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Evening star., 1939-07-07

their own gain and our delight Even
persons who seldom think OF natural
things find TIME to watch the birds to
enjoy their beauty and special intrigue,
and to find interest in their doings.
The special intrigue of birds Is thing
apart. Many grownups seem to believe
delight In animals too juvenile, but
even these tough-minded persons, who
perhaps are not as hard-boiled as they
like to think, will look at and become
interested in some bird happenings.
This is because the feathered folk
strike right at the roots of humanity
taking us back to the ancient days when
we were swinging in the trees.
If the evolutionary idea is true, birds
are very old and very dear friends of
ours, after ALL
And II 1t isn't, they still are, and al
most every one realizes this, at times,
some more than others, of course.
Fortunately the birds, in the main.
are willing to live and let live, with
some exceptions. Man they do not at
tack, generally, even when he interferes
severely with thm.
Even instances Of great eagles attack
Ing small children are very rare, con-
sldering the number of children.
Songsters are much more likely to
gang up on small animals, such as cats,
which they often succeed in driving away
from some fledgling on the ground. Rob-
lns are always foremost in this worthy
enterprise. but the bluejays are likely
to be the leaders. Almost all the birds
in yard will join in the alarm. Their
clamor is special sort of noise which
all bird lovers keep their ears open for,
and to which they respond, or at least
ought to respond, at once, for sometimes
few seconds spell the difference be-
tween success and failure in helping the
intended victim
Many marauders are driven away bv
the clamor. but some are more skilled in
resisting this type of animal fright. and
keep right on their path toward the
victim. Every second counts then; the
friend OF birds who is able to recognize
the bird screams, literally imprecations
which are being hurled by scores of
voices at the animal, should 60 as fast
as possible to the rescue, short of fall
ing down stairs.
X
Our belief is that there is some dis.
liked coloring about the clothes of a
person attacked by birds. We will never
forget girl wearing a peculiar green
coat. She was watching the monkeys
at the Zoo. and suddenly one particular
monk began to shake the bars and CRATE
his teeth at her. The young lady was
tremendously embarrassed. Every time
she left the cage, the animal subsided.
only to fall into great rage the mo-
ment she returned. Probably the Ohio
man was wearing one of these peculiar
light suits and the birds didn't like it.
AS for the worm being washed. YOU
can't blame the fledgling for resenting
that.
Evening star., 1939-07-07
North Chino Incident

Two years ago today japanese
troops in night skirmishing OPERA
tlons at Marco Polo Bridge outside of
Pelplng were fired on by Chinese
troops. Toxic called the affair "the
North China incident" Since then
Japan's undeclared war on China
has been officially so designated. It
has been the bloodiest and costliest
conflict in the island empires his
tory. Measured in terms of terri
torial conquest its results have been
gigantic. Japan dominates virtually
all China to the borders of Outer
Mongolia and Siberia Great ports
ike Shanghai, Tientsin and Swatow
nave been under the invaders do
mlnion for months. Chang Kai-
shek's capital, Nanking, fell to the
enemy at the end of 1887; Canton
and South China were next to Sue
cumb, while the fugitive government.
harrled but unbowed, took up its pre-
carlous abode in the central western
hlnterland at Chungking, cut off
from access to the sea.
While China thus presents to the
world the picture of a badly beaten
nation, she is far from conquered.
Her will to resist is unbroken. Some
100000 square miles of her area. in
cluding the richest provinces and
most of her modern machinery of
industry, commerce and communi-
cations, are in japanese hands. Prob
ably 175,000000 Chinese are captive
within the islanders grip. China's.
dead can be counted only in millions.
Not only have several hundreds
OF thousands of Chiangs troops been
Killed in battle, but probably as many
more civilians have lost their lives in
the merciless bombing raids which
the japanese have incessantly con-
Quoted throughout the undeclared
campaign. Losses through these
heartless methods of modern warfare
have been heaviest in congested
urban areas like Canton, Nanking,
Hankow and Chungking. In addition
to these more or less known casual
ties OF frightful proportions, it is es-
timated that more than 5O,OOO,OOO
Chinese have been driven from their
homes or have been reduced to
destitution.
Japan, too, it goes without saying,
has paid dearly in blood and treas
ure for her wanton war on China.
Not only is Nippon's casualty list be-
lieved, at the end of two years, to
border close to 100000 in killed and
wounded, but what is of vastly
graver consequence. the campaign
has sapped the empire of it's economic
resources. 1t long since became
impossible for the army dominated
civilian government of the Mikado
to withhold from the people the seri-
BUSINESS of "the North China Incl
dent" The nation is on notice that
it must be prepared for at least two
Evening star., 1939-07-07
Comments on Speech
OF Senator Guffey.

