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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The greatest scratcher in birdland is
the fox sparrow.
If you see a rather large sparrow, red
dish brown on the back. with spotted
chest, reminding you OF thrush, believe
it is the fox, SO named on account Of the
coloration.
If it scratches so energetically for food
that it causes laughter among human
watchers, be quite sure of the identifica-
ton.
It's comical backward and forward bob
bing is peculiar to 1t, and is mentioned
in all bird books as distinguishing
feature.
Somewhat larger than the English
sparrow, it Is quite at home among q
flock Of the latter, but tends strictly to
Its own business Of feeding.
*xA*
The half dozen fox sparrows now at
home beneath our feeders are probably
specimens which have just come up from
the South, although some Of them VIM
tered here, being reported from various
sections Of the city and nearby suburbs.
This sparrow is an energetic, happy
fellow and one of the natives which
always "gets hand" from professional
bird writer's on account Of the insect
pests 1t consumes.
1t is a free seed eater, too, devouring
those of many weeds. which, without this
and other sparrows, would overrun the
earth even more than they do.
Its eternal scratching in chaff and
other litter undoubtedly brings to light
many an inimical worm and seed which
would escape detection. The English
sparrows content themselves with what
they can find on the ground, but not so
the fox. His deep brown back, much re-
sembling that of the wood thrush, Is ever
in motion, as he digs industriously.
n
The fox sparrow brings to four the
number of species of this family seen
beneath our feeders.
The others are the English, the white
throated and the song sparrow.
The total. number of kinds of all types
of birds at the feeders during the Winter
has been 81, including the sparrows
The total is as follows: English SPAR
row, white-throated sparrow. song SPAR
row. fox sparrow, blue jay. cardinal,
nuthatch. titmouse. chickadee, junco,
Carolina wren, Carolina dove. pigeon.
starting, downy woodpecker, hairy wood
pecker, red-bellied woodpecker, hawk,
crow. robin. purple finch. The robins.
of course. have just arrived. The hawk
made two appearances and the crow
one.
Two Carolina wren made just one ap-
pearance and the dove two appearances
The other birds named have been more
or less steady customers. although the
various woodpeckers and the starlings
tended to stop coming when the suet
feeding was discontinued.
The cardinals and the English SPAR
rows have been the steadiest feeders
since before Thanksgiving.
The largest turnout of redbirds was
on December %. 1885, when it showed
all day. There were nine males present
and probably as many females. although
the latter were not so easily counted.
X -
The male cardinal is a rather pratt
cal looking fellow. with his black mark
ing completely around his throat and
head.
In sheer beauty he must give way to
his mate, lovely creature of subdued
coloring, sure to win out ultimately in
the artistic eye.
But what would bird feeding be, by
and large without the male carcinal2
Evening star., 1936-03-11
lean Patou.

1t is long, long way from Paris to
Washington, even in a time when 1t is
possible to telephone from the one
capital to the other. But the art Of Jean
Patou was competent to negotiate still
greater distances. Indeed, his genius was
devoted to making lovely women love-
lier the whole world around. Gowns and
wraps of his creation added to the charm
of ladies in London, in Capetown, in
Burma and Siam, not to mention every
city in the United States. His clientele
was universal.
But, hearing of his death and knowing
the tale of his rise and fall, many a
husband, father or brother must remem-
Der having wondered how a man dis
tinctively manly could have desired to
win fame as a dressmaker. The ques-
ton is intriguing. Perhaps no answer
can be suggested save that of the strange
contradiction which provides that in
dividuals should vary from the norm,
should do curious and even outlandish
things. Patou might have built bridges
or lighthouses, cornered the money
market, acquired title as a boxer or q
swimmer. Instead, he aspired to be the
most celebrated costumier of his genera
ton. Moreover, it is undenied that he
did in sober fact attain his lofty goal.
The climb was steep and the heights,
when gained, too slippery. Yet at the
end an international public was to forget
his failure, remember only his success.
A few weeks ago, the celebrated designer
was in the bread line. Today, the strug-
gle finished, he is en- route to whatever
celestial plane there may be. Tomor-
row-who can prove otherwise?-he may
be cutting out raiment for angels. He
had the skill, the imagination and the
courage for such q pleasant task.
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Monuments to American musicians
should not be neglected. Authors and
composers of mo Bananas Today" have
been forgotten. Mr.. Gallagher and MIR.
Sheen repose in graveyards less known
than that of Dillinger. If the authors
of Music Goes Round" are honestly
ambitious to be remembered in art an
nails they will proceed at once to set
aside a percentage of their royalties to
pay for a monument and for conspicu-
Gus site on which to build 1t.
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
No News = Good News.

