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Evening star., 1937-07-02

lowed or preceded the collateral studies.
Two reports issued in the past few
days-covering the Civil Service COM
mission and the General Accounting
Office, which are scheduled for the
junk pile-have been particularly harsh
in their indictment of administrative
officers, although In the case Of the
latter the fire obviously is directed at
former Controller General John r.
Mccarl, who apparently aroused an
tagonism by enforcing the law as he
read it.
No economies are indicated by the
recommendations, although the greatest
need of the Government today is for
some check on its sprawling activities.
The reorganization bill just intro
duced by Senator Robinson, the Senate
majority leader, and now to be followed
by corresponding series of measures
from the House, is along the lines laid
down by the Presidents committee
In considering these, some attention
should be given also to proposals bv
Senator Byrd, who is calling for visible
savings instead Of simply making
changes the benefits OF which are for
the present no more than theoretical.
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Just now 1t reads Of the alleged tax
dodging proclivities of so-called eco
nomic royalists' and wonders what an
unbiased investigation of the returns CT
their critics would disclose. Representa-
tive Hamilton Fish, jr., has demanded
information on President Roosevelt's own
remittances. He likewise desires data
on the extent to which Postmaster Cen
eral James A. Farley has shared his
prosperity with Uncle Sam. The incorle
OF John L. Lewis of the c. I. O. is sub
ject of interest to millions of people;
and the same may be suggested with re-
gard to numerous other leading charac.
ters in the New Deal drama They, too,
are well-equipped with the worlds goods
and just as anxious as any Of their
political rivals to preserve their property
against the tax raids inevitable at
time when the Government is spending
like the proverbial intoxicated mariner.
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It may require As much as ten years
for shrubbery to grow tall enough and
tangled enough to attract the wild birds
for nesting.
The bird lover will not mind waiting
II he rcfrains from using the pruning
shears and refuses to listen to the pleas
of those who want them used, he Will
be rewarded in time.
There can be little question that 1t
is the shrub overgrown to the point Of
tangled, untldy branches, that the birds
| like.
Neatly trimmed bushes seldom seem
home to nesting birds. Here and there
they may use them. If nothing better is
| available, but in the main they like
them tall, rangy and tangled up.
Perhaps it is this desire, rather than
liking for solitude. which makes the
birds take to thickets in woods.
Mostly it has been believed in the past
that the unfrequented ways were liked
best by the birds
When a pair of catbirds, however,
make nest in weigela at the corner
of a much used sunporch, it may be
necessary to revise the old opinion.
This shrub has been at the porch
COIItT LOT many years.
This Spring it became so tangled that
the owners decided to prune it smartly.
Every one knows however, how de-
cision is seldom followed by action, in
such matters.
For one thing, pruning is not an easy
or pleasant job, either mentally or
physically
1t requires an amount of real knowl-
edge which the average amateur gar
dener does not possess.
Most often he does not know where
| to find it.
Some bushes are best pruned in the
| Spring, right after blooming. Some
| should be cut back in the Fall only.
Some should not be Topped of at all,
but removed bodily to another location,
where their height will cause no hard
| feelings from any one.
The physical job OF cutting is not
easy. Often the best pruning shears,
| or clippers, will not 60 through the
| largest and stoutest OF the branches to
| be cut.
| A saw must come into action.
Saving shrubs is no part-time Job.
| 1t requires good sawmanship, for one
| thing, often in places where there is
Ittlc iOClIl lOI Tic UcSC IldnOllnR OF
! the tool.
Old shrubs, growing to the point where
some one is sure to refer to them as
messy looking" are exactly the one
| liked by our best birds.
The catbird. the cardinal, the mock
ingbird, the robin, the wrens, the doves,
and others-these find nothing quite so
satisfactory.
The gardener who puts of pruning
his shrubbery is doing the one thing
| necessary to attract many popular song
sters to his place.
Let him not be unduly sensitive,
therefore, if he is remiss in this respect,
for in every tangle there may appear a
pair OF birds, and a nest, and youngsters
in time.
Such shrubs near house give most
excellent spectacle to the bird-minded
human, who finds watching them easy
almost from grandstand seat, as it
were.
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Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance.
All Other States and Canada
A Face Saver.

