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Evening star., 1936-09-27
SHAFT LURES BIRDS TO DIE
FloodLight Is Fatal Attraction Washington Monument for
Those Engaged in Sem,Annua Migration, They Fly
Through Washington on the Way.

The birds. 1t was said, were drawn
to the Monument, which in their swift
flight they saw as q brilliant object
against q black sky, and, blinded as
they neared the Monument, they hit
1t in FULL force and were killed or
stunned as they dropped to the hard
pavement or grass below. Attempts
have been made to photograph with
extra fast lens the birds as they
dashed against the Monument.
The bodies are quickly picked up
by persons who are connected with
the Biological Survey of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, and who in the
migratory season make 1t their duty
to be on hand at the base Of the
Monument to pick up the dead birds
and care for such Of them as still live.
These are tenderly cared for and
sometimes recover. They are tagged
for scientific reasons and are permit
ted to ny OF to rejoin the migration
which they instinctively know how
to do.
The birds have biological value
Those that hit the Monument disclose
whether they are insectivorous or seed
birds or what their parasites are as
revealed in the contents of their stom-
achs. Some OF the birds are skinned
and stuffed by private ornithologists
who make their own collections from
the birds they gather up at the Monu-
ment in the migratory season. These
may be found especially active with
their flashlights. as they search the
neighboring grass swards into which
some Of the birds may have been
thrown by the wind.
The biological scientists report that
| some 40 to so varieties of birds are
found among the casualties at the
Monument. Special effort Is made to
catch the unusual varieties.
Sad to say, nearly all the birds that
hit the Monument in the migrations
are song birds. chiefly of the kind
known as warblers and verioes. They
are small birds, about inches long
| from beak to tip of the tail. The
magnolia mentioned is a warbler with
yellow feathers on the under body
There is also a Connecticut warbler
found here. This does not mean that
the bird Summers in Connecticut. Fal
from it. in fact. 1t is not known how
the bird got its Connecticut designa-
ton The warblers are Of severa
species, with the magnolia the mos
common found killed among tn,
warblers, and next the red-eyec
verioes.
Singing sparrows are also found. a
well as snowbirds. The teacher birt
is met with. 1t is so called from it
cry, which seems to say, DO you hea
me, do you see me?" and similar notes
Now and then a big bird will becom
too inquisitive at the white shaft AM
hit it and be killed. A duck has beer
found killed at the base of the Monu
Evening star., 1936-09-27

where he had stopped while on his
way to England for his health. An
account of his las. moments, quoted
in part, follows:
THE patient was greatly distressed
in breathing, in consequence Of DIM
cult expectoration. He requested the
doctor, at his next visit. to bring In
struments for performing the oper-
alton of bronchotomy. for he could
not live unless relieved. He then di-
Evening star., 1936-09-27

