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Evening star., 1939-10-18
Midget Autos Finish uesdoy:
SCHNEIDER Scores Sweep

Washington's first season of
midget auto racing will come to an
end with next, Tuesday nights pro-
gram at Capitol Speedway.
Before Promoter Ray Alvis re-
opens the plant next year he in
tends to make extensive improve
ments and probably will change the
name of it.
One-legged Bill SCHNEIDER cap
tured both 25-lap feature races last
night before 5000 fans, shooting
past Harry FELTON, on the final lap
to take the first race in 6 minutes
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Skeet Trophy at Stake

A large field of crack shots is eX-
pected to compete in the Denny
Upson Trophy shoot at the National
Capital Skeet Club starting at II
am. Sunday. Several minor events
also are scheduled, with prizes in
each.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Fights Last Night
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK-Augie Arrellano 150l4,
Mexico. outpolnted Frank Young 1472s.
New Haven, Conn ts); Jimmy LetO,
l5134 Hartford, Conn. outponted
Milo Theodorescu. 1857 Rumania 's):
Bernie Friedkin, 1874 2. Brooklyn, out
pointed PETE Galiano, l40, BaltI-
NEW BEDFORD. Mass Eddie Dolan,
1i1. Waterbury. Conn. .outpointed
Babe Verilla. l49. New Bedford G01.
WHITE PLAINS, ~ WINNIE
Vines. 14l. Schenectady, N Y, out
pointed Pat Foley. 1873. Boston tO.
HOUSTON. Tex-Jorge Morelia. 1872.
Monterrey, outpointed Phil Zwick. 1873,
Cleveland G0).
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Return Of Shu Buoys
Y. N. |. for Virginia
Homecoming Tilt
Gen. Marshall Will Be
Guest Of Honor; Duke
Shows Sportsmonship
BY the Associated Press.


LEXINGTON, Va, Oct. 18-Gen.
George C. Marshall, chief of staff OF
the United States Army ". NJ 1.
'0l and a left tackle on the 1900
team will be the honor guest at the
v. M. I.-Virginia homecoming day
ceremonies Saturday.
Capt. Paul Shu and the other cadet
early-season casualties are ready to
go and erase that surprising 1912 tie
the Cavaliers earned last year.
DURHAM, N. Gust to prove
sportsmanship inst dead:
In the Pitt game Coach Wallace
Wade of Duke sent in a sub for
George McAfee Dick Cassiano
Pitts great back, ran over to con-
gratulate George on the fine game he
had played. The Blue Devils had a
pass all primed for Cassiano's terri
tory, as soon as time was in, but
when the quarterback saw Cassiano
and McAfee talking he waited until
the Pitt back had returned to his
defensive post-and then ran the
play.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
135-Pounders Seek Foes

The Silver Spring 135-pound foot
ball team would like a game for
Sunday with a club in its class. Call
Silver Spring 1901 after 7 o'clock.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
SkibOs Return Trophy.

NEW YORK.-The Lambert Tro-
ply, emblematic of the Eastern in
tercollegiate football championship
returns to New York this week. Car
negie Tech, winner of the trophy
last year, will return it to the Board
of Trustees when Tech comes to
play N. Y. The trustees will award
the trophy again this year at the
conclusion of the grid season.
LOS ANGELES.-Youve heard
about how much football teams
travel. Here's the other side of the
picture. The U. C. L. A. Bruins
will stay at home for the next
seven games. The Uclans ended their
sightseeing last Saturday in a
jaunt to Palo Alto for the Stanford
game.
Evening star., 1939-10-18
Injured in "HOrse PIay."

NEW YORk.-Because he was
fooling around, Art Gmitro won't get
to play when the C. c. N Y. eleven
meets the Susquehanna Crusaders.
Gmitro bumped his knee 'horsing
around after last Fridays pre-game
warmup, and it turns out that the
bump is either torn muscle or a
torn ligament. None of the c. c. N
Y. players who got in the Scranton
game was injured!
Evening star., 1939-10-18

Here's 10 the quolitY-minded
tavern keeper who pays
more for National Bohemian
thdn for nY other ten cent
bottle Of beer on the market.
He pays the price 10 give you
something extra in volue.
Pot him on the back und
congratulate yourself thot
you have found q mon who
Is willing to pdy the price
to give you the best.
Treat yourself right by suy-
ing NATIONAL BOHEMIAN.
brewed by
The National Brewing Company
Baltimore, Md.
WASHINGTON Michigan asO0
Evening star., 1939-10-18