"A race Saver.
In presenting the substitute court
packing plan to the Senate the admin
istration suffers the embarrassing pre-
dicament of Midshipman Easys nurse.
But, like the nurse, the administration
may argue that it is Just little baby
Compared with the lusty and squalling
Infant left on the Senate doorsteps
some five months ago and whose boorsh
behavior and ugly temperament turned
the Senate against it, the new court
plan is, indeed, just little baby But
Its legitimacy is as much subject to attack
as its late lamented relative. 1t has
no more right to survival
The strategy in the administration 5
new compromise court plan would
carry greater appeal to the Oriental
than to the Occidental mind 1t is
based primarily on the old and honor
able Chinese custom Of face-saving.
The administration has been licked on
court-packing plan that neither the
Senate nor the country will accept.
There Is certain grace in admission
Of defeat. But the more subtle mental
processes OF the ancient Chinese, and
the administration, demand face-sav-
Ing gesture-and this is it.
Age OF justices, the majority of the
Senate Judiciary Committee found in its
historic y,
packing plan, exercises no ascertainable
influence either upon the efficiency of the
judiciary or the nature of opinions. Yet
the new face-saving plan, as described
In advance, seeks to perpetuate The fic-
ton that when a justice reaches a GER
tain age-in this case, seventy -tive-the
Justice should be supplied with a substi-
tute. Only one substitute per calendar
year, however, may be appointed Nine
remains the preferred size of the court.
When the aging justice steps out, after
the appointment of his substitute, the
court will shrink again to the number
Of nine
Suppose, however, there are four JUS
fices who have turned Seventy-five the
same year. At the end of four years.
the Justices, if none of them chooses to
retire, will all be seventy mine. And the
size OF the court will have grown to
thirteen But in the interval, four more
justices will have become Seventy-five.
If none Of them dies or retires, another
Justice will have been added at the end
OF the fifth year, still another at the end
OF the sixth. And then, when time takes
Its toll and the elder members begin to
step out, the court will automatically
begin again to shrink
The new plan lacks even the carefully
constructed base of false premises which
supported the old plan. The only thing
to recommend 1t Is that it saves the
administrations face. And saving
Is not worth the price of this clumsy and
Illogical slap at the Judiciary The Sen
ators who opposed the old plan as a
matter Of high principle cannot support
the new and it is heartening to believe
they will not
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attaches to the late disclosure of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau regarding 1885
income tax returns. The number filed
by the voteless District OF Columbia
1914, was exceeded by those of only l2
States-New York, Pennsylvania. Cali
1ornla. Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio. New
Jersey, Michigan, Texas, Missouri, Wis
consln and Connecticut. All OF the other
80 States are outstripped by the dis
1ranchlsed Federal area, which is about
to have new and burdensome taxes i'm
posed upon it by a Congress in which
1t has neither voice nor vote. More re-
turns were filed by unrepresented Wash
ingtonians than by the voting residents
OF some 10 States put together.
j. Butler Wright, seasoned foreign
service career ofiicer who is Ambassador
designate to Cuba, relinquishes his min
1sterlal post at Prague with high appre-
clation OF the statesmanlike qualities of
President Eduard Benes of Czechoslo-
vakia. Still widely regarded as one of
Europe's outstanding leaders, not the
least OF BeneS attributes the American
diplomat says. Is the fact that he is as
quick on his feet as he is with his head
circumstance which recalls to Wright
that "Gentleman jim" Corbett beat John
l.. Sullivan because the former was as
agile with his pedal extremities as he
was with his fists. Nimbleness of foot,
IN Benes' case, is not construed in Eu-
rope as evidence OF a penchant for eva
sion, opportunism or sidestepping. 1t is,
on the contrary. in the conspicuous
absence OF pussyfooting or lodging that
the essence Of Benes' technique lies.
Mr.. Roosevelt was given a first-class
opportunity at his latest press conference
to blow up third-term talk. but pre-
ferred to eVade the issue by indulging
In some pointed irony at the expense
OF newspaper men who sought to smoke
him out. The President manifestly
doesn't think the time ripe for either
denying or affirming the soft 1910 i'm
peachment. AS long as he doesn't choose
to commit himself, politicians insist he
must be regarded at least a tentative
Barkis. New Dealers argue that it
wouldn't be the part of wisdom at this
critical stage for the President too posi-
lively to show his hand. If he were to
withdraw from the picture thus early in
the game administrationists point out, he
would prematurely and quite, unneces-
sarily divest himself of authority that
will be his as long as he ranks as his
own possible successor.
Referring to the number and promi-
nence Of Dixie members of Congress op-
posed 70 the Supreme Court bill and GER
tain other pending projects, a resident
OF the deep South recently wrote to
Washington friend: You Northerners
saved the Union some 70 years ago, and
we Southerners are going to save it
now!"
Labor troubles and prospectively in
creased manufacturing costs resultant
from wages and hours legislation appear
to be cumming up Secretary Hulls
hopes Of an Anglo-American reciprocal
trade treaty. involving tariff concessions
to John Bull. Some members of Con-
gress expect that the next development
in the tari1 situation may be demand
for higher rates rather than reciprocal
(copyriRht, 1879
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THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

