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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1939-08-11
Salem Baptist Church
Order of Services


Sunday School ............ lo 100 =. m.
Morning Services..........1 1850 a. m.
Sunday Night....................8:3o p. M.
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Friday, August II Rev, Stone
preached At Macedonia Baptist
church for Rev. John Wright who
il conducting two weeks service.
Sunday, August 13 at p. m.
Rev. Il. L. Harris and his congre-
CATION of Shiloh baptist church will
be at salem. We are locking for
ward to this being a great day
Come and help US.
Rev. S. v. Stone, pastor.
Evening star., 1939-03-04
Fairfax Permits Drop
S17,477 in February
Special Dispatch to The Star.


FAIRFAX, Va, March 4.-The
volume Of building permits issued
in Fairfax County during the past
month slumped $17,477 from the
January total, a report from the
ONCE Of County Commissioner of
the Revenue James U. Kincheloe
shows.
February permits total SOL ,223,
while for January the total was
$78,700. However, for the first two
months of this year the total is SIS
748 ahead of the same two months
in 1888. During February % per-
mits were issued, 81 covering new
construction and two covering i'm
provements. Permit value of new
building was $60,373 and improve
ments, $3.50.
Similarly the number of deeds
and trusts recorded in the office of
County Clerk John M. Whalen dur
ing February fell below the January
total, although the number for the
first two months Of the year ex-
ceeded by 33 the number for Janu-
ary and February, 1898.
Mr.. Whalen's office reported 245
recordations for February, against
346 for January. Last year for the
first two months there were 558.
The combined total for January and
February OF this year is the highest
for the first two months Of any of
the past five years.
Evening star., 1939-03-04

story brick dwelling. 6667 Thirty
second street NV; to cost $4,000.
N. Mezzanotte, 26l7 Fourteenth
street NV, owner. designer and
builder; to erect one 2-story brick
dwelling. 4130 Sixteenth street NV;
to cost $4,000.
Robert K. Smith, owner and
designer; M. L. Stone, 3433 Connecti-
cut ave. NV, builder; to erect one
2-story brick dwelling. 1905 Reno
road NV; to cost $4,000.
Gilbert Seek, TOLL Eighth street
NV, owner and builder; Dillon Il
Abel. designers; to erect one 2-story
brick and tile dwelling, 1922 North
hampton street NV; to cost So. 500
Gilbert Seek, Toll Eighth street
NV, owner and builder; Dillon &
Abel, designers: to erect one 2-story
brick and tile dwelling, 5349 Twenty
ninth street NV: to cost $8.500
S. M. Williams, Silver Spring. Md,
owner and builder; A. l.. Anderson,
designer; to erect one 2-story brick
and tile dwelling, 6416 Utah avenue
NV: to cost $1,000.
S. M. Williams. Silver Spring. Md,
owner and builder; A. L. Anderson,
designer; to erect one 2-story brick
and tile dwelling. 6420 Utah avenue
NV; to cost $1,000.
On Seventh Street.
Edward A. Hyde, 1913 Second
place NV. owner and builder;
Louis R. Moss, architect: to erect
one 2-story brick dwelling, 6430
Seventh street NV: to cost $1,000
Edward A. Hyde. 5918 Second place
NV, owner and builder; Louis r.
Moss, architect: to erect one 2-story
brick dwelling, 704 Underwood street
NV: to cost $1,000.
Edward A. Hyde, 1913 Second place
NV, owner and builder; Louis r.
Moss, architect: to erect one 2-story
brick dwelling. 708 Underwood street
NV. to cost s6.500
Stuart & Stephens. 1921 Forty
sixth street NV, owner and builder;
w. A. Stuart, designer: to erect one
2-story brick and tile dwelling. 1903
Upland terrace NV; to cost $1,000
Kloeber Kennedy. Al Drummond
avenue. owner and builder; Schreier
81 Patterson, architects: to erect
one 2-story brick and frame dwell
ing. 4725 Albemarle street NV; to
cost $1,000.
Thomas F. Jones, 1Ol5 Fifteenth
street NV. owner and builder: E..
Evening star., 1939-03-04