ABILENE, Tex.-Are Southwest
ern coaches blushing? Four years
ago many of them passed up a
gangling kid just out of Sweetwater
High School because he was too
skinny and not tough enough" To-
day that kid, Clyde (Bulldog) Tur-
ner, is the 220-pound. Commute
center of the Hardin Simmons Cow
boys and regarded as the best in
the Southwest by many experts.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Labor Board Concessions

Positive word that the National
Labor Relations Board is preparing
four specific revisions of it's own ad-
miniStrative rules should be welcome
news to all who are sincerely desirous
of more orderly employer -employe
relations.
Undoubtedly of greatest impor-
tance among the changes forthcom-
ing is that which will permit employ
ers to file petitions for board certifi-
cation of employe organizations as
proper bargaining units. Too many
times in the past three years, par
ticularly where labor's own warfare
has been most intense, have employ
ers stood helpless as two or more
contending unions resorted to meth
DDS often far from orderly to gain
domination.
In such circumstances the order
ing of board election should open
the way to relieving both the har-
assed employer and the probably
harassed employees.
While perhaps more limited in
their potential improvement of cur
rent conditions, the other three ad-
mlnistrative revisions do possess def
mite merit, assuring parties of longer
time in which to prepare for hear
lngs after complaints are issued, as
suring bona fide labor organizations
that they shall be made parties to
any proceedings affecting the validity
OF their contracts, and assuring in
dependent unions of opportunity to
intervene in proceedings involving
alleged company domination.
Coupled with the recent change
in the board personnel, this demon
Strated Willingness to acknowledge
by curative action some of the manv
complaints against it, belated though
it Is, should contribute to somewhat
greater measure of confidence in this
quasi-judicial agency. At the same
time, 1t must be realized that these
revlsions in administrative policy
alone probably are not sufficient to
create the peaceful and healthy con-
dition OF labor relations specified as
an objective of the law.
Congress should continue its in
quiry into the workings of the stat
ute, therefore, to the end that its
perfection may be achieved, or at
least approached, with all reasonable
speed.
Evening star., 1939-06-23

sons received diplomas from the
school. Two were husband and wife.
Another was the mother of son
with two law degrees. They repre-
sented Mexico, Italy, Guatemala,
Bulgaria, China, France, Poland,
Germany and even Austria and
Czecho-Slovakia which now have
ceased to exist as independent states.
These people from afar may in
deed prove better citizens than many
born under the protection of the
Stars and Stripes because they have
come in some instances from lands
scourged by the "dogs of war" into a
land of peace and guaranteed civil
rights. They are not likely to forget
the before-and-after of their ex-
perience.
And 1t is an interesting thought
that these people from the ends of
the earth can sit down side by side
in classroom where in their native
environment they could not, in
some instances, abide one another.
Stripped of his nationalism and out
OF the reach Of intolerant propa-
ganda that shapes his life, man
fundamentally is not contemplate
creature.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
THIS AND THAT
From the best grass you ever had to
the worst can be q very short step
By Charles E. Trdce1peH.

From the best grass you ever had to
the worst can be very short step.
About month will do it, evidently.
Dry days, too much nitrate, insects,
fungi
These are some of the possible causes.
The worried lawnmaker may suspect
Japanese beetles, too.
The truth is, there is host of enemies,
including other plants, which are
enemies to good grass.
Determination of the reason for fail
ure is the first step in bettering con-
ditions, but at this time of year, in a
dry summer, the battle will continue.
Sometimes it seems that the less you
do to a lawn, the better it is.
Often the grass which has gone along
year after year in good shape sud-
denly begins to go bad.
1t develops spotty places, dies clear
out, becomes brown, may even have a
disagreeable blue fungus in large spots.
There Is an insect, practically invisible,
which causes extensive brown patches.
bad when hot weather strikes it. Grass
may be poor in the spring, to become
thicker and greener in the heat.
Profit from the experience of one
householder:
II you use chemical fertilizers, be sure
to water every day for weeks, during a
dry spell. or the grass will be burned.
In normally rainy spring and early
summer, this will not happen, but it
may in such season as this.
This seems to be a more or less COM
mon reaction to too much nitrate or
ammonium sulphate. The grass looks
fine for month or so, after that it
begins to get yellow.
Is the answer more of the same, or
less. or none at all?
Maybe it lies in plentiful watering,
kept up persistently, not Just now and
then.
Gardeners have argued for years over
the advisability of watering grass when
the sun is on it.
Latest findings would seem to prove
that the practice is not harmful, but
many homeowners will stick to their
belief that 1t is.
No doubt many such opinions are
wrong, based on incomplete findings, or
happenings. Suppose ones lawn turns
yellow, Immediately after watering in
the sunshine?
Surely it looks as if the combination
did it, whereas 1t might have had moth
ing at all to do with it. However, one
will have difficult time trying to con-
vince the gardener that it had nothing
to do with it. He knows better!
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Sea Cow

