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Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK.

NEW YORK, April THE recent
ly strong steels and motors beat a re-
treat in today's stock market, while
scattered utilities and specialties came
to the fore to bolster the list.
Profit taking in the leaders ap-
peared early and continued sporadic
ally during most of the session. Dull
ness ruled in most sections.
On the upside, at the approach Of
the final hour, we're Western Union,
Consolidated Edison, North American,
Public Service of New Jersey Amer
lean Water Works U. S. Smelling and
American Smelling.
National Steel lost 2 points. and
others, off as much at l or more, in
cluded U. S. Steel, Bethlehem. Mid
land Steel Products, Johns -Manville,
Sears-Roebuck Distillers Corp, Grey
hound and Union Pacific.
The late tone was easy. Transfers
approximated 100000 shares.
At Chicago both wheat and corn
finished unchanged to IA of a cent a
buShel improved.
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Chicago Grain
Ey the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, April 7-Firmness
characterized wheat values today, more
confidence IN the buying side being
evinced. especially in regard to the
nearby delivery, May.
Much interest was displayed con-
cerning talk in the British Parliament
as to utilizing Canadas surplus wheat
to stock British granaries for defense
purposes. Traders watched sharply
the action of the Winnipeg market.
Wheat closed firm at the same as
yesterdays finish to a cent higher;
May, s42s; July, 847s-85. Corn also
unchanged to Il up; May. 591a. Oats
unchanged to Is advanced, and pro-
visions at cents to 10 cents decline.
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American Water
Works to Redeem
S2,94l,OOO Bonds
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April Hobart Por-
ter, president Of American Water
Works & Electric Co, today announced
the company would redeem on June Is
at lO2 and interest the remaining
s2,94l 900 of its per cent collateral
trust bonds.
The company contemplates no new
financing in connection with the re-
demption, he stated. having made ar
rangements to borrow any amount
needed to redeem the bonds uncon-
verted prior to the redemption date.
The bonds are convertible into 33l,
shares of common stock for each
$1,000 principal amount.
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Loose-wiles Biscuit Co.-Declared
two regular quarterly dividends Of so
cents each on common stock.
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Liverpool Quotations.

LIVERPOOL. April 0P.-Cotton. 23 :
600 bales. including 106 500 American. Spot
quotations in pence: American strict good
middling. III: good middling. 6.s7: strict
dds middins S@@7 @ low mddline 8oa !!': strct rHT
good ordinary $50; good ordinary. So.
Futures closed steady May. SOB; July.
3 81; October. 3 .5S; December. 5.52; Janu.
ary $50; March $50.
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the next three
months they base
their cheerfulness
on the record of
the first quarter.
which scored un-
miStakable buSi-
ess advances.
Similar pre- die
tionS are also
being We n tured
for he whole
fifth Federal Re-
serve district.
U sing bank
clearings as a
Y r d S t ic k for
measuring huSi-
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New York Cotton
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April Cotton was
quiet today, with traders evidently
waiting for some indication as to the
effect of the administration new mar
keting plan on the general spot situa-
ton.
Trade buying and covering were sui.
ficient to absorb some hedging or scat
tered realizing, and prices held gener-
ally steady. with the midafternoon
market showing net advances of 2 to
points.
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CottOnseed Oil.

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed steady. May. 967b; July, 9.7Ob;
September. 9.57b; october. 9.28b.
Sales. 64 contracts, including 10
switches Bid
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CAPITAL LEADERS
FEEL OPTIMISTIC
Point to Record of First
Quarter as Indication of
Further Rise.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Washington bankers and business
men have entered the second quartz.
of 1886 with optimism and assurance.
In looking at the probabilities fol
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Chicago Cash Market,

NHICN6V Od3N NIdIkCEs
Cash wheat, no sales reported; corn,
No. mixed, 5414; No. S mixed, 521s;
No. yellow, 581aa34; No. 4 yellow,
56a58; No. yellow, 53K asa; No.
white, 5sl4; No. 4 white, 5734; sample
grade, 26a45; oats, No. 2 white, 20;
No. 3 white, 251aa2s; No. 4 white,
"a; sample grade, 81; No rye; soy
beans, No. yellow, 70; No. 4 yellow,
7ola; sample yellow, 7312; barley
actual sales, S3a85; feed. 30a47 NOM
inal; mailing, 5Oa89 nominal; timothy
seed, ESQ hundredweight; clover seed,
l4.50a2l 90 hundred weight.
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Liverpool Grain Prices.

