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Evening star., 1935-12-11

depends on whose OK is gored." Assail-
ing critics of the Canadian tariff agree
ment, he said, TT all depends on whose
baby has the measles"
-
Representative Tilman B. Parks, DEM
ocrat, of Arkansas, who was hiSsed at
the recent Washington Town Hall meet
ing for declaring that American soldiers
had never fought an aggressive war, is
chairman of the Subcommittee on Mill
tary Appropriations of the House APP
propriationS Committee and an ardent
believer in an adequate United States
Army. The mixed reception his views
encountered suggested to some members
of the audience that it would be inter-
eSting if an early Town Hall program
could be devoted to preparedness. Dis
cuSsion might appropriately range, it was
thought, around President RooSevelt'S
Armistice day theme that America can
not hide her head in the sand, but must
take realistic cogniZance of what is going
on in the world and be ready for any
emergency that might threaten the
United States with aggression.
Recent visitors to washington included
a Well-knoWn Canadian. There was
informal discussion among a group of
friends about the possibility of die
tatorShip on the North American conti-
nent some day. The suggestion prompted
the man from the Dominion to calculate:
"The peoples of Canada and the United
States will never give up the right to
misgovern themselves"
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Very latest under the political sun Is
the report that former Governor Clifford
Pinchot of Pennsylvania may throw his
hat into the Republican presidential ring
as 100 per cent Progressive. Supporters
in Pennsylvania and some Western States
are said to have urged him to enter
the race. Pinchot has long been a CO.
worker of Senator Norris in the power
and conservation crusade, a circumstance
which had caused some observers to
think the Pennsylvania might join the
veteran Nebraska Progressive in support
of Roosevelt.
Frank c. Walker, executive director OF
the National Emergency Council, rumors
favorite candidate for successor to Post
master General Farley, is now said by
friends to be definitely out Of the picture.
Because of the recent death OF a cousin,
his chief partner in the theatrical busl-
ness, Mr.. Walker is understood to have
decided to devote himself exclusively to
his private affairs and resist the lure OF
cabinet office, should it be offered him.
The theory is current that the President
as a timely gesture to business may offer
The postal portfolio to some outstanding
captain of industry.
American toys are more than holding
their own against Japanese and other
low-priced foreign competition during
the current Christmas season. The do
niestic toy trade is said to represent an
output of 5000 ,00o, 900 annually, with
plants running at full capacity. Toy
imports from all countries for the first
nine months Of 1885 amounted to barely
one per cent of American production.
Copyright. 1850
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F1ivver Planes.

For some years American aspirants
for flying facilities have hoped for the
development of a small individual plane
that could be easily housed, safely flown
and economical in operation and main
tenance. Such an individual air f1ivver"
has been promised from time to time
by designers and manufacturers, but
without results. Recently, however, a
British aviation enthusiast arrived on
one of the big liners with 350-pound
midget plane that, it is said, can be built
in the owners own workshop for less
than $3.50. This plane has been designed
by Frenchman. There are no patents
on it and it is said that hundreds are
now in use in France and England. 1t
is claimed for it that it can be towed
behind motor car, will fly two hum
dred miles without refueling, will go
forty-flve miles on gallon of gasoline
and can be flown by any one who can
drive an automobile.
With such claims, it would seem that
this is the answer to the amateur air.
mans prayer. But it is well to go bit
slow about adoption and exploitation of
this f1ivver plane. The claim that it
can be flown by any one who can drive
an automobile is rather a broad one.
That probably means, in practical effect,
that the mechanism of the plane is no
more complicated. than that of a motor
car as regards manipulation. But it
does not mean that any one who can
drive car can, by the exercise of the
same talents, fly plane. The pilot must
be trained, and his training is more ex-
tensive than that of the driver of a car.
The prospect of sky full of f1ivver
planes driven by quickly trained pilots,
even though they may pass licensing
tests, is not especially assuring. The
liabilities of airmanship are not reduced
by the reduction of the size of the unit.
The day may come when any one who
can drive a car can be safely turned
into an air pilot in short order and
equipped with plane that costs less
than any existing standard make of
motor car. If so, the present grievous
traffic problems and dangers are likely
to be seriously increased.
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operation. Not as much has resulted
from that earlier survey as was hoped.
Certain changes of routes then proposed
and later modified have been effected
only in part and there remain several
points of duplication and intersection
which require amendment.
The vehicular survey now to be under
taken should be correlated with that Of
ten years ago which, as regards the
actual routing of street cars and busses,
requires to be only slightly developed.
The ganglion of tracks at Fourteenth,
Fifteenth and H streets and New York
avenue is still to be resolved into more
efficient and less dangerous condition.
But meanwhile it is important to seek
a more effective coordination Of the
traffic signals in the downtown area,
particularly to assure maximum of
movement with a minimum of danger.
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A Noble Gift.

