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Evening star., 1939-05-09
Dr.. YounedohI to Leod
AuQustuno Choir Here

DR.. Carl r. Youngdahl, noted
church, music director, will Lead the
Augustana College Choir in its ap-
pearance at the Luther Place Me-
mortal Church on May is.
DR.. Youngdahl has been head of
the music department at Augustana
since the college established its four
year liberal arts course in 1921. Au-
gustana College Is in Sioux Falls,
S. Oak.
He was one Of the pioneers in the
Evening star., 1939-05-09

Francis and Helena Parrish. boy.
Woodson and Dorothy Birthright, boy.
Loren and Edith Calkin. boy.
Francis and Clara Perkins boy.
william and Inex Gary. girl.
Cecil and Christiana Gosnell. boy.
Edmund and Marian Doolan, girl.
Carlin and Jessie Brown. girl.
Qadus and Lula Ambrose. boy.
John and Nancy Parrish. boy.
Charles and Ottilie Walters. girl.
James and Ruth Catterton. girl
Jimmy and Elizabeth Gordon, boy.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON c. TUESDAY MAY g. 1889

Francis v. Reed. 4b. Walter Reed General
Hospital
Marsaret Brown. 25. GeorEetown University
HOSPITAL.
infant Black, sibley Memorial HOSPITAL.
Sarah e. Weldon IS. Casuslty HOSPITAL.
Sidney Ceiestine 80. Casualty Hospital
Pearl Blue. 80. GaliinRer Hospital.
Herbert Ross, 10. Emergency Hospital.
Infant Ware, Columbia Hospital
Infant Moy sibley HOSPITAL.
Evening star., 1939-05-09
Births Reported

Earl and Beulah Vermillion. girl
Thomas and Helen Foley. girl.
Allen and Gwendolyn Murdock. girl.
John and Susan Smith. girl.
Edwin and Eulalia Grafton. boy.
Charles and Ann Shinkwin, girl.
Robert and Margaret Mccormick girl.
George and Ruth Hall. boy.
Frederick and Margaret Haskell. jr., girl.
James and Margaret Curtis. boy
Evening star., 1939-05-09
New HlCH-VITAMIN Yeast
Gives 300 Extra Units Daily
Of this "NERVE" VITAMIN

Nervous irritability is one of the
ills people may suffer when they
fail to get enough of this i'm
portant "Nerve" Vitamin B1 from
their regular meals.
Today-the new Fleischmann's
H1GH-VITAMIN Yeast brings
you a greatly increased amount
Of this necessary vitamin. 49,.
2 cakes every day supply 800.
extra units of Nerve" Vitamin-
all the average person should
need (in addition to meals, as
we'll as rich extra amounts of
"Cold-Fighting" Vitamin A and
VitaminS D and G.
And when you get this HIGH
VITAMIN Yeast you also get the
remarkable BOOSTER ACTION"
of fresh yeast itself. The yeast
helps stimulate poor digestion.
This better digestion helps you
make fuller use OF the vitamins
eaten-offers more complete re-
suits than vitamins alone.
Eat one cake of Fleischmann's
HIGH-VITAMIN YEAST " hour
before breakfast and y hour
before supper. Start today!
oopyright. 1889, Standard Brands.
Incorporated.
Evening star., 1939-05-09

principal speakers at q technical
session of the American Institute OF
Electrical Engineers, Washington
section, at the Potomac Electric au-
ditorium at 8 o'clock tonight. =
Evening star., 1939-05-09

Eneineets Meet Tonight
G. L. Weller and E. r. Greenleaf,
engineers with the Chesapeake g.
Potomac Telephone Co., will be the
Evening star., 1939-05-09
Electricity Guards Cattle

Single strand wire fences elec-
trically charged are proving effec-
tive in keeping cattle in fields in
Australia.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Motorists Already Controlled,
Says Westerner.

