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Evening star., 1938-08-25
500 Mems Collar Attached
l.35 4 l.65 SHIRTS
&C.

All fost color fabrics. Full roonoy cut Fully
preshrunk With careful tailoring details
All sizes included
lbs Mems Cotton KrinkIe Crepe Pojonos
sizes A to
4OO-2lc 6 27c Mems Sockse Prs. 100
18o-l.O Mems Quality Ties ---44e
164-l.65 Mems Sport shirts----8ee
lO-25O Mems BoI-Tuck Pojonnos 80
145-l5O to $50 Mems Finer Ties----8ee
l6-l.95 Lightweight Brush Coats 80
4OO-35o Mems Lightweight Socks, pr, Csc
82-55c Mems Lightweight Ties----25e
28-2.5O Mems Novelty shrts----l.6e
96-l.65 6 l.o5 Mems Pojomos LOO
Al 90 Mems Fancy Hose eee
l39-l.o5 Sports Shirts rts--1.69
Mems Furnishings-Air-Cooed Street Floor
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CIearance. Awnings

All with 3-tt. drop, Aft. extension, Gin.
scoloped founce
20 Miomi Heodrod Window Awnings $50 inl soc
Is Heodrod Window Awnings 80, A. As in) 100
Ar-Cooled Fourth Floor
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Students Clothing Reduced

lOO-l .95 White Ducks; broken sizes 69c
3O-25 90 AII-WooI 2-Trouser Suits 1850
l5O-1 IS Fancy Wash Stacks; all sizes, 1.39
Ar-Cooled Students shops-Street Floor
Evening star., 1938-08-25
Juniors Lingerie
Quality BedWear Reduced


Description Orig. Now
5 Soteen Window Dropes; pr. l,e5 5ee
z Royon BeneoIine Spreods e95 4.e5
| Pr. White Wool Blankets 1900 l2.45
| White AlI-Woo BIonket 1895 S.95
Tropunto Royon Tofeto
Down Comforts 1895 1895
IA Chenille Spreads twin,
double sizes) 499 1888
Chenille Spreads (doubIe) 799 4.9e
IA CeIonese Royon, Royon
Toffeto Spreads twin size) 4,95 5.95 z.95
Royon Spreads (twn) - l.o5 Tic
Air-Cooled Third Floor
CIearance! Summer Furniture
Description Orig. Now
10 Spring Steel Choise
20 Furniture 3-Pc. Sets Ann
chair Coffee Tob|e ond
Smoking Stond 6.95 3.59
10 Lown 42-In Benches 2.o8 1852
Air-Cooled Third Floor
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Linens. DOmeStics
WOmen'S Finer LinGeri,

Description ORG.
so Short Botiste Pojomos 100
bIes - 3e5
z BroodcIoth Poomos--- 800
II House Poomos ------ 200
Air-CoO1ed Third Floor
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Girls Apparel Reduced
Curtains. Draperies

Descrlptlon Org.
3 Prs. Wolfe Curtoins (som-
pIes,; pr,~--~------ 400
s Reodymode Venetion
Blinds t32, 36 IN wide) 4o5
36 Anchor HoIIond Window
Shades, size 36"s5'9" 7oc
20 Kopok- filled 3-Woy Pill
lows -------- 100
4 Cretonne Chair Covers 4.eS
3 Cretonne Soto Slip Covers e.96
100 Decorator Sorple Squores
(25x25 in.) ------ 100
Ar-Cooled Fourth Floor
Evening star., 1938-07-16
The Child Welfare Study,

With the appointment of repre-
sentative committee of citizens as an
advisory group, the District Commits
sioners have taken a definite step to-
ward compliance with a congressional
request that an intensive study be made
of the city's facilities and needs with
respect to care of dependent and de-
Gnquent children.
That the facilities are inadequate and
the needs great cannot be disputed.
Gravity of the plight of the Districts
unfortunate wards in such institutions
as the Children's Receiving Home and
the National Training School for Girls
became apparent during the hectic last
days of Congress, when the fate of these
two establishments hung in the balance
An eleventh-hour reprieve saved them
from a legislative death sentence.
That reprieve was granted with the
understanding that District authorities
in the meantime would give careful
consideration to the whole problem of
child care and come before the next
Congress prepared to make concrete
recommendations for the improvement
of conditions in District child-caring
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Sixteen Hours to Paris.
rom the New York Times.

