THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY__March «, ItST THEODORE W. NOYES .Editor Tko Evening Star Newopaper Company. 1 ,tn St ana Pennsylvania Ava. New York Office: 110 East 4':nd Bt Chicago Office: *35 North Uichlcan AVO. Rate by Carrier—City and Suburban. Regular Edition. The Rvenine and Sunday Star 83e par month or 15o par wael Tha Evening Star __, 46c per month or 10c oar wee* Tha Sunday Star_ _—Be per copy Night Final Edition. Nit..t P'nml and Sunday Star— 70c oer month Niiht Pinal Star*.---56c per month Collection made at tha end of each month or each week. Order* may be lent by mall or telt phone National S000 Rate by Mail—Payable In Advaneo. Maryland and Virginia. Dali, and Sunday.. 1 yr.. S10.00: I mo.. 86c Daiiv only —.... 1 yr. $8.oo; l mo., 60c Sunday oniy__ 1 yr.. $4.00; 1 mo.. 40c All Other Itata* and Canada. Dally anc Sunday. 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The opposition to the President s plan is directed mainly to the threat of a break down of the independence of the Judicial branch of the Government If the plan is carried through. Many of those now attacking the court bill have sup ported the New Deal legislation la the past. They are opposed to burning down the house in order to change some of the details. Furthermore, it is perfectly obvious that the Constitution may be amended, if the people desire it amended, In the manner prescribed in the Consti tution itself. That, in fact, is the way In which the President properly should take to the people his fight for the kind of legislation he desires. What the President is now trying to do is to bring sufficient pressure upon Congress to force the enactment of his court bill into law. He is trying to accomplish his end through addresses calculated to Inflame the people against the Supreme Court as now constituted. He tells the people that the court, and the court alone, stands In the way of laws to hplp them, laws calculated to solve the farmers' problem and to give the laborer less hours and more wages, laws which will make It possible for the Federal Government to prevent floods and dust storms. It is. of course, the provisions of the Constitution that stand in the way of these laws. This is not the opinion of the President, who holds that the au thority desired by him can be read into the Constitution, and that the interpre tation of the Constitution by the Su preme Court is wrong. Under the American plan, the interpretation of the Constitution has been left to the court, and nof placed in the hands of the President. The President s address at the Demo eratic victory dinner was a demand for party action to put through "now” his court bill, and so to give him in effect the right to interpret and construe the Constitution. The President, as always, spoke eloquently. He spoke militantly. He decried the "defeatist lawyers,” the men who have urged that the Consti tution, if it is to be amended, be amended in the orderly manner pre scribed, by reference to the States and the people. “Defeatist lawyers” becomes now a term of utmost opprobrium in the New Dealers’ lexicon. The pity of the President’s attitude h that it is calculated to inflame many persons against the courts; to lead them to believe that it is the courts which ara causing all their trouble, and so to lessen all respect for courts. The pros pect is not pleasing. For how much respect will the people have for the courts, how much faith will they have In them, if the President’s plan goes through and the courts are "packed” and become the tool of the Executive? When Mr. Parley gave the assurance that there would be no reprisals he could not guarantee that his candidate would not nurse an unconquerable aver sion to the United States Supreme Court as at present constituted. Labor Holds London. In John Bright’s time, when free trade was an issue, the slogan was that what Manchester thinks today England will say tomorrow. The British Labor party doubtless is in mood this week to para phrase the ancient wheeze and predict that what London has just done the country will emulate as soon as it gets a chance—viz., restore Labor to national office. For the second time in succes sion the Laborltes, under the militant captaincy of Herbert Morrison, won the London municipal elections and thus re tained control of the County Council, the body which administers the vast affairs of the metropolis through a co-related system of borough governments. While the issues at stake were purely local, the Labor party always Insists that its pre dominance on the Thames is an augury of its return to Downing Street at no distant date. If and when that ensues, Mr. Morrison is expected to be graduated from the County Council chairmanship to the prime ministership. In the teeth of charges that British Labor is saturated with Red leanings, the Morrison hosts fought the recent campaign on their record, particularly their social program, and were hand somely vindicated. With the count of votes complete for 94 out of 124 seats, Labor has wop 56; its opponents, the Municipal Reformers, only 38. Results •till outstanding will not offset the sub stantial majority by which Labor will continue to