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Evening star., 1939-07-31

the matter, Is progressing rapidly.
Now It is time to consider engineer
ing.
In the closing days Of April WASH
ington was notified it would be
allowed q share in the work of the
Public Roads Administrations high
way planning survey. This work has
progressed rapidly and soon will bear
fruit in one Of the most comprehen-
sive and valuable surveys ever made
Of the traffic problem in the Capital.
Questionnaires seeking data on their
daily travel to and from work are to
be sent to some hundred and fifty
thousand workers, both In the Gov
ernment and in private employment.
The results will form the basis for
future planning Of highway needs,
public transit revisions, and parking
facilities. It will be the first time
that such information has been
Systematically assembled on a large
scale.
The problem OF Washington Is per-
haps unusual among large cities.
The vast proportion OF workers here
are governed by the same working
hours. The concentration OF so
much OF the city's office force in so
small an area is unique. Even the
plan of the streets and their width
present traffic problems with which
no other metropolitan center has to
cope.
The master survey, therefore, holds
the promise Of supplying the cure
for many Of the major ills of traffic
through the long-range plan which
will result. 1t will supply the basis
for complete, co-ordinated method
Of meeting the problem instead of
forcing the city's officials to rely
upon well-intentioned, piecemeal eff
forts which have been necessary in
the past.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Traffic PIunnino

When citizens and officials of
Washington were considering the
advisability of pedestrian protection
regulations last winter numerous re-
quests were made that improved
engineering features be considered
to facilitate the flow of traffic. This
was embodied in the recommends
ton made by the Traffic Advisory
Council in indorsing the new rules.
Urged for years by the National
Safety Council as one of the three
prime factors in safety, engineering
has not kept pace with the other
two, enforcement and education.
So far as the facilities of the police
force allow, enforcement has become
relatively efficient. Education, thanks
to the numerous groups Of citizens
who have interested themselves In
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Building Code Not Cure
For Slums, He Says.

To the Editor Of The Star:
A building code cannot eradicate a
"slum." Tenants make slums.
Home ownership creates a pride in
cleanliness and adornment of the
premises.
Most of Washington's so-called Galley
slums" are two-story brick row houses,
equipped with running water, sewerage,
paved streets and back yards. If prop
erly painted, cleaned and curtained
would be honey houses. Four and five
room houses rent for $l2 or SIS per
month.
know of a section of five and six
room row houses, formerly all occupied
by owners.
Now, If you ride through you can pick
out the rented houses by their appear
ance. Dogs and cats are fed on lawns
defaced with bottles, cigarette, candy
and ice cream wrappers and papers.
There are broken screens and flower
boxes, dizzy shades, open doors, blaring
radios, dirty children digging and de-
facing front yards. Evening attire for
men and boys is little or no shirt, girls
In sun suits or seaside slacks and per-
manent-waved women in shorts.
Housing associations and life insur-
ance investment projects in housing
units accept first-class tenants only, and
employ inspectors to report careless or
wanton tenants. They allow no pets,
permit clothes hung out in fixed hours
only and control the number Of residents
per house and the demeanor of the
same.
As for the health and safety of the
slum dwellers. Those in the sun-bathed
little novels are probably healthier and
safer than those in the older large
houses and dark, dingy apartments.
Some of the poor colored alley dwell
ers have homes sweet and clean, and I
can prove what I assert. May I suggest
that Mr.. Ihlder acquire some of the
alley houses as q barrack for relief ac-
cepters, erect public washhouse and
employ inspectors, then give the super
vision to our society charitable workers
as an experiment? OWNER,
July 26,
Evening star., 1939-07-31

To the Editor OF The Star:
With reference to letters that have
appeared in The Star and the same iden-
tical letters in other Washington and
even New York papers, all of these letters
condemn the Dempsey, Hobbs, Smith,
Reynolds and other American bills. All
this coterie of writer's are clearly afili-
ated with the same civil liberties"
frontal organization hookups. May I
just say that the enactment Of every one
of the go anti-alien" bills would do more
ligious, political and constitutional lib
critics than all else that can now be done?
The opposition to them comes from those
who believe with Lenin that I'VE must
build Communism with non Communist
hand" Is, with the misguided,
misled and hoodwinked.
Take the unimpeachable proof pre-
sented at the hearing held on April IL
and 13, 1899, by the House Committee on
Judiciary. on one of these bills, which
will reach the House this week, special
rule therefore having been adopted on
July 10. Evidence at that hearing, now
printed, shows that the leading organiza-
ton that opposed it and that Is back Of
similar organized fronts, does not live
up to its name, patriotic professions or
alleged pious purposes, and that 1t is not
American" but really Russian, and
advocates civil liberties" only "as tools
to bring about Communism" and to
destroy our form Of government and our
American civil liberties. The printed
hearing is serial No. Of the House
Judiciary Committee. 1899.
p. II. JAMES.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Appointment

