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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-08-05

OUTDOORS at night you will find
" many good, perfectly "get-
table" shot. Lightning, for example,
takes it's own picture very neatly.
And the procedure is simple.
AS lightning storm approaches,
place the camera (even simple box
type outfit will do) on window sill
or some other convenient perch, aim
it at the storm center, open the
shutter for time exposure-and
then wait for things to happen
If you are lucky, a bolt of lightning
will soon come within the ken of
your camera. Then close the shutter,
wind the film to the next number,
and try again. Lightning pictures
are doubly effective if they include
nearby buildings or trees.
Picturing Illuminated buildings,
electric signs, and other night-bloom-
ing subjects is simply matter of
time exposure. The camera, of
course, must be stationary. Length
OF exposure depends on the amount
and color Of light on your subject
and the kind of Aim used. The
chrome type Of film is excellent for
outdoor night time exposures, as 1T
minimizes fare from strong, exposed
lights. Usually, you'll find exposures
OF from two to five minutes adequate
sunless you stop the lens way down;
then you'll need longer time). And
Il your subject Is bathed in colored
Bonds, Yes; tn ose opposed
Bonds. No"
The polls will be open from One
o'clock, PM, to Eight o'clock, PM
BY order of the Board of Direc-
Evening star., 1937-09-07
business conditions unquestionablv is

business conditions unquestionably Is
entitled to credit in the circumstances.
People with jobs are less likely to take
chance with the law than people who
are unemployed and desperate The
average individual perhaps may turn
desperate rather than starve to death,
but he does not prefer an adventurous
criminal career to the relative security
which accrues from steady work and a
regular income.
1t also should be mentioned that the
policy of law enforcement in wet States
has changed. When the institute cites
a decline in the number of arrests for
drunkenness in New York, it ought to
concede that the authorities there no
longer attempt to punish people for in
toXication. An hours tour of the "hot
spots" of the metropolis on Saturday
evening will suffice to convince any rea-
sonable skeptic that repeal has done
nothing to halt overindulgence in strong
drink
But why argue? 1t contradicts logic,
observation and experience to contend
that the liquor industry can be pros
porous without cost to civilization. So
ciety simply cannot be persuaded that
bad habit is good one; it still is
true, as Shakespeare said, that the
custom that puts an enemy in mems
mouths to "steal away their brains
is something deplorable to contemplate.
Evening star., 1937-09-07
Death Takes No Holiday.

Roundly four hundred lives were sac
rificed yesterday in this country in the
course of the observance of Labor day.
The three-day span of leisure gave oppor-
tunfty for millions of people to take the
roads, mostly on pleasuring errands.
Perhaps it is not important to know
just how many thus went forth, but it
is decidedly important that twenty score
or more of them died in consequence of
the congestion of the roads and the
spirit of thoughtless pleasuring that pre-
vailed.
So heavy is the demand upon the
highway space on such an occasion, and
so gruesome are the consequences of this
vast outpouring of holiday makers that
the annual event is dreaded by all who
reckon the tendency of modern life to
make excessive speed whenever oppor-
tunity comes to get away from home,
whatever the goal. There can be no
approximate reckoning of the cost, not
in terms of the actual intrinsic values
destroyed, but in the potential values,
the social values. Actuaries may figure
into the millions in terms Of the casual
ties that deplete the family incomes.
They cannot, however, compute the losses
through the decentralization that results
from the needless manner in which
millions take the roads in the face of
known perils.
A decidedly bad psychology prevails
in this connection. 1t is that of
fatalism that disregards the RESPONSE
bilities attaching to every individual
life. And the great pity of it all is
that many of the victims of yesterdays
holiday melee were themselves innocent
of fault. The dare devils who raced
through the thoroughfares, many of
them stimulated by liquor, blazing their
way around curves, ignoring the rights
of the more leisurely and rule abiding
drivers, took their toll heavily from the
careful, thoughtful ones.
Drownings as well as road fatalities
occurred, as great numbers took chances
In dangerous waters, without the skill
required for safety. Despite repeated
warnings they risked themselves in con-
ditions which they were incapable of
mastering.
So heavy have these losses become as
a result of holiday making that increas-
ing numbers of people make it the rule
to abide at home on such occasions.
They may miss opportunities to "go
places"-which may, after all, not be
worth visiting-but when the day Is done
they are alive and whole and their fami-
lies are assured Of continued sustenance.
To them the old saying East, West,
Homes Best is an expression of pro-
tective and preservative philosophy.
Evening star., 1937-09-07

