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Evening star., 1938-09-13

birds" may be seen any day shuhiing
their paws through mixed seeds to get
at the sunflower seeds, whose taste is
evidently more nutty to them.
Some bird lovers try to keep the squir-
rels away from the main feeder by es-
tabliShing a smaller one at some dis
tance.
This one they stock with nothing but
sunfiower seeds. But whether this ruse
will work with these fellows is open to
question. Nothing seems to keep them
away, and no WONDER. for they are as
hungry as the birds. The nuts which
they industriously soaked away all sum-
mer are underground, not easy to find,
even If one is squirrel, whereas the
seeds and grains put out for the birds
are right at hand. Surely squirrel
would not be sensible II he passed up
such easy fodder for hard-to-ind food
which he must go to the trouble of
gnawing open after he finds it,
Squirrels and others in nature are no
fools-they take what is close and easy
to get.
Wherefore the person who begins bird
feeding this fall, if he has never done it
before, might as well be resigned to the
squirrels.
To try to keep them out, or to run
them away. IS more trouble than 1t is
worth. If the human being involved will
realize this at once. and stop worrying
about it, he will have a great deal more
fun out of his hobby.
If he has grown his own sunflowers,
he may pick and dry his own sunflower
seed. If not, let him purchase it, usually
at about IS cents per pound, depending
upon the summers commercial harvest
1t Is not necessary to use as much of
this as of the lesser priced seeds. The
birds love to hunt through the mass for
their favorite. We believe there can be
no doubt OF 1t being the favorite of
practically every bird which comes to
feeding station hereabouts.
The little chickadees, the titmice, the
nuthatches, the bluejays, cardinals. song
sparrows, large and small, they all love
the seeds Of the great sunflowers.
The sunflower belongs to the group Of
old-fashioned things which defy FASH
ions and crop up in every yard every so
often.
Lets plant sunfowers next spring"
Somebody says 1t, and some one else
keeps it in mind. That's the way it Is
with sunfloWers.
The first thing one knows, there they
are, huge disks Of yellow. nodding over
the fence. bearing the stalk half over
with their weight Of goodness.
Food-that is what that disk repre-
sents to any bird. and if it Is left there
until it ripens the songsters will have
high old time.
Owing to the rank growth, the sun
flower cannot be recommended for 'front.'
of-the-house planting. Behind garage
Is ideal.
The seed OF the sunfower is an achene,
its thin coat is what is cracked by the
birds and squirrels, and the oily fruit
inside is what is eaten.
Evening star., 1938-09-13

country there was steadily increasing
unemployment, national bank
ruptcy, economic collapse and human
tragedy" The broadcast was wired
back to America and the President was
swamped with demands that he no
longer supinely submit to the outrages
of the cohorts of Mr. Lewis. Mr.. Roose-
velt's position was rendered the more
delicate by the memory of gift" from
Mr.. Lewis of $3.50, 600, which he had ac-
cepted as a campaign contribution.
Goaded to desperation, Mr.. Roosevelt
lashed out at both capital and labor
with the hackneyed quotation "a plague
on both your houses!"
This savored too much of impartiality
to suit Mr.. Lewis, who felt that he had
briefed an advocate who was now pre-
suming to act as Judge He wrote to
the President, accusing him OF having
accepted payment from labor Csupped
at labor's table'D and then refusing to
discharge the obligation.
Mr.. Wilmoth seems to think that an
Englishman should show no critical
curiosity about American affairs. Our
mutual curiosity is sign OF friendship
Our recent trenchant criticism of the
Italian policy Of Mr.. Neville Chamber
lain was taken in good part.
My Manchester friend is q student
Of American history. He cannot see
why Andrew johnson was impeached
for his removal of Edwin NJ Stanton,
when there was real legal question
involved, and why Mr.. Roosevelt escaped
everything but criticism for his removal
of Federal Trade Commissioner Hum
phrey with no vestige Of right to take
such action, as was decided by unan-
imouS Supreme Court. In England
there is no discrimination between law
violators. saw the Terah Hooley in the
Old Bailey courtroom when he was
sentenced to jail for q very small fraud
q few thousand dollars. Hooley was
commoner. also saw the son of the
Marquis of Abergavenny sent to prison
from the same courtroom-for fraud,
and, q few months ago We read of the
conviction and sentence to Jail of q
British peer, the head of Britain's largest
shipping company and one of the most
popular figures in the city of London I
do not understand the reference to
"hushed up" crime in England. How is
he able to give so much detail if it is
"hushed up?
As to Mr.. Wilmoth's charge that Eng
land is jealous of 'our phenomenal sue
cess" read again John L. Lewis broad
cast, then the British Board of Trade
reports. England has emerged from
the depression. So has Canada. We
have sunk deeper in the mire. The only
persons know who are having "phe-
nomenal success" are the holders of
Government jobs or Government con-
tracts. England is sorry for us. not
jealous. HOWARD PITCHER OKIE.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL,

