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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10

prisonment for the first conviction for
armed robbery and the death penalty
for the second of1ense. t
If such is to be the result of the rob-
berry of single Representative, then
the public, although sympathizing with
Mr.. Schultz in his loss, will realize that
what Washington needs is that "con-
gressional touch" in future hold-ups
which will keep police interested
Obviously the lowliest citizen is en-
titled to the same police zeal when he
meets with misfortune as the highest
public official. Events which have fol-
lowed the Schultz hold-up show only
too plainly such is not the case here
that Washington deserves to be called
City of Privilege.
The case clearly calls for saner, more
impartial action. If crime is to be cur
tailed in Washington it will not be
effected through the introduction of SEN
sational bills having no chance of pas
sage or by squirt of police activity
because some person of influence has
been robbed, but by unrelenting police
vigilance backed by Congressman who
see to 1t that sufficient funds are pro-
vided to keep the force adequately
manned and properly equipped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field.
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY

DR.. zachry pictured the conflicting
drives tor achievement and for security
as permeating all classes of the popula-
ton and resulting in much anxiety"
the most prevalent presentday neurosis.
She stressed the need to study a
neglected part of the population of
whose psychology very little is known
the elementary school child. A period
OF lnestimable importance in life, she
SAID. psychologists have neglected to
study it because such study would be
dirty work" The child between six
and ten or twelve is really the child
nobody loves for this is the period of
bad manners, dirty hands, and pulling
away from adults. The child in this
stage is not cute and lovable" like the
baby and his problems are not pressing
like those of the adolescent. The ado
lescent. she said, I'VE can't get away from
because he or she is always getting in
our way and always in some sort of
difficulty"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Reaction to Robbery.

When the average citizen loses his
cash to an armed hold-up man only a
few police take perfunctory interest
in his plight. But when a Representa-
tive in Congress is the victim of a
robbery the entire detective force has
it called to its attention in a special
memorandum.
There were l,477 robberies in Wash
ington last year, yet all Of them together
had less effect in police circles than the
hold-up Of Representative Schultz, which
was followed by:
Assignment Of eight detectives to the
case.
Transmission of a note to all detec-
tives in the city ordering them to be on
special lookout for the suspects In the
case.
Formation Of q special squad Of
camera eye" detectives to roam the city
In search of known criminals.
Introduction BY Mr.. Schultz Of q
drastic crime bill providing life I'm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Austria's Answer.

Unless all signs are misleading, Austria
next Sunday will give an unmistakable
answer to Hitler's plot for Modification
Of Germany's so-called oppressed ma
tional comrades" in the decrepit Danu-
bian republic. Chancellor Schuschnigg,
taking bold and prompt cognizance of
Nazi agitation in Vienna, Graz and other
centers where it enjoys considerable
support, has challenged the apostles of
Anschluss, or union with Germany, to an
immediate showdown. On March 10
there will be popular plebiscite to de-
termine the strength behind the demand
for national existence free of the Nazi
yoke totalitarian disguised as an altru-
istic bond of brotherly love. Every citi-
zen over twenty-four will be asked to
vote on the simple proposition whether
he favors Austrian independence and
sovereignty"
DR.. Schuschnigg's readiness to take
his case to the country without delay
eminent spokesman forecast seventy
per cent Endorsement of the Chancellor's
refusal to bend the knee to dictation
from Berlin. His recent speech left no
doubt that the word surrender" is not
in his lexicon. During the three days
still left to define the issue, Schuschnigg
will stress that Austria requires its
Berchtesgaden pledge of her political
integrity to be honored in both spirit and
letter. The Chancellor resents, as
wholly inconsistent with Hitlers under
taking, the Nazi claim for fifty per cent
representation in the cabinet instead of
the thirty-five percent offered.
When Marshal Goering, on the heels
of der Fuehrers Reichstag illumination
about the lost Germanic tribes, trucu-
lently proclaimed that one of the pri-
mary missions of the Reichis air fleet
is some day to come 'ruthlessly" to their
rescue, he did the Nazi cause in Austria
poor service. The immediate effect of
tnat masterpiece OF German psychology
was movement designed to realign the
Socialist trade unions, alienated from
the government ever since Dollfuss
crushed labor and democratic opposition
in 1884, on the side of national independ-
ence. 1t is undoubtedly because of the
resultant rapprochement that the Chan
cellor faces Sundays referendum with
calm and confidence. With Nationalist,
Socialist labor, Catholic clericals and
Jews marching shoulder to shoulder to
repel Nazi pretensions, the non-demo-
cratic, vassal regime Hitler would set
up in the old Hapsburg capital may not
be as easy of achievement as he plans.
The eyes and hopes of lberty-lovers
everywhere will be turned in Austria's
direction on Sunday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Salary Publicity.

