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Evening star., 1936-09-21

Many birds in local gardens at this
time have just flown down from Penn
sylvania and New York. and from Mas
sachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and
other New England States.
This makes them birds with differ
ence.
That band of robins catching worms
SO blithely in your yard is on the way
South.
Those small warblerlike fellows,
identity unknown by you, are mighty
travellers.
Small feathered bits of life, they
nevertheless breast the currents OF air
over our mighty continent.
While beneath them roar the death
dealing motor cars on the highways OF
the Nation they soar along confiden ly
on the power nature gave them.
While around them fly man-made
birds heavier than air. roaring. smelling,
they fly swiftly on their way to warmer
climes.
Man. In his planes, is merely imi-
tating them to the best of his ability.
Man, in his quest for Winter quarters,
is aping the birds. that is all.
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Long ago, so long that no man know
eth. the birds decided upon the division
of their time.
They decided to live where it is warm
the year around.
This made 1t necessary for them to
utilize the gifts Mother Nature had
given them. Or perhaps it would be
better to say that the gift nature had
given them really made up their tribal
mind for them.
At any rate, for thousands of years
the facts of migration among birds
have been well established.
All over the world. according to the
seasons, they fly the trackless voids,
sure in their knowledge of their des-
tination.
1t is q subject that always has ap-
pealed to poets. and to naturally
religious minds, as well as to the scien-
tific mind.
1t is subject of endless fascination to
any one who wishes to take it up for
his own pleasure.
This will come about easily if one
begins to feed the birds.
Any one, however, by taking thought.
can realize that the birds in his yard at
this time are different from those which
lived in it all Summer long.
Those which were here during the heat
already have gone South. and their
places are being taken by birds dropping
down for a little rest.
If seed is placed out at this time, it
may do some good, although there still
Is enough natural food for all types of
birds, both the hard and soft billed
AS to which birds will Winter here
depends upon just which ones are in the
garden at the time the first really cold
snap comes.
Then. instead of pushing farther
South. they may decide to Winter where
food is plentiful, as represented by your
supply.
This is a pleasant thought. that
human on the ground may sway them
from the completion of their journey, to
make the best of things because he has
thought of them.
1t must be realized that If bird left
Maine just when cold weather really
came there, by the time it got to Wash
Evening star., 1936-09-21

getting back their depression smiles.
People are milling in the streets-with
crisp new packages under their arms.
Cash registers jingling Trucks clunk-
ing And, between the banks of Mich
igan avenue, the old gold stream of
shiny new automobiles is at high tide
again. Chicago is showing more come
back faster than any spot on the map."
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"Brandeis: The Personal History of an
American Ideal" is the title of a new
biography of the famous liberal member
OF the Supreme Court. The author is
Alfred Lief. He quotes Justice Brandeis
as regarding the Massachusetts savings
bank insurance plan as his greatest
achievement; his gifts of more than
half million dollars to Jewish enter
prlSes in Palestine as his best invest
ment," and Alfred Zimmern's The Greek
commonwealth" as the best book he
has read in more than 20 years" Mr..
Lief tells quaint story of which the
present Senator Bob La Toilette was the
hero. when still in his tender teens.
Mother" said Bob, jr., one day. IT be-
lieve like Mr.. Brandeis the best of any
one we know Then he qualified it: "Of
course. not better than Mr.. Lincoln Stef-
fens, but better than almost any one
else"
Gov. Landon'S letters to Jim Reed
and former Gov. Ely. thanking them for
valiant aid in the Maine campaign, re-
wives the hint that in the event of
Republican national victory, anti-New
Deal Democrats might find places in the
Landon cabinet. To Ely the Governor
wrote: "Our campaign this year has an
objective that goes far beyond party
lines" To Reed he said: 1.-THE Amer
ican people as a whole must place the
country's welfare above partisan inter-
eStS."
Celebration of Constitution day this
year ION September I'D was widely ex-
pected. on account of 1886 political tur-
moil, to boost the constitutional issue
in the presidential campaign. There's
little evidence that anything of this
sort is in prospect. Republican candi-
dates, and occasionally some Democrats,
bring the Constitution into the picture,
but party managers are finding that the
people as whole are not widely excited
over an issue which once threatened to
be paramount in the battle against the
New Deal. Dollars-and-cents, bread
and-butter propositions like taxation,
living costs, governmental expenditure,
safety Of the currency, unemployment,
relief and social security are apparently
gripping voters attention far more firmly
than zone man government" centralized
Federal power, dictatorship" and alb
stract questions associated with the Con-
Stitution.
Copyright, 1880
Evening star., 1936-09-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