ioih tHe view YORK Times.
Another bright page in the annals of
American aviation was written bv
Howard R. Hughes. When he and his
crew OF four set down the wheels of
thelr plane at LIE Bourget Is hours and
50 minutes out of Floyd Bennett Field
they had cut in two the time required
by Col. Lindbergh eleven years ago. But
they had done more than this. If the
magnlhcent solo performance of Lind
bergh served to electrify the world and
open Its eyes to future in which the
oceans might be spanned with wings.
the Hughes flight has given assurance
that IN little more than q decade such
Hylng could be surrounded with safe
guards and made to follow prearranged
plan.
After the survey flights in the Atlantic
held made last summer with such pa ains-
taxing adherence to schedule by Pan
American Always and the splendid per-
formance record of the same system in
its established service on the wider
reaches of the Pacific, no one doubted
that Europe and the United States would
ere long be joined by swift commercial
wings. The experimental services with
mail and cargo that will be operated Chis
summer by Imperial Airways, Lufthansa
and Air France will further emphasize
the fact that, in the language of avia-
tion, the great cities of the Old World
and the New are but a stones throw
apart. The achievement of Mr.. Hughes
however has served to give sharp point
to the advances that have been made in
aircraft communication and navigation
Evening star., 1938-07-16
A Warning.

Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes, acting in the role of public works
administrator, has announced that he
is prepared to contribute the total sum
of $6,829,995 for the construction of pub
lie power projects in twenty-one differ
ent communities. He specifies without
apology that each of these enterprises
will compete with privately owned
development. All that is required of
the cities and towns to be endowed is
that they furnish evidence that reason
able efforts" have been made to acquire
the existing properties upon reasonable
terms and conditions" and that the "rea-
sonable efforts" have failed.
But Mr.. Ickes himself is to be the
Judge of the merits of each individual
case. He and he alone will decide what
is reasonable" The private owners, in
other words, are to be tried for their
lives" without the privilege of being
heard by jury Of their peers. It will
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Russians to the Rescue.
From the Baltimore Sun.

from tne Baltimore Sun.
Many observers, some of them laying
claims to expertness, have pretended
mystlflcation for months over the fact
that China continues to find war re-
sources upon which it's army can draw.
IL has not seemed possible that all this
equipment could be imported in the nor
mai way with most of the Chinese ports
occupied by Japanese And it is well
known that there is little of war value
that China itself can produce, except
manpower.
But news dispatches of the past few
Gays have gone far toward revealing the
secret OF China's source of implements
OF war. These dispatches indicate,
among other things, that the Chinese
military forces are about to receive 200
long-range superbombers in single con-
slgnment from Russia. It is even sug-
gested that most of these planes already
nave been set down in Hankow.
That Russia has created a great mill
tary establishment is well known in all
world capitals. That great part of this
establishment has been concentrated in
Siberia, in anticipation of possible con-
f1ict with Japan, is equally well known.
Such conflict now appears to be out
of the question so long as Japan is locked
in deadly embrace with China. And
nothing is more natural than that the
Russians, deeply distrusting Japan,
should find it the part of good policy to
reinforce the Chinese as far as may be
physically possible.
Japan, of course, resents this, but there
is little that the japanese can do about
it. They are fighting now on as many
fronts as they dare. To invite further
war with the Soviet would probably prove
suicidal
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Plenty of Cool Water
Asked for Birds and Animals.
TO the Editor Of The Star:

