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Evening star., 1936-02-04
Finland's Ambition.

From the San Antonio Evening News.
Though. it is several months until the
1886 Olympics little Finland spiritedly
is bidding for the 1910 world meet. That
country's spokesmen have sought the
United States delegations vote. Con-
sidering Finland's records in athletics
the Nurmis and other wonder workers
it has contributed to past Olympics-its
bid must carry weight. For the Ameri-
cans an unrelated but impressive con-
sideration doubtless will be that Finland
conscientiously has paid its war debt
installments In that respect 1t stands
gloriously alone.
The invitation from Helsingfors is ac-
companied by glowing accounts OF Fin
lands climate, scenic beauty and the
ideal sites it can offer for the games.
Those are worthwhile attractions; If
Finland Is SO frank as to say it is after
the Olympics for the prestige and the
money the games will bring, let that not
be counted against it. What other bid
der will act from higher motives? Who
would not desire to visit the country
which can produce Nurmi. q Sibelius
and q government that pays its debts3
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Suggestion to Help Needy
Veterans i'm Bonus Payment

To the Editor OF The Star:
The Veterans Bureau stated bonus ap-
plications will be paid in the order re-
ceived, or first come first served.
In the name of those less fortunate
than ourselves, let's all without excep-
ton pull together just this once.
There are some three and one-half
million individual payments to be made
and some of the applicants are desti-
tute, hungry and practically nude. A
lot of us are fortunate enough to be en-
ployed or we are receiving assistance
from relatives or from those whom we
know will be pleased to wait If they are
apprised of the humane reason for the
additional time.
Let those of us who may wait go days
before filing our applications, that those
SO much more needy than we may be
paid off first-those destitute boys and
their families need it now.
Perhaps one of those for whom this
appeal is made split his last fag with
you or gave you the greater portion of
his remaining hard-tack "just before"
Sure, I know you'd give that guy the
shirt off your back right now if you
knew where he was-wouldn't you? Well,
buddie, you don't know where he is and
chances are he wouldn't ask you to wait
if he knew where you are, but it's dollars
to doughnuts he's hoping and probably
praying you will give him break and
let him and his come first-just this once.
Sixty days longer won't hurt us and will
mean so much to him and his.
You'll never regret it-he'u never for
get it.
pledge myself to wait until April /
or later to file my application.
JIM FELTS.
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Authoritative Neutrality.

Authoritative Neutrality.
I'm going to do just what is right,
2 OF this there is no doubt.
If anybody starts fight
I'm going to keep out.
Humility I shall display
When neighbors disagree.
may essay, in proper way,
To be a referee.
In strict neutrality I'll try
To do my duty well,
And notify what they can buy
If we may choose to sell.
In case they may persist in fray
III bid them plainly see
In plain precision, come what may,
Am the Referee!
In case my ruling they disdain
I'll show them what is what;
And who is who" may make plail
With firmness, like as not.
With keeping out may begin,
But all must plainly see
1t is my privilege to mix in
If I'm the referee.
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Philippines New Resident
Commissioner to the u. S.