Many find it difficult to follow Presi-
dent Roosevelt's reasoning when he saws
1t is matter OF simple morality" that
publicity should be continued on incomes
over $4,000 year.
1t is equally hard to comprehend the
"logic' followed by the House in first
voting to ignore the Presidents wish that
publicity be continued on corporation in
comes over $4,000 and then compromis-
ing by applying the publicity provision
only to incomes over $75,000-the presi-
dental salary. Certainly the principle
involved is the same, regardless of the
amount Of income
Just what good such publicity serves
is difficult to grasp. 1t does not distribute
any wealth. It does not increase tax
collections. 1t does not boost any ones
income.
On the other hand, it has many effects
OF questionable morality. It furnishes
promoters and the criminally minded
with list of persons of large income.
1t caters to "Peeping Tom" type of
curiosity. 1t tends to promote class
hatred.
1t is disturbing to large number of
thoughtful citizens to see an increase
in the morality preachments coming
from the White House. The trend re-
fleets reversal of the basic principle of
this Republic, that church and state
should be permanently separated. Eu-
ropean states in recent years have seen
moral preachments followed closely by
religious edicts.
The morality cry would have more
weight if it came from a source less
vulnerable itself to charges of disre-
garding morals and ethics long accepted
by American business. It is disturbing
to recall that the source from which
the simple morality" crusade is originat-
ing is the same that sought to pack the
Supreme Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10

It is significant that men and women
who have made bird study their life
work are seldom as positive In their
views as people who merely have their
likes and dislikes.
They know, too, that If the Ill will
Of bird haters were put into the statutes,
it would set an exceedingly bad prece-
dent, for there is somebody to hate every
thing, evidently.
Control of creatures one does not like
is not as easy as merely killing them off.
That is a method which has its draw
backs, as the history of man points out
over the ages.
If you can kill some one, some one
else can kill you, and so the savage
round of killing and killing goes on.
The whole history of civilized man
has been an attempt to get away from
this cruel cycle.
Underneath the veneer the old killer
instinct remains, as look at world
history in the making shows plainly
enough.
Those who do not like certain birds,
such as the English sparrow and the
startling, always seem vastly surprised
to know that any one else can like them.
Yet great many persons do. If they
had cherry trees, they still would like
them, and perhaps even permit them
to eat their fill
Life is thing of outlook. Not every
outlook is the same. The tendency to
call another outlook absurd is natural,
no doubt Civilization tries to do some
thing about that, too, with what results
remains to be seen.
Education is at bottom a process of
trying to make us all see the other
fellows viewpoint.
Where our treasure is" says the
proverb, there will our heart be also"
The trouble is that if our treasure is
a cherry tree, and we see some bird
eating our cherries, We want to kill it,
whereas If We have no cherry tree, we
may tend to take the birds side, and
say, why, the poor thing has to eat
after all'
1t is, indeed, largely matter of whose
cherry tree is denuded, as another maxim
said
We heard the following story about
a startling:
One had its feet frozen to tin roof
that cold morning recently when the
thermometer was supposed to 60 down
to degrees but didn't.
1t could flap its wings, but it couldn't
get loose.
Bad boys threw sticks and stones at it,
good boy got some warm water,
climbed to the roof, and thawed out the
starling's claws
Electrically heated roosts for starlings
might be good idea. after ALL These
birds are wiser than most evidently
Perhaps something in their claw struc-
ture freezes up more easily than the
feet of most birds.
These wise birds know, therefore, that
warm roost is essential to their we'll
being, and that is why they take to the
public buildings.
Properly constructed roosts would soon
be taken over by them, and the "beauti-
ful public buildings would be free of
stain.
In addition, such a starting rookerv
would be unique, sight for people to
come the world around to see
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
A Good Samaritan on
A Washington Street Car

