnist.
To the Editor Of The Star,

To the Editor Of The Star:
Last Sundays Star carried an Asso-
ciated Press account of the death of
Angus McNeill in a Chicago hospital
Saturday. Mr. McNeill had high rating
as a newspaper cartoonist in New York,
Louisville, New Orleans and Washington.
For 20 years or more before his en-
forced retirement some II years ago, he
was employed by the Hearst organiza-
ton. 1t was while he was serving on
the Chicago American that he became
totally blind. William Randolph Hearst
instructed his organization to place
Mcneil on his pension list at almost
the amount his salary had been. He
and his wife depended entirely upon
this. His check came regularly every
week. Once newspaper reporter, a
Hearst newspaper, sought an interview
with Mr.. Hearst about his pension list,
but Hearst requested that nothing about
the pensions he was paying be published.
We knew well an employe OF Mr..
Hearst in Washington, who became an
invalid after stroke, who received 500
a week by orders Of Mr.. Hearst until
that man died three or four years ago.
It is understood that Mr.. Hearst had 4
considerable list Of pensioners for in
valided employees who had served him
faithfully. There has been, during his
remarkable journalistic career, much
printed about Mr.. Hearst but, fear. too
little has appeared about the good this
man, now almost fourscore in years, has
done. This side of his life has been kept
OH the record and that is what he has
desired.
Angus McNeill, 76 when he died. was
a friend of Henry Watterson long
editor Of the Louisville Courier Journal,
and of the elder Mr.. etealey, and his son,
Watterson Stealey, who were in the "old
days" Washington correspondents of the
Courier journal. j. M. M.
Evening star., 1939-07-19

parties"-these and dogs, do they not
about complete the roster? Yet every
one OF them could be mitigated. II not
ended, by honest frank discussion, such
as contained in the above excellent letter.
Nature magazine, published in Wash
ington-maybe this is signifcant-ouotes
Diana Thorne as saying that the time is
not far distant when dog owners must
live outside of large Cities
She asserts that the increased senti-
ment against dogs in cities results less
from the dogs themselves than from the
incompetence, laziness and stupidity of
the dogs masters and mistresses.
Our good letter quoted beforehand,
contains no such language as this, and 1t
Is just as well.
Most people are more or less reason
able, II you can keep from making them
angry, and in time viii try to get an
others viewpoint, even If at first they re-
gard it as queer
There Is nothing surer in this world
than that all ordinary folks are alike the
world around. The difference comes in
government. 1t is impossible for in
stance, to read magazine or paper, and
not be somewhat surprised to find that
certain people are interested in books,
art, music, insects, animals, just the same
as We are! And here we had come to re-
gard them as bloodthirsty monsters with
bayonets always at hand!
The plain people of the World-and
this applies to suburban dwellers, of
course-want to live happily with each
other, there can be no doubt Of it.
Dogs are truly mans best friends. That
Is why those who love them always regret
that they are permitted to make so many
people III at ease. Because those offended
blame the dogs, which really have moth
ing to do with it, dogs being the way they
are.
They say that in New York City the
situation has become so bad that there
are signs along the streets, Curb your
dog"
In the main, dogs are lovable crea-
lures, and it is just too bad when they
are permitted to strike anybody as any,
thing else.
Dogs run in waves, in neighborhoods.
One year there will be a pack of Ger
man shepherds, the next year a group
of airedales.
Things to get better" some one has
said, must get worse" and this applies
to the dog situation, wherever it exists.
We have three fine fellows which come
to our back porch every morning for
breakfast
Dogs away from home are sociable; at
home they mostly think they must defend
the occupants, with noisy results, some
times.
All of these problems are interesting,
because they exist everywhere Wherever
they are to be solved, honest approach
and cooperation are the keynotes.
Evening star., 1939-07-19

past controversy over the value of
Federal property and other factors
based on individual opinion, he
worked out the Overton formula,
which could have been applied with
mathematical precision, and which
was as simple as it was exact.
1t proposed to measure the Federal
obligation by the acreage of land area
required for national purposes from
time to time. The Senate District
Committee and the Senate itself
quickly saw the merit in the plan and
approved 1t.
Although he was forced to yield on
the formula to obtain an agreement
with the House, his thorough knowl-
edge OF the issues involved and the
courageous fight he made, won for
him the almost unanimous support of
the Senate in insisting on a more
equitable lump sum.
During the long period Of negotia-
ton with the House, Senator Overton
had to match wits and arguments
with two separate House groups, for
he was head of the Senate conferees
on both the appropriation and tax
bills, with the fiscal relations issue
involved in each. Considering the ex-
tent to which the House and Senate
have differed in their viewpoint on
the fiscal relations issue since the
lump sum was inaugurated, Senator
Overton and his colleagues are en-
titled to the gratitude OF District
residents for the $1OOO,OOO increase
they obtained in the compromise and
the new, statutory recognition Of the
national obligation.
Evening star., 1939-07-19
Strikes Against Government