To the Editor of The Star:
After reading numerous letters in your
paper In regard to the so-called "pedes-
trian control" especially one signed
pedestrian" deploring the dictator
ship" over pedestrians wonder if these
"non-car owners" ever consider the fact
that we auto drivers are subjected to
dictatorship" at every street crossing.
We are not allowed on the sidewalk, so
why should jaywalkers be allowed to
walk where they please on the street?
The great majority of drivers do not
want to hurt any one, but when one of
our champions of personal rights steps
out from between two parked cars in
the middle of the block on his way
across the street right in front of our
cars and is picked up by an ambulance,
we are usually blamed, even if our
brakes are in good condition and we
stop as quickly as we reasonably can.
have been driving for % years and
never have injured person or an ami
NAL, but have had some close calls
with some fools who thought more of
their personal rights than they did of
their necks.
come from the Far West, where the
so-called dictatorship" is extended to
pedestrians and motorists alike, and
where one woman from the East got
week In jail for insisting upon crossing
the street against the traffic officers or
ders. AN OLD DRIVER.
December 81.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Freedom, Slowly Gained,
Requires Protection.
To the Editor of The Star.

10 the Editor OF The Star
As this old year comes to an end
here is something for us Americans to
think about. 1t is condensation from
the New York Times Magazine, in the
Readers Digest for January, by James
Truslow Adams
I'VE are at present confronted by
the storms Of new political philosophy,
sweeping over nation after nation which
we have hitherto considered as highly
cultured and civilized, but in which per-
sonal rights and liberties now have
largely ceased to exist. Think what has
happened in Austria, Czecho- -Slovakia
and Germany. There is no right of per-
son or property. There is no right of
trial. Cruel and unusual punishments
have become commonplace. And the
four fundamental freedoms were ban
ished SO completely and so early in the
game that they are but vague memory
in the hearts of men and women in
the concentration camps. Now, even
the concentration camps pale into the
background of terror officially inspired
against whole section Of the people
whose only crime is in being a minority.
IF there ever was a time when we
should read again our guarantees and
think of what they mean, surely it is
now. Our freedom is unique, yet we
take 1t for granted. Our courts still
function, and they uphold the laws of
our elected legislatures. We worship as
we please. Our homes are safe from
invasion by Gestapo or its equivalent.
Our property cannot be confscated. We
are free to criticize, to assemble and
debate the issues. Our vote is free and
secret. Our press may speak its mind
and print the news ..
1--WE are free people because freedom
has been the American ideal from the
first days Of the Republic, an ideal en-
bodied in the opening words of the
Declaration of independence and firmly
planted in the Constitution. But it has
taken centuries of time and oceans of
blood to achieve and secure those ele-
mental freedoms embodied in our Bill Of
Rights, and should they be lost the
whole agonizing path might have to be
trod once more before happier genera
tlons would know again such liberty of
person and freedom of spirit. Freedom
stands only so long as free men make
it stand against the winds Of intolerance
and abuse. Our Bill of Rights shall
stand, likewise, only so long as we realize
and value the unique and fundamental
freedoms of which it Is the bulwark.
Only 50 long as we are vigilant."
Let us never allow to slip from us
that which our forefathers died to
preserve. H. B. BRADFORD.
December 70.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
A Blue Moon

Everybody has heard of a blue
moon, but Washingtonians last eve
ming between five and six o'clock
had an opportunity to see one. The
phenomenon is so rare as to give
rise to common expression synony-
nous with never. Yet it does happen
now and again. Crowds of people
watching the sky at sunset yesterday
could testify to the reality-a pale
azure disk against rosy haze in
the southeast, clear and distinct,
beautiful to behold.
Some of the bystanders, of course,
may have wondered whether they
could credit their eyes. Perhaps
they remembered the skepticism re-
hected in Roy and Barlow's "Rede
Me and Be Mott Wroth," quoted in
the Century Dictionary: "Yf they
saye the none is believe, we must
believe that it is true, admittynge
their Interpretation" But the Rev.
erend Doctor E. Gotham Brewer, in
his Historic Note Book" reports:
I'm the second week of December,
1883, we had green, purple and blue
moons; on the seventh, green; on
the tenth, blue. The sunset clouds
were also unusually brilliant and
deep-colored. On September 2, 1883,
the sun at Trinidad was blue, and
at Panama it was green"
Those men of science who study
the heavens or those who chronicle
the weather should be able to explain
the mystery. Meanwhile, the world,
Evening star., 1939-01-03

