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Evening star., 1940-08-04

to be delinquent, is forthwith ad-
judged guilty of contempt, but if he
promises in writing to make the
payments by certain date his COM
mitment to Jail is deferred to give
him opportunity to keep his agree
ment Should the husband fail to
make the payments as specified, he
is then sent to jail without further
order or appearance in court.
The effect of the new practice is
to place the burden of making the
payments directly on the husband,
relieving the wife of the necessity of
making a second trip to court to Sc
cure enforcement of the alimony
order. In this respect the new plan
should be beneficial, as some wives
have been obliged to endure needless
hardships in the past while taking
the time-consuming legal steps
necessary to follow up an original
order for alimony. 1t also seems OBJ
vious that under this practice the
Motions Court, where these matters
are heard, would have more time for
other cases, and it is to be hoped
that Justice Laws associates on the
District Court will see fit to adhere
to the procedure he has inaugurated.
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incapacity and unreadiness to meet them.
The pages of our daily press and the ar
ticles in our magazines are filled with
dire prophecies of our unfitness to face
crisis. Why? Because we have lived
so softly, taken life so easily, regarded
ourselves as SO strong and secure from
the Ills OF other peoples and nations that
we are wholly unprepared to meet set
OF conditions we had never believed could
be ours. "It can't happen here" SO a
clever novelist puts 1t, expresses the aver
age idea of the average American. We
do possess amazing recuperative powers,
but We need to be reminded that these
powers belong to people who can accept
discipline and practice self-restraint.
Physical fitness is related to moral fit
ness. They go together. It were we'll for
us to appraise our moral worth and fit
ness before we think in terms of our
mechanical and industrial capacities
We have the latter in ways that no other
nation has them. Doubtless we can out
build, ii we have to, any nation in the
world, but 1t is the part of folly to place
our security in our proficiency and skill
as builders of mechanismS, offensive and
defensive. Any consistent diagnosis of
our corporate health discloses a moral
condition that is subnormal. We in this
privileged country have grown careless of
the gifts and privileges we enjoy We
have assumed they were ours by right.
Civic and religious duties we have ac-
cepted at our convenience. That religion
had an indispensable place in our life
and that 1t called for restraint and the
recognition of wholesome, health-giving
practices, reasonably accepted disciplines,
We indifferently recognized This was a
Christian Nation-what a proud boast!
To prove it means more than saying
creeds or singing Justify Our fathers
God, to Thee Individually and colIec-
lively, we are being compelled to reap
praise ourselves. America needs above
all else moral and spiritual rejuvenation.
Without it, there are difficult days ahead.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
PRIVILEGE AND DISCIPLINE
By the Right Reu James E. Freeman D. d. ILL., D., D. c. L.
Bishop OF Washington.
Anything that we cherish as privilege

Anything that we cherish as privilege
is guaranteed to us by the care we take
to preserve it. This is true of every pos
session we have. Once we get careless
or come to regard lightly what we have
of blessing or privilege we begin to lose
it. Gratuities come too cheaply and they
go too easily Privileges and blessings,
whatever form they may take, will not
abide without the disciplines they impose.
Take health itself, how in the full flush
of it we accept it as ours by right. Why
shouldn't we enjoy it and use it as freely
and prodigally as we please? 1t Is just
at this stage where we assume our right
to it, that we grow careless in the use OF
it, and then?-some symptom discloses it
self, some part of the human mechanism
betrayS weakness and we are due Tor
period of enforced idleness or, worse, some
serious breakdown. No, the greater our
privileges, the richer our blessings, the
greater the demand to preserve and
maintain them, and that means accept
ed habits of self-control and discipline.
"He died of old age at 25,' was written
of young man who thought that health
and free indulgence were his by right.
Good health, consistent enjoyments, the
capacity to take life as it comes and to
meet its disappointments and successes
with good grace, call for a disciplined
will and ready obedience of the known
laws of wholesome living. We cant
have our cake and eat it,; we can't have
the best gifts of life and ruthlessly waste
them. Every athlete knows what it costs
to be physically At. Every man who has
to use to the fullest his mind in the pur-
suit of his profession or calling knows
that it costs something and that it de-
mands rigid obedience of well known and
we'll established rules
All this applies to our corporate life
Suddenly and in our security we are
faced with a situation that suggests
perils What these perils are the
wisest cannot adequately state. The
result Is a panicky consciousness of our
Evening star., 1940-08-04
A Matter of Rioht

