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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
Wisdom Dictates Caution on
Social Security Procedure

Prom the Kansas City Star.
1t is the opinion of the State attorney
general that Missouri would need to
make several changes in its constitution
IN order to participate fully in the Fed
eral social security benefits. The attor-
ney general states that possibly four
amendments will be required for the pur-
pose. No doubt such condition prevails
In various other States.
This tends only to accentuate the
need Of more time for the States to work
out their own social security programs.
1t further shows the injustice of the
Federal legislation requirement that the
States shall have enacted unemployment
insurance laws before the end of this
month in order to share in the allotment
Of funds collected from employers II
two amendments will be necessary for
this participation alone, as the attorney
general now says, the required law could
not be passed by the Legislature even at
its approaching regular session.
Social security as envisaged in the
congressional legislation Is q most COM
prehensive reform for the Nation, as for
the several States. Already fears are
being expressed that the whole program
may be begged down by Its own sheer
weight. Congress was hasty in the en-
actment, and 1t has made unreasonable
demands upon the State. Wisdom dc
tates deliberate procedure, even at
late day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
State of Mind.

Relief work or the receipt of public
relief apparently develops a unique state
of mind Of which evidence is growing
apace. Various recipients Of public relief
have engaged in recent Shutdown"
strikes in protest against reductions in
relief expenditures. The latest to make
such demonstrations are the investiga-
tors, clerks and other administrative ON
Gals and employees Of New York Cfty's
Emergency Relief Bureau. Their CON-
plant, which they aired by remaining In
their offices overnight in various forms
of sit down." is over the fact that they
can hold their jobs after July l, next,
only after competitive examination &C.
companying statutory transfer to the
department of public welfare.
The relief business, in other words,
seems to develop in those concerned with
it an attitude that regards relief as q
right or privilege in which they have .
vested interest. Such an attitude brooks
no interference from any source and pro-
vokes the action so well typined n the
shutdown" strikes.
> The difficulty in undertaking the cur
tailment in relief that present conditions
would seem to justify Is that members
of Congress may prove more amenable to
the needs. real and fancied. Of Tho 'rslief
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

sity. Under other circumstances, Il Is
probable. they may combine into other
sorts of bricks for the use of other kinds
of plant life.
The Bureau of Standards chemists
stress that their work with isoprene is
intended primarily to obtain a better
understanding of the internal structure
Of rubber itself. BY determining pre-
cisely the changes between pure isoprene
and the rubberlike substance into which
1t converts itself-such as weight, boil
ing point, condensation temperature and
retroactive index-they will be able to
throw light on some of the curious be-
havlor OF material which has become
basic in modern industry.
They do not contend, they stress, that
the rubber molecule is only an enormous
polymer of isoprene molecules. But
since isoprene itself spontaneously
changes into something which is very
like rubber it seems probable that such
polymer constitutes its most impor-
tant constituent. Isoprene would be the
most logical base from which to start
on synthesis of actual rubber with
precisely the same qualities as those of
rubber obtained by tapping the latex
tree. Other synthetic "rubbers" are COM
mercially feasible because they have
qualities different from those of actual
rubber.
complete report of the work of the
Bureau Of Standards chemists is to be
made at the meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science at Atlantic City next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

Nothing Is surer than that there will
be no exceptions. Birds snow few speci-
mems out of the general run Of the
wisdom Of their tribe.
Those few birds which do ind the new
feeder days ahead of their fellows do
so only by chance and in no way as the
result Of superior mental powers.
They just happen to fly little closer
to the new device.
The lure Of the food pulls them in.
But even while feeding. with q whole
tray full Of seed almost exclusively theirs
they cannot resist the attraction Of the
crowd at the old stand.
They ny away, after q few bites, to
Join their fellows. This is especially true
II the daring bird happens to be an
English sparrow. The newcomer to bird
feeding and watching in the home garden
must keep in mind that these intelligent
little fellows will make up the mass of
birds In any garden. city or suburban.
49, y
Another point Is this: Go easy on fill
ing the feeders at first. Especially If the
device is very close to the house.
What one desires to do Is to gauge
the amount of seed and grain necessary
each day.
After this amount has been determined
accurately. 1t will be found to be amaz-
ingly the same, day after day, but until
1t Is determined it is best to underfeed
rather than overfeed.
Even the so-called automatic" feeder.
which Is really nothing but a hopper,
with platform and roof, will not COM
pletely protect from inclement weather
every last grain Of food
Rains and SHOWS which blow in from
an angle have penetrating way with
them. And then there are always the
squirrels, which insist on shoveling a
great part Of the seed onto the ground,
where more rain can get to it.
BY filling the feeder lightly at first
the attendant is better able to determine
what days supply means.
There are. Of course, several ways to
handle one or more feeding stations.
One method is to put out enough for
q breakfast or for an afternoon tea.
In time the birds will get hep" TO
the times and come around on the
minute
Another method. preferred by some, is
to keep the feeders filled at all times, so
that the birds may eat constantly all day
long.
Either of these methods is good, but the
all-day feeding ought to be INDUCED in
during bitter cold. especially when snow
and ice are on the ground. Raw, rainy
days, too, make a constant demand on
the heat supply of the songsters which
live with us all Winter and frequent our
own gardens If we feed them.
r
The newcomer to bird feeding should
make a particular point of watching for
the following:
English sparrows, starlings, cardinals,
bluejays. chickadces titmice. nuthatches,
mockingbirds and two or three species
Of woodpeckers.
These are the most frequent Winter
visitors to gardens hereabouts, especially
in the suburbs. Opinions will differ as
to the desirability of attracting such
mockingbirds as remain here, but if one
wants them, doughnuts will do it. If one
doesn't, refrain from putting out the
humble doughnut.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

