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Evening star., 1940-04-17
Aid for Labor

In Offering to rule on union ac-
tivities-contemplated or in opera
tion-to determine if they violate the
antitrust laws. and thereby give
those responsible an opportunity to
avert criminal prosecution, Assistant
Attorney General Arnold has taken
an effective step to refute the charge
that labor is being treated unfairly
IN the current drive of the Justice
Department on restraints In the
building industry which has resulted
In a number of indictments.
The offer was made to John P.
Coyne, head of the Building Trades
Department Of the American Fedora
ton OF Labor, which has objected
vigorously to the Government using
the Sherman Act against labor. From
the tenor of Mr.. Coyne's remarks on
the subject before the International
Union of Operating Engineers, it was
favorably received.
The plan contemplates that the
Justice Department be asked for an
opinion as to legality whenever a
union decides upon action that will
restrain interstate commerce, even
though it considers the restraint
reasonable" If the finding is ad-
verse, the union, of course, will
proceed at its own risk. If for any
reason the department is unable to
reach a conclusion, the union will
be at liberty to act, and if it later is
determined that it's course is illegal.
1t will be subject only to civil instead
OF criminal proceedings.
The Government tundoubtedly would
be gratifled to have labor take the
fullest advantage of this plan, which
would 60 far toward settling the
trouble that has been stirred over
the antitrust campaign The most
apparent drawback is the fact that
labor is claiming exemption from the
Sherman Act, and might not on that
account be willing to have any action
measured by its provisions. The
Supreme Court, however, soon is ex-
pected to decide if unions are subject
to the act, and if this is determined
to be the case, the Arnold proposal
affords means by which labor can
enjoy the fullest exercise of its rights,
while at the same time guarding the
public against abuses.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Mother

You left me in my childhood, but your
words
Live on in daisies and the songs of birds.
Your look, your merry, tender little ways
Go with me always through my length
of days.
In memory my eager hand I yield
To yours, and through the summer field
Woven with butterflies, We go to look
For all the wonders of the nature book.
In hollow fence-posts, under bark Of
trees,
We pry for nurseries of ants and bees.
Perched on an old stone wall, We spend
an hour
Learning the lovely structure Of flower.
Upon the warm, sweet meadow grass We
lie,
Awed by the blue infinity Of sky.
Today, the notes Of meadowlark and
wren
Link me with those bright wanderinrs
again.
And still the breath from little cocks Of
hay
Brings back the twilight hour of a day
When, pointing out the earliest-shin-
ing stars,
you showed me Venus, Jupiter and
Mars:
Inen led me In and up the stairs to bed
With stars and freflies cleaning in my
head,
And close beside me as the dusk grew
deep
Repeated poems till I fell asleep.
1NEZ BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdce1pell.

ence Of humans who like to hurt and kill.
This is difficult proposition to prove,
but any one who likes animals will have
enough examples in mind to make him
think there is something to the theory.
AS with ali such nuisances, an invasion
of rabbits can become AN invasion Of
friends, provided one begins to look upon
them as such.
This means that the interest in watch
ing them and observing their life habits,
and in helping and protecting them,
gradually outweighs any former discom-
fort or dislike of their presence.
~ ~
The other necessary thing is to get out
of the mind the belief that such colony
will do any harm to ones precious
plants.
Plant just little thicker, put in more
seed, let the plants stand just little
bit closer and the beasties will have their
food and you will have your plants, too
That is the way to enjoy ones home
grounds. Laying aside all preconceived
notions of rabbit destructiveness accept
what comes to the yard with thanks that
additional material for observation has
been provided by nature.
In time, if one has sense of good
humor, and something of a kind heart,
the lives of the creatures become far
more interesting than any idea that
ones precious plants might be damaged
To listen to some folks go on about
rabbits, you would think they were as
large as elephants!
Even dozens of them could not really
do much damage in garden Let them
eat your old petunias. What difference
does it make to you? And it makes a lot
to rabbit.
We believe that probably never in the
worlds history has it been more in
cumbent upon men of good will to show
kindness in their everyday actions than
now. Something terrible seems to have
happened to humanity; there is sense
OF Illustration and i'll will everywhere;
1t will not do to place the blame upon
sun spots, or the stars, but solely upon
ourselves.
All the harm colony of rabbits might
do in a small yard is literally as nothing,
compared with the harm one single bomb
does.
But the explosive force of kindness,
exercised in small place, may, as it has
in the past, 90 on to create great ripples
OF goodness in what Shakespeare blandly
called naughty world
The word no longer holds. 1t is a
terrible world-a terrible human world,
that is.
The beasts shame us.
We hope our correspondent and others
will see fit to welcome the rabbits and
the skunks, and the birds, and others,
in the sure faith that they are getting
more than they give, and not only that;
they are setting an example, though to
unseeine eyes and needless ears. of what
mankind should be and some day NAV
be, when the time finally comes, in the
rlpeness of Gods will, when men shall
beat swords into plowshareS and there
will be no war any more.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Invaluable Druo