How godlike, how almost divine is he
Who lightly binds the strands of tina
and place,
Dares to project his will ahead in
space,
Stake out his moment In futurity:
Who says. "At such day and season, I
shall be
Where last we met and see you facs
to face"
To him this promise bears no special
grace,
Assumes no mystic guise Of prophecy.
So, toward his rendezvous, he winds the
thread
OF days that loiter toward the
dreamed-of hour,
OF miles that span the Intervening
land.
Arrived, he feels no halo round his head:
His Joy is unalloyed with price Of
power
At knotting time and distance in his
hand.
TIEZ BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1939-07-31

fault OF our own, and We claim the right
to continue to render our services so
long as we have godly, humanitarian
President who makes it possible for
those in distress to work. If an emer-
gency law had been enacted making it
compulsory for all married women whose
husbands can take care of them, and
all single women who do not have to
work to give up their jobs, the unem-
ployment problem would have been
solved Also, if those Congressman who
have employed so many members of
their families would employ non-rela-
tives they would be more respected.
I have not seen one voice raised in
protest against these wholesale dismiss
ais OF the needy The writer is one of
those without funds to pay room rent
or board-after August /.
IS THIS AMERICA?
Richmond, Va.
July %, 1899.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Protests Dismissal
OF Older Workers.
To the Editor Of tn


1t does not seem possible that the men
whom we sent to Congress to protect our
interests should have SO cruelty betrayed
their trust by not exempting those en-
ployes over As years from the layof1 on
w. p. A. This situation is tragic for all
who have reached that age. We are
told, when applying for positions, that
they personally would prefer people Of
experience, but the rules of the COM
pany" are that none over 20 or 70 can
be taken on. The layon Of w. p. A. en-
ployes over IS years is almost unbe-
nevable cruelty on the part of our
representatives. Twill the honorable
Congress locate positions for those they
have doomed to starvation-and worse?
Can they enjoy their summer vacation
with this burden of guilt on their souls?
This is one way to breed Communism.
No one can imagine the suffering and
anguish Of those dropped. Some Of us
have held high, responsible positions
and are In financial distress through no
Evening star., 1939-07-31
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles =. Trace,oeH.

