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Evening star., 1936-09-28

all institutions report increased appli-
cations. In some cases where there are
no numerical restrictions the largest
freshman classes on record have entered
Fewer Withdrawals by upper claSsmen are
also reported. New York University has
an au-time high freshman roster of
$500. College and university registrars
f1nd another trend of the times reflected
by growing interest in social science
studies. Engineering and business courses
are attracting increased proportions of
students, too, while practical subjects
for women, like nursing and home eco
nomlcs, show rising popularity. From
many campuses comes word of declining
interest in the liberal arts.
Y
Among Washingtonians observing with
interest the political fortunes of Henry
Cabot Lodge, jr, Republican nominee
for the Senate from Massachusetts, is
Robert Lincoln O'Brien, chairman of the
United States Tariff Commission. While
editing the Boston Herald some is or l8
years ago, O'Brien published what he
thinks was Lodges maiden literary effort,
written as prep school boy. 1t was a
learned treatise on how to fight mos
quitoes. Apropos attempts of political
foes to prove that young Lodge is not
entitled to attach cir" to his name. Mr..
OBrien recalls that, like his grand
father, the present bearer of the name
has always been known as Cabot Lodge,
not Henry Cabot Lodge, and among
his cronies, he usually is plain Cab"
4
Anti-New Dealers are fond of charg-
ing that Mr.. Roosevelt, if reelected. will
revive N. r. A. Now and then it's cate
gorically alleged that new Blue Eagle
scheme, bearing Donald r. Richberg's
hallmark, is already fully Matched. Be
this as it may, DR.. Francis E. Townsend
seems to have stolen a march on the
administration by rechristening his Old
Age Revolving Pensions movement. 1t
is now officially called the Townsend
National Recovery plan, incorporation
papers under that title having Just been
filed at Wilmington, Del.
Revelations before Senator La Fol-
lettes committee about strike breaking
methods employed in some branches of
American industry are not designed to
do the New Deal any political harm at
this witching hour. 1t will not be sur
prising if, between now and election day,
campaign onSlaughts on economic
royalists" and other minions of "en-
trenched greed" take the form of cita-
tions from these recent disclosures at
the Capitol. Maj. Berry's "Non-Par-
tisan" Roosevelt-for- President Labor
League probably sees some useful am
munition in the facts the Senate probers
have dragged to light.
State and Treasury Department OFF,
cials are waiting to see whether Fulvio
Suvich, Mussolinis new Ambassador to
the United States, who is about to take
up his duties in Washington, is bring
ing, as reported, an Italian proposal for
reopening the war debt question. II
Duce's motive would be to circumvent
the johnson law, in order to regain
access to the American money market
for development capital in Ethiopia.
The general expectation here is that
Great Britain will eventually set the
pace in resumed war debt negotiations,
II any, and that Italy and other de-
nnquents are waiting for her to do So
(Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Base Ball HOnOrs.

washington, having enjoyed supreme
American League base ball honors on
three occasions In the past, must this
year be satisfied with a place" in the
annual race. Its team, struggling against
various adversities during the early part
OF the season, and with no particular
hope of doing better than q bare first
division finish, at no time was in shape
to contend seriously for the leading posi-
ton IN the American League, but from
the start OF the race its partisans and
supporters hoped for at least show"
There Is more than mere mathematical
advantage for the players in such an
outcome, for they participate in the divi-
SION Of the gate receipts of the world
series, which this year will begin next
Wednesday. with prospect of a record
breaking attendance and consequent
financial winning.
So outstanding was the day by day
performance of the New York Yankee"
team from the beginning that it was
fairly early in the race conceded the
probable victory over its seven rivals.
The champions Of last season were soon
shown to be incapable Of repetition. Acct
dents and illness took their toll of the
strength of the combination that so gal
lantly won in the American League of
1885 and ultimately triumphed in the
inter-league contests. Then began the
racs for place" which developed into .
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Sterilization at Work.