sundowers strike a perennially happy
note with many people. These may have
gardens Of their own, in which they grow
rare and expensive plants, but the sight
of one Of the great yellow disks nodding
high over a fence never fails to leave
q sense of elation.
Coarse, common, and beautiful-thatis
the sunflower. 1t is true that there are
refined specimens, with stalks only a
few feet high, and flowers only a few
inches across, but these are still sun
flowers.
Like the miniature cows. recently pub
licized, these small sunflowers prob
ably will never take the place Of the
great old specimens which grow IN barn.
yards the country over.
4
Few blooms seem to have more MEM
ory appeal than the common sunflower.
No doubt its height from the ground
Is part Of 1t.
see the great disks.
This fact sticks in their memory for
ever after, even If the sight OF the bloom
was prelude to dose of castor oil.
All flowers are memory's, In a very
good sense, but there seem to be some
species which hold this privilege above
others.
Mostly they are the common sorts,
such as the cup-shaped blossoms OF the
althea, the circle OF the daisy, the many
petaled asters.
Such elementary shapes burn them
selves into the memory as no exotic
blooms could. They are our peculiar
flowers for life.
In this class none has more definite
place than the sunflower.
While no one could regard it as a iv-
ing room ornament, 1t has q definite
place in the rear of the yard.
Probably its planting is a sure sign
that the planter is from q small town.
Nothing is more nostalgia than a SUM-
flower, unless it is an Hawaiian song.
If kept to the back of lot, the plant
has real place. and should be used
more than it is, for unlike many plants
it has futdre.
The birds, let us remember. like moth
ing better than sunflower seeds.
After the life of the plant has van
ished the great circle of seeds remains
10 furnish the very best KIND OF f0Od Tor
cardinals and many other birds which
winter with us.
Those who have planted sunflowers.
large or small, and who will permit the
stalks to remain. will be rewarded with
many birds.
Or the disks may be husked. as it were.
the seeds removed. and dried for the
winter, to be doled out to the birds as
occasion arises.
Not cardinals alone, however, love the
sunflower seeds; practically every bird
which stays here the year around enjoys
them. They crack the husk, and eat only
the softer center.
The nutriment in the seeds is very
large. Even squirrels prefer them to
larger bits. At any feeding station dur
ing the cold months these four Legged
Evening star., 1938-09-13
OF STARS,
MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science PROGRESS
in Field, Laboratory
and Study.
By THOMAS r. HENRY.