ington, d. c.. it might think it pretty
warm here. by comparison.
Then, If 1t CHANGED upon a feeder
stocked with choice grains and seeds, it
might believe, in its curious little head,
that this was Just as good place as any
to stop its flight and settle down.
This would apply, of course, only to
certain species, including the cardinal,
or redbird; the nuthatch, the various
woodpeckers, the fox sparrows, some few
purple finches-not all-and others.
Robins, wood thrushes, mockingbirds,
wrens and others have left us or are
leaving us. OF course, word comes from
time to time of a robin which Winters
hereabouts. but 1t Is few and far between,
as the saying is.
Bird lovers must keep sharper look
outs now for their favorites.
There will be few thrushes, now and
then, seen in the grass, but mostly in
trees, where they clash their bills, and
make harsh noises in their throats but do
no real singing.
Song is over for the season.
Occasionally one hears q faint Begin
ming Of a song.
There was a belated mockingbird in
the garden the other day. He squalled
vigorously. but not up to his old stand
ard. and he had none of his music with
him at all.
The bluejays are screaming in the
trees.
We are quite sure that the thrush we
saw had just flown in from New England.
This gave us new respect for him, so
little, so frail. and yet such a mighty
traveller. as sure as any, all on his own
steam, too.
Little traveller, he knows where he Is
going, with sure purpose to get there on
time
So one may look upon many of the
birds in the yard at this time of year,
and from now on until the cold comes.
Remember that travellers need some
thing to drink.
Water in the bird bath will be more
necessary from now on.
small yard is just a brief stop. these
days. but an important one, If the mi
grating bird finds food and water in il.
So keep the bird bath filled, and even
put out few pans of water. especially
during the long dry spells of Autumn
which often prevail.
A bird flying over our great city may
be put to it to find something to drink.
for Rock Greek is not very wide, after all.
Even lily pools often are too deep for
a bird to drink at
The best bird baths are only an inch
or two deep.
This permits any bird. from the largest
to the smallest. and particularly the little
fellows, to wash the dust of the journey
on their feathers. to refresh themselves
with bath, just as water refreshes most
living things.
For sheer joy of the bath there are
few creatures which demonstrate it more
than bird.
Those who intend to feed the birds
regularly this Winter will do well to
remember the watering pans. Too often
the bird enthusiast thinks he has done
his whole duty when he regularly SUD-
plies seeds and breadstuffs. But water
Is even more important, in some respects.
Let no bird friend forget this.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Shining On and On.
This Evolution is thing
That's hard to comprehend.
1t never can suffice to bring
Our questioning to an end!
We speak of it in language terse
And then in just a day
1t seems to throw into reverse
And work the other way!
The manner of our speech grows queer.
We find our greatest fun
In showing, as a crowd draws near,
How we can jump or run.
As in our antics may appear
Our most artistic lines,
Our brightest shining. it is clear,
Consists in monkey shines.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

In some roundabout fashion Euri-
pides has been brought into current dis
cussion. He belonged, as will probably
be disclosed by DR.. Eliot's five-foot
book shelf, to an ancient group Of
Oedipus complex so frequently referred
to in psychoanalysis. 1t is gravely to
be feared that collegiate wisdom instead
of showing the way out of social con-
fusion, is only getting US in deeper.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
s'RefOrm'' at Geneva.