Indeed, even at Mr.. O'Neale's board
ing house, which preceded the Frank
lin Hotel, many people of prominence
resided, and it was here that George
Clinton, Vice President of the United
States, died on April 20, 1912, and
was buried in Congressional Cemetery.
from which he was removed in 1908,
and his remains reinterred in the First
Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery,
Kingston, N. Y.
However, unless proof to the con-
trary should develop. it does not seem
likely that Mr.. Randolph did stop
prior to 1909 at O'Neale's, but rather
one is impressed with the more gen.
eral likelihood that, from the start,
he boarded at Crawford's on NJ street
to the west of Rock Creek. Again,
the Library of Congress, so far as
the Congressional Directories are
concerned, cannot help us for several
years. for the books from 1910 to 1915,
both inclusive, are missing.
In 1916 Randolph was living at
Semmes' Hotel, Georgetown. which
seems likely to have been the Union
Tavern, since the proprietor Of that
hotel had changed frequently. Up
to 1907 Joseph M. Semmes conducted
a tavern at Fifteenth and F streets
and then gave it up and this may be
the same Semmes who later ran the
Georgetown hostelry. From 1919
throughout his stay in Washington,
or until he left Congress in 1929,
Mr.. Randolph's address is given as
Mr.. Dawson, No. 2 Capitol Hill"
John H. Eaton went to live at
O'Neale's Franklin Hotel, when he
came to the Senate in 1918 and con-
tinued to reside there at least until
1929. In 1928 Gen. Jackson came
to Congress as Senator from Ten
nessee and it was this year that Sem
ator Eaton bought the hotel property
in order that it might not be sacri-
feed through marshals sale, hav-
ing already been advertised. The fol-
lowing year 1t was sold to John
Gadsby, who had conducted hotel
in Alexandria and was then oper-
ating the Indian Queen in Baltimore.
When Gen. Eaton came to live at
the Franklin House Peggy Cor Mrs.
Timberlake them had been married
about two years and when Gen. jack
son came there she had been married
seven years.
RUT to return to John Randolph
~ he undoubtedly was man Of
rare talent, rightfully claimed he was
a descendant of Pocahontas and Said
he was glad of it; and he evidently
was, indeed, he seems to have in
| herited the warlike spirit of some OF
the Virginia Indians. OF him his
friend, Thomas H. Benton, writes:
He was noted for his keen retorts
reckless wit and skill in debate. His
tall, slender, cadaverous form; his
shrill, piping voice, and his long
skinny fingers pointing at the object
of his invective, made him a con-
spicuous speaker. For 80 years he
Evening star., 1936-09-27

rected certain newspaper to be
brought to him. He put on his spec
tacles. as he sat propped up in bed,
turned over the paper several times,
and examined it carefully, then
placing his finger on a part he had
selected, handed it to the doctor, with
a request that he would read it. 1t
was headed Cherokee
In the course OF reading the doctor
came to the word 'omnipotence' and
pronounced it with a full sound of
the penultimate - omnipo tence. Mr..
Randolph checked him and pro-
nounced the word according to Wal
ker. The doctor attempted to give a
reason for his pronunciation. Pass
on was the quick reply. The word
impetus was then pronounced with the
e long-impe tus' He was instantly
Continued on Page g.
Evening star., 1936-09-27

dolph had no venom in his heart for
his antagonist, for he later said:
II have not aimed at the life of Mr..
Clay. I did not aim as high as the
knees-not higher than the knee band;
for 1t Is no mercy to shoot q man
in the knee. My only object was to
disable him and spoil his aim.
II would not have seen him fall NOR
tally. or even doughtfully, wounded,
for all the land that Is watered by
Evening star., 1936-09-27
By John Torrance.

~ ECENT visitors, in the early
- hours Of the night. at the
IN washington as,on Mon Monument m have have
unexpected phenomenon to many, the
bombardment Of the Monument by
swarms of birds. many Of which, as
result, fall dead at the base of the
great shaft. The fact Is not gen.
orally known in Washington, but has
become a semi-annual event since the
Monument has been flood-lghted. be-
coming thereby a feature in the pam
Drama Of the Capital, which not only
draws tourists to 1t. but irresistibly
attracts flocks Of birds in seasonal mi
grafton, north and south. to the Sum-
mer feeding and breeding grounds.
The migration takes place in the
early Spring and the early Fall, and
the bombardment and casualties at
the Monument have been especially
noticeable in recent September nights,
especially during the air disturbance
occasioned by the Carolina hurricane.
whose high winds were noticed in the
city. The birds. flying low because
Of the cloudy night, were caught in
the swirls of the currents around the
Monument in large numbers and suf-
fered proportionately, making mean
time a rather brilliant spectacle as
they f1uttered about, the lower parts of
their bodies and their wings illumi-
mated by hoedlights below. They
seemed like scintillating sparks from
the base to the top, 558 feet high.
How they met their fate, death or
escape. could be clearly seen, and the
thud as they struck the Monument
and hit the pavement below could be
easily heard in the silence which pre-
walls around the Monument at night.
Nor was 1t spectacle for just one Of
the four sides of the Monument, but
| for all sides, because the swirling cur
| rents of air breezed all around.
It was q sight that held one to the
Monument for some time. perhaps as
late as midnight. when the Aeod light
ing is cut of except for the tip. guide
for night human flyers. A visitor from
Kansas had a surprise, for when. as
he was looking at the Monument, a
small object hit him after glancing of
and was picked up at his feet he
found it was dead bird. Several per-
sons rushed up to him and, turning
the flashlights they carried upon the
bird, said, "a magnolia"
EXPLANATIONS followed. The
visitor was told that the birds
were falling dead in no mean mum.
bers. as the migratory season was or
in which birds from far away Canads
were passing over Washington on
their way to Southern lands, even tt
South America, and some were killed
as they hit the Monument in theil
flight, at times as many as 125 night
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15
CHANNEL BUS LINE


