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Evening star., 1938-08-16
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pests. Our association has urged police
authorities to study the situation with
view to granting legitimate relief from
the evils which have arisen.
Washington is justly proud of its rep
utation of being the cleanest and most
beautiful capital in the world. But if
things like this are tolerated the city
will become. instead, the dirtiest COM
munity in the land. If my neighbor
can get away with keeping poultry
farm in my block. what is to prevent
neighbors in your block from maintain
ing a similar nuisance without inter-
ference?
If the Health Department and the
police authorities, as well as the Com
missioners, are powerless, then how are
Washingtonians going to protect their
rights? j. c. FILIUS.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Other Wrong Way Performers.
Napoleon was said to be
A superstitious man;
George Washington's famed cherry tree
In fiction still we scan.
Within a tub Diogenes
Passed his eccentric life
And Socrates could not appease
The temper of his wife.
Though great their deed and wise their
laws
Their real worth lies hid
We now remember them because
OF the fool things they did.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Criticizes Editorial on
Potomac Pollution.


IN REGARD to your editorial of Au-
gust 10, "Other Things First" is it of
any significance to The Star and the
people of Washington that Rock Greek
is so polluted that it is unsafe for wading
and bathing and is so admitted by the
District health authorities? Why are
the health authorities prevented from
posting this stream warning parents and
children of these dangers? Why not tell
Washingtonians what the facts are?
Does 1t mean anything to The Star and
the District fathers that the Anacostia
River Is practically an open sewer and
cases Of typhoid attributed to it have been
contracted from bathing in it have been
reported? Why not ask our neighbors
who are responsible for much of this
sewage as to why the power in whose
hands the matter Of cleaning-up rests
are dodging the issues and failing to
take the action called for?
Your statement that "If the District
were to spend an additional $4,000 900
tion," etc, reveals surprising ignorance
of recent events. In an announcement
of July "a in the press, Secretary Ickes
d AcCIl lutcIcSG AL ClcdlliIlS up
the Potomac Valley area and a willing
ness to open the purse strings to accom-
plish these ends. We are advised that
the terms are IS per cent grant and
a IS per cent loan, the latter on most
favorable terms, amortized over a Pc
riod Of years. Have our city fathers
called upon Mr.. Ickes to ascertain
whether he would refuse to the District
what he is already on record as favor
ing doing for the other communities in
the Potomac Valley? And at the same
time. why they do not get busy and do
likewise? The above plan cannot be
held unfavorable to the taxpayers of
this area.
For some IS years the city Of Balti-
more has had an excellent sewage dis
posal plant treating It's sewage practical
ly 100 per cent. Isn't it about time that
the Nations Capital and neighboring
communities took the same interest in
the welfare Of our people?
LEWIS RADCLIFFE.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Asks Enforcement of
Anti-F0wl Law.
rr> 49, . MAfta, ~ IN, . s4.

To the Editor Of The Star:
AM venturing to enlist your help in
calling attention to the nuisance Of
chickens, pigeons and dogs-actual
menaces to the health Of the citizens Of
the Capital of the United States.
According to section Z of our police
regulations, no person shall keep within
the densely populated sections of the
District of Columbia any kind of do
mestic fowl, or pigeons unless the
Health Department grants a permit. I
understand the regulations to be:
/. House to be dry and well ventilated.
2. Perches to be movable and kept
clean.
3. Chicken nets.
4. Drinking fountains.
S. Yard surfaces to be kept.
The law promises all this, but 1t Is not
enforced. The association to which I
belong adopted q resolution urging
change in the District police regulations
to prohibit the keeping Of domestic fowl
and pigeons in densely populated neigh
borhoods.
The situation grows steadily worse.
The cackling Of chickens now disturbs
the rest of all people in some neighbor-
hoods. The condition in question has
also led to the neighborhood being in
tested with rats and disease-spreading
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Hamilton VS.. Hull.

