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Evening star., 1939-12-14
"TAKOMA PARK, Md.

Dear Sir:
MAY I say word about the feeding
Of wild birds?
II would like to suggest to your E. G.
T.. in the paper the other night, that
believe he will find that If he uses a
good grade of seed prepared for birds
which winter here, he may find that his
table scraps will 60 begging. At least I
do.
"The mixture should have an abun-
dance of sunfiower seeds in 1t, to which
may be added peanuts or other nut
meats and raisins, although prefer to
keep them separate, and, of course, suet.
~ +
II would like to put In a good word
for the squirrels.
'"Yes, know they are little pigs, and
will eat everything in sight, but I have
plenty of them as fat as butter balls.
1T is not uncommon to see six in our
little back yard at one time-but I have
plenty of birds, too.
"A large platform in the yard is usually
kept supplied with peanuts and sun
flower seeds, where the squirrels feed
and as long as the platform is kept
supplied with food they do not often
bother the other feeders.
Il feel that we can we'll afford to feed
and protect them, for I heard of one
man who killed more than 200 this year,
and several others that killed over 1OO
which they sold for Is cents each.
orHa tN do
something, and they are trying their
best to.
yours sincerely, w. B. T."
At last the mystery is out, why
squirrels are so persistent in digging up
tulip bulbs.
They are after vitamin c.
This is a finding Of scientists, who
assert that these bulbs are an unusually
rich source of this vitamin.
So the next time you, as gardener,
become wroth at the big tailed beggars,
recall this fact.
All animals are supposed to have an
unusually keen instinct for what is good
for them in the food line.
1t leads dogs to dig into the rose bed
for the bone meal placed there 1t makes
mice go after those tulip bulbs. too, as
we'll for those nice gladiolus corns.
In time we may have -four made out
OF ground tulip bulbs. Stranger things
have happened
This might be an excellent way of
using up outworn bulbs of various types
Probably other vitamins are contained
as well, and it may prove that the fact
the bulb will bloom no longer still hasn't
mitigated against the store of precious
vitamins held in it.
Gardeners long have loved these brown
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Government Economy

Senator Taft will have to be more
specific on the Government economy
program he advocates as a Repub-
lican objective in 1910 before it can
be appraised at full value, but If
anything remotely approaching the
saving he visualizes of two and one
half to three billion dollars is to be
achieved, it will require more than
the complete program of reorgani-
zation" on which the Ohioan appears
to rest his case.
Criticizing bureau duplication"
and Inconsistencies" in vein rem
iniscent of the first Roosevelt plat
form that called for a twenty-five
per cent cut in Federal expenses,
Senator Taft told the Women's Re-
publican Club in Boston that broad
study of government by group of
practical businessmen and admins
traitors" would show the way to a
thirty per cent reduction in the ten
billion-dolla budget. But Senator
Taft must go much further than
regrouping and reductions in admin
istrative expense if he is to achieve
noteworthy economy.
Having in mind President Roose-
velt's current reorganization pro-
gram-which is only calculated to
save about twenty million dollars,
incidentally-the Brookings Institu-
tion last spring made a study of the
operation of Government agencies
that developed some interesting fig
ures. Using as a basis the 1898 budget
of slightly more than ten billion dol
lars, the study showed that less than
eighteen per cent was expended on
administration, and that this in
cluded the administration Of the So
called emergency activities" The
rest, the report said, went for sub
sides, loans. grants, pensions, dona-
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Wonders If Firms Mistake
Definition Of Democracy.
70 the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
quote from pages and of this
evenings Star: IF Finland passes into
vassalage to Moscow, the world will lose
a model democracy "''.
"The Finnish insist that co-operatives
are one of the pillars Of Finnish democ-
racy.'" And under report of the Dies
Committees investigation of Commu-
nism: "Mr. Kallet,s political connec-
tions. it (the reporD declared, are in
dicated not only by his typically COM
munist comment on consumer co-opera-
tives,' but = ="
Knowing that Mr.. Kallet favors CO.
operatives, wonder whether the Firms
(and the Swedes and the Danes and the
Norwegians and the British) are mis-
taken in believing that 'co-operatives are
democratic, or Mr.. Dies in thinking
them communistic.
HOWARD c. CUSTER.
December II.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. Traceuell.