 Phone l0S Juneau or Il Douglas Leave Dougias-20 minutes before each hour, starting 20 minutes be- fore 8 am: last trip 20 minutes
 before midnight. Leave Juneau - Is minutes after each hour, starting IS minutes past . am; last trip 15 minutes past 12, midnight.
 Glacier Highway Leave Aux Bay Leave Juneau FOO am. 7:30 am. SIS am. 9:30 am. l2:30 pm. 2:30 pm. AIS pm. 5:l5 pm. Saturday and Saturday and Sunday Special Sunday Special 6:45 pm. 1000 pm.
 ALSO TAXI SERVICE
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15
NCRTnL.AND IN
 FROM SEATTLE: {:
Thirty Passengers Booked Aboard Motorship
 for Juneau

Steamer Northland from Seattle arrived at City Dock at 4::3O o'clock yesterday afternoon with 30 pas sengers for Juneau, and sailed for Sitka at pm. Capt Leonard Williams is master of the North land and Bert Gillespie is purser
 Passengers for Juneau were:
 From Seattle--V. A. Lee, L. R. Pride, Mrs. A. Seigle, Martin Bor- lek, Glen Wold, George Lang, Dorothy Larsen, Mrs. H. c. Ru- dolph, c. c. Rudolph, Mrs. c. c. Rudolph, Mrs. Don McKinnon, Mrs. K. Tanura. K. Tanura, F. s. Rhodes, Chris Erickson, B. M. Behrends.
 From Wrangell--H. Erickson.
 From Petersburg-Frank Murata, Sam Light.
 From Ketchikan-Earl Clifford, L.. A. Delebecque, Joe Denny, Ed Murphy, A. E. Schoettler, J. F. Mullen and wife, Roy Oxman, E. Townsley, Miss 0. Lorraine, c. Hall.
 Outbound passengers from Juneau to Sitka were: Rose Adams, P. H Adams, N. A. McEachran, K. Lour- ing, E. J. Reiland, Elmer Jake way, C. M. Ellison, John Herman
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15

Yes, suh! I'll soon be with you! adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15
NORTHWESTERN ARRIVES HERE
 ON WAY SOUTH
Sixteen Passengers Brought for Juneau from
 Westward

Steamer Northwestern fEom the Westward berthed at Pacific Coast Dock at 8:30 o'clock this morning and sailed for Seattle an hour later. Passengers for Juneau were:
 From Seldovia-George M. Eberle.
 From Seward-Audrey Richard son, Fred Frederickson, Allen Crane, John c. Jenkins, w H. Williams, Mrs. Williams.
 From Cordova- Simon Hellenthal, H. Walker, J. Williams.
 From Haines-Mrs. Audrey Wat kins
 From Skagway-H. Willard, Anna Willard and child, Chas. Peterson, Lillian Clancy
 Outbound passengers were: To Se- attle-Warren Gasser, Elsie Bloom cen, F. E. Gibson, R. P. Bowles. R. E. Murphy, John Hermle, Owen Hales. c. H Metcalfe.
 To Petersburg-S. S. Johnson. B. Mazer.
 To Wrangell-A. VanMavern. Tom Johnson, Mrs. Johnson. To ketchikan Marie Mcclure Mrs. H. N. Nelson, J. D. Watkins.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15
SEVEN WANT AID
 POINTERS

