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Evening star., 1938-04-09

Dear Sir: For the past week have
observed in my back yard a robin,
seemingly very fat, pulled out. The
bird remains still and crouched in the
grass most of the time. When he cor
shel moves it is only to make a few
sluggish hops for a few PAGES; diSap-
pears from time to time. only to be seen
Squattlng in the grass, not even digging
for worms. There is a second bird be-
having somewhat the same way-not
quite as puffed out, not quite so sluggish.
Would you be good enough to explain
this birds behavior? My sister and
have loved your articles in The Star,
read them regularly: wonder at your
lore.
Very sincerely. M c."
Just some cold robins, that is all
AS explained here recently those birds
roost in North Carolina. where 100000
of these songsters gathered before COM
ing North.
1t was warm enough there, and warm
enough here, when they selected the
District Of Columbia and nearby Mary
land and Virginia for nesting places
Then the weather played a trick on
them.
1t got cold
The robins didn't like it a little bit.
They had to put up with it, the same
As the rest of us. but they made no
pretense of liking it.
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So they hudded in the grass.
And that's the only explanation we
know, Mary.
Those robins were Just cold Had 2
pair in our own front yard acting the
same way.
Maybe they were ill., to boot Birds
animal creation
In addition. they go through some
thing no other animal does-the rigors
of migration.
AS chesty as the robin looks, he must
suffer severely from this experience. al
though mostly he pulls out of it within a
few days after making his selection of a
nesting spot.
Investigators in South America have
found many i'll and dead birds, after the
southwark trek; mostly by the time the
birds get back North the weather has
changed sufficiently for them
Occasionally, as this spring. the
weather warns up suddenly. stays that
way long enough to tempt the birds to
start North, then goes back" on them
by dropping almost overnight.
We printed here recently letter from
an observer showing what robins eat
in this vicinity when the ground is so
cold they cannot dig for worms. This
correspondent mentioned the berries of
certain shrubs and trees, and said the
birds would even eat breadcrumbs.
The female robin seems to stand the
cold weather better than the male. The
Very-much- -puffed-up bird, with the
darker chest. is the male. The female
has paler breast; she stands the cold
mornings better.
Few birds retain the affection of OBJ
servers better than this old favorite.
Equally at home in city. suburbs and
country, the robin is known to every-
body, even to persons who have no in
terest in bird life and lore.
No interest that is, except to know
1ne bird when they see it.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Toward the Precipice.

Paris cabinets come and 90 with such
gay abandon that ministrys fall has
come to be hardly more than an after
moons sensation on the boulevards
Thus the fall of Leon Blums second pov-
ernment-the first in June, 1887, the
other yesterday-is all in the days work
OF that kaleidoscope, incalculable insti-
tuition known as French parliamentary
politics. The creator of the Popular
Front Is again toppled from power for the
same reason that precipitated his earlier
oeoacle, the refusal Of the incorrigibly
conservative Senate to grant dctatorial
powers to cope with the national flnan-
clal emergency. Fridays vote was nearly
i've to one against M. Blum.
French internal politics battles foreign
comprehension. 1t is a potpourri of fac
tional and subfactional isms. hatreds and
riValries that frequently confuses and
distracts even Frenchmen-a situation
that completely bellies their reputation
for logical thought and action. At the
present juncture of European affairs
the ominous clouds overhanging
darkening horizon as Secretary Hull
describes them-France's present-h
political gyrations clearly threaten the
republic with disaster unless they speedily
yield to control Seldom has great
people fiddled so irresponsibly while
their Rome burned.
It is. Of course, Frances chaotic flnan-
cial plight that is of chief concern M.
Blum re-enters the outer darkness be-
cause he sought decree authority to i'm
pose a graduated capital levy, rigorous
exchange control and an arbitrary check
on the flight of French money to foreign
refuge. Debate RACES academically as
to whether the financial dictatorship
Blum desired is necessary to remedy con-
ditions, or whether these are the conse-
quence of Popular Front radicalism come
home to roost Beyond question only is
that things have drifted from bad to
worse and are now at a point clamorine
bitterly for a government capable of ris-
ing above self-centered factionalism and
rancorous partisanShip.
The emergency outstrips that OF a
purely French national concern 1t men
aces Europe. 1t endangers world secur-
ity, Frances chronic political crises are
the meat on which the Caesars of Fascist
aggression feed, History repeats itself.
Germany struck in 1914 because she en-
visioned a Europe Immersed III domestic
broils. Great Britains attention was riv-
eted on Ireland. France was absorbed
in 'laffaire Caillaux" Russia rocked
amid the tremors OF budding revolution
Hitler raided Austria last month as
France found herself without a govern
ment. Mussolini speeded up his aid to
Franco for victory drive in Spain the
same instant. Czechoslovakia reluctant
concessions to Nazi pressure synchronize
with her French allyS incapacity to plav
out her role as a stabilizing factor on
the Continent
The French politicians, OF whatever
hue, however eminent, who at this crit
lcal hour prefer partisanism to patriot
ism, are undermining democracy, abet-
ting dictatorship and imperiling peace
1t is course which the Lebruns. the
Blums the CaillauXes, the Daladers, the
Herriots, the Bonnets, the Paul Boncours
and the rest of them will do well to
ing France-anG Europe-straight to the
precipice.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Time for Action.