bulbs. etc.-are practically as old Is
America.
Some Of them which today are going
to thousands Of persons the country over
have q history Is old as the Republic.
They represent successful businesses.
but above all, 1t seems>to gardeners, they
represent . dream, an effort of the hui
man imagination toward beauty.
This horticultural Imagination, as 1t
might be called, is based solidly on the
average Americans love Of home.
Love Of home is 50 precious that moth
ing which aids 1t can be overlooked.
In the galaxy Of these precious aids,
pone is more beloved than the gardening
art.
Even in the historic days of the west
ward movement. when struggling pioneers
had 50 much Landscape" around them
that they would not have thought land
scape architecture" necessary, even If
they had heard the term, they neverthe-
less planted q few flowers and lilac
bushes.
Gradually the rose came into its own
as towns grew up.
The old Dorothy Perkins climber was
favorite, despite its tendency to mildew.
Today the arts of home gardening and
landscape architecture have come into
their own everywhere.
There are few homeoWners now who
have not heard of foundation planting
Everybody who buys a house today
wants some shrubs around the founda-
ton to take away that bare look.
People today understand gardening
and do great deal of it, They may not
be gardeners, at least in the eyes of
their neighbors, but at any rate they
read about it, talk about it and practice
1t to some extent.
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These are the people, in their millions.
who send for and receive the seed
catalogues.
Often these booklets-some of them
are really books Of several hundred pages
are very much beloved in the house.
hold.
Every home has its favorite, of course,
mostly depending upon what success the
home grower has had with the seed
which he has ordered
Each seed house takes pains to issue
. standard disclaimer, saying that it
cannot be responsible for the crop.
Still home gardeners are human and
they are not willing to take all of the
credit for failure
If what they plant does not turn out
we'll, they are very likely to blame the
seed and the seedman and his catalogue
Fireside gardening, fortunately, takes
no reckoning of failure. That is why it
is such happy sport.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Your Income
And Your Outoo

We all have to spend, and we all
should save. There is a proper way of
doing both. Expenses are divided into
food, shelter, operating. clothing, adj
vancement and recreation. Your income
must be distributed among these items
In order to put something aside for an
emergency-and there is no life that
does not encounter an occasional emer-
gency. Write today for your copy of
the 1889 HOUSEHOLD BUDGET BOOK
LET. 1t tells how to make the best
uses of money, how to save. and how
to make your money work for you. It
has ruled accounting pages for keeping
daily record of expenses and income.
The special paper will preserve your
daily records in either ink or pencil. Ten
cents postpaid.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Attorney General Murphy

In selecting Governor Frank Muir
ply as his new Attorney General,
President Roosevelt follows course
that was charted when he brought
Harry Hopkins into the cabinet.
The appointment of the Michigan
executive, who failed of reelection,
places at the head of the Department
OF Justice an ardent supporter of the
New Deal and amounts to reaffir-
nation OF Mr.. Roosevelt's announced
determination to strive for the pres
ervation of what he considers true
liberalism" within the Democratic
party. The choice is in line with the
generally accepted belief that a
President should enjoy wide discre-
ton in selecting his cabinet advisors.
Those who disagree with Mr.. Roose-
velt as to what constitutes liberalism
undoubtedly will have a voice in
opposing Senate confirmation of both
OF the new cabinet nominees. In the
case of Governor Murphy, it is ex-
pected that he will be attacked for
his handling of the Michigan sit
down strikes. The critics of Cover
nor Murphy's attitude on the strike
question believe his policies tended
to foster disrespect for law and or
derly procedure, and that he could
have used force to evacuate the
strikers without giving rise to serious
disorders or bloodshed. Governor
Murphy, and many others, including
the President, believe he acted wisely,
and cite the eventual peaceful settle
ment OF the strikes in support of
their belief.
Whatever the merits of that con-
troversy, the fact remains that the
sit-down strike as practiced in Michi-
gan has become thoroughly discred-
tied in the public mind. The case
might we'll have been different had
the application of forcible methods
by Governor Murphy resulted in
widespread disorder and bloodshed.
In all other respects there appears
to be no room for criticism of Gov
ernor Murphys record. He did a
good job as High Commissioner of
the Philippines, relinquishing that
$18,0O0-a-year post at the request of
the President to seek the $5,O0O-a-
year governorship of Michigan. Es-
sentially an idealist, he gave the
State clean government. Among
other things, he put through model
civil service law and administered it
without regard to political considera-
tions-a fact which proved most dis
tressing to good many Democratic
organization leaders whose friends
lost their State employment. He is
gifted with pleasing personality and
has shown himself to be an able ad-
ministrator. The probabilities are
Evening star., 1939-01-03

