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ran to the nearest neighbo maid
asked phone This the entire household
paudis due heroine were shoWered
upon Marie 1t only after the police and Charhe
the boers-Who mad worn
the doorsta things explained to
Marie!
Traord the Womens
the Columbia several years ago ABBY
make the that would decide the
match-and literally trembling with excitement herself
Abbv remld me 70
made a perfect the point and the match!
Fankes friends faldlous lady, announced
sailing shortly for England and France
She noely INQUIRED of all anything
of apt to DO Whn wei sure
isn't Fankieshe promptly sad why
that I'd like take to Par-s SO expen-
little over here So the fend VINO was
all England where she visited
pretty Frankie aundy-whh she finally had
Pars
William Reybmn in town until Monday when
several then Venice Fla for the
Polly well despite the fact that she tells she
spent most of it entertaining house
London She OF Mrs Benjamin
fall cuperaing from
accident New York. The most serious injury
well the recovery
spending this winter at the family place IN west
every with mother Robert Bacon though
going college Adelpha College Garden Cy-and
taking special course in aviation on the side
Sri just returned to Washington from
dAaires He
to Argentine family and then will return
hereWhee his friends will be
ary speaking reminds that his great friend Miguel
1000 Connecticut today
Way
attractive months
Washington today for short visit
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Mrs. Nicholson
will Be Hostess
At Buffet Supper

Mrs. Jesse w. Nicholson, honorary
president of the Chevy Chase
Branch, League of American Pen
Women, will be hostess at her home
in Chevy Chase Sunday evening at
a buffet supper followed by musi-
Gale in honor of the branch.
Mr.. Fernando Sabola de Medeiros,
second secretary of the Brazilian
Embassy, will be guest. He will
represent the Brazilian Ambassador
who had expected to attend. He
will speak on prominent writer's of
Brazil. Marshall Adams, fashion
writer, also will be a guest, speak
ing on art.
Musicians who will take part in
the program are Mrs. Fannie Shreve
Heartsill, soprano; Mr. Fred Schafer,
baritone, and George A. Myers, tenor
Mrs. Hester Beall Proveson, first vice
president, will give a reading.
The president of the branch is
Mrs. Heber Votaw, sister of the late
President Harding.
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Church Sodality
Will Give Party
Tuesday Night

The Sodality of st. Thomas Apostle
Church on Woodley road will give a
card party Tuesday evening at 8
o'clock at Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs
Robert j. Bourke is general chair
man of the affair, for which many
prominent persons in official and
social circles of the city are acting
as sponsors.
On the long list of patrons and
patronesses are the Rev. Joseph M
Moran, the Rev. Robert L. Kessler
Senator David I. Walsh, Senator and
Mrs. Joseph O'Mahoney, Mr. Robert
Brennan, Minister Of the Irish Free
State; Representative Mary T. Nor
ton, Judge and Mrs. Harold Steph-
ems, Mrs. Joseph P. Tumulty, Mrs
John r. Williams, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Hogan, Mrs. Valeria Cosmelli,
Mr.. M. S. Szymczyak, Mrs. H. A
Allen, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas E
Burke, Mrs. Joseph E. Cotter, Mrs
Patrick H. Davis. Mrs. S. Dolan
Donohoe, Mrs. John E. Eckert, Mr.
and Mrs. James B. Flynn, Mrs
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from their European honeymoon.
Marie spoke no English, but since
frankie wanted to improve her French,
Marie's chances of improving her Eng
lish were practically nil. The incon-
venience suffered by the Stones at never
receiving any message was somewhat
allayed by the fact that Marie kept the
house as neat as a pin and made crepes
suzettes that were superb beyond de-
scription One day two robust gentle
men arrived at the Stone house in Silver
Spring and announced to bewildered
Marie that they had come to bottle some
wine for Mr.. Stone. Marie refused to
allow them to enter the house. A heated
argument followed with neither side
understanding one word the other was
saying, until finally the gentlemen lost
all patience, brushed by the indignant
Marie and went to the cellar to bottle
the wine. From Maries point of view,
this was nothing short Of robbery-so
j,,t ho pol1or onH
Evening star., 1939-12-01
Broadcast Series
Starts Tomorrow