CAMBRIDGE, England tBy MaiD -
A system for predicting war by mathe-
maticS with complex equations based on
increase in armaments balanced against
international trade, was presented to
psychologists of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science recently
by DR.. L. F. Richardson, fellow of the
British Royal Society and one of the
most distinguished of European meteor
ologists.
which, he says enables a mathematician
to give an accurate accounting at any
time Of the balance Of love and hate be-
tween large groups Of peoples, but which
becomes altogether too complex when ap-
piled to the feeling between individuals.
Retrospectiyely. DR.. Richardson shows,
his system could have predicted the out
break of the World War to the month.
The nearest approach to his formulas
he has been able to find in mathematical
literature. he said, are some used to ex-
plain the phenomena of the explosions
of gases. Apparently large groups of
people act much like the molecules in
a gas and explode" in much the same
way.
When he first started on the problem,
the meteorologist explained, he tried to
find some analogy with his own spe-
cialty, the mathematical laws behind
the prediction of weather. But he found
that 1.-The storm of, war" presumably is
a bad analogy because the behavior of
people cannot be fitted into any rules
governing conditions in the atmosphere
His formulae lead him to some curious
conclusions-one OF which is that the
most dangerous sort of world would be
one in which all nations or groups of
nations with similar loyalties. were equal
in strength. and the safest world one in
which the greatest possible inequality OBJ
tanned.
Another is that preparations for ma
tional defense intended to give the peo-
pie a sense of security actually only
bring about increased fear and conse-
quently tip the balance further in the
direction Of war.
When algebraic and geometrical for
mulae are applied to hundreds of thou
sands Of individuals, DR.. Richardson
says, the element of free will is removed
almost altogether and predictability is
as easy as in the case of any physical
system, once the laws governing it are
ascertained. But even in the case of
individuals, he said, there are certain
broad elements of predictability
For example, If a young man likes q
girl and the extent of his liking can be
determined it is much more probable
that she will like him, and that eventual
ly they will be married, than if he is in
different to her. But both girl and boy
possess the incalculable element of free
will which brings about a capriciousness
that may forever prevent mathematics
from becoming the science of love, or
Cupid becoming a mathematician But
when the formulae are applied to a mil
lion girls and boys. perhaps destined to
be cannon and bomb fodder, the problem
becomes quite different.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Moratorium on Politics
Is Need of Nation.
To the Editor of

A FEW years ago many saw this coun-
try slipping into q state of malad-
justment-socially, economically and po-
litically. These forces had veered from
their true purposes. or had failed to meet
the needs of a changing order. The
prophetic insight of the few was soon
translated into reality for all. Blight
ing effects of q depression, wide in appli-
cation, were unmistakable.
Troubles, regardless of their nature,
bring a people together. Employment
days, work weeks and the give-a-job
movements were Fundamentally entered
into by almost every citizen who had
opportunity to soften the plight of the
unfortunate. The apple peddler was
looked upon as a hero making the best
of a bad situation. Men and women
everywhere were busy seeking a remedy.
Only few were then concerned about
causes. These could be considered later.
Like making the world safe for democ-
racy. conditions were to be made safer
for the unfortunate who had been sew
cred from their jobs and separated from
their savings. An old world was soon
to become new place. Idealism was
fast taking the, place of fatalism.
Then something happened Because
leaders could not do in a year what
it had taken so years to undo, or rather
to neglect, impatience showed its spear
head. This gave politicians opportunity
to offer quack remedies, cure-alls, and
to picture Utopias based on their pet
theories. People found it easier to COM
plain than to work; easier to find fault
than to find q remedy. Condemnation
became popular and legislative halls,
State and national. were made sounding
boards for group interests.
Politics may be the avenue through
which governments function. but no ma
ton can solve its problems in the midst
of disturbance of politics. There must
be unity of purpose and cooperative ef-
fort. The pages of history bear witness
to this fact
1t is not more soldiers and ships that
the United States needs. And it is not
more ofhceholders, bureaus and organi-
cations. It needs q moratorium on poll
tics and fault-finding and petty dissen-
sion. It needs every citizen enlisted in
q united front to win the longest and
most devastating war the Nation has
sver experienced. The way to victory
cannot be mapped through q maze of
politics.
In the winning of this economic war
all have a chance to gain. That augurs
we'll for peace among factions. And
that peace can come only through sub
merging grievances and animosities in
the interest of the welfare of all. That
is democracy when unfettered by per-
sonal politics. Moreover, it is good busi-
ness. TIMOTHY THOMAS.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Fortune Telling
Is Great Fun

Here is booklet showing how to read
fortunes in a variety of ways It tells
what the stars predict, what the lines of
your hand foretell, and what your
dreams mean. In addition to all this,
FORTUNE TELLING shows how to read
cards, how to interpret tea leaves and
coffee grounds, and adds q wealth Of in
teresting facts on signs, omens and su-
perstitutions. This booklet will provide
endless amusement at any party. Even
the most serious minded must relax
occasionally, so why not tell fortunes?
It's good fun. Inclose 10 cents to cover
cost and handling.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Hope.

