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Evening star., 1937-12-06
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES &. TRACEWELL.

Ontario road.
Dear Sir: Several days ago I. read
your article in The Star on the feeding
of birds. We at once bought some pea
nuts (the little round salted kinO and
the birds seem to love them.
Our window sills are very wide and
make a nice feeding shelf. The other
morning we counted seven different
kinds of birds eating the peanuts.
But some of my neighbors tell me
that salt is not good for birds and
will kill them. Is that right?
If so, I will buy the other peanuts
and shell them. Thanking you in ad-
vance for any help you may give me.
Sincerely, NJ s."
Ornithologists say that salted peanuts
will not hurt the birds, but that to be
on the safe side it would be best to
use plain roasted ones from time to
time.
The main trouble with the salted
variety is that they are much too ex-
pensive to use as food for the Wildbirds.
II the feeder really enjoys the recreation.
AS a starter, they will do, for at first
only few come to window sill or other
feeding surface.
After the news gets around, more and
more birds come to share in the feast,
SO that In time, if one is persistent,
fiocks will be present
1t is impossible to feed these hungry
mouths with salted peanuts, or any
other fancy articles.
4
The beginner soon finds that even
canary bird seed, at Is cents a pound
costs far too much to feed several score
hungry Songsters, the majority of them
PROBABLY English sparroWs.
A search for cheaper but adequate
foodstuffs is begun
one discovers that wildbird mixtures
may be secured for around 6 cents
a pound
Poultry mixtures, sold as baby chick
iced, and scratch feed cost less, from
5 to cents pound when bought in
l00-pound lots
Leftover bread, biscuits. oatmeal
and the like make excellent food
Canned salmon is relished hugely
by the starlings.
Beef suet, preferably ground, is rel
1shed by chickadees and some of the
rarer specimens.
ChickadeeS and titmice. while in no
sense really rare in these parts, actually
are so at many feeding stations espe-
clally those located in the depths Of
the city.
One book on bird feeding advocates
the almost exclusive use of oatmeal.
The author lives in the great West.
where grain is grown on thousands
and thousands of acres. No doubt oats
are cheaper there
1t will be found that some birds
Will eat almost everything we do-with
the exception of ice cream
There is not much danger that birds
VIII get. too much salt in their diet.
The question of salt in diet, human
and otherwise, is very much disputed
question, at the best.
Most animals like some salt, in the
sense we use the word.
Creatures in the wild have places
they 60 to for it. They are called, ap-
propriately enough. salt licks.
steady diet of salt would prove no
better for birds than their four legged
Evening star., 1937-12-06
MIR. Marinelli's Resignation

Because he did not wish to have his
friends Inundated, Albert Marinelli,
veteran Tammany leader, has resigned
under fire from his important office of
New York County clerk.
This seems to be a very considerate
gesture on the part of Mr.. Marinelli. 1t
was to be expected of man who has
had the reputation of always taking care
of his friends.
Mr. Marinelli's solicitude for his
frlends-as outlined in a letter to Gov
ernor Lehman-will no doubt be under
stood by youthful, racket-smashing
Thomas E. Dewey, prosecutor ELECT of
New York County. The latter has indi-
Gated he has considerable knowledge of
Mr.. Marinelli's friends. With disturbing
disregard for Mr.. Marinelli's sensibilities,
MIR. Dewey catalogued a number of them
for the information of two grand juries
which have been prying into Mr.. Mari
nellis affairs.
Mr.. Dewey, it appears, also sent a list
of some of these persons to the Governor.
In his letter of resignation, Mr.. Mari
nelli pointed out that Mr.. Dewey had
given Mr.. Lehman the names of thirty.
three men with police records-appar-
emily in substantiation Of the prosecu-
tors charges that the county clerk was
"a political ally of racketeers, harbored
Federal fugitive and consorted with
known criminals"
With show of tender sentiment, the
resigning clerk expressed fear these
names and records would be published,
thus causing distress to innocent rela-
tives. So he stepped forward and sacri-
ficed himself for his friends. It will be
interesting to see if Mr. Dewey will be
satisfied with Mr.. Marinelli's graceful
gesture. After all, the prosecutor has
charged Mr.. Marineln not only with i'm
proper underworld alliances, but with
harboring Federal fugitive, which is .
serious criminal offense.
At any ratef Mr.. Marinelis resignation
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Congratulations.