Citizens of the District should be
heartened by the assurances of the
House leaders that when Chairman
Summers appears before the Rules
Committee this week he will be sue
cessful in obtaining a hearing by
the House on his national repre-
sentation resolution. For the Rules
Committee might be said to hold
the final decision whether the Sum-
ners resolution will be placed before
the House and voted on at this
session.
The importance of rule permit
ing early consideration of the
Summers resolution cannot be over
emphasized. Without it the Districts
hope that the amendment will be
submitted to the States will be greatly
reduced. For without it the resolu-
ton must then take its place on a
crowded calendar, possibly not to be
reached before the end of the ses-
sion, or there must be resort to the
doubtfully eXpedient process of petit
ton. The machinery of the House
places the decision in the hands of
the House leaders, and to them the
District appeals for the long-awaited
opportunity of a vote on this vitally
important measure.
Certainly it deserves the test of
vote. Majority Leader Rayburn be-
lieves that the necessary two-thirds
of the voting membership of the
House favors the amendment, and
no one is more closely in touch with
House sentiment than Mr.. Rayburn.
And even should there be the ap-
proval of the resolution within ten
days that Mr.. Rayburn has predicted,
the resolution still must travel a
long way-through Senate commit
tee hearings and debate-before it
starts its even longer journey
through the State legislatures
One of the two changes written
into the Summers resolution before
its report from the House Judiciary
Committee was a provision requiring
that the ratification by the States
must be completed within seven years
That provision will undoubtedly be
written into every future proposed
constitutional amendment. 1t is fair.
But its inclusion in the Summers
resolution makes all the more i'm
portant the submission of the
amendment to the States this year.
Forty legislatures will be in session
In 1941, only four more than the
minimum needed to ratify 1t will
be 1943 before such a favorable
opportunity for obtaining consider
alton of an amendment comes again.
Surely the Summers amendment
deserves the early consideration by
the House that is of such vital i'm
portance. 1t would be a calamitous
blow to the Districts hopes if the
hearing before the full House is
denied
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AIimony Payments

Associate Justice Bolitha Laws of
the United States District Court has
put into effect certain changes gov
erning the payment Of alimony and
counsel fees which may be expected
to result in more prompt settlement
of these obligations and a consider
able saving Of the courts time.
Under the former practice, a hus-
band failing to make payments as
directed by the court was ordered
to show cause why he should not be
held in contempt. When the case
was reached, as a rule, the Judge
would authorize a continuance on
the contempt issue If the husband
promised orally to make satisfactory
payments at some future date.
Under the practice, as revised by
Justice Laws, the husband. If found
Evening star., 1940-08-04
MoIotoff's Speech

On its face Premier-Foreign Com
nlissar Molotoff's speech before the
Supreme Soviet was a refutation of
any belief that Germany and Russia
are ready, or soon will be ready, to
depart from the path along which
they have travelled since last August.
Recent events in Europe probably
have cemented German Russian un-
derstanding, as Premier Molotoff
stated. AS long as Germany tolerates
Soviet expansionism there is little
basis for hope that these two chief
dictatorships of Europe will come to
any parting of the ways.
But Premier Molotoff was not
speaking for Adolf Hitler, and that
the German Fuehrer has welcomed
Russia's expansion in the Baltic
basin and into Rumania is less than
likely, for in both areas Dictator
Stain has approached perilously
close to Germanys' own bailiwick.
Although Premier Molotoff may
have had reason to hail the i'm
proved formal relations with Ger
many, he was CLOSING over funda-
mentals which in the long run will
have more to do with the fate of
German Russian affairs. The basic
condition, which has only been ag-
gravated by Russia's successes, is
the yearning of Hitler not only
for a secure hold on his Balkan "Le-
bensraum," which the proximity of
Russia threatens, but his ambition
to exploit the Russian Ukraine.
There was no reason for any one
to expect Premier Molotoff to make
other than friendly references to
Germany, for it is not now, nor
will it be in the future, in Russia's
interest to force a break with the
Reich as long as RuSsia's expan-
sionist appetite is being satisfied.
Russia, too, may not be sufficiently
strong to challenge the German mill
tary might which has proved it's
power by rolling over Poland, Nor
way, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and
France.
Berlin is doing It's best to preserve
Evening star., 1940-08-04
A Fair PROPOSAL

