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METALLIC INDIGESTION

Whitby, Ont.-CUP)-When Rob- ert Twiggs COW died the farmer scratched his head and wondered
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Forest Companions
 To Elect Tonight
MendeIssOhn Male Chorus to Entertain at Bible Class
 Workers Meeting March 2l
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Mrs R. W. Henion-17S6 Thomaston Ave.-TeL s-5462

Mrs. Kenneth Hamilin of Penn broke avenue is patient at the Waterbury hospital. She entered Saturday.
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Director

second annual musicale met yester
 day afternoon for reports and final action. The popular event will be held tomorrow evening in Bucking
 ham hall. A program of appropri- ate music for St. Patrick's Day will be presented under the direction of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-15

Hams who had 127. The scores were as follows:
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Drill holes directly below ends of limbs, IS inches apart and l8 inches deep. with a crOwbar. use Well-rotted animal manure or decayed vegetable matter. Oak leaves are better. Acidify soil by applying handful of aluminium sulphate to each large plant.
 A later article in this series will discuss fertilizer for grass.
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Tree StumpS

NEXT: Insects and Diseases.
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Evening star., 1938-03-15

structures they have overlooked the
fact that In establishing the station at
Twelfth and E streets southwest they
are about to create a very serious traf-
flc problem in an area already saturated
with traffic during the very hours when
motorists will be expected to call to
have their cars tested.
The site selected for one Of the sta
tions is In the midst of the wholesale
market district. Twelfth street now is
one of the very few streets passing di-
rectly through the Mall to the water
front. E street stops at Twelfth street,
running into a freight yard where cars
are constantly being unloaded Heavy
and light trucks as well as passenger
cars jam the area during all working
hours of the day. Furthermore Twelfth
street at Maryland avenue runs into a
bottle neck as it crosses the railroad
Waduct, the street narrowing sharply
at this point, which is but scant half
a block away from the point selected
for the proposed testing station.
1t would appear that the controlling
factor in the selection of this site was
that the District already owns it, and
although the director of vehicles and
traffic was member of the committee
appointed to select the site, the fact
that 1t Is to be placed in an area which,
under even present conditions, Is af-
f1icted with very serious traffic all
ment would indicate that little consid-
Grafton was given to the motorist who,
in the final analysis, is to pay the bill.
Taxed as he is at every turn of his
motor, the automobile owner is GER
tainly entitled to more consideration in
the selection of a place where he is
forced to go in order to have his car
tested.
From standpoint of safety and acci-
dent prevention alone, the Commits
sioners should reconsider their selection
of this site, for in adding to an already
serious traffic problem innumerable ac-
cidents are almost certain to follow,
and while they, for the most part, may
only result in dented tenders and dis
turbed peace of minds, motorists are en-
titled to have more attention paid to
well-being.
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them, in order to sing them. This should
be resisted.
The trouble comes in when one ae-
tually makes some oral approximAt Ation
to the sounds. Human pride preens it
self.
Not bad" the imitator says to himself.
II his friends agree with him, he is
ruined for life.
Thereafter the bird Says" what he
says 1t says, as far as he Is concerned.
80 ~
There is 4 real psychological hazard
to this.
After one has heard his wood thrush
singing MARY Lee" or some such name
one never hears 1t thereafter again with
out having those syllables obtrude upon
his mind.
The listener may have forgotten about
Mary Lee, whoever she might be, and
rather wish he could hear some other
name, but Mary Lee the bird says for
life.
This insistence on mere human things,
in regard to these feathered creatures,
Is unfortunate.
It humanizes them too much.
Their very charm is that they are not
human. They neither live nor eat like
us. and do not understand us very we'll.
One OF the first steps in making little
humans out Of them, or, rather, at
tempting to do so, Is to make them
talk"
This actually is reserved fof a very few
birds, the famous jackdaw OF Europe,
the pollparrots, and the Mynah bird, and
the cockatoos. The crow, If its tongue is
split, can be taught few words. No
doubt there are other birds with this
rather dubious accomplishment.
The great body of the birds, fortu-
nately for them, cannot be taught any,
thing. They are not experts" in our
human sense, thank Heaven. They can
not read books. and thus come back at
US with heavy load of doubtful wisdom.
Perhaps we would do better If we
didn't attempt to initiate the birds
songs in any way. Just let them sing.
None of us tries to initiate a symphony
orchestra. We know it is impossible
Ordinarily we do not try to tell some
one else how a great singer sings. We
insist that he hear him him or her.
Maybe we would do better by ourselves
and the birds If We did more listening
"how they CO."
If no one said. "oh, the cardinal goes
like this" or "the song sparrow makes
this sort of noise"
Then every one interested in learning
something about birds would be forced
to do his own listening.
= X
No time in the year is quite 50 good
for this as that spring about to begin, no
matter how the weather looks.
Getting ready for the migratory birds
means more than just putting the. garden
into shape for their best reception.
1t also means putting our minds into
the right frames. It means sharpening
the ears, and keeping them wide open,
especially in the early morning.
The famous choral of the dawn, be-
ginning just before light, is unknown to
late sleepers.
All the birds sing together, 50 that not
even the most rabid advocate Of words
for them would try to initiate them then.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Temperate Opinion.

