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POPE’S BLESSINGS
“Grave Events Are Happen
ing,” He Says, Following
Speech by Goebbels.
Bt th* Associated Press.
CASTEL GAVDOLFO, Italy. May
29.—Venerable Pope Pius XI, with his
80th birthday anniversary only two
day* off, in a vigorous utterance today
aent special blessings to German
Catholics to fortify them against a
fierce new Nart attack.
The holy father said, “Very grave
events are happening” in Germany—
where last night the Nasi regime's
movement against the Catholic church
reached new' heights of bitterness in
a speech of Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels.
While preparations for the celebra
tion Monday of the pope's 80th birth
day anniversary went on at his Sum
mer home here he addressed a group
of pilgrims, including some from Ger
many. who brought greetings on his
completion of foursoore years. He
(aid:
“The holy father, feeling himself
near to all his German sons, blesses
with all his heart and affection not
only those present here, but all oth
ers who are united by the same feel
ing of faith and devotion to their re
ligion.
Need for Social Life.
“We are pleased to see that you
pome from a part of the great Chris
tian family where very grave events
are happening and where there Is so
much need for insisting on Christian
social life for the individual and for
the family • • •”
Pope Pius, who has reached a great
er age than most of his predecessors
and has had one of the longest reigns
in the recent history of the papacy—
15 years—after a month at Castel
Gandolfo appears in Improved health,
is sunburned and shows vigor in his
.work.
Six months ago he began a strug
gle against serious illness, am&sed
prelates and physicians by his forti
tude and reoovered sufficiently to
come to Castel Gandolfo a month and
a half earlier than uaual.
But he is fully aware that he is still
a sick man. Although he has con
quered a crisis, he knows that over
exertion may lead to sharp reversal
of his progress.
The Pope will preside over a variety
©f ceremonies in celebration of his
birthday. Chief among them will
be the inauguration of the new Pon
tifical Academy he created last year,
and the closing of the International
Exposition of the Catholic Press.
Among Americans who have indi
cated they will attend the academy
(Inauguration are Dr. George C. Birk
hofl of Harvard University, Dr. Alexis
Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute
and Dr. Hugh S. Tsylor of Prince
ton University,
Atieaa or vacation Time.
The Pope came to Castel Gandolfo
ahead of schedule this year for a
real vacation. Last year he came
to work and worked too hard. Now
his audienoes are cut to a minimum.
In his daily private audiences he re
ceives only one or two cardinals or
other Vatican executives and occa
sionally a visiting prelate.
Public audiences are limited to two
per week. Wednesdays and Saturdays.
His holiness no longer walks alone
to audiences, he is carried in a porta
ble chair to a room adjoining the
audience chamber and from there
walks in and is assisted to the throne.
He loves Castel Gandolfo, and be
lieves it helps his health. He over
ruled Dr. Amantl Milani, his physi
cian, when he objected that the Sum
mer residence was too humid at this
time of year. He has said that he
does not wish to return to the Vatican
before October or November.
Pope Pius doe* not handle all af
fairs now, but his word, even if whis
pered, is still law. He relies more
and more upon the papal secretary
of state, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelll.
Pope Pius XI was bom May 31,
1857, at Deiso, near Milan, Italy. He
was elected to the papacy Pc be ru ary
6. 1922.
GERMAN PRELATE MAKES PLEA.
Faith Urged In Request for St. Boni
face’s Day Observance.
BERLIN, May 29 (£»).—Germany’s
ranking Catholic prelate. In the face
of Nazi threats of a more drastic
campaign against the church, today
exhorted all German Catholics to
stand firm In the faith.
Count Konrad von Preysing, Bishop
of Berlin, issued an appeal to all of
his religion to prepare for special de
votions to celebrate St. Boniface’s
day Sunday, June 6.
The bishop, however, made no direct
mention of the threats of widespread
expulsions and other drastic action
against the church made last night
by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, min
ister of propaganda, In a denuncia
tory speech broadcast to the German
nation.
Other Catholic leaders likewise re
ceived the storm of Goebbels’ de
nunciations in silence. However, in
both Catholic and Nazi camps there
was keen scrutiny of the propaganda
minister’s fiery phrsses in search of
clues to the government’s next step
In its movement against the Catholic
Church.
GOEBBELS’ TALK UNANSWERED.
Cardinal Mundelein Merely Asks
Prayers ’for Germany.
CHICAGO. May 29 (JP) —Very Rev.
Msgr. George Casey, secretary to
George Cardinal Mundelein of Chi
cago, said today, ’’The cardinal will
not dignify the speech of Propaganda
Minister Joseph Goebbels by any com
ment or reply."
