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Evening star., 1938-11-25
PopuIurizinq Finqerprints

That a f1ngerprlnt no longer is
regarded as the mark of a criminal
is apparent from an announcement
that the millionth personal identifl-
cation card, just t1led at the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, is that of
a twelve-year-ol schoolboy in Oak
land, California. His fingerprints and
other Identification data were among
large number sent in by civic
organization sponsoring the finger
printing of school children.
The boys fingerprints were not
placed among those of kidnapers,
bandits and other criminals. They
were consigned to a special non
criminal file in the civil Identification
section of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, where repose the
prints Of other law-abiding citizens
desiring the identification protection
that IS afforded by Autobiography, as
the science Of fingerprinting is
known.
Records Of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation show that from Janu-
ary through October of this year the
identification division received fin
gerprint impressions of 1854 un-
known dead persons. Some of these
individuals had been killed in rail-
road, automobile, airplane and other
accidents; some had been fire or
storm victims, some had dropped
dead in public places, some were sui
cides, some had been murdered, some
had been killed while resisting arrest.
approximately one-third of these
unfortunates were identified by Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation finger
print examiners. For the other two
thirds no f1ngerprint record-crim-
inal or non n-criminal-could be found,
and most Of these unidentified bodies
were buried in potter's fields. More
than 10000 persons reported missing
last year have never been found. A
considerable number of these un-
doubtedly have ended in unmarked
graves.
The value of fngerprinting for
general Identification purposes has
become widely recognized in recent
years. The stigma which once at
tached to the practice is disappear
ing as citizens learn the advantages
- Il
of record at the Federal Bureau Of
Investigation. Universal f1ngerprint-
ing, Objectionable to many persons
if compulsion is implied, may yet
arrive-not by law, but by voluntary
choice of an enlightened citizenry.
Evening star., 1938-11-25
Patriotic Revival

Perhaps the greatest weakness, Of
free men today has been their tend
ency to accept too lightly the price
less personal liberties that have
been handed down from ancestors
who knew there could be no liberty
without sacrifice. The present gen.
Grafton of Americans, beneficiaries
of concept of human freedom that
was established for them by others,
have fallen into the error of taking
their good fortune too much for
granted, oblivious to the indisputable
lesson of history that individual
liberties can not survive unless they
are vigilantly safeguarded.
There can be little doubt that
alien doctrines have gained foot
hold in this country today. They do
not as yet constitute a serious
threat to the American way of life,
and it is probably quite true that the
vast majority of Americans have no
desire to surrender the liberties guar
anteed to them by our Constitution.
But it must be remembered that the
same thing was true of the people
of Rome, Greece, Italy and Germany,
to mention a few, who won and lost
republican forms of government.
With world civilization as we know
it engaged in it's supreme struggle
for survival, it becomes the duty of
every American to render real, not
lip service, to the cause of democracy.
To that end the United States Flag
Association has announced the open
ing of a national patriotic revival
whereby the patriotic service of the
Nation is to be Systematically and
energetically mobilized to help up
hold and perpetuate the institutions
of American democracy"
That is an undertaking which
merits the wholehearted support of
every man, woman and child
throughout the country 1t is not
an empty chauvinistic gesture, but
a timely effort to interest Americans
in the vital teachings of "Ameri-
canism."
Evening star., 1938-11-25
Urges Scientific Solution
OF Unemployment Problem.

To the Editor OF The Star:
1t would seem that the present ad-
ministration or the leaders of industry
should come forward with plan for
absorbing all of the marketable unem-
ployed. With fairly adequate personnel
classifications available by the Federal
Unemployment ofices throughout the
country, the qualifications of the indi-
viduals unemployed could be immedi-
ately available to the leaders Of industry
should they indicate desire to do their
part. During the past eight years Of
depression I have observed no scientific
plan by either the industrial, manu-
featuring, retail, or service agencies for
general unemployment. At the same
time one has only to glance at the
financial sections Of the newspapers to
see the rapid increase in both gross
and net profits of many Of the large
corporations.
Inasmuch as scientific methods are
generally employed in the operation Of
a business 1t would seem logical that
some plan for the ALLEGATION Of all the
marketable unemployed might be worked
out on the basis of changes in gross
profits of the different industries. If the
aged and handicapped were excluded and
the marketable ones divided up on pro
rata basis and assigned to the various
industries it would both reduce the
Governments cost and provide greater
production, and at the same time keep
up consuming power. This additional
cost of labor, with perhaps slight re-
duction in net profit per worker. should
prove much cheaper to the business
firms than additional taxes for support
ing the unemployed. There is one thing
certain; business can not have lower
taxes and at the same time have less
spent for the unemployed. A few extra
workers to each firm, doing the work a
little better, making even slight improve
ments in the old methods, would prove
just as economical to the individual
business firm and preclude higher and
higher taxes. Certainly such an attitude
toward the unemployed would be much
more in keeping with the American
traditions of fair play.
With industrys present attitude toward
the unemployed, many of us begin to
wonder if democracy is worth it or not.
We are getting old, many are already
old, and In few years we who are In
our prime will be worthless in the labor
market, even the highly educated.
ELMER g. CROWELL.
Evening star., 1938-11-25
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
True Worth.