Although the greater part of John
Hamiltons recent blast at the reciprocal
trade program of Secretary of State Hull
was repetition Of somewhat discredited
arguments, he did strike vital point
when he raised the inconsistency be-
tween the reciprocity program and the
farm policy Of Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace.
This difference in American economic
policy persists after five years Of the
New Deal, and is only explainable in
terms of political expediency and bal
ancing of the conflicting forces within
the administration.
Secretary Hull has achieved, with
tangible benefit for American industrial
and agricultural producers, reductions
of tariff barriers and other import re-
strictions, merely restoring "laissez-
faire" to international economics. The
Secretary may be quoted at length on
the need for freeing international ex-
change of goods and services of the
burdensome restraints imposed by gov
ernments devoted to economic national
ism. So hearty has been his attack
upon this bugaboo of world trade that
it has come to acquire decided sig
niflcance.
Yet while he has scored his successes
for the free operation of economic laws
in international economic relations,
there have been practiced domestically in
the United States broader and broader
policies aiming at planned economy,
which in its external aspects IS eco
nomic nationalism, that is rigid balanc-
ing of imports and exports, conservation
of the currency base by means of ex-
change restrictions, and in general OF
trade by barter.
If Mr.. Hamilton mentioned the Wal
lace program of restricted agricultural
production it was merely because this
is the most outstanding example; but
there are others. The N. r. A., for ex-
ample, with its codes was a step toward
planned economy, as was the wages and
hours BILL and literally dozens of other
New Deal laws. The logical implementa-
ton of them would have been balanced
foreign trade as set forth by George
Peek.
Such an anomalous situation exists
only because of the peculiar relationship
in which Secretary Hull stands to the
President and the rest of his advisers.
A conservative island in a sea Of lib
eralism and -wingers, he started
from scratch and won place for him.
self at Mr.. Roosevelt's side. Now he is
firmly intrenched in the New Deal, to
the eternal discontinue of the advo-
Gates of rigid government economic cor
troll. With his reciprocal trade program
he presents a juggling problem for Mr..
Roosevelt, who has the energetic young
left-wingers steadily bounding him for
Mr.. Hull's head.
Mr. Hamilton might have done we'll to
emphasize more strongly this contradic-
ton, leaving to one side all the charges
of deception and reiteration of statistics
which have been so thoroughly worked
over.
Evening star., 1938-08-16

uniform. They seem to lack the mental
quirks which makes humanity such
gamble.
Those who have been privileged to
watch Whitley at work and play are all
admirers Of English sparrows.
They realize better than most that
many Of the orthodox spleens Of man
kind are based on nothing much.
Wild creatures, in particular, suffer
from these old hatreds, coming down
through the ages. The most notorious,
Of course, Is the house cat, which has
been the victim Of Misrepresentation and
unreasoned hatred by many through the
ages.
The birds have not escaped, however:
even self professed bird lovers" some
times draw the line at English sparroWs,
bluejays and some others.
All the so-called "love" goes out of
their voice, and perfect hatred comes
into their eyes, If you dare say the Eng
ush sparrow has place in birdland.
Some of these bird lovers even 20
50 far as to trap and slay these birds,
thereby setting themselves up as lovers.
indeed.
Real bird friends, those who have
some idea what the word means, know
that the English sparrows belong to one
Of the most famous bird families.
They know that there is no more en-
gaging small creature than the song
sparrow, and that this very fine speci-
men not only tolerates, but seems to like,
the English Sparrows.
a. minded w
watching group of sparrows honestly.
without prejudice, will come to the exact
same viewpoint, We believe, without
benefit of Whitley.
It is Just easier, that is all, when you
know her.
There is no finer sight. in winter bird
watching, than a hundred English SPAR
rows clustered on the canes Of the
climbing roses. (That is why we let
them stay long)
Here they congregate in the middle
of the afternoon, to indulge in little
song fest
Sparrow haters claim these sounds
are hard and grating" but actually they
are musical to degree.
The combination is what makes them
pleasing.
They sing with ? wild abandon. evi-
IDENTIFY quite pleased with themselves
and the world, as what living creatures
wouldn't be with full tummies on such
a cold day?
These concerts, of course, sound hap
piest whom snow and ice are on the
ground. Then the chirps take on some
semblance of hymns of praise working
up to climaxes almost Beethovian
In these festivities, Whitley took her
place for several years.
She was so white. in those years, that
sometimes we mistook her for a clump
Of snow. until she happened to move.
Her favorite place was just north of
the side gate. There she loved to sit
and sing while snowflakes fell around
her.
Here's to Whitey-and may she return
some day, whittier and livelier than ever.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
No Cancellations!
From the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the San Francisco Chronicle
Pan Americans clippers took OIL as
usual on their scheduled tran-Paclnc
flights and without a single cancella-
ton. Every passenger who had reser-
vation was aboard when the China Clip.
per flew from Alameda for Honolulu ana
the Philippine Clipper carried an addl-
tional passenger when she left Honolulu
for California. On both flights were
passengers who had booked after the
Hawaiian Clipper was reported missing.
Nothing better illustrates the estao-
lished character of trans-Pacific flying
as a means of travel. Accidents happen
in all standard modes Of transportation,
but they are not to be expected and the
fact that one occurs, even OF sucn ara.
matte nature as the disappearance OF
the Hawaii Clipper, still unreported as
this was written, does not in the least
deter travel.
Flying has become standard.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES &. TRACEWELL.