1t is customary to speak of the red
man as the poor" Indian, but it now
turns out that this is an error. Those
who have oil leases can scarcely be
called poor, and the others can take
peyote.
What is peyote? According to an
article, indians at Work." published
by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, it is
a drug producing delusions of gram
deur and giving its devotees the i'm
preston of being very rich. 1t acts
as a sort of poor mans Wall Street,
with the market rigged in advance
the right way. The article suggests
that "peyotism is not only a religion
but also way of life," and says that
members of the cult might seek con-
verts among the palefaces, and repay
the debt they owe the white man for
introducing to them such boons as
f1rewater and work.
Good subjects of experimentation
along this line would be those who
direct the policies of the Govern
ment. Many of them are, it is true,
well supplied with delusions of gran
deur, but unfortunately they lack
that other symptom of peyote-the
impression of having enough ready
money in the treasury. Perhaps it
would be eaSV and more pleasant all
around to remedy this by giving
them peyote instead of having them
give all the rest of us higher taxes.
AS an alternative, the Government
might give the ordinary citizen
access to the drug, one shot of which
makes penny seem like a dime,
and an overdose of which can parlay
that into q dollar.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Recorder of Deeds
Discusses Auto Liens.
To the Editor of The Star.


In the Sunday Star, under date Of
April'7, you carried an editorial under
the caption Automobile Liens in which
passage was urged Of the bill by Chair
man Jennings Randolph of the House
District Committee. which would REQUIRE
the registration of all liens on motor
vehicles in the District of Columbia with
the Director of Vehicles and Traffic
In this connection I wish to make
perfectly clear that I am in hearty ac-
cord with the spirit of the bill and the
evils it seeks to correct, and have my
self sought enactment of similar legis-
latlon in previous years, my only con-
tention being that the function is now
performed in the Office of the Recorder
of Deeds and should continue to be
performed in that office
The fact that this function is being
performed by this Office at the present
time has nothing to do with the con-
tention that the public is not sufficiently
protected. There is no law on the
statute books that requires an individual
is largely responsible for the fraud COM
planned of by purchasers of second hand
automobiles.
Some time ago, at my suggestion,
Representative Schultz introduced bill
in the House, and Senator Reynolds in
troducted an identical measure in the
Senate to eliminate this unjust practice,
Last Monday, April 8, representatives
of various organizations appeared before
the House District Committee and,
in support of the Randolph bill, con-
tended that our fee for recording liens
Is too high, and that this Office indexed
liens by name only, wherein automo-
bile liens should be indexed by engine
number. These two features comprised
the bone of their contention that the
Randolph bill should pass.
Every one familiar with the District
OF Columbia code will know that it
specifically provides for the present
system of recording these liens. They
will likewise know that Congress sets
the fees for this office
Those who have followed my work
as Recorder of Deeds will know that
I have realized that the fee for record
ing liens is too high and have sought
for some time to have it reduced to so
cents. When it was called to my at
tention that better protection could be
afforded the public if liens on automo-
biles were recorded by engine number
as well as by name, readily agreed to
such procedure, and went further in
suggesting legislation requiring this Of
flee to certify to the Director of Vehicles
and Traffic daily record of all liens
recorded in this Office.
In the House of Representatives on
April TO- 1910, Representative Kennedy of
Maryland introduced, H. R. 1891, a bill
that embodies all of the suggestions
have outlined and excludes none that
the Randolph measure provides, with the
exception that the Kennedy bill would
leave the function of recording liens in
the office Of the Recorder of Deeds.
This office has had conversations with
Mr.. Wender Of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations, and Mr.. Cleveland
of the American Automobile Association,
who have been active in support of the
Randolph measure. Both have stated
that It would make little difference
Evening star., 1940-04-17