True Worth.
Oh. the man with the sweet-voiced violin
Is wizard whose delicate wand
Shuts out all the world, with its heart
less din,
And transports us to wonderland.
And the man with the brush makes the
colors blend
In glory that never fails,
And yet in the end we must all depend
On the man with the hammer and
nails.
The pen may plod and the ink may flow
Through precept and prayer and proof,
But we yearn, perforce, when the bleak
winds blow,
For the builder of walls and roof.
Here's to the artist, scholar and soldier,
too,
AS each toward flames summit scales,
And tribute in passing-'tis sure his
due
To the man with the hammer and
nails.
Evening star., 1938-11-25
THIS AND THAT
By Charles +. TrdcetDtu.

difficulties Of trying to make q station
which will cut out pigeons and other
undesired creatures, such as squirrels.
The time and energy spent inventing
such feeding station Is more or less
wasted. AL things at large are hungry,
and ought to have access to food. Only
in this spirit does feeding the birds be-
come what 1t may be, and is with for
tunately large number of persons.
AS stated beforehand, two or three
years Of feeding activities may be re-
uuired for the amateur bird observer to
get into this mood, but once he or she
does, the rewards are great, for then,
and then only, the thing is unsullied by
hate, that fearful human emotion, all the
more terrible because it is purely human.
Animals, one may feel, never hate in the
same sense; hate is essentially human,
alas.
Consider a snowy landscape, pure
white, tinged with edges of divine blue,
such as one may see shortly after the
fall has ceased, but before man and his
machines have had chance to sully it.
Often the bird lover, or SO he or she
thinks, requires at least two or three
years to get into the state Of mind in
which the thoughts as to bird feeding
are kept unspoiled. Up to then there
are muddy marks Of hate-hate for
pigeons, squirrels, cats, dogs, hawks and
many others; but in time these orange
stains vanish from the scene, and all
that come are accepted.
It is realized that the birds are wise.
They, as a tribe of created things, are
very old, among the Oldest, and they
know what is good for them and what
is not. If a pigeon hawk perches in the
tree above their feeder, they know 1t be-
fore the gazer from the window. Prompt
ly they disappear from the scene, and
they do not come back for one or two
hours, and then only hesitatingly. If
cat approaches, they fly up, but they are
used to cats, and really haven't much
fear of them. But suppose the observer
is not a philosopher? Why, then, he or
she withdraws from the birds their capa-
bilities and sees them all slaughtered
at once, something which never hap
pens, actually, but only in mind sur
charged with undesirable emotion.
4 ~
Bird feeding, honestly approached,
and continued long enough, will help
remove these emotions from any mind,
we feel sure.
Thus bird feeding, continued all fall
and winter. is more than helping hand
in what at times seems helpless world.
1t becomes real course in philosophy,
a training course for the mind out of
school.
1t brings a faith in the Creator and
His created. The heart advances from
fear to peace, and the mind from hatred
to love; the plan Of nature is seen to be
not as bad as one had imagined; one
bird may be lost, but birds 90 on. The
answer to the divine question is larger
than one had thought; it cannot be
known in lifetime. or maybe two life
times
Evening star., 1938-11-25
Appeal to Disney

A short while ago a special dis
patch from Rome to various Ameri-
can papers stated that the Italian
government had barred Mickey
Mouse as entirely too tender for the
young. Mickey was unsuitable for
Italian children's minds, which had
to be guided to the imperial spirit
of the Fascist revolution" So de-
cided the National Conference on
Juvenile Literature. Orders had been
issued to all editors Of children's
magazines and papers to 60 out Of
Evening star., 1938-11-25