Numbers racketeers are sclrryinq IN
cover, as police and prosecutors make
plans for vigorous drive against them
under authority Of the new lottery legis-
1ation.
Already bewildered by passage of the
numbers law, the operators OF the crime
breeding game" have cause to be
frightened by the apparent intention Of
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Abraham Lincoln on
Labor and CAPITAL

To the Editor of The Star:
In 1861 Abraham Lincoln said: 1T is
assumed that labor is available only in
connection with capital; that nobody la
bors unless somebody else owning capt.
tai, somehow by the use of it. induces
him to labor. Labor is prior to and indie
pendent of capital. Capital is only the
fruit of labor and could not have existed
If labor had not first existed Labor is
the superior of capital and deserves
much the higher consideration
Further on he said. This country with
its institutions belongs to the people
who inhabit it
But then, of course, 1861 was long ago.
and how times do change!
w. B. TILLINGHAST
Lorton Va
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Is the Proposed District
Income Tax constitutional? :?

To the Editor OF The Star:
In all the discussions of the proposed
District income tax law, I have seen no
mention of that clause of the United
States Constitution II. g., which re-
quires that all duties impoSts and ex-
CiseS shall be uniform throughout the
United States Is the proposed income
tax one of these? And is an "impost'
on one citizen, which leaves untaXed
another, similarly situated, uniform?
Can such discrimination possibly be
hello consistent with due process of
law? CHARLES S. LOBINGIER.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Suggests the President
Is Impeding Recovery
To the Editor of The Star:

To The Ed Tor OF The Star:
The whole Nation is wondering whv
T. D. R. is doing his level best to pre-
vent recovery. Can it be that he is
following the tactics of President Will
son and purposely keeping himself aloof
and fearful of hearing about conditions
a. home?
If his intimates are keeping from him
concrete facts they should be more
than censured.
All we can do is to hope and pray
that he will soon see light and face
facts. Otherwise whittier are we
bound? Two-thirds of the UNEMPLOYED
in the whole world live in the United
States. We ask the White House to
think this over. ARTHUR HEMSLEY.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Not Speech,

Il have one constituent" said Senator
Sorghum, who gets great deal of sat-
1sfaction out Of his daily paper"
Does he read it through"
Not exactly, but it enables him to
use political speeches to start the kitch-
en- fire with"
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Praises Efforts to Check
Unwise REORGANIZATION

To the Editor OF The Star:
We want to express our appreciate
OF the splendid efforts you have made in
the campaign against the objectional
features of the reorganization bill.
We trust you will continue this fight,
particularly for the retention of the BIZ
partisan Civil Service Commission,
which we regard as vital to the mainte-
nance of the merit system, and for re-
tention by Congress Of adequate author
ity over any reorganization proposals
that may be made
CHARLES l. STENGIE.
President American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
President Comedies Right
OF Congress to Legisiate