To the Editor of The Star:
The selection Of Senior Quintin Pare
des, formerly Speaker of the insular
House of Representatives, as the resident
commissioner to the United States has
been hailed as a diplomatic stroke. AS
the personal envoy of President Quezon
in Washington Senor Paredes possesses
those sterling qualities Of leadership so
necessary for the success of his objective
as the Philippines lone voice in the halls
of Congress I am of the opinion that
no happier choice could have been made
than the appointment of that statesman
to one of the most responsible posts
under the commonwealth.
Because of the exacting duties which
the new commissioner will face in delib-
Grating economic problems involving the
United States and the Philippines, the
solution of which will determine whether
the Philippine people will leave Uncle
Sam entirely or forever remain under
the protection of the American Eagle
after the 10-year transition period, it is
evident that the ablest man available in
those islands should be intrusted with
the delicate and important role of rep
resenting Philippine interests on Cap
itol Hill. Senor Paredes was that very
man, and the whole nation had antici-
pated his elevation to the much-coveted
Washington post.
One of the most gifted and distin-
guished personages of the Philippine bar,
Senor Paredes began his long public
career as secretary of justice. lecturer
In law at the State University, later as
member of the House of Representa-
tives and finally assembled to the speaker
ship of that deliberative body when the
young Manuel Roxas, a protege of Man.
uel QueZon, was literally ousted from the
Speakers roStrum as the outcome of the
bitter controversy over the acceptance
of the Inflated Hawes-Cutting inde-
pendence act.
The new commissioner has performed
the duties or Speaker in manner that
stamps him beyond peradventure as an
adroit parliamentarian, a reSourceful
legislator and an astute statesman. AL
ways suave in manner and dignified in
bearing, he is loyalty supported by his
colleagues in public affairs, who would
face fire and flood for him.
The Filipino people, therefore, who
have every confidence in the integrity
and ability of Senor Paredes, indulge in
the expectant hope that his mission to
the United States will so materialize that
he shall become the final instrument to
achieve the completion of America s
glorious adventure and benevolent altru-
ism in the Philippines.
TEDDY DE NOLASCO.
Evening star., 1936-02-04
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS x. HENRY.

and grow rapidly. Others belong to the
class which can be transposed from AMI
NAL to animal for experimental purposes.
The results may not apply to any kind
of human malignant growths. The Pub
lie Health experimenterS, however, appear
to have obtained a specific diHerentlal
reaction between malignant cells and
normal cells which remains one OF the
main objectives of cancer research.
* 4
Plants receive their sustenance from
two sources-the soil and the atmosphere.
Historically they have been fed"
through the soil, by fertilization. 1t is
as logical, although not so simple, to
fertilize the atmosphere itself.
This has been tried, on miniature
scale at the Smithsonian Institution with
marked success Wheat plants were
grown by DR.. Earl S. Johnston of the
division of radiation and organisms in
atmosphere containing about four times
the amount of carbon dioxide found in
normal air.
It is from carbon dioxide taken out
of the atmosphere and water that plants,
through the process of photosynthesis
which takes place in light, build up their
substance. On clear Summer days SUM-
light is intense enough to increase the
rate of photosynthesis were this process
not retarded by the limited amount of
carbon dioxide available in normal air.
In an atmosphere enriched with carbon
dioxide, DR.. Johnston reports, the weight
of straw, the number and weight of
heads, and the number of grains were
increased In comparison with plants
grown in ordinary air.
The Smithsonian wheat fields were
only feet square. They were inclosed
on four sides with glass, leaving the tops
open. Within this glass enclosure, around
the growing plants, fairly constant
stream of carbon dioxide was built up.
Although there have been some at
tempts at air fertilization in Europe, the
results have been uncertain and the prac-
tice Is practically unknown in this coun-
try. DR.. Johnston says in his report:
'The practical application of this type
of fertilization in field experiments and
the supply of carbon dioxide in SUM-
cient amounts for practical field work
are still unsolved problems. While ex-
periments In which carbon dioxide is
used as an aerial fertilizer are of i'm
portance scientifically, the practical
application of this type of fertilizer in
commercial work is far from satisfactory,
although its application to greenhouse
culture appears most promising"
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Sharing Wealth.

Those who advocate sharing wealth
are invited to study the experience OF
an American novelist who on a certain
occasion sold the movie rights of one
of his books to a producer for eight
thousand dollars. The producers pub
licity agent added cipher to the actual
amount, and the story went out to the
world with the resultant figure men
toned. Immediately swarm of rela-
tives, friends and strangers descended
upon the hapless victim of the decep-
tion. His protestations were vain. With
in few days he was obliged to appeal
to his publisher for loan against roy
alties still to be earned. But said
that worthy. sit is less than fortnight
since you received $4,000 from the
Super -Glorious-Apex Company" The
retort was: Nonsense! You know as
well as do that it was only one-tenth
of that amount, and I have given so
much of it away that shall have to go
on relief unless you help me-"
Also there is the story, admittedly
fctional but none the less relevant, of
the two erstwhile denizens of Harlem
who, arriving in Heaven coincidentally
and meriting exceptional celestial re-
ward, were told that any wish they
might propose would be granted. The
first asked for peck Of rubies, a bushel
of emeralds and CARLOAD of diamonds,
all Of which were delivered to him instant
ly. Then came the turn of his friend.
st. Peter inquired, what would you like
to have?" Without a moments hesita-
tion the second newly-arrived candidate
for everlasting prosperity demanded "a
pair of dice and about half an hour of
this fellows time!"
Seriously, however, the agitation for
arbitrary economic equality deserves
study on the part of the agitators. No
"best-laid plan of mice or men" is per-
feet. It therefore behooyes the sponsors
of schemes designed to soak the rich"
to consider the indirect as well as the
Evening star., 1936-02-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