Chairman Poage of a special House
District Subcommittee which will
begin hearings Tuesday on a bill to
increase the local gasoline tax from
two to three cents has announced
that he will not recommend approval
OF the measure unless it can be
shown that the tax increase is neces-
sary to the Districts highway i'm
provement program. That is an
eminently fair proposal, and oppo-
nents of the increase should avail
themselves Of the opportunity thus
given to demonstrate the true char
acter of this wholly indefensible
tax scheme.
The proposed tax increase bears
no relation to local highway needs.
Receipts from the present tax rate
have approximately doubled in the
past ten years, collections for the
l94O fiscal year being just under
$4,000, 600. That yield, according to
the authorities in charge of spending
the gasoline tax funds, is more than
sufficient to meet the highway needs.
The suggested increase has as its
sole objective the satisfaction of
purely selfish demands for gas tax
equality between the District and
nearby areas in Maryland and Vir-
ginia-a scheme which is utterly
devoid of merit on its face.
Voteless residents of the District
are indebted to Representative Poage
for the position he has taken on this
matter and it is safe to assume, in
view Of his determination to ascer-
tain the true facts, that spokesmen
for the community will be able to
convince him without difficulty that
the new gas tax bill should be sum-
marily rejected.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Immigrants of 1848

On several occasions recently it
has been said that the desire of
numbers of men to escape COM
pulSory military service was the
principal motivation of the great
folk movement from Europe to
America in 1848 and Immediately
thereafter. But this affirmation is
only partly true, and for the purposes
of history, if for no other reason, the
element of error involved in it should
be corrected.
Among the troubles of the times
which prompted thousands of new
citizens to cross to the United States
were the famines in Ireland resulting
from repeated failures of the potato
crop there. Starvation, quite as
much as the political difficulties as
Sociated with the names of Daniel
O'Connell, Smith O'Brien and John
Mitchell, drove armies of people to
the United States.
In England, likewise, conditions of
life were so hard that as many as
could pay the charges of the voyage
fled over the ocean to Canada and
then to New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Illinois. The Chartist re-
volts were responsible for some emf
grafton, also; but it would be easy to
exaggerate the significance of this
factor. Similarly, the Importance of
the revolution in France in 1848
could be overestimated. AS in Italy,
mobs ran wild" and their leaders
were forced into voluntary exile, but
the number of these disappointed
Rienzis was small.
From Germany and from Austria
and Hungary, however, many youth
full liberals, representing a type ex-
emplified by Carl Schurz, undeniably
came to America in quest of civic
freedom. These young revolution
aries were prescribed for their en-
deavors to establish democracy in
the Kingdoms they desired to over
throw. But they were such a pitiful
minority as to have no chance of
success. 1t follows that they were
"a mere drop in the bucket" in the
United States to which they finally
escaped. Some arrived in 1849, some
as tardily as 1852.
Meanwhile, an accident occurring
upon the land of John Sutter, near
Coloma, California, provided a mag
net with drawing power of prodigious
strength. There on January 10, 1848,
James Wilson Marshall found gold.
News of his discovery was received in
Europe within three months. Co.
incidentally, it was reported in the
Orient. The first Chinese to appear
were two men and one woman who
reached San Francisco before Christ
mas. Within a few days after their
arrival they were "lost in the shuttle"
of cosmopolitan fortune hunters
among whom were included natives of
more than a dozen different nations.
The white population of the territory
was about 5000 in 1845. 1t was 92,-
SGT in 1850. A few of the immigrants
possibly may have been refugees
from the conscript legions of Euro
pean dictators like the King of Prus-
sia, but the vast majority of them
were in fight from still more cruel
tyrant-the slave master whose name
Is poverty.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
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Entered as second-class mi tier post once.
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this facade Of amity, and Premier
Molotoff's words evoked expressions
Of satisfaction in the German cap
ital. But this is to be expected, too,
as long as the Reich is engaged with
Britain. Germany scarcely can be
expected to start events moving
toward crisis until she feels herself
free to deal with the Russian giant
effectively.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

=, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1940-08-14

the first c. A. B. program. Funds
for the scholarships and expenses OF
the contest were underwritten by a
5000 grant to the institute by the
Shell Oil Co.
In addition to Miss Erickson and
Mr.. Lambert, the f1nalists are JET
ferson D. Lewis, Tallahassee, Fla,
graduate of the University of Flor
ida; Edward Francis Scanlon, Steu-
benville, Ohio, Kenyon College;
James Grant White. Brownwood,
Tex, junior at Daniel Baker Col
lege, Brentwood; Arden Ellwood
Hixson, Wichita, Kans., senior at
Chadron State Normal, Nebraska,
and Waldo Elmer Schroeder, Reed
ley, Calf, senior in the University
of California.
Registering at the Mayflower
Hotel today, the contestants were
taken to College Park Airport,
where they are to be assigned air.
planes, similar TO those in which
they learned to fly, for the final
contest tomorrow.
They were to be given an oppor-
tunity today to familiarize them
selves with the planes and with
the airport and terrain in prepara-
ton for the final test, which will
be based upon the flight training
required by the Civil Aeronautics
Board of applicants for flight GER
tificates
The awards will be made at a
luncheon Friday at the Mayf1ower
The presentation will be made ,by
Evening star., 1940-08-14

a member Of the firm OF Hartman
& Co., later consolidated with Har-
riman e. Keech. He was a member
of the University, Knickerbocker,
Brook and New York Clubs.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Grace Carley Hartman, formerly of
Louisville, KY; three sons, Carley
Hartman OF Hollywood and John
and Borden Hartman of New York,
and a sister, Mrs. Hartman Have
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Girl 10 Test Wings
AGAINST Six Men in
Flight Contest Here
Maryland U. Youth Will
Compete in Air Boards
National Meet Finals

Seven regional winners in a ma
tional flying contest for student
pilots trained by the Civil Aeronau-
tics Board in it's national pilot train
ing program are in Washington To-
day to participate in the contest
finals here tomorrow.
Among the contestants is one girl.
Miss Barbara Jane Erickson, 20, who
arrived as an airline passenger last
night from her home in Seattle
Wash. Another finalist is John Lin
coin Lambert. 20, of Baltimore. a
student at the University of Mary
land, who trained at College Park
Airport, College Park. Md. as a
student of George Brinckerhoff.
The contest is sponsored by the
Institute of the Aeronautical
Sciences. which has offered scholar
ships of $1,000, $3.50 and $500 to the
three outstanding pilots trained in
Evening star., 1940-08-14
Oliver Hartman, II,
Retired Broker, Dies
In Silver Spring
Prominent New Yorker
Was Brother-in-luw of
Minister to Norway

Oliver Hartman, IT, prominent
retired New York broker, who had
lived in Silver Spring. Md. since
last November, died early today at
his residence, 701 Woodside park
way.
Mr. Hartman was the brother
in-law of Mrs. J. Borden Hartman,
United States Minister to Norway,
who fed that country at the time
of the German invasion.
Born November 20, 1862, in New
York City, Mr.. Hartman was grad
uated from Princeton University in
1883. Six years later he became
Evening star., 1940-08-14

meyer Of Rhinebeck, N. Y. A sister,
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt, died. three
months ago.
Mr.. Hartman had been iii two
months. Funeral services and burial
will be held in White Plains, N. Y,
at time not yet set.
Evening star., 1940-08-14