Az INC Goltoi VI lie SldE
WONT the citizens of torrid Washing
ton make both individual and con-
certed efforts to make available life-sus-
tanning, inexpensive water to their four
footed and winged, but speechleSs citizens
of their homes and communities? On
scorching days like these recent ones of
July 10, II and IL, while thousands of
human beings are indulging in cooling
drinks or seeking refreshments at various
nearby resorts or in cool homes, there are
comparatively few who have expended
any effort toward supplying just plain,
cool water for the thousands of thirsty
sparroWs, pigeons and other birds, also
many squirrels, which are attracted by
shrubbery and trees in mans Handicapped
homes. Bird baths are cheap and there
should be several in every city square.
Around every church, public building
and business square where there is any,
thing al all to attract birds, water should
be provided in some substantial recep-
tacle for drinking and bathing. Every
park or small triangular parkway with a
water spigot should each contain a shall
low concrete basin in the grounds in
which the spigot should be kept at
slow drip. Birds, of course, can drink
from fountains, but they cannot bathe,
and are generally frightened away by
sporting human beings. But the birds
and squirrels have as much right to the
clty's water as human citizens.
Homeless, friendless dogs and cats
come under the same category and citi-
zens again should provide fresh water
somewhere around their homes for these
especially in alleys in older sections of
the city, where the pitifully large stray
cat population exc out miserable exist
ences from foul garbage pals and hardly
ever get a decent drop of water. Large
fruit cans with tops cut smoothly away,
or earthen dishes are fine The Animal
Protective Association will gladly furnish
further information to those interested
in helping such homeless creatures Also
the Traffic Department should be very
strict with motorists parking cars at
horse fountains, especially downtown at
sucn busy places as Thirteenth street
and New York avenue and Eighth and
E streets NV. Horses of trash men work
especially hard in these business areas
and have right to unmolested use of
the water troughs provided for them by
the Washington Humane Society.
So, while seeking your own comfort in
the heat of Washingtor's summers,
please be generous enough to accord
the speechless animal citizens their rights
to refreshment.
VIRGINIA w. SARGENT.
Evening star., 1938-07-16

institutions. A Senate subcommittee
suggested employment of an expert with
$4,000 fund offered by the Childrens s
Bureau of the Department of Labor.
This offer has been accepted.
Manifestly, the time is too short and
the amount of money available too small
to effect more than cursory study of
the situation. Fortunately, the expert
and the advisory committee will have
access to detailed reports and recon-
mendations made earlier by the Chill
dren's Bureau, the Child Welfare League
of America and other investigators.
The Commissioners have asked the ad-
visory committee to submit it's recon-
mendations by late September, when
1910 budget estimates will be under
consideration.
The committee may find-as others
before it have found-that Washington's
child welfare problems cannot be solved
without money. New buildings are
needed in several instances, modern
equipment is in demand, larger stats
are advisable. All of these wants entail
appropriations, and that brings the
problem right back to the door of Con-
gress.
The District should leave no stone
unturned to provide Congress with all
the information it may wish about the
problem of caring for wayward and
neglected youth in the National Capital
1t should be ready to supply the Budget
Bureau and the appropriation commit
tees with an intelligent, well-rounded
program. Then it will be up to Con-
gress to show its good faith in the
matter.
Evening star., 1938-07-16
FOOtnOte.

John Milton, in his justly celebrated
sonnet on his blindness, struck out a
perfect gem of human wisdom when he
coined the phrase: "They also serve
who only stand and wait" Application
of the thought to many different situa-
tions is common because it SO frequently
Is apt. But the quotation rarely has had
more definite significance than when it
is used with regard to the families and
friends of Howard Hughes and his COM
panions In their fight around the North
ern Hemisphere.
Any such enterprise is tedious busi-
ness for those near and dear to the ven-
turers. Ms. Richard Stoddart, Mrs.
Thomas L. Thurlow, Mrs Harry Connor
and Miss Elinor Hoaglund certainly are
entitled to be included in the applause
which the flyers have won from world
audience. They gambled with fate quite
AS definitely as the aviators themselves
1t testifies to the poignancy of their or
deal that their greeting to their loved
ones was: Thank God, you're back!"
The human spirit is like that. 1t is
not egocentric. Rather, people-millions
and millions of them-live for each
other, selflessly, generously, gallantly,
ccurageously. Every home shelters
drama of sacrifice. Again and again the
principle of mutually and cooperation
a humane relation of soul to souls
repeated in daily experience, often color
less yet always very real. Whisper it
quietly: This is of Heaven, the only au-
thentic democracy, the only unspoiled
fellowship, under the shining sun!
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Repaying the Subsidy.