One bird We have missed In our yard
this summer is Whitley, the English
sparrow.
Has Whitley gone with the wind. or is
she merely moulting?
This sparrow, as careful readers here
know, has white bands on her wings.
and her tail is completely white.
So the name.
She was faithful attendant at feed
ing stations for three years, but spent
her summers across the street.
This little quirk made her all the
more engaging, more eagerly watched
for when the feeders were put out again
in the fall.
Usually during the summer months
Whitley would return from time to time,
but this season there has been no trace
of her at all.
Which is too bad, from both bird and
human standpoint. Whitley was the only
bird we knew "for sure"
1t Is all very we'll to feel that the
same pair Of wrens returns to the same
box every year. One may feel certain
of that, and yet there would be no way
Of knowing, actually, without resorting
to banding
It was different with Whitley.
There was no mistaking her. Those
white markings were unique, we had
almost said very unique, but thought in
time that purists do not like very
unique" feeling that unique says it all
by itself.
We have never agreed with this view
entirely. There may be such q thing
as very unique" in good usage, par
ticularly from the individual stand
point. Surely the person who uses words
ought to have something to say as to
what he means, and if he says some
thing seems very unique" to him, maybe
that is what he means, after all. grant,
ing that he may, know the rules, too.
Whitey's marks. then, were unique.
There's Whitley" everybody said.
Perhaps no other of the many thou
sands of sparrows in and around Wash
ington was so readily recognized, and
so invariably greeted by name.
why, there's Whitey!"
Sure enough. there she was, dipping
into the seed bin along with her BROTH
ers, sisters, cousins and aunts.
A very handsome little bird, too. 1t
was easy enough. after admiring Whitley,
to see good points in her brothers, sis
tiers, cousins and aunts.
~
From time to time, readers here have
reproached us with a partiality toward
English sparrows. which, they said, de-
served no consideration.
They didn't, of course. know Whitley.
If they had. we felt sure. they would
have felt exactly the same way about
her and her friends.
1t is impossible, We believe, to know
Whitley and not like all her kind.
This means, of course. that she IS an
interesting bird, one worth watching
and admiring.
1t also means that II she is good
bird and an interesting one, practically
all her family are good birds. and inter-
esting, for natural creatures run very
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Needed-More Revenue.