Tour want-ad will proouce, if you.
 '. Think 5areiully b out your proposition. }. Direct your selling efforts
 at the individual. 3. Be specific. Use co.oriui
 words. Avoid generaLLes 1. Tell the whole story. 5. Emphasize the best .ea-
 lure Of your offer. 6 Mention price. !. Make answering as esJy
 do possible.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15
Marine News
Steamer Movements
NORTnBOUND

c Victoria due Tuesday. . Evelyn Berg scheduled to ar . rive next Wednesday. . SCHEDULED sAILiNCS 2 Norco scheduled to sail from . . Seattle February IT at pm. ' ? Zapora scheduled to sail from c D Seattle February 19 at pm. ( 9 Princess Norah scheduled to q } sail from Vancouver February ( D q at 9 pm. D Northwestern scheduled to sail c 9 from Seattle February 22 at ( ? 9 am. . ? SU,91.fBOuND SAI!INGs
 Q Northland scheduled to sail c 0 southbound 9 o'clock Sunday . Q night. c Q Alaska scheduled southbound a Q February 19. . Q LOCsI. SAnNGS C c Estebeth leaves every Wednps- ( i day right at l. pm. f1r .
 z Sitk md wayports s
 . Dart leaves eve,y Friday al . . am fer Petersburg. Klke .
 . and Wayports. '
 .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15
VIC T0RIA HAS
 18 PASSENGERS
 FOR THIS PORT

SEATTLE, Feb. 15.-Steamer Vic- toria sailed at g o'clock this morn ing for Alaska ports with 13l first class and 29 steerage passengers aboard.
 Passengers aboard the Victoria for Juneau include William Neider- hauser, P. A. Morgan, Ike Taylor, R. A. Gridley, w. F. Rohrbach, Arthur Barughton, N J. Byshiem, Joe Repik, R. L. Stewart, F. S. Spencer, CT harles Schramm and wife, Sigurd Wallstedt, Wellman Holbrook and wife, R. c. Holmes, Stella Young, James Mattox.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15
MISCELLANEOUS

LOLA'S Beauty Shop, finger waves soc, guaranteed permanents $3.75 complete. Call 3l5 Decker Way or telephone POI for appoint ments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15

A white tailed kite, a fading spe- ,ies of hawk, was captured recently at McAllen, Tex
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15

PIPE AWNING
 Day Phones Al and 4504. Night Phones d36 and 4504 ALASKA WELDERS, Jack Silva, proprietor LESSONS in Hardanger crochet ing. etc. Phone 3262
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-15
FERN BEAUTY PARLOR

Closed during the absence of Mrs H. c. Shippey in California. Wil reopen for business March 3. adv
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-31
THE STUDENTS AND WAR

The creation of an American Student
Union is an encouraging sign; it is step
forward in the development of a progress
slve student movement which can be de-
veloped into a powerful ally of the labor
movement.
The CALL greets the firm anti-war
stand taken by the Union and commends
the aggressive position Of the Student
League for Industrial Democracy and the
Young Peoples Socialist League at the
student convention in Columbus which
made possible the adoption of a correct pro-
gramatic statement of opposition to any
war conducted by the United States gov
eminent.
It is unfortunate that the Student I'm
ion at it's initial convention saw fit to de-
feat a resolution definitely stating that
the ASH would not support the United
States government in war even if it were
aligned with the Soviet Union because such
support would not be genuine means of
defense of the Soviet Union.
The declaration by Al Hamilton, nation
al studen secretary Of the YPSL, that the
Socialist youth of America will carry on a
determined campaign within the Union
for the Qualification of the unions opposi-
ton to war so that at it's next convention
the American Student Union can dispel
all equivocation and uncertainty on it's war
position, signalizes the essential role that
the Socialist youth will play in the deveI-
opment not only of the student movement
but Of the general anti-war movement
among the yopth.-Socialist Cau.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-31