Baltimore Quotations.
BALTIMORE. April 2 uP.-Wheat. No.
.. red Winter, garlicky, spot domestic,
96la: April. 9C12.
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Political Speeches.

When is a speech political? President
Roosevelt is going to Charlotte, N. c., to
address a great rally of Democrats from
the Southern States. The President said
when the Charlotte speech was an
nounced that it would be "non-political." )"
Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas. the Re-
publican standard bearer, is going to Port
land, Maine, to close the Republican
campaign in the Pine Tree State with q
speech on Saturday. Gov. Landon would
be surprised If any one suggested to him
that his speech was not to be political.
The Roosevelt New Dealers, from the
President down, have adopted new at
titude; more properly q new pose. It Is
that they are non-political and non
partisan. Roosevelt's recent trips into
the Hood and drought areas were NON
political" His travels and his speeches
today and tomorrow and up to election
day are also to be non-political. Speak
ing facetiously, the President at press
conference said that he would make no
political speeches until January 4, when
Congress opens and he appears before
ynat body to deliver an address on the
sstate of the Union"
It may be that this kind Of pose Is
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necessary to turn the spotlight away from
the very practical politics which the
Roosevelt New Dealers are playing with
the w. p. A. and other agencies of the
Government which are dispensing IRE.
lief" of one kind or another. However,
poses on the part Of the New Dealers
are not something new. It was q pose
on their part that they were seeking
recovery" when as a matter Of fact
they were seeking reform" seeking to
put into effect new and socialistic ideals
of government in place Of the tradition
ally American.
The campaign, outwardly, rests lightly
on the Presidents shoulders. 1t Is moth
ing to worry about. His aides take the
same line. That attitude is not new.
Why should it be with those who have
considered half a billion dollars Of the
taxpayers money mere Chicken feed"
as one of the most important New Deal
ers once characterized $500, 900?
There are evidences, however, among
the voters of the Nation that the cam
paign to them has ceased long ago to
be joke.
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STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