prevail. It derives special satisfaction from the crushing rebuff of the anti-Semitic attack conducted by Sir Oswald Mosley and his Fascist forces in the East End. All six Mosley candi dates were snowed under In three cornered contests. Their total vote In no borough amounted to more than a fractional minority. Labor asked for prolonged control, in order to go on with its slum clearance, housing and park projects. The Municipal Reformers made no headway with claims that Labor has left many promises unful filled and is burdening the community with unbearable taxes. Mr. Morrison rejected the taunt that Labor enjoys the support of Communists, declaring that there is no possibility of co-opera tion with them. At present the only opposition group of consequence in the House of Com mons, Labor contemplates eventual, if not early recapture of the national gov ernment. If Mr. Baldwin and his top heavy Tory majority in Parliament were to go to the country today, Labor probably would seek to exploit Britain's colossal rearmament expenditure as a paramount issue. Besides defending that program as indispensable to national security, the government is moving to undermine Labor’s objections by stress ing the vast benefits to workers sure to flow from the industrial expansion in cidental to $7,500,000,000 outlay on arms, i Labor's Civil War. The C. I. O. s policy in gaining recog nition seems to be guided by more ex pediency than consistency. Concessions, in the form of recognition of a C. I. O. union on the basis of Its membership only, brought peace in the General Motors strike and gained for an "out side” union its first foothold in the steel Industry. But these concessions are immedi ately followed by submission of an ‘ultimatum” to the Chrysler corpora tion for recognition, not on the basis of union membership only, but recognition as the exclusive bargaining agent for all Chrysler corporation employes. Recognition on the basis of union membership is evidently a concession which is to be used only as a key to an otherwise impregnable door. If the door can be opened the entry will thus be made. From the point of view of the C. I. O. the strategy Is doubtless sound. From the point of view of the A. F. of L. it Is somewhat alarming. Of the alarm felt by the A. F. of L. there can be little doubt. President William Green has been Issuing many statements, calling on A. F. of L. affili ates to resist all encroachment by C. I. O. unions. A. F. of L. organizers are driven from automobile plants, not by the com pany police, but by the C. I. O. organ izers. The civil war In the ranks of labor grows more bitter as time goes on, for i there is much at stake. The issue is the old issue of the closed shop, but in new form. Mr. Lewis and the C. I. O. now enjoy the advantage of a basic principle of the Wagner act which provides that in choice of the collective bargaining agent, the majority shall rule. A majority vote In each "appropriate unit” shall select the representatives for collective bargaining and such representatives “shall be the exclusive representatives of all the employes • • • for the purpose of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employ ment or other conditions of employ ment.” witn tnat principle written into me law, the side which gains the greatest number of adherents stands to be chosen by the National Labor Relation* Board some time in the future, provided the Wagner act is held constitutional—as the sole agency for collective bargaining. The labor board might escape involve ment with the A. F. of L. by deciding that the “appropriate unit” for collective bargaining lor some workers within a plant is a craft union, while the "appro priate unit” for collective bargaining for other workers in the same plant might be a C. I. O. union. Such decisions, In the automobile plants or the steel in dustry, would save the A. F. of L. from loss of face without damaging the new industrial unions. But such a decision would be more difficult should the Chrysler corporation or any other corporation, the employes of which are not now organized, recog nize the C. I. O. affiliate as the sole bargaining unit. That would close the door effectively to A. F. of L. organiza tion. The demand on Chrysler by the C. I. O. affiliate for recognition as the exclusive bargaining agent thus repre sents, as well, another challenge to the A. F. of L. ■ a ■ ■ Musical accomplishments are respected more here than in Europe. A little musical art brings so much esteem over here that even statesmanship demands honor for musical saws and modem in struments. An Error of Kindness. Clark Griffith loves base ball and chil dren. When a twelve-year-old Washing ton boy ran away from home and, in almost incredible fashion, reached the Florida training camp of the Nationals, it was the human thing for such a man to do to give the lad a kindly reception. Such loyalty naturally called for some recognition. It Is, however, to be feared that Mr. Griffith may have failed to consider the possible consequences of his humanness. The Odyssey of Jimmie Brady was one of the best “stories” of the year. It aroused in many nostalgic memories of their own Spring fevers. Unfortunately