where the work was done provided that
the procedure and provisions of the
Randolph measure were followed. Be-
hevlng that they were sincere in their
statements, 1 am certain that they will
get behind the Kennedy measure and
urge Its passage, inasmuch as the main
bone of contention of those Representa-
tives who have opposed the bill has
been based on their belief that the
function should not be transferred from
its present department.
WILLIAM j. THOMPKINS,
Recorder of Deeds, D. c.
April Is.
Evening star., 1940-04-17

involved in war. On the basis of the
demonstrated capacities of these
agents, it would seem that the least
any patriotic American should do is
to refrain from protesting against or
hampering in any way the entirely
reasonable and legitimate efforts this
Government now is making to safe
guard the United States from SUBJ
verSive activities Of all kinds.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Sees Millions Spent
To Ruin Capital.
TO the Editor OF The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
Millions to turn the parks into baked
concrete concourses and patios without
regard to the tropical summer climate.
Millions to erect misplaced memorial
In public park.
Millions to widen one by one every
available street.
Now more millions for erection of
underpasses, which always reclaim to
street more area formerly devoted to
parking and sidewalk.
Why not call halt in time or we will
have city the only virtue of which will
be the desirability of getting far away
from 1t. I. H, LATIMER,
April IL.
Evening star., 1940-04-17

To the Editor of The Star:
I wish to compliment Maj. Brown
and the members of the Metropolitan
Police force for the splendid way in
which they handled 100000 people on
Army Day. It certainly was an orderly
crowd and very patriotic gathering.
Men, women and children stood at at
tention every time the colors passed,
making an inspiring sight. After the
parade, the people were given the right
of way before the officers would allow
the machines to move, which was an
excellent idea. To my knowledge, not
one person was hurt that day.
Congress should appropriate money
enough to give Maj. Brown at least
200 more men to meet the needs of
protection for the citizens in this city.
April IA. TALBOT o. PULIZZI.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Appreciates Editorial
On Denmark.

u ItIe EU1CU1 O1 0VN1
As an American citizen of Danish de-
scent, wish to thank you for your edi-
torial Denmark Not Forgotten" Those
of us who have read the papers and
listened to broadcasts, hoping to hear
something about the real situation in
gotten, or worse yet misunderstood.
DORA HANSEN PITTMAN.
April u.
Evening star., 1940-04-17

a. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to
the use for republicat ton of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited In this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rights of publica ion Of special dispatched
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 10riter. although the use OF
a pseudonyna for publication is
permissible. Please be brier
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Member of the Associated Press

Entered as second-class matter post once,
Washington D. c.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Police Praised for
Army Day Work.

March %.
Evening star., 1940-04-28

(see BARRON, Page F-3.)
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Todoy's Film Schedule

BEAsCo-"Ecsasy when Hedy Hedy Keisler
preglamor girl: $780, $40 pm
CAPrToLJohnny Apollo T. sanglands:
1880 and 1925 pm Stage shows: $685. 6:35 and $50 pm
COLUMBIAGrapes Of WRATH impressive
the steinbeck novel; O. 4:25, s:55 and 935 pm.
EARIEThe Doctor Takes comedy glamour:
2. 435 720 and 10 Stage shows 3:40, 6:25 905 pm
KETTHSIts Date" Deanna Durbins its third
week. O. 43o and $3.50 pm. Time" 40 $40
9:10 pm.
revival Of the triumph $685.
7:50 and $40 pm tr.e..t
version of the Booth Tarkng-
+ y ton story: ass $40, 7:25 and GAS pm.
PAACE-sange Cargo" Gable and Joan Crawford
Z, 4:35, 7o5 and $40 pm
-EUX-News and shorts continuous from 2 o'clock
Evening star., 1940-04-28
Silly Season
in
The Mail
In April Publicity
Turns to Many
Odd Items
By Harry Macarthur.