Popular or so-called common names
Of birds are mary and intriguing.
Every one knows that the cardinal also
Is called the redbird. but how many
realize that 1t also has the following
popular names: Cardinal srosbeak
crested redbird, Virginia redbird, vir-
ginia nightingale, Virginia cardinal
Kentucky cardinal, cardinal bird?
The rose = breasted grosbeak, some
times seen hereabouts, In various parts
Of the country is known as potato bug
bird. common grosbeak, rose breast, or
summer grosbeak.
Our beautiful scarlet tanager, its most
popular name around here, in other Sec
tions of the land IL known as black
winged blackbird, nrebird, Canada tan
ager. pocket bird, or scarlet sparrow.
The purple martin also is known as
simply martin, or black martin, or house
martin.
The cliff swallow goes by many names,
such as cave swallow, Jug swallow, mud
swallow, republican swallow, crescent
swallow, Rocky Mountain swallow, moon
fronted swallow. Some of these names
must be extremely local.
The barn swallow more common here
abouts, is sometimes called the Ameri-
can barn swallow, the barn-loft swal-
low, or the fork-tailed swallow. Many
people insist on putting American" in
front of their usual popular names.
The tree swallow goes by the names
of white-breasted swallow, blue backed
swallow, white-bellied swallow, stump
swallow, cave swallow. These names
show very we'll the popular idea of
identifying bird for practical purposes
by putting coloration or place of nest in
the complete name.
The cedar waxwing, often seen in this
locality, but not too often, is in other
places known as the cherry bird, the
cedar bird, the Southern waxwing, Caro-
lima waxwing, Canada robin, recollet.
Different sections of the country or con-
tinent tend to place their own name
alongside that of bird. The tendency,
in popular phraseology. of giving one
bird name belonging to another is
shown here.
Consider the two common shrikes, the
Northern and the famous loggerhead
The Northern shrike Cits most popular
popular" name) also goes by the fol-
lowing: Butcherbird, winter butcher
bird. Northern butcherbird, nine killer,
winter shrike, great Northern shrike.
The loggerhead also is known as the
Southern loggerhead shrike, the South
ern butcherbird, butcherbird and French
mockingbird.
Both Of these shrikes are popularity
called butcherbird The name, nine
killer" is interesting, probably based on
its habit Of afiixing insects to thorns or
barbed wire. Maybe it runs back to
legends, most of which seem to specialize
on the number 9, probably for mystical
reasons.
When We come tQ the little vireos
(whose name in Latin means Il am
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greenc We have some very fascinating
common names.
The red-eyed vireo, to Use It's most
popular common name, is in places called
the preacher. the red-eyed sreenlet, sim
ply the red-eye. little hang-nest, or
preacherbird.
The Philadelphia vireo is called the
Philadelphia greenlet, and-fair enough
the brotherly love vireo.
The white-eyed vireo sometimes is
known as the politician, from its fluent,
loud song. One may feel that although
such names as this can be found, they
are not very common, after all.
When we come to the warblers, we run
into multitudes of common names.
The black and white warbler, surely
enough name for any small bird, never
theless in other parts of the land is
known as the black and white creeper,
blue and white creeper, blue and white
striped creeper, black and white creeping
warbler, creeping warbler, striped warb-
Ter, varied creeping warbler, whitpoll
warbler.
The prothonotary warbler is known as
golden warbler, golden swamp warbler,
willow warbler; the real golden winged
warbler as golden winged flycatcher.
golden winged swamp warbler, blue
golden winged warbler; the yellow warb-
Ter, as the summer warbler, yellow tit
mouse, summer yellowbird, yellowbird
yellow poll. blue-eyed yellow warbler,
golden warbler, wild canary. The latter
is incorrect, pure case of confusion
Indeed, all these common names tend
to be confusing, that is one of the best
reasons for use of scientific names.
X X
The catbird is known as chicken bird
cat flycatcher, slate-colored mocking-
bird, black-capped thrush and snake
bird. fThe latter is confined, we believe,
to Virginia farmers)
The mockingbird, or Southern mock
ingbird as some insist on calling it, also
Is named mock bird, mocking thrush,
mimic thrush and mocker, the latter
usually applied as a diminutive-and
when one becomes tired of saying or
writing mockingbird!
The brown thrasher, its most COM
monty used popular name, in various
parts of the land is known as simply
thrasher, brown thrush, red thrush, fox
colored thrush, sandy mocker, sandy
mockingbird, French mockingbird, brown
mocker, brown mockingbird, ground
thrush, mavis, red mavis, song thrush.
This bird, of course, is not a thrush
at all, but member of totally different
family.
The bluebird, prince of songsters, is
known also as the Eastern bluebird,
Wilson's bluebird, blue robin, common
bluebird, blue redbreast, American blue
bird.
The English sparrow, the street urchin
OF birds, goes by such significant names
as domestic sparrow, European house
sparrow, gamin, tramp hoodlum.
The white-throated sparrow, a general
favorite, answers to such names as
Peabody bird, cherrybird, Canada bird.
white-throat, nightingale, Canada SPAR
row, Poverty bird.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
UndiStributed Wealth Held
to Democracy.

10 the Eoltor OF Inc star:
Democracy's menace in America is not
propaganda, financed by totalitarian Eu-
rope, nor the activity of any alien group
in this country 1t Is the fact, the de-
plorable fact, that a few men control
wealth beyond the comprehension of the
average mind, while millions, submerged
in the squalor and anguish of poverty,
are confronted with the necessity that
knows no law and other millions, tens of
millions, barely subsist in honest en-
deavor, with those of us in comfortable
circumstances so aware Of our insecurity
that we are Indifferent to the woes of
others.
Ill fares the land, to Fastening ills q
prey
When wealth accumulates and men de-
cay"
It is the obligation of the economists
to discover and disclose the cause and
remedy for this unnatural distribution
of wealth and influence, but, as Macauley
said: IF any large pecuniary interests
were concerned In disputing the attrac-
ton of gravitation, that most obvious of
all facts would not yet be accepted" and
the science, political economy, that
treats Of the nature of wealth, its pro-
duction and distribution, is not exempt
from the struggle to acquire wealth.
Regardless Of what or where the factors
are in this monstrous wrong, it must be
the rich and influential class that bene-
fits from them-the class that dominates
our college influence; and our economic
professors are supported under the i'm
piled stipulation that they will not dis
close the truth they are supposed to look
for. In volumes of specious discussion
the economists obscure an obvious truth
that Lincoln displayed when he said:
'Inasmuch as most good things are
produced by labor, it follows that all
such things, Of right, belong to those
whose labor has produced them, but
it has so happened in all ages of the
world that some have labored and 9TH
ers, without labor. have enjoyed a large
portion of the fruit thereof. This is
wrong and should not continue. To Sc
cure for each laborer the whole product
Of his labor, or as nearly as may be, is a
worthy subject for any good govern
ment" ]. B. CHAMBERLAIN.
July Is.
Evening star., 1939-07-31
Ghost Money

