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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

The handsomest bird which comes to
the feeder in this vicinity Is the blue Jay.
Say what you will, there is no other
bird to compare with him.
The beautiful cardinal has a secure
place all its own in the affections of those
who feed the birds in fall and winter, but
even these persons mostly will admit
that the blue jay is q wonderful fellow.
He has suffered much from the
hostility of past writer's.
Writings about various nature subjects
tend to fall into patterns.
Early consideration Of the blue Jay,
probably based on Audubon's plates
showing these birds eating the eggs of
other species, was intensely hostile.
Those who followed along dished UP
the same old chatter about how bold and
ruthless this bird was, until at last his
many good qualities became lost to view.
In time it became SO that most writer's
on bird subjects feared to say what they
may have thought about the blue Jay;
unless their opinions agreed with those
who had gone before, they stood a very
good chance Of being set down as
pathological nitwits.
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Today every one recognizes the beauty
of the jay and its place in the winter
scene.
1t is realized, as never before, that its
bad habits are no worse than those of
other species, and that at the same time
it is surely one of the most beautiful Of
all the birds.
Certainly when the word handsome"
is used it almost means the blue jay.
Probably no one would think of the
cardinal. although it, too, is fine fellow,
but without that flash and zest which
somehow hangs around the other.
There is just tinge of strut to the
word handsome" A handsome man,
for instance, is one who carries himself
well. who is we'll built, who rather
struts than otherwise.
A handsome bird is-well like the blue
jay. He is handsome. without a doubt,
If any bird is. His build, his size, his coat
of blue and gray, touched with white,
put him decidedly on the handsome side
in any persons conversation.
The tiny titmouse, and even smaller
chickadee. are beautiful birds. The
female cardinal is beautiful
Most birds are beautiful at least in
the eyes of all persons who like them.
1t is all matter of working up interest
Hundreds of persons who now have no
idea at all that birds are beautiful in
time will come to realize of their own
free will that the songsters deserve the
title.
Many will come to this knowledge
through the simple expedient of feeding
the birds. 1t is a pleasant occupation
enough, and one which grows upon one,
as any worthwhile occupation does. 1t
has in it many fine reaches, taking it's
pursuer not only into bird lore, but also
into the history of America. 1t is i'm
possible to think of birds at all, in any
real way, without from time to time
realizing what heaven it must have
been for them in Colonial times.
There are not as many birds today.
Still. there are hundreds Of them.
And 1t always will strike the layman
as rather amazing that he can attract
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Freemen.
Are we freemen, brave and bold,
Like our ancestors of old?
We feel certain that we are
Till we start the motor car.
Says the cop, with voice so hard,
where's your registration card?
Where's your license that will state
You know how to operate?
Are your numbers all ok?
Proper lights do you display
What's your age and where's your phone?
Are your teeth and hair your OWN"
Though in comfort now we dwell,
And the world seems going well,
There appears this question grave:
Are we freemen, bold and brave7
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

them to his own back yard through put
ting out food for them.
We have witnessed this amazement
many times, as birds came where no
birds we're before.
Many persons at first are frankly
incredulous.
II told you So" they declare, after the
new feeding station has been out for
almost an hour and still no birds have
arrived.
II by chance none come for several
days they are anxious to tear the whole
thing down and forget about it.
Let two birds arrive, however, their
amazement begins; when scores of them
come to the feeder regularly they are
willing to admit that something new and
interesting has happened.
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The newcomer to this sport almost
Invariably thinks he dislikes blue jays.
He has read many harsh indictments
of them.
At first he is not willing to trust his
own judgment.
He likes the birds, but doesn't think he
ought to say so.
He has heard so much in praise of the
cardinal that he fears that no bird OBJ
server anywhere would forgive him for
asserting that he thinks the Jay far
better bird.
He observes that these fellows only
come to the feeders for few minutes
each day and that if other birds fly away
at their approach it is simply because
the jays are larger, not through any
particular vindictiveness on their part.
He sees male cardinal dispute the
feeder, upon occasion, with a Jay, and
even drive the larger bird away, but still
he is under the spell of the ancient
dictum. that the jay is very bad bird.
Many observations will show that, at
least at the feeder, the jay is very
decent citizen of the bird world.
He is not hoggish, like the English
sparroWs. He arrives at a set time each
morning, usually about 7 o'clock. along
with four or five of his fellows.
They take turns at the grain and seeds.
but seldom stay for more than Is or 90
minutes. After that they will not be seen
again until next morning. unless they
happen to come back in the afternoon
for similarly short period.
They herald their arrival by the
screams which SO aggrieve many who
speak about them.
Listened to without prejudice, this cry
Is heard to be no scream. but the typical
identifying call of the species.
In the great outdoors, coming from the
sky, it is not an ugly sound in the least.
1t is true that it scarcely would be
called pretty.
Need every bird cry be pretty? There
is room for something distinctive, some
thing different, something not like any,
thing else.
Once the blue jays call is realized for
what 1t is, there is no chance in the world
OF ever mistaking it again.
Such distinction is something, and the
blue Jay has it, much to his credit All
In all, he is pretty fine bird; she is
very fine bird.
Peanuts, shelled or in the shell, roasted
or raw, will attract these birds as Moth
ing else will. If you want blue Jays,
serve peanuts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12
Harrison's Warning.

Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi,
Chairman of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, has ranged himself souarely in
favor of modification of the contro-
verslal undistributed profits tax Further,
he has warned the administration that
future governmental policies may bring
differences of opinion, and that he adj
vsed the administration not to permit
such differences to prompt accusations
OF party dlsloyalty. This is pretty plain
speaking from the veteran Senator from
Mississippi who, in the past, with other
noderates among the Democrats in the
Senate, has been willing to go along"
with the President.
The warning issued by Senator Harri-
son was contained in telegram to Sec
rotary of the Treasury Morgenthau,
congratulating the latter upon the speech
he made in New York Wednesday. In
that address Mr.. Morgenthau declared
Tor curtailment of Government expendi-
lures to balance the Federal budget and
Tor certain aids to business to enable it
TO take over the burden of unemploy-
ment. The speed with which the chair
man of the powerful Senate Finance
Committee agreed with the detectives an
nounced by the Secretary of the Treasury
Is enhghtening. 1t gives very definite
impression that there will be strength
back of the drive for retrenchment and
for modification of taxes.
Senator Harrison has been consistently
q supporter of the administration. He is
a Democrat of the old school and he
believes in party loyalty. With many of
the undertakings of the New Deal he
may not have been, undoubtedly he was
not, in sympathy. But, like a good SOL
der, he did not balk at orders. It will
be recalled, in the case of this same I'M
distributed profits tax, that Senator Har-
rison agreed promptly to support it. In
deed, when House leaders were offended
because it was proposed to tie up this
important tax provision, as a Senate
amendment, with revenue bill of routine
the rap" in the Senate and thus re-
heved the White House of all embarrass-
ment. So when Senator Harrison in his
telegram to Secretary Morgenthau says,
The administration must appreciate that
honest differences of opinion may arise
as to policies, but that it cannot permit
these differences to influence insinua-
tons and charges of party disloyalty," it
is clear that there has been a change of
attitude. If Mr.. Harrison's telegram
means anything and the Mississippi
Senator has been in the habit of meaning
something when he speaks-it means
that the chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee no longer may be expected to
take orders blindly but that he will use
his own judgment in important tax
matters
Mr.. Harrison is not leading a revolt.
He is merely giving the administration
warning that from now on it will have
to deal with Senate that intends to
think for itself. There are other Demo-
Gratis in the Senate who have come to
much the same conclusion. They are
through with giving vast emergency
powers to the Executive. They are vor
RED by tremendous governmental ex-
pendltures, by unwise theories of tax
atlon' and by the situation in which the
country now finds itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

Few men elevated to the position of re-
sponsibility and honor represented in
presidency of the Federation of Citizens
Associations have been better equipped,
at the outset, for the leadership of this
body of citizens than L. A. Carruthers,
elected president last Saturday evening.
The community is approaching a crisis
in its fiscal affairs, one that was fastened
rather than averted by the imposition
of the extraordinarily heavy burden of
new taxes which became effective this
year. And it is fortunate for the Fedora
ton and for the community, from which
its members are drawn, that Mr.. Car
ruthers. during his long service as
member of the Federation, has made
fiscal relations his specially. For many
years he has been the Federation's most
authoritative spokesman on fiscal rela-
tons and taxation. He served as chair
man of that organizations Committee on
Fiscal Relations and gave, as an active
member of the Citizens Joint Committee
on Fiscal Relations, expert advice and
patient labor in the conduct of the Joint
committees past campaigns for fiscal
equity.
Well liked, respected and always able
to draw on vast store of information
gained through expert study of tax prob
lens, Mr.. Carruthers will make an able
leader of the Federation during period
when able leadership is required. The
Star congratulates an old friend on the
honor that has come to him and COM
mends the Federation for its wise choice
OF successor to Mr.. Lodge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

taxation barely sufficient to cover the
needs OF restricted budget and with
local citizens feeling the extraordinary
increases in local as we'll as national
taxes, it is ironical that tax amounting
next year to three per cent on pay rolls
and yielding an estimated $4,000, 900
annually should continue to build up a
fund in excess of any normal demands.
The money, while not available for ex-
penditures by the District except for I'M
employment compensation, is under the
law invested in Government bonds and
the cash is available at the Treasury
for national appropriations to cover any,
thing that Congress chooses to do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12
Town Hall.