Goebbels in a speech from Berlin
last night replied to Cardinal Munde
lein's address recently in which he re
ferred to Chancellor Hitler as ‘‘an
Austrian paperhanger, and a poor one
at that.”
“His eminence will ask for prayer
to alleviate the conditions of the
suffering church in Germany,” Msgr.
Casey added. “He merely asked for
prayers in the speech of last Tues
day.”
RECORD IN MARRIAGES
CHICAGO. M.y 30 GO.—M»rr!i0e
licenses hit a new high mark of 5.9S9
for May, the Cook County clerk'a
office announced today, surpassing the
4,226 issued in May, 1924.
In the absence of an official check,
the 494 licenses today were believed
the largest aggregate for a single day.
The record single month for mar
riage licenses was April, 1917. Then,
6,103 were Issued to sweethearts, some
to be parted by the World war.
Readers' Guide
and
News Summary
The fUiOay Star, May 10, 1037.
PART ONE.
Main News Section.
NATIONAL
Cost of steel strike approaches (3,000,
000 mark. Page A-l
Fight over wage-hour bill methods
foreseen. Page A-l
President leaves for brief visit to
Hyde Park. Page A-l
Fear of Congress remaining until Pall
is growing. Page A-l
Attempt at compromise on relief bill
fails. Page A-l
fa Follette seeks Income tax boost in
anti-evasion law. Page A-2
Longshoremen May Shift to C. I. O.,
president says. Page A-5
Political mobilization of Nation's
postmasters charged Page A-12
FOREIGN.
Pope sends blessings to Catholics In
Germany. Page A-2
Folioe force enlarged at scene of
Windsor wedding. Page A-S
Finland ready to pay war debt in
stallment June 15. Page A->
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Driver, dying, stops bus safely; cor
oner opens Inquiry. Page A-l
Agency to And Jobs elsewhere for D. C.
idle suggested. Page A-l
William J. Nolan is granted parole
from Lorton. Page A-l
Survey shows women's minimum wage
lower than in 1923. Page A-l
D. C. officials draft income tax on
1936 incomes. Page A-l
More than score of services will honor
war dead. Page A-l
Delay seen in appointment of suc
cessor to Dr. White. Page A-5
Hearing on drastic D. C. refrigerator
code set for Tuesday. Page A-ll
Midshipmen commemorate Perry's visit
to Japan in 1853, Page A-1Z
Sausage and lettuce only foods not
rising in cost. Page A-12
Overloading of sewage plant seen as
slaughter house issue. Page A-2#
Protest against July 4 fireworks at
Watergate overridden. Page A-2#
Special legislation to aid Jordon asked
by attorneys. Page A-20
Historic voyage to Europe discussed at
“Baltic dinner.” Page A-2#
Gss Light Co. asks authority to in
crease stock shares. Page A-20
SPORTS.
Walks enable Red Sox to score over
Nationals, 4 to 2. Page A-14
Budge and Grant win over Aussies in
cup singles. Page A-14
Eastern and Western each get three
on all-high nine. PageA-15
Pitt carries off I. C.-4A track title bv
half a point. Page A-16
Marathon racing easy as compared to
horseback feats. Page A-16
Week-end voyagers given insight into
enticing anchorages. PageA-17
Tremendous fortitude sustains Tow in
ring title quest. Page A-l*
Favorites make clean-up on closing
day at Hagerstown. Page A-19
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Lost and found. Page A-3
Obituary. Page A-l#
Traffic convictions. Page A-10
Shipping news. Page A-l#
Service orders. Page A-l#
Vital statistics. Page A-10
PART TWO.
Editorial, Finance.
Editorial article*. Page* D-l-S
Editorial* and comment. Page D-2
Military and veterans’
new*. Page d-4
Women’s club*. Page D-S
Parent-teacher activities. Page D-5
Cross-word puale. Page D-6
Resorts. Page D-7
Financial news. Pages D-8-11
Stock table. Page D-9
Bond table. Page D-19
Curb table. Page D-ll
Stamps. Page D-12
PART THREE.
Society, Classified.
Society new*. Pages E-l-6
Well-known folk. Page E-3
Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-6
Educational. Page E-7
Classified advertising. Pages E-7-16
PART FOUR.
Feature Section.
News features. Pages F-l-4
John Clagett Proctor. PageF-2
Radio programs. Page F-3
Amusements. Page F-5
Dick Mansfield. Page F-6
Automobiles. Page F-6
Children’s page. Page F-7
Civic news. Page F-8
Senator* Viiit West Point.