Former Representative Lucius Nathan
Littauer of Gloversville, N. Y, long
known for his charities, has given two
million dollars to establish a graduate
school of public administration at Har-
ward University. The donors purpose,
as announced to the press, is Ito promote
the science and art of government" in
its executive aspect. For its principal
objective the new institution will have
the development of new techniqueS in
public service" 1t will be laboratory"
.. for the testing of theories and methods
in the interest of avoiding disasters
arising from untried experiments"
But the crux of the problem which
Mr.. Littauer generously is trying to solve
Is perhaps best indicated by his state
ment: Governmental administration
for the true welfare of the people de-
mands a special training imbued with
the ideals and ambitions for our Coun-
try's benefit. Our public administration
needs men trained with broad outlook
into the history, politics and economics of
the past"
Some, Of course, viii differ with the
point Of view thus expressed. Undeni-
ably, It is opposed to the familiar doc
trines Of democracy as they have been
understood in America, where amateur
ism always has been popular with the
masses and where only aliens, criminals,
lunatics and residents of the District of
Columbia are denied the franchise. Yet
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A Traffic Light Survey.

Grant of more than one hundred
thousand dollars by the Works Progress
Administration will enable the District
government to conduct comprehensive
traffic survey from which some remedy
for the present difficult situation may
be obtained. 1t is proposed to put
approximately two hundred people at
work for this purpose, primarily to count
the motor cars at congested points dur
ing night periods as well as day at all
important intersections, and also to
ascertain the number of cars entering
and leaving the District. One important
phase of this work will be the study
of the problem Of delays, the stoppages
of traffic incident to the operation of the
signal lights. It is hoped that by this
means it win be possible to determine
whether the timing of the signals in
relation to the volume of traffic In GER
tain directions can be changed to permit
a more constant flow of the traffic.
At present the street congestion during
the morning and afternoon hours of
heaviest street use is not only a source
Of danger to all street users, but is a
grievous handicap to the transaction of
business. The concentration of heavy
streams on few arterial highways is in
some cases rendered quite ineffective by
the timing of the lights to permit trans
verse passage. The system, in short, has
developed incidentally rather than
scientifically and the time is surely at
hand to remedy the conditions.
This survey that is now contemplated
will be the most extensive ever conducted
by the traffic department, and, it is
noted, viii rival in scope that Of 1925
In relation primarily to street railway
Evening star., 1935-12-11

The Nature lover who installs bird
feeder in his back yard has great deal
to learn.
Upon seeing how the birds take to the
device he will wonder why he does not
see more of them in use.
In few weeks--two or Leslie will
find out.
He will discover that the frst cost is
just the beginning.
Not only will he learn that the pur-
chase Of bird feed, or seed, mounts up to
almost astronomical figures, but that
there are other plain handicaps.
One of these is the squirrel. This mis-
chievous, destructive rodent Is at his
arboreal best in harasSing both the feed
ing device and the birds feeding thereat.
Il 4 4
There is a duty involved, once the
feeding of birds has been begun.
Every one who starts this pleasant
outdoor paStime comes to the same feel
ing about 1t, that, once started, 1t must
be kept up.
1t is plain duty.
Therefore, If any one does not wish to
keep on with it, let him never begin, fer,
once started, this feeding must be kept
up, at least through March.
Wild bird food mixtures may be pur-
chased locally for to cents per pound.
These usually include hemp, rape, millet
and sunfiower Seeds together with other
grains and seeds the birds like.
To supply one automatic feeder, one
beginning enthusiast has figured out, will
take at least half ton of food for the
four months of December, January, Feb
ruary and March.
This calculation is based solely on the
feeding of birds during the last two
weeks of November and the first days Of
December.
All this time there have been multi
tudes Of seeds and berries Of all sorts to
be secured by any bird from the ground
and shrubs of the neighborhood.
Hard weather has not set in yet.
Even the starlings, clever beyond most
birds in making their way in the world,
so far have paid no attention whatever
to the feeding device.
Though the fame of this particular
feeder seems to have spread far and
wide among the colonies of smaller birds.
judging from the increased attendance
day by day, a flock of starlings which
came to the yard recently paid no at
tention whatever to it.
The large birds, bursting with the ego
tism of their breed, strutted in the
grass, picking up grass seed. evidently.
Not one of them even glanced at the
feeder, although its tray was filled with
birds and several score pecked around
on the ground beneath it.
The Starlings ignored it.
Surely it may be believed, however.
that when the weather gets cold and
stays cold they will not only notice the
feeder but will patroniZe it freely.
This will mean that all the smaller
birds. the juncos, song sparrows the
warblerS, even the georgous cardinals,
will be crowded out.
X
There are probably few persons who
begin to feed the birds in what might
be called a persistent manner who do
not feel the utter necessity for contin-
uing.
Just how much of duty this will seem
will depend, of course, upon the per-
Sonal temperament Of the human who
undertakes the job.
1t is much to the credit Of bird lovers
Evening star., 1935-12-11
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles E. TRAcEHELL.