To the Editor Of The STAR
You may decide if the following is
worthy of publication:
Last Tuesday 1 boarded car at
Twentieth and Avenue NV. 1t was a
snappy cool morning. On this car was
family of five riding on the longitu-
dlnal seat. This family attracted ones
attention because the mother and three
small children were too thinly clad
Riding in the aisle was a tall young
man I should say about IS years old
When the car stopped at Fifteenth and
the Avenue this young man, who was
ready to get off at that point. reached
over to the little boy and placed some
thing in his hand and then proceeded
to leave the car
When the little fellow unfolded his
package it was IS bill.
This was truly an act of charity in
the finest sense.
Five dollars was given and IS was re-
ceived. That is the kind which helps
the most. This is the story.
FRANK M. NOLL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Blizzard Anniversary.

At least a few Washingtonians,
awakening this morning to find the
city swept by storm, must have re-
membered, perhaps dimly, the classic
blizzard of March II, 1888. Fifty years
have not served to eliminate the i'm
preston from the minds of all of those
who lived through it. No other event
OF its kind is assured of more permanent
place in history.
The tempest began on Saturday and
still was raging the following Tuesday.
On the first page of The Star for Mon
day, March II, there was printed: Last
nights storm, that appears to have
ragged over an extensive area in the East
did such damage to telegraph lines that
today Washington was completely cut
of from Geographic communication with
other cities. Hence, The Star appears
today without line of news by tele-
graph" An editorial article read in part:
washington experiences the peculiar
sensation Of being snow-bound. In Ger
tain respects, 1t is isolated by the effects
Of snow and wind. It is cut of from tele-
graphic communication with the outside
world, and the daily picture of the
doings of distant states and empires
is not limned before its eyes"
How devastating the blizzard had been
was still better appreciated on March
Is, when The Star published only q
single wire story-a stock exchange
report-which, it explained, had been
routed from New York to Washington
BY way Of Chicago and Pittsburgh. News
Of the storms havoc continued to iii
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Dear Sir: don't know where you
get your information about the starting.
If you can name worse bird, name It,
Did you ever study nature close? Did
you ever live on fanny
Where did the starting come from?
And who put him In this country? And
what for?
Il put up lot of bird houses on the
farm. And what do you see-one Of
your pet starlings driving out your good
old native birds.
II have seen them drive out the flicker,
bluebird, red-headgd woodpecker and a
host of other birds. They take possess
sion on the farm like they deface our
fine buildings in Washington.
did you ever see flock of them on
cherry tree? They make robin or
catbird look tame. While you're in town
they will clean whole cherry tree in
one day. This happened in Pennsyl-
vania. Not in news Office.
And we have an open season on them
the year around. And Pennsylvania has
the best game laws in the Union.
1.-The next bird that comes from Europe
should be given good inspection first.
And no more pests. You can have them.
For better birds, j. NJ"
Mr.. NJ needn't worry about more i'm
ported birds.
There is law against bringing any
in now.
English sparrows and starlings are
enough, evidently.
Too much, as some think, including
Mr. M.
We must put up with them, as others
think, and make the best of them.
They did not ask to be brought here,
but were seized in their native Euro
pean haunts, packed into crates, and
shipped across the ocean,
Eight pairs of sparroWs were brought
to Brooklyn, N. Y, in 1880
Eighty starlings were shipped to
America in 1890.
The following year 40 more were
brought to this country.
What happened was that their So
called natural controls, which operated
in Europe to keep down their numbers,
were missing in this country
Owls of certain species were among
these controls
LdCk o! 1000 was anOtner.
In this country these birds found
things more to their liking. There were
fewer owls, by and large, and a great
deal more food for the taking.
Both spaTows and starlings did
exactly what many other tribes of liv-
ing creatures did in America.
They prospered.
Certainly no one could blame them for
that America has been called the land
OF opportunity. and the starlings and
sparrows found it so.
II they tended to Dust some of the
native birds, they did no more, perhaps,
than the original explorers and their
followers did to the native Indians.
Life is contest. and the sparrows
and starlings prove it as we'll as the next,
and that the race is often to the swift,
and the battle to the strong.
X
Ornithologists tell us that the worst
sufferers would be blackbirds. meadow
larks, and similar good" BIRDS if boun-
ties were offered generally for starlings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Rail Outlook Dark.

