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@. Does music charm the
savage breast" or "beast?"
M. E.
A. Both words have been
used in this well-known say
ing. In 1897, William Con-
greve, English dramatist, in
his tragedy The Mourning
Bride" wrote, Music hath
charms to soothe a savage
breast" In 1929, James
Bramston wrote in Man of
Taste" Music hath charms
to soothe the savage beast.
And therefore proper at a
sheriff's feast"
Q. For whom was Wheeler
Dam in Alabama named2-
Q. w.
A. Wheeler Dam. on the
Tennessee River in Northern
Alabama, was named for
General Joseph Wheeler
G836-1906, a Confederate
general and a United States
commander in the Spanish
American War.
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THE POLITICAL MILL
Black Eye for Back Door SPENDING
BY GOULD LINCOLN

Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration. Instead Of having
Congress first put through a
bill authorizing such expend-
itures, and then have the APP
preparations made later
after hearings by the House
and Senate Appropriations
Committees-which had been
the practice over the years
Congress simply by-pasSed
these committees entirely. 1t
has acted directly on recon-
mendations, it is true, Of
other standing committees
like the Foreign Relations
Committee or the Banking
and Currency Committee. So
this practice has gained its
"backdoor spending" name.
Some OF the programs now
financed in this way are the
farm subsidy programs, much
of the Federal housing pro-
gram, the international Mon
etary Fund, and the Export
Import Bank.
Two years ago, when the
development loan fund was
established, President Eisen-
hover recommended to Con-
gress that it be financed
through this backdoor
method, feeling that aid OF
this kind, through loans over
a period Of years, would be
stabilizing advantages on
both sides. This year, how
ever, the President has been
greatly worried over the
Governments finances and
the inflationary trend in the
country boosted by heavy
Government spending. He
has attacked backdoor spend
ing. This explains his change
in attitude toward the A.
nancing of the development
loan fund.
Senator Everett M. Dirk
sen of Illinois, Republican
leader Of the Senate, aided
by other Senator's opposed to
the backdoor spending APP
proach, is preparing a reso-
luton looking to a change
in the rules of the Senate
which would deal directly
and specifically with this
practice, certainly with the
idea of limiting it if not actu-
ally doing away with it en-
tirely. Such a resolution
would go to the Rules Com
mittee of the Senate, which
would be called upon to study
the whole subject. Whether
such a proposed amendment
of the rules would ever get
out of the Rules Committee,
or would be adopted by the
Senate, is very much a ques-
ton. Too many senators are
interested in too many of
these backdoor financing pro-
grams. However, something
should be done to give the
country a good look at what
is being done in the way of
Government spending Of
money which the Government
does not have, which has to
come out of the pockets Of
the American people through
taxation, and which is max
ing the value of the Ameri-
can dollar less and less.
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P. O. Box Rentals

Prices may come and prices
may go, but it looks like post
Office prices (higher prices,
that Isl will go on forever.
Not being satisfied with
skyrocket increases in mail
rates, the Post Office big
wigs have increased by 200
per cent the cost of branch
post Office mail boxes. A
short time ago, my post
Office box in Zone 20, Wash
ington, D. c., rented for $3.50
per quarter; then it went to
$2.25. A few months later the
rate was increased to 50 and,
believe it or not. a notice
was placed in my box last
week to the effect that, as
of July /, the rate for the
post Office box would be $3.50
per quarter. John Herndon, Sr.
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Pledges Allegiance

1t is impossible FOR one
who loves justice and mercy
to hear of a mob numbering
any human being, without
having a feeling of pity for
the victim and a desire to
see the perpetrators of such
a heinous crime given the
extreme penalty Of the law.
While meditating on the re-
cent lynching Of a member of
my race in Mississippi, and
with my heart filled with the
aforementioned feelings, my
four-year-old grandson who
was playing nearby began
to sing America" Afterward,
he stood erect, put his hand
to his forehead, and began
to recite: II pledge allegiance
to the flag of the United
States of America. :"
During the few moments in
which the childish voice was
pledging its allegiance, my
memory was hastily sketch
Ing the history of the Negro
In America - liberated from
the position of a chattel to
that of a human being, laws
made which protected him in
such a freedom, educated by
members of the same race
which had held him in bond
age, provision made for the
welfare of every member of
his race, and all lovers of
justice still fighting for a law
which will give him his civil
rights. At the climax of these
and similar membranes, /
was ready to renew my pledge
to the flag of a country which
Tin spite of every act of in
Justice, allowed or perpetrated
by certain sections or indi-
vlduals) is doing more to give
and bring liberty and JUS
tice to all" than any other
country on earth. Therefore,
I turned to the child and
said, Come on son, let us say
it together" We did. Mean
while. my heart was singing
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GAY DAY
The Capitals First Fourth