everywhere that most Of them feel, once
they have begun to feed the songsters in
a businesslike way, that it is incumbent
on them to keep 1t up, at least through
the Winter.
Just how the birds feel about the mat
ter is q question. We have noticed that
they do not stand on ceremony, but as
soon as the feeder is entirely emptied.
and the ground around the tree, on
which it is installed, thoroughly cleaned
Of all except husks, they fly away i'm
: mediately.
There will be the usual fiuttering Of
birds through the shrubbery afterward,
but the great concourse Of feathered
friends Is over.
Over, that is, until the device is filled
again.
No matter what time of day this filling
occurs, provided 1t is between 7 am. and
pm, the birds shortly get wind Of it,
and return by twoS and threes within
few minutes.
Just how they know will always be an
interesting question. Our belief is that
they smell it.
The squirrel problem remains.
1t is curious, how, to the Nature lover,
this rodent turns from a friendly, in
tereSting little creature, to somewhat of
a nuisance once a bird feeder is in
stalled.
Not only will the squirrel occupy the
device, thereby keeping birds out Of the
trough, but he will tear it to pieces, If
he can possibly do SO.
His razor-sharp teeth are quick to find
any spot where he can bite. Even wood
easily SuccumbS.
One would not think, offhand, that
these rodents would bother over seeds
and the like.
Yet they seem to relish wild bird food,
or seed, as well as the songsters.
~
Many lover of Nature will think that
anything that tends to make his friends
the squirrels seem nuisance to him is
not altogether an unmixed blessing.
Surely these rodents, with their pretty
coats, pert ways and great activity, are
one Of the real attractions Of the sub
urban scene.
Before bird feeder was installed their
presence was welcome.
Afterward they tend to be unwanted,
and this is too bad.
we are Dc8Inllng 10 see why MANY per
sons who install feeders make them out
of simple pieces of box or board.
We have heard Of persons who covered
the feeder with shield of chicken wire,
leaving merely hole large enough for
small birds, but sufficiently small to keep
Mr.. Squirrel out.
Such a protective covering. however,
is not in the spirit of the great outdoors.
Attempts to "Shoo" the squirrels away
are mostly waste of time.
These mischievouS fellows enjoy pit
ting their brains against yours.
1t is fortunate that the birds are not
really afraid Of them. When the rodent
occupies the feeder platform the song
SterS feed of the ground. When he takes
to the earth the birds fly up to the plat
form.
1t would seem that everything in this
world has some drawback or other, so we
need not be surprised at the indicated
cost of bird feeding, nor the trouble
caused by the presence Of squirrels They
are among the many, many things in
this life which we must make the best
of, as the old saying has it.
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The Silver Bubble.

Silver, often in the past the stormy
petrol of currencieS, holds the center Of
attention again. The United States,
under the urge of Senators and Repre-
sentativeS from the silver mining States,
gave the price of silver a boost months
ago. The Government adopted policy
of purchasing silver upon a large
scale. 1t offered to permit the European
nations which owe us war debts running
into the billions of dollars to pay in the
white metal 1t agreed to purchase new
silver mined in the United States at
higher price. In fact, it did about every
thing it could to raise the price of silver.
What happened to China, the great
silver-uSing country was something else.
1t had been urged by the supporters of
the new silver policy of the United
States that through the enhancement of
the price of silver China and other coun-
tries which used silver in large quanti-
ties in their currencies would be in
position to purchase more of our goods.
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silver, however, appears to have been to
throw the economy of China out of bal
ance and to make it difficult for the
Chinese to do their own domestic buying
and selling.
Now, it seems, the Chinese-and some
declare that it is at the suggestion of
itoiYa 70
managed currency" omitting silver
Further, China is going to sell its silver
on a large scale, presumably to the
United States, the great customer today.
This does not fit in so well with the
ideas of the silver advocates in this coun-
try, who have hoped that silver would
more and more become used in the cur
rencies of the world. 1t looks as though
the new silver policy of the United States
might prove boomerang
The United States is halting or baik-
ing. 1t does not like the attitude of
China. But, then, the Chinese have not
appreciated the attitude of the United
States in the matter of silver. The Amer
ican Government is not, it is said, willing
to go ahead purchasing great quantity
of silver at high prices, under all the
circumstances. The immediate conse-
quence has been to throw the silver
market into the utmost confusion. The
prices of silver collapsed yesterday, in
the absence of a definite statement of
the future policy of the American Gov
ernment. The London silver market was
deluged with selling orders and finally
closed without fixing a price for the
metal.
Tampering with the currencies of the
world has some of the dangers of
monkeying with buzzsaw. The United
States itself is of the gold standard,
strictly speaking, although it has the
greatest amount of gold in its possession
ever amaSsed, nine or ten billion dollars
worth. 1t has adopted 59.06-cent dollar,
as compared to gold, but it does not pay
in gold, having abrogated all gold con-
tracts. The advocates of sound money
strongly urge that the Government get
back upon gold standard, even if the
gold content of the dollar remains at it's
present low figure.
What policy the United States Gov
ernment will adopt toward silver and it's
purchasing and boarding is the question
which the silver markets of the world
await today with extreme interest.
Evening star., 1935-12-11
A Rhyme at Twilight
BY
Gertrude Brooke HamiltoR
Call ON NV Tailor.