The first of a series of broadcasts,
given annually by the Woman S
Quncil of the Washington Fedora
ton of Churches preceding its
Christmas program of service in the
alleys, will be given at $50 am. to-
morrow over Station WJSV. The
councils Christmas program also ex-
tends to others in Washington who
are in need of sympathy and under
standing as we'll as material help.
Mrs. Richard A. Sauer, chairman
of the councils Juvenile Court De-
partment, will make the introduce
tions on the program and Mrs. Frank
A. Linzel, council president, will ex-
plain the purpose of the broadcast.
Mrs. E. M. Kennickell Of the Church
of the Pilgrims, will tell of the year.
round program of service in the
alleys. A musical program will be
given by a quartette from the Wom-
ans Club of Chevy Chase. Members
Of the quartette are Mrs. Diller B.
Croft, Mrs. Frank M. Owens, Mrs
Carl F.. Stuhler and Mrs. J. Allen
Maphis. Mrs. S. j. McCathran is
accompanist.
Evening star., 1939-12-01
By the Way
Beth Blaine

Charles will morning to spend
night
md give a in her
lived
New Frankie is such completely
amusing person
popular members Washingon married
favorite stores and there the
French country the
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Joseph A. Geier, Mrs. George Hamil-
ton, jr.; Mrs. E.. H. Johansen. Miss
Katherine c. Keane. DR.. and Mrs.
John j. Lynch, Miss Mary Nc
Closkey, Mrs. Harry G.. Meem, Mrs.
Charles P. Neill, DR.. and Mrs. Will
liam F. ODonnell. Mrs. Daniel W.
ODonoghue, Mrs. Daniel w. O'Don-
oghue, jr.; Mr.. John j. Pelley, Col.
James Regan, Mrs. George R. Salb,
DR.. and Mrs. Eugene Stone, Mr.. and
Mrs. Vincent l.. Toomey, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Walsh and Mrs. Jacob
Young,
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her bow at Annapolis and who will
also bow in Baltimore.
Debutante's Grandparents
Will Give Dinner.
Those who will assist at the tea
table are Mrs David l.. Wing, Mrs.
Charles H. Bradley, Mrs Edmund
Ocumpaugh, Sd. of New Haven,
Conn; Mrs. Kathleen Cunningham
of New York, Mrs. Jones sister;
Mrs. Benjamin S. Kilmaster, Mrs
Thomas c. Montgomery, Mrs. Ralph
Skylstead, Mrs. Robert BostWock
Carney and Mrs. Stonestreets cous-
in, Mrs. Harvey L. Jones.
The Army Navy Country Club
has been decorated with talisman
roses, African daisies and other flow-
ers to make it an appropriate bower
for the debutante.
Following the tea dance the
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debutante, her assistants and their
bea,lx will be entertained at a din
ner which Miss Stonestreet's grand
parents, Maj. and Mrs. A. A. Cedar
wald, will give at the Army Navy
Town Club. Mr.. Sam Stonestreet,
with a number of his friends, came
down from Dartmouth to attend his
sisters debut and the dinner.
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Dance to Honor
Society Founder

The goth anniversary dance of the
Minnesota State Society will be held
at the Wardman Park Hotel tomor-
row evening from 9 to l o'clock.
Mr.. William Nelson Morell, found
er and first president of the organi-
zation, will be honored.
Mr.. Clifford S. Stephens is presi-
dent of the society.
All Minnesotans and their friends
are invited.
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Debut

Continued From Page B-3)
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Wants Germans Here to
Worn Friends in Reich.

To the Editor of The Star:
Recent letters from Germany-mailed
at some risk by crossing the border of
an adjacent country thereto-stress the
terrible conditions obtaining there, and
especially the dread Of decapitation and
Punishment to brutal concentration
camps if one is even suspected of saying
anything which might incur the wrath
of official Nazis.
Letters from me published in the Port
land Oregonian January 20, February 8,
and March 28 express the wish of large
number Of true Germans that all good
Germans in this country write to all rela-
tives and friends in Germany warning
them that Hitler's brutal, gangster pol
icies may lead to catastrophe war unless
they awaken and realize the deplorable
state of affairs brought about by Hitler's
censorship and abominable lies.
Hitler with his ideas of conquering the
whole world expects his "bunders" to do
every kind of dirty, traitorous work here
and is even counting on the shortsighted-
ness of our isolationists to aid him in his
sinister ambitions, believing that they
will fail to see his motives until 1t is too
late, allowing him to tackle the democra-
cies in detail rather than as a united
whole.
Although Hitler is looked down upon
and utterly despised by real true demo-
cratic Germans Ia the fatherlaud. they
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Townsend Plan Defeat

