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The Washington times., 1938-05-09

WINCHELL PARTY
Dinner follows the Variety
Club reception in the main
ballroom of the Willard, after
which Mr.. Winchell will pro-
coed with the beauty elimina-
tions, make a round Of Wash
1ngton'S after-dark spots.
"ROBIN HOOD" GAYETY
Zone Manager John J. Pay.
cite, Of Warner Bros, has also
scheduled a Robin Hood" eve
ming for Wednesday.
This will begin about Z at
Harvey's Restaurant, to be fol-
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

Adventures of Marco Polo"
starring Gary Cooper will be
screened Tuesday at 1870 in the
Fox Exchange. What a day.
Picture opens at Loew's Palace
Theater Friday.
"O-LAMPE" TO VISIT
"Just call me CLAMP"
That's the plea of the beauti-
full young French actress,
Olympic Bradna, Paramount's
Importation from Paris who will
visit Washington in person next
Thursday and who comes to the
Loew's Capitol screen in her
first starring role, "Stolen
Heaven" on Friday.
Olympic is broadcasting this
request in the hopes of settling
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Gle a in s
and
Screenings
BY Andrew R. Kelley

busy week ahead for drama desks, with screenings,
cocktail parties dinners and receptions piled up in profuson
Walter Wnchell will be the big Tuesday guest. Ace
gossip coumnist and beauty connoseur is scheduled to
check in at Variety Club tomorrow at twilight.
To meet him the II prettiest girls in the Government
service selected by The Washington Times judges of pull
chrtude; Vice President and Mrs John N Garner Mr. and
Mrs James Roosevelt j. Edgar Hoover Mrs Eleanor Pat
msoners Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes COL
and Mrs. Marvin MacIntyre Mr.. and Mrs Drew Pearson
John ODonne and Doris Fleeson Major and Mrs Ernest
W. Brown, and most of the active members of Variety
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

Q ticklish problem which has
had Hollywood friends calling
her everything from "Olimp" to
''Limpy." She explains that
she got her name from the
Olympic Theater in Paris, where
her actor-parentS we're perform
ing at the time of her birth.
In Stolen Heaven" which
marks Paramount'S experiment
in combining dramatic action
with broad human sentiment,
Olympic co-stars with handsome
Gene Raymond.
When Olympic Bradna arrives
she will not have to wait long
before having fulfilled one of
her "fondeSt expectations" This
would be a meeting with the
First Lady. Paramount's young
star has always wanted to meet
Mrs. Roosevelt and this she will
do Thursday afternoon at the
White House.
MAGICIANS' EVENING
Washington's hocus pocus
men, in other words. Washing.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
'Moytinne' Now
At Little

"Maytime," regarded as one
Of the outstanding screen YER
sions of an operetta, is the cur
rent attraction at the Little The
alter. This Robert z. Leonard
production is lavish, but effec-
lively so, studded with the orig
inal Romberg music and other
melodic gems. jeanette Mac
Donald and Nelson Eddy have
not had a more desirable We
hicle, have not handled their
acting and singing assignments
in better fashion.
The story is that familiar tale
created for the stage by Rida
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Morgan Angles

Frank Morgan made his first
excursion to the Coronado Is
lands in pursuit of large yellow
tail and a swordfish if any can
be located in the waters off the
coast near San Diego. He has
had special fishing chairs and
equipment installed on his new
boat, the Katinka.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Rose Queen STAYS

Cheryl Walker, queen of the
1888 Pasadena Tournament Of
Roses, has received a new con-
tract at Paramount studio,
where she has been since film
scouts discovered her on a
parade float last New Year Day.
Her next appearance will be in
Men with Wings" William A.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09
Expert Marksman

Fred MacMurray, Hollywood's
best rifle shot, is devoting every
spare moment from work in
Paramount's "Cocoanut Grove"
to mastering a new weapon.
It's the spray gun, and Fred is
hunting aphis among the rose
bushes of his Bel Air estate.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

lowed by a screening Of the pic
ture at the Earle's bijOurium.
Robin Hood" is the most inn
pOrtant release on the Warner
Bros. 1898 schedule. They
put in years of research before
the cameras 81 srted to grind,
drenched it with technicOlOr pig
ments and loaded it with a most
distinguished cast, headed by
Enrol Flynn.
The Washington times., 1938-05-09

