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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16

at p. m:
"oh Little Town of Bethlehem"
Processional--
Oh Come All Ye Faithful. $3.50.
Brass Quartet
Girls and Boys 0lee Clubs
1t Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Boys. oiee club
Silent Night. Holy Night 80. Gruber
Girls Glee Club
Oh Little Town OF Bethlehem 80.
Boys oiee club
Oh Holy Night ....ss.....t... Adams
Girls olee Club
Scene ii
There We're Shepherds Abiding
In the Fields
Come. oh Ye Shepherds ...#.t.......
1890. ........ Spanish Carol
Mixed "a Chorus
Harf' the Herald Angels s h.sa.i..onn
Hsrk. Now on shepherds -.
,...............-, Moravian Carol
Mixed sB-A Chorus
10. What q Branch OF Beauty.
'.'''.''iR, ov,, ,,i.. ci,,b 'o'.1'
Scene III
oh Come All Ye Faithful"
jesus DailDAlAps -ssFss A0N
Boys 0lee Club
Soloists Harry Aldrieh. Bill Scribner
Violinist. Bruce Allen
Joy to the World ...........H Handel
Girls Chorus and Glee Club
Mag, Draw Near ..............Wi Wilde
Girls Chorus
Scene "
The Cathedral
Sleep. Holy Child ...... French Noel
Alleitllla mozart
Marilyn Davis
Ave Maria ..5.......... Schubert
Girls Glee Club
Soloists. Adair Buckley. Marilyn Davis
Audrey Kenney, Shirley Green
field. hiyet Weber.
Silent Night ....*......... ornner
Brass Quartet
Programs and scenery. Mis- Winni-
fred WadHEorth. costumes Mrs. Ber-
tina Bailey. narrator. }. L. Mcconnell,
orchestra and brass quartet, r c
RUSSELL: decorations, Miss Frances
srsfa K.eoF
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16
At Jason Lee

Jason Lee pre- am. directed By
Kathryn Br1ner. has the following
program for Thursday, Dec. q,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16

At Accaryer school, the follow
ing program will be given Dec.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16

p At 2 p. m:
The Toy Parade .............. paldi
Orchestra
" - hhAfhsU -ssfs=ssss FfsFktftAs
Ere Morning DzBns 18th Century
BoyA 0le4 Club
Christmas Fantasy ....... BeFgh
Orchestra
Incidental Clarinet CadenzA---
Marjorie Hendfrson
a Christmas Legend 49,. German
TIE Holy season -. .Cfo4sIsn Carol
Girks' Olee Ciub
o Little ToEn Of Bethlehem -.
.s.s..4ssss l. n HedneF
I, Came Upon the Midnight clssf
.ssss..s4.4s..s r. q willis
Silent Night ..-s+4..4 Frznz 0f41eF
School
Tabiezuz~-
The star IN the East
Tie bhepkserdG
Approach o. Mag
TIE Mangxy Cradle
FDssow TIRE Kina FreHen Carol
Nine KifiN
The Lighted WindoN
OrehsstFa
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-12-16

FOR More News OF Music
In Tacoma See Page II
Evening star., 1939-12-12
Christmas Seals

Each year at this time The Star Is
glad to commend to it's readers the
christmas seals sold by the District
OF columbia Tuberculosis Association
IN aid of its campaign against the
White Plague. The money so COL
lected is devoted to uses whose value
IN terms of improved health it would
De difficult to exaggerate. Men and
women old enough to remember con-
dltlons as they were a quarter CEN
Jury ago will not need to be told that
a glorious victory over disease has
been won. The final triumph may
never be achieved. but consistent
progress will be possible in the ratio
OF public support of the effort.
Curiously, however, the business
interests of the community have not
realized to the full the privilege of
contributing through the purchase
OF Christmas seals. The work which
the tuberculosis association is doing
is important to industrial and COM
mercial organizations, yet for some
reason not altogether clear they have
neglected their opportunity to CO.
operate. This season the Junior
Board of Commerce has volunteered
to help by selling health bonds in
denominations of five to one hundred
dollars, sheet of the attractive
Yuletide labels being supplied in
acknowledgment of each dollar thus
subscribed
But the sponsors Of the campaign
desire it to be understood that every
body is invited to buy. Small pur-
chases are not discouraged. Rather,
the contrary. The tuberculosis as
sociation believes that the entire COM
munity is sympathetic to it's cause.
1t seeks therefore, big gifts and little
and, in the name of suffering human
ity, is grateful for both.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
}. Butler WRIGHT