Members of Group Health Associates,
Incorporated, are to be congratulated
for their decision to pay back, by means
of assessments, the $4,000 advanced
them by the Home Owners Loan Cor
poration.
Their interesting experiment would
have had little meaning, either as q
success or failure, so long as it re-
manned with the taint of this subsidy.
1t was subsidy the very legality of
which was open to some question.
Whether legal or not, it threatened to
become very dangerous precedent for
the expenditure of Federal funds for
purposes for which they had not been
specifically appropriated The amount
of money that conceivably could be
spent on projects to increase the eff
cheney of Federal employees staggers the
imagination.
Moreover this particular subsidy Gre
ated the impression, however false, that
the establishment of such medical serv-
ice organizations was a policy of the
administration. There is no reason to
suppose this to be the case, other than
for a few ambiguously encouraging
words from Mrs. Roosevelt. AS a matter
of fact, some of the best brains of the
administration long engaged in consid-
ering problems of public health and the
distribution of medical services are at
work on the very complicated problem
of devising means to assure the best
possible medical service to the greatest
number at the least cost They are not
among the open supporters of Group
Health, incorporated, considering it only
one out of many plans that have been
put forth in the past few years.
The membership of this organization
now appears in no false light. 1t is
composed of a body of American citizens
who, upon their own initiative, have
banded together to purchase medical
services. This, other than for possible
technical details, they presumably have
q PSAASSo AASiio w QO. buG tIley are not
acting in accordance with any defined
policy of the Federal Government. They
are acting altogether as a private cor
poration.
BY paying back this money they will
relieve the Government of an embarrass-
ing situation for it has been hard for the
harassed private physician, fearing for
the economic future of his profession. to
split hairs finely enough to differentiate
an activity supported in part with Fed
eral funds from an out-and-out Federal
activity.
Now he can settle back with some as
surance that the medical arm of the
New Deal is the United States Public
Health Service-not a lay corporation
whose idealism he does not doubt. but
whose competence and experience to
deal with one of the most complex eco
nomic problems of the day he may seri-
ously question.
And If Group Health succeeds in the
face OF so many predictions to the con-
trary, success will bring vastly more
satisfaction than if it had remained a
subsidized corporation.
Evening star., 1938-07-16

be the sheerest sort of vanity for them
to protest that the money to be en-
ployed for their destruction is taxpay-
ers' money largely accumulated from
levies upon themselves. They may look
forward to no better fate than that of
being regarded as not reasonable" if
they hesitate to consent with enthusiasm
to their own humiliation. Political
strength-tWo elections which are con-
sidered to nave inundated a policy of
punishment for the power industry
provides Mr.. Ickes with logic against
which it is useless for the victims to
complain.
OF course, the danger in the circum-
stances is that of possible extension of
Mr.. Ickes' philosophy to other businesses
If a power house can be destroyed by
Federal competition, what is to prevent
coal mine, lumber yard, brick fac
tory, steel mill, even the humblest
grocery store, from being eliminated by
the same processes and in the same
fashion? There are numerous apostles
of so-called Government ownership"
who sincerely believe that all the tools
and facilities of production, distribution
and service should be owned and oper-
ated by the state. 1t is- the admitted
objective of these reformers to extermi-
nate capitalism. Mr.. Ickes may not
agree with them in every particular but
he is giving them marvellous aid and
comfort.
Evening star., 1938-07-16
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

washington sparrows are going mod
ern with the consumption of yeast.
There was delivery truck at down.
town curb From it had spilled some OF
the old bread raiser.
Half a. dozen English sparrows were
grouped around it, defying traffic haz-
ards to get taste of the delicacy.
We could not help but think that If
these birds had not been so well known
every passerby would have stopped to
look at the fetching picture.
Actually, those were very neat, nicely
formed, nicely striped, with alert ways
and happy demeanors
Yes, birds have personalities, too, as
well as humans.
That of the English sparrow has been
colored so one way, over the years, by
that great and eager group of persons
whose members specialize in running
down something else, that it is difficult
nowadays for any one to become en-
thusiastic over the bird.
Yet the birds at the yeast, viewed
fairly, were pretty birds.
There was more red-brown in these
specimens than the average.
Too, they were smaller, almost as
small as their cousin, the song sparrow,
Probably they were young birds.
There was no fighting going on, par
ticularly. Sparrow enemies always tell
you how the English ones fight among
themselves.
All birds do at times.
Man, himself, has been known to fight.
we believe
The sparrowS at the yeast were behav-
ing in very decent manner, especially
for such hot morning.
There was strict attention to the busi-
ness in hand.
Those who admire the song sparrow,
the 100 per cent bird, must in turn find
qualities about its cousin worth admir-
ing.
If we turn from downtown English
sparroWs to the song sparrows, We must
make a jump to the suburban areas,
where they abound.
Newcomers to the less built up sec.
tions should look for this little fellow
from the first, instead of concentrating
attention on the shower species, such
as the favorite cardinal and the scarlet
tanager.
The song sparrow is smaller than the
English sort, and much more sedate.
with something peculiarly ingratiating
in all its actions.
1t loves to be around when the lawn
is being sprinkled
Watch for it, at that time. especially
il there is a rivulet of water running
down the sidewalk.
1t likes to go wading.
Evening star., 1938-07-16