StablllZatlon marcneS ON. Inc Solu
bloc totters to its fall. Before the ink
was dry on the "gentlemen's agree
ment" pledging Great Britain, France
and the United States to pool resources
in supporting monetary equilibrium, two
other hitherto redoubtable devotees OF
the gold tandard-Switzerland and the
observation-disclosures Frances deval-
uation lead and declared their readiness
to Join the defenders of the pound, the
franc and the dollar in the program that
promises to afford world trade and
finance relief from the uncertainties and
anxieties which have so long oppressed
them. Belgium also signaled her
approval.
Both the Swiss and the Dutch, who,
like the French, had clung tenaciously
to the gold standard after other major
powers abandoned it, conceded that
Frances action makes continued adher-
ence untenable. The Berne and Hague
governments are proceeding forthwith
with devaluation measures essentially
like those for which Premier Blum is
seeking parliamentary authority in
Paris today. Thus Italy, Germany and
Poland remain the only important
European states which have not been
impelled to resort to drastic currency
reform in consequence of the epochal
nglo-Franco- American agreement and
what led up to it. The Italians await
the immediate results of the pact, amid
widespread expectation at Rome that
Ira devaluation is inevitable. The Ger
mans, too, are adopting watchful
attitude. 1t seems improbable that the
Reich, with devaluation on all sides,
can long resist adjusting the mark to
the franc and the pound. The Poles
insist that the position of the zloty for
the present renders devaluation unneces-
sary, although Warsaw proclaims fealty
to the stabilization accord in principle.
While the gold standard was giving
up the ghost in most of those quarters
1t has been fighting a precarious battle
for it's life. Washington was the scene OF
q dramatic exhibition of the potency OF
the stabilization alliance. Word having
been flashed from Wall Street that the
Soviet State Bank had dumped million
pounds of its sterling on the New York
market for sale at the best price obtain
able, Secretary Morgenthau instantly
drew upon his $4,000, 100000 stabilization
fund to the extent of $5,000,000 and
bought Russias pounds. accompanied by
announcement that there was more
where that came from. Whether the
Moscow maneuver was deliberate effort
to depress sterling or routine operation
to stave off anticipated loss from fall
in exchange, it gave the United States
a welcome opportunity to demonstrate
the defensive power of the monetary
entente. The drop in pound value was
Immediately checked. Uncle Sam turned
a tidy penny in profit, and all con-
cerned were put on notice that they will
monkey at their peril with the triple
toothed stabilization buzz-saw.
Evening star., 1936-09-28

thrush-like spots. But he is no such
charming creature as the true wood
thrush. Still he has his good points.
Certainly that afternoon in the garden
one could have asked for no fiiAer bird.
He and his mate waddled in sheer
happiness through the spray, returning
time and again to the water. They
would finally fly up in shrub, flop
their wings, shake their heads, dry of
a bit, then fly right down to the little
pool again.
When they weren't in the pool, they
were in the spray, heh, heh, as the
young folks say.
Many other birds were there, too, in
cluding robins, sparrows and cardinals.
A real thrush, on his way South, sat
in a tree, but did not Join the bathing
party.
None Of the birds. however, put as
much zip and pep into the activity as
the thrasher. 1t was his day. and he
made the most of it.
Surely this was grand day for the
birds.
. Any one with q fairly secluded yard
and hose can attract them this way,
even in the heart of the city, If the
weather has been extra dry.
It must be that Rock Greek keeps
many of them from expiring from thirst.
Probably 1t serves the birds for miles.
They have keen sense for the location
Of water, built up over thousands Of
years. If this were not true. they would
die by the millions in time Of drought,
for comparatively few persons think of
putting out water for them. Even the
owners of bird baths seldom see to it
that the bowls are kept filled. If these
baths are shallow, as they should be,
they dry out in few days.
Eternal vigilance is the price Of a
full bird bath, which is the only sort
worth birds second notice.
See to it, then, if Autumn continues
dry, that pans Of water are put out
for the songSters.
Some of them, attracted by such
attention, may decide to Winter here.
But whether they do or not, they will
welcome the water, and give the spec
tator many minutes of amusement.
Bird feeding, including watering,
must be regarded as amusement. 1t is
definitely that to the observer. 1t is
amusement in the best sense, without
the idea of laughter. When laughter is
evoked. as by the antics of the thrashers,
it is laughing with, rather than at, the
songsters.
The idea of the picturesque is what
makes watching the birds real amuse-
ment. This is pageant of nature, one
of the very finest, because it sums up
in a backyard, or on a window sill, all
OF the huge great world beyond.
Remember, these feathered fellows
and their mates are travellers in a big
way. They were roaming the world
long before the civilized world ever knew
that Florida existed.
Their journeys are not for a day or
night, or a hundred miles or so, but
for weeks. and for thousands of miles.
The bird in your garden this evening
may have flown down from Maine, and
be on his way to Yucatan, land of chicle
and macaws. Then, again, he may have
come from Brookland. After all, it
makes little difference, perhaps; the
bird is the thing, and he is always a
picture, always little actor on the
stage of the backyard, that universal
thnater
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Virginia..