The City National Bank Of Phila-
delphia has an elusive problem in
finance absolutely unique'i in the his
tory of banking In its custody is
eight thousand dollars willed by eli
ent to College to Educate Mediums
at Lily Dale, N. Y. No such organiza-
ton can be found. The nearest ap-
proach to it is summer camp Of
psychic investigators in that locality,
who are putting in vigorous claim
for the money. 1t is not felt, how
ever, that they have more than a
ghost of a chance.
The sordidly skeptical bank wanted
to know just what ghosts needed with
money, and soon learned that no one
was ever too far gone not to need it.
The spirit world, it seems, is just full
of lady ghosts complaining that they
had not a shroud to their names and
suffering acutely at having to wear
last years out-of-style ectoplasm.
There is also serious housing short
age due to the pernicious activities
of the Government in undermining
and rendering spiritually useless
thousands of lovely, moth-eaten,
tumble-down draughty, rickety old
shacks that once were swell places
for ghosts to live.
Much touched at their sad plight,
bank officials offered to donate the
spiritual contents of eight thousand
dollars If the mediums would call up
a ghost writer to sign for it. There
the matter stands. Unless new de-
velopments occur, the eight thousand
material dollars will in time revert to
the State of Pennsylvania, after
which the politicians may be de-
pended upon to dematerialize it and
cause it to vanish quickly and per-
manently.
Evening star., 1939-07-31

there are sixty-nine Democrats and
twenty-three Republicans, with four
Senators representing minor parties.
The differences in the Democratic
party today are fundamental-not to
be brushed aside by the issue Of
harmony statements" even If they
come, as they did Friday, following
caucus of House Democrats.
Evening star., 1939-07-31

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Evening star., 1939-07-31

Douglas Corrigan got married July
II. Those explanations beginning Il
thought was heading west, darling"
viii not 60 from now on, boy. 1
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WAS SHINGTON. D.. @.
MONDAY 81, 1889
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Passage of Anti-Alien
Bills Urged.

July q.
La gaceta., 1939-06-01
SIC COMBATE EN- LA FROM
TERRA DE LA
Y MONGOLIA EXTERIOR

Hong Kong, jrnio 1o-Las no
ticias de Toxic informan que las
tropas japonesas del Manchu-
kuo acaban de tomar la ofensi-
va en- la frontera de la Mongo-
liza Exterior, donde sc viene com
batiendo, a intervalos, desde el
dia z de mayo.
Como en- Ell case de China, los
nipones dicen haber causado
700 bajas a los mongoles, pero
no mencionan las suyas.
Tn relate de los sucegos Sc Ia
mandado a Mogcu. Aviones de
esa Rep1blica, que tiene IN pac
70 de asistencia con ell Soviet,
han venido operando desde el
"a de mayo.
Sobre los medicines sabese
que han conference.-the en- Mos
Gu Ell primer ministro Molotoff
y el em6ajador iapones, Shlge-
noEi Togo,
La gaceta., 1939-06-01
Sc INVESTIGA LA EXPLO.
SION EN- UNA ESCUELA

Berbeton, Ohio, JUNO L.
Con gran cuidado Sc ~investiga
hoy la explosion de aver, en-
una escuela, que tiene al borde
de la muerte, con muy pocas
esperanzas de salvation, a dos
nihOs y ell conserje.
Otros cuatro de los 81 heri-
dos tambi IN es italian en- gra-
veestado. La explosion derr-
b6 paroles y hundi6 los dos
pisos de la Residential que los
vecinos habian convertible en-
escuela.
Intervene en- la investiga-
ci6n ordenada ell departamen-
to industrial del Estado. La
tragedia tiene cierto parecido
con la de New London, Texas,
en- la cual perdieron la vida,
en- 1887, muchos nihos y macs
tros.
La gaceta., 1939-06-01
Cree Ell Soviet que Inglatera
no quiere poner fin la aggression
Rechazadas las nuevas proposiciones