Burton Corning. architect: to erect
one 2-story brick and cinder block
dwelling, 1923 Alton place NV; to
cost $4,000.
]. H. Refs, 552l Colorado avenue
NV. owner; Dillon & Abel, design
ers: C. R. Matheny. 6l47 Thirty
first street NV, builder; to erect
one 2-story brick and tile dwelling,
4541 Forty-sixth street NV; to cost
$500.
Evening star., 1939-03-04
New Yorker Acquires
Rose Hill ACREAGE
anecial pisnatch bal Ihe star

SPECIAL DlSpAtch 70 The Star.
WARRENTON, Va, March "A
deed has been recorded in the clerks
office Of Fauquier County from Mary
B. Smith (Mrs. Thomas w. SMITH
to Harry B. Freedman OF New York
on 245H acres known as Rose Hill
near Hebron, In Center district, Fau-
quier County.
1t Is understood that Mr.. Freed
man is interested in purchasing
other adjoining property.
Hebron Is in the Little GEORGETOWN
section Of Fauquier, near which is
the home of Representative Howard
w. Smith and r. E. Browning.
William Calvert, Buckland, bid In
Evening star., 1939-03-04
Store Building Leased

The building at the southwest
corner of Connecticut avenue and
Albemarle street NV. was leased
to William Hahn & Co. through the
ONCE Of Carl G. Rosinski. 1t was
used originally as the Country
Store, believed to be Washington's
flrst curb service stand. It has been
extensively remodeled.
Evening star., 1939-03-04

the vose Mil property. sold at Buck
land on Saturday. Mr.. Vose pur-
chased the mill from Mr.. Calvert
some years ago.
Also reported IL the sale Of the
Evening star., 1939-03-04

Brownie-Kerfoot farm on the Della.
plane-Kerfoot road by State Senator
Thomas B. Glascock Of Upperville.
The farm adjoins his property on the
Delaplane-Ke road.
Evening star., 1939-05-17

these men come back after visiting their
secret finds with enough gold to pro-
vide their meager needs for a year or
two.
This region is also unique in being
the only place in the United States
where commercial quantities OF crude
rubber from native plants have ever been
produced. Thirty years ago this coming
October a factory began operation in
the little town Of Marathon, which is on
the Southern Pacific Railroad, where it
skirts the northern edge of the Big
Bend country, manufacturing crude rub
ber from the guayule shrub which then
grew wild in the Big Bend area. About
600 tons of rubber was manufactured
in less than one year, when the supply
of the shrub was exhausted. This writer
had the job of locating and arranging
for gathering and hauling the shrub to
the factory. In the waterless recesses
OF the Chisos Mountains it was impos-
slble to gather some of the guayule be-
cause OF the long distances to a water
supply and the ruggedness of the ter
rain which made transportation even by
burros very laborious and expensive
In this region, also, is one Of the yery
few quicksilver mines in the United
States. A truly grand and awesome ter
ritory, the Big Bend. C.L. CHAPLIN.
May is.
Evening star., 1939-05-17

sible is to ascertain the viewpoints
Of the State Department and forth
with to drop all efforts to "legislate
neutrality"-which are bound to in
volve protracted oratory and inflam-
matory debate; to repeal the present
unsatisfactory Neutrality Act, and, as
a compromise, adopt the simple, basic
essential OF the Pittman plan-re-
storing to the statute books the cash.
and-carry provisions which expired
May l. Then, If war should break out
in Europe in the near future, the
United States could sell supplies to
belligerents on a come and -get-it
basis, with a minimum of danger to
ourselves. To take this or any other
action after the outbreak of hostili-
ties would be violative of the genuine
and fundamental principles OF neu-
trality.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trdceuell.