WEST POINT, N. Y„ May 39 4^.—
Members of the Senate Committee on
Military Officers and the Board of
Visitors of the United State* Military
Academy visited the Military Academy
here today and reviewed the cadet
corps.
The members here were Senators
M. M. Logan of Kentucky, Ernest Lun
deen of Minnesota, Edward C. John
son of Colorado, Warren R. Austin
of Vermont and Gerald P. Nye of i
North Dakota.
June Lang Marries.
HOLLYWOOD, May 29 OP).—June
Lang, pretty young movie actress, and
Victor Orsatti, actors’ agent, were
married today in the presence of 300
guests and embarked for a honey
moon in Hawaii.
LA FOLLETTE ASKS
INGOMETAXBOOST
Wisconsin Senator Will Try
to Write General Increase
Into Anti-Evasion Bill.
i Bj the Associated Press.
Senator La Follette. Progressive, of
Wisconsin Informed his colleagues yes
terday that he would try to write a
general Income tax Increase into the
administration's suggested anti-tax
evasion legislation.
A close friend of the President and
ardent supporter of his general legis
lative program, the Winsconsin Pro
gressive has his ideas on taxes, and
never lets an opportunity pass to im
press them upon the Senate.
Roughly, La Follette’s tax program,
one that he has been urging for years,
contemplates a general increase from
the lowest to the highest brackets and
the Inclusion in the income tax paying
group of thousands of low-salaried
citizens who now are exempt.
Would Cut Exemptions.
He would bring this about by re
ducing personal exemptions, by in
creasing the normal tax rate and by
raising the surtaxes paid by those
whose Incomes run into the taller
figures.
Exemptions at present are $1,000 for
an unmarried person, $2,500 for a hus
band and wife, and $400 for each de
pendent, when there are children In
the family below 18. The normal tax
rate Is 4 per cent.
Since all revenue-raising legislation
must originate in the House, under the
Constitution, the members of the Sen
ate have an opportunity to swing into
the subject of taxes only when a tax
bill has been passed at the other end
of the Capitol.
Message Due Tuesday.
While the projected administration
bill would be aimed only at removing
the ambiguities and other faults of the
present law, by which sharp-witted
citizens avoid the payment of taxee, it
would open the entire tax question in
the Senate.
A similar bill, dealing principally
with administration of the tax laws,
was brought in two years ago. La
Follette then endeavored to have his
tax ideas WTitten into it, but was de
feated.
At the White House, It was said
today that the President will send a
message to Congress on Tuesday cov
ering the subject of tax-evasion legis
lation.
DANIELS SEESERA
OF PATERNALISM
Doctrine of Laissez Faire Held
Scrapped in D. S.—Public Weal
Held Paramount.
B? the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, N. C . May 29 —
Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, United
States Ambassador to Mexico, said to
day. the “doctrine of ’laissez faire’ is
on the scrap heap” and “people prop
erly look to the Government to touch
life at every point necessary for the
public weal.”
Speaking at exercises dedicating the
new $250,000 poet office here, Daniels
asserted, ’’there is a duty laid upon
public administration to find a way
for education, employment, regulation
of working conditions, safeguarding
public health, providing pensions for i
the aged and such other reforms t>s ;
will abolish the poorhouse and the
slums, and insure a fair distribution of
the profits of labor and capital.”
The new post office was termed by
the Ambassador a ’’perpetual monu
ment, evidencing the lasting value of
the New Deal, which came to bless our
country with the election of Franklin
D. Roosevelt.”
“Public buildings must be bigger to
day to accommodate these greater
tasks committed to the Government,”
he added.
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50 POLICE QUIET RIOT
NEAR GOLDEN GATE SPAN
Two Men Held After Crowd of
5,000 Hurls Firecrackers—1
Stabbed, 3 Boys Hurt.
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 29— Fifty
policemen, reinforced by additional of
ficers in 12 radio cars, were required
to check a riot today in "Polk Gulch,”
unofficially renamed from-Polk street
for the Golden Gate Bridge fiesta.
Two men, arrested on charges of
"inciting to riot,” protested they were
picked out of a crowd of 5,000 who
threw firecrackers at police in a wild
uprising.
One man was treated for serious
stab wounds, two youths for cuts and
another for powder burns.
Police said the crowd attempted to
overturn a radio car and a crowded
street car.
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Marine Flyer Crashei.
NORWOOD, Colo., May 29 OP).—
Lieut. Glen C. Herndon, 31-year-old
Marine Corps flyer from San Diego,
crashed to death today as he circled «.
small Western Colorado airport in a
salute to his parents, whom he was
flying to visit.