their way to exhort racial purity
and the Imperial, Fascist and Mus
solinian tone in which they live"
The reason given was that the chill
dren Of today are destined to be the
fighters of tomorrow, and that all
Italian youth should be trained in
the principles OF sleeping with the
head on knapsack." AS final and
delicious touch of irony, the locale
of this decision was, of all places,
Bologna.
In this wise it had been intended
that Fascist culture be preserved for
the future benefit of the world. The
nation that withstood the mighty
power of Ethiopia was not to be
permitted to perish from the earth.
Uncontaminated by contact with
Mickey Mouse, the Fascist children,
when they could spare time from
military maneuvers, were supposed
to absorb home talent only, such as
the stirring adventures of Bologna
Beppo, the Boy Bomber.
But something went wrong with
the program. For some unknown
reason Mickey has been removed
from the Italian doghouse and can
circulate more or less freely in Italy,
provided that he uses hair dye to kill
the curse of blondness and make
him eligible for membership in the
Fascist party. So, with the belliger-
ence of Italian kindergarten alumni
temporarily toned down, America has
a breathing spell. 1t should be used
wisely. While it is true that Ameri-
cans are almost hopelessly cursed
with a desire for peace, it may still
be possible to correct such deplor-
able condition. Let Mr.. Disney con-
tinue to export the old style sissy
edition of Mickey Mouse, starting a
new one for home consumption. In
the American edition fix him up so
he can take it, Walter. Make him
tough and do your bit to save Ameri-
ca from extinction. You don't want
to be known as the Benedict Arnold
OF the twentieth century, do you?
Evening star., 1938-11-25
Henry Article Should Renew
Interest In Plant Chemistry.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The pages OF The Star, daily, faith
fully, report what is new in every field
of human endeavor.
In the column, OF Stars, Men and
Atoms, IN your paper for November IS
something new is reported Of a co-opera-
tive attack on the nature Of the ash Of
plant leaves. The leaves Of hickory
tree are enlightening us as to what goes
on in plants.
Even in our enlightened age there is
considerable mystery as to what nature
is actually accomplishing within the cells
of the leaves Of plants. The most refined
technique available should give us some
clue as to what nature can and does
accomplish when she causes leaves to
grow.
We all know that when leaves grow
that they produce our foodstuffs and are
our source of life. Many of the involved
chemical processes are yet far beyond the
knowledge. Of men.
The simple question is raised: Are the
ClCIllclltS pICoCIlt AlC4C Ou CdAtI 1lACQ
and stable, or are there transformations
going on under our very eyes and we see
them not?
The work reported is undoubtedly q
step in the right direction but no real
investigator can rest till he knows with
certainty whence the rare elements which
are present in normal green leaves.
Here is question that can and should
be answered, for men, technique and the
desire to know all are available today.
Fundamental questions correctly an
swered should give men renewed interest
in science and In life and should lead to
the solution Of other problems which are
Of great practical Importance to men
everywhere.
FRANK MILTON sCHERTZ.
November Is.
Evening star., 1938-11-25
Un Buen Viuie

Never since American statesmen of
other times left home shores on mis-
sions associated with war or peace
for the United States has any sailed
away on business more momentous
than that which takes Cordell Hull
to South America today. The tasks
awaiting him and his associates at
the Eighth Conference of American
States at Lima are of transcendent
Importance to this Hemisphere, and,
because of our own geogra phical,
political and economic stature, are,
of course, of supreme significance to
the government and people of the
United States. President Roosevelt's
Secretary of State embarks for Peru,
supported by the faith of his coun-
trymen that he is ideally equipped
to meet the responsibilities that he
Is about to face.
They are of many facets. But
hardly any approximates in gravity
that which Mr.. Roosevelt has defined
as the problem of continental de-
fense"-WayS and means of safe
guarding the security of all the
Americas from Hudson Bay to TERRA
del Fuego" At no time since the
sister republics achieved their inde-
pendence, as the President recently
pointed out, has the American way,
the way of democracy, been so men
aced by hostile influences and
!deologies. When Mr.. Roosevelt
speaks of continental defense, he
means not only such defense as
armies, navies and air forces can
offer against attack coming from
either the Atlantic or the Pacific.
He also means defense against those
political borings from within, dis
guised as ''isms" of one breed or
another, which have the common
purpose of undermining and Destroy
ing the system of free government
established on this continent and
which its inhabitants are determined
shall not perish from the Ameri-
can earth.
Lima is not destined to be a bed
of roses. The conference agenda
bristle with contentious matter.
Fascist doctrine has penetrated into
more than one Latin American
regime. Germany's economic sys-
tenn of barter and artificial marks, as
opposed to the unfettered, reciprocal
trade idea so passionately advocated
by Mr.. Hull, has made no little head
way beyond the Isthmus. The ideal
of continental defense, in which the
COLOSSUS of the North" should not
bear a disproportionate share, has
not yet permeated all of the Ameri-
can republics.
But the chief of the United States
delegation embarks upon this sea Of
difficulties and divergent views with
the priceless advantage of having
won his spurs at Montevideo in 1888
and at Buenos Aires in 1886 as
transparency sincere exponent Of
the good neighbor policy and as a
statesman bent exclusively upon
achievement of what is best and fair
for all Of the Americas.
The STAR confident it speaks for
their compatriots all, wishes Mr. Hull
and his coadjutors aboard the Santa
Clara un buen viaje.
Evening star., 1938-11-25