No News = Good News.
A memory sounds from far away
There isn't any news today"
Since then the world has run a course
Through plunder. panic and divorce.
Which seems to shatter every scheme
From politics to loves young dream.
None is too great and none too small
To hear the loud, relentless call
Of Notoriety, whose name
Has overshadowed honest Fame.
Fame patiently kept plodding. while
The gossip moved in Haunting style.
The tickers talk, the headlines wave,
Confusion runs from gay to grave.
We wish sometimes Earth did not spin
So fast through a delirious din;
And that authority would say,
There isn't any news today"
Evening star., 1936-03-11

Japanese rulers trace their ancestry to
the sun and moon, q custom which puts
a kink into astronomy which even Elm
stein would scarcely undertake to dis
entangle.
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As an economist President Roosevelt
shows a modesty amounting almost to
difidence as he stands aside to let Pro-
fessors Wallace and Tugwell explain their
own figures.
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A sporting spirit never was more
admired than in the present state OF
civilization. Handicaps are arranged in
a spirit of fairness and grudges are sup
posed to be forgotten. War leaders
affect sentiment, when, in fact, their
code permits them a course OF strategic
deception which candidly seeks an unfair
advantage.
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Exploiting Bossy.

From the Hartford Courant.
Hundreds of milkmaids were given
medals in Moscow the other day for their
work in increasing the output. The cows
would seem to have grievance against
Mr.. Stain.
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No doubt some Of the leading minds
of Europe in studying this country's tax
programs will believe that somehow they
can find enough funds available to
finance another war.
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As hats are thrown into the ring the
politician who makes it his business to
collect hat checks is likely to show infiu-
ence in a convention.
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Colonel Sellers and "The Gilded Age"
are forgotten. Nevertheless dreamers
about wealth untold are still saying
"Asias my spotl"
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The first cost of slum clearance is not
the only cost. Judicious expenditure will
be necessary to keep the cleared area
from reverting to type.
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A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Maternal Dirge.

Children. draw close. cannot face
This pail of silence and his empty place.
The first to 60 among the brood bore.
The son reared to manhood is no moret
Must I forever feel, upon my breast,
His clutching baby hands in LIES first
quest?
Children, draw close, sz4s.4----s-- =.
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Difficult Advice.

"Can your laugh at misfortune, as PHI
losophers adviser"
Perhaps might learn." answered
Senator Sorghum. But why deliberately
cultivate q bad sense of humor?"
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Youth again asserts natural advan-
tage when the School Board itself is
compelled to pass the hardest exami-
nations.
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Pursuing q Penalty.

'Do you think people who gamble in
the stock market ought to be punished?"
II don't know about that" answered
Mr. Dustin Stax. But they usually are"
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Peace BY Force.

We vow again that wars must cease,
And next the thought occurs
That maybe that bold dove of peace
Is trying to grow spurs.
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Member of the Associated Press,

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to II 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., 1936-03-11

"Givin' advice" said Uncle Eben, "is
mos generally only jes' an effort to read
3 friends mind an guess whut he's
sinetsr 20 on his own account" IA
Evening star., 1936-03-11
Shut Out.

Shut Out.
My Uncle Jim has stood in line
Fur many weary year.
They said his theories was fine
And full of human cheer.
We often wished that he would try
An office great to fill.
But then q campaign came so high
He couldn't foot the bill.
And now, when campaign funds are
barred
An votes are free as air,
We thought it mightnt be SO hard
To get him placed somewhere.
But booms are organized so quick,
Since the expense is slim,
An candidates loom up SO thick
What show has Uncle Jim?
Jud Tunkins says them smart city fell
lers is irreverent. One of 'em says the
dove Of peace amt doin' 80 well. She
took her song too serious and went
coocoo.
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Rate by Carrier Within the City.
Rerular Editfon

Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
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MARYLAND and Virginia.
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ternatlonal consequences; OF q honey
moon abroad that cost over 100000 and
arrival in Paris without enough money
to pay hotel bills; of how Lord Balfour
happened to take home with him a
souvenir cut from a fine tablecloth; of
her longing to give to her children the
finest qualities of both families; of her
friendship with the Hardings, the Cool
idges, President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt,
Admiral Dewey, Henry Cabot Lodge,
King Leopold, Countess Cassini, Cardinal
Merry del Val, Col. Lindbergh and count
less other notables; also the story of her
association with the bonus marchers, in
whom she saw only suffering, hungry
human beings and not the hopeless,
futile cause they represented, and Of
the girl in this group who slept In the
bed that had been occupied by King
Leopold on his visit to Washington.
There is also the story Of her fathers
illness and Of her determined fight to
prevent him from suffering; the story
of how she came to purchase the
famous Star Of the East, and the fun
story Of the Hope diamond from its ap-
pearance IN Europe when Louis XIV was
King of France until she acquired it in
1909. Despite all the mystery and bad
luck with which tradition surrounds the
famous diamond, Mrs. Mclean has q
theory of her own, which she tells.
So fantastic has been the life Of Mrs.
Mclean that her story vies in fanciful-
ness with the great tales Of fairyland. 1t
..sas been written in collaboration with
Mr.. Boyden Sparkes, but whatever his
contribution to the work may have been,
1t has not interfered in the slightest
degree with the compelling personality Of
the writer. The book is artistically set
up, illustrated with photographs and
handsomely bound. In It's entirety 1t
has charm and fascination that
Ringers.
Evening star., 1936-03-11

Announcement that John Hamilton,
general counsel Of the J1epublican Ns-
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Hot Oil Defiance
Liberal Viewpoint
BY HARRY ELMER BARNES

| ZEN years ago John S. Sumner of the New York
- Society for the Suppression of Vice and the
Watch and Ward Society of Boston, had the ph
fishers buldozed. threat from Sumner and tha
average publisher would withdraw a. book from cir
cuatlon. If he did not do So a eomplaisant Judge
was likely to back up Mr. Sumner with a severe
penalty.
Today due to the American Civil Liberties Union
and the work of courageous attorneys like Morris L.
Ernst, Alexander Lindey, Arthur Garfield HAYES and
otners, decided crimp has been put into the pro-
ceore OF the professional guardian" organizations
One OF the most notable victories over such CEN
sorshlp was the decision handed down bv Judges
Martin Manton and Learned Hand of the United
states Circuit Court of Appeals reversing the con-
victon Of Oscar Levine for the advertising of alleged
obscene books.
This decision IL especially important because the
DOCKS were OF no great intrinsic merit.
HE original trial judge apparently operated nm
- the old principle which Sumner had been ahIe
10 get judges TO acquiesce in, namely that book
must be judged obscene if single passage in it il
clearly Kely TO ncite to ewd and aScivous behavior
or TO lewd and lecherous thoughts The trial iudpa
seems not to have considered primarily the probable
enect OF such books upon the normal human being
put upon those mentally least competent
Judges MantOn and Hand decisively re elected any
such Interpretation.
Judge Hand contended that the book as whoI.
must be considered in coming to any definite or legal
conclusion as to its obscene character
such civilized and sweeping decision must ha
regarded as complete victory by any reasonable
exponent OF the freedom of printing
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Small Stanford Miracle