Repeated words of warning that Con-
eress may be forced to lower income tax
exemptions and increase the rates in
the middle brackets are more than
meaningless straws in the wind.
For the habit of spending money re-
dulres continuing supply of money and
the only way thus far conceived of
keeping such supply on hand is by
taxation. Quite apparently, the spend
ing habit is not to be discontinued to
any material degree in the near future
and as business activity remains at
relatively low level it becomes equally
apparent that the present tax structure
Is not adequate to provide the reve-
hue needed.
Once the search is started for new
sources of revenue. it cannot fail to in
volve the great bulk of wage earners,
now exempt or paying in the low and
middle rate brackets. The most fire.
quently mentioned method of drawing
extra income from these sources is that
Of reducing exemptions from their pres
ent levels of 81 900 for single persons and
S2,5OO for dependents. That these fig
ures are not inviolate is shown in the
record OF numerous changes since 1918
when the exemptions were placed at
$4,000 and $4,000.
At these initial levels, a scant $4,000
persons filed returns, but even when the
exigencies of war required greater reve-
nue. and the exemptions were lowered to
1000 and $4,000 peak in returns filed
was reached in 1920 with 5,5l83lO.
lacked up in the lush years and dropped
again in 1882, the exemptions have left
fewer than 2,500000 under compulsion
to file returns each year since 1925.
Most consistent advocate of bringing
a greater number of wage and low SAL
ary earners under the income tax sys-
tenn has been Senator La Toilette, Wis
consin Progressive, who estimates that
exemptions lowered to $500 and $4,000
would add 100000 persons to the tax
paying group and bringing Sl10,000,000
in added yearly revenue. Most of such
extra revenue, it may be pointed out,
would come from persons now paying
taxes but who would be brought into
higher rate bracket as a result of the
lowered exemptions.
In espousing his program, the Wis
consin Senator points out that the
resultant increase in tax consciousness
would have beneficial effect on Federal
spending policies and, further, that
greater reliance on direct taxation
might be followed by removal of many
OF the hidden taxes.
While congressional majorities have
been reluctant to support a program
which would affect so many voters, the
drying up of other sources of revenue
gradually is forcing increased consid-
Grafton of this means of meeting in part
a near-emergency situation. AS an al
tentative, of course, the voters might
indicate their preference for more con-
servative Government fiscal policies.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Letters to The Star
Value Of Pinch Of Salt
To Humans Explained.
To fha Editor of Thu 9far.

To the Editor OF The Star:
T HAVE Just read the interesting dis
cussion by Charles E. Tracewell in
your This and That column, August
g. 1938 regarding the advisability OF TAX
ing pinch OF salt" in the summertime.
Mr.. Tracewell, evidently, has not read
the extended authentic literature, such
as published by the Harvard Fatigue
Laboratory and others, on the need for
increasing the salt intake during hot
weather by workers in steel mills, fac
tories, by athletes and all those who
sweat profusely. He asks why no one
ever recommended a deliberate addition
of table salt before. inasmuch as people
have been sweating for years and cen
turies. The answer Is that this remedy
has not been known for a great many
years
This use for salt has been known for
about 80 years. The idea is not neces-
sarily to keep cool, as expressed by Mr..
Tracewell, but to keep supplying the
system with salt lost in perspiration
The amount of salt lost in this way may
be small or large, depending upon the
amount Of perspiration as well as upon
the worker and type Of work he Is doing.
A worker, unaccuStomed to q hot job,
will lose more salt in the first day or
two than he will after that More salt
will also be lost in perspiration the first
few hot days after cool spell than dur
ing long, continued hot weather. It is
during these times. particularly, that
more salt should be consumed. accord
ing to the best authorities. After that
some extra salt is still needed, but not
so much.
The Journal of the American Medical
Association says that a worker engaged
in active physical duties on hot sum-
mer day may perspire as much as IL
pints, although the average Is some
what lower. During this time the salts
lost from the body have proved to be
the cause of muscular cramps, excessive
fatigue and intestinal upsets and that
these may be prevented by taking extra
salt.
Instead of trying to keep cool by TAX
ing a pinch of salt. one who uses this
precaution is merely learning how to
sweat efficiently, not necessarily any
more or any less. The sweating that he
does is naturally cooling process and
the salt lost from his system does not
produce fatigue and muscular cramps
because it is being gradually replaced
from within. G. D. LOCKER.
Ithaca, N. Y.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Public Health Program.