The decisive defeat of the Town
send old-age pension plan in the
House will mark the end of that fan
tastic economic delusion so far as
this session of Congress is concerned.
Whether it will be back later in its
familiar form or with some modifica-
tions Is question which cannot be
answered definitely at this time.
Despite the decisiveness of the
vote. the fact that ninety-five men,
bers of the House supported the
measure is disturbing fact. The
Townsend plan, under its maximum
provisions, would, If enacted, cost the
Nation some twenty billion dollars a
year. Such crushing tax load
would wreck our economy, probably
in the first year of the plans opera
ton. Yet approximately one out of
every four Congressman voting went
on record in favor of the scheme. In
view of that result, the people cannot
afford to assume toe easily that the
Townsend plan has been permanent
ly buried. Unless strong public SEN
timent against what has been aptly
described as this "crackpot" under
taking is kept alive, there is a strong
probability that 1t will be back in the
Evening star., 1939-06-02
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles E. Trace,Uell.

down in 1t. This is one Of the softest
nests inside 1t is possible to see or feel.
It is, literally, as soft as down, which 1t is.
Odd bits Of colored paper and cloths
are incorporated at times and by some
species, occasionally with no other in
tent, evidently than decorative.
Sometimes handkerchiefs are wound
around the outside of the nest or half a
paper one placed inside.
Mud and rootlets are blended together
by the barn swallow to make gray nest
which Is at once strong and soft.
There is no limit to the ingenuity of
birds in making nests, which mostly are
perfectly suited to the purpose intended
but always without an ounce Of excess
weight.
The way some species anchor the
structure to the site is inspiring from an
engineering viewpoint. The Baltimore
oriole is among the greatest builders,
usually putting the nest at the very end
OF some long bough overhanging the gar
den. Yet so perfectly are long roots used
as twine, together with short lengths of
real man-made twine, that the structure
Is held so securely that it will never
come down unless the bough does
X
Among unusual happenings was one
just reported to this column by an OBJ
server, who was walking along Constitu-
ton avenue the other morning when he
happened to see robin fighting its re-
Hectlon in the hub cap of parked car.
AS 1t futtered its wings and pecked
away, the bird chanced to look down
to the front of the car, and there saw
itself reflected in another cap.
Down 1t flew, to go through the same
frantic performance.
BY this time it was out for blood. and
flew along the line of cars, looking for
its reflection and always finding it.
once 1t flew to an unusually shiny car
and caught sight of itself in the door.
Against 1t the robin flew full tilt.
AS far as could be noted, the assaults
did no damage to the finish.
Another bird watcher tells of finding a
paoy bluejay backed into corner of a
feeding station by mockingbird which
was evidently trying to kill it.
Ihls watcher drove the mocker away
and rescued the bluejay with no more
hurt than a slightly crumpled wing. 1t
flew away easily
This is another sample of the many
perlls young birds run, not only from
animals dncluding NAM but also from
their own kind.
Ihe mockingbird is belligeYent bird
at feedlng stations all winter. We would
ike to know readers experiences with
this bird In regard to killing the young
OF other species or eating their eggs.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
halls Of Congress again at some

halls of Congress again at some
future session.
In that connection, it is worthy of
notice that more Republicans than
Democrats voted for the measure.
The count showed fifty-five Repub-
licans supporting the bill and one
hundred and seven against. That
some of the G. o. P. proponents were
playing politics may be assumed with
safety, but the vote is not calculated
to strengthen the Republicans in
their contention that they must be
returned to power in the 1910 elec-
tions if the country is to enjoy the
blessings of fiscal sanity again.
With the Townsend plan out of the
way, it is to be expected that Con-
gress will turn to consideration of
amendments of the Social Security
Act. Some of these amendments ap-
pear to be desirable, and should be
enacted, but it is to be hoped that the
desire to pacify those elderly voters
who will resent the defeat of the
Townsend plan will not result tn
mutilation Of the sound principles OF
the social security bill.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Germuny's Burden