Washington's hocus pocus
men, in other words Washing.
Evening star., 1938-11-19
Protests Giving African
Territory to Germans.
To the Editor OF The Star

To the Editor OF The Star:
During the past few months we have
had demonstration of German culture
and in the past week another phase of
their so-called culture First they dis
arm the Jews so that they could not de-
fend their homes and families against a
mob of fanatics and then they have the
audacity to make the Jews pay for the
damage done by German mob.
The Germans howl aad cry about the
unfairness of the Versailles Treaty. I
wonder If the American people ever stop
to think how fair Germany would have
been If they had won the war Did they
give Alsace Lorraine back to France after
the War of 1870? Now they want their
colonies back.
What did they do with the colonies
when they had them? Taey kept the
poor native population in state OF
slavery and abused them n the usual
German manner, so that the natives went
wild with Joy when the Solth African
troops took charge. They want no more
German rule there. 1t would be the
greatest crime of the century If Britain
and France give one acre of African soil
over to brutal people like the Germans
have proven themselves to be
ROBERT WARDEN.
November IS.
Evening star., 1938-11-19

hicle operators that no law, human or
divine, permits them to kill their fellow
men. Facetious motorists one time car
ried pla,ards on windshields announcing
"Anothe- Rowdy" or hypocritical stickers
labeled Courtesy" 1t is time mechan-
lied rowoyism had its day.
Pedestrian traffic control should not
be adopted for the reason it will make
laWbreakers of most walkers More re-
spect for law is needed No one is in
clined to wait for a green signal when
there is opportunity to cross on a red
one, especially in residential sections
where patrslman may be lurking un-
seen on corner and where there is no
heavy traffic ffow during certain periods
Droves of walkers cross in safety on
the red light ir the downtown section.
One has but to take a stroll along Penn
sylvanla avenue when workers are
emerging from Offices at lunch time to
observe the phensmena The tendency
to make arrests fu petty infractions of
traffic rules is all to prevalent. 1t serves
to incense the public against the en-
forcement agency AID to make citizens
dissatisfied with the bcal government.
LEWIS L. YOUNG.
November
Evening star., 1938-11-19
DOgwOod Preferred
To Cherry Trees.


To the Editor Of The Star:
Women of Washington, women OF
America: In this momentous era OF
United States history. we have the honor
to be the mothers of the mightiest and
the most humane Nation on earth; the
Nation which vigorously protests, indig-
nantly, the injustice and cruel abuse of
power by the sacrilegious dictators of
Europe.
1t was Thomas Jefferson who wrote the
Declaration of independence. 1t was
Thomas jefferson who incorporated re-
ligious freedom and tolerance into our
laws, thus making 1t nationally possible
for all in the United States to live and
worship according to conscience.
Can Japanese cherry trees possibly be
paramount in importance to the erec-
ton 1l2 years after his death) OF
great memorial to honor, perpetually, the
name OF one who has no peer in our
Nations history? Are the cherry bios
SONS more beautiful than the name and
memory OF Thomas Jefferson?
Would not American dogwood BIOS
SONS more beautifully and f1ttingly adorn
the environs OF the Jefferson memorial?
American dogwood is very artistic and
beautiful and 1t Is a native tree. We
love 1t.
Women of Washington, we are klneri-
cans. Let US value our own.
EDNA BISHOP DANIEL.
November IL.
Evening star., 1938-11-19

at Bryn Mawr College. Father
O'Hara's appointment is in obvious
compliment to our good neighbors,
because without exception they
are preponderantly Roman Catholic
countries.
Noteworthy, too, is the selection Of
Miss Kathryn Lewis, daughter and
executive assistant of John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work.
ers Of America. To keep the c. I. o.
A. F. of L. balance even, Mr.. Roose-
velt has named Dan w. Tracy, presi-
dent of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers, as Miss
Lewis co-delegate to speak for
American labor at Lima. Another
woman who will be an associate Of
Secretary Hull is Mrs Elsie F. Musser,
who was also delegate at the pre-
ceding Inter American Conference.
State Department career stand-bys
like Legal Adviser Green H. Hack
worth, who will be delegate; DR..
Herbert Feis, economic adviser;
Laurence Duggan, chief Of the Di-
vision of American Republics, and
Michael j. McDermott, veteran press
officer, complete the roster OF the
men and women who jointly carry
the latest message of good will from
the COLOSSUS of the North" to our
friends on both sides of the Equator.
The Lima conference promises to
be OF farther reaching significance
than any of its seven predecessors,
because of the new Importance Of
Western Hemisphere solidarity, in
the light of the international situa-
ton and the lessons and warnings
implicit in it for democracy in the
New World.
Evening star., 1938-11-19
Nuzi Prosecutions