To he Editor Of Tho Star
1t is nice Of the President to offer
Congress the privilege of passing by
majority on his reorganization bill over
his former demands, Are our over
worked Congressman to be forced to at
tend roll calls and vote on what are
considered minor matters by the reor-
ganization bill? Perish the thought
A. BUCKINGHAM.
Evening star., 1938-04-09

AS a Nation We do not approve OF
betting on horse racing, but the horse
Is none the less a favorite in the con-
tention for quick and easy cash. The
photographs of horses are doing more
to increase the pictorial value of news
publications than their owners will ever
accomplish.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
-A~o~

Fine writing has been attributed to
members Of the Supreme Court apart
from their duties in calculating the law.
1t would be interesting if those endowed
with sudden leisure should permit them
selves the relaxation of abstract literary
composition. Many ideas need vigorous
expression by men who have made sim
cere thought a lifetime habit.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Lovely Time.

Did YOU have a lovely time at the
lawn party7"
Yes. 1t was clever of the hostess to
give an outdoor entertainment 1t
kept all of us from seeing the ordinary
style in which her house is furnished. "
Evening star., 1938-04-09

Washington, D. c., is after all
wonder city, which must master every
detail of life, from the highest social
entertainment to a management OF the
method OF parking an automobile or
following the clue to a disappearing
citizen.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Common Humanity,

The man of might, with wealth to spare
And rank and pedigree
Will holler in a dentists chair,
The same as you or me.
Evening star., 1938-04-09

The need of money for purposes OF
self-defense is readily recognized. The
appropriations for matters of embellish-
ment may wait in some instances until
the demand for defensive security is
abundantly met
Evening star., 1938-04-09

mediately contented. Every one wishes
them happiness, but the desires that
grow with new-found convenience are
household.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Experienced.

Prom the Goshen News Democrat.
A Nebraska Democratic ward club
proposes the mother of II children as
county purchasing agent, apparently
satisfied she has plenty of experience in
quantity buying.
Evening star., 1938-04-09

Government salaries become larger
and larger but they do not yet overtake
the compensations so freely and abun-
dainty assured to our favorite motion
picture stars.
Evening star., 1938-04-09

Railroads are raising a voice of pro-
test against the style of statesman
ship which seeks to regard them as
making time with an expense account
instead of on the tracks.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
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Evening star., 1938-04-09

Even genius has to show discre-
ton said Uncle Eben. "A musical
genius amt gine to git nowhere playing
Beethoven symphony to an audience
that's tuned up foh Turkey in de
Straw"
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Lost :.

Prom the Cleveland News.
party at Flushing, N. Y asks police
to look up his missing steam roller It is
black weighs 10 tons and presumably
answers to the name OF Babe,
Evening star., 1938-04-09

Foes OF Roosevelt reorganization have
no hesitation about dlsorganizine what
looked like a completed program.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
A Man and His Ticket.

Isl Simlin is too smart for politics"
remarked the man with the lead pencil
behind his ear
Did you ask him what ticket he is
working for?'
Il asked him carefully and he an
SWered, A meal ticket"
Evening star., 1938-04-09
Shooting Stars.
Bv PHTLANDER JOHNSON
William and James.

Ny brother Bill. he has big feet,
And freckled hands that don't look nea
His hair is red as hickory fire.
His Whiskers look like rusty wire.
His grammar too, is not au fait,
And modest is his weekly pay.
My brother jim is tall and slim.
The ladies often glance at him
With eyes to sentiment inclined,
And say, oh, he is not REFINED!"
But Jims bachelor, who goes
At night to clubs and music shows,
And spends the day all by himself
Devislng plans to gather pelf.
While Bill, he has a coy home
From which he never wants to roam;
A wife who smiles and kids who sing
And think Bill Is the real thing
His life is modest; yet, guess
Well have to call it a SUCCESS.
Evening star., 1938-04-09
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Evening star., 1938-04-09
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Evening star., 1938-04-09

