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Evening star., 1938-03-25
The C.. & o. Canal,

Hope for early realization of long
cherished dream of Washington's park
lovers, development of the old Chesa-
peake u Ohio Canal for parkway and
recreational purposes has been revived
by news of negotiations under way be-
tween Federal officials and owners of
the historic waterway
Secretary Ickes has disclosed that con-
slderation is being given to a proposed
transfer of title to the canal property
as part payment by the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company of an R. F. C. loan.
By this deal the Federal Government
would come into possession of an 180-
mile scenic strip of inestimable value for
park uses, and the railroad company
would be relieved of white elephant
acquired in the heyday of waterfall
competition.
The real beneficiaries, however, would
be neither the Government nor the COM
peny. but the thousands of men, women
and children who would find opened to
them magnificent new pleasure ground
stepped in Potomac River tradition, un-
usually favored by Natures artistry and
replete with recreational possibilities.
Tentative plans call for preservation
Of the canal as waterway from George
Evening star., 1938-03-25

the committee said will be distributed
among teachers and officers salaries"
approximately the same amount was
deducted from the teacher and officer
salary item.
What the committee and now the
House and Senate conferees seem to
ignore, however, is the fact that George
Deem funds may only be used against
salaries Of qualified vocational instruc-
tors and cannot be used to make up a
cut in the academic teacher salary item.
The superintendent of schools has
definitely stated that failure to restore
this sum will place appropriations below
pay roll obligations. The salaries of
teachers are legally set by act of Con-
gress. Thus school officers are con-
fronted with a salary deficit which can
be met only by such methods as payless
furloughs or reducing the number of
teachers.
Figures have been continually pre-
sented that the pupil-teacher ratio is
already far too high in District schools,
SO that to reduce the number of teachers
would appear dangerous to the educa-
tional standards which the school board
has tried to maintain.
Hence it may we'll be that the school
offlcers will be called on to make up the
deficit through leave without pay.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
Universal Turmoil.

Miss Dorothy Thompson, speaking
from Town Hall in New York on Thurs
day evening, declared to Nation wide
audience: I'VE are living right in the
middle of a world revolution" Her
hearers, familiar with recent events in
Europe and in Asia and not yet COM
petent to forget the disasters of a quar-
ter-century ago from which current
struggles developed. silently agreed with
her contention. Yet some Of the listen
ers must have realized that there is
nothing new about universal turmoil.
Even the sketchiest reading of history
will suffice to show that strife is a
normal condition among the bewildered
children of earth. The doors of the
Temple of Janus have not been closed
for hundreds of years.
But the human race need not despair.
Change, more often violent than other
wise. is a law of life No progress is
feasible without pain, and a like
observation may be registered for the
survival of tradition. The human species
perforce must fight to maintain both
the victories of the past and the oppor-
tunity to win the potential triumphs Of
the future. Miss Thompson was justi-
fed when she said that the world has
known peace only when strong nations
have dictated it. Her dictum, of course
is heresy in the opinion of dreamers who
believe that tolerance and brotherhood
can be achieved by ''wishful thinking"
Conflict is a habit among little states
as among great powers. The annals of
Italy in the time of the poet Dante, of
England from Henry VI to William and
Mary, of France from Charlemagne to
Leon Blum, of the United States within
the memory of living persons, prove the
point. Glass contest is the fashion of
the moment everywhere. And if the
have nots' were to suppress the "haves,'
the victorS soon would fall out among
themselves. The Russian revolutionists
of 1917 have exterminated each other,
and nothing else than such fate need
be anticipated by their imitators In the
Western Hemisphere.
Yet there is hope. People will learn
at long last to live at peace with their
own spirits. The turbulence of the aver
age soul will yield to self-discipline. And
gradually, as individuals mature, charity
will grow among men. Suffering con-
duces to that end
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Painful Economy.