With stupid brutishness they vainly try
To persecute a name-the name of
Jew:
They seem too dull to know that names
defy
All hurt, all pain, no matter what
they do.
Names are but patterned cloaks flung
lightly around
The shoulders OF q man; but men
are men,
With eyes that see, and ears that hear
the sound
OF waters singing through wooded
glen.
Yes, men are men, and each man has
mind,
Responsive to the banners Of acclaim;
Lashed by the savagery of humankind;
Broken by ignominy and by shame.
That men are brothers, wise men will
avoW;
And hearts like ours are bruised and
bleeding now.
H.. p. sTODDARD. g.
Evening star., 1938-11-19

cation OF acts too hastily applied in
the stress of the emergency.
Judging by the reaction of the last
week, it would seem that one thing
was needed to win back the conf
dence of the commercial world, an
effort which has been made by vari-
Gus devices over period of nine
years. That is a return to two
party system of government, which
in spite of its faults of compromise,
offers a square deal for the greater
number. America for several gen.
erations has made fetish Of the
middle of the road. The parade Is
swinging toward that line.
Evening star., 1938-11-19
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1UeH.

English sparroWs are really very
charming birds, looked at honestly, with
out the mental clouding which has ac-
companied the name ever since their
introduction into this country.
It Is not this sparroW's fault, we sub
init, that 1t has thriven, and been able
to oust some of our native birds.
Research tends to show that the Eng
lish sparrows, along with the other men,
bers Of the sparrow tribes, do a great
work In keeping down weeds.
Weed seeds, including the seeds of the
ragweed, are the favorite foods of all
nnches, to which great family the SPAR
rows belong.
The English sparrows, ably assisted by
the white throats and the song SPAR
rows, seem to be the chorus Of the feed
ing station performance.
The cardinals, bluejays, titmice, wood
peckers, mockingbirds, nuthatches and
chickadees, with few others, are the
stars"
But where would the stellar perform
ers be without the assistance of the
chorus?
1t is this background group of SPAR
rows which enlivens the entire scene,
making the entrances and exits of the
brighter birds stand out.
4
Newcomers to the bird feeding game
this fall should take pains, if necessary,
to prevent themselves from falling into
the very human failing of hatred.
There are some very startling exam
Piles around the world of what this atti-
tude, let rum leads to.
But many persons, apparently, do not
realize that the same spirit is manifest
when a feeder of the birds draws up
list Of desirables, in his own mind, and
then trys to exclude all others.
This applies to four-legged creatures
as we'll as to two-legged ones.
The lesson of the white -throated SPAR
row is plain.
1t lives in amity with the English
sparrows. Who is the bird feeder, then,
that he or she should throw a stone?
Newcomers to the sport and art will
have to look closely, if they want to pick
the white throat out of the mass of its
English cousins.
1t will be looking to good purpose,
however
Few birds are better than the white
throated sparrow, which also boasts such
names as cherry bird, Canada bird,
Canada sparrow and Pevery bird, ac-
cording to the part of the country in
which it is found.
The name makes no difference-the
bird is the thing, and it is precisely be-
cause this is so that the English spar
row, as we'll as this undoubtedly more
desirable one, is worth liking.
The question is, further, is anything
worth disliking, especially in the bird
line, and particularly if it brings to the
one who holds the dislike some very
plain penalties?
Evening star., 1938-11-19
Star Map of Metropolitan
Washington Appreciated.
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor OF The Star
Permit me to compliment you and your
paper on the very well prepared and
useful map of Metropolitan Washington
which appeared in the gravure section Of
The Sunday Star Of November l3.
Perhaps I had the privilege of being
the first to make practical and public
use. for educational purposes, of this
map. Being slated to address the stu
dents of the Silver Spring Eastern SUBJ
urban School on November IA on the
subject. The Old and New Area of Silver
Spring" I was able to use much of the
information which it contained, on the
day following its publication.
feel that thanks are due to The Star
for this further service to the public.
BERRY E. CLARK.
November a.
Evening star., 1938-11-19
Auf Wiedersehen?