When Rome's legions first marched
into the dark, swampy wildernesses of
Central Europe they encountered great
herds of wisents.
These were animals specifically al
most indistinguishable from the bison
which Spanish explorers found swarm
ing over the Great Plains of North
America 1,500 years later. The creatures
were hunted by the nomad tribes, to
whom they afforded one of the essential
sources of livelihood. The Romans
brought some of them back and pitted
them against men in the arenas-en-
counters which usually ended fatally
for the wisents.
Through the succeeding centuries, as
Northern Europe became civilized, the
wisents were hunted ruthlessly. Their
forest habitats gave way to cultivated
fields. Through the centuries they were
pushed eastward into Poland, Lithuania
and the Ukraine. Nobody worried over
their fate-just as nobody worried over
the fate of the bison q few centuries
later.
The beginning of the nineteenth GEN.
tury found the wisents restricted to the
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mobiles. They were rapidly on the way
to become extinct animals. The World
War dealt them an almost fatal blow.
Some of the larger herds were slaugh-
tered for meat. The mobiles fell from
power and their hunting preserves were
broken up into farms. Consequently
after the armistice there were only
very few wisents left. These few, it was
found, were undernourished and unable
to survive in the depleted forests.
The result was the formation OF an
international society, which received
generous American support, for the pres
ervation of the animals. Rigid laws
were enacted for their protection and,
so far as possible. the scattered specl-
mems Of the species were gathered to-
gether and placed in suitable environ
ments. But hopes for saving the wisent
remained rather slim. The creatures
seemed to have lost their vitality. One
Of the largest groups left was wiped out
completely in a few weeks by an cpl
demic.
AL this has led to q unique expert
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Relief In Irrelevancy.
Though talk Of war Is in the air
To threaten every nation,
We hope that we can keep it there
BY cheerful conversation.
For dogs, as pets. I do not care.
Nor for o parrots chatter.
My eloquence I never spare
On things that do not matter.
I don't like bridge that's hard to score,
I'm not inclined for poker
With deuces wild; and I deplore
Employment Of the joker.
I don't like salads served with cheese
Upon q social platter;
My views are strong on things like these
Which really do not matter.
The problems rising far and wide
Cause moments Of depression;
And yet we must not be denied
The Joy Of self-expression
When temple pillars are pulled out
To cause a wondrous clatter.
I lift q shout and talk about
The things that do not matter!
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intends to stay where it is and 1t has
proved enough Of o financial success to
justify expenditure by the owners Of q
hundred Thousand dollars on asphalt
runways, taxi strips, aprons and larger
Weather Bureau facilities, despite the
uncertainty of future airport legislation.
This being the case. the question presents
itself whether the United States Govern
ment and the District of Columbia will
find it desirable or necessary to sink q
million or two dollars in another airport.
Certainly the commission now investi-
eating airport sites should not permit
the Washington Airport improvements
to influence their best judgment or
necessarily lead them to the decision
that the simple thing to do is to pur-
chase Washington Airport-which is
what the present owners, in the past at
least. have wanted them to do.
Dredging of the Potomac, now under
way, Is gradually filling ia the Gravelly
Point site, at no extra expense to the
Government. Within q few years, by
killing two birds with one stone-dredg-
ing the river and filling in the Gravelly
Point site-a large area would be created
at little extra expense which would be
suitable for airport development. An
other question before the airport COM
mission, therefore. is whether, If a public
owned National Capital airport must
eventually be built, would 1t not be as
well to await the gradual development
of Gravelly Point, meanwhile permitting
the eficient managers Of the washington
Airport to continue their profitable busi-
ness under the improvements now about
to be made.
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to be present, however. The subject Of
the Presidents address has not been an
nounced. 1t would be surprising, how
ever, If in that address he should dwell
upon the work which Is being done in his
behalf by Stanley Highs Good Neighbor
League, which is seeking to align all the
Negro voters in the North for Roose-
velt. High was employed not so long
ago by the Democratic National Com
mittee.
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Up in Delaware the Republicans are
still badly split over their State ticket.
The boilers from the regular organiza-
ton have put q ticket Of their own in
the field, with I. Dolphus Short as .
candidate for Governor and Robert q.
Houston, q former member Of the House,
for Senator. Both the insurgents and
the regulars insist they are for the party's
national ticket, headed by Gov. Landon.
If the fight continues, however, 1t may
likely result In the election Of 4 Demo-
cratic Senator from Delaware.
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units would be "a step in the expansion
of the militartst war machine"
Even If that statement were true,
which it is not, should the giving Of
little rudimentary military training in
high school be condemned?
The United States may never have
another major war, and let us hope she
will not. But the odds are strongly the
other way. And If or when war comes
the country will need all the trained
and partially trained young men it can
get right then, not in six months or a
year.
Besides, what Is so wrong about mill
tary training? Several million young
men got a dose Of It in 1917-18. Did 1t
hurt any Of them?
Nor is it true that when a boy is
taught to handle gun. wear uniform
and do squads east and west he invari-
ably becomes bloody minded militarist.
And any one who talks that way Is a
victim Of his own delusions and pref
udices.
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ment In genetics-breeding backward
from the now abundant bison to the
rapidly disappearing wisent. The two
animals without doubt are closely re-
lated, yet their differences are great
enough to make them different animals.
The first step in the experiment is
breeding a pure-blood wisent bull to a
bison cow. The offspring, of course, is
a half-breed. All the males are killed
The half-breed cows are again mated
to wisent bulls. The offspring are three
quarters wisent. Again the male calves
are slaughtered and the daughters
mated to pure-bred wisents. With every
cross the amount of bison strain left
in the offspring will be reduced until,
the experimenters expect, it will reach
the vanishing point.
The progress of the experiment is re-
ported in the current journal of the
American Society of Mammalogists,
which has taken an active interest in
the work. The transition animals are
known as verdrangungs. 1t is not ex-
pected that they ever will become alb
solutely pure wisents, but eventually, it
Is hoped, a stage will be reached where
no biologists could tell the difference.
The small amounts Of bison blood ap-
parently give the animals q vitality and
hardness which the pure wisents lack,
and they can be produced in sufficient
numbers to risk experimenting with
them.
At present nobody would dare turn the
pure wisents loose in a new range. They
are extremely sensitive to environmental
q GhQnUaC -.
food difference Is necessary. The ideal
range Of the verdrangungs also is the
ideal range Of the wisents. They can
be turned loose in q new territory to
test its suitability. They are not so
subject to disease. The possibility of
every wisent in Europe being swept
away suddenly Is by no means far
fetched. II this happens the verdran-
gungs Will remain, to perpetuate the
race.
How discouraging Is the work with
pure-blood wisents Is demonstrated by
the fact that, in the face Of all the ef-
forts to preserve the race, the 50 ami
mails left alive at the end Of the war
had increased only to rs in 1896.
The largest and hardest strain Of
pure-bred wisents is that at the Berlin
ZOO. The animals have been maintained
uncontaminated there ever since the
war and some Of the stock has been
sent to Poland, Sweden, England and
Holland. They are all that is left Of
the great Lithuanian herd which -four
ished before the war. Other small
groups are maintained in three private
parks in Germany. A new wisent park,
largely financed by the New York Zoo
logical Society, has Just been opened
near Munich. .,
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Private Airport Plans.