Little if any hope has been injected
into the ever darkening railroad situa-
ton by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission freight rate decision.
After careful study of the increases
allowed the Association of American
Railways announces that they are CAL
culated to net SITS, 900 annually on
the basis Of 1886 traffic-but the freight
movement today is not nearly at the 1886
level. This return is, roughly, s260,OOO,-
600 less than the roads had asked to cope
with mounting expenses and while rail
officials say the added revenue will be
helpful "as far as it goes" it does not
require an extensive knowledge of
mathematics to figure out Just how far
this is likely to be under existing con-
ditions.
In denying the fifteen per cent blanket
increases sought by the carriers, and
granting instead range of from five to
ten per cent, the commission majority
said that the higher rates would be such
a deterrent to traffic as to stifle move
ment." That could easily be true, and
for that very reason, the railroads will
hardly be receptive to the commission
proposal that they bolster their treasury
by raising tariffs which now are below
allowable levels, for there is but one
reason that these have been depressed
competition.
In the light of the manner in which
the rate case has been concluded, added
Importance attaches to the forthcoming
rail conference at the White House.
There is, of course, no substitute for the
greatest need of the industry-more bust
ness-and all the conferences that might
be held could not change that fact. Lack
ing this, however, it is only through COM
mon counsel, based on the recognition by
all concerned that radical remedy is
called for, that any solution lies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10

whole columns of space during sub
sequent weeks. The chronicle ran
throughout the remainder of the year
and has been quoted again and again in
past five decades.
Today, however, conditions have
changed. Radio, If nothing else, has
altered them. No community, it seems,
ever can be altogether isolated in time
to come. The genius of man has won
that much of victory over the elements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Hearings Indicate Will
To Misuse Power to Tax
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
From reading reports of hearings be-
fore the District Committee on Taxa
ton, I gather that majority of the
members regard themselves more as
judges to levy fines and penalties against
everything in the semblance of free
competitive business than as Iegisla-
tors seeking revenues of benefit to the
consuming public.
Chief Justice Marshall declared 1.-THE
power to tax is power to destroy"
Congress has, seemingly, ever since &C
cepted his dictum as an affirmative
principle for its guidance, rather than
as warning against subversive use of
the power. WALTER N. CAMPBELL,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Endorses Planetarium as
Jefferson's Memorial
To the Editor of The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
Now that the suggestion is made that
the Jefferson Memorial take the form
of planetarium, it seems remarkable
that the idea was not earlier proposed
by many from all parts of the country.
have visited the planetarium at Phila-
delphia and I have visited Monticello.
An interior of the memorial like the
former and an exterior resembling in
motif the latter could be one of the
Capitals chief attractions and a means
of real education as WELL Were jefferson
today in position to dictate the form of
mis- memorial he could probably select
nothing more fitting.
WILLIAM H. CHEESMAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
How to Grow Annual
Towering Plants.