izas "a "reds" all who dare to use their
constitutional rights of demanding new
order.
Strange that none Of these hired ink
c,;n0ore are able to scent the slightest dan
Cer in the above catalOgued list OF evils
that are only too real to most OF US. They
find nothing to Satirize in system out OF
which these wrongs spring, like cancerous
orowths. They are too busy floutlng before
the American people, thru subsidized press
and radio, their hypothetical argument
that the only real peril we face is 1ouh9
among those who are thinking In terms Oh
a new order, whom they varlously cnaTac-
terize as demagogues, SOCIALISTS cOIIl1hun,
lists, collectivists, old age pensioners sOc!3
credit advocates and other progressives. All
who dare to think that our present clVlllz-
alton is not the acme Of perfection are
"reds" to these standpatters with their los
silized brains. With what charming AFRO
gance they glibly tell us that there IS moth
ing fundamentally wrong with either the
constitution or our economic machine. just
tune up the motor, adjust the carburetor,
scrape off he carbon, put shot OF grease
in the deferential, and the old buzz wagon,
as antiuuated as the spinning Jennie, Will
anble across the prairie as good as ever.
We have tinkered and adjusted for six
wears and still our economic machine is hit
ting on about four cylinders out Of sixteen,
as is evidenced by the fact that we are able
to distribute only One-fourth of the goods
we can produce.
What onslaughts of vituperative billings
gate these writer's hurl at every proposed
change in our civilization. ALI change IS
fraught with grave danger. Herbert Hoover
tells us that and he was never known 10
make mistake in foretelling prosperity.
These died-in-the-wool, grape vine clingerS
to our present order possess dogmatlc
gertrude that would put an old fashioned
Methodist circuit rider to shame. With
iaunty cocksureness they tell US that the
taking over of all the tools of production,
distribution and communication by the peO-
ple and run in the iterest of the public
would result in the closing of every church,
the disbanding of all Sunday schools, the
burning of all Bibles and the extinction OF
christian civilization beneath deluge OF
atheism. Every graduation of collectivlsm is
painted by them as the worst Of militant
communism, carrying the fire brand OF red
terrorism thruout the land and reducing
civilization to atavistic savagery. Even the
sky pilots are using their pulpits to hurl the
bull of communication against economic
free thinkers, who refuse to be saddled
and bridled by the money barons.
It requires little effort to snap and snarl
or hurl the cynic's ban at those who are
trying to think progressively.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-31