Unless unlocked for savings can be
made, it appears entirely probable that
public school officials may have to pay
out of their own pockets for what may
have appeared to Congress as q clever
economy measure.
On information presented to the Dis
trict Subcommittee OF the House Appro-
priations Committee it was indicated that
the District might receive some $88 900
in Federal funds under the George
Deem Act to extend vocational educa-
ton. This money, it was explained,
could not be used for purchase of ma
terials, but only for salaries of qualified
teachers in trades and industries.
Because OF th1 Federal grant, which
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A Word to the Wise.

"A w oIu ~ tlC w lSts
Prime Minister Chamberlain's expose
Of British foreign policy is not dis
tinguished for that concreteness that
might have been expected from devotee
of realism It's definition of what
Britain will or will not do in the crisis
next expected violently to alter the map
OF Europe-Hitler's move against or into
Czechoslovakia-may dsappoint those
who craved some interventionist pledge.
Yet, non -committal as it is, the London
governments statement in the House of
Commons is unquestionably momentous
word to the wise
The Prime Minister, rejecting cabinet
decisions, refused to give Czechoslovakia
n prior guarantee" of immediate armed
help against German aggression. He
argued with compelling candor that ma
tionals cannot be expected to incur au-
tomato military obligations save for
cerned.' British blood is ready to be
spilled and British treasure squandered,
only when demonstrably British issues
are at stake. In that ''baStion of
Europe" which Bismark called Bohemia,
the storm center of Nazi agitation in
Czechoslovakia, John Bull discerns, at
present at least, no chestnuts which he
feels bound to pull out of the European
FIRE
Hitler will do we'll to accent the at
present" implicit in Mr. Chamberlain's
declaration. The Prime Minister plainly
prefers circumlocution to commitment.
Thus, he reminds Berlin that where
peace and war are concerned, legal obli-
cations are not alone involved, and, If
war broke out, it would be unlikely to
be confined to those who have assumed
such obligations. 1t would be impossible
to say where it would end and what gov
ernments might become involved This
is especially true of two countries like
Britain and France " devoted to the
same ideals of democratic liberty and de-
termined to uphold them"
Then Mr.. Chamberlain promised that
the British would send the new arms
they are forging-s7, 500 900 900 worth of
them--into battle to uphold the treaties
they already have, notably those provid-
Ing for aid to France and Belgium. and
to protect vital British interests. There
was special "verbum sap to Mussolini
In the Prime Minister'S supplementary
observation that Britain also has treaty
obligations to Portugal, Iraq and Egypt"
The Grand Protector of All Islam" will
not miss that point.
II Sir Edward Grey had talked to the \
Kaiser as plainly as Neville Chamber
lain now talks to Hitler, it is altogether
improbable that Germany would have
risked going to war in August, 1914. Re-
membering that, is it difficult to imagine
the effect on the Berlin-R Rome Toxic axis
to the words of warning lust spoken
IN the House of Commons a Washing
ton administration were to add the
simple statement that should France
and Great Britain find themselves at
war, either as victims of armed aggres-
sion, or In defense of free governments
free institutions and free seas, the United
States would consider their cause it's
own?
Evening star., 1938-03-25
A New Collection
OF FavOrite HYMNS

There Is trend toward religion. The
peoples OF the various countries are hav-
ing such barren lives under their hard
rulers that they are turning to God.
The faith of the Christian is the bridge
over earthly despair to heavenly promise.
The old-fashioned hymns are a great
Soiace to millions of devout persons. In
response to many requests our Wash
lngton bureau has compiled a collection
OF the favorite hymns Of all denomina-
tlons. There are Isl well-known sacred
songs. complete with words and music.
bound in Serviceable colored cover. As
long as they last copy will be sent TO
any subscriber for 20 cents to cover cost
and handling.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