More bird gossip.
"Dear Sir: I always read your article
in The Star. especially when see it is
about birds. Last evening, when read
what that man H. s. N. said about cats,
could not help wondering If he knew i
cat is one of Gods creatures.
IT have been so grateful, you always
defend the cats. have one, have had
cats around all my life, always well fed
and are given meat, too, so they will
not have the same desire to hurt or Kill
birds.
THE big tiger cat now have came to
me three years ago. I think he had been
teased, and was SO spiteful you hardly
dared touch him. With loving care he
has grown gentle and never bites or
scratches, and have never seen him
bother a bird, and he eats more than
any cat I ever saw.
"I feed the birds, Summer and Winter
In Summer there seems to be trouble
sometimes finding enough for their
young ones I break stale bread In Sum-
mer.
"I, too, disliked seeing the starlings so
rayenouslv eating, until it came to me
that they feel just as badly when hungry
as the other birds do.
"And they take the most thorough
bath of any bird know, and will hop
in the bird bath and make water fly
when it is full of fine ice.
"Sometimes there will be four or five
at once. My cardinals call aristocrats;
they don't seem to like to eat with the
other binds. get chicken feed for them.
They like Slet, too.
II put their feed on my window sill
and they are the first birds out.
Sometimes before it Is real light they
come.
poor little. abused English sparrows!
Yet I have watched them go over my
rosebushes or other flowers and eat the
aphis, and I believe everything is useful
in some way, only we don't always
recognize our friends.
IT love the birds and enjoy your ar
ticles about them. One mocking bird
stays with us all Winter. He seems to
enjoy the barberries. We have thrashers
and thr,lshes. I do love the thrushes.
Last Summer, when they were in the
ward, could coax them almost to me.
We feed the squirrels, too-nuts, bread.
Some will eat apple. I have two that
WILL 1IllS Is Oilly W ACG yOO rIlOW l
enjoy your bird articles and your defense
of the cat. Sincerely, E. F. G."
"Dear Sir: May I tell you about my
birds? I have had many jibes at my
care of sparrows, and the stand you take
in your column--that they are nice birds,
after all cheers me.
Right outside my southeastern living
room windows have a long window box,
/ which in Summer brims over with petu-
MAS, and in Winter with birds!
1.-THE sheltered soil does not freeze, so
the birds have a grand dust bathing
pool and summing porch at their dis
posal all during the bitter months.
"I scatter crumbs and oatmeal there
daily and put out pan of water often.
"A pair of mocking birds-lovely
things-nest in the honeysuckle vines
which form a tall tent around dead
cedar in the rear of our house, and this
Winter these bold birds came on the
front porch and share the window box
with the many sparrows, all in perfect
harmony have yet to hear quarrel
some word in the busy little playground
IT have enjoyed so much their antics
daily, as I sit at my piano practicing
both voice and piano.
"The sparrows all scatter at the first
Evening star., 1936-02-04