Lately in an article on the 1eaS"
ibilitv Of the Townsend Plan, /
stated that directly and indirectly
in five years from August 1914 to
August 1919, the vain outlay of
war and bad loans had cost the
people of the United States, 100
billion dollars. That the Townsend
Plan nationally could not exceed
10 billion dollars the year. That a
nation that could spend 20 billion
dollars the year for five years on
the waste Of war, could spend 19
billion the year indefinitely on old
age pensions to restore and main
| tain equilibrium between purchas-
ing power of its masses and total
price of it's capacity OF wealth
production.
A courteous challenge Of my
figures as to cost of the Great
War has come from one who sign
ed his name but requested me not
to disclose it on account OF his
Job. Mr.. K says that others al
so are skeptical Of my estimate.
Really, in the article, l was
drawing on my memory of one Of
President Coollidge's public ut
terances. To write is q pastime. I
keep no files except professional
one. / can not tell exactly when
President Coolidge made the state
ment, but as I am careful always
to be correct on figures, I have
checked up on my memory for q
courteous answer to a most cour-
teously expressed doubt Of a
reader.
If Mr.. x will examine The
J History of Western Civilization
by H. E. Barnes, Vol. 2 at page
COL, he will find (after reciting
the direct cost Of the war to all
nations at $50 billion dollars):
"These are simply immediate
economic lOsses-those things
which were actually consumed dur
ing the conflict. No account is TAX
en- Of subsequent costs such as in
terest on loans, retirement Of
loans, pensions, and the like"
president Coolidge, relying
on Secretary MELONS estimates
once frankly stated that the ul-
innate cost Of the participation
Of the United States alone In
the World War would, in his Op-
iniOn, be 500, 0O0,OO0,OO0 Gone
hundred billion dOllars)"
This statement must have beel
made by that President while Oh
loans to foreign nations wer
thought good. The defaults frs
arose in the Hoover administrs
ton.
In spite of the doubts expresse
by Mr.. x, still think my state
ment quite as correct as anyon
can figure, that in five years fror
August 1914 to August 1919, "
dumped overheard enough eac
year to finance the Townsen
Plan.
DR.. Barnes tells on the sam
page
"The editor of the Scholasti
made an effort to translate til
figures of war costs into tern
that we can visualize. He indica
ed that the cost Of the World w:
would have been sufficient to fu
nish (1) every family in Englar
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-01-31
FURTHER OF THr
TOWNSEND PLAN
H. L. MAURY

Francs, Belgium, Germ.
STA, the United Ssostasag
and Australia WITH Ss'co. Co.
on a $500 One-acro i. N u.
worth q. Of furniture ~ ~ via 81
five million dollar IiSy.S lN
cry community Of SSSS! tR
that's in these County, ttvSO hlsI
a ten million dollar MI l
every such cOmmusit.. Il
a fund that at { Der -! q ~,
would pay indefinitslv ~, 1tOl
year to any army Of ISs ASN
eers and nd, $4,000 nurses. ~. y "
(5) still leave enough !. "a
cry piece Of properly Az y !.
wealth in France and ItIH
fair market price" t'@
Getting down to ou,,.,
lem, the feasibility 81 i \.
send Plan seem simpl.' !, t =
be a capital levy Of Ws'lSS !, q.
augerate it. Il ther. =. (.
people in Montana Hbov. !,
of age, who 90 on It GS
would not quit work a, ' W
the monthly the plan WonI az !.
u million dollars the W.,
During one war yeaI. Il. n
aconda Company Confe0a,S J :. =
fit from its Butte mines y ~
lion dollars. Seventy millio" ;.
lars of wheat, oats, sattle ~.
horses, lumber, sugar. ~ Il
went hence for the SuStiO'S.''
war, never to return, Thl, VA
real wealth produced by our a
mers and wOrkmen. And. mi
that year, probably S5,OOS 4 :
best young men were 1eVimni
for waste. What could NoHI'
have produced If this $500 !
also been producing FOR use
stead of for the profits q tAS !
points and MorgGns and thdI 4
That is to say If Tie prSn
we're returned to people here
stead of being destroyed o. Ca
ed to the Rockefellers and sAl
Perhaps the imposdbIHb
working the Townsend PlAI
capital levy lies only Il IL HI
iority complex Of the Anal
voter. Numbers united VII
them courage to seek The nSaA
a capital levy instead Of q N
the purchasing power Of TIE Z
ses.
The Townsend Plan, 40 at ,
ent formulated, Is better than
plan. No other definite plA
proposed by any group. Pei
ton is increasing. TIVE mi
! young men and women are q
ing the labor market the yeaE,
: get no work. In spite Of OttOI
, government unemployment
above IL million. Dire pOEorSy
forty million continues. Grin,
; creases, distrust Of govern
4 grows. Initiation Of the suEl
: is a quack remedy. It D"
! Continued e. Pag' f'u'l
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Entered as Second Class Matter, October
-, 1913, ct the Post Office at Plentywo0d'
Montana, Under the Act Of March D. 1871