Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1935, Page 7

NEUTRALTY LAY BELEVED TODLAY Senator Pope Says Profit Greed of U. S. Shippers May Cause War. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash., November 38— Senator James P. Pope warned last | night that the recently enacted neu- | trality legislation fails to prevent the | United States from shipping to Italy | products which can be converted into! munitions for use against Ethiopia. Asserting private individuals seek- ing profits cause wars, the Idaho Dem- ocrat told the World Affairs Council that this Nation can “ship cotton to Ttaly from which Italy can manufac- ture all the gun powder she can ever use.” “We can ship wheat, without which | the army can make no progress,” he added. “We can ship steel. which can| quickly be converted into projectiles.” Lost Ship Is War Threat. He asserted that the sinking of a #hip carrying such cargo might well lead to another war. | The security of the United States against becoming involved in armed conflict “depends upon the security of the world, and the best way in| which we can protect ourselves is to | endeavor to prevent wars from start- | ing.” he said. ol “In every spot of the earth’s surface where profits might be found. Amer- | fcan citizens are busily engaged in | the search. 1 “If we are going to be strictly neu- tral we must stop all that. We must bring our citizens home and keep them here. “Many times I have been asked the question, ‘Can America be neutral?’ ‘The best answer is. I believe, ‘Amer- ican can be neutral, but won't.” | Two Phases of Question. *“We must consider the matter com- mercially and diplomatically as it actually exists. We have only two alternatives. We may either be com- | pletely and unequivocally isolated and give up all the trade and financial | contacts with foreign nations engaged in war, or we may continue to trade as usual. If we continued to trade as usual and forego neutrality we are likely to become involved in the next major war. * ¢ ¢ “The greatest difficulty about the problem of neutrality is that you can't have your cake and eat it too. Foreign trade by which we dispose of export- - able surpluses of commodities pro- duced in America is essential to any dezree of prosperity. | “The neutrality legislation so far | enacted is helpful, in that it has helped to reduce friction. I faver &uch legislation, but it does not go to | the heart of the problem.” | A smart, though conservative, type of diamond plaid of the sort worn and approved by well-dressed university At your favorite store Ynterwoven THE GREATEST N EISEMAN'S SEVENTH [ Match Your ODD COATS TROUSERS THE EVENING Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. THE MEMORY OF MAN. AN'S memory, at least as re- gards the automobile, is very short. - At a downiown pnrking‘ lot the other day, a patron was de-| layed several minutes. pending re- | moval of the automobile parked be- hind his. The owner had driven it in, but the four parking-lot boys were unable to move it—except by the pushing pro- cess. . The machine was a Model T Ford | of the old pedal-shift variety and no one knew how to operate it. ‘COSTLY SMILE. This item might also be titled: “What Price Better Service or How Much Is a Smile Worth.” On a G street beauty parlor window there are two signs, as follows. You figure it out. First sign: Service 35¢ With a Smile Second sign: Better 3sc Service * ox k¥ STILL A NEOPHYTE. 4 (GENIAL Melvin Sharpe, vice presi- dent of the Potomac Electric Power Co., who among other duties | acts as an executive assistant to the president of the Capital Transit Co., still is not a seasoned traveler on the new high-speed stream-lined street cars of the transit company. A Star reporter several days ago saw Sharpe: Rush to the center entrance of the street car. Directed to the front door by the conductor. Pull out his pass and show to the motorman, who motioned him on into the car. Pass the conductor to the rear of the car who demanded: “Show your | pass.” l Passengers enter the new street cars at the front door, pay their fare | or display passes when they depart by the center door or pass the conductor stationed there to take a seat in the | rear half of the car. | ¥ % ¥ x | IS THIS A RECORD? | This sounds like some kind of a record to us. A police census shows the 1500 -block of Gales street | sock \ ILLUSTRATED 75¢ OTHERS 2 PAIRS $1, $1 AND UP THE PAIR Hundreds of other attrac- tive patterns, 3 pairs $1 AME IN SOCKS & F STS. ° northeast has 6¢ children living with their parents in the one block. * % ok x FELINE PRIMA DONNA. As THE first strains of Mendels- sohn’s “Overture” filled the audi- ence with tense anticipation of the delights to come in the showing of “Midsummer Night's Dream” at the National Theater the other night, the curtains slowly rose and every eye in the audience was on the stage. Suddenly, it was perceived that a very ordinary, but quite privileged, cat had been napping just behind the steel curtain. < There was a titter from the audi- ence, and a bit of applause as the STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, cat -looked around, stretched, and leisurely walked off the stage. Gaining courage from the evident acclaim, the cat made one more ap- pearance, and then, like a prima donna, refused to take another bow. * ok ko SIGN ON THE ROAD. . While riding along the other afternoon in Virginia, we read the Jollowing sign near a farm house: “Eggs Laid While You Wait by Contented Hens.” L HISTORY OF A FLAG. 7THE famous American flag on| which John Wilkes Booth tripped | after assassinating Abraham Lincoln | next morning it was taken hurriedly in Ford’s Theater and fell, breaking his ankle, is not in the famous Lin- coln museum, in the old Ford Thea- ter, where it might be expected, nor in the house across the street where Lincoln died. The holes in the flag were not caused by the spur on Booth's boot when the assassin tripped. The flag did not belong to the Government when it was draped about the presidential box. The age-worn, dusty, old silk em- blem is carefully cased behind glass on the first floor of the Treasury De- partment, in custody of Chief Clerk Frank A. Birgfeld and his trusty assistant, Samuel Marks, who will no longer open the case for any one. The last time the case was opened the deteriorating old silk fell apart still more. The holes in it are simply from old age. The flag was bought by a group of people in the Treasury Department for patriotic puposes and loaned for the occasion to Ford's Theater to decorate the presidential box. The NOVEMBER 8, 1935. to the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the west front of the present Treasury Department Build- ing, where it “witnessed” the swear- ing in of the new President, Andrew Johnson. Somehow, strangely enough, |it got into the basement of the Treasury, until later on it was brought to the office of the captain of the watch. Much later a special case was made for it. 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