Whether Ambassador Dieckhoff is
to shake the dust of Massachusetts
avenue from his feet forever, or
whether it is merely a case of auf
Wiedersehen, the German envoy's
order to present himself in Berlin
intensifieS the strain which has
arisen in American rela-
tions. 1t is an obvious reprisal for
the summons of Ambassador Wilson
to Washington. The NaZi diplomat
has been recalled to report to his
government on "the queer attitude"
of President Roosevelt and the Amer
lean people toward the carnival Of
brutalitarianism now rampant in the
Reich.
Fortunately, DR.. Dieckhoff has
lived in the United States long
enough to make his task in Berlin
an easy one, if, for once, Nazi re-
strictions against free speech are re-
laxed, and he is permitted to tell the
truth. He will say, if he cares and
dares to indulge in a practice which
has not flourished under the brown
shirt tyranny, that there is nothing
queer" whatever in the wave of
horror, protest and repugnance
which has swept across this country
during the past week. He will say
that it is as old as the Declaration
of Independence and the Bill of
Rights. He will say that Franklin
D. Roosevelt is not the first President
of the United States, but only the
latest, to voice his fellow citizens
resentment of inhumanitieS like
those which Hitlerism has visited
against Jews and Christians alike.
DR.. Dieckhoff will say, if he con-
tinues to report the facts to the
Wilhelmstrasse that the mouthings
of Goebbels' gagged press, to the
effect that American indignation
springs from Jewish propaganda"
are sheer moonshine. He will in
form Hitler, Goering and Won Rib
bentrop that Monsignor Corrigan
rector of Catholic University, spoke
the simple truth when that distin-
guished churchman broadcast this
week that "others before us have
raised the powerful voice of Ameri-
can conviction in protest; others
after us will swell the volume" and
added: 1T is we'll that they do so,
for the world should not forget nor
cease to protest with earnest sim
cerity and growing vigor until it be
cleansed of the poisonous cancer
even now gnawing at the very vitals
of organized society and just gov
ernment."
And there is another item which
Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff might use
fully unlimber when he unpacks his
brief case in Berlin. That is, that the
Government and citizens of the
United States have no grievance
against the German people. They
do not hold the German nation re-
sponsible for the crimes against
civilization committed in their name
during the past five years. They be-
lieve, on the contrary, that if the
queer" American system of a free
ballot prevailed in Germany, the
great race from which Goethe,
Schiller and Carl Schurz sprang
would rise in its might and make
short shrift of Hitlerism and the
evils for which it stands.
Evening star., 1938-11-19

A flock Of half q dozen white -throated
sparrows created commotion In the
leaves close to the feeding station.
These beautiful sparrows put on as
good scratching show as any towhee or
fox sparrow.
They are just little larger than the
English sparrows, and are to be dis
tinguished not only by their scratching,
and their unique song, but particularly
by the large white patch covering the
chin and throat.
These are among the best of the SPAR
rows, universally loved, honored guests
at feeding stations everywhere, on their
annual down trips from Canada.
They mix familiarly with their English
cousins, as, indeed, they should, being
almost of size, and, no doubt, mistaken
for them by thousands Of inexperienced
observers.
The white throat is the famous pea
body bird" of the New England States.
OF course, it doesn't say Sam Peabody,
or call any other human name. Some
body just thought 1t did.
Its plaintive little lament Is one of the
most difficult of all bird songs to attempt
to whistle.
1t has been tried on the piano, and the
violin, but neither one really initiates
that inimitable song; 1t has certain
quality no human can quite catch.
1t is loud, clear and yet plaintive. Ask
the bird how he does It,
Like a good musician, he does not re-
peat it too often.
Those who welcome the white throats
at their feeders at this season may hope
that they will remain in the vicinity all
winter.
The slightly smaller song sparrow
stays with us, maybe these white throats
will, too. The white-crowned sparrow
has more white on the top OF his head;
he is not to be confused with the white
throat
1t is pleasant to watch these various
members of a great bird family meet
and eat together in harmony every day
beneath ones windows.
1t throws strong light on a common
situation. and illuminates the contention
of real bird lovers that each variety of
sparrow-including the English-has its
place in the great scheme.
1t is impossible to keep on throwing
structures and even harder missiles at
the English sparrows. when all these
varieties meet on a friendly footing, and
are seen to be birds together. not
paragons and criminals together.
Any one who says he loves the white
throat, but despises the English sparrow.
does not admire the white throat as
much as he thinks.
Many persons who feed the birds draw
up their own lists of permissible and un-
wanted guests, and continue to harass
both themselves and the undesired birds
all winter long
That is not the way to do it.
Evening star., 1938-11-19
A Fine DELEGATION