CUDDENLY he struck The bar with the palm of his
~ hand three times and muttered some words in
language unknown to me.
Just suddney Peg and I sitting in the
front row, and the bell rang Jack Dempsey came
charging out of his and met Joe Louis we'll
past the center Of the ring. TIE Negro swung left,
and down went Dempsey on his launches. He was
up without count and tearing at his opponent. A
straight left closed his right eye. Joe whipped
q right and left and then another right. Dempsey
was down fat on his face. But at eight, by some
spontaneous muscular reaction, he up. He could
no longer see from either eye but he was shambling
forward in the dark with his right hand cooked
ready to let drive The referee stepped in and led
him to his corner. The fight was over.
What did l tell you?" I said rather tactessy.
How do you like your bargain now?"
We'll" answered Peg Il wouldn't mind much
il the bout had been on the level But it makes me
pretty to have sold my soul for of the worst
logged It,"
Copyright 1885,
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partment of Agriculture insist
that his administration has been
at least as efficient as that of any
other new agency in the New
Deal.
Talk of "ineficiency" makes DR..
Tugwell sore and he def1es any,
body to prove it.
A year ago Resettlement inher-
tied the Subsistence Homesteads
Division of the Department of In
terror, the rural rehabilitation and
land programs of FERA, and the
land policy section of AAA.
Subsistence homesteads, planned
by Mrs. Roosevelt, Louis Howe,
and other idealists, turned out to
be a collection Of experiments
subject to all the ills of such
pioneer ventures.
They could best be classified as
good, bad, awful and terrible, and
DR.. Tugwell has been getting
blamed for their deficiencies. Re
settlement killed nearly all those
not yet in the construction stage
and has been trying to improve
the others,
ID URAL rehabilitation was in
~ the hands of state corpora
tions. Controller General Nc
Carl ruled the corporations could
not be used as instruments, and
the business of taking over them
and their assets has been proceed
ing slowly and painfully ever
since. The staff cutting process
led to many political squawks.
Local pressure for housing pro-
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Times Books

John J. SPIVAK. well-known American reporter.
. on six-month tour of Europe with full warning
az was toio by resident correspondents that If he
wanted to report what actually was happening under
postwar relationships, he must see hear and shut
up-n other words put of his writing until ne re-
turned home
cplVak oid Just that and the resultant book.
EuroPe Under the Terror (SiEnon 81 Schuster.
$500, Is one Of the most revealing slants on the
european scene that have read. But, let me eau
ton you it is essentially pessimistic.
For Spivak's European fact-finding tour. con-
Quoted among the people themselves thoroughly dis
nlusioned him about dictators. Bruce Catton9
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lects following the slash in PWA's
housing program was also heavy,
The land acquisition program
has dragged, partly because many
titles to acreage were obscured,
Weather has held up many of
them and there was difficulty get
ting the right type of labor from
WPA.
From the outset Resettlement
suffered from a lack of expert
enced administrative personnel.
Some of the earlier appointments
to important posts were distinctly
bad. Many such mistakes have
been repaired by transfers and
dismisSals.
The original administrative set
up contemplated a program which
would spend about 5000 100000.
Much work was done on that basis
before the figure was cut in half.
DR.. Tugwell hopes eventually to
get the administrative cost down
about 10 per cent His field or
ganization is divided into II re-
gions. with a director and staff for
each. Among his chief officials
here are Assistant Administrator
Will w. Alexander, specialist in
economic reconstruction of minor
ity groups; Assistant Adlninistra-
tor C.. Benham Baldwin, former
assistant to Secretary Wallace;
General Counsel Lee FRESHMAN,
former assistant legal chief of
AAA; Executive Assistant Grace
E. Fake, former assistant to Tug
we'll as undersecretary of agri-
culture; Director of Research
Warren j. Vinton, author, statisti-
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Mother Edrth's Vaults