uted the instigation Of the late
constitutional crisis partially to the gov
ernment's resentment Of Edwards
courageous initiative in promising the
Welsh miners the relief which q "do
nothing" cabinet had failed to provide.
Thus, while the Nufheld gift is oflcially
heralded as q mark Of appreciation OF
Mr.. Baldwin's craftsmanship during the
storm that rocked the empire. there is
discernible, in the specific purpose which
the fund viii serve an implied commen-
dalton of King Edwards now historic
interest in the humanitarian field in
question.
Lord Nufields benefactions during the
past eleven years aggregate more than
s37,500, 900. Only last month he created
$10,000,0oo trust for the employees Of his
automobile factories. A few days pre-
viously he increased to 100000 his
100000 endowment Of the Postpaid
uate School of Medical Research at
oxford. His name is assured indelible
renown among the worlds truly great
philanthropists. 1t belongs in that
galaxy of generous givers whom Amer
leans have so long honored-the Rookie
fellers, Carnegies, Sages, Milbanks,
Rosenwalds, and others whose open
handedness through the years has helped
to make not only their own country, but
many chimes far beyond these shores,
happier and healthier places in which
to live.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

A word Of warning Is necessary to oil
those persons who receive and install
bird feeding stations at Christmas time
Do not be disappointed II the wild birds
do not fly to the feeder Immediately.
Sometimes 1t takes as much as q week
or even longer for the Wintering song
sters to get onto" new source Of supply
Birds are cautious by their very nature
Then, too, during the holiday seasons
there will be o great deal more stirring
around by human beings
Even the slam Of car door gives q
wild bird the filters.
No matter how well protected the new
feeder is by shrubbery, sharp sounds
carry far.
The closer to a house, under ordinary
circumstances, the longer the birds will
be in finding the feeder.
This must be kept in mind.
While the windowsill station has many
good points, one Of which Is that it Is
easier on the eyes Of the bird observers
1t also has some drawbacks.
Never will the birds frequent it in such
numbers as they will the station placed
in the flower border, or on tree at the
rear Of the yard.
These two points must be kept in mind
The closer to the house, the fewer the
birds. But most often this fact is made
up for by the better quality, If one may
put 1t so, of the frequenters. The bird
enthusiast dislikes making discrimina-
tons between the guests. Even he, how
ever, must admit that. ali things taken
into consideration. the chickadee is just
little better bird than the English spar
row. A titmouse is to be preferred to
startling.
Not only will the chickadee and the
titmouSe strike the average watcher as
prettier. as bird beauty goes, but they
will appeal especially as guests at the
feeding station, and particularly at the
windowsill feeder, where their beauty and
interesting actions can be watched at
close range.
1t must be confessed that these small
gems of the birds which winter here
abouts are more or less lost in the huddle
Of English sparrows at the feeders at a
greater distance in the garden.
1t is only when they come close that
the observer is able to see them in their
true beauty and interest.
Another fact the person new to bird
feeding must keep in mind is that he has
to accustom the birds Of his neighbor-
hood to his location.
Even in yard where intensive feeding
has been carried on for many months
the birds will seldom visit a newly in
stalled device under three or four days
at the shortest. Sometimes full week
goes by before the birds generally accept
the new feeder.
Several of the more choice songsters
may visit 1t, but not the general crowd.
They continue placidly at the old stands.
At times their snubbing of the newer
source of supply will strike the observer
as being in class with the intentional
cold shoulder of humanity.
Yet it may be believed that it is only
caution which prevents the birds from
taking too quickly to the new place.
\
Any really smart bird the watcher may
think. would avail himself of the new
feeder at once and thus have an exclu-
sive feeding place for several days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
Yuletide BenefactiOn,