TO Kill foe" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown may become a fearful prob
lem in arithmetic as you have to figure
on Staying likewise all his friends and
relations"
Evening star., 1938-04-09

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Evening star., 1938-04-09

Q. How large are the Middleton Gar
dens at Charleston, S. CO. r.
A. Middle Plantation covers about
1000 acres, while the gardens comprise
approximately As acres.
Evening star., 1938-04-09

A reader can oct the answer to any
question OF fact BY uniting The Evening
Star Information Bureau. Frederic J.
Hdskin. director, Washington, d. c.
Please inclose stamp for reply.
Evening star., 1938-04-09

O How many standard race tracks are
there in the United States2-A M. c.
A According to the American Racing
Manual for 1887. there are 64 important
race tracks in operation in the United
States.
Evening star., 1938-04-09

@. Please give the names OF some good
books for parents.--E. G.
A. The Nursery Years" by DR.. Susan
Isaacs, won the annual medal awarded
by Parents Magazine for the outstanding
book Of the kind. Books given honor
able mention were: Fables for Parents
by Dorothy Canf1eld; Personality and
the Cultural Pattern by James S.
Plant. children in the Family" by Har-
old H. Anderson: What Books for Chill
dren?' by Josette Frank; Childhood,
the Beginning Years and Ahead" edited
by the Association for Childhood Edu-
cation.
Evening star., 1938-04-09

@ Does blue or yellow electric light
bulb Of equal number of watts give more
light?-M. S.
A, The National Bureau Of Standards
says that yellow is brighter, since the
eve is more sensitive to yellow than to
blue light.
Evening star., 1938-04-09

Q. When did the N. r. A. 60 into
effect?-C, M
A. The National Industrial Recovery
Act WA enacted on June 16. 1888, and
went into effect Immediately.
Evening star., 1938-04-09

Q. Has newspaper ever been printed
on silk?-R. w. H
A The Houston Chronicle, as a special
souvenir feature, printed a number Of
sections on silk.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-02
Battle Yet to Come as
Foes Prepare for
Further Struggle

Junior High School topped 800
advocates of no change in the
present form of Government.
In the silk stocking" dis
tricts, proponents of suffrage over
whelmed opponents. In precinct
so, the Naval Observatory area,
where residents voted at the Stod-
dert School, Calvert Street and
Thirty-ninth Place Northwest, 1877
voted for local suffrage with 208
opposed and 893 voted for national
representation with IS opposed.
Heaviest voting was registered
in the twenty-ninth precinct where
1850 men and women voted in
favor of national representation
as compared with 20 against.
Seven precincts reported margins
of more than 100 to / in favor of
suffrage. They were:
Fourth, Syphax School, Half
and N Streets Southwest;
fifteenth, Smothers School. Forty
Fourth Street and Washington
Place Northeast; sixteenth, Burr
vile School, Division Avenue and
Hayes Street Northeast; twenty
eighth, Cardozo High, Ninth Street
and Rhode Island Avenues North
west; twenty-ninth, Mott School,
Fourth and w Streets Northwest;
thirty-eighth, Howard University,
and Thirty-ninth, GarnetPatter-
son Junior High, Tenth and y
Streets Northwest.
DISORDERS ABSENT
In it's first march to the polls
since 1874, Washington staged
what was possibly the first cleo
ton ever held in a large city with
out disorder, the Police Depart
ment reported.
There were no fights or brawls
at the polls Saturday and no one
was injured or arrested. Extra
police squads had been concen.
trated in heavily congested
districts, but the officers had little
to do except direct voters to the
polls,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-02
D. C. CLERGYMEN.
HAIL HUGE VOTE
FOR SUFFRAGE