Whitley, the English sparrow. is back.
She few in Sunday afternoon, alight-
ing at the feeding station just as If she
had never been away.
It was q year and a day, exactly, since
we had seen Whitley, sometimes called
Whitney.
Whitley, or Whitney, as one chooses, is
a half white bird, her tail and wings be-
ing fecked, spotted and otherwise
adorned.
This makes her unique among the SO
to 100 of her species which come to the
feeder in ever increasing numbers from
now on.
The peak of English sparrow attend
ance arrives in January, especially II
there is snow and ice.
Right now there are perhaps two
dozen Of these sparrows, with which ap-
pear a few white-throated sparrows, q
pair Of song sparrows, some chicadees,
cardinals, bluejays and nuthatches. Oc.
casionally there is small woodpecker,
the doWny, and from time to time q
mocking bird (Which some people mis-
take for a catbird. The latter does not
winter hereabouts).
The English sparrows are the main
guests as to numbers.
It requires at least two or three years
of intensive feeding for the observer to
get himself into philosophical frame Of
mind about this.
If one could have the choicer birds,
and let the sparrows 60 some place else!
There is another good feeding station
down the street-why don't they go
there?
That is the way one feels, at first.
In time, the better view prevails, that
English sparrows are birds, too, and quite
as interesting as any, although lacking
the colorful feathers and slightly more
engaging ways. Let us emphasize that.
Chickadees make mighty appeal, but it
Is mostly due to their smallness, COM
bined with their coloration. The male
cardinal would not outrank a sparrow,
in general interest, If it were not for his
gay coat of scarlet.
All birds act amazingly alike.
Critics Of the English sparrows speak
of their fighting, but actually they do no
such thing.
The constant hopping around which
they do at feeding station is not fight
ing in any sense. They are active little
birds and this compels them to be always
on the 60. They are "go-getters," to use
an expression once much in vogue; if
what it stood for is no longer regarded
quite as highly as it was, it has no con-
notation but good in regard to the men,
bers of the sparrow family. They are
peppy to a degree, but actually fight
each other very little. The English vari-
ety. for instance, although far outnum-
bering the white-throated, or the charm
ing song sparrow. never chases either Of
them. All eat together in peace.
1t is the bluejay OF which most birds
are afraid, but who would deny him en-.
trance to the feeder? That is one OF the
Evening star., 1938-11-25
Former German Colonies Urged
As Refuge for Jews.

To the Editor Of The Star:
At this time the representatives Of the
great democracies are rushing to meet
in conference to decide the fate Of over
half a million Jews. Obviously, they are
to be evacuated from the areas within
which they are being prosecuted. and
the questions to be settled at this con-
ference are simply those relating to the
ultimate destination Of these Jews and
methods Of carrying out their rehabili-
tation.
I can't believe there is any question in
the minds Of any one in the world as to
who Is going to pay the bill. Uncle Sam
will sign . check for so per cent of the
bill and accept notes on loans to, our
cousins" for the balance, Of which, say
5 per cent, viii be repayed, provided, Of
Evening star., 1938-11-25
One Good Reason.

$50 you think an airplane would be
the best thing for an explorer to use in
trying for the North Pole"
Eyes," answered the man who is afraid
of flying. THE man who uses an air.
plane has at the very outset a good
excuse for not reaching his destination"
Evening star., 1938-11-25

Premier Mussolini warns against
men who "are dreaming of specula-
tive revenge" Most revenges are
speculative until they occur. None
is impossible. He himself ought to
know that by this time, and Of his
own experience.
Evening star., 1938-11-25
Moody.

just now the janitor doth seem
New power daily to reveal;
He generously turns on the steam,
Or haughtily turns on his heel.
Evening star., 1938-11-25
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Evening star., 1938-11-25
Smoked Out
From tho Lowell Leader.

From tho Lowell Leader.
There's one advantage in political
campaigning over the radio. For the
most part 1t precludes the giving or re-
ceivihg Of campaign cigars.
Evening star., 1938-11-25
Extremes.

Fate, like the weather, rules our lot,
AS through this world we're tossed.
It's either making things too hot,
Or else it's just frost.
Evening star., 1938-11-25

Which will give out first, the
Reichs fast dwindling gold reserve,
or the rapidly expiring patience of
the civilized world?
Evening star., 1938-11-25
Consideration.

THAT man is positively dishonest!"
said the protesting citizen.
no" Answered Senator Sorghum.
"He isn't as culpable as you think He
merely lacks the high intelligence which
enables man to exercise fine ethical
discrimination"
Evening star., 1938-11-25

"Good advice may not often be took"
said Uncle Eben. "But . man allus hab
so much fun givin' 1t dat 1t ain uebber
right to say 1t was wasted"
Evening star., 1938-11-25
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Evening star., 1938-11-25

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Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, sound
like a contest to decide who has the
strongest lungs or the weakest ears"
Evening star., 1938-11-25
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