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Evening star., 1938-04-20
Spain PAYS.

No matter where ones sympathies lie
in the Spanish confllct-and seldom
have American sympathies in a purely
extraneous situation been so sorely
divlded-it Is plain to most observers
in this country that Spain is cast for
the role Of goat in the vaunted Anglo
Italian peace" pact. Implicit in the
Chamberlain -Mussolini deal is the fact
that Great Britain in effect underwrites
Frances victory, because Italian troops
Will not be withdrawn from the blood
soaked peninsula until the war is over;
that is, until the republics doom is
sealed by the triumph of the Insurgents
and their Fascist allies. 1t is that un-
written, but only thinly yelled, provision
Of democracys shotgun alliance with
dictatorship that justifies Loyalist
Premier Negrins despairing plant that
the Anglo-Italian accord is clear inter-
vention in the Spanish war"
Thus, in the name Of realism" Brit
ain scraps two years of lip service on
behalf of non-intervention. non-aggres-
sion and collective security. When
France koW-toWs to II Duce in kindred
agreement, as Premier Daladier, another
"realist," is about to do, European de-
mocracy's debacle will be complete. 1t
will be ingloriously recorded that, in
international politics as in human rela-
tions, 1t is every man for himself and
the devil take the hindmost. Spain is
about to 60 the way of Ethiopia and
Austria. It seems almost a pity that
none of those three ill-fated countries
was inhabited by Chinese. They alone
have shown that the way of the ag-
gressor is hard.
The British and the French choose to
save their own skins from ravage by
Europes allied and associated bullies,
blackmailers and buffers They prefer
salvation at the cost of the destruction
of friendly state, whose sole crime was
refusal to substitute alien ideolsgies for
a regime of it's own creation. AS the
nations send up Eastertide hosannas
for the peace gain" registered by the
Anglo-Italian accord, let them ponder
the price paid for it. Spain knows. 1t
is she who will foot the bill Once again
Freedom, which "shrieked when Kos
ciuszko fell" screams in contemplation
Of relationships latest achievement.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
That Airport Again.

One of the most serious features OF
the prolonged delay on the part of
Congress in selecting an airport site for
Washington is not the fact that the
Federal Government is failing lament
ably in its duty but that, by its pro-
crastination, it is preventing any real
improvement of the existing Washington
Airport by private capital.
Washington Airport is inadequate for
existing air transport traffic. That fact
is not contested by any one, even its
owners and operators. But, until some
thing more adequate is provided, Wash
ington Airport must serve all of the
Capitals airport needs.
It would seem very obvious that it is
the duty of all concerned-not the least
Of all, Congress-to see that Washington
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Upton Street.

upon 6CIccts
Dear Sir:
Here's what you do to have good
grass.
FIRST. you have or plant locust trees.
The grass always has chance under
locust trees because they add something
to the SOil-nitrOgen, I think-which Is
more beneficial to the grass than to
weeds.
Then again the locust tree does not
give such dense shade as to exclude too
much sun, just as It's presence IS bene-
fetal IN excluding some sun in q place
where you can get too much.
If the grass Is In the shade half 4
day-that's good.
Second, the grass should be well
watered by soaking it--not quagmire-
when you do water 1t. But then you
want to forget about watering 1t again
until the soil begins to get dry.
X +
"The grass likes its wet-dry cycle
because that's nature. Only by the use
OF the artificial sprinkling can you pro-
duce more alleviated, moderated wet
dry cycle, which Is salutary.
Third, and very important-but let
the English groundkeeper answer: "You
cuts it and you rolls 1t and you cuts 1t
and you rolls 1t for a thousand years.
Cutting the heads of the budding
weeds is the greatest weed deterrent
known to man. II there is one thing
weed doesn't like 1t Is to have its head
consistently cut of.
You cut the grass often and as close
as experience teaches is best-not too
close.
What makes the rolling so beneficial
is the insuring that the knobs and
hillocks do not hump up one wheel OF
the mower and thus let some weed heads
escape.
Fourth, the soil should not be as
rich as for flowers.
Yours truly. sc. G."
2Sth Street.
Dear Sir:
Il am particularly interested in your
articles on birds.
I'VE have been living in our present
location on the edge OF Rock Greek
Park for six springs and have had
bluebirds every year, including this.
LAS matter OF fact, we usually have
couple with us all winter. During the
past winter on many warm days they
visited tne boxes, gong In and out
and examining them as they do in spring
before building. For example, on New
Year Day we had them in our yard,
fluttering around one Of the boxes in
cidentally the one in which they built
this year.
Last year our blues built in an old
beech tree stump. which I had provided
on the edge OF our deck porch.
This was a convenient location for
observations, so I kept kind Of bird
log of the life of bluebird family in
the hope that it might be Of interest
to you and your readers.
X
Last year the actual building of the
nest began on April 5.
The female uargely) constructs the
nest out of soft grass in a week and
half or two weeks. One blue egg was
deposited in the nest each day. begin
ming April lS, for six days Six eggs
are about the maximum I had never
seen more than five before
On May 7 four frowsy f1edglings
were Matched. Zone egg was found out
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Holds Lewis as Chief Factor
In Prevention of Recovery.