All that was mortal of j. Butler
Wright, Ambassador to Cuba, came
back to Washington yesterday. The
Government of which he had been
part directed that his remains
should be carried from Havana
aboard the U. S. S. Omaha, and the
gesture symbolized the appreciation
OF his country. But further recogni-
tion of the value of the man himself
and Of his services to humanity was
expressed by congregation of his
friends assembled at Mount St.
Albans. The funeral ceremonies
there brought together a throng of
his fellow-citizens, testifying through
their presence to the high esteem
in which they ever held him.
Mr.. Wright was a career diplo-
matist of the modern school. He
personified the best ideals of that
school so notably that it might have
been supposed to have originated
with him. Born in the beautiful
Hudson Valley, New York, and edu-
Gated at Princeton, he began the
real business of his life as secretary
OF the. American Legation at Teguci-
galpa in Honduras. Successfully
from 1912 onward he was designated
to Brussels, Rio de Janeiro Petrograd
and London. AS Minister to Hungary.
then to Uruguay and still later to
Czecho-Slovakia, he qualified for the
most difficult assignments and filled
them with conspicuous distinction.
But Mr.. Wright was a modest per-
son. He made no claims upon fame.
no demands upon celebrity. Instead,
he found his satisfactions in his
Iabors. Loving his work, he gained
from it the rewards of contentment.
His patriotism grew with the years,
his sympathies widened; so that in
the end he was an exemplar of
all those democratic characteristics
which the people of the United States
like to believe enrich and vitalize
their civilization.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
A State Hatch Law

Inc movement developing in Con-
gress to extend to thousands of State
employees the principles of the Hatch
law, restricting political activity
among Federal workers. is a logical
sequel to the original act.
Arguments in support of pro-
tecting those in the Federal civil
service from political coercion and
OF prohibiting patronage appointees
from active participation in political
campaigns would seem to apply with
equal force to the personnel of State
governments, in relation to national
and congressional elections.
State officials frequently become
candidates for seats in Congress-
And if Federal appointees, such as
marshals, customs officers or in
ternal revenue collectors, are to be
barred from active participation in
national and congressional election
contests, it is hard to justify leaving
State employees free to engage In
these campaigns.
Congress, of course, will have to
proceed with caution to avoid ex-
ceeding its constitutional powers in
undertaking to regulate State en-
ployes. Senator Hatch, Democrat, of
New Mexico is following a wise
course, therefore, in having Attorney
General Murphy study the legal
question of how far Congress may go
in promoting extension to State
workers of the main objectives of the
Hatch law.
The bill pending in the Senate,
sponsored by Senator Nicely, Demo-
crat, of West Virginia, proposes to
withhold Federal grants from any
State which does not restrict political
activity of appointed State workers.
The policy of Federal aid has be-
come so extensive that thousands of
State employees receive at least part
of their salaries from these Treasury
grants Tor hlghWay construction, So
cial security and other programs.
There would seem to be no question
of the right of Congress to attach
conditions to the use by the States
of these Federal appropriations.
1t Is expected that before Congress
acts on the subject, Senator Hatch
will have from the Attorney Gen
erals Office a complete report on the
scope of its constitutional power, in
Guiding the question of how far it
may 60 in regulating elections at
which Senators and Representative
are chosen. With a national cam
paign approaching, this is an appro-
pirate time to consider this broaden
ing of the Hatch law.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
Wire Topping Goes

The Supreme Court has ended the
use OF wire tapping as a device in
criminal prosecution, decisions in
Two cases yesterday wiping out the
last vestige OF the legitimacy con-
ferred on this practice by the court
decade ago, in the prohibition era.
In one case, the court held that
the prescription of the Federal Com
munlcations Act against interception
or interstate communications ap-
Piled equally to those transmitted
entirely within State; in the other,
the tribunal refused to recognize
the fine distinction the lower courts
had sought to draw in ruling that
evidence derived from telephone con-
versations recorded by wire tapping
properly could be introduced in a
trial, although the use of the con-
versations themselves would be un-
lawful.
The decisions, reversing alcohol
smuggling and insurance fraud con-
victions followed logically from that
handed down by the court in De-
cember, 1887, which banned inter-
state wire tapping. They presum-
ably harmonize with the intent of
Congress in writing into the Com
munications Act the provision max
Ing it felony for any person to in
tercept or divulge any telephone con-
versation without the consent of the
person making the call.
Nevertheless, it cannot be said
without qualification that wire tap
ping has no place in criminal law
enforcement. Certainly, there are
crimes that call for extreme meas
ures If these are necessary to bring
the perpetrators to justice.
This very point was emphasized by
Justice Sutherland in writing the
dissent in the seven-to-two decision
OF two years ago, and in arguing the
present cases the Department of
Justice urged before the Supreme
Court the advisability of permitting
the limited use by law officers of evi-
dence obtained by wire tapping.
The Supreme Court has made it
clear In banning wire tapping that
it is within the province of Congress
to decide how far this restriction
may operate, and undoubtedly if
there is feeling that the law as now
applied is designed to aid criminals,
corrective measures will be taken.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
early" slogan inspired them to do
their campaigning early.