It will be found. in most cases, that
the birds which have decided upon such
q place are not In the least disturbed
by human company.
They will not mind; that is, II reason
able care Is taken by the watchers.
Since most persons interested in bird
watching are not liable to be noisy or
hasty in their movements, this caution
Is scarcely necessary.
Provided this care is taken, the birds
will not mind. but will fly to and fro at
all times as unafraid as II In the deepest
forest.
1t may be believed that some Of our
| birds, notably the robin and cardinal
have become so tame that they actually
prefer the close company OF humanity
In territory the size OF any large
city, with Its contiguous suburbs and
| parks, there are surely plenty OF secluded
nesting places.
Rock Creek Park, in this vicinity.
would provide all the tangled shrubbery
all the birds in the territory need.
But all Of them do not go there, by
any means.
One OF them comes to that tangled
shrub by the sunporch window
Another takes up a nest a few feet to
the south, In an equally tangled mock
orange.
cardinal selects another big shrub
just few feet to the west
Here, within the space Of few square
feet, are three bird families, cardinal
robin. and catb1rd.
Where-and this Is the point-no bird
had nested before this year, although. to
the unpracticed eye, the layout OF the
territory might seem much the same as
ever.
Much the same that is, with one very
definite exception
Tangled Shrubbery
Wherefore, if any one shrinks from
the task OF proper pruning, let him
keep we'll in mind that there is another
proper attitude in regard to shrubbery.
II branches are permitted to 20 high,
and to become involved, one with an
other
II the boughs become bowed over with
their own weight
III they present a much tangled ap-
pearance, instead of that neat look so
much desired in Surburbia the world
around
Then feel sure that the birds have
found exactly what they have been
looking for all these days
Bent over branches give a cave-like
appearance to even the most humble
shrub which evidently strikes the cat
bird family as home. sweet home.
Not only is the nest hard to get at,
in such situation. but it is very well
protected from rains. Animals and
humans more or less leave it alone, a
most desirable thing from the standpoint
OF the tribes OF the air.
Yet the birds themselves have no
trouble flying in and out, in and out,
all day long, as they go about their
tasks.
The bird watcher usually has no
trouble in seeing them at their work.
So every living being which has anv
real concern in the matter is highly
pleased, situation which does not pre-
vail TOO often, but which, given the
proper tangled shrubbery, may exist at
any porch corner.
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Other Tax Dodgers.