Hope.
The libraries hold many q book
BY authors long since gone from sight
You think, as DER the list you look,
There should be nothing left to write
So many men have sought to teach
A wandering world the proper way.
You think in all this maze of speech
There should be nothing left to say.
But as the leaves and blossoms die,
Enriching soil whereon they grew
So book and speech forgotten lie
And yet forever blossom new.
Evening star., 1938-09-13

The Chicago Art Institute has staged
an exhibition of pictures to show sanity
In art" New Deal esthetes probably will
announce that the Windy City has
"seceded from the Union But normal
people will rejoice that the experiment
has been tried. Perhaps the example
will be initiated by other communities.
The public generally must be fed up"
with modernism.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Twenty Years Ago
The World War Day by Day
SeDtember 13. 1913.

The perfectly timed st. Mihiel offen-
sive continued into its second day When
the American 1st Division, advancing
north, made contact with the 26th Di-
vision, advancing east, ut vigneulles, the
salient was closed.
In its execution, this operation was
considered the most perfect of the entire
war. Its success was phenomenal.
Thirteen thousand prisoners. many guns,
much ammunition and railroad equip
ment were taken, with the enemy sttll
re4reating and due 1r moee losDe9.
Evening star., 1938-09-13

Der Fuehrer's elocutionary effort was
undeniably q stroke of masterful stage
craft, as far as home consumption went,
If 1t did leave his beyond boundaries
audience somewhat perplexed as to the
artistic merits of the performance.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
The Hines Mistrial,

While the mistrial In the case of James
j. Hines, veteran Tammany leader, may
seem q deplorable waste of time and
public money, it does not appear that
Justice Ferdinand Pecora, under the well
settled principles of American criminal
law, could have followed any other course
in view of the pretudicial question asked
BY District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey.
Evening star., 1938-09-13

The reverberations from Nurnberg
came across the seas with sufiicient
clearness to leave the international situa-
ton somewhat precarious, although not
to the point of warranting immediate
mobilization.
Evening star., 1938-09-13

Yesterday demonstrated that the my"
in Maryland's State song does not refer
particularly either to Mr.. Lewis or to
his eminent sponsor, whose essay in
State politics in that commonwealth did
not prove to be particularly successful.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Hitler's Deliberation,

From the Lynchburg Advance.
It is probable that Hitler will keep the
promise that he will take no hasty &C.
ton; he has been preparing for it long
enough for any move he might make to
be called deliberate.
Evening star., 1938-09-13

Justice Pecoras decision in the Hines
case will at least have the effect of add
ing considerably to New York's judicial
expense account.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
BenefactOrs.

Prom the New York Sun.
The oysters are back in town after q
vacation of four months. Their health is
excellent and they are prepared to impart
it to those discerning persons who hold
them in deserved esteem.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
English Correspondents
View Defended.

view OC1Ou0C0.
To the Editor Of The etar:
IN REPLY to Mr.. w. r. Wilmoth, who
takes an English correspondent to
task for having made some rather
pointed criticisms concerning American
affairs, may say the charge to which
my correspondent referred was launched
by John L. Lewis. The country was
then being plunged into a second de-
preston because of the ruthless inva-
sion Of private property rights by quasi
criminal bands Of strikers and the failure
of the authorities to uphold the law. It
was 1T this stage Of our national hui
initiation that Lewis broadcast b Eng.
land q message stating that IA this
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Campaign Promises.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
The promises some of the candidates
are handing out make their platforms
resemble dc 1uxe editions Of the Life
W Ntley."
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must bear
the name and address OF the ,oriter,
although the use OF pseudonyn, for
publication Is permissible. Please be
brief!
Evening star., 1938-09-13
The Spending Habit.

From the Kansas City star.
The committee investigating the T. v.
A. is about to run out of money. That
suggests one trouble with the entire
r. v. A.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Mayor Ernest Explains
Position on Grade Crossing.