Conservation Forum Topic
SCHWELLENBACH TO TALK TOMORROW ON TIMELY THEME.
THE importance of conservation
of the Nation’s natural re
sources will be discussed by
Senator Lewis B. Schwellen
bach, Democrat, of Washington in
the National Radio Forum tomor
row at 9:30 p.m., Eastern standard
time. The National Radio Forum is
arranged by The Washington Star
and broadcast over the network of
the National Broadcasting Co. It
will be heard locally over Station
WMAL.
Senator Bchwellenbach’s subject will
be “Why We Should Conserve Our
National Resources.” His discussion
comes at a particularly opportune
time, since it is anticipated President
Roosevelt’s message to Congress on
conservation will be transmitted Tues
day.
Although the Washington Senator,
like most Westerners, is particularly
Interested in the problem of reclama
tion, he plans to make his talk na
tional in scope. He will show the
relation between reclamation and
flood control, soil erosion and other
conservation problems, and discuss
various conservation measures.
Senator Schwellenbach was elected
to Congress in 1934. He is a mem
ber of the Agriculture and Pareetiy
SENATOR SCHWELLENBACH.
Committee as well as the Claim*, For*
eifn Relations and Immigration Com*
mitteen
Testifies for Daught er
Jesse Wallace, father of the late Mrs. John W. Davis, as
he testified at the murder hearing at Woodbury, Tenn., yester
day. Mrs. Davis’ death, after serving as plow-woman, brought
murder charges against her husband.
_—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
!
Fight on Board Proposal by
Industry and Labor
Indicated.
BACKGROUND—
Attempting to aid agriculture by
program of crop control and vari
ous subsidy plans, New Deal ad
ministration sought to aid industry
by N. R. A. program of better
wages, hours and trade practices.
Supreme Court invalidation of
N. R. A. set-up left administration
without approach to industry prob
lem until recent court decisions
opened avenue to legislation
framed in different manner. Such
legislation was introduced during
the past week.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Approval of objectives but disagree
ment with proposed approach will be
the common attitude of industry and
labor toward the Black-Connery wage
and hour bill, it was Indicated yes
terday.
Introduced in the wake of a presi
dential message replete with unassail
able generalities, the legislation has
a basis of such worthy idealism that
ilrect opposition may be difficult.
Pew spokesmen for either industry or
labor may dare disagree with the
ideals of increased employment, ade
quate minimum wages, short hours
and generally improved working con
ditions.
That both labor and industry, how
ever. would prefer, selfishly or other
wise, to see them achieved in some
manner other than the vesting of
sweeping authority in a five-man gov
ernmental board is evident from de
velopments in advance of the public
hearings scheduled to begin next
Tuesday.
Remembering well the public re
action that so frequently greeted their
blunt opposition to some of the ad
ministration's so-called social legisla
tion of the last few years, the Indus
trial associations are launching their
campaign against the Black-Cannery
bill in more cautious manner.
For Voluntary Process.
For instance, the United States
Chamber of Commerce, in its weekly
review released yesterday, laid the
following foundation for later sug
gestions that wages and hours be reg
ulated through voluntary process:
“Business as a whole is consis
tently demonstrating by practical ac
complishments its willingness and
capacity to improve labor standards.
Industry today, as a whole, is united
in support of a policy of paying the
highest practicable wages and in sup
port of the shortening of hours as far
as productivity will permit.
“Through independent action, in
dustry has made extraordinary prog
ress in attaining these objectives. In
the last decade, increase in wages
accompanied by reduction of 20 per
cent in hours of work has resulted in
more than 15 per cent Increase in
average weekly earnings measured in
purchasing power, and employment of
persons under 16 years of age has vir
tually been eliminated."
Expressing the hope that the legis
lation will be given “most deliberate
consideration," the chamber state
ment adds:
“Discussion of the measure prob
ably will center less upon the pur
poses at which it is aimed—the estab
lishment of wage and hour standards
—than upon the methods proposed for
their achievement.”
Refrains From Criticism.
As for the National Association of
Manufacturers, its board of directors
met In New York during the last week
discussed the President's message and
the proposed legislation and refrained
completely from any criticism. A
representative of the association will
appear, however, during joint hearings
of the House and 8enate Labor
Committees.
Another Industry group, the Cotton
Textile Association, will make Its posi
tion known Tuesday, when Dr. Claud
ius T. Murchison, president of the
institute, appears before the two
committees.