A certain Republican statesman of the
old school, residing in WASHINGTON for
many years, journeyed to Chicago in the
Autumn Of 1886 to deliver speech
against the New Deal. Five minutes
before he was due to address an audi
ence Of thousands he was handed a
telegram from his wife The message
read: Return home Immediately. IN
come tax trouble
OF course, the orators report was as
reasonably accurate as the average. The
Internal Revenue Bureau had received
from him the Governments share of
his earnings. 1t later conceded that it
was entitled to no additional payment.
The inquiry, as it seemed to the victim,
was purely political in its motive It had
been intended to discourage his efforts
In the campaign. The partisan char
acter of 1t was manifest in the time
and circumstances under which it was
begun. Similarly, Andrew w. Mellon and
former Mayor Jimmy Walker of New
York had been bracketed in a publicity
release issued by the Democratic Ma
tional Committee Press Bureau through
the office OF Attorney General Homer S.
Cummings on March 10, 1854 ma
neuver designed to distract public atten-
ton from the scandal attendant on the
cancellation of the airmail contracts q
few days previously.
But such tricks are not Invariably sue
cessful. Psychologically, considerable
portion Of the population of the United
States halls from Missouri. 1t requires to
be shown before it will consent to believe.
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON
The Dog and Rabbit Game

The Dog and Rabbit Game.
A dog and rabbit on the run
Are something fine to view;
When all Is done, we say the fun
Would pass an hour or two,
It's even more exciting when
More lofty hates prevail
For now and then we find that men
AS foes must hit the trail.
The sum of pleasure you secure
AS through this world you jog
Depends for sure on whether you're
The rabbit or the dog.
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Everything All Wrong.

IT the Government machinery is as
inefficient and the official personnel as
unsuited to their tasks as the Brownlow
investigators contend, the shake-up at
which they aim is manifestly necessary
to keep the structure from collapsing.
Three reports have come from this
group-the Presidents Committee on
Administrative Management-and all
have one factor in common: virtually
everything that has been done is wrong,
and the plans now projected would set
everything right
In fact, such good case is made for
the cause of reorganization to CEN
tralize authority over the executive
agencies in the hands of the President
that the entire chain of argument stirs
doubt as to whether its conclusions fol-
Evening star., 1937-07-02

1t is believed that scientists can get
new and valuable material by the exam
ination of man who confesses to sew
eral killings. So much material of this
kind has been accumulated in the past
that the plain citizen who desires to
earn decent living among friends is
entitled to more encoura cement.
Evening star., 1937-07-02
Tree Climbing.

Tree Climbing.
If evolution were fact
Perhaps we'd learn just how to act,
And always know, in agile glee,
Exactly when to climb tree.
But we, dull humans, hang around,
With thumbless feet upon the ground,
And fight in manner sad to see,
When it were best to climb tree.
Oh, Time, turn back, through ages vast,
And give me primate sense at last.
The Simian Lesson bring to me
And teach me to climb tree.
"When man says he enjoys fishin'
In a rainstorm," said Uncle Eben, "he
dom prove nothin' to me. 'ceppin' dat
he'd ratlar do anything dan stay home,
Evening star., 1937-07-02

AS the course OF events in Spain IS
examined an increasing respect is felt
for eminent citizens who are inclined to
allow that particular piece of trouble to
remain as nearly as possible b local
condition.
Evening star., 1937-07-02

Mysterious explosions cut off the water
supply Of the Cambria plant Tom Grid
ler does not claim to know who is re-
sponsible for the damage but is willing
to step out and assume responsibility for
the repairs.
Evening star., 1937-07-02

1t comes little hard to assume an
air OF rigorous superiority at wedding.
Young people do not expect 1t. Neither
90 their relations And whether the
gown cost $50 or s50,o00, the world ad-
mires the love story, told in jewels or in
the simple symbols Of honest beauty.
Evening star., 1937-07-02

The Boy Scouts come from various
parts OF the world and still retain the
quality OF youth which makes them easy
to surprise but hard to convince that
anything they may see can claim real
superiority to what they left at home.
But they will tell of strange sights and
new experiences.
Evening star., 1937-07-02

There were some elements of intru-
sion at the famous meeting at jefferson
Island. They will be the more easily
forgotten when it is remembered that
Jefferson himself formed his opinions
without evidences of envy of the talents
of the good mixer"
Evening star., 1937-07-02

Questions as to another term of Office
are addressed to the President with
friendly freedom which may eventually
cause him to take the subject seriously
without saying anything about it to his
accomplished staff of informants.
Evening star., 1937-07-02

When eminent picture men are en-
gagged in photographing great men Of
the news, the smile of Mr.. James Farley
sets standard we'll worthy of the study
with which it is consistently honored,
Evening star., 1937-07-02