there were others who read the same stories. Certainly in Jimmie Brady’s neighborhood, and probably all over Washington, the lad is today the envy of every boy. What chiefly impresses the boys is that this youngster actually ran away— as so many of them have threatened to do—and ha* been rewarded for it. A stem word from father or mother A* and a queer glint comes in the child’s eye. Now he knows what to do. Around Tenleytown more than one parent has expressed a sincere fear that Jimmie's adventures will start an epi demic of runaways. One account from Orlando stated that Jimmy is to get a season pass to the ball park. It is to be hoped that this is not true, for the children who are convinced it is are prepared to follow Jimmie's footsteps to get the same reward. The least Mr. Orifflth can do, after making such a gesture of appreciation, ia to offer a free pass to every boy of twelve or under In Washington. If he does not the consequences may be feared. Descriptions of the Nation’s sufferings, now so sympathetically declaimed of, may not be regarded as good campaign material for the next Democratic chair man. Complete recovery in economic conditions would be something of a miracle. Even the intrepid Mr. Farley might hesitate to step out as the cham pion of a miracle that many political critics regard as a flop. Enlarging a metaphor employed in the Executive’s campaign against the Su preme Court, "three horses must pull together if progress is made”; there can be no progress if one horse delays the journey in order to kick the nearest horse out of the traces. History is not always just. Masculine freedom in feminine attire has been gracefully accomplished with no tributes to the well meaning and courageous in fluence of Dr. Mary Walker. She met many humiliations bravely, but she wore the pants. An official sentiment of abiding affec tion Is declared from the White House for all American citizens with the possible exception of nine distinguished veterans of the Judiciary and A1 Smith. Enthusiasm is essential to a political rally. The rejoicing must go on. Some times applause asserts itself as thunder does, on the principle that nature abhors a vacuum. Politics would be more interesting If a system could be installed that would permit the United States Supreme Court to talk back once in a while. — — . - — - Unless care is exercised by Mayor La Guardia. he may And himself omitted from some of the most desirable invita tion lists In diplomatic circles. Two dialects have become prominent on radio—colloquial Russian and ' the Harvard accent.” ■ --• ••• ■ . - - To the victors belong the applause at a political banquet. Shooting Stars. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Life Beautiful. A lady shot her husband dear. A husband shot his wife. And all the wondering crowd drew near And said, "How strange is life!” A lady ran away and left Her husband far behind. A husband s wife Is now bereft Because he changed his mind. Now every week and every day Brings forth assurance sad That human nature has a way Of going to the bad. In spite of much that's surely wrong, The poet keeps his pull; And still he sings his little song— “Is not life beautiful!’* Business Relationship. “What do you think of Government ownership?" “I’m not sure how it would work out.” answered Senator Sorghum. “If the Government has to send out all kinds of bills and answer the complaints of every customer there Is danger of a grave lessening of sentiment." The Age of Mysteries. “Crimson Gulch is now a metropolis.” "It’s all of that,” sighed Cactus Joe. “Don’t you enjoy the improvements?” “Not altogether. When anybody gets killed now the affair become* a dark and suspicious transaction. In the old days when a person was removed the sheriff like as not approved of the trans action as being for the good of the community.” Literature and Pharmacy. Is it not truly strange to look Upon the drug store counter book, Designed with confidence secure Our various mental Ills to cure? PhUosophers with fine advice Are offered at a cut-rate price, And yet may grace some radio scheme, Like tooth paste or a shaving cream. Jud Tunkins says there’s no tellin’ how to tell how to figure on a race track performance. When it comes to temperament a Jioss Is a four-legged prima donna. “He who tells a sad story only for the sake of sympathy," said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “delays a remedy of his fortunes by wasting not only his own time, but that of a friend who might be helpful.” Improvements Unappreciated. We make our penitentiaries neat, With ample grounds for play there. And yet the prisoners we meet Are disinclined to stay there. “I likes flowers as well as anybody,” said Uncle Eben, “but considerin’ de hard work I sees ahead, I can’t git up no congeniality wif city folks dat tells me T»ut de beauty of dandelions an’ daisies an’ sech like.” Non-Expert. Prom tile Satina* Mt«*. Mickey Cochrane told the 8. E. C. h# knew nothing about stocks. He's a Tiger, not a bull or a boar. a,. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM BY MARGARET GERMOND. DON GYPSY. By Walter Starkle. New York: E. P. Dutton Si Co., Inc. When Dr. Starkle, In the early part of 1935, put forth from the shores of England on a new adventure in Spain his equipment for the extensive and un hurried trek which has resulted in this enchanting record of his experiences as a nomad with the roving, restless gypsies of the land of Don Quixote was almost as ridiculous as that of the two Intrepid young Americans who three-wheeled across Africa on an empty oil can, a banjo and a camera. Dr. Starkie, occu pant of a professorial chair at Dublin, took with him on this latest Journey into Spain a bill of sound health, a pair of strong legs, a clear head, a Addle, an iron-tipped walking stick and three pounds for use in case emergencies requiring immediate cash should arise. In earlier books, recounting his ad ventures in Rumania, Hungary and Northern Spain, it will be remembered that Dr, Starkle proved himself to be an actor of enviable ability in character roles. And it is with the same ease and grace that he assumes the guise of any clan, band, professional or individual that will aid him in his quest for knowl edge as he travels from place to place, from adventure to adventure in Spanish Morocco and through Southern Spain from Algeciras to the caves and wind mills and the turbulent, jealous town ships of La Manca. which are still squabbling for supremacy of fame at tendant upon the pilgrimage of Don Quixote. For fifteen years Dr. Starkie has been a student of the people of Spain, period ically succumbing to the urge to play the minstrel and roam the hills and valleys with its gypsy clans in order that he might acquire a deeper, fuller under standing of the restless, passionate spirit of the multiple racial groups which make of that now unhappy land one of the most fascinating countries of the earth to the student of folk rather than polit ical characteristics. He lives among its people as a friend, shares their joys and their sorrows, participates zealously in their ceremonial rites, has no scruples about joining in enterprises which in his own country would be regarded as of doubtful honesty, and wholeheartedly engages In any means of earning a live lihood that the necessity of the hour dicutes. His method may perhaps seem an odd one for a scholar and a professor to adopt as a key to the secrets he means to discover, the mysteries he longs to explore, the traditions he hopes to trace to their origin and the folk lore from which he seeks to fathom the supersti tions that have through Spain's various eras of civilization influenced the pas sions and guided the patterns of the lives of the nomadic race which wan dered out of Egypt to roam thp earth and to And in Spain. Rumania and others of the smaller European countries their nearest approach to satisfying the urge for a home land. But it is a method which succeeds where the reg ular traveler, the scholar, the economist, the political scientist and the Interna tional expert fail. It therefore becomes a fascinating ex perience to don the rags of a tramp and join Prof. Starkie as he fiddles his fan tastic way along the coast of Morocco, across the Gibraltar Straits to Algeclras and through some hundreds of miles on this picturesque and romantic Journey with friends and with many strange companions across country to the famous wind mills and back again. It is a colorful and entracing adventure, packed with information and plentifully sprin kled with illustrations and with folk songs, set to music by the author, who Is an accomplished musician as well as a scholar, a philosopher and explorer. w ^ » w THE LAST TRUMP. By Lee Thayer. New York: Dodd. Mead 6c Co. The red badge of the Dodd, Mead house bears witness to the seal of ap proval given to this newest tale of crime and its detection by an author whose two earlier novels In the same class of fiction won immediate response from the Insatiable readers of hair-raising, spine prickling thrillers. And no disappoint ment lurks in the final pages of "The Last Trump." for Peter Clancy is again faced with a baffling problem which must be solved In a limited time, and Peter Clancy, in addition to being a very astute and clever detective, is also a very likable, red-haired Irishman with a ready wit and a native gift for flattery. A one-cabin passenger ship is the scene of Mr. Clancy’s Immediate activ ities, though the case on which he is working dates back to two crimes in America that bear the earmarks of racketeers and that have gained noto riety through exploitation by the press as the “Ace of Spades Murders." The story is based on the wide-spread coun terfeit sweepstakes racket which it is believed prevails in this country, and both murders are thought to have been committed by a person on board the unpretentious “Sutherland." Peter and his equally delightful man, Wlggar, under assumed names, are hunting big game. The usual assortment or travelers on board a slow ship is offered the two companions in sleuthing, and It would seem that the tracking down of their game would be a simple matter. A rather handsome woman of middle years, several attractive young girls, a man believed to be a spy in the service of India, a priest, a British diplomat and his nephew, a newspaper woman, sev eral nondescripts addicted