Public health is purchasable" and
the 1910 estimates of Health Oficer
George c. Ruhland represent renewed
effort to provide for Washington a
really effective program in public health.
It will be recalled that at the request of
the District authorities the United
States Public Health Service early this
year submitted full report outlining a
public health program for the District.
The report pointed out that while it
was not practicable to acquire all the
recommended personnel and facilities at
one time, the needs outlined in the re-
port might be covered in six-year
program. Dr. Ruhland's estimates might
be interpreted as the first unit of such
a program. Possibly the largest unit.
The fact that the estimates call for
81 per cent increase in funds allotted to
public health should not be considered
extraordinary or as indicating extrava-
CANT expenditure. Large expenditures
on public health are needed in the Dis
trict because the District has fallen so
far behind desirable standards in the
provision of public health facilities. The
United States Public Health Service re-
port pointed out that while public
health is purchasable and that within
natural limitations community can de-
termine its own death rate, "the princi-
Piles involved in this statement are ap-
plicable only so far as the citizens of
the community are able to comprehend
the needs and are willing to submit to
the increased taxation necessary for
meeting these proposals"
One of the purposes Of the Public
Health Service survey was to provide for
Washington an acceptable standard by
which to measure the adequacy Of public
Evening star., 1938-08-16

Sunday was memorialiZed in New York
by person who tried to shoot as many
men as possible. Times have changed.
The violence was directed against traffic
policemen who returned fire. Stories
about old times when an officer Of the
law needed only wooden stick as a
weapon will interest youngsters who
now enjoy the especial care of the police,
but they will hardly be credited.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Twenty Years Ago
The World War Day by Day
Auxust 16, 1918.

Rove was bombarded heavily by the
allies, but no infantry assault followed.
II was considered that the losses would
be too great. The French attacked Coy
encourt.
The, Germans counter attacked the
British at Demery. Wave after wave
went over, and all were beaten back with
heavy losses Not much ground was
rained this day.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
A Difference.

"Why does marriage seem to dispel so
much of the glamour of affection?"
asked the sentimental young woman.
"Well," answered Miss Cayenne, per
haps a woman doesn't make sufficient
allowance. 1t must be very hard for
man to seem as graceful and heroic
when advocating household economies as
when he is offering to lay the whole
world at your feet"
Evening star., 1938-08-16

A woman flyer who lost wheel says
she was not really as excited as the
ometer may have to be among the in
struments employed to indicate the de-
gree of emotional stress under which a
flyer may labor.
Evening star., 1938-08-16

Kipling is being frequently quoted by
ministers of the Gospel in illustration of
the current needs of our civilization He
may be accorded respectful attention as
a man eager to promote peace even
though unable to attain 1t on his own
account.
Evening star., 1938-08-16

There is a certain degree of analysis
necessary before a clash of human be-
ings can be properly referred to as a
war" The number of people killed in
the transaction appears to have little to
do with the definition.
Evening star., 1938-08-16

Medical authorities do not strictly
agree on the care of the sick. There
have always been several schools of
medicine, but the distinction of the price
tag has never assumed quite so much
Importance in indicating differences.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
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German Substitutes.

From the Alton tnl) Telegraph.
They're making rugs Of human hair
In Germany now. If this substitute busi-
ness keeps up 1t won't be long before
they're using toupees.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
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Evening star., 1938-08-16

AS religious groups remark. Peace!
it's wonderful" they might observe that
1t becomes more wonderful as 1t gets
scarcer.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
The Compass.

There was a remarkable youth
Who had no respect for the truth.
He said, EAST was west"
We laughed with unrest,
AS compass appeared so uncouth!
Evening star., 1938-08-16
Human and Simian Nails.

From tho ArkGnSAs GAZETTE.
Nature note says only human beings
and certain kinds of apes have fiat nails
on fingers and toes. But it's only In the
human brackets that these nails are red.
Evening star., 1938-08-16
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Sometimes" said Uncle Eben, when
a man joins de Don't Worry Club de
res Of his family has to look fob mem.
bership IN 'Hahd Luck Association;