That the institute has decided on
the strategy of indorsing the purposes,
while maintaining lack of necessity
for the legislation la Indicated by their
circulation during the last few days
of information to the effect that
nearly 80 per cent of the textile In
dustry is preserving code standards of
wages and hours. Average hours In
the industry, it is claimed, are between
39 and 40, with wage mlnlmums pretty
much maintained at the code figures
of $13 in the South and $13 In the
North.
More direct warning of eppoeltton
to the measure is given by the Amer
ican Retail Federation in an inter
pretation to the effect that the law
may be applicable to intrastate re
tailers through existence of a pro
vision empowering the Labor Stand
ards Board to order discontinuance
of any substandard practices by es
tablishments in competition with in
terstate enterprises.
Shreveport Rate Case.
inis provision, depending lor its
validity on the Shreveport rate case
decision upholding authority of a
Federal agency to establish rates of
an intrastate carrier because it was
in competition with an interstate one,
was included in the present bill against
counsel of the Labor Department,
whose preliminary draft of the legisla
tion was one of the principal skele
tons on which the measure finally
was drawn.
And in spite of its inclusion, both
Black and Connery already have
been quoted to the effect that it is
not the intent to apply the legislation
to such purely Intrastate operations
as department store retailing.
Labor s commitment to the "yes and
no" strategy was made definite yes
terday as far as the American Fed
eration of Labor is concerned when
the Executive Council of that body
placed itself on record as urging a
provision to the effect that the mini
mum wage and maximum hour stand
ards be set through the process of
collective bargaining rather than by
determination of a Government
agency.
Traditionally opposed to Govern
ment fixing of wages and hours, the
federation virtually is forced to op
pose the present form of the legis
lation. but at the same time to indorse
its broad purposes.
The attitude of the Committee for
Industrial Organization, labor's alter
ego, has not been indicated as yet,
although John L. Lewis and Sydney
Hillman, C. I. O. leaders, conferred
with President Roosevelt prior to in
troduction of the bill and have placed
themselves on record In favor of the
shorter work week as a means of
spreading employment.
FLIGHT FROM BERMUDA
MADE IN FIVE HOURS
By the As»oci»t*d Pres*.
PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y„ May
29.—The Imperial Airways' flying boat
Cavalier landed here shortly after
6 p.m. (Eastern standard time) to
night at the end of the second of a
aeries of test flights from Hamilton,
Bermuda.
It is to complete the round trip
tomorrow, leaving at noon.
The Pan-American Airways Ber
muda Clipper left Port Washington
at 10:15 a.m. (Eastern standard time)
on its second round trip to Hamil
ton. The two ships soon will under
take passenger service between the
United States and Hamilton.
The Cavalier made the flight from
Bermuda today in five hours, includ
ing a refueling stop at Baltimore.
FARMER CHARGED
IN DEATHOF WIFE
Davis Held in $1,500 Bail for
Grand Jury in “Plow Horse”
Mate's Fatality.
By the Associated Press.
WOODBURY, Term., May 29 —John
W. Davis, poverty-stricken mountain
farmer, was bound over today for
grand jury action on a charge that
he was responsible for the abortive
death of his wife, who helped to pull
their plow.
“But of course,” remarked Magis
trate Doran F. Williams at the close
of the preliminary hearing, “it’s not
first-degree murder.”
Bond was fixed at $1,500.
Davis expressed deep love for his
wife and denied he was responsible
for the illegal operation.
Unable to raise bond, Davis went
back to jail tonight.
Held on Two Charges.
Magistrate Williams bound the de
fendant over on two charges—one of
murder and the other of performing
an illegal operation. No degree of
homicide was given in the murder
warrant.
Octa Mears, a young woman, testi
fied that while on her deathbed Mrs.
Davis said “she didn't have anybody
to blame but herself.”
Davis testified his wife did not
want another child, but that he did.
The 65-year-old defendant denied
also that he was a "hard taskmaster"
when he used his wife Jodie, 34, and
his two stepchildren in front of a
plow' because their horse had died.
Testifying at hts preliminary hear
ing on a murder charge, Davis said:
"This ain’t the first time we made a
crop this way,” and added his wife
"had been a-doin’ that—the same
thing” before their marriage.
Prosecution witnesses testified the
farmer had attributed his wife's ill
ness at one time to eating a fly, at
another to green huckleberry pie and
again to “poisoning” from preserved
food.
Walter L. McCrary, representing the
State, asked how he reconciled those
statements. Davis said that in each
Instance “I told them just what she
had said.”
Mrs. Davis testified Davis’ 14-vear
old stepson, Charley Hensley, prepared !
supper consisting of fish, corn bread,
coffee and milk and the family retired.
Before he went to sleep, however, the
boy said his mother railed him "and
me and my littlest sister sat up with
her until daylight.”