In spite OF strict censorship OF
publications and news German pas
sion for scientific truth manages at
times to break through extreme
obstacles with good factual reports
of what is happening to Germany
today economically.
Such a case was the semi-annual
report of the Institute for Economic
Inquiry, which cites the acute labor
shortage, the pressing need for raw
materials and the Gripping burden
upon the nations transportation
system which the Reich's political
and economic pace has created.
The measure of Germany's distress
is the advice, contained in the report,
that to meet the increasing demands
upon the nations industrial system
women will have to be required to
do more work, and that men of in
ferior capacities will have to be i'm
pressed into service.
1t is rare, indeed, that such frank
admissions break through the bonn
bast and braggadocio of German
political leaders to justify the grow
ing opinion that Germany is head
ing for collapse. Economy can
be accelerated only so far; there in
evitably comes a time when more
speed not only cannot be achieved,
but when the mere effort to develop
it becomes highly dangerous.
The German workman is virtually
enslaved, in a system which makes
long hours and miserable wages
patriotic duty. Deprived of his trade
unions and subjected to regimenta-
ton, he is given little hope of relief
from oppression. Consequently,
there have been rumblings of dis
content with the regime, rumblings
which should convince Adolf Hitler
and Marshal Goering that to avoid
internal collapse and rebellion they
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Czecho-SIovukic Lives

With the swastika waving trium-
phant over what was only four
months ago the Czecho-S -Slovak re-
public, it took faith of iron fiber to
utter the words that fell on Wednes-
day from the lips of DR.. Eduard
Benes, as he dedicated his country's
pavilion at the New York Worlds
Fair.
Addressing "those 100000 Czechs,
Slovaks and Carpatho-Russians" in
the territory now occupied" by Ger
many, the former President of the
dismembered state bade them to be
of stout heart. He asked them to be-
lieve in their happy future national
life, now temporarily lost" because
their racial brethren all over the
world "are at work fighting for their
independence" DR.. Benes said the
coming OF liberty" for his people is
inevitable"
The tyranny of the foreign yoke is
no phenomenon to the century old
nation now under the Nazi bootheel.
Through the ages it bore it gallantly,
never abandoning confidence that
right eventually would be victorious
over might, no matter how long the
wait or irksome the burden of bond
age. Nor is DR.. Benes' suggestion that
Czecho-Slovaks "all over the world"
are laboring tirelessly to end their
countrymens Gethsemane a mere
figure of speech.
The Czecho-Slovak republic came
into existence in 1918, precisely as
result of the fighting" of Masaryk,
Hurban and other patriots here on
our soil. The people of Bohemia and
Moravia who today are PROSTATE and
helpless as a vassal state in Central
Europe are therefore we'll advised, as
their exiled leader, Dr. Benes, ad-
vises them, not to abandon hope that
history will repeat itself.
The former chief of the Prague
government reminds all concerned
that the United States officially looks
upon "the violent changes" which
destroyed Czecho- -Slovakia's remnant
of sovereignty last March, as a pure
ly temporary phase. The Czecho-
Slovak pavilion on Whalen's acres is
symbol to the millions of our citi-
zens who will visit it that In the
hearts Of the American democracy,
as well as officially in the records Of
the State Department, the Czecho-
slovak republic still lives.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Lower RuiI Rates

The action of the Eastern railroads
IN asking authority to reduce pas
Senger fares in an attempt to recap
ture business that has sought other
modes of conveyance will be watched
with interest throughout the trans
portation world.
The proposed new schedule, which
undoubtedly will get speedy approval
from the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, fixes the charges on bedrock
level, but the lines expect to be
recompensed by increased volume of
travel. On the basis of the expert
ence of Western and Southern roads,
which pioneered in low fares, such
an outcome is likely.
With coach fares now two cents
mile, and Pullman, three cents-ex-
elusive of the Pullman accommoda-
ton itself-the corresponding tariffs
will range as far down as one and
seven-tenths cents, and two and for
ty-three hundredths cents, for round
trip passage over long distances. Re-
ductions in Pullman charges also are
in prospect
In planning these large-scale re-
ductlons the carriers tacitly admit
the dubious wisdom of the "experi-
mental increase" obtained last July,
and scheduled to run eighteen
months. At that time, coach fares
were raised from two to two and
one-half cents per mile, the railroads
estimating this would produce $45,-
900 additional revenue annually,
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion which in 1896 had forced a cut
in coach fares to two cents, and in
Pullmans to three, from the standard
three and one-half, granted the in
crease unwillingly, arguing it actual
ly would cause travel to fall off. This
opposition seems to have been we'll
founded.
With vacation time coming, the
railroads are in a position to test
the bargain counter" rates under
the most favorable conditions. Pub
lie reaction will show If this answers
the question of meeting competition.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Takes Issue With
Haskin's Statement,