Today's meeting OF the League
Assembly is fraught with inestimaole
tmportance for the international organ
ization. Its future usfulness, If not It's
very existence, largely depends upon
decisions that must now be made. These
reyolye around ways and means Tor
improving "the application OF the prlncl-
ples of the covenant" Prom its fifty-odd
remaining members the declmateo
League has received a vast variety OF
proposals and suggestions.
Immediate determinations are hardy
to be expected. Procrastinatlon Is tne
indelible hallmark of proceedings al
Geneva, and there is no likelihood that
delegates this month will renounce tne
snaillike methods to which they are
addicted, even though the record Tor
pusillanimity which the League has
made during the past year-in the ltaio-
Ethiopian imbroglio-dictates the Wis
dom of action and promptness. Post
ponement of reforms" designed to give
bone and sinew to the inverteorate COL
lective security system will only connrm
the worlds mounting conviction that the
League as a reliable force for peace is
beyond rehabilitation.
For the better part of three years there
have been two antagonistic schools OF
thought on the subject of amending the
covenant. There are nations which
would strengthen security guarantees
and others which would weaken them.
Tn one camp are firm advocates OF using
both military force and economic sane
tions to give weight and effect to League
condemnation of aggressors. On the
opposite side are ranged those who be-
lieye that a covenant equipped with too
strong a set of teeth" would thwart all
hone of making the League universal"
by keeping out of it countries like the
United States, which are unalteraoly
opposed to entangling commitments.
Yet another group sees salvation only
IN regionalism,'' viz, assigning to groups
of member states with common and
contiguous economic, political and mill
tary interests, joint responsibilities TO
keep the peace among themselves instead
of assuming in the name of the League
as a whole obligations which do not I'M
pinge directly upon their own respective
vital needs. Supporters OF regional
ism" see the incarnation OF their ideal
in the current efforts OF the American
states to become sole arbiters OF affairs
on this side of the Atlantic. Develop
ments at the impending .Buenos Aires
conference may, therefore, prove to be
of potent influence in determining the
future composition and conduct OF the
League of Nations.
The Assembly convenes not only at
the end of year which has brought the
Geneva institution into widespread dis
repute, but at a moment when peace,
both in Europe and the Far East, is
menaced more than at any period since
1914. In all directions and at a mad
pace a fear-ridden world is arming to
the limit. International treaties are
ruthlessly ignored. Responsible heads
of governments unhesitatingly deliver
public fulminations foreshadowing future
aggression against neighboring states. 1t
is in an atmosphere Of general alarm
that League leaders are called upon once
again to see what can be done to save
shattered and tottering structure, raised
in the name of peace, from final and
trreparable collapse.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

Little Johnny Doe, the founding who
Is the pet of the boys at the police sta
ton, may not be getting bad start in
life, after all. Whatever may have been
his heredity, environment is all his way
and it will be strange if he does not
grow up to be fine police officer or an
ace reporter.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Then Falls the Night.

Sunset and glad rest
And a cool wind blowing free
Golden colors in the West
Worked in filigree.
Shadows and soft ease,
And a soothing, mystic light
Fireflies in the dark trees,
Starshine silken-white.
Darkness and shy dreams,
And q drowsy sense Of sleep
Wooed by pensive moonbeams
Into slumber deep.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

While in Topeka, Governor Landon
put public cares aside long enough for
a ride with the children on State fair
merry-go-round whose proprietor, if he
is good Snowman, can hardly neglect to
install few smart elephants in his fly
ing menagerie.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
The Boss and the Blame.

DO you aspire to be a political boss?"
NO" answered Senator Sorghum. "A
political boss can take credit for a few
favors, but he also takes the blame for
the thousands of Offices people think
they were entitled to and didn't get."
Evening star., 1936-09-21

Don Quixote, who fought imaginary
foes in a spirit sof pure chivalry, was,
after all, champion more worthy than
the present Spanish warriors who, in
stead of protecting a Dulcinea, would
treat her as a soldier and shoot her at
sunrise.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
Counterfeit.

A Falsity is something wrong,
It's like coin quite spurious;
It's viewed with indignation strong
Sometimes with anger furious!
You hold the things that you might say
Tight in Discretion's Lariat,
While Falsehood wanders on its way
To sting the proletariat.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

Some speeches by Al Smith are sched-
uled. Partisan antagonisms are not so
strong that any man may be prevented
from looking at the record for sugges-
tions as to the general welfare.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

Even if foreign nations had never
ceded valuable territory TO this country,
there is nothing on which to base the
assumption that it would have been
managed nearly so well.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
Ambush.