The American people are not in
sympathy with strikes against the
Government" as President Roosevelt
has aptly designated the w. P. A.
strikes. Nor were they in sympathy
with the 'sit-down strikes" of 1887
against private employers and, as
later declared by the Supreme Court
OF the United States, in plain viola
tion of constitutional rights of
employers.
During the Shutdown" strike cpl
demic, neither the President nor
members of his Official family said
word in condemnation of the vio-
lent and unconstitutional acts of the
strikers. But the American people as
a whole were not long in manifesting
their resentment against the C. 1. o.
Public opinion rolled inland months
later officials OF the administration
insisted that, after all, they had not
believed In the sit-down strike.
The American people look with no
more favor on the w. P. A. workers
and the members of the American
Federation of Labor who are now
striking against the Government.
They approve of the attitude of the
President. If there is any criticism,
1t is because the President was not
so outspoken when illegal activities
were undertaken by striking workers
against private employers, in viola
ton of the constitutional rights OF
employers, as he was when the strike
was directed against a public en-
ployer, the Government.
The leaders of two great labor or
ganlzatlonS, John L. Lewis of the c.
I. O. and William Green of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, have not
shown good judgment in either the
sit-down strike epidemic or in the w.
P. A. strikes. Mr.. Lewis organization
was dominant in the sit-doWn strikes.
Mr.. Green's organization has played
the important part in the w. P. A.
strikes Public opinion has turned
forcibly against them both. Mr.. Lewis
had his fingers burned in l937-badly
burned. The opposition among the
people to the sit-down strikes was
visited not only against Mr.. Lewis
and C. I. o. candidates in the last
election, but also against the New
Deal administration in Washington.
The political effect, II any, of the
w. P. A. strikes is still in the future.
Certain New Dealers are favorable
to continued extension of Govern
ment into fields that have in the past
been occupied by private business and
private industry. They would have
the Government in control of-and in
the conduct of-public utilities, in
cluding the railroads and the electric
power companies. They would have
the banking institutions Of the coun-
try Government owned and operated.
They would go even further in the
matter of Government control of
agriculture and of industry OF all
kinds.
Labor might do well to ponder, in
the light Of recent events, its position
in the picture, should Government
take control and management of in
dustry, banking and agriculture.
Then almost any strike would become
strike against the Government"
Evening star., 1939-07-19
ApOcryphal Tales About
Syrovy and Others.


To the Editor Of The Star:
In The Evening Star for Saturday, July
Is. in This Changing World" Mr.. Con-
stantlne Brown tells story to the effect
That the Polish marshal, Rydz-S -Smigley,
remarked recently that he would not be
another General Syrovy (the former
-Slovakian chief of staff because
he never gambled. A part of the story is
an assertion that Hitler at one time paid
Syrovy's gambling debts.
No doubt such story circulated in
Central Europe, as do many other apo
cryphal tales. No doubt, too, it is as
false as many other current stories or
tales. know that General Syrovy is not
a gambler, and therefore there was no
necessity for any one to pay his gambling
debts, much less that it be done by Mr..
Hitler.
The real foundation for this and other
flights of imagination is, of course, the
fact that the Czecho-Slovaks, betrayed
and abandoned, did not resist by force
OF arms at any price. Whether they
should have fought is one question; the
responsibility for not fighting is an
other, and the responsibility has been
made crystal clear right here in WASH
ington, and in the very columns of The
Star, which on Thursday, June 20, on
page b., printed an interview with the
former president of Czecho- -Slovakia, DR..
Eduard Benes, given to Mr.. j. H. Baird,
who introduces the interview with the
following remark: THE man who al
lowed the nation he helped create fall
into German hands rather than plunge
Europe into war-former President Ed
uard Benes, Of Czecho- -Slovakia."
The interview quoted Mr.. Benes di-
rectly as saying: II do not follow policy
OF despair. The achievement of in
dependence is the important thing-the
means by which it is achieved is Sec
ondary.
L could have made war last Septem-
ber. A million armed Czechs were ready
to fight for their country, But did not"
No other comment is necessary. and
could never be as expressive as the start
ling admission of DR.. Benes himself.
Nor need it be emphasized that a ma
ton to fight must have vital and de-
termined leadership. DR.. Benes has so
convinced the world of his sole respon-
sibility that on July 7, 1899, in the New
York Herald Tribune, there appeared a
Letter suggesting DR.. Benes for the Nobel
prize on the ground, among others, that
recently he sacrificed Czecho-Slovakia,
the dearest in his heart, to avert an
other world war;"
General Syrovy cannot defend him.
self, nor can many others. Those know
ing them hsk Re duty to register facts
known to th6.l.
July II. 1899. CHARLES PERGLER,
Evening star., 1939-07-19
BeIuted Recognition
From the Pontiac Press.