To the Editor of The Star:
In the Haskin's column of inquiry in
your paper Of May q correspondent
asked If any parts of the temple wall in
Jerusalem are still standing.
The answer was that there is no vestige
LETT OF the Jewish temple 1t was razed
and later the ground was plowed.
This answer is not in accord with his
tory and as shown by present indications.
When the temple was begun it was
found that the top or crest of Mount
Moria was not broad enough for the
temple and its area. A strong base or
foundation was begun at the foot of the
western slope OF the mount and at the
bottom Of the valley of the cheese
mongers, as it was then called. The
space between the wall, as it was built
upward, and the slope was filled in and
at the level with the summit the ridge
was much broadened. The west wall of
the temple rested upon this wall as built
from the valley.
In the destruction of Jerusalem and
OF the temple this western wall from
the level of the summit to the bottom
of the valley was not actually disturbed; ;
1t remains to this day practically intact.
At the base of this wall in the valley.
now called the Tyropoean, is the present
day "wailing place" of the Jews. 1t was
chosen because this part of the wall is
the only remaining part Of Solomon S
Temple.
The prophet Micah prophesied that
Zion should be plowed as a field and
Jerusalem should become heaps. Jere-
miah repeated this. Zion was plowed as
a field and Jerusalem did become heaps
but the temple area was never entirely
abandoned and it was impossible that
1t should be plowed
May 81. j. w. THOMPSON.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
The New Tax Bill

Inc DISTRICT tax Dill which Repre-
sentative Nichols has introduced in
the House bears little resemblance
to the model" tax plan which was
to constitute a so-called reform in
local taxation. 1t departs sharply
from the principles advocated by the
tax experts hired to draft a model
tax plan. There is nothing definite
or hopeful in its revenue raising
powers. Instead of being substituted
for two unpopular taxes, it abolishes
only one of them and retains a
patched-up version of the other. In
retaining the other-the gross re-
ceipts taX-it makes permanent
temporary, emergency tax measure
which has been discredited.
introduced now, toward the tall
end of the session, the dangers to the
District inherent in any hastily
drawn tax measure are increased by
the possibility that it will be rail-
roaded through the House without
time for careful consideration.
1t may be helpful to keep these
facts in mind:
The appropriation bill passed by
the House called for general fund
appropriations of about $4O,OOOO0O.
The existing taxes, with the cur
rent SITS tax on realty and tangible
personal property, and the $5,OOO,OOO
lump sum- yield about $42,500,0OO.
The tax bill proposed by Mr..
Nichols would yield, according to
estimates, some of which are admit
tedly dubious, about $40, 500 OOO-with
the real estate tax rate reduced from
the current SITS to a proposed S1.50,
the lump sum remaining the same.
In other words, if the new tax
measure carries out one of its two
promised benefits, the reduction of
the real estate tax, it will not raise
the money necessary to finance pro-
posed appropriations. If it does not
carry out the promised benefit, it
probably outweighs in it's disadvan-
tages and dangers to the District the
schedule of existing taxes.
The new bill drops the idea of the
combined income-sales tax, which
the experts recommended as fair
taxation on all classes of income as
we'll as being good revenue-ra
It retains, however, an income tax
which exempts all earned income
under $10000-a figure which is
deliberately drawn to miss the SAL
aries of members of Congress in
hopes of avoiding embarrassment
over that troublesome issue. 1t es-
tablishes the pleasant illusion that
by soaking the higher income tax
brackets with a local income tax,
enough money can be raised to do
away with the unpopular tax on in
tangibles-the other promised benefit.
But soaking the higher income tax
brackets will produce only $1,500,0OO
(according to the estimates whereas
the intangibles tax yields $2,875,O 900.
1t thus becomes necessary to retain
the gross receipts tax, in addition to
a new 5 per cent tax on corporation
income. 1t is going to be hard to
establish any advantages to the
District in this new measure.