On the eve of Christmas the British
nation has received one of the most
notable benefactions in the annals of
benevolence-a princely gift of e2,000,-
900, which is roundly the equivalent of
$4,000, 900, from Lord Nufdeld, outstand-
ing figure in the British motor industry.
Described as gesture of good will for
the new King and as an expression of
confidence in the Baldwin government,
the fund is to be devoted to relief of
localities within the United Kingdom
which have been reduced to virtual
economic ruin by protracted unemploy-
ment.
The money will create . trust, the
proceeds Of which will supplement gov
eminent efforts to rehabilitate stricken
Industrial regions. Although formally
stated that the endowment is a tribute
to George vi and q token Of hope for
the success Of his reign, it does not
escape British notice that Lord Nufield
desires the fund to be utilized for relief
Of those depressed areas" in connection
with which former King Edwards visit
to Wales, shortly before his abdication,
provoked such widespread interest and
controversy. Many authorities attrib-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
Night Before Christmas.

Probably it is true, as some observers
have supposed, that Washington never
has engaged with more whole hearted
enthusiasm in Christmas preparation
than this year. Returning prosperity,
theoretical or soundly real as it may be,
appears to be the explanation of the
fever with which the city has approached
the Yuletide season. Business has been
prosperous in every line, so authorities
on the subject say. And it is a matter
OF history that stores and shops as late
as last evening were crowded with Gus
toners seemingly equipped with mex
haustible purses.
But now the preliminary arrange
ments generally have been completed.
The lists that the children sent to Santa
Claus are tattered scraps Of paper, their
scrubbed specifications checked by the
good saints anonymous agents. Trees
from the North woods stand ready to be
decorated, wreaths of evergreen hang in
the windows, the most capacious stock
ings are available to be attached to an
uncounted number of parlor mantels and
chlmneypieces, turkeys and other good
things to eat are waiting in the pantry,
millions of yards of tissue paper and
ribbon have been wrapped around Sc
lected gifts for family and friends, the
junior contingent for once is anxious to
be early to bed and their seniors are
engaged in the usual furtive enterprises
designed to Justify or even to exceed the
most ardent expectations of the children
OF course, the occasion is patiently I'M
reasonable. A stray pragmatic philoso-
pher. viewing the spectacle from the
vantage point of frigid isolation, might
wonder why the community should be
willing to 60 to so much bother over
anything not directly related to the COM
monplace routine of life. Christmas, in
the judgment Of such pedant, must
appear to be fantastic extravagance.
The Puritans of three centuries ago
deemed it deplorably foolish and waste
ful, and, considering the conditions of
their time, they may have been right.
But both time and circumstance have
changed. The world is rich just now
as it never has been since history began.
War and revolution, economic disloca-
ton everywhere, have impoverished
millions, yet have failed to halt the
production of wealth widely socialized.
Incredible as it may seem to skeptics,
the most costly of depressions has itself
served merely to speed up production and
to democratize the fruits of labor-money
and the luxuries which money will buy.
Is it not logical, then, that plain people,
average men, women and little children
shall want this Christmas to be madly
merry? The answer to such a question
may be found in every home in Wash
ington tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Motherhood.

A little child lay on his mothers breast.
And she thought, as she rocked her babe
TO rest,
OF the bordering mother and holy child
Who never might be by sin def1led.
And she sang to her baby, "Oh, little son,
Would you might stay like. that holy one"
Yet, as she sang came the narrowing
thought,
OF how dearly that sinlessness was
brought:
OF the sorrowing mother pondering still.
As she stood by the cross on Calvary's
hill.
=
Then into his cradle this mother laid
Her sleeping child. And beside him
prayed:
"Oh, Mary. sorrowing mother. hear
My little son Is so dear, SO dear.
Like you ponder the roads he'll 60:
Yet keep him pure Is the Christmas
snow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

pedagogic system of government i'm
poses heavy burden on the intellectual
resources Of the Nation. No matter how
wise nation may become, superman
is always expected who will be compe-
tent to instruct the instructors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

Nations are rapidly preparing for en-
largement Of war equipment. and Uncle
Sam may as well get ready for more
unkind references to Uncle shylock be-
cause he resolutely refuses to appreciate
the fireworks which endanger his insur-
ance policies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