To the Editor of The Star:
Roger w. Babson. the renowned statis-
tician, at the Congregational Church
luncheon here the other day, said c. I. o.
Lewis is principally the cause OF this
prevention of recovery during the last
six months. That is not news. 1t is
confirmation.
Lewis evidently thinks the regulation
of wages hours and collective bargaining
is the remedy and If he can force those
onto the employer all differences and
arguments will be outlaWed, while the
employer thinks he knows how to run his
own business-and sometimes he does.
There was a time when 10 hours
was days labor and no fault was found
and when the laborer got in extra time
it was something to write home about.
Many prospered on this. They lived we'll
and bought homes. To be sure, wages
were low as compared with today but
living expense was also low and those
of ability and willingness accumulated
property.
Does C. I. o. Lewis think, aided as he
is by the administration that he can
bring employers to their knees and sub
NIT to his dictation when employers
AloNC VIC IlOAlSy III lIISll pOShCt tIldb
labor must first work for? Were those
big factories to close their shops what
would the employees do for daily bread?
And by the same token when employees
become dissatisfied let them quit and if
some one else takes the job that does
not concern the man who abandoned it.
This is supposed to be free country
and man is supposed to have the right
to run his own business according to
his own ideas and plans, but when the
unions say a nonunion man cannot
work on the job that is infringing on
citizen rights.
There was a time when every man
sought his own job and made his own
arrangements as to wages and if those
arrangements did not prove satisfactory
to him he quit and that was the end Of
it. with no objection to some one else
taking the job. He was independent
and exercising his citizen right.
Suppose national week hours law Is
passed Better make it a maximum
60. Then let the employe arrange with
the hiring boss as to the hours per day
he wants to work and change it month
by month should he so want. Any en-
ployer wants to run his own business
and so does the employe.
w. j. DERMoTT.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Shooting Stars.
The Difference.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

When Betty goes to lunch with Bob,
She seeks some place where walters rob,
And with the chef you take a chance
On cookery and high finance.
She goes through oysters, soup and fish,
And on, through many dainty dish
And Bob pays up with smile so sweet.
He simply loves to watch her eat.
But Betty, when she takes her lunch,
Alone, is quite content to MUNICH
A leaf of lettuce that displays
A tiny dab of mayonnaise.
While Bob sits up, quite by himself,
Upon a stool, next to a shelf,
And ere he bites his modest bun,
Mods, and the waiter yells, Draw one!"
Evening star., 1938-04-20

