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Evening star., 1939-02-24
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1Dell.

If any belligerent Knockers are around.
they will find 1t rather difficult to hold
such an extended base.
If they drive one bird away at one
end Of the line, the other birds eating
will not fly away.
That mockingbird would have enough
brains to charge one bird after another,
driving them all away, is difficult to
believe.
What helps them at a feeding station
Is that the group is concentrated; when
the mocker flies at one bird he seems
to be assaulting all Of them.
At any rate, 1t is a scheme worth
trying.
when I sit out on a warm day." our
correspondent says, their songs and
calls and flying to and fro contribute to
the making Of happy and joyous
rendezvous"
This idea OF a rendezvous with the
BIRDS at this time of year, is good one.
rendezvous, according to the die
tionary, is place appointed for as
semblying Of troops or ships; place of
common resort; meeting place agreed on,
meeting by agreement. 1t comes from
the French rendez vous, betake yourself.
In recent years the word has come to
mean, in popular parlance, love tryst,
but that is not necessarily its meaning.
Rather, let 1t mean betaking of your
self, if you like Birds into the yard, there
to take up stand, or preferably seat.
At first the birds may be frightened
away from their feeding ground, but if
you remain very still, in time they will
come back.
The songs and cries of the birds sound
so much better in the open.
Truly those who want to enjoy bird
music must do it under the sky, not closed
in by boards and beams.
This was very strikingly brought home
to the writer here during the past few
days.
A song sparrow, seated on the tele-
phone wire, serenaded him each morn
ing as he started to work.
The clear bright strains, which had
been bit muffled indoors, took on
purity complete as the listener came di-
rectly under the singer.
Loud and clear, but beautiful, the song
rang out at intervals.
A little song, short and sweet, but in
perfect tune with the morning.
1t was music you cannot hear right
indoors. You might hear it perfectly
indoors but it would not be the same.
Something would be gone out of it,
something which is of its very essence,
the outdoor sparkle and light, part of
the sun and the stars and the wide uni
verse. Walt Whitman, who listened to
his birds in early morning and at dusk
as he sat by the millpond in Rock Greek,
was right.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Fiscal Relations STUDY

The membership of the special
subcommittee appointed by Chair
man King of the Senate District
Committee to study the Overton plan
of handling Federal District fiscal
relations justifles a prediction that
the subject will be given careful and
conscientious consideration.
Senator Overton of Louisiana,
author of the pending proposal to
return to the definite proportionate
principle of Federal participation in
the upkeep of the Capital, based
on the percentage of land area
required for national purposes, pre-
viouSly had been named to head the
subcommittee.
Those selected yesterday to serve
with him are Senators Tydings of
Maryland, Clark of Idaho, Austin of
Vermont and Bridges of New Hamp-
shire. Senator Tydings has been in
Congress for seventeen years, and
has had long service on District
affairs. Senator Austin has given
close attention to his work on the
District Committee for nearly eight
years. While his service has been
shorter, Senator Bridges has had two
years of experience on District ap-
preparation bills. Senator Clark is a
new member of the Senate, but was
in the House for the past four years.
The need for a fairer basis of part
nership between the National Gov
ernment and the local community in
maintaining the Nations City is one
of the most important District prob
lens confronting this Congress. Since
the repeal last year of the substantive
6O-40 law, which was disregarded
during fourteen years of annual
lump-sum payments, there is no
basic law defining the obligation of
the Federal partner. In the new tax
bill Congress is about to lay down
very definite and heavy obligation
to be met by the local partner, that
may stand for years to come. Justice
and fair dealing suggest that the
Federal obligation should likewise be
written into definite law, and not left
on temporary, unscientific lump
sum basis from year to year.
Evening star., 1939-02-24