matter has the capacity of concentrating
the heavier potassium. Whether the
same applies to ~" the radioactive
form, cannot be ascertained because It
Is 80 extremely scarce everywhere. It
is natural to suppose, DR.. Brewer saws.
that 1t also would be concentrated.
If this is true 1t is the only radio
active element which is a normal con-
stituent OF animal tissue.
Potassium is without doubt the most
interesting of all the elements with
regard to its isotopic effect in animal
organisms" DR.. Brewer said. "In only a
lew instances are any marked deviations
from the normal to be found. The heart
muscles, and especially the lining of the
right auricle, as well as the membranes
supporting the valves, are inclined to be
low in the radioactive form. The heart
was tested in particular, since it long
has been known that potassium in the
blood Is factor in regulating heart
beat, and since the question has been
raised OF the effect of the radioactive
potassium isotope on beat stimulation.
The results indicate that the lining
OF the auricle may contain less than
the normal amount Of the radioactive
isotope. The most conspicuous concen-
tration was observed in the bone mar
row. The data, while insufficient, in
dicate possible dependence on the
abundance ratio on the age of the ami
NAL. In all the cases examined it was
higher for the young than for the old.
Bone marrow was investigated In some
detail, since 1t had been shown that the
potassium content appears to be as
sociated with embryonic cell develop
ment, diminishing markedly at the con-
clusion Of growth activity"
Evening star., 1937-09-07
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Logan Circle.
Dear sir: I have read and enjoyed
This and That for some years. but do
not remember ever seeing anything about
cheese in the diet OF wiIdbirds.
The birds around here love cheese
both the inside and the rind, when cut
in small pieces.
ALSO they are very fond of cottage
cheese, in fact they go for that first
OF all.
IF you will run the suet through the
food chopper there will never be any of
it left on the feed table
When 1t is given to them in a large
piece it gets so hard their bills cannot
bite it of. but when ground up 1t van
ishes at once.
Il hope there will be many more This
and That's Very truly yours, A. r."
= 4
Friends of birds are everywhere. No
section has a monopoly OF them, although
certain sections have more birds than
others.
Their friends are forever looking out
to discover new foods to give them, new
ways OF protecting them.
Cheese, as bird food, seems to be 4
good idea.
1t is, OF course, highly concentrated
protein.
Birds which Winter here, in particular,
rather need carbonaceous foods, but
there is little likelihood of any one
feeding them too much Of the other.
To put birds on a complete cheese
diet would be rather expensive
All they will get Of this goodstuff, in
the average garden, is what is left over
from the family table.
y
The idea of chopping up the suet is
good one.
Why one never thought of it is difficult
to understand, perhaps, except on the
basis that no one person can know every
thing.
This is peculiarly true OF the many
small discoveries in the pleasant art and
hobby of bird feeding.
This column has had the pleasure
during the past three years, Of present.
ing scores of ideas on the subject. par
tlcularly IN regard to foods to be used
These ideas have come from Army
ofncers, housewives, retired politicians
and cabinet members, city people, sub
urban people, farm people.
There is no place where one or more
birds do not alight.
The humble English sparrow, the
ubiquitous starting, the beautiful csrdi-
nal-these form trio found in the deep
city. There seems to be real friend
snip between the sparrow and the cardi-
nal. Where dozen Of the former are.
there is almost sure to be a pair of
cardinals.
Usually the redbirds tolerate the SPAR
rows because these are the first to dis
cover food, but sometimes they drive
them away from the source of supply.
at least for the time being; usually the
sparrows come back, being persistent
little devils, both through choice and
necessity.
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Roasting Chickens.