future vessels which must use the canal.
Commercial liners. such as the Nor
mandie and Queen Mary, are too large
for the present locks.
To rebuild the Panama Canal locks,
Army engineers estimate, would cost
$2oo, 100000 There is very strong senti-
ment in Congress against putting that
much money into the Panama Canal
without making any gain In strength
against enemy attack which might close
the Navy's "life line" between the
Atlantic and Pacific.
Proponents Of the Nicaraguan Canal
say that the new canal could be con-
structed for $5oo,ooo,O0O, or about the
cost Of maintaining the United States
fleet for one year. Army estimates,
which 1t is said are based on older, less
eficient types Of excavating machinery,
are higher.
Aside from the fact that the Nicara-
guam Canal would very materially
shorten the distance between American
Atlantic and Pacific coastal ports and
so prove Of great benefit to commercial
traffic, 1t would greatly strengthen the
national defense, not only by speeding
up passage Of the feet from one ocean
to the other but by preventing the fleet
being bottled up on either side OF the
isthmus.
And then, too, the project obviously
would provide tremendous amount of
work relief for a great variety of Ameri-
can industries.
Proponents Of the new canal have
much Of solid worth to offer in support
OF their project.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRAcEWELL.

side the box and q shell IN the garden
nearby. do not know whether the two
eggs did not hatch and were carried
out by the old birds, or whether
maraudef starlings, which did sometimes
attempt to enter the cavity, got themo
"On May ~ the four Aedglings took
to flight at intervals Of about half an
hour apart, flying into nearby orchard
at their first attempt. very severe
storm arose in the afternoon Of that day.
We were afraid that the young birds,
not being very strong, were destroyed.
The male reappeared in the yard with
his call Of lament later in the day. On
May 81 two young bluebirds returned to
they were presumably raised.
THE female began carrying grass to
new box and second family, the log
OF which did not attempt to keep, was
raised.
Sometimes in the early fall the old
birds, with or 10 young ones, stay
around the yard and examine and re-
examine the boxes. Perhaps that is
the reason We always have blue robins
II the parent couple does not take one
OF the boxes, possibly pair Of the or
spring stay around or return.
Sincerely, E. NJ"
A summary prepared by Mr. NJ shows
two weeks for the building OF the nest;
one week for egg laying. two weeks incu-
baton, two weeks until ready for flight
and one weeks care before starting a
second nest The male, he states, cares
for the f1edglings while the female is
building the second nest.
~ +*
Wesley Heights
Dear Sir:
When I awoke this morning april
49, my first Jenny wren was near my
window singing to beat the band. When
I left home for the Office he, or she,
was looking over my bird boxes for
a summer home.
You will remember when I wrote you
last that We could look for the wrens
about April IS, so you see didn't miss
it much.
Very Sincerely, WITH"
Y X X
Lowell Street.
Dear Sir:
Can you tell me the name Of the
silvery toned bird whose two notes woke
me this morning?
Also do tell me what has become of
the mockingbirds. When I was in
Washington in December 1 saw dozens
Of them and expected to find them in
full song now.
Il have seen white crowned sparrows,
juncos, cedar Waxwings, a mourning
dove, many cardinals and others.
Am making a list to take back to
my forest and field club in Northern
New England and wish to identify as
many birds as possible.
Sincerely. CRIB"
Mockingbirds have gone north. but
many have remained. We have one in
full song morning. noon and night.
The bird with the silvery voice prob
ably was song sparrow.
Wrens arrived in our community on
April IA. The male arrives first
Our correspondents ideas about grass
are admirable, in the main, but any
trees roots take too much food and
water to benefit surrounding grass. we
feel. The grass close to the trunk may
be all right, but that farther out will
suffer.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
New 1sthmian Canal.

In view of troubled world conditions
and the vital necessity for maintaining
speedy naval communication between
the Atlantic and the Pacific, If for no
other reason, the proposed 1sthmian
Canal through Nicaragua would seem to
be project meriting the most serious
consideration.
Proponents of the Nicaraguan canal
point out that the locks Of the Panama
Canal are just large enough to accom-
modate the Navy's largest airplane
carriers and that the size OF the locks,
obviously. fixes limits upon the size Of
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Ambassador Kennedy will relieve this
Nation Of much expense by putting an
sake Of fashionable distinction. A step
further might be taken by discourage
ment on the part of this country of
able lecturers, who are always made
welcome, and yet whose wares are sell
dom OF intellectual service. We are
rapidly approaching a point of candor
which permits the questions, What
have you?" and will it be useful in
meeting our human needs?"
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Europe is rearranging her politics and
this country avoids delivering what
might be considered a shock in ac-
commodating itself to them. There is
not even a suspicion to be harbored in
considering the affection and feeling
with which that old waltz, The Blue
Danube is played by radio. At all
events 1t is good tune and its political
significances need not be too closely
analyzed.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