Here 1t is the silly season again.
AS every April nears its end, as
every summer trips down the noun
tainside through the spring flowers
and showers, the silly season set
ties upon us. Then 1t Is that many
of those who deal with news, or
what they fondly believe is news,
60 slightly berserk. The Hollywood
publicity mills, slightly berserk to
begin with, mayhap, in April double
1t IN spades.
A dull week is never a dull week,
Of course, in the fertile abode of
the cinema's tub-thumperies. The
boys can always think up something
that somebody somewhere viii con-
slider fascinating reading. But
when the silly season descends even
these film publicity mills grind
slowly. doing little but separate the
chaff fro mthe chaff..-
And the weeks mail from Holly
wood hints that the season is here.
At one studio, for instance, one of
the boys labored to the full length
of page Qegal size, too) to set
down in print a yarn about some
eggs benedict. Seems Miss BMa-
bara 10 Allen, who answers to the
name of Vera Vague on the radio,
walked into the commissary and was
served with these eggs benedict.
1t seems further that this occurred
because Barbara 10 closely resem-
bles Kay Francis, and Kay Francis
liked the eggs benedict when she
was at this studio eight years ago.
Lana Makes a Decision.
"A charming touch of sentiment
in a place more renowned for its
Grass realism" the feellow writing
the yarn calls it.
Then thre is the case of Lana
Turner, who lately became Mrs.
Artie Shaw. Miss Turner has been
called, according to her studio, "a
little sweaterbug," whatever that
might be, but she has resolved to
wear no more sweaters on the
screen. This will work a hardship,
however, only on Miss Turner's film
fans and not on Artie or her friends.
The lass who made the sweater
popular and vice versa bought two
dozen of them in New York for
private life wear.
Also we have come across during
the week the case of the studio
which used sheet of its stationery,
an envelope and a stamp to tell
us that Is University of Southern
(See MACARTHUR, Page F-3)
Evening star., 1940-04-28

thought, with Aims for all time His
real work, he felt. was with the
stage that had been his life since
childhood.
But it was this Hollywood defeat
that actually brought him back to
the town he hated and the work he
thought he loathed. After a year
of thinking it over in Paris, a. year
during which he improved his Eng
lish, he realized he never would be
content unless he gave American
films another try.
Il had absolutely no thought of
starring" said Boyer. All I wanted
to do was play one good part in
one good picture. so that all memo
riss of that previous unhappi-
ness might be wiped out"
At the time, 1885, Boyer had Just
finished the European production of
Thunder in the East" distributed
in this country by United Artists.
His work in 1t again brought him
to Hollywood's attention. He was
cabled an offer by Twentieth Gen.
tury-Fox to appear in a picture
called Caravan" He agreed to
come-a decision he was to regret
many times over.
OF that experience. he says: "It
was ridiculous thing for me to
have done. I am not the type to
wear long, black curls and play mad
music in the moonlight. I felt a
fool. And the fans must have
thought me one. Again was miser-
ably unhappy. For the second time
I asked my release from a Holly
wood contract and was grateful
when I got it."
That would have been the end
of Hollywood for Boyer and of Boyer
for Hollywood If he had not, just
at the right time, chanced to meet
Producer Walter Wanger, who want
ed Boyer and no other to appear
(0aA TYVyuOUVUrR n AM r.-~ N -
Evening star., 1940-04-28