big spiders attempting to emulate that
historic attack on little Miss MufYett.
The bravest Indians found something
disconcerting about one Of these vacant
lot spiders. There were no playground
problems in Washington then. There
were plenty Of lots for baseball and
football, on the schoolboy scale, and for
rock battles and Indians.
Rock battles were rather fearsome
encounters INDUCED in mostly by s-year-
olds. These were not gang affairs, ex-
cept on the most limited scale, but to
the participants they seemed absolutely
ferocious. And there is no real fun,
after all, in getting large section Of a
brick alongside the ear at 20 feet.
Or a green peach.
Come to think of 1t, few things along
side the ear feel worse than peach.
The circus had the lot at certain times.
Who will ever forget the pegged-down
white tent in the twilight?
There were gasoline torches, and the
genuine circus smell, combination un-
like instrument in the sideshow.
The great feature Of the evenings per-
formance was setting small house aflre,
so that the monkey fire department could
put 1t out.
How lurid the flames looked!
Part of this effect was secured by red
paper in the windows of the cottage, but
~ -
Maybe we have this wrong, but our
recollection is that the miniature fire
engines and ladders were drawn by fox
terriers, and the "flremen" were monkeys
IN full regalia, including the hats.
Surely there are few smarter dogs than
the smooth-haired fox terriers. Once a
great favorite, it suffered a decline in
popular favor, until its cousin, the wire
haired, became the favorite.
Still there is much to be said for the
ordinary fox terrier. 1t is a clean little
dog, unless mixed with other breeds
when 1t becomes too large.
In the old days Of its great popularity,
this breed WAS to be seen everywhere.
Every city block had one or more very
fat specimens.
Active to a fault, the fox terrier takes
on fat readily when deprived of exercise
1t is good city dog stfl, managing
modern traffic with sagacity, surely re-
quiring intelligence nowadays.
Among its bad points was propensity
to chase birds, but as these consisted
mostly of English sparrows, few owners
thought much of It,
If fox terriers could be trained to run
down purple grackles, now, the dog might
have a real revival among modern bird
observers.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Says Members of Congress
Should Be Leaders.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
In The Star of May IA prominent
Senator is quoted as saying that "the
people seem to be apathetic as to the
fiscal policies of the Government"
Citing the huge expenditures and grow
ing deficits of the Government he saws
that "the people are largely to blame
because they are making demands for
these enormous appropriations, and
concludes that there must be an aroused
public sentiment"
All this is probably true. have had
the feeling, however, that a member
of Congress should not be merely a
rubber stamp for his State or district.
He should consider himself a guardian
Of the general welfare, a trustee for the
peoples interests. Heavy responsibilities
rest upon him. and he should therefore
be a man of outstanding qualities. He
should be a molder of public opinion
a leader and not a follower, a man of
broad knowledge sound judgment, inde-
pendent conviction and courage, if he is
really qualified for his job
4lldG ID d DlS UIucl. ouG IL Is Vi tflS
essence of representative government.
The rank and file of voters cannot be
expected to be able to advise the Con-
gresham what he should do The
average citizen does not possess the
information on national problems which
is necessary for their solution, nor does
he have the time or opportunity to
obtain the necessary information. That
is why he elects Senators and Represen-
tatives to solve the problems for him.
Unfortunately, however, the Congress-
men themselves are too often only aver
age citizens. Instead of leading the way,
they merely wait to register in Washing
ton the clamor of the people back
home"
Perhaps the voters should be blamed
for selecting such ordinary men for
Congress EDW. WOLESENSKY.
May Is.
Evening star., 1939-05-17

law of the land by the founders of the
Republic.
Once open the door to a union of
church and state and liberty of con-
science and freedom Of worship would
soon disappear, and ecclesiastics In CO.
operation with the political power would
dominate, as has been the case for
centuries In foreign lands. May God
forbid that any such scheme will ever
be perpetrated in this enlightened land.
dedicated to liberty Of conscience. free
dom OF worship, free speech and as
sembly and separation Of church and
state.
II the American people Of all faiths
wish to preserve and transmit to future
generations the liberties our forefathers
fought for they will be watchful in
preventing any cooperation between our
Government and any ecclesiastical sys-
tenn. No loyal American will countenance
such action. GEO. E. MASON.
May IL.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Cites Reason for Buying
Foreign Beef.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Despite all the controversy, criticism
and condemnation of Roosevelt for feed
ing the Navy boys on Argentine beef,
he may be right at that.
Go to your grocer for canned corned
beef and he hands you q Product of
Brazil or a Product of Argentine
The Commerce Department says We
import 90 per cent Of our corned beef.
Such statement is almost beyond be-
lief but look at your grocer's cans.
To one who has seen the millions of
grown and growing beeves on the West
ern range ;. the trainload after train
load of fat steers headed for Kansas
City stockyards i. Twin City stock
yards at st. Paul Chicago stock
yards, passing through day after day
and the cattle boat" ships loading
at Baltimore for Liverpool, England, it
IS difficult to believe that we now grow
only 10 per cent of our own supply.
So, we no longer have the old-time
cattle king" of the West There is
nothing for him to be king Of. He has
an easy chair on his front porch, sits
all day long waiting for his Govern
ment check to come every Thursday.
We no longer have the old-time cow
boy, yipping and skittering across the
prairie. He also is thing of the past
-. no herd riding, so he has gone into
the movies.
Let us see what we have left that
rrospers. There is baseball fooE-
ball the fighting ring . the
movies :. but as to the businessman
Hey, you mustn't do that H.. Well tell
you what to do." w. ]. DERMOTT.
Nav is.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Plea for Hearing Devices
In Theaters Made.