Where my tailor takes my measure,
Well skilled in the task Of fitting,
Tedium merges into pleasure
AS watch the fair sex knitting
In a cozy nook next door;
Bright yarns scattered on the floor,
Needles in smooth fingers fitting.
Over the warm worsteds bending,
Curving lips and downcast lashes
To their faces somehow lending
Light and shadow in swift flashes;
And the roseate lamplight there
Blending tints in cheek and hair
With the patterns color splashes.
Long steel needles in fair fingers!
AS I choose a cheviot weaving,
Disconnected, fancy fingers
On the sex so oft deceiving.
Charms that make Q stsid man
dream
Are they srtless as they seem7 go
! avoid the nook, tn leaving.
Evening star., 1935-12-11
A Conqueror's Terms.

1t is small wonder that resentment
and indignation are rampant in London
and Geneva over so-called peace terms
evolved by Premier Laval and Sir Samuel
Hoare as an inducement to MuSsolini
to abandon his war in Ethiopia. Lon
don on Tuesday was the scene of what
Is described as revolt within the British
cabinet and storm in the House of
Commons. At Geneva broad outlines of
the terms spread CONSERVATION, causing
talk among smaller powers of resigning
from the League if such an arrant be-
trayal of it's fundamental duty to
prevent aggression were approved
In both London and Geneva the
Anglo French plan was roundly as
sailed as the kind of peace" conqueror
would impose upon beaten enemy and
one which would Stultify the grandioSe
collective action instituted by the League
to punish Italy for her wanton attack.
Refuting charges that Britain is con-
niving with France to permit MuSSolini
virtually to accomplish his territorial
purposes in Africa, Prime Minister Bald
win pleaded with Parliament to await
authentic details of the proposed settle
ment. He declared that it can be con-
VincingIy defended. 1t was depicted as
q mere "basis for negotiation" which
will not be imposed either on Italy or
Ethiopia or on the League. Meantime
enough has become known to disclose
that the scheme contemplateS despoiling
Ethiopia of about half of its domain, in
Guiding the occupied Tigre Province in the
north, Ogaden in the south and wide
areas in other directions. I'm exchange"
for some 10000 square miles of his land
Halle SelaSSie is offered narrow cor
ridor to the Red Sea through Eritrea,
with port at Assab. Ethiopia also would
be pledged a treaty of administrative
and financial assistance by the League.
These far-hung concessions evoke
favorable reception at Rome, as well they
might but do not meet all of MuSSolini's
demands. He is holding out, among
other things, for cesSion of additional
territory which would link Italian Som
aliland with Eritrea.
Oil sanctions, due for discussion tomor-
row, seem likely to be held in allegiance
pending development of the Anglo-French
plan. On the face of what is so far
known it is inconceivable that either Ethi-
opia or the League can, with anything
savoring of consistency or self-respect,
accept such program. There are Sug-
gestionS that British fears in Egypt and
Kenya have suddenly impelled London
to assent to terms that would constitute
sweeping victory for MusSoliniS cam
paign. France has never been enthuSi-
astic about invoking extremes against
Italy. Both the British and the French
hesitate to impose oil sanctions because
of the prospect that II Duce would in
desperation carry out his threat to make
war in retaliation.
Whatever inspires them, the terms not
only represent surrender to the Fascist
dictator, but are an indictment of League
impotence, not to say duplicity. If war
in Ethiopia is ended under such condi-
tions imperialist adventures everywhere
will have reason to believe that land
grabbing is still relatively safe practice.
A premium will have been placed on in
ternational lawleSSneSS. Geneva will bear
an indelible stigma
Evening star., 1935-12-11
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Old Athenian Argument.

Old Athenian Argument.
The women have right to speak.
We're reading still today
OF Lysistrata, not so meek,
And wisdoms great display
BY Moliere's ladies wise and fair,
Whose fame can't be denied.
And so we venture to declare
Xantippe had her side.
For, Socrates, whose words still please
With classical renown,
Went out with Alcibiades
BY night to paint the town.
xantippe stayed at home, severe
In her housekeeping pride.
Philosophers are often queer.
Xantippe had her side.