gnomes Of the earth, and always have
felt that there Is more to them than
Just the flower.
Maybe this explains 1t all.
Many people call themselves nature
lovers" who are not nature lovers In any
real sense.
Here, we believe, is the real test:
Does your interest in one animal, or
other creature, lead you on to interest
In other creatures?
If it does not, then you have no real
claim to the good title of nature lover.
The genuine friend Of created things
tries to explain away, as our correspond
ent does, the apparent shortcoming and
failings Of his friends.
He knows. better than most, that
really their failures are often not fail
ures at all, but delicately balanced ways
and means for their existence in this
world.
The real lover of nature, the philoso-
pher in all good men, no longer looks
for good and bad. He is, as one odd
writer said, above good and evil, that is,
he no longer seeks to praise or blame,
but merely to understand how and why.
He believes that If he understands how
creatures do anything they do, and why,
If possible, he can enter into the inner
life of the human spirit as it can be done
in no other way.
He figuratively gathers, as Christ said
the hen did of the chicks, the little
creatures of this world, to shelter and
help.
No squirrel is bad squirrel, to him,
nor any woman. either, for that matter.
Some men, he will admit, are bad, but
that is as far as he will go in blame.
There is possibly even some hope for
them
AS for the so-called brutes, he sees in
them only types of unusual interest, TAX
Ing their orders from a higher hand
and intelligence
He knows that in the honest indoor
outdoor sport OF bird feeding, it takes
only time to grow in him the feeling
that there are ways of getting around
what he does not like, instead of resort
Ing to harsh measures.
The sudden anger at some creature is
a warning signal to him that he has not
used his own brain enough.
There are almost always ways of solv-
ing such problems, ways which exemplfy
the intelligence which God gave him.
The squirrel in the garden is one of
the most joyously impudent of living
things, intent only on finding something
to eat.
Can any man alive blame any other
creature for wanting to eat?
Especially at Christmastime, the sea-
son OF good cheer and good food!
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Urges Keeping Alive
Old Navy Names.

To the Editor of The Star:
You announced last evening that the
wife of Rear Admiral Samuel Robinson,
U. S. NJ, would christen the destroyer
tender to be launched at Camden, N. j.,
the U. s. S. Prairie.
1t is interesting to learn the Navy
is keeping afloat the name of one of
the four Morgan Line steamers taken
over during the Spanish American war.
The three others were the U. s. S.
Yankee. Yosemite and the Dixie.
1t would seem fitting all these names
be kept in our Navy.
L had the honor of serving on the
Yankee on one of the 5-inch guns.
Our armament consisted of 5-inchers,
6-pounders and Colt automatics. Our
crew was drawn from the New York
Naval Reserve, lst Battalion, and a
very snappy one at that; we recruited
principally from New York yacht,
athletic and social clubs and colleges.
Our commander, william H. Brownson,
who attained the rank of admiral and
also had the distinction of being the
last of his Naval Academy class, was
long resident of Washington.
We had the honor OF being attached
to Simpsons squadron arriving of
Santiago, Cuba, the evening Capt.
Hobson tried to bottle up the Spanish
fleet in that harbor with the collier
Merrimac.
The Yankee was one Of the ships
credited with ship to ship engage
ment in the waters around Cuba, neces-
stating the beaching Of the gunboat
Diego-Velazquez of Cienfuegos on June
13, 1898. We had one man seriously
wounded. Few ships in that war had
any casualties. The Yankee crew have
been Justly proud of their record and
keep memories alive by an annual dinner
on the day Of our enlistment, April 26,
some few days before Dewey gave his
famous order to his staf1 captain in
Manila Bay. "Fire when ready, Gridley."
The Yankee crew was awarded the battle
as well as the service medal. To keep
afloat the names of these auxiliaries
manned by volunteer crews, for their
good work, would seem q fitting thing
and In the tradition of this country.
which looks to her volunteers for her
defense.
JAMES DORsAY MURRAY,
Gunner. Spanish War.
November Is.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Takes Issue With
Views Of Poet.