The fourth season of the Washington
Town Hall will open at the Rialto
Theater on Sunday evening. James G.
Mcdonald, member of the New York
Times editorial staff, who also happens
to be vice president of the National
Council for the Prevention of War. is
the first speaker. He will be followed by
DR.. Raymond Leslie Buell., president of
the Foreign Policy Association, Novem-
Der 81, and the Rev. Dr. Daniel A. Polling.
pastor of the Baptist Temple In Phila-
delphia and editor of the Christian
Herald, November %.
Others invited to participate in the
1937-1938 program include: Mrs. Beatrice
Professionalism Hale, lecturer for the
League of Nations Union; DR.. Robert A.
Milllkan, chief executive of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology and
winner of the Nobel Prize in physics;
Count Hermann Keyserling, founder of
the Darnstadt School of Wisdom; Will
liam C. De Mile, motion picture di-
rector; Walter Lippmann, special writer
for the New York Herald Tribune; Louis
Untermeyer, poet and literary critic; DR..
Harry Allen Overstreet, head of the
Philosophy Department of the College
of the City of New York; Isaac F. Mar
cosson, staff writer for the Saturday
Evening Post; DR.. Charles A. Ellwood,
chairman of the Department of Sociology
ut Duke University; DR.. Norman Thomas,
three times Socialist candidate for Pres
ident of the United States; Philip Cue
dalla, British historian and biographer,
and Reinald Werrenrath, baritone con-
cert star and interpreter of folk music.
The list of these personalities is i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

Numerous organizations of taxpayers
in Washington, Joined by some of those
in Maryland who resent taxation Of
Marylanders doing business in the Dis
trict without reciprocal taxation Of
Westinghouse doing business in Mary
land, are planning a concerted protest
against the business privilege tax. 1t is
an inequitable tax and should be re-
pealed or greatly modified.
But an article in yesterdays Star sug-
gests another and perhaps as important
an effort by local taxpayers in connection
with amendment of the unemployment
compensation tax. Washington employers,
by the end of the current year, will have
paid into the unemployment compensa-
ton fund about 100000. BY the end
of 1888, the reserve fund will have in
creased to about s12OOO,OOo less whatever
deductions are made-and they will be
relatively small-by reason of unemploy-
ment benefit payments to eligible bene-
flciaries. AS pointed out in The Star
article, there is relatively small unem-
ployment in Washington of the sort
that would cause large Withdrawals from
the unemployment compensation fund.
Computing compensation payments at
the maximum rate of fifteen dollars a
week for sixteen weeks to 10000 persons
suggested as the largest number apt
to be eligible at one time-the payments
from the fund would amount to only
$2,400,000. That is less than half the
amount that employers will be taxed
for unemployment compensation in
1888.
The tax, in other words, should be re-
duced; at least, as suggested the tax
rate should be made so elastic that it
can be lowered or suspended altogether
upon the accumulation of sufficiently
large reserve figure. In the Districts
present financial condition, with heavy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

G. o. P.'s leaderless and issueless plight.
ut looks" the wisecrack runs, "as If
the Republican minority would be
public futility."
New York Republican Representative
elect Bruce Barton, first national adver-
Using executive to Congress, is a sure
enough optimist. He was so certain of
carrying the Manhattan Island silk
stocking district, which he wrested from
New Deal control on November 2. that
he leased an apartment in a swagger
Washington residential hotel a whole
month before election.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

convention in itself. Mr.. Hoover's orig
inal proposal looked to the appointment
of committee on program or policies.
He coupled with it the suggestion of
national convention to be held next year
to deal with the report of the Program
Committee. The national committee left
it to the committee, after it has received
the report of the Program Committee,
to say whether national gathering shall
be held. But whether II Is or not Mr..
Hoover sets . declaration Of principles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

Another set of initials for the people
to worry about is H. o. L. c., which is
supposed to acquire violent significance
as time goes on. 1t is another of those
combinations which suggest thoughts but
exercise no perceptible influence on the
stock market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

Chinese warriors are confident that
they can be as relentless as Spanish
soldiers and the Japanese fighters share
a similar belief. The sacrifice Of human
life is not limited to any particular
section of this troubled planet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

Metals led in a stock market recovery
and left the study of what they can
do to be pursued in patient sincerity
by persons who believe they can trans
mute prices into dependable facts no
matter what may happen to the market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