screen, he is the greatest"
Who is this heart-palpitator su-
preme who makes such handsome
stalwarts as Gable, Flynn, Taylor
and Power take second billing in the
celluloid making sweepstakes?
None other than short, dark, Al
year-old Frenchman with shoulder
ing. beady black eyes. who answers
to the name of Charles Boyer.
Yes, in his particular niche-that
Of making ardent screen love-Boyer
is now in class by himself. In less
than 18 months and with only three
film starts, he has suddenly been
transformed from a mediocre and
not always understandable leading
man. into star who has set a
million feminine hearts afire.
Makes Few Friends.
Today Boyer gets 100000 a pic
ture and commands handsome ad-
ditional stipend each week from his
radio Observation-Disclosures he
appears to be one of the unhappiest
individuals in Hollywood.
He and his wife keep much to
themselves and almost never are
seen in the cafes and other night
haunts visited by the average movie
crowd. ..es......
On film set Boyer is the picture
of detection. He makes few friends,
seldom smiles and the commissary
'lunchers never see him. His noon
snacks are carried, to his dressing
room
But Boyer has good reason to be
suspicious Of Hollywood. and its peo-
pie. 1t wasn't so many years back
that he was being rudely kicked
around by the studios. He hasn't
forgotten and possibly he hasn't
forgiven. 4
Seldom in a mood for conversa-
ton, he opened up a bit on the set
Of his new picture the other day
and recalled some of the bitter.
ness that came to him in those
early days here.
"I was undoubtedly the most
miserable actor In town." he said.
IT hated Hollywood with all the
hate I could muster. I was terribly
lonely and homesick and was being
cast in a series of misfit pictures
about which I could do nothing. I
could see there was no future. for
me ir America at all. A man hates
to admit it of himself, but there
was no doubt about it in my mind.
I was a failure. And it ranked" I"
That was in 1880, shortly after
the moody Frenchman was first
brought to Hollywood by Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer to be featured in
several French language Aims. He
could speak little English and that
little badly, and the roles given
him were Of the type to which he
did not feel himself suited.
Returned to France.
As quickly as he could manage
It he obtained hts release and re-
turned to France-finished, 70 he
Evening star., 1940-04-28
While the Stage Has Cohan
Movies Have No Corner
On the Serial Market
Now, Two Decades Later, He Is Back ~
In Return of the Vagabond," His
Sequel to "The Tavern"
By Jay Carmody.

thought they corner on the serial story George
cohan about show them how absurd that
family Joneses Charlie Chan and its
Dculas the took 80
Americas No actor himself his
as writer director and Mr. Cohan will
character to the National in "1he Return
Last goes
coan spreads himself history 1905
Tn. Tavern was the play in which the character hen
comedy dealing hariosy group of people trapped
The people caught the play by
Mr. cohan but their various naturally considerably
purposes has added
couple Of for
elodrama Even the setting will be familiar thing Of nos
tac for original
coh.n NH has reproduced it down to the smallest detail
play that character which he made peculiarly
ou halfdvne creature who has fair for adjusting
lives OF those with whom he comes in contact The lives which nkes
with in he Return the vagabond
his family of
miscreant
in the season in Madame Will You Walk the late Sidney Howad
yariosly enterprise
that normally year.
At the time of that plays presentation
tempatng the project which returns him Washington.
Catholic U. Group to
Cohan Biography Set to Music.
enterprise Immediately New
niversitys Harlequn
Doodle Boy Walter Kerr
and Brady performances
the play which attracted the attention
producers given at the university theater
something than capacity audiences
they repeating the play by popular demand something
than more phrase taken from the file of
for all occasions Those four performances
the first biography stage
1t the place, starting tonight.
This matter of fact be
Doodle Boy" will until
the offers made by virtually motion picture
Broadway for the play So far he
Of releng in this matter Of professional
his biography Not SO long he turned down dollars
bid Of the studios
Mr. cohan negative mood, however
doing the musical biography broahed to him by Mr.
instructor universis
the inspiration discovered
was enough material in his life for show to right ahead So Mr.
Kerr undergraduate the school already
done his right ahead subject
their assisted the extent
Of his hit
his life the condition that Yankee Doodle would
where but Catholic University the authors felt
when he their
greatest night in theater
Boarding House Comedy to
"A Boarding House
Feeling that boarding residents will be especially apprecav
OF the gossip and intrigue which makes comedy Of AT
Beams the tale English boarding presenting
May the CIVIC Iheater special night for There
VIII be special rates the evening the block Ward
man Park 1heaer seats set aside Washingtonans call
local Mrs. Beams" home.