To the Editor of The Star:
senator Guffeys speech the other
night while interesting, might have been
compressed into the words I'm for
Roosevelt for third term because I'm
a New Dealer"
The rest was mere trimming, even to
the remarkable opinion that Roosevelt's
first two terms should not count at all.
TN sense not intended how many
millions who voted for him in 80 will
agree with thisD The argument? The
Supreme Courts rubber stamp was not
in working order.
Because the Deal failed to do in eight
years what it promised to do in six
NOTWITHSTANDING immediate full recovery
another four-year fling is proposed.
This is Of great cheer to those who gaze
down from the brink of bankruptcy
while specializing how many generations
must be assessed for the orgy witnessed
to date
Any government but the New Deal
would have put the emphasis on re-
covery before reform; would have
quelled its insane ardor for wholesale
reform by bending its first effort toward
encouragement of prosperity to the levels
of the 20s. 1t would have lived up to
a few of its economy and bureaucracy
curtailment pledges as evidence 1t was
to be trusted in the carrying through
of reform program.
But the entrenched wasters in power,
by use of funds wrencfed from the tax
payer, induce the forgotten man by
adroit use of handouts to vote for them
and prolong his own worklessness and
misery. His only visible gain is ample
leisure to listen to radio speeches de-
nouncing previous administrations and
glorifying the gains" of this one.
For the New Deal knows that when
its chief dupe, the forgotten man, wakes
up, its cause is doomed
July 4. WALTER BAHNSEN.
Evening star., 1939-07-07
Threatened Raid

Comment now on the pattern"
for compromise outlined late yester-
day by the conferees on the District
tax bill would be premature, for the
important details remain to be de-
Cided upon.
But inasmuch as the formula for
agreement includes resurrection of
a local income tax, it is to be hoped
that the conferees will pay special
attention to the provision of the
House bill which made this tax
retroactive for the calendar year
1888.
That provision should be elm
mated. 1t represents an uncon-
scionable raid on prospective income
taxpayers, carried out to suit the
convenience of the ce-holding tax
collectors and lacking all justifca-
ton from any other point of view.
The local income tax, in whatever
form it takes, is being proposed as
substitute for the unpopular but
consistently productive tax on in
tangibles. The tax on intangibles
has already been collected for the
past fiscal year. To impose a retro
active tax on 1888 calendar year
incomes would be a vicious form of
double taxation and should by all
means be avoided.
The weak argument presented in
behalf of making the income tax
retroactive was that the District
would need the revenues during the
first half of the current fiscal year;
that it would be inconvenient to
await the collection of the tax on
1889 incomes, unavailable until after
next January. There is also a staff
OF employees at the District Building
for administration of the business
privilege tax (already repealed with
lapse of the law and this staff might
have to be furloughed or dismissed,
unless it could be put to work COL
Iecting a retroactive income tax.
The imposition of an extra years
tax on local taxpayers for the con-
Venlence of the District Building
1t is nothing less than that's fan
tastic in its disregard of elemental
justice. The District is empowered
to draw on the Treasury in advance
Tor revenues later to be collected.
There is no real necessity for this
extra years tax collection and even
Its suggestion would be unheard of
outside the voteless District of
Columbia.
Evening star., 1939-07-07
Sulliyan-Kilrain
Fight Recalled.