The Star offers congratulations and
best wishes on this sixtieth birthday
anniversary to its neighbor and journal
istic contemporary, the Washington Post.
Any newspaper that has survived sixty
years in Washington, known at one time
as newspaper graveyard" because of
the many and repeated interments of
hopefully-born journals, has achieved
worthy distinction. The Post has not
merely survived. Threescore years find
it flourishing, in good health and looking
forward to many more years of helpful
service to the community and to the
Nation. Many happy returns!
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Christmas Lanes,

Main street cannot hold candle to
Christmas lane!
More and more Main streets lose their
conventional identities at this season
as they are converted into Christmas
lanes. In small towns and in the little
communities that go to make up a big
city, Main streets become not only gayer
but distinctly friendlier.
Washington is not exempt. Here, too
the preparation for the advent of St.
Nicholas is marked each year by more
brightly lighted lanes. Five or six al
ready have been opened and others are
planned, both in the city and the out
lying suburbs. Each year the lanes seem
to become more elaborate.
However mercenary may have been
Evening star., 1937-12-06

brothers-or their two-legged, for that
matter.
1t is extremely doubtful whether birds
would continue to eat anything with
salt on 1t after they had reached their
extreme capacity for it.
In this respect most of the creatures
OF the wild are a great deal more
sensible than many of their human
friends.
We eat things because they taste
good"
Birds and animals eat to live.
Taste. with them, is merely part Of
their instinct for food. They must
have food to live, and they eat all
they can at any one time.
Such stuffing does not harm them,
usually, because of enforced deprivation
previously. They are making up for
past deficiency.
Birds seem to eat all the time, if they
can get food, and this is peculiarly
necessary in their case, especially in
winter, when bodily heat is a sheer
reflex from foods being burned" in
their little bodies.
Their warmth is dependent upon the
food they eat; If they do not get enough
food, they die at once from cold. 1t
must be realized that they are filled
with inner air, in their bones, and this
takes on the temperature of the at
mosphere unless warmed from their own
metabolic processes.
Plenty OF food therefore, when the
weather is cold, is necessity for the
birds which stay here with us.
They find it everywhere in thicket and
shrub in fields and of latter years on
the trays and platforms of feeding sta
tions run by their friends.
Feeding the birds ought not to be
either task or a perplexity, yet some
people manage to make it both
No self-feeder or other device is neces-
sary.
A window sill will do.
A bare spot of ground in the snow
will serve nicely.
A feeder may be made out of an old
table or soap box
Trays to be placed on stumps or at
windows may be constructed from a
piece of board with sides of lath.
Very elaborate ones of course, may
be made or purchased.
This is Nation devoted to eadgets.
and the gadgetS in bird feeding are
lnnumerable, but the person who can
not or does not wish to purchase them
need not do it, and may rest assured
that the birds will like him or her
just as much.
What they are after, those fellows,
Is something to eat, and if we give them
plenty. most of it of a carbonaceous
nature-seeds, bread. etc-we may rest
assured that they are helped and satis-
fed.
Peanuts are especial favorites of the
blue jays
These fine birds, to many the most
beautiful of all, will come anywhere
peanuts are put out
Squirrels, too, it must be realized by
the beginning bird feeder, are very,
very fond of peanuts.
Often they get more of them than
the birds, which is not what one in
tended; but it must be kept firmly
in mind that it is best to take what
comes in this sport, and make the best
of 1t and them.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Overtime Work Situation
In Government Offices
To the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
There is much discussion lately of the
problem of overtime work In Govern
ment offices. There are those who main
tain that because employees of the Fed
eral Government receive from two to
ten times as much salary for the type
of work they do as persons in private
business (Which, by the way, is true) !.
they should not object to working late
occasionally. There are also those who
believe that all Government workers
are pitifully oppressed slaves who work
ten or twelve hours every day and get
nothing for it.
OF course, conditions vary. A few
years ago certain bureau worked from
twelve to eighteen hours a day, seven
days week for months. AS result,
several of the employees are dead, some
have had to retire on a meager dis
ability pay and other are struggling
along trying to do their work-invalids
for life
On the other hand, in the same de-
partment such laxity exists that persons
are allowed to put in overtime for their
own purposes. On rainy SATURDAY. after
moons persons who have nothing else
to do are permitted to stay around the
office doing their private correspondence
or reading, etc. to earn overtime to
lengthen their vacations. 1t is the rule
of the Controller General that compen-
satory time off may be given only for
overtime earned on Saturday afternoon
and Sunday, that it must be compensated
for during the week following the over
time work, and that person may not
be excused from work for an entire day
on account OF overtime These rules are
flagrantly violated. Many person takes
a two or three month vacation on over
time"
So there are two sides to the over
time problem. There are those Simon
Legrees who drive their helpless en-
ployes to death and desperation with
out mercy and there are others who
allow certain employees to take long
vacations as compensation for unneces-
Sary overtime" FRANK SULLIVAN.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Business Recession of New
Deal Invites Questions

To the Editor of The Star:
VIII some of the New Deal Democrats
who blamed President Hoover for the
last depression please step forward and
tell us how long the Roosevelt depres-
sion will last?
And for those who so loudly criticized
the last administration for it's do-noth-
ing policy, I would suggest visit to the
Senate or House gallery in order that
they may hear and see what is going
on in Congress while business is daily
getting worse and more men are con-
stantly being laid Off
SAMUEL C. CAMP.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