<HlHOuShs
How are crops?"
I'm not worried about them,' said
Farmer Corntossel. I'm just raising
enough to give the impression that am
simple peasant-minded person who
will be easy for some opulent city slicker
to take advantage of in a real estate
DEAL"
"The spirit of youth cannot be
ignored" said Hi Ho, "even in China
town. The dignity of Hi Hat is often
impaired by an impetuous young rela-
ton of his who plays hide and seek and
is known to his playmateS as "Yoo Hoo!"
Unbiased Criticism.
My neighbor tries to show to me
That he is higher in degree.
And in retaliation grim
show my greater worth to him.
Yet it Is better, as a rule,
To be content with keeping cool.
The small boy in the vacant lot
Says neither of you is so hot!"
"Old Satan must be pore business
man." said Uncle Eben, "runnin' free
boardin' house jest foh de fun of maxim
a few misguided sinners uncomfortable. !"
Evening star., 1936-09-21
Hop, Skip and Jump.

From the Charlotte Observer.
Some one has aptly remarked that
political race is a hop, skip and jump
affair-hop on the band wagon. skip the
facts and jump on the opposition.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

Good public service may yet be done
by Hitler if he can forget some of his
promiscuous antipathies and concentrate
on his objection to Communists.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

The Pope commands respect. So does
the Italian King. Mussolini may yet
discover that he is, after all, only one
point in an interesting and persistent
triangle.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
Wake Him Up!

From the Roanoke Times.
A professor at the University OF North
Carolina says that the South's greatest
need is weather Heavens, where has
the man been all Summer
Evening star., 1936-09-21

1t is no disgrace for candidate to
have anemia of the campaign fund,
candor that the Browder collections
show scarcity of sympathizers who are
willing to 60 to the extent of financial
backing.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
Sign of Better Times.

From the Fond Du Lac Commonwealth.
Times must be getting better, indeed;
it is noted in the public prints that
people are now accepting positions"
instead of just getting jobs" once more
Evening star., 1936-09-21

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited IN TINS
paper and also the local news published hereln
Ali rights of publication OF speclal olspaIcnes
herein are also reserved.
Evening star., 1936-09-21

Communism is political chaos which
does not have to be taught. 1t simply
occurs in spite of education.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
Family Wars.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
It's vicious war in Spain. Fights
among relatives are always like that.
Evening star., 1936-09-21
Campaign Song.

One of the papers says the Democrats
are looking for a campaign song.
What's the matter with good, old "Oh,
Promise Me?"
Evening star., 1936-09-21
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Evening star., 1936-09-21

@. Is there a memorial to President
Van Buren?-R. S.
A. At present the only one Is the
simple shaft over his grave in the Kim
derhook, New York, Cemetery. An effortI
is being made by patriotic and historical
societies to create a national monument
at Lindenwald, the estate near Kinder
hook where the President lived for many
years and where he died.
The Washington times., 1936-03-19

President Roosevelt today IS
sued a proclamation appealing
for $3,0OO,OOO to aid the Ameri'
can Red Cross to bring relief to
flood sufferers the country over
The proclamation was as follows:
ITO the People Of the United
States:
"FIOOd waters raging through
out IL States have driven 2OO,-
900 people from their homes,
with every indication that this
number may be materially in
creased within the next "a
hours. In this grave emergency
the homeless are turning to
our great national relief
agency. the A America n Red
Cross, for food, clothing, shell
ter and medical care.
"TO enable the Red Cross to
meet this immediate obligation
and to continue to carry the
burden Of caring for these un-
fortunate men, women and chill
dren until their homes are re-
stored and they can return to
The Washington times., 1936-03-19
VOTES TO 0. K.
RESOLUTION
OF FRANCE
By Fl. X. REYNOLDS