There will be wide approval of the
personnel selected by President
Roosevelt to represent the United
States at the Eighth International
Conference of American States at
Lima next month. 1t is delegation
of "all the talents" as Frenchmen
sometimes describe their periodical
coalition cabinets composed of men
of many parties and predictions
Headed, naturally, by Secretary Hull,
who has won eminent prestige
throughout Latin America, the next
name on the delegation is that of
former Governor Alfred M. Landon,
President Roosevelt's Republican op-
ponent in the campaign of 1861
gesture of political sportsmanship
which does credit to the Administra-
ton. AS a typical and successful
American businessman, Mr.. Landon
is we'll qualified to serve in Peru, for
inter r-American questions of eco
nomic magnitude will figure on the
conference agenda. Ranking next to
the Kansan will be Assistant Secre-
tary of State Berle, who has had
long and valuable experience in Latin
America. Our Ambassador to Peru,
Mr.. Steinhardt, and our Minister to
the Dominican Republic, Mr.. Norweb,
will be helpful coadjutors of Judge
Hull, because of their expert &C
quaintance with the Spanish Ian
guage, with the Latin American
temperament and with present con-
ditions south of the Rio Grande and
the 1sthmus
Special interest attaches to the in
clusion among the Lima delegates,
for the first time, of representative
of our outlying possessions in the
Latin America area, Chief Justice
Emilio del Toro Cuevas of the Su-
preme Court of Puerto Rico. The
American academic world, because of
the stress the United States now lays
on cultural ties with the sister re-
publics, will have two worthy spokes-
men on the delegation in the per
sons of the Rev. John F. O'Hara,
C. S. c., president Of the University
of Notre Dame, and Charles G. Fen
wick, professor Of international law
Evening star., 1938-11-19
Labor Leadership

Decision of the c. I. O., in its new
and permanent form, to make John
L. Lewis its first president is neither
an unexpected nor unnatural choice.
Under his direction, this wing OF
the labor movement has grown in the
past three years to become one OF
the most powerful factors in Amer
ica's industrial and economic life.
That it's course at times has been
extreme and not we'll advised in the
opinion of many persons, is unde-
niably fact, but it is equally true
that in great measure the movement
achieved it's fundamental purpose,
namely, the organization of mass
production workers.
AS both the leadership and the
rank and file of the c. l. O. must
realize, however. its accomplishments
are nothing unless they are main
tanned; to be maintained they must
be constructive and beneficial in their
effect on the Nations economy.
The meeting of such requirement
must preclude continuation of any
such bitter antagonism as has
marked past relationships between
the two great wings of American
labor.
1t is the responsibility Of Mr.. Lewis
and his associates, therefore, to chart
their future course carefully, with
the rights and the best interests OF
all in mind. Particularly should
they strive to compose their differ
ences with the A. F. of L., regardless
of the failure of past peace nego-
tiationS.
Evening star., 1938-11-19
The Pendulum

A decidedly optimistic view of the
future of business is taken by leaders
of banking, finance and commerce
as a result of last weeks elections.
There is no definite indication that
these leaders see, or necessarily hope
for return to the conservative Re-
publicanism of the chicken eating
twenties. Todays optimism is based
more upon the evidence that the
Nation prefers the checks and bal
ances offered by a strong minority
to unopposed government by one
group.
The prevailing sentiment in the
business world is that the pendulum
at present is swinging toward the
right. But there seems no doubt it
will not reach so far in its new direc-
ton as to wipe out the important
gains made along social, labor and
business lines during the past six
years. On the other hand, the pen
dulum apparently was stopped by
the recent elections in its sweep
toward the left before it had over
reached its traditional orbit, and
crossed the line which separates
liberalism from radicalism.
With the failure of the administra-
ton to purge strong conservatives
out OF the Democratic party, and
with the increase in the number of
Republicans in Congress, legislation
covering business necessarily must
take a milder tone than would have
been possible otherwise. There is
also greater chance for the modifl-