extended for trade with eight Latin
American countries - Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Haiti,
Mexico and Peru-as well as Canada,
China, Czecho-S -Slovakia, Iran, 1raq,
Italy, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Poland,
Rumania and Turkey.
Commitments during the same
period were $74,808, ,092, which in
cluded the $25,OOO,OO0 provided for
expectation of industrial and agri-
cultural products to China.
The banks activities have acquired
a strong political flavor as the spear
head of resistance to commercial
and political-incursions into Latin
America by Germany and Italy,
which are challenging America s
trade position there.
Its $25,000,00O credit to China is
serving to entrench the Nationalist
government against further inroads
by Japan, and by that token has
notified Toxic that this country, far
from withdrawing from the Far East,
is more interested in 1t than ever.
Japan's realization of that fact is
essential for her to meet properly
the problems of pacific relations with
the United States.
The bank has served highly use
full purpose in its five years. It's ex-
tension at this time opens new vistas
for protection and expansion of
American interests in every part of
the world.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
The Victors

Here is truth: No tyrant has the power
To conquer beauty To the loser goes
The brimming color of scarlet rose
The same bright rose that in the splendid
hour
OF conquest, casts its petals in shower
On the victorious, whose arms oppose
The might Of men, but never can un-
close
The thin corolla Of fragile flower.
Regardless of our happiness or fears,
In spring, the mignonette will blossom
still.
No bud will furl to wars grim pan
oplies;
Nor grass retreat because of bitter tears.
The wild grapes growing on lonely
hill
Will share their quiet triumph with the
trees. H. p. STODDARD.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Terrorism in Chino

More important than Tokio's de-
mands that "anti-Japanese" terror
ism in Shans hal be stopped is the
implication inherent in the "ulti-
matum" presented to the Municipal
Council of the International Settle
ment. Yesterday a plea to the same
effect was addressed to Admiral
Yarnell, commander of the United
States Asiatic Fleet. AS the Japanese
claim that Chinese terrorist activity
throughout the occupied regions is
directed from Shanghai, they crave
a greater share in the policing of the
great port. The defense sector
hitherto manned by italian forces
has already been handed over in part
to the Japanese.
The acknowledged motive of the
move to strengthen the invaders grip
on the international Settlement is
eloquent evidence that Japan, after
more than year and half of unde-
clared war, has by no means a
strangle hold on China. AS Madame
Chang Kai-shek, in a special article
published in Thursdays Star points
out, the conflict has entered upon a
new stage. 1t is no longer posi-
tional' war, but mobile" war. Fight
Ing, as far as China is concerned,
will henceforth be almost exclusively
of the guerrilla brand. Her forces
will harry and strike wherever and
whenever they can, without any fixed
plan OF campaign. The Chinese gen.
eralissimo's wife, until recently chief
OF his air forces, explains that, in
consequence Of these tactics, Japan,
while occupying wide areas of China's
territory, in no respect be can said
to control them. Guerrilla warfare
has made it unsafe for the invaders
to venture far from garrisoned points
under any circumstances and posi-
lively dangerous for enemy troops to
be abroad at night. Chang Kai-shek
clearly has determined that this
form Of irregular combat is now
China's most eft1cacious strategy.
Japan calls it terrorism" and
contends it is organized from Shang-
hal, where there have been fifty
three political assassinations during
the last year and a quarter. Not only
do the invaders armed forces find
1t increasingly difficult to meet this
type Of resistance. Tokio'S puppet
regimes at Marking, Peiping and
other centers find themselves in per-
petual physical peril. The Chinese
foreign minister established at Man.
king was shot to death last Sunday
by Chinese gunner" It is reported
that in order to induce pro-Japanese
Chinese to take enemy dominated
government Office in occupied re-
gions, Toxic has been compelled to
offer the families of proposed puppet
officials handsome insurance guar
antees against assassination.
After what has happened in China
since the fall Of Nanking, Japanese
laments about the terrorism" Of
which they themselves now are pro-
fessedly the helpless victims, are
not lacking in certain grim humor.
Nor is 1t all clear that the demand
for cessation Of terrorism" alleged
to ramify from Shanghai may not
be smoke screen for pretext to
extend Japanese domination over the
International Settlement, the main
tenance Of which is notoriously q
thorn in the invaders side.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Wallace Policies Seen ~
Dangerous Nonsense.
~ A. ~I.x - AA~.