To the Editor OF The Star:
Mr.. James A. Marlows account of the
Sullivan-Kilrain fight, July 8, 1850, in
The Star is about correct. I remember
that shindig as very young man in
Baltimore. Mr.. Kilrain. living there. was
considered a hometown boy, and much
money was lost on him. A saloonkeeper
bet and lost his house and lot, so it was
said. Maybe it was just the hallucina-
ton of a rumhound Saloonkeepers, as a
rule, don't go crazy in the head Their
customers do sometimes
Here are a few addenda The police
tried to interfere at the last minute.
but the local sheriff was pacifled with two
500 bills Deducting the rest periods
of 80 seconds between rounds, there
knuckle fighting-this as compared to
the limit of As minutes with gloves
as in these present 15-round contests.
Many of the rounds lasted but few
seconds. In one, though, the fourth,
the men were on their feet for Is min
uteS.
Kilrains seconds, as stated, were one
Mike Donovan and Charley Mitchell
Donovan was former middleweight
champion of the world (bare knuckles)
and father of the present No. referee,
Arthur Donovan, also one-time instruc-
tor of Theodore Roosevelt. Mitchell
bullyragged Sullivan all through the
fight. Somewhat like Corbett, acting
for Jeffries, "tantalized" johnson. Now,
johnson could wisecrack back, Sulli-
van couldn't. Il wish had you in here, .
he roared. Why, he had him "in here"
just year before, over in France. And
he couldn't lick him in 80 rounds. Mitch
ell was "footworker," a "backpedaler.'
He was the Tony Pastor of that age.
Kilrain, the loser, didn't get a cent
for his trouble. A collection, amounting
to 5000, was taken at the ringside and
John l.. Clipped in an additional $780,
Kilrain was sight, but at once he die
tated a telegram to the wife: Mature
gave out. Not hurt. Your husband,
Jake"
AS for Sullivan, "he went on historic
drunk. When they finally got him home
four cops stood guard over him in his
room until he passed out" Later ne
reformed and lectured for the late
Wayne B. Wheeler on the Anti-Saloon
League platform. In his last days ne
became also a convert to the French
man Coue's Every day I am getting
better and better" But Coue couldn't
keep him g0Ang. He died in 1918 in the
odor of sanctity "a brand snatched from
the burning"
Some of the above facts to be credited
to Mr.. GLAND D. Russell, American Mer-
curry, January, 1888, When Sullivan
Kayoed Kilrain." FRED VETTER.
July 6.
Evening star., 1939-07-07
Dissents From Views
OF "WOman Clerk"

To the Editor of The Star:
The letter from Woman Clark" Is SO
stupid 1t really doesn't rate notice, but
one pathological case can give a reputa-
ton to an entire group of people.
1t is incredible that any one would
publicly admit being so weak, mentally
and morally that they can be induced
to things so against their principles.
Perhaps it isn't against her principles.
She said she gave up teaching because
smoking was ruled out. Surely one can
choose ones friends. Hers must have
been some help to her, to get her a
beginning salary of $4,000. Fifteen years
Of Government service has gained me
the salary of $l680 per year.
I had been teacher before I came
here. I have friends in service and out
of it. And nobody got hopped-up over
my not drinking or smoking. continued
to be invited places, and instead of
highball, I was offered tall glass of
ginger ale or fruit juice. The only men
I have ever seen revoltingly drunk
happened to be a real estate man and
an electrical engineer.
AS for holidays, if one is determined to
make a star-spangled fool Of oneself,
it isn't necessary to be in Government
service to do it. It isn't even necessary
to wait for a holiday. used mine to
catch up" after a recent illness for
which hadn't enough annual leave to
stay out until completely recovered. In
fact, no one in my personal circle in
Evening star., 1939-07-07
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TruceUeH.