When Vice President Garner shoots a
buck he carries it across his shoulders
asking no assistance. AS practical poll
tician the Vice President manages to be-
come himself as modest man and still
preserve certain traits of self -sufficiency.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Readers Appreciate Full
Weather Report in Star

To the Editor of The Star:
Newspaper readers take almost every
thing for granted. If they have a serv-
ice within the paper that they appre-
clate, they utilize it and usually say
nothing about it.
My mind has frequently run to the
weather report that you furnish in The
Star each day 1t is one of the best
summaries I know of anywhere in the
United States and think that you are
to be commended for keeping it up so
regularly. The data given are the ones
OF most interest and Importance.
CHARLES j. BRAND.
To the Editor Of The STAR
Thanks for the complete weather re-
port now appearing in your paper
1t is great help to those in busi-
ness depending On tomorrow's weather.
K. j. FEENEY.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

If the usefulness of a physician were
measured by the number of new ALL
ments he is called on to heal a new
lexicon would be in demand to supple
ment library that once sought to
simplify rather than to complicate
methods of cure.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

AS calculation goes on as to how many
eminent individuals shall be included in
United States Supreme Court. restraint
must be exercised to prevent what should
be simple idea from becoming strangely
complex.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
New Deal Recovery.
From the Los Angeles Times.

From the Los Angeles Times.
A Massachusetts man after being
speechless for II years suddenly began TO
speak most audibly while reading a news
paper. Kindly censors refrained from re-
porting whether it was Congress or lust
taxes which broke the spell.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

BY settling in the West Mr.. Ickes
learned branch of politics that is hard
but by settling in Maryland he may feel
compelled to study branch that is
still more difficult.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

A. F. L. and c. I. 0. can be mentioned
now and then in the same auditorium
without danger of explosion, which shows
how far science has gotten in conciliating
materials once regarded as irreconcilable.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

No airport claims a rating as posi-
lively safe under present conditions.
The men in charge of safety are work.
ing hard and too often report insufficient
aid from the Government that employs
them.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

Chemistry has strange problems and
still involves some delay in deciding
whether compound is going to combine
with beneficence or work into an explo-
sion.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

Good business men were never more
appreciated than they are at present
when the value of money depends on the
art of keeping it in circulation by proper
methods.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Give the Pests a Break.

Prom the Cincinnati Times-star.
Sentiment grows among the societies
OF men to call it day and turn the earth
over to the insects, in the thought that
they might make better job of 1t.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

Horses still dazzle the attention and
Greenbelt may not be considered COM
plete until it has a race track tucked
away somewhere in an adjacent corner.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

will serve to relieve tension on all sides
unless and until the irrepressible Mr..
Dewey decides to break loose again. He
has habit Of doing that sort Of thing,
with telling effect.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

There is possibly near you a family
including small children who need food.
The smile on the face of Santa Claus
is its alluring feature. Help to keep it
there.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

Expressions of gratitude may be due
from the fish in the Gulf who were ex-
pected to be shown as souvenirs of the
season before the end of the year.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
No Rest for the Scientist.

From the Pontiac Press.
For that variant of the hoof-and-
mouth disease which involves marching
and speechmaking, science is still with
out cure.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

1t might do some good to have the
Japanese and Chinese accurately in
formed of what is meant by Merry
Christmas" in their languages.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

Messrs Green and Lewis could not
reach an agreement after confer
ence. Many persons seeking sincere
leadership feared as much.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Winter Time, Too!

From the Stockton Independent
Wall Street has again sheared the poor
little lambs and turned them out in the
cold. But they'll be right back as soon
as they grow another crop Of wool.
Evening star., 1937-12-06

Descriptions Of hungry children make
sad reading, but present an urgent call
for Identification of who is responsible.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
No Degrees Needed. +.

From the Grand Rapids Press
Anybody can be diet expert. just
learn what the patient most abominates
and tell him to eat 1t. ~
Evening star., 1937-12-06
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paper ana also the local news published herein.
All rights OF publication of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Disc0rdant Element,

Discordant Element.
There's merry ragtime song
Where the bright lights glisten,
When the knocker comes along
Don't listen!
Sound the drum and hit the gong.
A good rules this'n:
When the knocker comes along
Don't listen!
Half the joy of life depends
On the things you're missin',
When the hammer note ascends-
Don't listen!
Evening star., 1937-12-06

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Evening star., 1937-12-06

The Great Performer.
Out in the fog you'll make your fight
so far,
And fiercest storms may blind you as
they rage;
Yet, lost to view up yonder, still you
The artist in the center of the
stage.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
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Evening star., 1937-12-06