sound Of the instrument-Iye wondered
If the vibration bothers them-but the
Knockers stay right there through it all,
their bodies great balls of dove-gray
fluff. their long tails a-balance in the
wind and their heads cooked at the
changes Of tempo and pitch,
II shall hearken eagerly this Spring
and see If in the songs of the Knockers
in the old cedar can find Snatches of
McDowell's Witches Dance and Scott S
Lotus Land
'Thank you for understanding the
sparrows and for adding such a nice,
honey touch to The Star-I read 1t be-
fore the comics. Now, there is fanD
Sincerely, T. w."
k* ~
Thus Takoma and Brentwood are
heard from, and soon we shall present
Clarendon and Chevy Chase.
Recently we printed here letters from
Bethesda and various points in the sub
urbs, and before that communications
from residents in the very heart of the
city.
There is no place where the wild birds
will not come in Winter.
One of the letters given above details
the use of q window box as bird feeder
This is a most excellent way to utilize
an article which otherwise would be
useless all Winter long.
As a bird feeder an average window
box, no matter where located, would
become one of the most interesting
things about the house and garden.
One has but to 60 along any street
and note the number of bare, deserted
flower boxes to realize, in just one way,
how often the opportunity for doing good
Is overlooked
This same opportunity, seized upon,
when the birds come knocking also would
afford a veritable world of amusement
and interest to those inside.
+
Window boxes make good feeders, be-
cause they contain earth, which the
birds like and because a very small
evergreen may be planted therein, max
ing the visitors feel at home.
A little sand might be incorporated
in the earth, thus affording the song
sters some gritty material, which they
very much need and often find most
difficult TO secure when the ground is
covered with snow and ice.
A very small evergreen, indeed, may
be used, even the tip off a discarded
Christmas tree. Merely stuck in the
earth of the box, it will remain fairly
green all Winter.
Nothing else SO attracts the birds.
Sometimes the feathered visitors are
loath to visit box close to house walls,
but usually bit of greenery turns the
trick.
Good words are spoken above for
sparrows, starlings and our old friend.
the house cat.
So one observer has seen the English
sparrows eating aphis, or plant lice,
so called?
This is good news and ought to help
make more human friends for them,
because anything which will eat the
aphis is a friend of man.
The starlings. too, according to one
of our correspondents, have their good
points, one of them being cleanliness.
This is true. Few birds bathe as con-
sistently and as thoroughly.
1t is wholesome to try to find the good
points of birds and beasts.
Perhaps if all of us did this-sort OF
practiced on the birds-we might in
time work ur to point where We might
find the good points in all the human
beings we know!
Then the millennium would be here.
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Asking the Doctor.

what are we going to do about this
United States Constitution" asked the
physician.
That's what I want to talk to you
about" said Senator Sorghum. "As a
psychologist, physiologist, an ethnol-
ogist and sociologist, don't you agree
with me that in case of disorder the best
hope of Recovery is in Strong Con-
stitution?"
Evening star., 1936-02-04

is a gigantic task, especially when the
temperature keeps low enough to con-
tinue the freezing.
In such circumstances patience is de-
cidedly desirable. Those who are forced
to stand at corners and wait for tardy
accommodations have the negative COM
fort of knowing that there are thousands
of others in the same predicament and
that the state of the weather is an ade-
quate excuse for tardiness.
Accidents are certain to occur, but
the average of damage done in such cir
cumstances is low, for speed is impossible
and when a car swerves out Of course
it lacks the momentum that in other
situations causes disaster. The expecta-
ton of regular service is disappointed SO
generally that, with everybody in the
same situation, there is nothing to be
done but to wait in hope and score a
victory if one gets over the road at all,
however tardily.
Tales of hardships at such times be-
come commonplaces. A rivalry to tell
the direst tale of blockade and slowness
of travel develops, and the saving sense
of humor finally comes to the rescue, the
surer of effect because there are no
grievous casualties. Just another of the
annoyances that are experienced in city
life, where every day scores of thousands
of people require transportation which is
slow, uncertain and just trife danger
Gus, one of the penalties CT a state of
existence in which daily duties necessi-
tate the covering Of long distances.
Evening star., 1936-02-04

References are frequently made to
Norman Angels literary description of
Pacific islanders who continued to base
a currency system on a mill stone even
after it had been dropped in the sea.
The population may have thought they
would rather have the financial mill
stone in the sea than around their necks.
Evening star., 1936-02-04

1ntimations that so profound and
courageous a statesman as Senator
Borah cannot afford campaign for a
presidential nomination calls attention
to some distinctions he has frankly sug-
gested. Sometimes he is a statesman
and sometimes politician; but never-it
may be added-a financier.
Evening star., 1936-02-04

A good radio speaker may get little
beyond his depth when his copy hints
that he is allowing ghost suggester to
interfere with the plain tale of his ad
writer.
Evening star., 1936-02-04
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Land of the Citron.