nationally agnostic Of omens, need
not be unduly disturbed. The regent
of the night" is not misbehaving.
She follows her accustomed path,
still loyal to her lord the patient
sun. Only the mist through which
the children of earth gaze up at her
troubles their vision. Eventually,
the picture will clear and the "pearly
barge" be bright as FURNISHED silver
sailing in the ocean of the hours
serenely dark for quiet sleep.
Evening star., 1939-01-03

neither own nor drive a car of any kind
But I know I live in a motorized age,
and 1t is but logical to try to cooperate
with those in official capacity in their
efforts to protect an individual whether
he be walking or driving car. I lose
about five minutes each day in exer-
cising control of myself while crossing
streets, but have to watch very closely
to avoid having some other pedestrian
rush me along against the red" Nine
drivers out of ten show judgment and
courtesy under present traffic rules; I
believe the percentage would increase
very materially If the pedestrian would
do his part.
A CONFIRMED PEDESTRIAN.
December 81.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Urges Pedestrians Help
Safety Control.


To say that was surprised at the
headlines and much of the substance
matter concerning the Pedestrian Con-
troll Hearing which appeared in your
early editions on December 20, is put
ting it mildly. Your editorials prior to
the hearing certainly indicated that
some kind of pedestrian scontrol or
pedestrian protection (the latter term
is much more f1tting) was approved
strongly by those Of your organization
who have time to think before they
fash matter before the public in your
columns. Your headline composers, copy
writer's and reporters certainly seemed
to miss the point in their efforts to
handle the news side of the proceedings
OF the hearing on the 29th, especially
that part Of the hearing occurring be-
fore the noon recess. was present at
the morning session, and I am sure I
heard every word that was said by those
expressing any kind Of opposition to
pedestrian protection. There was COM
paratively little constructive opposition
at the morning session, and such as it
was bordered on the puerile or absurd
except in minor instances. Most of the
opposition seemed to take the view that
our trafnc ofdcials were trying to put
over trick whereby the man at the
wheel would be given special privileges
which would be detrimental to the indi-
vidual desiring to cross the street on
foot. My view of the plan is that it is
an endeavor to make it feasible to
enforce the regulations or laws against
the thoughtless or reckless drivers; that
II the mass Of the walkers could go
into court with clean hands" it would be
much easier to curb the actions of such
drivers.
Most OF us are too impatient, whether
driving or walking. Common sense and
efforts at constructive persuasion in
traf1ic matters have not proved effective;
hence the necessity for some sort of
penalty against the impatient for their
own and their fellowman's good.
Your paper is of material Importance
in shaping the opinions of tens of thou
sands of Washingtonians, and I believe
it fell down on the 29th in the impli-
cations in its news columns that there
was very strong opposition to trafic
control IN 50 far as walkers were con-
cerned. Your reporters seemed to grab
of their thoughts from the views of the
minority; so did those from other papers.
I read the reports in several of the pa
perS and am not sure whether the use
OF the sensational words goose STEP"
RECOMMENDATION" and the like occurred In
your report or not, but they appeared
in ut least one paper.
I am not a motorist; on the other
hand, am q confirmed pedestrian.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Wise Folly.

Wise Folly.
The people say it's foolishness
To study day by day
An try to lessen folks distress,
Cause charities don't pay.
Some say it's foolishness to smile
And sillier still to cry
And utter nonsense to beguile
With song, the hours that fly.
We're told it's foolishness to seek
For fame and fortune grand
And likewise wrong to be too meek
An lowly in the land.
And probably the way we live
Is, after all, the best
1t takes some foolishness to give
This life its interest.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
The New Conqress