Under legislation enacted by the last
Congress a commission is now engaged
in examining locations best suited for
development as a National Capital air.
port. But decision Of the owners OF
Washington Airport to spend about
100000 on extensive improvements to
that airport, designed to make it more
safe and more convenient for the large
patronage it now enjoys, naturally raises
the question whether development Of a
publicly owned and operated airport in
the immediate future will be necessary
or practical.
The chief urge for development Of .
publicly owned and operated National
Capital airport has been the admittedly
poor condition Of Washington Airport,
privately owned and operated. But dur
ing the long years Of agitating for this
National Capital airport, with one delay
following another and one futile con-
gressional investigation covering the
same ground that the preceding investi-
CATION has covered, Washington Airport
has gone steadily ahead. from small
beginning, accommodating more planes
and more passengers with . minimum
of accidents. The public impression all
along has been that washington Airport
would last only until the development
Of . proper public airport. unless the
airport investigators decided to purchase
1t and enlarge 1t by use Of adjoining
Federal territory.
But Washizgton Airport apparently
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

scores OF plroS, mostly EnGllSh SparroWS,
have fed there for two months, with
only one loss Of life. Gray feathers on
the ground testified to the tragedy. But
the other birds wre back again the
next morning as II nothing had hap
pened.
Some loss. in nature, seems inevitable.
Nature guarantees nothing.
Redeemed dogwood is another shrub
the birds love. This is the one which is
shrub, not tree. It has q rather
sprawly habit Of growth, with red
branches beautiful at all seasons. One
or two Of these look well in any border.
The larger such shrubs are permitted
to grow, the better the birds like them.
During the feeding in the Winter, espe-
cially when food Is put out for them, they
love to perch in the shrubs, after all
alarms.
Usually there will be q certain pro-
portion Of English sparrows at all feed
ing stations, even in the suburbs. These
are canny birds, never eating for more
than a minute at q time. Then they
fly, with one will, into the air, to alight
q short distance away.
AAio dStioiA3 ChoACcoAy ACpCdtCQ hI udy
long, must be a saving instinct of theirs,
since often not sound or shape dis
turbs. Yet time after time they fly up
and away. Usually they ahght in a
chirping community in some nearby
shrub, where they perch for a minute,
then, one by one, fly back to the feeder.
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II there are plenty of large shrubs
in the yard. the birds will seek these as
refuge, instead Of flying to somebody
else's yard.
This congregation Of chirpers is one
Of the most interesting sights in bird
feeding during the cold, especially in
snow. There is no more satisfying sight
in this sport.
It is well, therefore, to leave all shrubs,
especially those with berries, totally un-
pruned.
Such pruning as they demand will be
best next February or early March.
In the meantime leave the shrubs, with
their leaves and berries, to the birds.
Even the chaffy seed cases, which cling
to such things as the common althea,
after the seeds have fallen to the
ground. are liked by such birds as the
goldfinch and others.
Seeds of lilacs, peonies and most
shrubs, even roses. while totally disre-
garded by most gardeners, no doubt are
relished by the birds which Winter
with us.
Too much tidiness, therefore, at leaf
raking time, will deprive birds of much
good food, natural food which is par
ticularly relished by them.
Do not be too scrupulous in cleaning
up leaves, litter and other trash, So
called, around fences and hedges.
Let some of it remain. Not only will
1t be a good mulch, but it will contain
some food for the birds. There is little
doubt that too much lawn cleanliness
is inimical to wild bird life.
There can be little doubt, as suggested
here last Winter by several correspond
ents, that most of the birds which
Winter in this vicinity sleep in ever
greens. They love the outspreading
branches and their comparative protec-
ton. Owners of all types of evergreens
are urged to keep them in good condi-
ton for the birds.
Several Of these, in strategic positions
in the garden, not only give accent to
the whole, but furnish sleeping quarters
for the songsters, and that is a pleasant
thought.
Evening star., 1936-09-10