There is room for housing study in
the State of Maryland in terms of
simplicity which defy efforts to bring
it into the realms of abstruse mathe-
mates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12
Sad SUSPICION,

"Your constituents always want you to
60 back to Washington"
YES" answered Senator Sorghum.
Their persistence in this respect almost
leads me to suspect that I am not so
very popular in my own home town"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

That patient and picturesque old
gentleman known as Santa Claus has
his influence in matters Of trade. If you
doubt this, observe his following.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12
Member Of the Associated Press

A.. the Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
sne use Tor republcatlon OF all news dispatches
paper and also the local news published nerein.
Al rights OF publication of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

Jud Tunkins says old jokes are sure
to make people laugh. In fact, it takes
some people twenty years to see a joke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12
Feelings Disguised.

Belinda is good-natured now,
No quarrels will she take up;
None can discern a frowning brow
Beneath her merry makeup.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

Progressing.
How are you progressing in your
musical study?"
very well. feel sure can correctly
pronounce the name of the man who
will lead the next symphony concert"
Envy" said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town, sis what transforms an old friend
into q new enemy"
Singin' Along.
Singin' song of the autumn day
With its hint of a glad tomorrow.
Singin' a song of the sky so. gray
That pictures a bit of sorrow.
Singin' song of the snowflake white
That seems like a frosted flower,
Singin', though things don't seem all
right
OF the Sun and the Bloomin' Bower.
TELL de truth" said Uncle Eben, "but
don't go out O. yoh way to tell 1t when
tain none o. yoh business"
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Q. Is there fish called the goody7-
w. H.
A. This is local name in the South
Tor a small bay fish much liked as
pan fish and known also as Lafavette
or spot. 1t abounds from Cape Cod to
Texas and belongs to the drumfish
family.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-11-12

O. What kind of herbs did the Indians
use in making hair tonics?-J. B. B.
A. Indians used portion of herbs on
the hair in connection with some of
their ceremonies rather than as a tonic.
The yucca plant was the one most gen.
orally used for this purpose.
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the. undernourlshed will be required.
X
Secretary Morgenthau has one enthu-
siastic hacker for his program of cur
tailed Government expenditures and tax
revision. Senator Pat Harrison of Mis-
slsSlppl, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, rushed telegram to the
Secretary congratulating him upon his
New York speech. The Mississippi Sena-
tor declared he was coming back to
washington almost Immediately and
would go to work on the tax revision
matter, especially the revision of the
undlstrlbuted profits tax, without DELAY.
Senator Harrison, who was not the selec-
ton OF the administration for Demo-
cratic leader of the Senate after the
death of the late Senator Joe" Robin
son last summer, included in his tele-
gram bit of singer. He said in
effect that the administration ought to
understand that members of Congress
can honestly differ with it, Senator
Harrison has not always seen eye to eye
with the White House and the Treas
ury in matters of taxation and expendi-
ture. But he has been a good soldier
and supported the administration
measures.
X X
Taking issue with some of the pub
lished reports, former President Herbert
Hoover does not consider that his plan
for declaration of Republican princi-
pies was turned down at all at the re-
cent Chicago meeting of the Republican
National Committee. In the first place,
the national committee went right ahead
and provided for a committee of one
hundred on program, to draw up just
such q Set Of principles A committee of
one hundred comes pretty near being .
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-10-07
Around About
White Bluffs

MIR. and Mrs. Maurice Hitchcock
and infant son Richard drove up
Saturday from Sisters, Oregon, to
visit Mrs. Hitchcock's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. E. j. O'Larey until Sun
day afternoon.
Mrs. F. K Hiscock and Miss Alice
Scudder of Yakima we're guests
from Friday evening until Sunday
of their niece, Mrs Jess Brown.
X x &c
Mrs. Ann Williams arrived Fri
day evening from Seattle to spend
several months at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. George Chase.
X X X
Clarence Blair came down from
Colville last week to spend few
days. The Blair family is moving
to Colville the latter part of this
week.
The Benton City Masonic Lodge
was host this Thursday evening to
delegations from the Kennewick
and Hanford lodges. Those making
the trip from White Bluffs were
Fred Gilhuly, Kenneth House, F..
A. English, A. j. Manousos and
w. j. jenkins.
x Y X
Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. Kincaid re-
turned to White Bluffs Sunday, Mr.
Kincaid from Wenatchee, where he
is now in the insurance business,
and Mrs. Kincaid from Seattle,
where she had been visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Tom Black.
Joe Wagner spent the weekend
X Y Y
at the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George Wagner, driving
down from Okanogan, where he is
employed, with E. r. Griner.