correspondent sends In q clipping
from the Marietta Daily Times, telling of
the attack on man by gang Of robins
and catbirds, with the following notation:
Learn about the deplorable activity Of
bloodthirsty, tough Ohio robins and cat
birds.-J. L. H."
The article is as follows:
"A resident of Hudson, Ohio, reports
the following remarkable story which
must be true, because he wrote it on Sun
day after going to church.
Just before church time, he says, he
found fedgling robin huddled In the
grass and looking hungry. He couldn't
stop then, but set it up on bench.
Then when church was out, he
hastened back, dug up some worms,
washed them, and proceeded to feed the
child
He opened his mouth wide, and acted
hungry" says the Good Samaritan But
instead Of swallowing the worms he be-
gan to yell, and jumped of the bench,
Within two seconds robins and catbirds
were upon me from all sides in vicious
attacks.
My glasses saved my eyes. but two
jabs In the temple, each bleeding, at
tested to their earnestness. felt several
surprisingly heavy thumps on my back.
ana on examining my coat afterwards 1
found five sets of dirty claw marks. The
moral, of course, is obvious. The birds are
right and the Boy Scout slogan is wrong,
There are two very interesting facts
here" continues the paper.
First, the baby robin, though hungry,
didn't like the worms
Maybe because its laundering bene-
factor had washed them. They didn't
have the usual flavor, so the scared child
started squawking for help.
Then 1t was remarkable how the birds
ganged up on the man when the alarm
was given. Parent birds have often been
known to attack human marauder
threatening their children. but here all
the robins in the neighborhood ioined In
and the other birds made common cause
with them.
Inc plrds are certainly getting indie
pendent. If this sort of thing continues,
and If the wild animals Joined the birds,
this world would be tougher than ever"
1t is not often that our friend, the
robin, attacks human being
1t is not often, indeed that songbirds
make an attack on person. The blue
jay sometimes does it, and the tiny house
wren has been known to indulge in as
saults. But as a group our songsters re-
fuse to make war on man. This is one
OF their claims on our affection. In a
universe in which almost every other liv-
Ing thing has aspects of hostility toward
man. the large group of birds Jumped off
as ''songbirds" mostly leave us alone, so
long as We leave them alone.
Let us give thanks to them, nor over
look It, They come to our yards and
make themselves at home there, much to
Evening star., 1939-07-07
Henpecked

Most henpecked husbands are far
from proud of their status, and,
when safely out of earshot and espe-
clally tongueshot of their wives, will
make a pretense of freedom. 1t is
feeble bluff, subject to call at any
moment, but nevertheless a gesture
in the right direction. But in Hep
tonstall, England, a group has cast
pride to the winds, and organized the
Ancient Honorable Order of Hen
pecked Husbands, with monthly
meetings for those rash souls who
are able to sneak away to them and
give the password, "Cluck, Cluck."
They cross it's portals with muddy
feet, drop ashes on the floor, turn
the radio on loud enough to be heard
more than two feet away, and in
dulge in other unreStrained orgies.
They exchange information about
how to wash dishes, sew on buttons,
sharpen razors that have been used
as can openers, and discuss methods
of furnishing the doghouse COM
fortably until their tenancy is over.
Their most recent problem is
whether or not to attend air raid
drill, which is not compulsory for
those in a reserved occupation"
The Prime Minister, when the situa-
tion was called to his notice, promptly
excused them as pupils. He said that
they were entirely familiar with all
tricks in the art of home defense,
and was sure that there was nothing
more they could learn from the gov
ernment. Instead, he drafted them
as instructors to teach others how to
keep cool under fire, dodge bomb
shells, and hold the fort until the all
clear signal rang out. The AHOHH,
pleased at the honor, accepted, pro-
vided Mr.. Chamberlain would ex-
plain to their wives that they would
have to be away from home three
or four nights week. The Umbrella
Man after a little intelligent thought
excused himself, and called for vol
unteerS among select list of holders
OF the Victoria Cross. To date none
has come forward.
Evening star., 1939-07-07
Speeding Up Justice

Swift and certain punishment is
acknowledged to be a major factor
In deterring crime. The report of
District Attorney David A. Pine on
the status of the criminal docket in
District Court at the close of the
past fiscal year will serve to empha-
size the fact that Washington in
tends to give no quarter to criminal
forces that are found within it's bor-
ders. Mr.. Pine disclosed that the Dis
trict Court ended its fiscal year with
only sixty-seven criminal cases pend
ing. This is the lowest number con-
fronting the court for many years.
There was not single first-degree
murder or manslaughter case on the
docket, only one second-degree mur-
der case and not a houSebreaking
case. Excluded from the list were
cases in which defendants have not
been captured and those in which
defendants have been adjudged of
unsound mind. At the end of the
previous fiscal year there were one
hundred and ten unfinished cases.
To these, during the ensuing year,
were added more than eighteen hun
dred indictments, SO that the size of
the task devolving upon the district
attorneys office and the court is
apparent.
1t required Wholehearted co-opera-
ton and coordination among the
several law enforcement agencies to
effect this cleanup of crime cases. The
police co-operated not only by inten-
styling their efforts to make" cases
that would stand in court, but by
such unpublicized acts as appearing
at the courthouse on their days off
and returning from vacations to as
sist the prosecutor in certain cases.
Under the leadership of Mr.. Pine, the
entire prosecution staff has worked
diligently to clear the criminal
docket The judges have helped to
facilitate trials-often to their own
personal inconvenience. Special at
tention has been given cases in
which defendants were in Jail, await
ing trial. The whole law enforce
ment picture is encouraging to law
abiding citizens, discouraging to the
criminal element.
incidentally, the grand jury fig
ures show a decided drop in indict-
ments during the past year. There
Evening star., 1939-07-07