"Hollered All Night.”
"Ma suffered pretty bad all night.”
he continued. "She hollered all
night.”
Despite the fact that her cries were
“pretty loud all night,” the witness
testified his stepfather slept undis
turbed In another bed in the same
room.
Charley said that was on Friday !
night of last week. On Saturday and
Sunday, the boy continued, Davis did
what he could to relieve his wife's
suffering and called a doctor. She
died Tuesday morning.
Jess Wallace, father of the dead
woman, said Davis could have ob
tained a team of mules “by swapping
work" with neighbors “if he'd wanted
to.”
Dr. J. F. Adams testified wounds
found on Mrs. Davis' body could not
have been self-inflicted.
WAGNER ACT CHANGE
FORECAST BY BAKER
Responsibilities Will Be Imposed
on Both Sides Soon,
He Says.
B? Ihf Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 29 —A prediction
by Newton D. Baker, war-time Secre
tary of War, that before long the
Wagner labor relations act will be
amended to "impose upon both sides
responsibilities for their actions as
well as their words" was before leaders
of the strike-tom steel industry yes
terday.
Baker made the forecast in dis
cussing the "experimental act’’ at the
concluding session of the American
Iron and Steel Institute, which elected
as its president, Tom M. Girdler,
president of the Republic Iron Sc
Steel Corp., one of the three "inde
pendents" now involved in the greatest
steel strikes in 19 years.
"If anybody had proposed to
Thomas Jefferson that anybody ought
to be permitted to speak on one side
of a political question I think he
would have regarded that is a device
of monocrats.” said Baker in his ad
dress at last night's banquet attended
by 2.000.
"And yet the Wagner labor relations
act comes pretty near requiring that
one side in a great and vital discussion
shall remain silent while the other
does the discussing."
"A Salute to Safety"
By Dr. Frank Lowe
Chairman of the official “Salute to Safety Service”
being held this afternoon in San Diego, Calif.
OUR slaughtered dead In peace outnumber our casualties in war.
These latter are the noble dead who willingly offered their lives
in defense of those eternal values which make life worth living.
Today a grateful Nation pays them unstinting homage: and as
their thinning ranks go by, the cheers and tears will all be theirs.
Yet in a higher sense we cannot fully memorialize the dead unless
we also mobilise the living to prevent that appalling, needless death
which gives the lie to that ideal of the sanctity of human life for which
they sacrificed. The America they fought to save must be made safe.
Let us, therefore, today in imagination marshal another parade, and
with our mind's eye visualize that larger army of dead and disabled
men, women and children, whose broken and bleeding bodies have been
ruthlessly shattered and scattered across our highways. No thinning
ranks in this long line of march, but ranks swelling to new and shocking
proportions with the added ghastly toll of every deadly week end.
Stop, America, and let these dead pass by, enough of them in 15
years, dead and permanently disabled, that if they could walk again,
and pass in solemn review before any kiven highway intersection, that
ceaseless procession of silent eloquence would hold up traffic for 58 days
and nights.
Such a moratorium upon motion might well be spent in curbing
our headlong heedlessneae, in solving the paradoxical problem of driving
slower with ever faster cars and of driving sober with ever increasing
sales of liquor; of rededicating ourselves not only to the three Es of
education, engineering and enforcement, but also to the essential three
Cs of consistent, conscientious co-operation.
As this phantom brigade swings on with its dreadful tread of
suffering and sorrow, may we Americans everywhere make solemn vow
against wanton disregard of life, and resolve anew not to wait for the
law to overtake us with its enforcement, but to meet it half way with
our cheerful observance, not only to play according to the rules of the
game, but also according to the rules of the road—to be good players
not only behind the bat, but behind the wheel as well.
Blow down. America, and speed up safety, that these dead shall not
have died in ratal.
Washington
W ay side
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
FOUL!
E'D like to lay hands on a
dastardly hireling of Clark
Griffith—he seems to use
an assumed name — who
prevented Benny Huffman of the'
Browns from getting a hit the other
day by being “out of position.”
The fellow's unsportsmanlike con
duct la exposed by that organ of public
opinion, the News and Courier of
Luray, Va., in Its account of the home
coming of a hero:
“There is no doubt about Benny
Huffman being the pride of the Val
ley's base ball fans and the secret Joy
of less expressive people. In Luray
Wednesday night and Thursday morn
ing Benny was stopped on every street
comer, forming the nucleus for an im
mediate gathering of his many ad
mirers. Slaps on the back and com
plimentary words have not changed
Benny’s attitude. He is just the same
old Benny, modest, genial, but un
assuming.