To the Editor of The Star:
am writing because I find myself at
variance with H. P. Stoddards as
sertion, in his recent letter to The Star,
about the relative value in poetry of
substance and technique. Poetry" he
says, us more important than the gram
mar and syntax which govern its USE"
But I say that grammar and syntax
are not ornaments to a lahguage-they
are vital part of it, without which
true accuracy of expression would be
impossible. Language consists in the
recognized words to express the mean
ing, brought forth in the correct gram
mar and syntax. A poem, similarly, is
thought or an emotion expressed in
the proper poetic manner. It is moth
ing more than this and nothing less.
Obviously, it would be absurd to as
sert that technique. or craftsmanship
to use finer term) is more important
than content, for so we would make Of
poetry an empty shell. However, con-
Evening star., 1939-12-14

To demonstrate the difficulties that
beset democracies these days is the
very probable truth of the statement
that Goering would be acceptable to
them If Hitler should be ousted.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

Washington now rejoices in nice
new father-and-son, or mother-and-
daughter group: Magma Carta Dec
laration of Independence and United
States Constitution.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

Admiral Byrd's pre- fabricated
houses for Antarctic use are to be of
southern pine. Pine blisters will give
place to cold sores.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Rollyinq Worlds Aid

AAAooAluSA1 do Z lIlldIlQ INOSC press.
Ing need in holding of the Red
hordes is for planes, guns and ammu-
milton, the League of Nations Assem-
bly, has taken the most direct path
toward providing that practical aid.
The report of the Thirteen-N Nation
Committee, condemning Russia as
the aggressor and urgently appealing
to all members of the League to
furnish material and humanitarian
assistance to the Firms in their GAL
liant fight to save democracy in
Northern Europe, has been adopted
unanimously by the League Assem-
bly,. 1t remains now to organize
worldwide help for Finland.
America now should consider the
question Of lending its assistance,
too, in the form of implements of
war as well as the civilian relief sup
plies for which a $10,0OO,0O0 credit
was established by the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation and the
Export-Import Bank.
The resolution, as adopted by the
Assembly, authorizes the secretary
general to enlist the active co-opera-
ton of non-member states. appar-
emily with the United States in mind.
The League will send all documents
on the Finnish case to Washington.
The American Government must
decide how far it is possible to extend
loans or credits for strictly military
purposes or to remove the restric-
tions on the present $10,0OO000 loan.
This country, which has voiced
humanitarian ideals so frequently in
the past, should not be found shirk-
ing when members of the League,
belligerent and neutral alike, throw
their weight behind the Firms to halt
Bolshevist encroachments on western
civilization. With Britain and France
preoccupied, the United States is the
chief neutral reservoir of war sup
plies, and if Soviet Russia is to be
stopped, the burden of supplying
Finland with the essential arms falls
on the United States.
Although the League now has done
as much as 1t can for Finland, the
question of penalties against the
Soviet for its flagrant violation of the
League covenant, the pact of Paris
and its treaty Of non-aggression with
Finland remains to be dealt with.
Argentina has demanded that Rus
sia be expelled from Geneva, and
how violently the Buenos Aires gov
ernment feels on the subject was
indicated by Rodolfo Freyre, Argen-
tine delegate at Geneva, in his ad-
dress to the Assembly yesterday.
Other Latin American countries
stand with Argentina.
The League can scarcely afford,
now that it has shown signs of resur-
rection, to part with the bloc of
Latin American members which
probably would quit Geneva if some
steps are not taken to outlaw the
Soviet Union.
The Argentine move to oust Russia
is more important as gesture Of
world disgust and contempt for
Soviet Communism than as a prac-
tical move to deprive Russia of rights
at the League. Such material good
as would come from Russia's expul-
sion, outside of retention in member
ship of those who might threaten to
break away from Geneva, is small,
but the spiritual satisfaction of thus
purging respectable international So
ciety of a barbarian element would
be immense.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

Out in Missouri a hunter caught in
his hand a quail flying straight at
him. A New York American League
baseball scout will look him over
next week.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

Science has actually succeeded in
making silk purse out of a sow's
ear. To make humanitarian being
out Of Red Russian requires a
miracle.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

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paper and also the local news published herein
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1939-12-14