When Sheriff Pearson of Sarasota
was directed to slap a writ of attach
ment under labor lien against
tank and truck, little did he reckon
that it would mark high spot in his
career. When he got the equipment
to his Office, he was amazed to find
that 1t contained a twenty six hun
dred-pound manatee, or sea COW. A
quick visit to the county judge re-
suited in disappointment. His honor
ruled that the sheriff must continue
custody pending a hearing two weeks
later. At press time, bossy is still
tanked up, and the sheriff is COM
pletely at sea over the problem of
how to care for his submarine COL
lateral.
In his search for instruction on
the care and feeding of manatees he
has looked in vain through the usu-
ally informative pages of the Hand
book for Florida Sheriffs. He found
mastery style forecast on the trend
IN manacles, followed by an article
on the proper use, habits, and char
acteristics of the mandamus, but,
alas, there was nothing in between
about manatees. Beyond vague
idea that it should be kept as moist
as possible he knows little or moth
ing about the sea-going Holstein. He
does not know whether to feed it
sponges or sea weed, and the prob
lem of milking it is slowly driving
him mad.
The sheriff's dilemma is largely due
to a lack of military training. Any
army officer, faced with this impasse.
would know enough to stop the first
noncom he saw, and say, Sergeant.
take care of this sea cow" Mr.. Pear
son is advised to follow this illus
trious example, by appointing one
of his deputies as Grand Exalted
High Keeper of the Manatee, and
then go home and get some sleep.
Evening star., 1939-06-23

avowal Of responsibility for damages
incurred If warships are not with
drawn. ut is not considered that this
warning" Admiral Yarnell told the
japanese, relieves the japanese au-
thorities in the slightest degree Of
responsibility for damage or injury
: to United States naval vessels or per-
sonnet" Meantime, a third Ameri-
can ship, the coastal gunboat Ashe-
vile, is leaving Hong Kong for Swa-
tow, which will make total of three
naval vessels flying our flag at the
latest scene of controversy between
Japan and the western powers.
The japanese military authorities
do not, Of course, concede the under
lying reason for their successive acts
of high-handedness against Occiden-
tai nations. Their official alibi is that
the International Settlements at
Shanghai, Tientsin and elsewhere are
serving as asylums for "terroristic
acts and anti-Japanese propaganda 4"
The real reason, of course, is that
Japan is steadily, If slowly, reaching
the end of her economic tether in
the China war. She is finding the
task of crushing Chiang's resistance
a process that is sapping the island
empires human and material re-
sources to the breaking point. There
can be no other explanation of the
Toxic war lords readiness to risk an
open breach with Great Britain,
France and the United States. The
naval evacuation order at Swatow
Is SION Of deSnara tim
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Another Spending Plan