To the Editor OF The Star:
In the April Is, 1899, edition of Nature
appears an article entitled "Deaf-Aids in
Theaters." 1t is somewhat technical in
description, but the gist of the matter is
that while it is somewhat similar to the
instrument now used in this country,
where the hearers must take certain
seats to which the instrument is at
tached, the English seem to have gone
us one better in that one may rove
around the theater and take any seat he
pleases. Somehow it seems to me that
England is always just ahead of us in
such things, even though we catch up
and pass them later in amount of Rro-
duction.
On reading the article the thought
came to my mind that there must oe
some sort of monopoly here in Washing
ton on the present instrument used so
successfully by those Of us hard of hear
ing. Certainly 1 would be the last to
bite the hand that feeds me, and am
certainly grateful for the opportunity of
being able to use the hearing devices in
the Capitol Theater and the one at Ia
koma Park. And am also conscious of
the fact that they make no charge for
this service. However, this is a large
city and there are many theaters and in
many cases it is impossible for some. due
to age or inflrmities of one kind of an
other, to get to these two houses.
I hear, Of course, as has been repeat
edly stated, that it is an expensive un-
dertaking. I honestly doubt this. but T
am not mechanically inclined and may
be wrong.
One who can hear we'll and sit in the
back of the theater and hear every word
coming from the screen, simply cannot
imagine what terrible experience it is
for one hard of hearing, straining every
nerve and fiber in his body to catch the
words OF the story. And then to be
blessed with this miraculous hearing de-
vice attached to the theater seats! Those
With good hearing take what they hear
as matter of course but we who hear
the cannons roar as drop OF a pebble
on the beach do appreciate and are
grateful However, I do contend that all
theaters should be allowed to use them
Personally, I am able to get to the two
theaters who use them. My plea is for
others who cannot
May IL. IRVING M. GREY
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Crisis in Palestine

Events scheduled in Parliament to-
day are destined to cause an historic
alteration in the status of Palestine.
In accordance with it's announced
plan to impose settlement of Arab
Jewish differences if the rival fac
tions were unable to reach an agree
ment at last winters London round
table, the British government now
proposes to deal firmly, and as it
hopes, finally with the troublesome
question.
Its projected solution is expected
to establish by slow stages the crea-
tion Of Palestinian state sixty per
cent Arab and forty per cent Jewish.
That the Jews contemplate with bit
ter disappointment this threatened
demolition Of Zionist dreams is en-
tirely comprehensive. The British
plan would permit $4,000 Jewish i'm
migrants during the first five years,
with an additional $4,000 refugees,
mainly children, but the Jews find
no compensation in these conces-
sions for the fact that Britain pro-
poses to condemn them eternally to
be a minority element in Palestine
and inevitably, sooner or later, to be
politically and economically at the
mercy of the preponderant Arab ma
jority.
The Zionists contend therefore
that the so-called British solution
is no solution at all, but will only
SOW deeper the seeds of inter-racial
conflict. Jewish leaders claim, too,
that in the name of political ext
gency, Great Britain is fagrantly
violating the Balfour Declaration,
under which she pledged herself to
safeguard the Jews in the establish
ment Of great national refuge for
their oppressed brethren from all
climes.
The British do not propose in the
immediate future to evacuate Pales-
tine or abdicate their League manda-
tory obligations there. After five
years Britain will appoint an appro-
pirate commission to recommend
Palestine constitution with adequate
safeguards for holy places and Brit
ish obligations to Arabs and Jews. If
after a decade an independent state
is deemed infeasible, London will
consult representatives of all Pales-
tine groups, the League and neigh
boring Arab states with regard to
the country's future.
British craftsmanship has acquired
no fresh luster with its treatment of
the Palestinian question. Empire
political considerations do not of
themselves extenuate the years of
indecision, equivocation, procrastina-
ton and unimaginativenes which
have characterized the mandatory
powers policy and eliminated in the
situation now causing anguish in
Jerusalem and throughout Israel.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Dean Dobie