From the Pontiac Press.
An athletic field at Willows, Calf, has
been named "Taxpayers' Field" We
knew that sometime somewhere,Ve would
get around to honoring those who put
UP the money.
Evening star., 1939-07-19

ment would be able to ameliorate the
effects Of panics and depressions with
out private borrowings and piling up
OF public debt and interest.
8. All legitimate promotions of any
size should be acceptable to the Govern
ment banking system. 1t should mean
the end of watered stock, bonus stock.
no-par stock and mere paper issues.
Government banking would make for
legitimacy in business. Mere gamblers
could not get money on the exchanges or
elsewhere to demoralize markets and
destroy values and people.
July 1. H.C MIDDLETON
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Denounces New
w. p. A. Act.

To the Editor of The Star:
I heartily agree with Mr.. Bonasky,
chairman of the District Workers Alli-
ance, who so ably criticizes our news
papers for their fascist-minded SYM
pathy for the new l3o-hour w. P. A. Act.
The thing stands glaringly as the most
grievous injustice, not only to w. P. A.
workers, but to the 100000 unem-
ployed, as well as to the whole organized
and unorganized labor of America
To think that in the face of II 900 900
people out of work it will help the eco
nomic situation is nothing less than
sheer imbecility. The hate against this
fascist bill is too deep for words to ex-
press. The writer is small businessman.
July II. JAMES MORIORITY.
Evening star., 1939-07-19
Proposes Government
Banking System.
To fha TJ}tnr of Tho Ctor.

Proposes Government
Banking System.
To the Editor of The Star
Some one in your paper advocates
Government ownership and operation Of
banks. Let us consider some of the
benefits that would accrue to the public
from such course.
1. The Government would set up banks
of deposit, receive and guarantee de-
posits; pay no interest, and the Govern
ment paying no interest, the money
would be loaned out at no interest, with
only q cost charge amounting possibly
to less than l per cent That would
practically abolish interest in this coun-
try.
2. Equal rights to all and special
privileges to none would prevail at last
In the banking business. Lending would
cease to be done on favor, as at present.
The humblest citizen would get his loan,
IL only Of q few dollars-too small now
for our private bankers to bother about
provided he offered the proper collateral
or sound Endorsement. The humblest
citizen would borrow as a matter Of
right-he could not be denied. The doors
of the banks would be at last opened
to the poor and the humble.
8. Loans would be made for longer
periods than the present 80, 60, 80 days
long enough to do some good.
1. Interest rates would be the same to
all-that is, at approximate cost. Private
banking would become obsolete, which
would be blessing.
S. The largest interests as we'll as the
smallest would get their bank loans on
sound banking principles. Mr.. Ford said
several years ago, 1.-THE credit facilities
should be controlled by the Government"
Neither he nor any other business inter-
est would have to submit to Wall Street
to get money for legitimate purposes.
8. The money power would roll over
and die. Combinations Of money and
men could not control the banks and the
deposits or the Government. This money
power would be transferred to the Gov
ernment, to be- used in the interest Of
all the people and all business. Private
banking has been an entirely legitimate
and honorable enterprise, but as pri-
vate enterprise it should cease, in the
public interest
7. The Government banks would take
over the good loans Of the private banks.
Then the private banks could Nquidate
unless they wished to deal in first and
second mortgages, or other loans not
acceptable to the Government. The
bankers and their clerks would be en-
ployed by the Government. More money
would come out Of hiding and get into
the banks and into circulation.
8. In times OF stress the money would
not be tied up as In the private banks,
for all large supplies Of money would
be. by compulsion, in ~ banks, and at
the command Of the Government With
III kS.> &,. xt> b.. he
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Q. What proportion of New York City's
population is on relief?-M. j.. H.
A. OF the 100000 residents of ths.
city, it is estimated that 100000 are
receiving some form of relief.
Evening star., 1939-07-19

q. Who invented the pneumatic tire?
II. G.
A. j. B. Dunlop of Ireland is credited
with the introduction of the pneumatic
tire in 1888.
Evening star., 1939-07-19

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Evening star., 1939-05-28
Chile Reported Moving
To Dust Oil Companies
By the Associated Press.