The observation, made by Sir Thomas
Gresham in the 18th century, known as
"Gresham's law" and succinctly stated
as bad money drives out good" ex-
presses but special case Of a far more
general and fundamental principle, the
principle being that when natural un-
equals are placed upon terms Of legal
equality by man-made statute, the ulti-
mate result will be the extinction of the
and retrogression.
During the past week, the Secretary
Of Agriculture has vividly brought to
attention the fact that science" $50
called can be twisted into a "mumbo-
jumbo of dangerous nonsense" AS he is
quoted as having suggested in the same
address that 1--WE dedicate ourselves anew
=. to the promotion of 80. (the) .. !.
general productivity of the people" 1t
would perhaps, in the light of his con-
version thus expressed, be ungenerous to
charge him with his former devotion
to the doctrine of purchased scarcity, or
to imply that at home, as well as abroad,
policies masquerading as science, but in
fact dangerous nonsense, should be
avoided and abandoned.
Therefore, let us examine only his
comment (admittedly made after many
years study of genetics) that "the seed
bed of the great leaders of the future,
as of those Of the past, is in the rank
and file Of the people" What people in
tho drank and f11e"2 All of such people
or only some of such people?
The Bureau of Animal Industry, of the
department over which the secretary
presides, has obviously long since en-
braced the undemocratic doctrine Of the
inequality of strains. Indeed 1t has de-
voted its efforts to the end that only
those strains which are Of high and de-
sirable quality shall become "the seed
bed {. . Of the future"
Yesterday, in your column entitled:
"Of Stars, Men and Atoms" you pre-
sented q summarization of the decline in
the supply of high intellect both in Eng
land and America. 1t Is not Significant
that this decline occurs concurrently
with the aftermath of the adoption of
doctrines sentimental and well meaning
in origin) into the basis of Government
which ignore biologic fact and impose
artificial statutory equalization upon
strains naturally unequal in those quail
tiles and capacities upon which the
republic depends for its existence?
II We insist upon maintaining q doc
trine Certainly not that Of those who
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Star Columnists Giving Both
Sides Approved.

S10eS approved.
To the Editor Of The Star:
I have noticed during the last few
weeks several letters concerning the
column of Jay Franklin.
This column appears on a page which
you state is devoted to your effort to
give all sides of questions of interest to
your readers, although the opinions ex-
pressed may be directly opposed to yours.
1t seems to me that such page in
newspaper is invaluable to the readers,
and such intolerance as is displayed in
the letters opposing the column is de-
plorable.
Probably every one of us could benefit
from fair reading Of the other fellows
point Of view, but if some are too much
irritated by an idea not in accordance
with their own, they should simply skip
1t and 90 on to the next without an
undue display of perturbation-and most
certainly without demanding the revo-
cation of another's right 70 express his
opinion. v. @. K.
February /.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Government Competition in
Power Industry Opposed.
To the Editor of The Star.

Fourteen power companies, aggrieved
and damaged by Government construc-
ton Of power dams within their terri
tories, have sought the Supreme Court
for relief, redress, or some sort of COM
promise, arising from this encroachment
on their operations, with consequent loss
There is no question involved as to
the validity of the Governments dam
ming of streams for food control, but
when machinery is installed for produc-
tion of electric power in territories al
ready covered by private individuals
chartered by the State, it is not only an
offense to those private owners but is
also infringing on the rights of States
granting those charters.
The Government cannot build hydro
electric plant at less cost than it can be
built by private parties. Neither can it
operate cheaper. But it can undersell
the private builder and operator, even
selling at loss with no questions asked
by the consumers-and the taxpayer
makes up the loss.
The Government should dam streams
for flood control. The Government
should also take necessary steps to re-
claim the dust bowl area where so years
ago this writer saw shrinkage and drying
up of lakes and streams that must have
been drying and shrinking so years. or
more, before that. Such reclamation
would not only benefit settlers already
there, but would invite other home
steaders
The Government has no business COM
peting and damaging citizens already in
business. A DEMOCRAT.
February 2.
Evening star., 1939-02-24

established this country that all in
habitants with but insignificant excep-
tions) are equally entitled to, and shall
have, an equal voice in selecting our
rulers-and thus continue to ignore
basic inequalities-we will inevitably con-
tinue to have rulers whose policies both
for arrival at, and retention of, posts
of power will pander to incapacities in
the electorate Likewise inevitably will
superior strains continue to be extin-
guished from the seed bed"
HARRISON TILGHMAN,
February 10.
Evening star., 1939-02-24