II the United States and British gov
ernments find Japan's incursions into
China damaging to their nationals, their
commerce and the law of nations-which
they so piously invoke against the shoot
ing of an ambassador, the violation of a
nations integrity and the notification
OF solemn treaties-they might profit
from an examination of the relation
ship OF their own actions in years past
to Japans dynamic expansion since 1881.
In doing so they will find that their
exclusion of Orientals and discourage
ment Of their settlement in neighborinQ
countries, particularly Latin America.
have operated to prevent emigration from
acting as safety valve for an inevitable
increase in the population tension in
Japan. Stripped of superficial manifes-
tations such as the military invasion of
China, the turbulence of Japanese for
eign policy, and the defiance of law and
right practiced by Toxic, the problem OF
the Far East reverts inescapably to pres
sure of japanese population on the land,
and, in the absence of reception for Jap
anese immigrants abroad, the necessity
for Japan to export the product of its
labor in order to keep it alive and main
tain the gains in living standards made In
the last three-quarters of century Is
impelling.
Exclusion of Japanese from American
and British territories, which offer the
only real possibilities for absorbing num-
bers of settlers, is aggravated by the ex-
clusion as much as possible of Japanese
goods from the markets of the English
speaking nations, thus in turn seriously
reducing the sale of the huge volume
OF merchandise which Japanese factories
Evening star., 1937-09-07
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

My Uncle Jim has called a strike.
He amt so much to blame.
The way his brain has had to hike
1t surely is shame.
He tried to show jes' how an why
The fightin' got a start,
An set date when, by-an-by.
The clinchin' foes must part.
His thoughtful duties would increase
Whene'er the map he'd scan.
He jumped from Germany to Greece
And futtered through Japan.
His gloomy cares he would pursue
In English and in French.
In Russian and italian, too,
His heartstrings he would wrench.
But Uncle Jim has now resigned.
Whatever tidings come,
They cannot move his state of mind
From resignation glum.
He says, 1T amt no use to scof
At recklessness or sin.
I'll just keep silent and look off
An let the old world spin"
Evening star., 1937-09-07
Crime Decrease.

The Distilled Spirits Institute-a not
altogether disinterested agency-has told
the world that crime in the United
States has decreased since the repeal
OF prohibition. But it may be Won
dered If the undoubted improvement is
directly or exclusively traceable to the
prosperity of the liquor trade.
Several other factors need to be con-
sidered In any effort to appraise the
difference between the crime reports of
1885 and 1886. For example it is pretty
generally conceded that the Federal Bu
reau Of Investigation has scared the
daylights out of at least portion of the
criminal element. State and municipal
police organizations throughout the
country likewise have proven their eff
cheney In most notable manner, with the
inevitable result that professional wrong
doers have been frightened into better
behavior.
Again. the gradual return OF normal
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must turn out each year in order to con-

must turn out each year in order to con-
tinue employment of japanese labor.
With all doors closed to emigration
and doors rapidly closing to the product
OF its labor, Japan has only one direction
to turn-exploitation of the Asiatic mar
ket, which is capable of absorbing enor-
nous quantities of low-eost Japanese
goods in place of the higher priced prod
ucts of American and British labor. In
this exploitation Japan has been con-
fronted, she declares with growing hos
tility on the part of Chinese merchants
and consumers, as well as definite anti
Japan movement among the more liter
ate elements of China's problem.
Certainly this need for economic pre-
eminence does not require political domi-
nation, to say nothing of armed invasion,
and the violent nature of Japan's at
tempts to impose herself upon the Chinese
consumer which are morally and ethically
unjustifiable, to say the least. But
behind the reduction of Manchuria to a
japanese puppet state, behind the estab-
lishment of the semi-autonomous East
Hopeh regime, behind the Hopeh-C -Chahar
Political Council and behind the Lukou-
chiao incident of July 7 which started
the whole present mess lies the truth
that Japans economic needs have not
been properly ministered by the world.
This does not mean that the United
States and Great Britain must open up
their territories to uncontrolled Japanese
immigration, sweep aside their tariffs
against cheap competitive Japanese
goods, and abandon their commercial in
terests in the Far East to Japan, but it
does bespeak partial responsibility for
peace in the Far East because in solving
their own problem of protecting their
markets and their workers they con-
trfbuted to Japan's problem of sustaining
its population, even on standards far in
ferior to those of the Occident.
Evening star., 1937-09-07