An objection to the trial of Robert
Irwin is that it will inevitably recall
cases in which the public felt sympa-
thetic although left much to its own
devices in determining exactly what
about.
Evening star., 1937-07-02

Having been induced to employ tax
experts, it has been candidly decided by
several gentleman that they would
rather pay more than allow strangers to
go into the accounts.
Evening star., 1937-07-02

Eminent educators are heard with in
terest IN comment on present conditions
in Americas industrial life. Some of
them suggest that to be an eminent edu-
Gator 1t is desirable to avoid work.
Evening star., 1937-07-02

France is calling unreserved attention
to financial hardships. Just what Uncle
Sam is going to do about them remains
to be seen. 1t becomes evident that they
cannot be ignored.
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A Question Settled.

Some questions are never settled"
exclaimed the weary citizen.
That statement goes little too far
All doubt has been removed, at least for
this year, as to whether it's time to wear
a straw hat"
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A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.
Bubbles.

Bubbles.
How troublesome seem all the diurnal
worries,
Little, f1uttering things that assan US
in hurries.
They grow in dimensions that fluster and
frighten,
And cling as If seeking their holdings
to tighten
Until real trouble comes When small
things cease to trouble;
But 1oat into nothingness like q soap
/oubble,
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Newspaper men who long to write
f1ppantly Of eminent local personages
restrain themselves for the present. The
Boy Scouts might hear them.
Evening star., 1937-07-02
A National Need

From the Winston-salem Journal
Educator suggests we need a one-word
commencement address In this country.
Business Of nominating work" as the
word.
Evening star., 1937-07-02
Rustic Confusion.

A city lass once heard the moan
OF sad COW by chance.
She thought it was a saxophone
And started in to dance,
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Giving Up.

Giving Up.
Doesn't this tax riddle sometimes
make you feel like giving up?"
No" answered Senator Sorghum.
MY feelings don't matter. What I want
to see is cordial willingness on the
part of our citizens to give up
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Eggs.

Everybody seems afraid of a man who
asserts himself as hard boiled"
"Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. Every
body handles him with care. Any kind
OF. an egg is liable to be so mussy when
it is smashed
Evening star., 1937-07-02

Jud Tunkins says man who is always
talking about how the adjacent farm
should be run seldom saves up enough
money to buy it.
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ANSWERS TO
QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKfN,

reader can get the ansDer to anu
question of fact by mritino The Epen,nu
Star Information Bureau, Frederic j.
Haskin, Director. Washington, D. C.
Please inclose stomp for reply.
Evening star., 1937-07-02

Lewis ana MS organization.
Representative Cox took the floor in
the House on Wednesday to denounce
the c. I. o. and to charge that Lewis is
seeking to set up labor despotism" in
the United States He warned that a
deadly economic plague is creeping over
the country as result of the C. I. O.
efforts and that 1t would end in civil
war If not checked.
Cox charged that the Federal and
some of the State governments are aid
ing and abetting John L. Lewis and his
associates in forming "a labor political
communiStic movement"
If we are going to pursue policy of
encouraging defiance of the courts, of
approving laWlesSneSs and disorder" said
the Georgian, "of condoning illegal seiz-
ures of entire industrial plants, and If we
are going, as we already have gone, q
dangerous step further, and use the
armed forces Of the States and finally
Of the Federal Government itself to
compel satisfied wage earners to submit
to conscription into the C. I. O., then
We must be prepared to admit not only
that this Government is no longer ca
pable of maintaining the constitutional
rlghtS ana privileges OF Its citizens, but
that 1t has gone into partnership with
the forces of lawlessness and disorder:
it has joined hands with labor despot
1t has embraced communism in industrial
relations
Cox said, in support of his charge that
the C. I. o. is communistic, that total
of 12l of the staff of the organization are
known to be Communists" and COM
mitted to. the job of overthrowing the
American form of government He gave
the names and addresses of 249 C. I. o.
organizers, of whom IS were members of
the Communist party and 46 others were
known to be Communists" II
Evening star., 1937-07-02

@. How many mystery books are pub
lished yearly?-C. H.
A. approximately 300 mystery book
appear on the market yearly.