In time Of war it is exceedingly Diff
cult, If not altogether impossible, to be
temperate in opinion. Even Roman
ROLAND in the years between 1914 and
1918 found himself unable to rise alto
gether, as he desired, above the battle"
The effort made him professional paci-
fist, as fanatical and bigoted as the
average doctrinaire militarist. Less
gentle souls, meanwhile. in their hatred
Of Kaiserism, transcended the language
OF the hottest apologists for the Kaiser.
Similarly, at the present moment one
hears expressions concerning Hitler
which represent Der Fuehrer's intoler-
ance and lack of charitable nberality so
definitely as to seem mere echoes of
his most provocative speeches. The
psychology Of conflict prompts extrava-
gance Of utterance on every side, among
all parties and classes, even among in
dividuals who normally are philosophic
in judgment. .a4
To illustrate the problem, let this story
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THIS AND THAT
~ CHARLES Z. TRAcEHBLL.

A correspondent, writing from the Vi
cinity Of Rock Creek Park, says that he
often has listened to the cardinal, but
has yet to learn the words that the bird
sings.
He never will know, despite the many
attempts Of ornithologists and others to
help him.
The plain fact is that neither the
cardinal nor any other bird uses words
as we know them.
It is a pleasant fancy to attempt to
make EN- use words, but 1t simply isn't
so-they don't, they never have, and
they never will.
Whose language would they use?
Is the cardinal English, or is he
Dutch? Would the bluebird choose to
use the Choctaw tongue, or the Creek
Surely the birds of America, all those
in Audubon's famous plates, would be
much harassed to know which tongue to
select, If they had to model their songs
on the languages spoken in this coun-
try today.
Lets all sing like the brides sing,
Tweet, tweet. tweet, tweet, tweet!"
That is really about as far as one ought
to 60, in giving syllables to bird songs.
No one attempts to put down the notes
Of flute In spoken language, so why try
to do 1t with the songs of the birds?
The more one studies the songsters,
and admires their songs, the more sure
he is to refuse to commit himself on
this matter.
He knows that the birds are not "sing-
ing" in the sense we mean, using words
set to music.
Put that way. every one can see it is
absurd to think of birds using words
which mean something in English. or
Spanish, or French, or any other Ian
guage.
That it is natural enough for people
who listen to these outpOurings, espe-
cially in spring and summer, to want to
make them mean something" no one
would contest.
The desire is as natural as the sing
ing itself. Sometimes the results have
been rather good. "Whip-poor-will" is an
outstanding example. The bird really
does seem to SAY" that.
Actually, however, 1t doesn't, does it?
Bird study would be helped. we believe,
II all attempts to make the brides SAY
words" were given up. and instead their
songs were put down phonetically, as far
as possible.
If this could not be achieved, then
perhaps it might be good thing to for
geS about the songs In print. In talking
about the birds 1t still would be possible
to whistle. Whistling is, after ALL the
closest approximation to their notes.
Some observers are very good at whist
ling the songs. Indeed. there have been
several famous bird-song imitators in
vaudeville, and these have been re-
corded on some Of the older discs.
The latest method Of recording bird
Songs is first to catch them with song
camera" utilizing a sound track, then
play this back for recording on disc.
-
All amateur lovers of birds will do
well to whistle the songs they hear.
The temptation will be to fit words to
Evening star., 1938-03-15