LONDON, March 19 UN.S0.
The League Of Nations council,
with Germany present at its Ses'
sion, today adopted a Franco
Belgian resolution declaring the
Reich violated the Versailles and
Locarno treaties by dispatching
troops into the Rhineland zone,
which was demilitarized by both
Of these pacts.
The resolution was approved
after Joachim Won Ribbentrop,
Chancellor Adolf Hitler's ambaSsa-
dor-at-large, had delivered q long
speech defending the German
action.
Stanley Bruce, Of Australia,
Council president, declared the
resolution carried unanimously,
Germany cast the sole negative
vote, but her ballot could not be
counted.
Two Fail to Vote
OF the II Council members,
Chile abstained and Ecuador was
absent.
Germany, France and Belgium
were asked to express their "opin-
ions" after other council members
had voted, although Bruce ex-
planned their votes could not be
counted, as these nations were di-
rectly interested in the Rhineland
dispute. The opinions" Of France
and Belgium, Of course, were af'
firmative.
The German delegate, marking
his country'S first appearance at
the Council table since Germany
withdrew from the League in Oc-
tober, 1888, spoke at a morning
session. He asked adjournment
until afternoon SO that delegates
could digest" the German plea.
The Councils indictment then
came at an afternoon session which
convened at $3.50 p. m. The ses.
sion was short, adjourning at 4:06
p. m.
Finding Of Council
Under the resolution, which was
presented several days ago, the
Council finds that the German
government has committed an in
fringement Of Article 43 Of the
Treaty Of Versailles by causing
military forces to penetrate into
and install themselves in the de
militarized zone referred to ir
Article ~ and following Of said
treaty, and by the Treaty Of Lo
carno on March 7, 1885,"
In the interim between the two
Council sessions, representatives o1
the Locarno powers, minus Ger
many at the Foreign Office and
it was learned, reached complete
agreement on the Rhineland crisis
after debating a Franco-British so
luton reached early this morning
after a long night meeting.
Foreign Minister Pierre-Etienne
Flandin Of France stated the Lo
carao agreement was delivered tc
iur1stS for formal drafting, and
that its terms would be withheld
The Washington times., 1936-03-19
President Asks Flood
Fund of $3.OOO,OOO

normal living conditions, 1t In
necessary that q minimum re-
lief fund Of three million dol
lars be raised as promptly ~
possible.
"As President Of the United
States and Is president Of the
American Red Cross, 1 am,
therefore, urging our people to
contribute promptly and most
generously SO that sufficient
funds may be available for the
relief Of these thousands Of
your homeless fellow citizens.
1 am confident that in the
face Of this great need your
response will be as immediate
and as generous as has always
been the case when the Red
Cross has acted as your agent
in the relief Of human suffer.
ing.
FRANKLIN d. ROOSEVELT.
Contributions should be sent to
the headquarters Of the American
National Red Cross in Washing.
ton.
The Washington times., 1936-03-19
Bodies Swept Away
AT Lock Haven, Pa.

LOCK HAVEN, Pa, March 19,
Rescue parties guided rowboats
through the flood-filled streets OF
Lock Haven last night in
q search for missing persons, un-
accounted for after the SuSque-
hanna River went over it's banks
and surged through this commun-
ity of 5000. At least four bodies
had been seen Swirling down
stream, but reScuerS were unable
tt reach them in the swift cur
rent.
The Washington times., 1936-03-19
zAx e.Y6M%4wkzw s4y.tnx.

"TF MY new Dodge continues to use so little
J. gas, it's going to save me enough to more
than make up the difference in price between
it and small car" says Thomas L. Doris,
New York.
Mr.. Doris is only one of the many Dodge
owners who report Dodge gives unusually high
gas mileage and remarkable Oil economy. who
say Dodge will actually cost them less to own
than small, est-priced, competitive makes.
Yet Dodge gives you far more than economyl
1t gives you the safety steel body. Genuine
The Washington times., 1936-03-19
His Home AbIaze,
He Seeks Open
Fire Station

KINGSTREE, s. c., March 10.
A small Negro boy appeared at the
local fire station and approached
the driver Of the fire truck, asking
"What time do the fire station
Open?"
"Why, it's open now. What
do you want?"
"WelI, our house Is on fire,
suh."
The Washington times., 1936-03-19

until the four governments in
Volved had approved it.
The agreement was presumed to
be similar to that reached early
today. Germany was expected to
oppose it bitterly, since it pro.
vided, II it was like the first Solu-
ton, for placing an international
armed force in the Rhineland.
At the close Of the Council meet
ing Bruce announced the Council
would meet tomorrow afternoon
to determine a future course Of
action.
The Washington times., 1936-03-19
Paul K. EIdridge
Heads Fraternity

Paul K. Eldridge, 1889 e. Capt.
tol st., q freshman in the College
of Arts and Science at the Catho-
lie University, was chosen presi-
dent Of Phi Eta Sigma, national
freshman honorary fraternity, to
Francis D. Guinan, of Ma.
hanoy City, Pa. Eldridge also re-
ceived thC Phi Eta Sigma plaque
as the highest ranking member of