A generous attitude is to be observed
IN apportioning supplies of helium for
the use of German dirigibles. It will
be agreeable to assume that the gas may
always be relied on for friendly de-
meanor regardless of what the mental
attitudes of one or two members of the
crew may chance to be.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Intrinsic Discussion.

1--WE will have to print tons of paper
money" said Senator Sorghum.
That's all right" said the visitor.
"Its going to be perfectly good money"
"Of course. Even if we have to keep
clipping off margins of value, all that
high-class paper ought to be worth
something"
Evening star., 1938-04-20
The Auditorium.


The plan just approved by a special
commission for large public audi
torium at Third street and Constitution
avenue NV. gives Congress an oppor-
tunity to meet in satisfactory manner,
at this session, long pending and
widely recognized need of the Nations
Capital.
AS reported yesterday, the proposal Of
the Capital Auditorium Commission is
that the Federal Government put up the
building, estimated to cost about 50 000,-
600, provided the District government
contributes part of it's Municipal Center
as the site.
II. as was indicated yesterday, the
commission has in mind that part Of
the Municipal Center from Constitu-
ton avenue to c street between Third
street and John Marshall place, the
donating Of the site would represent
local contribution toward the project in
the only way the District government is
financially able to contribute at the
present time.
Assuming that the legislation being
drafted to carry out the recommendation
will specify that square, the auditorium
project would not interfere with plans
already approved by Congress for mu-
nicipal structures on other portions OF
the Municipal Center area. In the new
District Appropriation Act, for example,
Congress has designated the square
extending west on Pennsylvania avenue
from John Marshall place to Sixth
street as a future site for new Public
Library, and at the same time appropri-
ated money for new police headquarters
building in the square north of street
between Third and John Marshall place.
Later. new administration building for
the District government is expected to
be built north of street and extending
west from the police structure to Sixth
street.
The commission, very wisely, has out
lined an auditorium project appropriate
National Capital-Federal and non
Federal, commercial and non CONNER
cial. 1t should be essentially a national
undertaking, and, when completed, un-
doubtedly will be under Federal super
vision.
Differences of opinion always arise as
to the best location for important struc-
lures, and there are some who still
believe the auditorium should be placed
at the end of East Capitol street, where
It would fit in with plans for stadium
and National Guard armory.
On the other hand, there is much to
be said for the decision of the Audi
torium Commission in favor of central
location, convenient to hotels, public
buildings and Union Station. In addi-
ton. 1t would be further link in the
improvement and Identification of the
area between the Capitol and the White
House.
The paramount need, however, is to
obtain action on an issue that has
remained too many years in the plan
ming stage. And if the long-awaited
goal can be reached now by having the
local community contribute the S1,774,-
600 it has invested in that part of the
Municipal Center not already designated
for local buildings, the practical course
would be for all who recognize the need
for an auditorium to unite in seeking
prompt passage Of the bill about to be
introduced.
Experience has shown that when ques-
tions Of this kind go over from one Con-
gress to another, they grow cold and
may languish indefinitely. Washington
needs an auditorium now!
Evening star., 1938-04-20

AS the season progresses notice is
served that it will soon be too warm for
a truly named "freside chat" How
ever, it may be assumed that there will
be opportunity to revive a once familiar
political phrase, Something equally as
good"
Evening star., 1938-04-20

II observe with deep and respectful
interest the process Of pump printing"
said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. MY
venerable ancestors in their centuries Of
history have tried this, also"
Evening star., 1938-04-20