Unless all signs fail, the prime OBJ
jective of the Seventy-sixth Congress,
opening today, will be to revise and
implement the legislative accom-
plishmentS of the past six years.
That is the course which holds the
greatest promise of alleviating the
economic ills which have beset the
country, and, in undertaking such a
task, the Congress will have the
wholehearted support of all except,
perhaps, few of the extreme New
Dealers.
1t is quite likely that Speaker
Bankhead, in his Radio Forum ad-
dress last night, voiced the senti-
ments of the majority of the return
ing Democrats when he expressed
the belief that I'VE cannot afford to
overlook the result of the last elec-
ton" The Speaker was on emf
nently sound ground when he said
it behooveS the Democrats to ex-
anime the reasons for the recent
Republican gains and to adopt cor
rective legislation if it should appear
that the G. o. P. successes reflected
public dissatisfaction with bad fea-
lures of laws that have been passed,
or disapproval of unwise admins
tration of those laws.
The Speakers counsel, of course,
does not harmonic with the Presi-
dents reported contention that the
election setbackS were attributable
to local conditions, and in no wise
indicative of public dissatisfaction
with the New Deal. But, whatever
may be Mr.. Roosevelt's personal be-
llefs on that score, it is not probable
that he will press for any new reform
legislation. 1t has been announced
that there will be no list of must"
bills from the White House and no
more drafting of legislation by ex-
ecutlve employees; in other words,
that Congress is to be left to work
out its own legislative program in its
own way.
There will, of course, be some new
legislation bearing on the matter of
national defense. 1t is to be ex-
pected that the study of this highly
important subject will require con-
siderable time, but with this excep-
ton, and possibly that of new eff
fort to work out a governmental re-
organization program, Congress
should devote the remainder of the
session to re-examination and posi-
BILE revision of such laws as those
pertaining to the relief setup, labor
relations, the farm problem, social
security, the tax structure and the
wage-hour administration. If Con-
gress can overhaul these vital legisla-
tive experiments so as to eliminate
the more serious inequities and to
simplify their administration it will
have rendered a most signal service.
That, at any rate, is the direction in
which it is to be hoped the returning
legislators will apply their energies.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles Z. Trace1ueu.

This Is the accepted time Of year for
the sport Of indoor gardening.
Already some Of the seed catalogues
have come in.
This type of mental gardening may or
may not be done by = fireside. but there
can be no doubt Of the open fire helping
in the mood.
Yes. 1t is . mood, . very definite one.
1t really takes . mighty good imagina-
ton to see great red tomatoes In bloom,
even II the hrst page of the catalogue
displays them in full color and all their
glory.
Just As it. isn't absolutely necessary
for the nreside gardener to have Q fre-
side. 20 he may actually be minus .
garden, too.
Here again, however. there can be little
question that the ownership Of some plot
Of ground. be 1t small or large, adds .
great deal.
Pure imagination Is owned only by
children and q very few adults.
But there are plenty Of men and
women who have enough Of this precious
ingredient to add decidedly to their 10y
Of life.
The average home gardener certainly
Is one Of these. No matter how small
ones yard. or how limited the effects to
be secured. the amateur gardener needs
imagination to make the best of his place.
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Imagination helps out those three solid
factors-books, friends and catalogues
Under books, of course, we include gar
dening magazines.
The catalogues occupy a niche all their
own in the heart Of every real gardener
Nothing quite takes their place.
They begin to come at this season of
the year, when outside all is cold and
bare, and bring quite new messages of
a world Of greenery and flowers.
They are poets. as it were, although
using very humble prose, who somehow
have taken it into their heads to adopt
this form out of sheer delight with it.
They tell their stories of watermelons,
tomatoes, corn and many another vege-
table, and Of zinnia, petunia and aster.
They tell how to repell insects and
what fertilizers to buy. They show pic
lures Of the most novel gardening imple-
mentS.
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AS for the illustrations Of vegetables
and garden flowers, they are quite beyond
compare.
No branch Of the printing profession
has made larger strides in the past 20
years than the horticultural printers.
There is small, small group of them
and they print most of the catalogues.
These seed catalogues, as they are called
although, of course they list plants,
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Urges Safety Islands
For Pedestrians.

To the Editor Of The Star:
sPerhaps 1t would sound better to speak
Of pedestrian assistance" rather than
control"
live near Connecticut avenue, Wood
ley road and Calvert street. The streets
are wide and cars always go in two-or
three-directions simultaneously. For
drivers II also drive) the traffic lights
are perfect; for pedestrians they are
rotten. The pedestrian cannot see the
lights and has no idea what happens.
To cross the wide street is to take
chance
respectfully suggest that if the Com
missioners would construct refugees in
the middle Of the wide streets here and
at the many similar places in Washing
ton they would earn the heartfelt thanks
Of many citizens.
CHARLES w. BOWMAN.
December ~.