President ROOSevelt'S nomination
of Dean Armistead M. Dobie, of the
University of Virginia Law School, to
the vacant Federal judgeship in the
western district of Virginia should
mark a happy ending of the bitter
controversy that was stirred by his
original selection of Judge Floyd H.
Roberts to fill the vacancy.
Judge Roberts qualifications were
never in question, but there was
deep-rooted suspicion that in choos-
ing him, the President was attempt
ing to give aid and comfort to Vir-
ginia's Governor, James H. Price,
who had been friendly to the New
Deal and hostile to Senators Carter
Glass and Harry F. Byrd.
Influenced no doubt by the vigor-
Gus intra-Democratic war now un-
der way in Virginia, the Senators
from that State declared that the
nomination of Judge Roberts was
personally obnoxious" to them. Al
though it is difficult to defend the
rejection of an otherwise good nom
ination on such a ground, the Sen
ate in this case, perhaps because of
its political implications, rallied to
the support of their colleagues from
the Old Dominion and rejected Judge
Roberts by vote of seventy-two to
nine. That crushing defeat for the
President was made all the more
bitter by the fact that among the
Senators voting against him were
many who had made records as loyal
administration supporters.
The reaction to the Dobie nomina-
ton, however, indicates that the ami
mosities of the earlier dispute have
been laid aside and that the law
school dean will be approved without
dissent. That result, if it comes to
pass, will mark the end of contro-
versy that did credit to neither side.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Claims Refugee Bill
Not Explicit.

To the Editor Of The Star:
With reference to the letter of Her
men Felter in The Star this evening, may
I suggest that his prose and reasoning
click no more than does his poetry and
that he should have quoted the next two
lines from Oliver Goldsmith's Deserted
Village:
Princes and Lords may flourish or may
fade,
A breath can make them as a breath
has made"-even an Adolph Hitler!
Last year, according to unimpeachable
statistics assembled by the Presidents
special Inter- Governmental Committee
in its unsuccessful effort to get other
governments to match what we are
doing, the United States received for
permanent residence more refugees than
have all other countries put together.
No greater libel has been perpetrated
on American Jews, or Americans gen.
orally, than that they have not done and
are not doing their bit, and right in the
teeth OF our having over 10 per cent of the
whole worlds unemployed according to
the League of Nations statisticians.
Ever since 1884 the Jewish Childrens
Aid, Inc, has annually brought to the
United States from 200 to 300 orphan
children and placed them in desirable
homes. The H. I. A. S., with its world
wide organization, has been on the Job,
too, as well as other charitable Jewish
corporations and individuals.
But more to the point Is the fact that
If enacted the Wagner resolution wouki
not necessarily admit q single German
refugee child and every one of the TO-.
600 might be Nazi children, and no one
of them the child Of parents who had
ever been prosecuted because of race.
religion or politics. ]. H. PATTEN.
May 13.
Evening star., 1939-05-17
Shooting Stars
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON
The Penitent.

The Penitent.
His coat is Of sackcloth, though cut
la mode,
His hair Is with ashes DER spread.
He stealthily creeps where so proudly
he strode,
There's penitent droop to his head.
Tis sad to behold such contrast COM
plete
To the man who of yore seemed to toss
The world like ball in a game at his
feet.
He was once a political boss.
That's the picture we draw when reform
hits the place
A picture that pleases us all.
But that person arranging his bets on
race,
Or deftly approaching ball,
Where the links are so green and the
air is so brisk
AS it sweeps the broad country across,
Seems far and remote from all danger
and risk
Where he dwells-though no longer
boss