Clergymen, representing every
faith, yesterday rejoiced at the
overwhelming vote cast by Wash
ington residents in Saturdays ref
crendum, which they character
lied as a mandate not to be ig-
nored by Congress.
Just as Congress is obliged to
heed public opinion in the States,
so they must have some respect for
the decided opinion Of the voters
If the District of Columbia" said
the Rev. Clifford H. Jope, pas
tor of the Ninth Street Christian
Church.
DIR. SIMON'S VIEW
Rabbi Abram Simon, of Wash
ington Hebrew Congregation:
Those of us who have lived
in other cities where we enjoyed
that greatest of American privi-
leges, the right to vote, are all the
more delighted that we had the
opportunity to participate in the
unofficial vote in city whose resi-
dents are denied the franchise"
DR.. Edward Hughes Pruden,
pastor First Baptist Church:
II am sure yesterdays vote
truly represents the sentiment of
Washington, and I hope it will
have the proper and desired
effect in influencing Congress to
do its part in granting the fran.
chise to District citizens"
DR.. Howard Stone Anderson,
pastor Of the First Congregational
Church:
II think the Nations Capital is
the place Of all places for a prac.
tical demonstration of democracy
at work. Such a demonstration
has long been deferred here"
SHOWS WE WANT VOTE
DR.. H. w. Burgan, pastor Ham
line Methodist Episcopal Church:
1.-THE vote shows very clearly
that the District of Columbis
definitely wants the vote. I'm
doubtedly the results cannot &c
unheeded in Congress.
DR.. Russell j. Clinchy, pastor
Mt. Pleasant Congregational
Church:
1.-THE vote Saturday is exactly
what we needed to influence Con
gress. I think the results are
splendid"
Canon Arson Phelps Stokes, oil
Washington Cathedral:
II am thoroughly in favor Of
national representation, so I am
heartily delighted this has beer
approved by an overwhelming
majority of our citizens who went
to the polls Saturday."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-02
Justice Roberts
G. Years Old Today

GNS.) Justice Owen ]. Rob
erts of the Supreme Court today
observed his sixty-third birthday
anniversary today on the bench
of the high tribunal. Justice Rob
erts, third youngest justice OF the
court will soon mark his eighth
anniversary on the tribunal. He
was appointed y President Hoover
and assumed the duties OF his o.
flee on June 2, 1880.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-02
Data on Heavy Vote
To Be Presented
Congressman
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citizenry Saturday left opponents
of suffrage virtually speeches.,
but quickly they rallied their small
forces and prepared to attack the
mandate of the people before the
House Judiciary Committee.
Support of District suffrage
grew by leaps and bounds in Con-
gress as a result of the plebiScite,
however. as Senators and Con-
gressmen announced their willing
ness to comply with the wishes OF
local citizenry.
BATTLE NOT YET OVER
Leaders of the suffrage move
ment, on the other hand, eau
toned against overconfidence and
pointed out that a long, hard
battle is in prospect before the OBJ
jectives for which District citizens
voted can be reached.
First objective of the suffrage
leaders is to obtain favorable
action on one of the resolutions
now pending before the Judiciary
Committee. The Capper-Norton
resolution, which has been pending
before Congress for 10 years. pro
vides only for national representa-
ton and the right to vote for
presidential electors.
The Lewis-Randolph resolution
provides all that is offered in the
Capper-Norton measure and. in
addition, provides for a complete
form of republican government
home rule" for the District.
Next step in the battle would be
to obtain approval by two-thirds
majority in both Houses Of Con
gress of one of the resolutions.
Then would come the arduous
task of persuading three-fourths
of the States to approve a consti
tutional amendment, taking away
from Congress the right to legiS
late exclusively for the District.
Local suffrage without voting
representation in Congress or the
right to participate in presidential
elections, however, could be ex
tended to the District by an act
tof Congress.
PARTY LINES ABSENT
Approximately 16 per cent o.
the city's population marched tt
the polls Saturday, final figure'
revealed, and the total vote com
pared favorably with the Figures
compiled in national election!
which are preceded by months o
heated campaigning.
Yet the referendum wa
launched after a campaing of onl
four weeks and with but fiv
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-02
Suffrage Hearing May 1919
There's Method
In His Madness

One Washington lawyer,
who does q great deal Of in
come tax work and practices
before Government depart
ments, had a unique reason
FOR not voting SATURDAY. His
reason was:
"What, me vote and get my
name on the personal tax
list? You must think l have
lost my mind"