1t Is not only impossible for any one
person to know everything. but 1t is not
possible for him to think OF all the
simple little twists.
Bird observation is fun of these.
Thousands of persons have been
watching birds for many years without
In any way exhausting the things to be
discovered or the little twists and kinks
which may be utilized.
Somebody who has not become inter-
ested in this sport may take 1t UP to-
morrow and in q few weeks see the
need Tor some gadget in bird feeding
which no one has thought of to date.
There are many little expedients which
may be tried
Keeping pigeons away from the festive
board, for instance. Two or three pigeons
are not unwelcome, but when they In
crease In numbers to Is or more they
become q problem.
Putting wire over the feeding station,
with meshes large enough to permit
songsters to enter, but too small to let
In the pigeons, is q solution which has
occurred to many, but 1t is not a perfect
solution by any means.
Shaping q big cone of tin beneath the
pole which holds feeding station is an
idea which occurs to many persons
this to keep out squirrels, of course
These clever rodents, however. often
find ways to get at the grains and seeds.
Usually the birds scatter enough ON
the ground for their needs.
The good point about feeding cheese
and the like is that most often this food
Is available in bits of leftovers.
There are scores Of substances which
may be tried on the birds in this way
The number is limited only by the
extent of ones larder.
Not all such experiments will be sue
cessful, by any means; some things
which humans regard as good food will
not be touched by birds
What they eat may be regarded as good
Tor them, until the contrary is proved,
Tor these are essentially natural crea-
lures and probably never eat what they
should not eat. Uet us hope so, any,
way)
Certainly bird can do itself no harm
by partaking OF cottage cheese. This
foodstuff has been ballyhooed so widely
as human food in the last 20 years that
many older persons are priding them
selves on their perspicacity. They knew
1t years ago!
That word 'perspicacity," by the way.
and apropos OF nothing but itself, re-
minds us of sentence which we thought
OF the other day:
The perspicacity of Mr.. Cassidy is
exceeded only by his sagacity and his
veracity'
1t occurs to us that the title of a new
book, The Gate Of Happy sparrows," is
one OF the few titles which cannot be
pronounced with . broad "a" without
giving an entirely new meaning, to wit:
The Gate OF Hoppy spArrows."
Which wouldn't be the same thing at
all, at allh
Evening star., 1937-09-07
{. l. 0. Federal Employees
Violate Constitution Oath
To the Editor of The Star:

40 tne E0ltor OF Inc star.
l have before me a four page circular
entitled "A Message to the 800 OOO.D
soliciting membership of Government
employees in the United Federal Workers
OF America. The circular states that
this organization Is affiliated with the
Lewis organization known as the C. 10.
In the light OF the past performances of
this organization and of its avowed
0DJectives such as afiliation should
damn the organization in the minds of
every patriotic American, and its solicit
tatlon should be regarded as an insult.
The Federal employees are asked to
join an outfit that is dominated and
controlled by the C. I. O., which has
demonstrated itself to be lawless and
an un-American organization by it's sit
down strikes, thereby trespassing upon
and taking possession OF private prop
erty. which 1t has done in contemptuous
defiance of orders of the courts and the
authority OF the local governments. The
organization was spawned in commu-
nism and has borrowed its technique from
the Communists in France, and is receiv-
ing moral II not financial support from
Russia. Precious little do Lewis and his
followers care about the Federal en-
ployes. What they are interested in is
getting q million or more dollars per
year out of the Federal employees for
their own benefit and to help carry on
their campaign to Sovietize the indus
tries Of the United States and to repro
duce in America the same social, eco
nomic and political conditions that now
prevail in Russia. Lewis and his asso-
ciates have proven themselves enemies
of our institutions and are bent upon
their destruction, and the reversal of our
social and economic system and the
establishment of the rule of the proleta-
riat in the United States. Every employe
of the Government takes an oath to
preserve, protect and defend the Con-
stitution of the United States. How can
he or she reconcile with such an oath
membership In an organization that is
the negation Of the oath he or she has
taken?
ALzKAND1R 01p4{EY IANIER.
Evening star., 1937-09-07
Famous Places in
the United States.