Add famous last words: II thought
the holdup was only q Joke"
Evening star., 1939-12-14
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@. Who wrote Anchors Aweigh?"-
W. B. X.
A. Anchors Aweigh" is by Charles
Zimmerman, who at the time that he
composed the song was the director of
music at the Naval Academy at An
napolis.
@. In what year was the cloudburst
at clifton, 8. CT. F. M.
A. The cloudburst there in June, 1903,
caused the loss of so lives and damaged
property to the extent Of millions Of
dollars.
Q. Has a motion picture ever been
made Of the Natchez Garden Club Pill
grimage in Mississippi?-T. r.
A. The Natchez Garden Club Pilgrim
age has been filmed in technicolor by
James A. Fitzpatrick and the picture will
be released in January.
Q. Please give the particulars Of the
$4,000, ,ooo, 900 bet on the Louisiana State :
Capitol Building-H. r. s.
A. In 1882 j. D. Stotler bet r. E. Col
Inns that the Capitol would stand 500
years. Collins bet $3.50 that it would
not. They signed the papers and banked
the money under contract. In the mid
die of July, 1888, they met in Baton
Rouge, reaffirmed the bet and found
that the stake had grown to $685. from
the per cent interest rate that will
increase it to over $4,000 900 900 in 500
years. 1t is specified in the contract
that the bank is to pay the money to
the heirs Of the winner.
@. What is meant by the crossroads Of
tho Pacific2-L. 7.
A. The Hawaiian Islands are . called.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

@. What are the Bad Lands?-R. c. G.
A. In the West the term Is applied
to certain sterile regions characterized
by an almost entire lack of vegetation
and by labyrinth of fantastic forms .
into which the soft strata of clays,
sands and gravels have been carved
through the action of wind and water.
The best examples are found east Of the
Black Hills in South Dakota, though
similar formations occur in Wyoming.
Colorado, Arizona. New Mexico and
Texas.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

December II.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
I IN. \ &; \ l \ Fer

SkNy 49,
Lord ISl SIs Loving Shepherd.
5ss 1I VIZ: He shall feed his flock
fflsse ~ SBkephefd: he shall gather the
lambs with his arm, and carry them
in his bosom.
Ezekiel BAIL. For thus saith the
Lord Jehovah; Behold, even |, will
search for my sheep, and will seek
them out.
IL. AS a shepherd seeketh out his
flock in the day that he is among his
sheep that are scattered abroad, SO
will l seek out my sheep; and will
deliver them out of all places whittier
they have been scattered in the
cloudy and dark day.
10. And / will bring them out from
among the peoples, and gather them
from the countries, and bring them
into their own land; and / will feed
them upon the mountains of Israel,
by the watercourses, and in all of the
inhabited places of the country.
IA. will feed them with good pas
ture, and upon the mountains of the
height of Israel shall there fold be:
there shall they lie down in good
fold; and in a fat pasture shall they
feed upon. the mountains of Israel.
is. l myself will be the shepherd
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11
$17,68O,950
Paid In N. C..
On Insurance

New York, Aug. 11-North Caro-
lima families received an aggregate
of l7,680,905 from life insurance
companies in settlement Of death
claims u 1888, according to COM
pilation by the annual message OF
Life Insurance Committee released
today. This compilation, officially
prepared and issued by the Insurance
companies, further disclOses that
these payments were made to the
beneficiaries of l5,007 policies in this
State.
THE contribution of life insurance
to the economic welfare of the COM
munities in this State can be measur-
ed by the fact that payments to the
families of deceased North Caro-
lima policyholders amounted to an
average of 81, 1,473, ,409 per month last
year." Joseph c. Behan, chairman
of Annual Message of Life Insurance
Committee stated.
"Of the proceeds of policies paid
out in North Carolina in 1888, $8,-
588.061 went to the beneficiarieS Of
1913 ordinary policies, or an average
of S2,264 per policy; S692,271 to the
beneficiaries of 538 group insurance
certificates and $8,400,573 to the
beneficiaries Of 10,676 industrial
policies"
Total payments for the nation as
a whole on death claims last year
amounted to $3.50, 1892, an average
of S79,216.661 per month, based on
the reports of S137 legal reserve life
insurance companies representing ap-
proXimately 80 per cent of the in
surance in force in this country. These
paymenA were made on 1,019,893
policies.
Of this sum, S7O8,9OO,225 went to
the beneficiaries of 270,668 ordinary
policies: $50, ,128,948 to the benefic-
iaries of 45,lO2 group insurance GER
tificates and S151, ,570,758 to the bene-
ficiaries of 704,123 industrial policies
In the case of 46,599 policyholders,
death occurred within a year after
they had taken out their policies,
the report showed. Payments on
these first-year death claims amount
ed to $2O,5O5,714.
Claims in which death occurred
within five years after the policy had
been taken out numbered 193,86l in
1888, calling for the payment of
$126,127, 1886. Payments totalling
$288,672, ,687 were made on 365, 5,261
policies which had been in force less
than ten years.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11