“Playing with the Browns in Wash
ington Wednesday, he was elected to
pinch hit for the second time this
season. He connected solidly for what
would have been a clean-cut hit, but
for Washington’s Scott (who?;, who,
playing out of position, managed to
snag the ball. Many Page County
fans were on hand.”
PROBLEM CHILD.
A hotel cocktail room here has
Quite a problem in the person of a
wealthy, husky customer, whose
periodic visits are sources of con
siderable profit but more pain.
The customer downs the first five
pink-tea potions with a melan
choly singleness of purpose which
worries the ivaiters.
After that they try to ignore
him. But he is not to be ignored.
If the. waiters persist he fingers
his empty glass tentatively, then
gives them another chance. If
nothing happens he tosses the
glass on the floor.
Service being denied him after
that, he reaches for a siphon bot
tle. .That usually fetches a waiter
J WANT"
to his side. If it doesn’t the siphon
follows the glass.
The management does not want
its employes to forcibly eject the
man any more than it wishes to
summon down the law unless it's
really necessary.
The other day the customer,
after dropping a glass, then a
siphon, picked up a light chair and
balanced it as if he contemplated
tossing it into the array of glasses
behind the bar.
“It would make quite a crash,"
remarked the jittery head waiter,
“but perhaps it would simplify
things after all."
FAMILIARITY.
JAPANESE customs are distinctly not
American customs, as probablyany
body who has studied a geography book
knows. And Rev. J. K. Morris, rector
of the Episcopal mission at Kyoto, now
visiting in Washington, knows well
that they are not.
Rev. Morris, it seems, was married
just before he left the United States
to go to his mission in Japan. Being a
honeymooner, he was extra-solicitous
toward his wife, helping her across
streets, up steps and things like that.
Normal here, but it shocked the Japa
nese no end, for the Japanese never
think of touching their wives in public.
Over there the spouse must tag five
feet behind her husband and he com
pletely ignores her.
One of his Japanese fellow clerics
stood Dr. Morris' American solicitude
for Mrs. Norris as long as he could,
then spoke to the bishop.
•'Bishop.” he said, "I wish you would
speak to Mr. Norris, he is too familiar
with his wife.”
STUBBORN.
Since this department has in
the past given over at least part
of its space to dogs, cats, horses
and other four-footed friends of
man. there comes to it note another
canine yarn. This one is about
a nonpedigree pooch, of average
intelligence, and his owner, Mrs.
Paul G. Hershey, claims he wags
his tail, not in the normal and
accepted fashion, but stubbornly
up and down.
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Now don't jump up and say
that's the old story about the
family that moved into an apart
ment so small their dog couldn’t
uag his tale from side to side, but
had to give it the up-and-down
business to keep from slapping the
walls. That was in an apartment
and Mrs. Hershey lives out tn Sil
ver Spring. What we’d like to
know is why a dog in the spacious
suburbs can't have room to wag his
tail the way hi: ancestors decided
a tail should be wagged.
LOGIC.
'TWO-YEAR-OLD Tommy, it seems,
bites when he fights.
At the Child Research Center, where
Tommy attends nursery’ school every
thing is according to the most up
to-date psychological methods and
bad little boys are never, never
spanked. They are punished instead
by '“isolation from the group whose
social rules are violated.”
This leads to some curious think
ing, as shown by the following in
cident related by Mrs. Henley, the di
rector. Tommy was taken down town
the other day and duly admired the
assortment of stone generals on stone
horses scattered through the parks
until he came to the statue of Henry
W. Longfellow at Connecticut and
Rhode Island avenues.
Poor Longfellow had no stone horse,
only a stone chair. So Tommy re
flected:
“Poor man. Has no horse. Lost
his turn. He must be kind. He must
not bite peoples. He loet hie turn on
Art Presentations Are Made
ty Director of Local
Gallery.
More than 30 art students were pre
sented with merit awards for their
achievements during the past year at
exercises yesterday at the Corcoran
School of Art. The presentations
were made by C. Powell Minnlgerode,
director of the Corcoran Gallery
of Art.
In the painting class, first prize,
$150, was divided equally between Miss
Grace Barker, Miss Mary Thoenen and
William Thompson. Honorable men
tion was given Miss Marguerite Bur
gess, Miss Bess Silver. Miss Alva Sib
ley, Miss Suzanne Mullett and Mrs.
Ruth G. Nimmer.
First prize of $75 in the life draw
ing class went to Miss Wilford
Woehler. Honorable mention was
given Dan Mitchem, Jack Berkman
and Robert Miller.
Antique Drawing Class.