Maj. James H. Doolittle, president
of the institute, now on active duty
with the Army Air Corps. Each of
the seven contestants will receive
wrist watch, and ,the instructor
of each finalist will be given $50.
Evening star., 1940-08-14

Half of the 1000, 900 residents Of
Texas are interested directly in the
petroleum industry.
Evening star., 1940-07-09
Meat Is Important
In Summer Diet

Because it's so easy to feel that
it's Just too hot to eat" summer
time menus should please the eye
and tease the palate. If the family's
appetite is tagging, the homemaker
must make each meal look so
tempting and taste so good that de-
spite climbing temperatures, meal
time will still be a pleasure.
Whether the mercury column
wavers at 80 or drops to the bottom,
our bodies require the same amount
of protein, minerals and vitamins
for proper nourishment. Caloric in
take alone is adapted to the weather.
The American Medical Associa-
ton substantiates this theory in it's
suggestion for hot weather diets.
I'VE may well cut down on heat
producing foods during warm
weather, but cannot neglect fruits,
fresh vegetables and some good
protein foods, such as meat, eggs
and milk"
Meat is our richest source of
protein needed to build and repair
oody tissue. The Importance and
quality of the protein in meat to-
gether with its value as a source
OF minerals and vitamins make it
impossible to use a substitute for
meat in the diet.
Meat is valuable for its own appe-
tlte appeal and because its high
content of thiamin (BD stimulates
the appetite itself.
The person in charge of the meals
Is of course interested in serving
foods that are easy to prepare as
well as those that give proper nour-
ishment. Cold meats and ready
to-serve meat answer the question
on many occasions. A large roast
can be served attractively for more
than one meal and thus helps to cut
time spent in the kitchen. Sausage
casserole dishes and broiled meats
are also easy to prepare. Meat salads
offer one of the most attractive ways
of serving health-giving foods in an
appetizing way.
Evening star., 1940-07-09

You get through the wild rush of
claiming your bags on the dock,
plunge into cab and 60 careening
through the streets. You are
amused to find that at least you
know the meaning of that word
"careening" then discover that
the whole thought sounds so much
like bit Of Ogden Nash that you
say meaning" and "careening"
over and over to yourself to keep
from looking at the meter ticking
furiously in the cab.
And you fall into Pennsylvania
station and run to keep up with the
porter who is fast disappearing with
your load of mussed-up clothes, and
before you know it, you wake up
with a start and the train Is pulling
into Union Station and you say
Good Gosh! In "a hours it will
be all over for another year" And
that is when that let-down feeling
sets in and you come into the Office
and every one says, DID you nave
fun? You didn't get much sun
burn So you have to explain that
you have tissue paper skin and that
YOU acquire the delicate complexion
of a lobster and can't get the tan
they thought you should have.
Which should satisfy them but
doesn't. The next words come from
the boss-"You have a column due.
Better straighten out your mail. 1t
has accumulated while you were
gone. Gotta have a story from you
right away"
And so you sit down and write a
column. And somehow it turns out
to be about vacations-and their
endines.
Evening star., 1940-07-09

tive and spectator sports. You can
wear the bolero with your frock, too,
as well as with the play suit and
skirt. Seersucker, cord cambria,
chambray and sharkskin are smart
materials for this.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1755-B
is designed for sizes IL, IA, 16, 18 and
20. Corresponding bust measure
ments 80, 80, "a, 36 and SO. Size IA
(32) ensemble requires S ss yards Of
35-inch material; 10 yards of braid
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Evening star., 1940-07-09
By BARBARA BELL.

What a lot of fun you can have
with play ensemble like this, and
what real saving it will mean, both
In money and in packing troubles!
Design No. 1755-B includes a play
suit, which is particularly becoming
to slender girls who like to avoid
severely tailored things. The top
part is gathered onto a round yoke,
so that it has filling-out effect. And
besides the play suit, there's a
tailored bolero and a f1aring, sep
arate skirt
Thus with this one easy pattern
you can equip yourself for both ac-