Position on Grade Crossing.
To the Editor Of The Star:
1T SEEMS incredible that you sholld
publish your editorial Of Saturday.
September 3. 1888, Amazing Attitude"
without having more complete knowl-
edge Of the facts concerning the closing
OF the Kensington grade crossing. It is
more incredible when it is considered
that the facts regarding the conditions
in Kensington were published in The
Star under date OF August % and Sep
tember l, 1898. I have endeavored to
cooperate with the Kensington Business
Mems Association. and feel that should
once more present to you the facts with
the hope that you will give these facts
the same publicity given your editorial
Twelve years ago, when the elimina-
ton Of the grade crossing was first dis
cussed. Kensington authorities were
given the assurance that a pedestrian
underpass at or near the old crossing
would be provided and that the area of
North Kensington, to be cut OH by the
crossing closing. would be given proper
outlet to the new overhead bridge either
by taking over as a State road and
widening and paving our very narrow
Metropolitan avenue or by building a
new street parallel to the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad tracks. This Metropoli-
tan avenue or new street project. you
must understand, was to connect the
two already existent State highways, now
known as st. Paul street and the Capt.
tol View road. with the new overhead
bridge. 1t Is the failure on the part of
the Maryland State Roads Commission
to provide this new connection and the
pedestrian underpass prior to the closing
of the old crossing that has caused the
violent protests Of the Kensington Busi-
ness Mems Association. Never to my
knowledge has this group or the Mayor
and Council protested the closing of the
old crossing since the new overhead
bridge was opened for trafhc. They have
every right to protest the omission OF
improvements made necessary by reason
of the closing of the old crossing.
There is no similarity between the
conditions existent at Kensington and
Rockville. There Is no truth in your
statement that Kensington citizens have
asked the State Roads Commission to
open the old crossing. Kensington citi-
zens are satisfied to have the crossing
remain closed, but are demanding the
things that have been promised. The
chief of the Bureau of Public Roads has
received cooperation in the closing OF
the old crossing, and KenSington citizens
now expect the cooperation Of the press
and the Federal and State oficials in
completing their tasks in Kensington.
L. B. ERNEST, Mayor.
Evening star., 1938-09-13

Editors note: The Star is glad to make
clear the position OF Kensington business
men. The editorial in question was based
on an Associated Press dispatch from
Baltimore, quoting J. Glenn Beall, chair
man of the Maryland Roads Commission.
Mr.. Beall has informed The Star that
until he subsequently visited Kensington,
he understood that the businessmen of
Kensington wished the old grade crossing
reopened. The Star is glad to say that
this is incorrect: that the businessmen
wish . pedestrian underpass and street
improvements instead of reopening of the
closed grade crossing.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
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Member of the Associated Press

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credited to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
herein also are reserved.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Cosnplete Antaeonissn.

why don't those angry statesmen
settle their differences with a fight to q
finish9" asked one Congressman.
mo use suggesting it." answered the
other, "they couldn't be sufficiently her-
monious even to agree on the conditions
of 4 Tight"
Evening star., 1938-09-13
Assumed Authority.

Assumed Authority.
He vowed our currency was bad.
He called each financier q Ounce;
And yet they say he never had
Eleven dollars all at once!
Evening star., 1938-09-13
White House C.arpet.

From the Charleston ~. va) Mail.
The White House may have to get
new carpet to call people on-probably
q purgean carpet.
Evening star., 1938-09-13

II don't preten' to be no champion of
de mule" said Uncle Eben, but I will
60 as fur rs to say dat some human
folks Is 3es as obstinate % he u an not
a1gh % useful"
Evening star., 1938-09-13
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Times Change.

Times Change.
Politics is getting to be wonderfully
interesting" said the observer.
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum,
"it is mighty interesting. But between
you and me it isn't near as much of an
investment as it used to be-"
plain hard work is what is most i'm
portant in this world" said Hi Ho, the
sage of Chinatown. The wheelbarrow
has contributed more to human progress
than the automobile"
Evening star., 1938-09-13
MonotOny.

Though now and then great man
reaches
Renown, but little it avails.
He makes about the same old speeches
And tells about the same old tales.
Evening star., 1938-09-13
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