PRESIDENT ROOSeVelt'S latest pump
priming scheme is another indication
that the New Deal, despite it's opti-
mistic assurances, really has no
formula for economic recovery.
Under the proposal advanced yes
terday various Federal agencies
would be authorized to issue over a
period of years Government-guaran-
teed bonds in the aggregate sum of
$3,860, 100000. The agencies then
would lend the proceeds from the
sale of these bonds for what the
President calls non-F Federal, self
liquidating projects.
Viewed in its most favorable light,
the plan is an Improvement on its
predecessors only in the sense that
it contemplates no outright gifts of
Federal money. There is, of course,
little basis in fact for the Presidents
belief that the self-liquidating prof.
ects will not cost the taxpayers any
thing. 1t may be safely assumed
that some OF the projects, the loans
to foreign governments, for example,
will not be fully repaid. Obviously,
1t Is impossible to determine in ad-
vance how many of the loans will
prove to be non-recoverable, but on
the basis of past experience it is only
reasonable to suppose that they will
not be repaid In full.
There Is greater objection to the
plan, however; namely, that it marks
continuation of a policy which,
despite its appalling cost, has not
only failed to stimulate recovery in
the past, but which, in the Judgment
OF many competent observers, has
definitely retarded industrial i'm
provement. This Nation is going
through period of transition. MANY
OF the old processes of expansion and
consequent business stimulation are
at an end. At such times the accu-
mutation OF debt is dangerous and
depressing in its effects because of
the knowledge that it can only be
paid by the imposition of heavier
taxes. But the President apparently
chooses to ignore the realities of the
situation, and the folly of that course
is not minimized by calling these
new loans contingent debt, for if
the Government guarantees the
bonds it assumes responsibility for
their repayment just as though the
money had been borrowed directly
by the Treasury.
Congress, with little if any encour-
agement from the President. has
made some progress toward eliminat-
ing the difficulties enveloping the
country by correcting faulty tax poll
cies and reforming the relief pro-
gram. 1t is to be hoped that the
legislators will not permit these
gains, however slight, to be more
than offset by another Ill advised
printing adventure.
Evening star., 1939-06-23

The use Of organic fertilizers is safer
in average hands, perhaps, since they
contain so much humus, which has plain
benefits all by itself.
This Is SO because far too many lawns
are made on exactly the wrong kind of
soil, in the first place.
lifetime Of patching and attempting
to get lawn is given the owner along
with his house
Whereas If the soil had been right, in
the beginning, four times as good lawn
would have resulted with one-tenth the
cost and one-twentieth the work.
1t is easy to put good sod on poor SOIL
For time the lawn will look good. Small
stones, working their way to the surface,
cause the grass to die out in spots. At
tempts to plant new seed result in failure
during the first dry spell.
Wind-blown weed seeds, of various
sorts, make havoc over the years. The
question of whether to leave clippings on,
or remove them, has never been settled to
anybody's satisfaction, either.
X xxx
All of these point to the difficulty of
having good grass in this climate.
1t will not do to brag about ones lawn
one month, for the very next it may look
bad
There Is little solace in the fact that
great places, including those run with
unlimited funds show patchy grass.
Even the Government doesn't seem to
be able to get perfect grass. A close eye
on parks and public places in general will
show as much poor grass as is to be seen
anywhere.
1t all gets back to the proposition that
this is not locality in which it is easy
to get good grass, or to keep it good after
one has got it.
1t points to the necessity of constant
study, and experimentation. What one
ought to do is profit by such expert
mentatlon. If one sort of fertilizer is
tried, and the results are not as good as
expected, go on to another type, and give
1t fair trial.
All people who love their homes meet
on the common basis of the lawn: they
want 1t fresh and green, and especially
thick; what they get, in the long rum is
an entirely different matter, in all too
many cases.
Lawns will never cease to be interest
ing, mainly because they are tempera-
mental. Calm and placid people, who
never vary, are not as interesting, alas
as mercurial temperaments who are al
ways doing something new.
We who have bad lawns will continue
to blame fertilizers and every other mat
ter rather than ourselves. Perhaps we
should be glad that grass is tempera-
mental good one month, poor the next
At least it keeps us interested.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
ln-Gutherino