To the Editor Of The Star:
I read with interest the letter to The
Star last evening July - signed "Wom-
an Clerk" too, am a Government clerk
fed up on modern -womanism. would
like to extend an invitation to woman
Clerk" to get in touch with me either
by phone or writing if she would like to
spend an occasional evening quietly at
dinner, movie, or just at my apartment.
I love to read, go to concerts, enjoy
good movie or theater party when the
play is good. I was brought up in a
Christian home where we loved to 20 to
prayer meeting and Sunday school. NV
family is dead now and live by myself.
II Woman Clerk" will call at The Star
Office am sure they will be glad to
furnish her with my name, phone and
address.
ANOTHER WOMAN CLERK"
July 4.
Evening star., 1939-07-07

tended to spend the holidays with a
bucket of red paint.
If Woman Clerk" is jittery tomorrow,
she needn't hang it on her Government
service, from which it would have been
easy enough to resign before her alleged
morals became too corrupted.
I wonder what sort of teacher she was.
ALSO A WOMAN CLERK.
,Jlly
Evening star., 1939-07-07

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July 4
Evening star., 1939-07-07

Q. How many stacks of IS gold pieces
would it take to make $1,000 900 900?
F. A.
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take 1000 stacks of IS gold pieces. each
stack as high as the Empire State Build
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Wants to Meet
woman Clerk" "

July 3.
La gaceta., 1939-02-02

Sc encuentra en- Orlando, al
frente de un grupo de novatos,
ell director de los Senadores de
Washington, Bucky Harris.
Harris dara un curse de ms
trucci6n a los novatos, a modo
de ensayo, y como parte de I'm
sistema creado por el en- combi-
naci6n con Clark Griffith.
Espera Harris sacar buen par
lido de varios de los "escolares",
aunque su novena Sc compone
pHincipaImente de peloteros
muy j6venes.
Uno de los novatos 10 es Ell
pitcher Robert Garner, de seis
pies, siete pulgadas de estatu-
ra, que Ell ano pasado, en- la Liga
del Este, gan6 10 desafios y per-
di6 7 .Lanzando Sc parece mu-
cho a Dazzy Vance. Otro pitch
er aspirante 10 es Walter Mas
terson, un semiprofesional, que
La gaceta., 1939-02-02

nj la passion, y reconocia que hay
cierta dnlzura y un placer muy
grato en- departir a wees o en-
Zanzibar ideas e impresiones con
los amigos que pareeen estimar-
nos...
Ademas, estos, fuera por la a.
nimaci6n de la fiesta y del am
biente, fuera por un impulse de
piedad hacia Ell colega desdicha-
do, al que todos sabian tan SEN
sible, es 10 cierto que 81 esforza-
ban en- aparecer jocundos y Bro
mistas para hacer oIvidarV sus
penas a Gustavo.
-V&otros entrais delanOe-
seguGa diciendo el Camardda-
y atais al amigo Aspr6p, a los
mozos y hasta al chico,wy luego
20 y me i~nstalo; entonces
los aOltsis y me prOtsgtis con
La gaceta., 1939-02-02

fame, de la inicua, de Ia inga-
ia, lie quemaba...
-ID6nde estaba?..
JAd6nde habia lido a refugiar
su miseria y su vergienza in
mensas?...
Alguien habia hecho saber a
Gandara quien fue ell traidor.
Era un italiano, Ell italiano a.
quel que lie p~resentaron en- San
Sebastian, I'm aventurero, vicio-
so y repugnante...
DADA iguall
Como 81 pensaba: no hubiera
sido con aquel y Eulalia Sc ha-
bria marchado con otro hombre.
ELLA era la infame, la impu-
ra, la rameral
Sc march6 como Sc marchan
la mujereS malas, abandonando-
10 TODD; nombre, honor, amor y