Miss Jean Burns and Miss Betty
Hovey-King shared first prize of $50
In the antique drawing class. Mrs.
W. E. Davis and Miss Leslie Gellis
received honorable mention.
Peter de Anna was given first prize
of $75 and Olive Bohannon and Hol
brook Muller won honorable mention
in the composition class.
First prize of $50 in the still life
painting class was divided between
Robert Sevens and Gustave Trois, with
honorable mention going to Mrs.
Teresa Lanigan and Gladys Kerr. Miss
Marguerite Riley was given honorable
mention in the landscape class.
First prize of $50 in the sculpture
class went to Mrs. Dorothy Jones. Sec
ond prize, a scholarship, was givpn
Anson William Munson, while honor
able mention was accorded Miss Muriel
Austin and Miss Myrta Williams.
Modeling Award,
In the Saturday morning drawing
class for high school students, Mrs
Edna Rowen won first prize, while in
the modeling class for high school
students. Miss Ruth Salmon won first
prize and George Hawthorne hon
orable mention. Scholarships were
awarded Miss Edna Bowen of Western
and Miss Jeanette Johnson and Nick
Mallus of Central.
The jury of awards in the painting
and drawing competition comprised
Richard Lahey. Eugen Weisz, Mrs.
Mathilde M. Leisenring and Kenneth
Stubbs, all faculty members at the
school, and Will Hutchins and Nicolai
Cikovsky, artists. The sculptors’ cre
ations were judged by William Marks
Simpson and Henri Brenner.
All awards were accompanied by
certificates, and, with the exception of
the first prize in the sculpture class,
donated by Mrs. Corcoran Thom, were
given by the school.
The work of the students will be on
exhibition until next Sunday.
ALLIGATOR HUNTING
SPORT IN CAROLINA
Sanrians Mak# Choice Meat,
Women Find—Extermination
Is Foreseen.
Bj the Associated Press.
EHRHARDT. S. C.. May 29.—When
the fish don't bite, Bamberg County
sportsmen go alligator hunting.
A great sport, with plenty of thrills,
the saurians also make choice mear,
which one housewife here calls "bet
ter than chicken."
Hunting alligators began in this sec
tion when I. D. Copeland, who leads
the hunts, said, a monster ran a party
of night swimmers out of Lear Pond,
a lake near here.
Colored hunters—who now make
their living by killing the reDtiles and
selling their hides—were called and
after a few nights had the pool
cleared. A 10-footer, weighing more
than 200 pounds, was one of the many
’gators killed in the pond.
Tlie war on this species of the croc
odile family also was given some im
petus recently when a huge ’gator
attacked Ralph Hughes after he had
struck Its head with a pole.
Some people believe that alligators
will be exterminated in this section if
the hunts continue. Protective meas
ures have been taken in Florida, but
in South Carolina there is no law
pertaining to the sport.
The hunters do their searching in a
boat, one man paddling while the
other shines a spot light across the
water. The light both attracts and
blinds 'the ’gator. Still holding the
light In his eyes the hunters paddle
close enough to shoot him.
INNKEEPER KILLED
AS BUS HITS AUTO
Karl Lesney, Pair Hill, Va.. Mak
ing Turn Into Lane at
Early Morning Hour.
Karl Lesney, 50. proprietor of the
Fair Hill Inn, was killed early this
morning in front of his establishment
at Fair Hill, Va.. near Falls Church,
when his automobile was struck by a
Virginia stage coach bus.
Falls Church police said Lesney
was making a left turn into the lane
leading to his inn when the accident
occurred. He was dead when he was
brought to Georgetown Hospital in
an automobile driven by Richard C.
Moncure of Falls Church. There were
no passengers on the bus and Us driver
was not hurt, police said.
Two victims of hit-and-run drivers
were brought to Casualty Hospital
early this morning seriously injured.
John G. Linthicum, 43, of 3715 Thir
tieth street northeast, suffered a prob
able skull fracture when he was
struck on Bladensburg road north
east in Cottage City. Md. Stanley
Deale. 39, of Marlboro, Md., suffered
a possible skull fracture when he was
struck on the highway near his home.
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Martinique Wages Increased.
Salaries of workers in Martinique
are being increased to meet the in
crease in living costs caused by the
devaluation of the franc.
horse. He must sit on chair. Will
you be a good boy, man? Are you
ready to get off your chair?”
Which, we insist, is not a ' jlever
sayings-of-chlldren” Item, such as are
rigidly barred from this column as
nuisances, but a flash in the dark
depths of the me mind showing a
rib or two In the anatomy of man's
thinking.