Remember when your best girl
wore a corset so stiff that she could
not retie her shoe-lace and gracious
ly, though discreetly, permitted you
to do it in some doorway? Nova
days the lady goes into flexible
contortion and fixes her own garter
right on the street.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
HYATTSVILLE. MD,

Dear Sir:
II have been reader Of your inter-
esting column for . number Of yesrs.
Recently some Of your correspondents
have complained about mockingbirds
driving other birds from their feeding
stations. Perhaps my mockingbird has
q kinder nature or maybe he is getting
too fat and lazy to chase, but perfect
amity now reigns in the yard.
"The mockingbird has been around the
better part of this winter and at first he
would dart at and drive other birds
from the feeder. For some time have
placed food in various parts Of the yard,
and, Of course, on the FEEDER
II also distribute the food in one con-
tinuous line for distance of 20 to 30 feet
and when the birds are lined up on both
sides it is picture.
''Mr. Mockingbird soon came to the con-
clusion that he had too much territory
to police and now he can be seen feeding
right in the midst of starlings, purple
grackles, sparrows, etc., in perfect har-
mony.
HE will sit on the edge of bird bath
and allow other birds to drink not over
inches away, and not one peck from
him.
Your correspondents might try scat
tering the food and it might help in the
cases of which they complain.
Throughout the year we have hun
dreds Of the seasonal birds seen in this
vicinity, really too numerous OF variety
to mention. They find plenty of food,
running water in two baths, and many
bushes and evergreens for a hideout.
When I sit out on warm day their
songs and calls and flying to and fro
contribute to the making of happy and
joyous rendezvous.
Sincerely yours.
IS. A. c."
Sprinkling food in long line across
the yard is worth trying
Not only would it make a picturesque
sight, as our correspondent suggests, but
it would avoid injury to grass by spread
ing the scores of claws out over space.
1t might appease, too, a belligerent
mockingbird!
Let us put stress on that might"
That Knockers differ, much as people, has
been clearly demonstrated in letters to
this column during the past few weeks.
There are mockingbirds all over the
District of Columbia, nearby Virginia
and Maryland, and while an unusually
large number Of them seem to be de-
termined to clear all other birds away,
some OF them live amicably with other
species.
The strategy of the plan suggested lies
in putting the food over a long line, so
that the various feeding birds are re-
moved from each other.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Shooting Stors
BY PHn.ANDER JOHNSON.
Trifing Along.

Trifling Along.
Conversations a thing
That few people shirk,
Twill more easily bring
Gay results than mere work.
Though duty be strong,
Twill cease to compel
When a man comes along
With a story to tell.
And so 1t befalls
That full many a man
Shuns the duty that calls
And talks all that he can.
This life, through and through
Would be wondrously gay
With nothing to do
And with plenty to say.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Too Much Light.

do you believe that water in stocks
does any great harm?"
"Well," answered Mr.. Dustin Stax,
water in stocks, combined with the SUM-
shine of publicity. is responsible for a
great many faded regulations"
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Literature.

"Why doesn't that neighbor OF yours
have more success with his farm?"
Hes too enthusiastic" answered
Farmer Corntossel, "he gifts so interested
readin' the agricultural bulletins an
scientific papers, he forgits to tend his
crops"
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Reader COmmends
Star Editorial.

To the Editor Of The Star:
May I commend your most excellent
editorial which appeared in Sundays
Star under the caption Need for Unity?
I trust an ex-President, Republican,
and would-be President, Democrat, will
see, read and ponder this editorial, since
it would appear that they are contenders
for new low in the esteem Of thought
full and patriotic citizens.
February 13. A STAR READER.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Says Uncle Eben.