IOF guns, udSIlllsHIS VI ooItol oisii" VA
robin killers"
The dispatch tells how four cars were
turned back, but fifth somehow
managed to get through. In this car
were the defendants. The dispatch con-
tinueS:
"The officers caught them about 3
o'clock the next morning in the act OF
raiding rooSt.
"One man, it was said. was so expert
that he used hasnlight with one hand,
grabbed a bird with the other, BIT the
head of and stuffed 1t into his pocket
The officers turned the five men over
to w. l.. Birsch of Gastonia, United
States Biological Survey inspector, who
handled the prosecution in Federal
Court.
The fines ranged from s75 and two
years probation to $50 and one years
probation. A 16-year old defendant was
let of without paying fine, but Is held
under two years probation.
The dispatch was dated March ..
A correspondent at Herndon, Va, sends
the following:
Several times have noticed in your
interesting column expressions Of curl
osity as to the diet of robins which pass
the winter with us or which run into
late snow storm in the spring.
From my observations I can tell you
that robins bluebirds and mockingblrds
are all very fond Of dogwood berries. or
course, as these fall to the ground in
early winter they are not available when
the ground is covered with ice and snow.
But I have also seen robins and
mockingbirds eat holly berries with their
utmost zeal, and l see no reason why
bluebirds should not do so, too, although
/ have never seen them.
"A good sized holly tree in our yard
which had been visited frequently by a
mocker all winter was stripped to its
last berry by flock of hungry robins
which came up from the South amidst
the last snow.
"A neighbor told me that they made
short work Of dry bread crumbs which
she had put out for them.
Il enjoy your column greatly, but I
must confess that we differ on the
matters Of the economic and esthetic
value Of the English sparrows and star
lingS.
yours truly.
&C. T. r."
The Federal migra tory bird law be-
came statute March 4, 1913
Under it all migratory game and insect
eating birds are made wards of Uncle
Sam.
After reading Of the trials which the
robins go through, and how they are
protected by men with guns, we may all
have new respect for our redbreasts,
as we see them strutting on the lawn.
They have something to strut about.
II, Of course, their fine carriage can be
labeled strut.
That is the effect, as these cheSty fell
lows go over the yard for worms, their
faVorlte diet.
There is no question any more about
their economic Importance, since their
diet is under normal conditions. mostly
inimical insects, and of course of angle
worms.
Americas fayorite bird-that is his
proud title. our faithful robin known to
city man, country man, suburbanite the
one bird everybody knows.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,
Where do al. the robins come from?

Where do all the robins come from?
Through the courtesy OF = CORES
pondent living at Wadesboro. N. c., we
are able to answer that question.
They come from Ophir township,
Montgomery County, N. c., where an
area four miles long by one and a half
miles wide contained between two and
three million robins.
Mrs. B. says:
Dear Sir:
II read your articles on birds in The
Star and enjoy every line, so thought
you'd be interested in these items, in
closed, from last weeks paper.
1T is my opinion these people were
really hungry for bird pie. as don't
think they were out at am. for sport
alone.
Birds seem more plentiful this spring
than usual With best wishes. yours
very truly, G. M. B."
Never before has the National Capital
had SO many robins.
1t is interesting to see what some Of
the handicaps these birds had to undergo
before they could come to us.
A special dispatch from the Charlotte
Observer, inclosed by our correspondent.
is written from Rockingham, N. c., as
follows:
Five men from Randolph County
pleaded guilty in Federal Court here to
the charge of killing robins on the rOOst.
They could have been sent to the Atlanta
pen for 55 years-Six months for each
of the 1l2 birds, but the solicitor per-
mitled them to plead guilty TO a mis-
demeanor and thus lightened their
sentences.
In pronouncins sentence, Judge john
son J. Hayes took occasion to severely
reprimand the men, and stated that any
similar case before him would send the
prisoners to Atlanta pen. The men gave
ignorance OF the law as their excuse.
+
I'm 1887, the big robin roost was in
Orange County, but this year the largest
in the State is in Ophir township. Mont
gomery County-an area four miles long
by one and half miles wide.
John D. Chalk, State game commits
Sioner. estimates the number of robins
on this roost as between 1000 900 and
going is heard for a long distance
In 1918, the Federal Government
made a treaty with Great Britain and
Mexico, protecting the robins. In 1927.
the State passed law making the killing
of robins illegal, with no open season.
1T is estimated that a robin will eat
its weight daily in insects. Very few of
them live on berries, and their value as
insect destroyers is OF tremendous i'm
portance. Quail on the other hand, live
almost entirely on seeds and berries.
4
"A roost or temporary stoppage OF
robins on their trek northward begins
in February and disbands by the middle
OF March The birds then begin mating
and scatter through North Carolina,
Virginia and more northerly States for
their nesting.
Game Commissioner Chalk used extra
precautions to protect this Montgomery
County roost. On the night of February
rs, State wardens were stationed on the
roads leading to the roosting section of
Montgomery County, and searched cars
Evening star., 1938-03-25
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE,