The discussions of the Third World
Power Conference have included refer
ences to the New Deal which, Of course,
may be regarded as the greatest expert
ment ever attempted with reference to
the adjustment and practical application
of the enormous natural resources avail
able to mankind. These resources do
not submit themselves easily to the in
tellectual authority available In a single
generation.
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Berries hang high on the high-bush

cranberries.
Let them alone, the birds will enjoy
them this Winter.
Already migrating songsters have
stopped to sample the berries Of the
snowberry bushes and the coral berries.
They have about cleaned up the white
berries Of these bushes, but are not 50
keen on the coral ones.
Berries Of the great bittersweet vine,
which climbs 20 feet into the locust
tree, are beginning to turn to the beau
tiful orange of their Autumn dress.
These are favorites of most birds, as
well as Of the careful housewife, who
gathers them from her own garden, or
buys them at the florist, for use in vases
during the Winter.
There are few more luxuriant vines
than the bittersweet, Of beautiful,
poignant name.
It loves q tree, no place better; over
its trunk, and into its branches it climbs,
through the years, until at last 1t be-
comes a veritable fountain Of green.
Some such climbers injure trees, but 1t
Is believed that this is not the case with
the bittersweet; that the tree thrives
lust as well with it as without 1t.
In time the end branches, being able
to 20 no higher, simply shoot forth into
the air, and then bend downward over
the rest.
Beneath this green cascade the birds
Of Summer love to perch, chattering
away to one another, sometimes to their
broods on the ground.
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The bittersweet berries will complete
their seasonal change Of color after the
hrst frost.
Then, almost suddenly, they will be-
come the fine orange color Of their
Winter dress. There, all the cold sea-
son through, they will hang perpetual
invitation to the birds, who, no other
food offering, will sample them with ever
increasing taste as the season grows
colder.
These berries are the particular favor
ties of the mockingbirds, which are the
peculiar favorites of many bird lovers.
The Knockers also like the berries OF
the common barberry, which is just one
more good reason for planting this as a
hedge.
The property which has the strong,
prickly Japanese barberry in profusion
will find itself the host Of many other
species of birds, all Of which can get
sustenance from its berries.
Wild cherries. really small trees, are
beloved Of brown thrasher.
There are few shrubs which have ber-
ries which are not liked by some bird
or other.
The person who wants birds in Winter
will find 1t to his advantage to put
border of all sorts Of berried shrubs
around his yard.
This great ruff Of material not only
will provide the birds with something to
eat, at the season they need 1t most, but
will do a great deal toward giving them
q sort of sanctuary.
Never fear about the cats.
Cats will get a bird, now and then.
shrubs or no shrubs. Birds that feed
on berries are usually up in the bush,
so that they can see the approaching
cat, no matter how stealthy he comes.
Birds are a great deal warier than
some of their friends give them credit
for being.
We know q small feeder on the ground
beneath a maple tree. 1t is within feet
Of heavy planting of lilac bushes. The
corner of a garage is within or feet.
The situation would seem to be q
splendid hiding place for roaming cats.
easily within spring of the birds. Yet