Forty-two thousand square miles of
the fairest land "that e'er the sun
shone on; vast coastal domain slop-
ing down from the beautiful Allegheny
and Blue Ridge mountains of the West
to the cleaning white sands, the quiet
gray dunes and the marshes which bor-
der Chesapeake Bay; network Of rivers
including the Dan, the York, the James,
the Rappahannock and the storied Poto-
mac; the Shenandoah and five lovely
smaller parks; Skyline Drive and Sky
land for a motoring multitude: the
Natural Bridge that John Marshall
called Goods miracle in stone; Luray
and the Endless caverns; the Pinnacle
near Cumberland Gap, from which
there may be seen no less than seven
States; the Dismal Swamp, misnamed;
Hampton Roads, grandest of ice-free
harbors; the Piedmont and its big stock
farms; Cape Henry and Old Point Com
fort.
Norfolk and Portsmouth with their
fleets: Richmond. risen from her ashes
and with the Confederate White House,
St. Johns and the Poe shrine" pre-
served; Battle Abbey and the War Me-
mortal with Its carlton of sweet-tuned
bells; the Capitol, designed by Jefferson
for "the Oldest legislative body in Amer
lea; jamestown remembered and VIII
Namsburg restored; Yorktown, where
the ghost Of Cornwallis roams forever
disconsolate but not ashamed; Mount
Vernon. Monticello, Ashlawn, Montpelier,
Westover, stratford and Kenmore. still
wrapped in the romance of the age
which saw them built - The fsirest oe
Evening star., 1936-09-28

There has been so much desire to share
the vending privilege near the White
House, so generously accorded the now
famous Grecian purveyor of luxuries for
tourists, that facetious efforts may be
made to assign Agricultural Importance
to the Lafayette Square area as "the pop
corn belt.''
Evening star., 1936-09-28

1t is hoped to end monetary wars by
means of gentlemen's agreement. In
view of what some foreign diplomats call
one another in private, it might be proper
to start the recipe with the sentence,
FIRST, catch your gentlemen"
Evening star., 1936-09-28

1t has been asserted that one Of the
responsibilities Of an aristocracy Is to
provide gossip for the entertainment Of
the hoi polloi. There should not be a
situation, however, in which the supply
exceeds the demand.
Evening star., 1936-09-28
A Rhyme'at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
A Dreamer

A Dreamer
! hailed cab with its radio on.
The driver, his eyes afar,
Passed by, unheeding my beckoning hand
That meant fare for his car.
Obeying by instinct the traffic light,
He followed the song In q spirit flight.
Day dreaming Of woodlands with nesting
birds,
Wind swishing thru tall brown reeds,
The tinkle Of water from hidden springs
Up-bursting in grassy meads.
He stopped as II q cold drink to guam I.
I whistled. He came awake with . laugh.
Evening star., 1936-09-28

Chicago will hold vote as to discon-
tinuance Of daylight saving time. A
community closely habituated to finan-
cial thinking may want to take into con-
sideration the fact that earlier office
hours make promissory note come due
just little bit faster.
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
How Much Is Anything?

How Much Is Anything?
Sing a song of six pence!
Pocket full O. rye!
If the rye is liquid,
Price is none too high.
Black birds served for dinner
Gayly we discern
They were just blue eagles
Roasted to a turn!
Sing a song of six pence.
In the market place
Where the money changers
Set so hot q pace.
Here's another question
Bothering the earth;
In prose or set to music,
What's q six pence worth?
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Scented Lawns.

From the Kansas City Star.
This is the season, or one OF them,
when ambitious home owners fertilize
their lawns with various high priced and
high-scented substances, leaving the rest
Of the neighborhood to wonder why the
city ordinances are so specifically down
on such comparatively neutral institu-
t&ons % pigs and soap factories.
Evening star., 1936-09-28

A Susan B. Anthony postage stamp
invests letter with an expression of
serene and lofty dignity. The artist has
not gone so far as to develop the facial
expression into triumphant smile.
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Smile Conservation.