AuStria's reign of terror was brought
home rather directly to various highly
placed persons in Washington. including
President Roosevelt, this week. One of
It's victims, it appears. is a venerable
and distinguished VienneSe scholar,
Hofrat Frankfurter. president OF the
Federation Of Jewish Lodges in Austria,
an organization resembling the Free
MasOns. Herr Frankfurter, who is 81
years old, is the uncle of famed Prof.
Felix Frankfurter of the Harvard Law
School, who throughout the New Deal
has been one of the White Houses most
trusted conf1dantS and advisers. AS
soon as the advent OF Hitlerism sent a
wave of cruelty and fear sweeping across
Austria, Prof. Frankfurter had inquiries
made by cable as to his octogenarian
uncle'S fate. Word came back promptly
that the cultured old gentleman is among
u number Of members Of his faith and
class whom the Nazls had placed under
arrest. The Harvard don Is himself
native Austrian.
Nobody hereabouts imagines for q
moment that anything like the last has
been heard of the Roosevelt -Morgan-T.
v. A. imbroglio. Many do not expect it
to end even with a congressional investi-
CATION or Supreme Court decision. Far
fetched as such thought may seem At
the moment, there's even talk of i'm
parchment before the scandal fades into
history. AS everybody knows, it was not
under wholly disSimilar circumstances
that President Andrew johnson was SUBJ
jected to impeachment proceedings just
about TO years ago. charged with a
high crime and miSdemeanOr' under the
Tenure of Office Act of 1867 for having
removed Edwin M. Stanton from the Sec
retaryship of war. 1t was under the
same statute that the Myers VS.. United
States So-called postmaster case was de-
cided by the Supreme Court in 1926, up
holding the executive right of removal
of a Federal appointee restricted to ex-
ecutive functions. 1t Is on the basis Of
the Supreme Court decision Affirming
the constitutionality Of the 1867 law that
Mr.. Roosevelt justifies the purge of
Chairman Morgan.
-
En- route to Warm Springs this week.
r. d. r. said he hoped to put in most of
his time down there, catching up on his
sleep. Wall Street wishes the President
had begun taking his nap long before
he got to Georgia and made the Gaines
vile speech. That outburst sent the
stock market reeling again and generally
gave business the worst case of jitters
it's had in months. The shock was all
the greater because the wishful thought
had taken root that industry and finance
were in for a breathing spell, as far as
Mr.. Roosevelt is concerned. Now they're
convinced that the New Deal leopard
hasn't changed his spots after all, that
more and more thunder on the left is to
be expected, and that the administration
Is determined, in pursuit of an alibi for
the new depression. to keep on making
business the goat, no matter whether re-
covery is thereby retarded or not.
No State secret is violated by disclosing
that Secretary Hull and other custodians
OF the inter American good neighbor
policy are hot under the collar over the
Evening star., 1938-03-25

Swedish settlements on the Delaware
River. As the one and only country
which has kept It's war debt slate clean
over here, Finland stands high in Uncle
Sans graces. The visitors will include
Minister of Foreign Affairs Holsti, Parlia-
ment Speaker Hakkila, Minister of Agri-
culture Pekkala other members OF Parlia-
ment, and distinguished representatives
of Finnish women, churches and journal
ism.
Orchids for the last word in diplomatic
tact belong to German Ambassador
Dieckhoff, who. while showing q friend
his new automobile this week, Is reported
grimly to have wisecracked: Look at
that rumble seat. It's almost big enough
TO put Czechoslovakia IN"
Y (CopyriEht 1850
Evening star., 1938-03-25