If you happen to see a bird which at
first you take for "just sparrow" and
1t happens to be much interested In the
water, you can be pretty sure with no
other Identification that you have song
sparrow.
The melody of this bird, from which
1t gets its name, is an interesting one.
There are three notes at the same
level, then one slightly higher, followed
by a long trill slightly lower than the
first note
The whole is a song which instantly
attracts attention.
1t has no such pattern as the four
part song of the wood thrush, nor has
1t the power, but somehow it seems ex-
actly the sort OF song, and sung in quite
the right manner, for such tiny bird.
This sparrow, whose name is Melodia,
comes back to the same nest, If it mi
CRATES short distance south in winter.
Many Of these little families remain
all winter long, but If they do 60 away,
they come back to the same spot, so
that, in any event. the householder may
be sure he has his own song sparrows
year after year.
The delightful, fresh song is heard un-
changed the year around, but somehow
there is an extra appeal in it during cold
Gays when the snow is on the ground.
Ihen there is no more delightful sight
In bird watching than a song sparrow
on fence post, lifting his head as he
pours out the fresh song which seems
to well quite from his heart.
X
These little birds run around like mice
in the yard, across the driveway. so
that good eye is needed to spot them
at first
Afterward they are seen easily as good
friends always are.
They are among the most fearless of
olros. 1t is nothing for a song sparrow
10 come within few feet of the person
nclolng the hose, nor will 1t shy away
as SO many birds do.
To watch it go wading is a real treat.
Wherever the stream makes little nat
ural brook he goes in.
Water in such rivulets is seldom more
IMAM an eighth of an inch deep.
Ihat is the way birds like it.
we must remember this in putting
up baths for them. OF course. the SAIL
Ger may be deeper than an eighth of an
nch-lt may 60 to two inches, but an
inch is better.
The main thing to keep in mind, in
supplying the birds with water is to
Keep the platters filled at all times
watering the lawn is particularly liked
by most BIRDS on hot day. The robins.
OF course, but many others like it. too,
including our 100 per cent friend, the
song sparrow.
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Speech!
My Uncle Jim once made a speech,
1t was received with cheers.
And yet his talk had failed to reach
Their hearts, so it appears.
We gathered joyously around
Congratulating him.
"'Twas all waste of time, I've found"
Remarked my Uncle Jim.
Il thought at first I'd made a hit
Worth mentionin', because
The audience would scarcely quit
The laughter and applause
But each of them, understand,
AS on his way he went,
Discussed my funny stories and
Forgot my argument"
"An airship is thing of beauty" said
Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, which
ought to make life seem more worth liv-
ing, instead of joining in a threat of
destruction
Evening star., 1938-07-16
Removal Of Weeds
In City Streets Urged.

IL tne EolIOT Oh 4ne star.
As LONG as there are so many men
unemployed, why not give them the
job of cutting down the weeds throughout
the city surrounding Government offices?
AS every one knows, weeds are enemies to
those afflicted with hay fever. There is a
street (to be exact, c between Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth SW) which is
hedged on both sides with the rankest
kind, and daily, now, many persons have
to traverse this street. Would it not be
double kindness to let some people
earn little money and at the same time
rid the air of pollen which Is so detri-
mental to many persons.
MABEL G. LATIMER.