Intelligencer put Washing
ton City" on all its early
editorial pages. Mrs. Thornton
(wife of DR.. Thornton, de-
signer of the Capitol, whose
interesting diary affords us
glimpses of life in those days,
headed the first page of her
remarkable book, city Of
Washington, Territory of Co
lumbia, State Of Maryland"
Shortly after arriving in the
capital, Abigail Adams, wife
Of President John Adams,
wrote her sister "this place is
known by the name of the
city and the name is all you
can call So"
On July 4, 1901, the Capitol
was far from finished but the
Representatives C h a m b e r
opened its doors at IL am.
when Mr.. Austin delivered a
discourse suited to the oc-
casion." The assemblage was
large and attentive. Later the
entire audience trudged all
the dusty way to the White
House for the Presidents
reception.
At IL o'clock noon Presi-
dent Jefferson received the
cordial fluctuations on the
return of the anniversary
from his fellow citizens, heads
Of the various departments,
civil and military officers,
foreign diplomatic charac-
tiers, and strangers of dis
tinction. All felt the inspira-
tons of patriotic gratitude on
contemplating in their midst
the man whose pen had
traced. whose councils had
recommended and Whose
firmness and talents had CO.
operated to establis h the
Declaration of independence. "
Col. Burrows, at the head
of the Marine Corps. saluted
the President while the band
played with great precision
and inspiring animation the
Presidents March"
After partaking of gen.
erous and abundant refresh
ments, the guests departed
about two o'clock and be-
took themselves to various
places of entertainment. One
group which re-assembled for
dinner at 4 o'clock at Conrad
and McMunn's on New Jersey
avenue at c street Southeast
included the Secretaries of
State, Treasury and War,
Postmaster General, Control
Ter, Auditor, Commissioner of
Revenue, Civil, Military and
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Welcomes K-o CORPS

When 1t was first suggested
that a K-9 Corps might be
brought to Washington,
was so excited I could hardly
talk of anything else. Many
persons with whom I dis
cussed the matter immedi-
ately saw the merits of using
dogs during police patrols.
Not one person disliked the
idea, and l was not prepared
for the reaction shown by
your reader who said he
would henceforth carry a
loaded cane when he goes
through the park. Well, If
I know that anyone is walk
ing the park lanes with a
loaded cane. won't go into
the area without a big K-9
escort. I expect to be fully
protected from assault with
such an escort. I think that's
the whole idea of having a
K-9 Corps, for the protection
of. the people.
The only reason that we
do not have the use of police
dogs now is because of an in
different Congress, a citizen
group that travels on wheels.
Most members ( Congress
do not feel IT, lat
thousands of us We
must go along at light
through crime ridden streets.
I do believe that our police
men do their very best, and
considering the constant as
saultS on policemen as they
walk their beats. a supple
mentary force is needed. AS
it was proved in Baltimore,
during an experiment with
police dogs, two policemen
with dogs can do as much as
might ordinarily require 10
men.
I'm looking forward to see
ing a lone policeman accom-
panied by a big, businesslike
dog patroling Capitol Hill,
where I live.
Regina E. Kane.
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"Backdoor spending"
through the authority of
Congress, responsible for bill
lions of dollars of spending
by the Federal Government
without these expenditures
appearing in the annual re-
ports of appropriations by
the national legislature, took
a crack between the eyes
when the Senate on Thurs
day threw out the Fulbright
f1ve-year S. billion foreign
development loan program.
Under the Fulbright pro-
gram the Secretary of the
Treasury would have been
directed forthwith to find the
money - probably through
borrowing - to finance this
program. There would have
been no annual appropria-
ton made, via the Appropri-
ations Committees Of the
House and Senate. BY the
action of the Senate the
development loan program
will be handled as President
Eisenhower this year recon-
mended, through annual APP
preparations. The President
recommended a two-year
program of 50 billion dol
lars, of which $700 million
was to be appropriated this
year.
This blow to backdoor
spending is only an isolated
case, it is true. But it serves
to call attention wildly to a
practice of Government
spending which has account
ed for billions of dollars and
helped to swell the public
debt over the last quarter
century. Senator Harry Flood
Byrd Of Virginia, watchdog
of the Treasury in an era of
big spending and too fire.
quently a lone voice in his
opposition to deficit spend
ing. has frequently inveighed
against a practice which has
grown with the passing years.
Supporters of foreign aid are
bitter because their pet prof.
ect has had to bear the bur-
den of this attack on a bad
system of Government
spending. Senator Fulbright
of Arkansas, chairman of the
Sen a tie Foreign Relations
Committee, and Senator
Aiken of Vermont, Republi-
can member of that commit
tee, both criticized the action
of the Senate, and also criti-
cized President Eisenhower
because of his attitude.
Under the backdoor spend
ing practice it is possible to
bring tremendous inflationary
Government spending, to
knock a budget into a cooked
hat, and at the same time
have Congress hold on to a
semblance of economy. In
deed, this is one of the fac
tors which impelled President
Eisenhower, strong friend OF
foreign aid as he is, to take
his present position in op-
position to the Fulbright
plan. The practice of having
Congress direct the Secretary
of the Treasury to finance
heavy Government spending
for various good purposes be-
gan in the early days of the
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given the opportunity, he would punch
the King of England in the nose" 1t
undoubtedly is good thing that times
have changed, and that Mayor Daley,
rather than big Bill" now calls the
tune in Chicago. Still, looking at this
matter from a strictly personal point of
view, and having in mind the horrendous
Daley dinner menu, we cannot help
wondering whether punch In the nose
would hurt so much after all.
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THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