control delegates to the 1910 Democratic
National Convention and use the Penn
sylvania victory as a springboard to the
presidency. A vote for Kennedy is q
vote for Lewis and If you nominate Ken
nedy you nominate Lewis" He charged
Lewis Of being a bad influence in
labor" He asserted he was against
Guf1ey for Governor because the Senator
never gave the Philadelphia organiza-
tion q decent Federal berth.
Appealing for united support, Kelly
served notice on South Philadelphia ward
leaders, who may be compelled to sup
port Attorney General Charles J. Mar
giotti, that they should take leave Of
absence from the City Committee until
after the primaries in the event they
can't back the Earle e-Jones- -Mundy-Logu
ticket.
He defended McCloskey against the
charge Of being . contractor and being
interested In politics, asserting there
was nothing "@ooksd" IN ths dual role.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

About 100000 900 years ago the trllo-
bites-crablike creatures who were the
dominant animals on earth when the
earliest life records appear In the rocks
became extinct.
A few million years later the cephalo-
pods and ammonites. fearsome creatures
who succeeded the trilobites as the mas
ters of creation. disappeared.
Seventy or eighty million years ago
the monster dinosaurs, hugest living
things the earth has known, passed from
the stage forever.
About 10000 years ago died the last
of those fur-covered elephants, the
mammothS.
Nobody can offer more than plausible
theory as to why any Of these species
was unable to continue. Certain 1t Is
that whole races were not wiped out IN
great catastrophes. They were thou
sands and millions Of years IN dying.
They died so slowly that they had no
realization Of discomfort.
But could they have done anything
about it? The trilobites, the cephalo-
pods and the dinosaurs, Of course, were
brainless creatures. But even II there
had been super er-intelligences among
them. comparable to human beings,
could they have gotten together In con-
vention and blocked the trend to ex-
tinction?
That seems to be about the situation
in which the human race now nnos IT.
self, It has been realized for long
time that some day there will be last
man." but this day has been placed lar
in the future when changed conditions
on earth will have rendered human exist
ence impractical and unendurable.
But, it seems, we may not have to
wait 50 long. There are trends at work.
even now, which make ''the last man"
a possibility in a relatively short time
saw q few thousand years. It might be
even much shorter than that; for the
process is cumulative. A short life may
be the penalty the race must pay 1or
civilization.
Something of the sort was stressed by
DR.. Samuel j. Holmes, professor OF
zoology at the University Of California,
at recent conference Of sociologists
here. The biggest factor at work Is the
falling birth rate in the Western World.
The condition is especially apparent
In the cities, he stressed. A recent study
Of the net reproductive rate of cities Of
the United States, he said, shows that
without exception every city Of more
than 100000 inhabitants comes very far
from reproducing its numbers and that
there are only two cities, both with large
foreign populations, whose rate is slightly
above the maintenance level.
Both in Europe and the United
States" DR.. Holmes said, "cities are
racially destructive" Since they are
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growing disproportionately in size and
racial destructiveness, the falling birth
rate which now has set in In rural areas
is a portentious sign. The growth of in
dustry, which is largely responsible for
our enormous urban expansion, Is con-
suming our human resources at rapid
rate. 1t does not kill people 50 rapidly
as formerly through 0vercrowding, dis
ease and the barbarities Of child labor,
but 1t accomplishes the same end
through the less painful process Of
sterility. The hungry maws Of our in
dustrial centers will soon call for human
victims more rapidly than they can be
supplied by their relatively stagnant
or slowly depopulating rural surround
ings."
Children in cities are a decided eco
nomic liability, he pointed out, and most
persons do not want more than two chill
dren, if they have to deprive themselves
of some of the luxuries Of life for their
support. Under these conditions, he
said "the only measure that has any
promise of success is to relieve parents
Of some, at least, OF the penalties of
parenthood. This principle has been
recognized by the family allowance sys-
tenn which was adopted by several Eu-
ropean countries after the World War,
but the stipends offered were too small
to have any clearly demonstrable effect
on the birth rate"
"Such support should not be regarded
as charity or as an effort to bribe people
to have children" he continued. 1T is
simply a belated recognition of a just
obligation. No one can gainsay the fact
that having children and bringing them
up to be valuable members of society is
q valuable service to the State. A large
part of the labor and earnings of par
ents 60 to the rearing Of children. Now
when children are coming to be more
and more Of q financial burden, the un-
paid contributions and sacrifices which
society expects parents to make are con-
siderably increased. Quite naturally
people are beginning to balk."
There Is little hope, Prof. Holmes said,
Of improving the race through positive
eugenics." Sterilization of the mentally
defective and abnormal, he said, would
be only a drop in the bucket compared
with the voluntary sterilization" of the
more intelligent.
How rapidly the process is going on
Is a matter of opinion" he said. But
unless we are prepared. to affirm that
we really have no way OF discriminating
intelligent people from stupid ones, we
must concede that the more stupid are
reproducing more rapidly than the in
telligent. If native intelligence depends
to q considerable extent on heredity,
successive generations can hardly fail
to become lower in their intellectual en-
dowments."
It is of no use, he stressed, to appeal
to people to raise more children In order
to save the race. There must be an
appeal to selfish interests, probably by
actual payments Of money.
I'VE cannot expect" he said, indi-
viduals to be too generous to society and
to give half their lives to rearing chill
dren for 1t without compensation. So
ciety has exploited the individual in this
respect for . long time. It cannot count
on going on its previous course If 1t Is to
continue to exist"
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Remembered With Tears.