If you love flowers and plan a garden,
however small or simple, here is
booklet that you should read before YOU
even get your seeds. 1t tells authorize.
lively how to plant and grow all the
annual Towering plants. 1t contains
an official Weather Bureau frost chart
that gives the planting time for various
parts Of the country. 1t tells what to
90 about garden pests and gives the
formulas for various insecticides. The
booklet also includes sections on lawns
terraclng, grapes, and soil erosion. Ten
cents, postpaid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Park and Paw.

Without debate, the Senate-some-
times called the greatest deliberative
body in the world-has approved trial
in Washington of a slot-machine park
ing system that other deliberative groups
and thoughtful individuals have re-
garded as highly debatable.
An amendment has been added to the
District supply bill providing for test
here of the so-called parking meter
scheme, under which motorist drops a
nickel in a slot at the curb and becomes
the legal owner" for an hour or less of
the section of the public highway on
which he has parked his car.
The congressional proposal, in effect,
would put the District Commissioners in
the business OF garaging automobiles on
the streets-for fee. In support of the
for themselves in short while and, in
addition, add some 100000 to the city's
general revenues each year. 1t is
claimed, also, that the machines will
eliminate the parking hog" and will
aid police in enforcing parking restric-
lions.
The American Automobile Association
Is waging a Nationwide fight against
parking meters which now are being
used In more than twenty-five cities,
with reports of varying success. The
triad ~ oiy oifioc
and abandoned for sundry reasons, such
as opposition by merchants on grounds
Of business impairment, protests by
motorists resentful of being forced to pay
for public parking space, and most i'm
portant of all, decisions by courts hold
ing that meters involve an illegal use of
police power for taxing purposes. The
Automobile Associations chief objection
is that the plan places lone more tax
and one more harassment on car owners,
already suffering from too many of these
evils
Speaking of court decisions, Congress
and the Commissioners should be re-
minded of comments made by the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals in up
holding the right of the Commissioners to
ban parking for snow removal purposes.
The court said: Indeed the time may
soon be at hand when it will be neces-
sary to forbid altogether the garaging
OF vehicles on the main highways of
Washington City at any time-day or
highland we have no doubt of the
power OF the Commissioners under the
act OF Congress to make and enforce
such regulations The contrary view
arose out of the mistaken idea that the
owner of an automobile has a right to
make a stable yard of the kings high
way and loses sight of the fact that the
real purpose Of building and maintain
ing the streets and roads is to permit the
convenient passing and repassing of the
public free of all distractions which
diminish this enjoyment"
The parking meter plan would seem to
be predlcated on this mistaken idea" as
to the purpose of public streets. There
is no assurance that it will in any de-
gree solve Washington's serious parking
problems.
The questions involved are so great
that Congress should proceed with the
utmost caution in using the thorough
fares of the Nations Capital for an ex-
pertinent Of this kind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Due Difference.

Due Difference.
The President much revere.
The Governor I respect.
The Mayors rules, however queer,
never shall neglect.
But as roll along the street
Mid signals go" or STOP"
The one inspiring fear complete
Is the Big Traffic Cop!
Some O. dis swing music" said Uncle
Eben, don sound to me like nuf1n'
cepptns' "a excuse fob stay1n' awakA"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Livelier Times.
From the Salem News.

From the Salem News.
There are $3.50 more automobiles regis
tered in January in Massachusetts than
in January, 1887. This seems to indicate
not merely better times in business, but
also the need for better jumping on tho
part q The pedestrian.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10

Realtors have heavy share in pro-
viding for the future and are especially
hard worked when they create new and
complicated labor problems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Who KNOWS!

AS politics goes on its way
We turn from Joy to sorrow.
The honored hero of today
May prove a boob tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10
Shooting Stars.
Eternal Postponement.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Eternal Postponement.
We're going to live in peace complete.
You bet!
But still the waves of sound repeat,
mot yet"
We're going to find way to end
Each debt.
Those sound waves still the message
send
mot yeti"
Whenever we for thought of glee
Are set,
The answer always seems to be
mot yeti"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-03-10

Women's hats are referred to as
comical, but they are still taken seriously
when it comes to afixing price tag.