1t is alleged that Chinese children are
being taught songs which mean glorifi-
cation of japanese soldiers. Eastern
Asiatic music should be interesting, but
so far not enough of it has been pro-
duced to give it serious standing as an
incident of war or strategy.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

1t may be a satisfaction to the public
to realize that the gold put away in
Kentucky will some day come to a
career OF practical usefulness. 1t is
abundant but not superabundant. There
is no danger that it will assert itself in
a way to govern the odds in Kentucky
horse race.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Formosan farmers are to occupy them
selves in cultivating an area adjacent
to Shanghai They will not insist on a
reconstruction of the city in a way to
make it Immediately useful as market
for their products.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Radio is doing wonders for naval
communication but has not been, so far,
successful in choosing a site near the
Capital which will coincide with official
impressions of propriety.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Doctor Townsend is willing to be
grateful but insists on applying certain
intellectual methods of deciding pre-
cisely to whom his gratitude is due.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
Sport.

Willie Clipped an Easter. egg
And then prepared to ramble.
His grandma said, "Desist, I beg
You know it's wrong to gamble. "
Evening star., 1938-04-20

porters, especially in the Far West and
Coast country It's dollars to doughnuts
that the Presidents clemency to their
hero has harnessed their sympathies
to the New Deal chariot, which isn't
sneezing at sympathy these days.
(Copyright, 1e3S)
Evening star., 1938-04-20
The Wash.

With bills the collectors stood by in row,
And the cause of delay sadly learned:
1.-THE Government now washes money,
you know,
And my laundry has not yet returned"
Evening star., 1938-04-20
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Evening star., 1938-04-20
Cruelty.

"Are you fond of golf?"
Useless question! If I were really
fond of the game, would I have the
heart to make it look so foolish?"
Evening star., 1938-04-20

de snake in de garden of Eden didn'
have to bite any one to show how pizen
he was," said Uncle Eben. HE simply
went stsht along bedn' conversational. !.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
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Q. What has become of Billy Sunday,
jr.?-H K. L.
A. William Ashley Sunday, jr., son Of
the late evangelist, died recently In Los
Angeles Calf, at the age of 81.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

@. Who wrote the words of the song
beginning, East Side, West Side, all
around the toWn"?-R. K. L.
A. James w. Blake wrote The Side
walks of New York" in 1894.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-02-11
Men of Ndeni Hold Women
So Much Stuff to Trade

Women, to the men Of Ndeni,
chief isle of the Santa Cruz isles,
according to a correspondent in the
New York Herald Tribune, are so
much stuff to be traded. But high
born baby girls are guarded care
fully until the time comes for them
to be sold to their husbands. Then
their fun, for life, is over. They
haul in wood. They prepare food.
They sweep out the houses every
day and at dawn are up and about
In the villages, cleaning up.
From village to village lead mar
row paths kept scrupulously clear Of
overhanging vegetation. The trails
wander for miles, but they are bor-
dered always with neatly set stones.
Flowers are brought from the hills
to beautify the way.
Male children in Ndeni should;
by all standards, be spoiled little
things. But they are not. From the
age when they are able to talk they
go fishing often supervising the
bow and arrow work while the IA!
Their paddles. Older men Of Ndeni
accept small boys as their mental
equals. Grandfathers ask grandsons
ten or eleven years old what to do
about certain canoe repair or a
rock that has to be moved. The
boys smoke and chew betelnut furi.
ously
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-02-11
De6ition Of University

According to a well established
tradition, James A. Garfield, in a
Williams college alumni address de-
ivered in New York, N. Y, in 1872,
said: my definition of university
is Mark Hopkins at one end Of q
log and a student at the other.
The quotation, however, does not
occur in the speech as it was re-
corded, but a similar line of thought
was expressed by Garfield in let
ter which he wrote the same year.
Mark Hopkins (18O2-1887). was one
of the ablest and most successful
American educators and was presi-
dent of Williams college in Massa.
chusetts when Garfield was a stu
dent there. Garfield particularly
liked the stress which Hopkins
placed upon the development of the
individual student.