ciales germano-rusas.
Las palabras del Premier y
Gomisario, sin embargo, deja-
rcn ell canine alberto para nue.
vas proposiciones.
"Se haIa intereSada Russia en-
TN frente comun de todas las ma
clones pacificas y demanda un
pacto de asistencia mutua que
cubra no solo aquellos paises ga
rantizados por Inglaterra y
Francia sino tambien a todos
los paises vecinos de la Union
Soviet.
Molotoff dej6 alberta la puer
ia, segGn los diplomaticos, para
nuevas negociaciones; pero dd-
dase de qre Chamberlain abor-
de Embellishments la resolu-
ci6n de las nuevas dificultades.
La gaceta., 1939-06-01

Paris, JUNO 10-Las nuevaS
proposiciones anglo-francesas a
Russia, en- pro de una alianza
Conditional, fueron rechazadas
aver. La noticia produjo sorpre
sa en- esta capital, por cuarto Sc
creia eran aceptables a Stain.
Hablando aver en- Moscu, e
primer ministro ruso Molo5Jff
actual comisario de negocios ex-
tranjeros, dijo que eS inn psi
BILE pensar que ell bloque franco
britanico quiere ahora poner
fin a la aggression.
Russia es independence Ell 81
politica extranjera y no tiene el
menor deseo de ponerse a la ca
beza de un bloqre anti-Hitler.
Anunci6 q. muy pronto Sc rea-
nudaran las relacioAes' conner
La gaceta., 1939-06-01
~DESCANSARAN LOS RE
YES EN- JASPER

Jasper, Alberta, JUNO r.
Los reyes descansaran hoy "a
horas en- la cumbre de las mon
tahas Focosas del Canada. ell
mayor de los parques naciona-
les del mundo, con una extern
sion de 2,400 millas cuadradas.
Pocas paradas Sc haran entire
esta ciudad y Ontario, cuando e
tren Sc ponga de nuavo en- mar
cha.
Edmonton, la capital de AL
berta, obseqUiara a los reyes ei
viernes, y Saskatoon recibira
una vista de dos horas, Ell sa-
bado.
La gaceta., 1939-06-01

ci6n al darles cumplimiento.
Aunque tenemos tornado un
local en- la direction senalada en-
este impreso, es convenience ST.
gan enviando la correspondent
cia a ~nuestros domicilios parti-
culares, como 10 vienen hacieu-
do. A este fin lie ruego. tomen
hota del MIC nuevo que es des-
de ell dia IL de este mes ell ST.
guiente: IL, Rue de Pare de
Thionphe, Paris (XVII0).
En- nombre de nuestros COM
patriotas les enviamos la ex-
preston de nuestro mayor agra
decimiento y ell testimonio de
nuestra mayor consideration,
Victoria Kent.
La gaceta., 1939-06-01
LOS SOCIALISTS FRANCE
SEES ROMPIERON CON LOS


Paris, JUNO LA conven-
ci6n nacional del Partido So
cialista, efectuada en- Nantes,
acord6 por 5,490 votos contra
1,761, romper la relaci6n de
Frente Popular con ell Partido
Comunista.
Present6 la mocion de rup'
tura ell secretario general de-
Partido, Paul Faure, y Sc opu
sieron a ella los amigos de
Leon Blum, que esta enfermo.
Durante una de las Gltimas
sesiones Sc acus6 al peri6dico
"Populaire", propiedad de L.
Blum de coquetear con los co
munistas.
La gaceta., 1939-06-01
LOS ~TOWNSENDISTAS SA-
BEN QUE SERAN DERRO-
TADOS

Washington, JUNO 10-Los
partidarios del plan Townsend
en- la Samara de representatives
saben que seran derrotados en-
la prueba de hoy; pero asegu-
ran que SUI verdadera fuerza CO.
menzara a sentirse en- 1910.
La MEDIA, condiendo a ca
la anciano de 60 amos o mas,
una pension de 5000 al mes, fr6
radactada por ell representante
Hendricks, de la Florida.
Consiste la estrategia demo-
itica, en- cuanto a la votacin,
- Sc sapa cuantos republi-
r~u.ban ell plan y GUAM
oponen.
= representante Shcrt, ie-
mdcrata, diSpar6 esta andana-
da: Esta Icy fue concedida en- Ia
ignorancia, nacida en- la oscrri-
dad Y destinada al olvido.
Hendricks estima que es un
effective plan de recuperaci6n
nacional y no otra cosa.