Land of the CitrOn. I
Swallow, swallow, where have you flown
to,
Seeking SUMMER cline than ours?
In these gray, wintry days I'd like to
follow you
OF to land of ripe fruits and fiowers.|
Winging, winging, where the bright
MOSES
Festoon the trees, and in starry night
Glow phosphorescent for you to swing
on them;
Oh, I would go with you on that far
flight
Swallow, swallow, nesting by mellow surf;
Summertime ardors awaking anew,
Soft winds Of twilight bringing my love
to me, =
I'd leave cold dusks behind-following
YOQw
Evening star., 1936-02-04

European dictators regard one another
with a suspicion which could only be
dispelled by arranging marriages which
might cause government to become more
or less a family affair.
Evening star., 1936-02-04

Admirers Of AL Smith believe that
Russian music will never exert American
influence unless it can develop something
as mysteriously fascinating as "The
Sidewalks of New York"
Evening star., 1936-02-04

In current discussion of means of
financial security the word recovery"
is often used. The word discovery"
should not be omitted from an erudite
vocabulary.
Evening star., 1936-02-04

Frances Labor Turnover.
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
If American workmen offered to give
up their jobs as often as French cabinet
members, the labor turnover in the coun-
try would be stupendous.
Evening star., 1936-02-04

Gillette returns to the theater, but he
will present only simple comedy just at
a time when the public needs the inspi-
ration of a Sherlock Holmes.
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Stakes in the Game.

In politics men always mix
In every age and cline.
Embellishing with nimble tricks
The corridors of time.
And many a noble brain will throb
When all that we decide
Is who is going to get job?"
And "who shall be denied?"
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Kilkenny Cats.

From the Sacramento Bee
The secret hope of great many OF
the citizens Is that some way Will be
found to get the Communists and the
professional patriots together and let
them eliminate each other.
Evening star., 1936-02-04

The average citizen is naturally sur
prised that a political situation should
seem bafiing when there are so many
orators ready to explain it.
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Discovery.

From the winston-salem Journal.
With restless Germany on one side
of her and Japan acting up on the other,
Soviet Russia may discover something
that wasn't included in Stalin's five-year
plan.
Evening star., 1936-02-04
lust I.ocusts.

Fyom the Burlington Hawkeye Gazette.
The 17-year locusts are supposed to
come again this year. but 1t isn't likely
anybody'il notice them in the general
hubbub.
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Radio and Politics.

From the South Bend Tribune.
If all the politicians who demand radio
time were told by radio network man.
ayers to deliver their speeches into empty
sauerkraut barrels in vacant lots the
radio audience might not complain.
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Glorified Sporting Page.

The History of Mortal Ages
Seems, as we read with studious care,
A scrap book from times sporting pages
That tells how strong men do and dare.
The records glorified with tattle
That burrows many a students brow
OF big boys who we're bold in battle,
And who licked whom, and when and
how.
"Politics gifts one sided," said Uncle
Eben, when you gifts warnin' dat you
better be careful bout which Jokes you
laugh at."
Evening star., 1936-02-04
Woman Must Work.

docs your wife allow you latch key?"
ST don't need one," said Mr.. Meekton.
'I assert myself as lord and master of
the household. While Henrietta is
battling to save us from the tax collector,
stay home in comfort and listen to
the radio"
my ancestors knew all the wisdom
there is," said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town, "but they were men of scientific
minds and insisted on joining explora-
tions into the mysterious paths of folly"
Evening star., 1936-02-04

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