oy WIG AoSOCldteQ fIeSS.
SANTIAGO, Chile. Nav 27-
Finance Minister Roberto Wachholtz
was reported tonight to have warned
United States and British oil COM
panies that a government monopoly
for distribution and sale of pretro-
1eum products in Chile would be
established by September 3.
The foreign companies, it was said,
were advised to liquidate their dis
tribution organizations within three
months. 1t is known the companies
already have begun giving dismissal
notices to employees.
Wachholtz's notice, authoritative
sources said, was served on the West
India Oil Co., subsidiary of the
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, and
Shellmex of Chile, subsidiary of the
Royal Dutch Shell. Total value of
the storage tanks, "refineries and
other installations of the two COM
panies is estimated at $4,000 900.
A law empowering the government
to appropriate properties of oil COM
panies in Chile and create a state
monopoly has been on the statute
books since 1882.
The government of President
Pedro Aguirre Cerda, backed by a
block of Peoples Front parties, only
now Is moving to make it effective,
informants said.
Evening star., 1939-05-28
D c. Milk Drinkers 'Siissies'
COMPARED to Bultimoreuns

So yesterday, Mr.. Derrick was
asked why.
It seems that Washingtonians, be-
cause of their comparatively seden-
tary work, cannot digest milk Of
high bacteria count as readily as
can residents of more industrialized
cities.
Mr.. Derrick said that District
milk's low bacteria count had been
achieved through years OF strict
sanitary supervision; that the extra
precautions have run up the price
and ito go back to the count OF
Baltimore would be to lose about
seven years Of progress"
High bacteria count, incidentally
according to DR.. r. r. Ashworth
local milk inspector, generally de-
notes filth, the presence Of dirt and
other substances" The milk, how
ever, may contain just as much
butterfat and be Just As nourishine
- the lower count product.
Evening star., 1939-05-28
BY the Associated Press.


OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Me-,
May PA mystery" plane rested
on the hard-packed beach sand here
tonight, believed destined for an
ocean flight to Ireland.
Pilot of the craft, a small, single
motored, silver winged monoplane,
will be Thomas H. Smith, 26, of Los
Angeles, according to man who
said he was Charles Deland of Gin
cinnati, who arrived earlier with
the plane from Detroit, where 1t was
built.
Deland said Smith formerly came
from Clarksburg, w. Va, and had
been a pilot for nine years.
This long, curving beach has been
the start of numerous transatlantic
flights in the past.
Low tide would permit q take
OF about 3 am. {E. s. T) tomorrow.
Deland said the plane could hold
160 gallons of gasoline, which he
estimated would give 1t . cruising
range Of $500 miles. It could take
OF at Is miles pr hour and reach
Evening star., 1939-05-28

Sitting down jobs have made sis
sizes out OF Washington milk-drink-
ers In comparison with their more
rugged neighbors in Baltimore.
The average Baltimorean who
drinks milk, it now develops, thinks
nothing of taking on $1,000 bacteria
to the cubic centimeter, while the
Capital quaffer can do no better
than 1880 without looking for help.
This state of affairs was disclosed
yesterday, when B. B. Derrick, sec
retary- OF the Maryland
Virginia Milk Producers Association,
was questioned about testimony he
gave at the House milk probe FRI
day.
Under cross-examination, he said
that milk in Baltimore Is 4 cents
per gallon cheaper than in WASH
ington. Asked why, his answer was
that the Free Staters are different
type and could stand more bacteria
content.
Evening star., 1939-05-28
Mystev Plane Poised in Maine
For Hop, Possibly to ireland

a maximum of 100 miles per hour,
he explained.
Smith, he added, had waited four
weeks for the present favorable
weather to make TRANSATLANTIC
hop.
Pressed by questioners, Deland
said the planes destination might
be Ireland"
The plane had a single seat with
hardly room for the pilot, so hemmed
in was it by extra gasoline tanks
fitted inside.
After the plane arrived here two
men who said they were Deland
and F. c. Douglas Of West Vir-
ginia entered the police station here.
After they returned to the plane
they TAXED the craft down the beach
and over the adjoining Scarboro
line, fearing Old orchard police
might take some action to prevent
q take-od.
Police said, however, no permit
was necessary for a take-off.
Deland said 40 hours flying time
had been estimated for the ocean
hop, but Smith expected to make
1t In - hourE
Evening star., 1939-05-28
Mercury Climbs
To Record 9O.8:
Heat to Continue

Another hot day, perhaps as warm
as yesterdays record breaker" ap-
peared in prospect today, despite the
prediction of showers.
Under the hottest sun of the year
the temperature yesterday climbed
to 90.8 degrees-breaking by 08 OF
degree the previous high mark for
the season, set May 7.
Today, the Weather Bureau said
last night, will be generally fair
with local showers and thunder
storms expected during the after
noon.
Intermittent rains also are in
sight for tomorrow, with cooler
weather expected.