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Evening star., 1937-09-07

Even those who insist on trivial
method of contemplating serious events
must regard Japan as going too far in
assuming extraordinary privilege as a
killer simply because no war has been
declared
Evening star., 1937-09-07

Whenever views are expressed on the
modern labor situation the figure of Sam
Gompers looms in highway statuary with
the manner of one who is willing to
answer anybody back.
Evening star., 1937-09-07
The Leisurely ObstructiOnist.

SLOW but sure is the good old way"
That's right" replied Mr.. Chuggins.
"If you want to have the whole road to
yourself and be free from any care, you
want to leave your automobile at home
and drive a hay wagon"
Evening star., 1937-09-07

Radio has brought number of orators
to attention who stimulate public interest
even while they convey the reminder of
some OF our most eminent public
speakers who spoke in vain.
Evening star., 1937-09-07

II may be that efforts have been made
to cheer the political situation by intro
ducing considerations of social develop
ment which may cause concern but
which can hardly be worth participation
in an actual fight.
Evening star., 1937-09-07

In estimates for 1899 budget mention
Is made Of extra cost for sewers without
explicit reference to the extra burden to
be imposed by a slaughter house on the
eastern residential area.
Evening star., 1937-09-07

High-fying Aviator Ben King keeps
out Of the argument for the present,
having shown good excuse for going
as far up as possible but none in par
ticular for playing around with perils of
the cross roads.
Evening star., 1937-09-07

The Mediterranean Sea is to be in
vestigated for the purpose of deciding
how a few anonymous submarines will
behave when it becomes their obvious
duty to declare political policy.
Evening star., 1937-09-07

Here and there the presence of a
patch of marihauna is discovered by the
Maryland police, but never enough to
account for the political eccentricities
that may arise.
Evening star., 1937-09-07

Mr.. Mellon proved that he had faith
In the city of Washington, D. c., what
ever distractions might be reared along
the highways to prevent comfortable
access to his art gallery.
Evening star., 1937-09-07
Valued SAcluSinu.

DO you enjoy your magnificent new
library?"
Yes" replied Mr.. Cumrox, 'for a
while didn't get much good out of it.
But you don't know what nice quiet
place 1T is to try out the latest records
on the phonograph."
Evening star., 1937-09-07
Candor.

Mrs. Nettles prides herself on being
very candid"
Yes" replied Miss Cayenne, "she can
always be depended on to speak the
truth, If it will hurt somebody's feelings"
Evening star., 1937-09-07
Relieving Physical Strain.

The base ball player soon will quit
His serious plans to run or hit
And through the Winter snug and sure
Devote himself to literature.
Evening star., 1937-09-07

the Democrats is serious enough for the
President. Now comes the threat of q
split with John L. Lewis and his C. l. o.
labor contingent. Assuredly the White
House has something to ponder when
1t turns its mind to the political sit-
uatton.
Evening star., 1937-09-07
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One Danger Escaped.

WAS your effort to learn swimming
from correspondence school success?"
TO certain degree. I didn't get
drowned while I was trying to laAxn.s
Evening star., 1937-09-07

"A heap of unhappiness," remarked
Uncle Eben, "is due to de way a girl
figures out de chance of mans bein'
good proyider by his Willingness to
buy ice cream soda"
Evening star., 1937-09-07
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