to drunken ness. a chimpanzee and his trainer, a couple Of school teachers and a number of other passengers of more or less un interesting personality make up the fairly limited group to be considered. But before the sleuthing job is fairly well underway a murder is committed on the ship, and to the horror of Peter and Wiggar an ace of spades is found floating in the swimming tank, with the body Of the man who has been partially strangled and then drowned. The newspaper woman is old in the news-hunting game, and she suspects that Peter is not the “Mr. Cairns” he is supposed to be. She soon ferrets out the information that he is a detective and that he is engaged on the famous “Ace of Spades” murders. Peter ac cepts her companionship and gives her plenty of work to do. Clues pile up, but they fail to make sense. Peter’s automatic is stolen from him and in a dark passage a bad marks man takes a pot-shot at him. The chimpanzee gets out of his cage and roams over the ship in the dead of night. A woman tries to commit sui cide and somebody slips an ace of spades Into Peter’s pocket. Meanwhile the ship is nearing her dock and the murderer is as illusive as a deep-sea monster. Things move rapidly in the compara tively few hours in which detection and capture must be accomplished, but the climax comes well within the time limit, and the surprise which it contains is ample proof of the ability of one Lee Thayer to keep pace with the outstand ing crime flctionlaU at the day. t I THIS AND THAT MY CHARLES M. TRACEWELL._ ■———— III ‘To labor la to pray,” said the old Latin motto. To eat may be to pray, too, If tt la done properly, and with reverent aa well as scientific knowledge. Divine, indeed, is chemistry. It may be that mankind got its first idea of bowing the head in prayer by watching the birds eat. This was brought to attention Um other day in watching sparrows at a small feeding station outside the dining room window. There is, at the rear of this structure, a small box, or tiny room, in which the seed is placed. When the assemblage has eaten most of the food there is room in this place, almost like a tiny rostrum, for just one bird. * * * * One sparrow had turned around and was facing the others, which, in turn, were facing him. He. in his little pulpit, would seize a seed, then raise his head high in the air. The other birds, now one and then another, would dip the head downward. It was as If the single bird were a preacher, who was gesticulating and raising his head in talk, while the other birds were members of the congregation and were nodding assent, from time to time, and bowing their heads in prayer. Eating, with these strange little crea tures. is prayer, in a real sense, to the ‘‘unknown God." Who is at once their Creator and Sustainer. * * * * It may be that early man. watching the birds eat. sensed something of this, and unconsciously began to imitate the bowed head. Grace with meals, that pleasant old custom, may be a reminder of the ancient days before reading and writing and arithmetic. :We could do worse than make the birds our models. Only we should take conscious thought, to keep in mind the wonderful chemistry of food It is not necessary to think upon the subject, at the very time of eating, but to give a thought, now and then, in order to understand that the necessary things of life need not be, indeed are not, unwholesome. Food intake, for instance, need not be a mere shoveling of food into the maw. Custom and etiquette combine to take most human eating out of this category, and place it in the halls of art. We have music, flowers and laughter with our meals, and benefit from all. * * * * What we need. too. is a little chemis try with breakfast, lunch and dinner, in order to keep always before us the ! marvelous laboratory which we are. Everybody is a laboratory, and a high powered one. in a sense the biggest, best and most capable chemical labor atory in the world. The chemical processes involved in converting the things we eat into the materials used by the body for fuel, growth, rebuilding blood and all other cells of the body, have been studied more in the past 50 years than in all time past. Think of that, for a second, and then realize that even today the average per ■on 1m exactly in the state of mankind a hundred years ago. He knows nothing, in other words, of the chemistry of foods and nutrition. It Is not necessary, of course, to know, in order to eat. A large body of perfectly legitimate opinion would say that such knowledge would be harmful to the average man. Such an attitude, let It be added, is what holds the world back. Mankind will never go ahead until he loses such a mental attitude. Another opinion is that a little knowl edge Is not a dangerous thing, as the poet believed, but a good thing, for two reasons. One, It makes life more inter esting for the individual; two, out of every million individuals so interested, may come one discoverer. * * * * One would not ask that the consumer take his seat at table with a copy of a chemistry book in one hand and fork In the other. No. it isn't done that way. Best consideration of the chemistry of nutrition is done in the library, public or private.