Bob" and Phil" here in Washington
at the same time. Washington is q long
way from Madison, and there might be
strange doings back in Wisconsin If both
the La Follettes made their headquarters
here.
Senator Bob" La Toilette Is becoming
more and more regarded as q New Deal
leader in the Senate. He steps into the
breach for President Roosevelt frequently
when VIII some ss,s. of the pre'idppt' own party
Evening star., 1938-03-25

political significances to hold such COM
mand as to make them forget the opera
The Mikado' and its genial reference,
despite current history, to "the flowers
that bloom in the spring.
Evening star., 1938-03-25
SN~N-

Every now and then an eminent man
from India counts untold wealth before
an old system of finance may endure in
the face of popular complaint.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

Crimes occupy much police attention.
A single homicide tests the efficiency of
our police force while abroad the slain
are numbered by thousands. The swas-
tika may have been intended to bring
luck, but the Western Hemisphere is
asking no aid from it.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

1t is the desire of Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain to keep Great
Britain in the way of prosperity. 1t is a
state of affairs that has gone on for
long time and may be managed with
airships and submarine boats as well as
with the craft with which the world has
long been familiar
Evening star., 1938-03-25

Lower quotations are shown by the
New York Stock Exchange, with an at
tentive public carefully measuring prices
for bargains. In some respects the old
games shift their terminology but never
change completely.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

AS governmental systems change in
Europe. rules of interchange become
more difficult The shifts are incidental
to long period of history which has
always found means of meeting condi-
tions as the need arises.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

The history of English poetry mem
tions many American authors, but verse
will not flow clearly until the melan-
choly fate of Danny Deever Is forgotten
in the multitude of executions now
provided for here and there.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

taught nerves not to transmit pain, but
does not indicate how this will be ad-
vantageous, as pain has come to be
more of a shock to the intelligence than
q physical experience.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

There are eminent Morgans and the
prices Of great natural resources vary in
accordance with their opinions. This
fsct is characteristic of several families
OF the same name,
Evening star., 1938-03-25
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Renewal.

Renewal.
When the fire is flickering low
Memories come and memories 60.
Here's a friendship cleaning bright;
There's a gay acquaintance light.
Fading as it leaves the fire
Comes a spark. fond desire.
All the dreaming seems in vain.
Only ashes now remain.
Only ashes now remain
AS we weary and complain
Yet there Is a lingering glow
That new warmth may soon bestow
Sorry seems our present lot
But our cares are soon forgot
Luck, that hired man so good,
Brings another load of wood!
Evening star., 1938-03-25

Explanation of new conditions are
offered by President Roosevelt with the
confidence of man who in the midst
of care never forgets to make memo
randa in his note book.
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AS the cherry trees bloom around the
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interfere with an appreciation of beauty.
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FRIDAY AY----------------M March 25, 1888
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Isolation.

Isolation.
"Arent you afraid that the U. S. A.
will become isolated?"
mo" answered Senator Sorghum.
'"The U. S. A. is exceedingly rich. 1t is
my observation that where there is
money the danger of isolation is not
serious"
Jud Tunkins says a swing band is q
valuable influence. 1t makes you ap-
preciate music when you get a chance
to hear it.
Evening star., 1938-03-25

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Musical Aspiration.
Il want to be an angel
And with the angels stand
And have harp and halo
'Thout joinin' no jazz band.
Applause may be misleading" said
Hi Ho, the sage Of Chinatown. ut is
frequently bestowed on the best actor
rather than on the best thought"
ImpetuOus ThermOm.
When upward goes the temperature,
1t always goes too high;
When downward, it is pretty sure
With cold to make us cry.
So in life's cup which should hold bliss
Falls many bitter drop.
Our trouble, Old Thermom, is this:
We don't know when to stop.
"A hoss race" said Uncle Eben, proves
= man is entitled to his own opinion, NO
matter hcx expensive it may .e.' 4
Evening star., 1938-03-25
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