Smile Conservation.
Election day Is nearing
And to the polls we trudge.
Some of us will be cheering,
While others say, "Oh, fudge!"
And If perchance you can't agree.
And therefore feel aggrieved,
Let smiles stay where they used to be
There's no use getting peeved.
"One good baptizin' deserves another, /"
said Uncle Eben. "A sinner needs
washin' frequent, same as an ordinary
human bein,."
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Over Trained.

Over Trained.
Peace is something to be priced
In all relations.
Smiling patience Is advised
To men and nations.
As you quaff a peaceful cup
You may get through so,
Till some one hollers stick 'em up!"-
Then you just do so!
Evening star., 1936-09-28

1t is announced by Mr.. Hopkins that
people on relief can vote as they see
fit. Election calculators may consider
the possibility that the relief vote will be
large and influential.
Evening star., 1936-09-28

When Vice President Garner goes
motoring he smiles for the camera and
proves confidence in the chauffeur be-
fitting one who is not assuming the bur-
densome worries of a back-seat driver.
Evening star., 1936-09-28

Vocabularies are being simplified. Mr..
Landon, in discussing certain pension
plans, gets to a monosyllabic basis and
substitutes hoax" for "hokum."
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Not Interested.

mol lntefeSte0.
What is the opera tonight" said Mr..
Dustin Stax.
"Faust,'" answered his daughter.
'Iu stay home. I don't admire the
hero Of the show. Faust was the emf
nent student who couldn't solve the old
age pension problem to his satisfaction,
even with supernatural assistance"
Honesty is always depended upon,"
said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. Even
he who prepares to cheat must pretend
to possess it."
Evening star., 1936-09-28

A spirit of intensified literature pre-
walls in current comment. Comparing
communism to Millions Paradise Lost
does not make it any easier to take.
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Good Fish in the Sea.

UOOU r ISH III tHC Ccde
Where have you been?" asked the
constituent
Fishing" answered Senator Sorghum.
Catch anything?"
mo. But I did little toward pros
perity. The fish got some healthful
exercise and I increased the demand for
expensive bait"
Evening star., 1936-09-28

Al Smith has a viewpoint of his own
and will be expected to show how New
York looks from the tall buildings as well
as the sidewalks.
Evening star., 1936-09-28

A true Communist usually esteems it
a compliment to be mistaken for q mem
ber of some other political faith.
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Solo Bridge.

From the Indianapolis Star.
Bridge has reached the point where an
individual may play his own system and
not b socially ,ostracz2ed.
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Have a Heart.

From the Worcester Gazette.
An inventor now claims to have lie
detector that works perfectly. Can't he
let the country have its fun until the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November?
Evening star., 1936-09-28
Member of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rights of publication of special dispatches
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1936-09-28

All Other States and Canada.
Evening star., 1936-09-28

x**&
A good many eyes are turned in this
final month of the campaign to Boise,
Idaho, and Senator William e. Borah.
The Republicans have hoped ardently
that Borah will take the stump for Lam
don. They see in such a course victory
in Idaho and some Of the other Mountain
States which look now as though they
probably will 60 for Roosevelt. So far,
however, Borah has kept his own coun-
sci. The Democrats are hoping he will
continue to remain aloof from the ma
tional campaign. His reelection to the
Senate, which Borah Is now seeking in
a vigorous campaign, would not disturb
them particularly, although it would
mean the defeat of Gov. Ben Ross.
Democrat, who is Borah's opponent. It
would be too much for the New Dealers
to expect Borah to come out for Roose-
welt. But they believe firmly that if the
veteran Senator will just keep silent and
not support Landon, they will have
gained great deal.
The Republicans Of Michigan meet to-
morrow in Grand Rapids to hold their
State convention, which is to select a
candidate for State treasurer and other
offices, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, q
potent voice in the Republican cam
paign, is to be the principal speaker at
q pre-convention banquet in Grand
Rapids tonight. And the keynote speech
! of the convention will be delivered by
the Republican vice presidential candi-
date, Col. Frank Knox. Knox is no
sfrnncer tn MichiQan He worked on r
| newspaper in Grand Rapids years ago
the same newspaper on whose STAN was
| Senator vandenbtNg.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-03-20
KETCHIKAN USED 100000 GAL.
 WATER DAILY IN COLD SPELL