"A man dat believes all he hears an
tells all he knows" said Uncle Eben,
'tis liable to wish he had been born
deaf ~ dumb"
Evening star., 1937-12-06

Jud Tunkins says when you lose a
feeble friend it is no more to worry
about than losing imitation jewelry.
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Current Oratory,

Current OratOry.
Are you going to electrify your audi
ences?"
mo" answered Senator Sorghum
Wires will be pulled, but the current
of thought will not render them unsafe
to handle"
Evening star., 1937-12-06

Picturesque Results.
"How did your curfew law work out
in Crimson Gulch?"
Right interestin'," answered Cactus
Joe. "They hired jazz band and turned
the jail into night club"
''Riches," said Hi Ho, the sage OF
Chinatown, create envy unless so wisely
employed that they compel admiration" !"
Evening star., 1937-12-06
Modern improvements.

Old Santa is patient friend,
Who through the chimney would
descend;
But now it is task much greater
To wriggle through a radiator.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
IS TAKEN
FROM RIVER

Harbor precinct police today
believed they had solved the mys-
terry of the "loSt gray coat"
found early yesterday morning on
a park bench on Hams Point,
when they fished out the body of
Frank J. Bastgen. 81. from the
Potomac River near the Four
tenth st. railroad bridge.
The corpse was identified by
Frank c. Bastgen, of 8O3 Shep-
herd st. N. W., son of the dead
man. He also identified the gray
coat as having belonged to his
father.
The coat was found yesterday
by Anthony Lundbert, of 229
Douglas st. N. E., containing a
note, a pair of glasses, and pipe.
Police said the note confessed
dependency. Mrs. Bastgen, wife
of the dead man, is out Of the
city, having left for Chicago Tues
day. They lived at 1910 Newark
st. N. w. The body was taken to
the morgue.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
Raid to Break Up
Romance Brings
$4,000 Suit

PASADENA, CAL, July 16
U.N.SD. I'm very much an.
nOyed. That's all I've got to
say"
Thus Thomas Warner, ST., mil
lionaire accessories manufacturer,
expressed his displeasure today
upon learning he was named de-
fendant in a $50, 900 suit by Pearl
Antibus, well-known private in.
vestigator.
Behind Mrs. Antibus' suit lies a
story Of love laughing at an irate
father and a score of investiga.
tors.
Mrs. AntibuS charges that
Thomas Warner, jr., son of the
millionaire, is in love with blond
Mrs. Jean McDonad, divorce.
She claims he was visiting Mrs.
Mcdonald in the Antibus home
one evening when his father and
district attorney investigators
broke in, roughly handled all pres
ent, and forcibly elected War.
ner, jr.
She seeks $4,000 damages from
the father. District Attorney
Buron Fits said today he had
been informed that young Warner
was being held against his will.
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
ROOSEVELT
AT SENATE "
FUNERAL
Simple Service Held
For Majority Leader;
NotabIes at Bier

The American people, through
their elected representatives, this
afternoon paid final homage to
the late Senator Joseph T. Robin
son at a state funeral in the Sem
ate.
President Roosevelt, Cabinet of.
ficers, the Diplomatic Corps, his
fellow colleagues of House and Sen
ate and the bereaved family gath
cred in the chamber where Robin
son ruled as Democratic leader for
Is years. His body, in a silver
casket, buried beneath blankets Of
floral tributes, lay few feet from
the seat he occupied throughout
most Of the postwar era.
The ceremony was impressive,
though simple. A prayer, a psalm,
a hymn, a sermon. another hymn
and the benedictioi1.
The body will be taken aboard
special train tonight, acconpa-
MED by the largest funeral delega-
ton in congressional history, en-
route to Little Rock, Ark, for in
torment there Sunday.
Only one justice of the Supreme
+ Continued on Page 2, Col. a
The Washington times., 1937-07-16
DOCTORS FILES
SEARCHED

PROVIDENCE, R. T., July l6
GNS0.-Miss Dorothy Gilligan,
SO, secretary to slain DR.. George
w. Webster, 80, society physician,
went to detective headquarters to-
day with records of medical and
obstretical cases handled by the
doctor.
Authorities planned a thorough
investigation of every case he han.
died in an effort to find a clue
to the mysterious assassin who
shot him down as he entered his
home.
The tentative theory adopted
by police was that DR.. Webster
was slain by someone who may
have had fancied grievance
against him in connection with
his ministrations as q doctor.
Miss Gilligan was the first of
Is persons summoned to confer
with authorities in an effort to
throw some light on the mystery.
Another who conferred with
police was Horace Simmonds,
owner of a drug store where DR..
Webster stopped early today be-
fore going to his home, en- route
from a consultation with another
physician at Jamestown.
Simmonds, police said, probably
was the last person, other than
the SLAYER, to have seen DIR. Web
Ster alive.