His sleep inducing system
is simple:
Just push or jut the chin
against the hand with firm
pressure, then relax.
Immediately push out
again, and so on.
Do this 48 times. or pref
erably 100 times, then cease
from all effort.
We have tried upon several
occasions to find out what
is the magic in the number
48, but have failed. Temple
ton Jones has many ideas Of
this character, but if you try
to follow them farther. you
get nowhere, which is prob
ably just as good with Jones
as getting anywhere.
* X X
He believes that this meth
cd relaxeS the back Of the
neck.
Maybe he is right. One Of
the latest sleep books says
that you fall asleep when the
eye and mouth areas are COM
pletely relaxed. however this
state is attained.
The man forgot about the
back of the neck. The eyes
and mouth are seeing and
talking all the time, and if
they become completely
quiescent, evidently, then the
person falls asleep from sheer
boredom of life, or something.
The back of the neck is so
close, and so often used, in
twisting around all day, Jones
says, that its relaxation fol-
lows along with that of the
eyes and mouth.
Relax the trio, and you
sleep.
Jut out the chin against
the hand, try to let go on
eyes and mouth, and-sleep.
Well, maybe.
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A GAY DAY
By GRACE OSTERHUS


On July 4. 1901 - just Is
years after the Declaration
Of independence was signed
the first Fourth" was cele-
brated in the new Federal
City. 1t was a holiday for the
Capital. Business was sus-
pended and festivities were
the order of the day. Z.
The National Intelligencer
and Washington Advertiser
devoted it's whole first page
to eulogizing the day, begin
ming: The annual period
again returns which made us
independent and free. Thanks
to the valour of our arms
and still more to the wisdom
of our councils :"
The Declaration Of indie
pendence was printed in full
in the same issue. Picture
the head of the house in 1901
reading that paper aloud to
his assembled family while
they listened in rapt atten-
ton to the words, when in
the course of human events
:" Can you imagine any
present-day family having
time for such a thing? We
take our freedom so much for
granted!
At five O'Clock the bright.
warm dawn Of Saturday, July
4, 1901, was announced in the
City of Washington by a
salute from a frigate on the
Potomac River. At the same
early hour Capt. Saunders
Washington Light Infantry
Company met on the parade
grounds and fired II rounds
OF musquetry accompanied
with a field piece" Thus did
the Capital usher in the 25th
anniversary of our national
existence.
Washington was not much
Of a place 1853 years ago.
Trees and stumps were every
where. while scaffolding and
derricks were virtually at
tempting to lift a city from
q wilderness that was marshy
in winter and spring, dusty in
summer and fall. The popula-
ton Of the entire district,
including Alexandria, was
only $4,000 counting all ages
and races.
The place scarcely had a
name. George Washington
called it THE Federal City"
LEnfant's plans referred to it
as the city of Washington" "
The com m is S 10 n ers who
helped lay it out called it
Capital City" The National
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Marine Officers. also those
Of the frigates near by.
Among this group was Mr..
Pichon. charge d'affaires of
the French Republic, whose
toast at the dinner was THE
late convention between the
United States and France
may it prove the basis of an
everlasting friendship"
The Marine Corps Band
played patriotic and festive
music. First on the enter
tainment program was the
reading Of the Declaration of
independence "at the middle
and each end of the table"
There being no loud speaker
system in those days, it is to
be hoped the reading was in
unison. After the dinner,
toasts were drunk and cheer
ed. Each toast was announced
by a discharge of artillery
and answered by one from a
frigate. The first toast was
to THE day and those who
value it."
The newspaper account
closes: "At an early hour the
company retired in perfect
good humour and sobriety."
Alexandria celebrated In
dependence Day with dis
charges from cannons and
muskets. A military parade
preceded an excellent dinner
which was followed by toasts
and cheers. Georgetown held
equally patriotic festivities
and gave a general loose to
Joy"
The whole district needed
eX-President John Adams
who wrote: independence
Day should be commemorated
as the day of deliverance BY
solemn acts of devotion tt
Almighty God. 1t ought tt
be solemnized with pomp
shows, games, sports, guns
bells. bonfires and illumina.
tons from one end of the
continent to the other, from
this time forward and for.
ever"
This sentence from the
Museum and Washington and
Georgetown Advertiser OF
1901 is true today: IF we
look over the world we shall
be convinced that our con.
dition compared with the RESI-
of our species affords numer.
Gus sources of rejoicing anc
gratitude"
How are you celebrating
Independence Day, July 4
1859?
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18th STREET.