THE United States is using up its oil reserves at
= least three times as fast as other countries are
using theirs
In real sense oil is liquid gold" says Secretary
of the Interior Ickes, banked in the vaults of
Mother Earth. If it gold actually lying in
bank we would not think of drawing $1,000 worth
OF 1t every morning and throwing it off the end of
long pier into the deep ocean.
IF we should do that OF next of kin would 60
into court, and properly so, and ask the court to
appoint conservatcr on the ground that we we're
incompetent to manage our own affairs.
Yet this liquid gold that we call oil is being
wasted on an even greater scale"
Without oil, he said, "our air fleets would gather
cobwebs in their hangers ships could not leave
their ports, we would have mechanical artillery
or motorized transport. There might not even be
suff1clent lubricatng oil for horse drawn cais-
sons and the rifles of our infantry"
Nine wasteful practices in the oil industry are
listed by President Roosevets National Resources
Board. They are:
1-Overcrowding Of wells in INSTRUMENTATION
areas and developing such fields more rapidIv than
the demand warrants.
Cooperating oil wells with improper gas-oii
ratios
3-Actual physical wastage at the surface Of
prodigios quantities of vitality important gas result
ing in lower ultimate recovery of oil from the
reservoir
4-Underground losses, resulting from migration
OF oil and gas through defective wells from pro-
ductve strata to beds from which the fluids can not
be reclaimed and also from invasion of water into
the oil sand.
direction Of excessive storage facilities above
ground. resulting in needless expense and actual
physical losses due to leakage evaporation and fire
6-Use of inefficient equipment resulting in losses
OF OIL gas, reservoir energy, and at times loss of
life.
f-Conslmption of distress oil, forced on the mar
ket by over-rapid development, for purposes in
which other fuels could be used
8-Flooding world markets with exports of dis
tress oil.
s-Premature abandonment, as a result of de-
moralization of crude-oil prices of thousands of
small pumping wells, which, if allowed to continue
to produce would still yield large aggregate of oil
Hot Oil Defiance
THE Roosevelt Administration tried an oil code
Il under MIRA, with ALLEGATION of production
quotas to producing states, and got the price I'm
to 81 barrel. But hot oil producers defied the
government and after few months the expert
ment was hampered by court action. The whole
attempt ended with the death of NRA
Since then, Oil states have cast about irving tn
cope with the situation themseves-withort sue
cess. Oklahoma has been talking about a. heavy
production tax. All state efforts come IN against
the problem of competition from other states
Notwithstanding Forests
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Washington Merry-Go-Round


II IKE Wadsworth, Fish is tall,
IL wealthy, of a prominent fam
lily and comes from New York.
But although strong in the Mid
west, he lacks his colleagues pres
tige in the East.
Also. Fish has soaked himself in
a mild solution of liberalism,
which is not what the G. o. P.
bosses want to counterfeit the lib
eralism of L.andon.
These facts, and his open espous-
al of the Borah cause, place Fish
on the outer edge of the running
except, of course, in the event
that Borah should be the nominee.
In that case, Fish would have an
inside track for second place, al
though there is no arrangement
between them.
FOLLOWING Merriam's sudden
y switch to Landon several
weeks after he had effusively &C.
claimed the President, a copy
right" newspaper story proclaimed
that the California Governor had
been promised the vice presiden-
tial nomination in exchange for
his support.
The story was without founda-
ton. Merriam was induced to bolt
to the Landon camp by William
Randolph Hearst. He received no
guarantee from the Kansas Gov
ernor, or from his managers
Further, the only politico to
consider Merriam seriously even
as second place contender is Mer-
Ram. 1t is possible that the bald
Californian may be struck by the
lightning, but if so it will set
new precedent for meteorological
phenomena.
Copyright, 1885 BY United Feature
Syndicate Incl
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Up Pops the DeUiJ

A matter Of fact / didn't express il lust like
n that. brushed the line UP, later. But at any
rate, Peg agreed with You're right" he an
Swered; we can't prove anything either way but I'd
sell my soul to the Devil to see that fight and con-
vince you that you're wrong
fat gentleman whom neither OF us had noticed
before was sitting right beside at the BAR He
edged up to Peg, tapped him the shoulder
Done and DONE" he said. Who the hell are you?"
l asked rudely
mat lat gentleman gave me a mean look. II was
not addressing you, sir" he replied haughtily II
was speaking to your friend. Mr.. Westbrook Pegler
mas made sporting offer and have accepted it.
Peg took the situation in his stride Can take
Broun with me-" he asked, and does he have to
throw his soul in on the deal in order to get in?"
The Devil shellacked with sheer II don't
want to seem offensive he answered but l
would not be interested in bidding on Mr. Brouns
SOUL 1t isn't listed on the big board. / believe there
is little trading the counter. Three -eiehths
asked, one-eighth bid. the last quotation as 1
remember am not concerned with fractional or
inactive stocks, but I have objection to Mr.
Brouns seeing the fight with you
When can we it?" asked Peg. who seemed
to be filled with reportoral fervor which blotted
out all other considerations
Right now, if it pleases you"
Just one second, big boy" Peg continued IF
I'm going to go through with this deal I think there
ought to be a clause that get rngside seats"
The Devil seemed distinctly hurt. You'll not find
me small in such matters. promise you. How about
hrst row in the working pressA It's no trouble I
assure you All the promoters and sll the managers
are my close personal friends" ..