Herbert Hoover is not a man much
given to the expression of emotion, but
those who have the privilege of being
acquainted with him could understand
the report that he wept when he re-
turned to Belgium. Similarly, there
must have been other Americans who
were unable to restrain their tears when
they heard of the troubles which came
to Vienna last week. People are like
that. They. remember. sometimes in
spite of wish to forget.
For example, an English novelist once
wrote story about middle-aged wom-
an who, toiling in London, saved pennies
against the opportunity to revisit the
village in which she had been born.
Realization of her dream at last was
granted her, and she journeyed back to
the unmarked spot where first she had
seen the dawn. But the whole aspect
of the countryside was changed, her
home had disappeared, no neighbor
recalled her. She spent hours seeking
a familiar landmark. Then. in the end,
she accepted the verdict of the years,
was philosophically stolid about her de-
feat. 1t was consolation to have made
the attempt. If the past had vanished
utterly, it was helpful to be assured of
the fact conclusively.
The average tourist going abroad ac-
cumulates impressions of nations and
their cities. He takes those pictures
into his heart. They remain with him
in state of fixation No later chance
destroys them the while he lives. At
leisure he ponders them as though
they were an album of photographs.
When challenged, he can conjure up the
spectacle of the setting sun ablaze around
the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the glory
of the Houses of Parliament and West
minister Abbey in London Illuminated
for the jubilee of George v, the bat
tered grandeur of the Forum fianked
by the Victor Emmanuel Memorial in
Rome, the tender violet-colored sky of
Athens over the broken fragments of
the Parthenon.
Perhaps there are thousands who, In
like manner, may wander again in the
streets of Austria's once gay and care
less capital. If so, they need not be
told that the Danube is not blue. But
what does detail signify? Vienna was
charming with all her faults, attractive
in her many virtues. Civilized, she shell
tered a gracious community. Her music
was no accident. Hence the hope that
she may survive her present ordeal.
Should she fail, she still would be I'M
mortal so long as her friends remember.
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be told: In 1896 the football team Of
the University of Minnesota had been
undefeated through q long series Of
games. Then, suddenly, 1t was soundly
thrashed by = rival aggregation from
Northwestern. Whereupon = Minneap-
oils girl broke her engagement to an
Evanston boy. Il couldn't be happy
married TO- anybody who got any salts
faction out Of such an accident" she
wrote to him.
Public passion is largely unreasonable.
James Russell Lowell wss right when
he declared: Men acting gregariously
are always in extremes" He might also
have observed that hermits are not ex-
empt from the rule. The most isolated
characters on occasion manifest q rigid
dogmatism. 1t probably is natural that
the human brain and heart should wax
feverish now and again. Patterns Of
thought are subconsciously initiated;
emotions are contagious.
But America Is enamored of peace.
The current crisis stirs the indignation
Of millions and it would be useless to
deny the fact, yet experience has taught
the people of the United States the
danger of being entangled IN European
quarrels and nobody on this side of the
Atlantic Is ready to fight foreign battle.
In the interest Of self-preservation, If
nothing else, 1t will be wise to keep as
calm as possible. Senator F. Ryan Duffy
of Wisconsin has testified for a much
more numerous company than that Of
his own constituents in his. appeal for
the maintenance Of temperate point
Of view.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
A Legal Traffic Problem.