Ketchikan householders used C . average of 6000 gallons of water daily each during the past month or a total of 100000 gallons every A hours, according to a re port issued by Walter T. Stuart manager of the Ketchikan Public Utilities During the same period an average of 45,000,O00 gallons of water was used each day for power purposes.
 The report also states that rev enue of the utilities amounted to $17,711. with a net profit before bond interest and depreciation nf $12,134. Net profit of the electric department was $8935, an increase of IT per cent over the same per Tod last year; water department profit was $1727, an increase of 1 per cent; telephone department $1472, increase of 17 per cent.
 There was generated at the pow CT house in February, 644,10O XVII, which shows a gain of 10 per cent over last February. The peak load was 1900 XIV, compared with 400 XIV last year. One of the turbines is now overhauled.
 R. G. Hall, head of the telephone department, reports that there were 958 telephone subscribers on Jan 1, 1886. From that time to March there were 32 more subscribers. making a total of 990. This Is still far below the estimated maxi mum of 115O in 1928. The pres ent gain does not include any ex- tension telephones that may have been installed in the past month.
 The utilities is now faced with the necessity of ordering additional instruments to take care of the steady increase In telephone sub Scribers, the report adds.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-03-20
JUNEAU OFFICE OPPOSED TO
 HOMER COLONY, SAYS DUNBAR

Claiming to be working out of the office Of the secretary for the Territory and with the sanction and cooperation of the governors s office, Geo. F Dunbar. known to oldtlTers throughout the Interior as 'Ptarmigan' Dunbar has gone To Homer for the purpose, he says of taking census and making sur yey of the country, according to the seward Gateway. This, with the view of making reports that will tend to put quietus on the promo tien ot that country for coloniza lion on larger scale.
 Talks Freely
 The strange mission, freely stat ed Mir Dunbar, is undertaken be- cause of the lack of marketing pos abilities for products. The possi- bility of an influx of large contin. gents of settlers is viewed with d. larm by the Juneau offices, said MT. Dunbar, who talked without reseT- yation regarding the plan.
 While he did not say that he was being paid by the Territory, he did say that he had good job" and seemed on the whole very pleased and in entire sympathy with his alleged commission.
 Poor People"
 Asked why territorial leaders should be so soicitous about col cnization when sanctioned by tho government, his reply was to the effect tLat humanitarian impulses actuated the stand, that it was felt the poor people might starve to death "
 If the government agreed, sa'd MT. Dunbar, to guarantee markets for farm products then the gov ernor's office would not be so con cerned about the outcome of ally colonization plans that might mat trialize.
 MT. Dunbar was asked if pro- jects for privately conducted colon ization would meet with the same reaction, To a certain extent [ would, he replied; that the agita.- tion related to greater or less de- gree with any decided trend toward bigger settlement.
 Thorough Study Mr Dunbar said that he intends | to make a thorough study of the situation and might be in and bout Homer for an entire year,
 In early days "Ptarmigan" dld some mining on Cleary and Slate creek.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-03-20
BERG TO HAVE TW0-LINE
 CANNERY IN KETCHIKAN

J. F. Berg announced in Ketchi- kan this week that he is going to discard the old floating cannery of he Berg Packing Company for a stationary one to be built where the present warehouse stands at Charcoal Point.
 The warehouse. which measures about 50 by 80 feet, will be added to in the rear for boilers and re- torts. and in front for fish bins. when the building is completed MT. Berg said he would install two lines, one high-speed with all new machinery and another with the machinery from the old plant. While in Seattle recently Mir Berg ordered a new iron ehink.
 While he will have two lines in the new building, MT. Berg an- nounced his intention of running only the high speed one. He cx- plained that the other would be u .. ed for emergency-in case he gets too much fish for one line to handle.
 Asked what kind of year he expected, MT. Berg stated that in his opinion prospects looked good for the canners this year. Howev CT, he went on to say that "In 1927 everyone expected a big year; it turned out just the opposite. Last year I expected to put up just a normal pack The Berg Packing company put up 51,OOO cases last year-our largest pack to date. Sc you see you cant really tell how much fish to expect till they start running"