Twilight opens the bars of night
And the fleecy rose-colored sheep
Walk In path Of azure light
Toward shadow, soft and deep.
They huddle in the quiet dusk,
Scarce seen and scarce concealed,
As the sun slips down, golden husk
On the days bright harvest field.
The sheep of my thoughts walk down
the lane
To rest in their quiet fold,
When the misty purple shadows stain
The hills so lately gold.
For all day long they roamed the din
Of the world, at my behest.
The sheep of my thoughts are gathered
in
And they rest, and are glad to rest.
MARION H. ADDINGTON.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Warns Against Danger of
Drift to Reaction.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
When one attempts to prophesy or
forecast with any degree of accuracy the
outcome of the 1910 election, he or she is
bound to confront the one insurmount-
able obstacle of doubt, whether Roose-
welt will run for third term or not.
Regardless of where one goes these
days, this is the paramount question in
every ones mind Seasoned political OBJ
servers recognize it as the chief stumbling
block to any fortune telling on their part.
Mr.. Roosevelt has now been in office
a little over six years. During this time
he has created great many enemies.
but it is, nevertheless, true that he has
also brought into his camp probably more
admirers than any of his predecessors.
Franklin Roosevelt, however, is content
to continue, at least until January of
l041, and it is up to the great masses of
our people to decide whether the good
he has done, more or less, offsets the few
accompanying mistakes. 1t is interesting
to note that the Presidents popularity,
according to many, national polls, is un-
usually high In 1885, preceding his sec
ond national election, his popularity was
slightly over the so per cent mark. This
preceded the unprecedented landslide
against Landon. Today his popularity is
over So per cent and the Republicans,
apparently, have no more to offer than
they did in 1886
1t seems to be almost an obseSsion
with the Republicans to cry about the
money being spent by the administra-
tion. Yet when they send an incumbent
to Congress, these same economy minded
Republicans vote for more and bigger
appropriations than the Democrats.
The majority of the Republicans who
won gubernatorial seats in last years
election have failed miserably in offering
any constructive program. Julius P,
He'll, the man who was going to give
Wisconsin an efficient, businesslike
administration by promising cheaper and
more efficient government, lower taxes
and more liberal old-age pensions, has,
together with G. o. P. Legislature,
appropriated not $15,000,000 less than La
Toilette, as promised, but over $4,000 900
more. Gov. Luren D. Dickinson of Michi-
gan, together with G. O. P. Legislature.
has wrecked Democratic Ex-Gov. Frank
Murphy's civil service system, turning
over 10000 State jobs to spoilsmen. And
so it goes in most of the States in which
Republicans were elected.
We still have 100000 people out of
work and 100000 people ill-nourished,
ill-clad, ill-housed, and not receiving
adequate medical care We don't want
totalitarian state in America and
Franklin Roosevelt is doing all in his
power to save us from it. He is recog-
nized throughout the world as the great
est champion of democracy in our times
We must plan progressively in order to
save the status quo by making 1t live
and workable thing. The President may
run again or he may not, but in any
event we must stay clear of the reaction
ary forces in both the Republican and
Democratic parties if we are to save
our democratic system of free enterprise.
BENJAMIN r. STICKNEY, Jf.
June 21.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Showdown at Swotow?

At no time has it seemed likely that
the blockade of the British conces-
sion at Tientsin would long remain
an isolated incident of Japan's cam
paign of determination of western
rights in China. The affair at Ku-
langsu, on the Island of Annoy, cou-
pied with demands for greater con-
troll of the Shanghai International
settlement, was a signal to all con-
cerned that the army y-dominated
Toxic government is bent upon de-
stroying every possibility of foreign
aid to the Chiang-Kai-shek regime,
which, after two years of undeclared
war by the invader, continues to offer
him costly opposition.
The full measure of Japans stress
is visible in its order to all foreign
warships, including ships of the
United States Far Eastern squadron.
to leave the harbor of Swatow with
out delay. SWatow, formerly commu-
nifty of 178,000, was one of three sea-
, ports still left in Chinese hands until
the japanese this week, after fierce
air and naval bombardment, occupied
the city, which is 220 miles east of
Canton. After the japanese captured
Canton last October, Swallows i'm
portance greatly increased. Millions
of dollars worth of war supplies en-
tered the port for overland transport
to Chiang's armies in Southeastern
China. British shippers and mer-
chants at Hong Kong reaped hand
some profits from reshipment busi-
ness through Swatow-a factor no
doubt largely responsible for Japan's
decision to obliterate foreign influ-
ence in that region.
The U. S. S. Pillsbury, destroyer,
is at Swatow to protect forty-e eight
American residents. Admiral Var
nell, commanding our naval forces in
Chinese waters, lost no time in re-
jecting Japan's demand for removal
of foreign naval units, his refusal be-
ing accompanied by the announce
ment that a second American de-
stroyer, U. S. S. Pope, would join the
Pillsbury. The Admiral added that
he could not accept Japanese dis
Evening star., 1939-06-23

In discussing the newly authorized
summer headgear for a portion of
Washington's police force Major
Brown states that this will be the
first time in history that local police
are permitted to wear helmets. Those
things John Law had on back in
McKinley's and Teddy's time GER
tainly were not berets. .
Evening star., 1939-06-23
New Americans

They sit together and sing Amer
lcan folk songs-men and women of
many nations-and are graduated
from the Webster Americanization
School after having learned the bet
ter to love and the better to under
stand their adopted fatherland.
This week some twenty such per-