The District Commissioners have
taken prompt steps to establish the sta
tions for the testing of automobiles to
determine their fitness to be on the
highway, and for this they should be
highly commended. But it is apparent
that IN approving the plans Of the
committee appointed to locate these
Evening star., 1938-03-15

throwing too great responsibility on his
pay roll when in an evening of gaiety
some of the least remunerated talent
steps forward to claim the biggest ap-
plause.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

Washington, D. c., has accomplished
wonders with its Zoo and without calling
in the aids of human speech as it is
practiced at present. The Japanese Ian
guage and the chant Of the tobacco auc-
tioneer both indicate that we have a
long way to 60 before nations make a
claim to mutual comprehensibility.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

A member of the T. v. A. group Of
contenders declares that only i'll health
will cause him to lose interest. Physi-
clans may have to go step further in
indicating the difference between a sense
of indignation and an attack requiring
medical care.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

A few bars of music carry great effect
in a crisis like the present one. While
Hitler announces the status of Austria, a
few strains from that nations favorite
waltz song. THE Blue Danube" can do
no harm.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

Even nations that have had severe ex-
perience apparently incline to the belief
that it is better to 90 on with trade
than with ancient arguments concern
ing its formalities.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

Science has indeed undertaken a great
work when it assumes to trace qualities
in human beings as accurately as it does
in race horses.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

Germany indicates a desire to have
Austria do exactly as she wants provided
she will listen to reason and . great
deal Of 1t.
Evening star., 1938-03-15

One of the questions soon to be turned
over to the antiquarians will be that of
whether prestige in modern mustaches
is to go to Mr.. Chaplin or Mr. Hitler.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
No Baseball Recession.

From the Helena Mont.) Independent.
AS proof that the recession Is not rec
ognized any longer, we have only to
study the demands Of some of baSeball's
prima donnas for higher salaries.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Alibi.

From the Battle Creek Dnauirsr-Nswh
That Chicago boy who chopped down
neighbors elm tree 'practicing" for q
washington dramatization at his school
must be credited with an ironclad 4libi.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Originality.

From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
You can Judge the extent Of originality
In Q truly new idea BY the extent Of the
spontaneous oppoHtion to Il.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Relief Surplus.

Prom the Sioux City Tribune.
Another problem confronting society is
what to do with the relief agents after
all the unemployed have been relieved.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Women's Hats.

From the Nashville Banner.
Milliners now design bonnets to suit
the moods Of their patrons. What .
frame Of mind some Of our women must
hAvo hoon h this yoarl
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Scraping and Turning.

Another Government economist says
We are scraping the bottom Of the recess
sion. That Is becoming about a. popular
as turning the corner Of the depression.
Evening star., 1938-03-15
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDEE JOHNSON.
Mental Interchange.

BY PH1LANDEE JOHNSON.
Mental Interchange.
I'm glad men sometimes disagree"
Said Hezekiah Bings.
"A sad monotony we'd see,
From common folks to kings,
If our opinions great or small
Should to one level sink
We should not have to talk at all
Or even try to think.
"Contending minds at last reveal
A way where paths are dark.
It is the clash of flint and steel
That brings the helpful spark.
And while hope we may be free
From hurt that conflict brings.
I'm glad folks sometimes disagree"
Said Hezekiah Bings.