Dear Sir:
Sometimes at night when
I can't sleep wish I had
three sides instead of two,
because I try both sides and
don't like either one.
What do you do when you
can't sleep?
II have purchased several
big books on this, and none
of them helps in the least.
They just go over and over
the conditions for good sleep
ing, and then seem to say,
See? That is all there is
to it.
Actually, there must be a
great deal more to it. I know
as we'll as any one, even be-
fore reading my books, that
quiet is essential, a comfor-
table bed. a stomach with a
little food in it but not too
much, darkness and a good
conscience.
II have all these, more or
less. and yet I cannot sleep.
What to do now?
If there are any tricks of
the sleeping trade would
very much like to know them.
Desperately, j. j."
y y
There are tricks, but you
shouldn't try them.
One comes from South Sea
tribes. They have a way of
pressing certain nerves. If
you press too long, you not
only go to sleep, but you
never wake up.
This is just one of the
tricks to make ones self go
to sleep that cannot be rec
commended. 1t is better to
stay awake than try them.
Fortunately, very few persons
have ever heard of any of
them. no.
This leaves Temp Jones
own discovery as a safe and
sound remedy for insomniacs
Of any type.
AS most people know, some
from experience, there are
several distinct versions of
the person who cannot sleep.
One type goes to sleep
easily. then wakes up in the
famous middle of the night,
which usually means, for
most people, about Q am.
Another type has difficulty
falling asleep at all.
For any type, Jones says,
here is a sod remedy.
He floutS the old saws
about a comfortable bed, etc.
The main thing is to find out
what is a comfortable posi-
ton.
Most of the how-to-sleep
books frown upon the drawn
up knees and hands-up-to-
the-head position.
They say this is assuming
the position of the unborn
child. and so on.
Many. however, despite
this structure, find this a most
soothing position, even if in
fantile.
Where Jones puts this to
work is with the right hand
pressing against the chin.
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Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKINS SERVICE

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LETTERS TO THE STAR

MY country It's of thee. :
Elizabeth Kicks.
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FURNITURE - New. Lowest prices
anywhere. Seeing Is believine
Come In and you will believe, 1885
Minnekota ave. ne.
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We also have a selected stock Of
treezers at low. low prices.
CO. 10th and Il SITS ne, Ii.
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USICAL INSTRUMENTS.

OFFICE EoUIP.-Desk, fiies, add
machs., typewriters. etc. Bargain.
galore. CIRCLE. 616 9th st. NV
OFFICE EQUIP. = Safe, fixtures
desk, gas heater. salesmen's
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RUGS. Oriental design and broad
looms, AY12, sly: 9xl5, S27.
ORIENTAL RUG MART, 1905 6
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RUGS-Persian designs, all new,
9xl2. SIT so: l0xl5, sos. Broad
loom carpeting as low as 50. 9b
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REPAIRS AND SERVICE

A BRICK. cement. stone, plastering
waterproofing or remodeling Job q
209e OF. XII S-0477.
ALL CEMENT WORK. patios
driveways. walks, roofing repairs
gutter. down spouts. Call anytime
FL, 4-lqq7.
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BASKIN FURS
Corner 9th and G NV.

drop-leaf table: perfect condition
FE. 3-6093 after 8 pm.
FURNITURE, modern couch, match.
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innerspring matt, $40: brass bed
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maple twin beds, $50: outdoor
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sofa BIZ S25; sectional sofa, S25
occ. chairs, So: din. rm. table with
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FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

FURN.-Complete department o.
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GUNS, Winchester ia-ga. pump.
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