An extraordinary demand for seats Is
reported by the Metropolitan Opera
House in New York. Good singers come
and 60, but they are all dependent on
the old poets who tell the tragic stories
that inspire the song. Opera is still the
same when patrons arrive in motor cars
instead of horse-drawn vehicles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Christmas Tragedy.
Twas the night before Christmas, Old
Santa drew near.
To q lamppost he carefully hfSched UP
his deer.
He looked for a chimney down which
he might crawl,
But the kind that they build nowadays
are too small.
The blazing old fireplace 30 wide and
Has quite disappeared. It's considered
bad form.
Old Sanity exclaimed with q scowl and
nudge,
II thought it was wood. It's a gas log!
Oh, fudge!"
And the children who once sang Q gay
Christmas song
Were dancing the tango and going it
strong;
And the toys that he brought, once 70
welcome to all,
Looked merely like TRIES pathetic and
small.
For the times have grown rapid and
tastes they reveal
Content with naught less than an auto
mobile.
Poor Sanity, discouraged, drove on round
the block,
Suspicious abound which would give you
shock.
The worthy policeman spoke gravsly
that night
OF pleasant old gent who had vhiskers
of white.
The tracks of q sleigh that was bound
for the pole
Were wabbly as If the machine lacked
control
And Sanity. the gossips IN confidence
say,
Had . headache next morning that
lasted all day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

The brilliant Mrs. Belmont thinks lot
teries should be available to the Amer
lean public without contributing to for
eign enterprise. A foreign lottery is a
precarious sort of investment, but none
has been known to haggle over a def
nitely established obligation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

There are moments when President
Roosevelt and Governor Landon are
permitted to shake hands as If each
regarded the other as a valued constitu-
ent with possible influence on future
events.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

There might be still larger prize for
new and satisfactory system of guess
ing how the Nobel prize ought to be
awarded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

Communism is supported largely by
men who are willing to try anything
once" A man who has been decapitated
or shot at sunrise Is pretty sure not to
try anything twice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
No End to Argument.

From the Troy IN. " Record.
Even II this country were to 60 to the
dogs, q many have predicted. there would
be strife and long controversy over the
breed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

Holiday statesmen who organize strikes
are the first citizens to offer a negative
opinion on the old New York Sun ques-
ton, rs there q Santa CLAUSE"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
Big Field for Tugwen.

From the Grand Island Independent.
Rex Tugwell's enthusiasm for rehous-
ing and resettling would ind IN outlet In
Spain when the war u over.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

Hitler's Christmas generosities may
cause even Santa Claus to give the Nazi
salute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

"Our close friends" said Hi Ho, the
sage IT Chinatown. have 20 much op-
portunity to observe our faults that they
generously cease to be interested in
them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
The Real Spirit.

The Real Spirit.
Oh, Christmas, come an sing song.
It SCUM 20 gay and sweet
Dat evrything dat once went wrong
Seems nxed up all complete.
It's singin' whar de stars IL bright,
An ,mongst de trees down here
It keeps a-soundin' day and night
Dat Christmas song 20 clear.
Some folks sing sor an some sing loud
An some jes' toots q horn:
An some is meek an some Ii proud,
But dey's happy, sho's yoh born.
Oh. de singin' amt al done In style,
Cause some amt got de art.
But every sound ID music while
Oars Christmas In yoh heart.
Il ain no musician" said Uncle Eben,
but ] can't help thinkin' de Christmas
harmony made . poor swap when 1t
traded ~ sleigh bells fer auto horns."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
Animal Myths.

AhIma W4ytAS.
And now, rs Santa Claus declares
For the great annual meeting,
Forget about the bulls and bears
And give the reindeer greeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
Precaution.

PrecAuti0n.
II hear that your audience applauded
you wildly and long"
EYES," replied Senator Sorghum:
there's nothing like selecting an au-
dience whose opinions you have studied
beforehand"
After q man has built q few Christ
mas trees for children Of his own he
begins to realize what heroes his father
and mother were.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24

was strong partisan. No one ever had
the slightest doubt where he stood on a
political question. He was regular"
Republican, rs regular as clock. He was
. good fighter in the Senate and on the
stump. His last campaign was in 1884,
when he went down to defeat in a strong
ly Democratic year. He never COM
promised with the New Deal. In fact
Senator FeSs was never one to compro-
mise. He did not believe In the New Deal
measures and he did not hesitate to say
80. He made vigorous anti-administra-
ton campaign in .1934-and he was
showed under on election day. He went
down with his nag flying.
Senator Fess served in the House for
10 years before his first election to the
Senate. He made his mark In the lower
house and became chairman of the Re-
publican Congressional Committee. He
was chairman when the Republicans
gained control of the House after the
World War. When he thought there was
q chance to name President Coolidge to
run again in 1928, he was strongly for
such move. Later when 1t became ap-
parent that Mr.. Coolidge could not be
smoked out and would stand on his Il
do not choose to run" statement, Senator
Fess turned to Herbert Hoover He was
the temporary chairman and keynote
speaker at the Republican National Con-
vention tn Kansas City In 1928 when Mr..
Hoover was nominated. Half way through
the Hoover administration Tess took over
the Craftsmanship of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, on the recommenda-
ton OF President Hoover, and served in
that capacity until Mr.. Hoover had been
renominated. Senator Tess was one Of
the regular" Republicans from the Mid
die West, most of whom have been weeded
out Of Congress either through defeat ct
the polls or by death.