Elisha came and laid himself on the
child, breathing into him, and the
child came to life.
Cures Naaman'S LeprOSy.s
Then there is the story of the cap
tain of the king of Syria's soldiers.
He was a good and brave man, but
a leper. The king he served was an
enemy of the king of Israel, and in
one of their battles he had brought
home little Jewish girl as slave,
and she waited on his wife. The cap
tain's name was Naaman. The little
slave girl told Naaman's wife that
it was a pity they could not send for
Elisha, the prophet of Samaria, for
he would cure the leprosy. When
Naaman heard that he asked his
kings leave to go to Israel, and took
gifts with him. His king wrote let
ter to the king of Israel and asked
him to cure Naaman's leprosy, not
mentioning Elisha. The king of Israel
was pretty upset about it, not under
standing the matter, he rent his
clothes, saying, "Am God, to kill
to make alive, that this man doth
send unto me to recover a man Of bis
YOU, and see how he seeketh quar-
rel against me-" IN.
/ When Elisha heard the story he
told them to let Naaman come TO him
and when he had come he told him,
Ego wash in the Jordan seven times,
and thou shalt be clean"
,Naman was very discouraged at
that advice :. when he thought he
would41iave Some thing mgichb,;; more
important to do. In factSs hes very
angry. But he was fiRaIa vailed
upon to do that very sHnp thing,
and 10 and behold, "his flsshl came
again like unto the. flesh Df@A little
child, and he was clear. - 93G.slfss4.3
We cannot work. miracles. bpt we
can be good neighborrs and friends,
helping wheneyef. we can, ana thus
live lives of 7heIpf3fnessa f0N9wing
cur Golden TeStf. ssi8 ne .ye Ritaaddne to
another" So i ~ ~ ~ : - ~ -.xss.3
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-08-11

Elijah, the "man of courage" who
was not afraid to tell the kings to
their faces when they were in the
wrong and what punishment would
follow was nearing the end of his
life. Who would succeed him?
One day as Elijah journeyed along
the road, he saw a young man plOW-
ing in the field with IL oxen, and
when the young man saw Elijah he
left his oxen and followed after him.
Elijah tried to send him back, but
to all his remOnStrances Elisha an
swered: GAS the Lord liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, will not leave thee"
So the two journeyed on together.
They came to a stream and Elijah
took his mantle and wrapped it to-
gether and smote the waters and they
were divided so that the two passed
over. Then Elijah said to Elisha, "Aslx
what l shall do for thee, before 1 am
taken away from thee, And Elisha
answered, II pray thee, let a double
portion of thy spirit be upon me-"
Thou hast asked hard thing
said Elijah: nevertheless, if thou see
me when | am taken from thee, it
shall be so unto thee, but if not, it
shall not be so.'
Elijah Caught Up to Heaven
Apd then there appeared a char
lot of fire and horses of fire, and
parted. the two men and Elijah was
caught dp by WhirlWind to heaven
Elisha caught Elijah's mantle as il
fell from him and went to the bank
of the Jordan river. Holding the man
tie he smote the waters as Elijah had
done, and the waters parted to lei
him pass through. So he. knew thai
EllJah's power to work miracles had
fallen on him. -
The topic of our lesson today is
Elisha: A Life of Helpfulness.
Elisha was considered more gentle
and.sympathetic than Elijah. The on
ly story told of him that contradicts
that statement is the onesof the chill
dren who called hfniS !Atsba1d- head,
which provoked him SO that he ours
ed them and from the woods came
two bears who injured the children
Possibly some enemy of Elisha's tole
that story to discredit him, for in al
all the other records of his life he i.
pictured as kind, but firm. He wa!
friend and counselor of the king
and only once, during bad famine
was he threatened. He helped widows
and other unfortunateS.
One woman proved a good frient
OF his and gave him bread to ca
when he came that way, and told he
| husband she was going to prepare
room whore E,licbo GOULD roc+ x,,ho,
ne came that way. She did so ant
when he found that above all thing
she wanted son, he petitioned tn,
Lord to give her one. The child cam
and when he was still very young h
died. He had been out in the fiel'
with his father and suddenly put hi
hands to his head and cried: I'M,
head, my head!" His father took hiri
home, but he apparently died, an
his mother set out to find Elisha