Says Uncle Eben.
Trouble keeps you guessin'
Ev'y way you turn;
LIES a great big lesson
Dat you ain got time to learn.
Conscience gives me warnin'
Fob to do whuts right;
has to staht each mornin'
TO git busy an recite.
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Critical.

us that member Of Congress hard
worked mani"
HE is," answered Senator Sorghum,
IF you Judge him by his labored SEN
tences."
Evening star., 1939-02-24
Different.

On sultry days our talk we'll choose
In much the way we did of old;
The same fierce epithets we'll use
But We'll say "hot" instead Of "cold."
Evening star., 1939-02-24
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Evening star., 1939-02-24
Calls Attention to
Employment Figure.

Employment Figure.
To the Editor of The Star:
In Will P. Kennedy's article in yester-
days Star he stated that the Edison
inventions were providing direct en-
ployment for 100000 persons out of a
total of 18,oo0,00 persons gainfully en-
ployed in the United States.
The Census Bureau figures for 1890
show that there were 48,829,920 so
employed. EDWARD w. KOCH.
February 20.
Evening star., 1939-02-24

Some men pay too much attention to
wealth." said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town, especially the men who assess
property"
Evening star., 1939-02-24
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@. Who was the first composer in the
United States?-R. T. K.
A. Francis Hopkinson d737-179D was
the first native-born American composer.
His MY Days Have Been So Wondrous
Free" composed in 1859, is the earliest
known secular song by an American.
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Evening star., 1939-02-24
Q. What is q sirocco?-T. G. F.

@. What is a sirocco?-T. G. F.
A. The term is used specifically for the
hot, dry wind in Sicily and Southern
Italy, but the name is in general use on
the North Mediterranean seaboard for
any warm southerly wind. Such winds
may be either moist or very dry, and
represent the air current in front of the
depressions advancing eastward over the
Mediterranean Sea,
Evening star., 1939-02-24

@. What became Of the President
Hoover that went aground last year?-
M. L. z.
A. The Dollar Line vessel, the Presi-
dent Hoover, which was stranded OF
the coast of Japan, was found to be i'm
possible to refloat because Of the shall
lowness of the place where 1t was
stranded. The insurance underwriters
paid for the damages and sold the vessel
for scrap to Japanese shipwreckers.
@. Please give short biography Of A.
j. Cronin, author Of "The Citadel
g. g. c.
A. Archibald Joseph Cronin was born
at Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scotland.
on July 10, 1885, His education began at
the village school and was continued at
Dumbarton Academy. In 1914 he began
to study medicine at Glasgow University.
In 1919 he was graduated with honors
and then embarked as ships surgeon on
a liner bound for India. There followed
various hospital appointments. While
working in South Wales he took two
higher medical degrees. In 1924 he was
appointed medical inspector of mines.
Subsequently he practiced in the West
End OF London. But in 1880 his health
broke down and while convalescing in the
west highlands of Scotland he wrote
Hatters Castle" which was published
IN England and in the United States in
1881 and also translated into five other
languages.
Evening star., 1939-02-24

@. Is there good digest of the Bible?
II. j. H.
A. A recent 3OO-page digest of the
King James version is by Peter v. Ross
and is called "A Digest of the Bible"
1t is published by Prentice Hall.
Evening star., 1939-05-19
Bedtime Stories
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.

When Sammy Jay sneaked off
through the Green Forest after
breaking his own eggs in a fit of
temper, he went to the most lone
some place he could find. The truth
is, Sammy felt very much ashamed
of himself almost as soon as he
had done the deed. He tried to
excuse himself by saying over and
over: Those eggs wouldn't have
Matched any way. Mrs. Jay had
left them so long that they were
chilled. Sitting on them any more
would have been foolishness and it
was best to put an end to it."
Still Sammy did not feel at all
comfortable In his own mind and
that is why he sought the most