early" slogan inspired them to do
their campaigning early.
Senator Radcliffe let it be known
that his early entry was more or less
accidental, that he just happened to
be In Annapolis and thought it a
good idea to file while there. Mr..
Bruce, who has been contemplating
making a senatorial race for some
time, apparently did not want any,
one to get whatever advantage there
is in an early announcement.
The Radcliffe entry Immediately
aroused interest as to the position of
Senator Tydings, for the senior Mary
land Senator had Mr. Radcliffe as
his campaign manager in his dra-
matte battle when the New Deal
backed David j. Lewis last year. SEN
ator Tydings will support his COL
league in Congress.
Mr.. Bruce appears to have been
active in lining up support in his
first bid for public office. Before
filing his certificate of candidacy he
conferred with important party lead
ers, including Mayor Jackson of
Baltimore, E. Brooke Lee of Mont
gomery County, State Attorney Gen.
eral William c. Walsh and David C.
Winebrenner, 3d. Frederick County
leader and former Secretary of State
for Maryland.
There is ample time for other can
didates to file before the primary; in
fact, more are expected Both men
now In the race are regarded as con-
servatives and it would not be sur
prising to see the liberal wing of the
party produce a candidate. Both
Senator Radcliffe and Mr.. Bruce have
been associated with financial enter
prises. Senator Radcliffe has long
been a personal friend of President
Roosevelt. In addition to being chair
man OF the board of the Baltimore
National Bank, Mr. Bruce owns a
horse-racing stable and recently was
elected to the New York Jockey Club.
He has been Democratic national
committeeman since 1921.
Entry of the two in the Democratic
primary also may spur the Repub-
llcans to early action. Former Gov
ernor Nice is expected to be one of
the f1rst'to throw his hat into the
ring.
The long distance lineup promises
TO afford a battle as spectacular and
strenuous as the Lewis-Tydings
struggle Of 1898.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
ernized to make them available at

ernlZed to make them available at
all seasons.
At present, however, the primary
difficulty is not one of cross-coun-
try routes, although great strides
still may be made. Today's serious
problem rests upon means of getting
into and out of populous centers,
particularly during rush periods, and,
in the case of interurban travel, Of
finding fast, convenient means of
by-passing congested areas.
To meet this problem the Public
Roads Administration is assisting the
District and forty-six states in con-
Quoting origin destination surveys
upon which may be planned traffic
and highway programs for years to
come. BY means of these studies the
motorists are given hope that the two
billion dollars a year they pay in
taxes will be returned to them, not
only in the form of convenience, but
of prosperity and security for one of
the Nations basic industries.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
Urges Establishment of
Federal Controlled Stores.
To the Editor of The S

Az ZIG GdlOoI ol Inc olaE.
During the past regular session of
Congress there was introduced in the
House resolution to investigate the
present class A liquor stores in the. Dis
trlct OF Columbia with view to estab-
fishing Government controlled stores in
their stead if the result of such an in
vestigation warranted same.
This resolution was referred to the
Committee on Rules and although 80 per
cent OF the citizens associations in the
District passed resolutions demanding
that immediate action be taken it was
permitted to die in committee Why?
Was 1t because the liquor dealers sent
up such shout of protest and brought
pressure to bear on the Hill? At least
that is the feeling among the liquor
store owners, many of whom continue
to trample the license law under foot
with complacent contempt and defiant
arrogance.
But methinks they have been lulled
into a false sense of security by some
of the wholesale liquor dealers who have
assured them that such a resolution
will never be voted out of the Rules
Committee.
The liquor traffic has so outraged the
sense of justice in our law-abiding
citizens by its utter disregard for law
that they will endure 1t no longer They
will demand that the Sheppard resolu-
ton or a similar one be introduced at
the next session Of Congress.
For my part an investigation is waste
OF time and money. Establish Govern
ment-owned stores without further ado
The number of liquor stores (4OO in
washington Is out of all proportion to
the legitimate wants of sober popula-
uon EUGENE j. KANE.
December Z
Evening star., 1939-12-12
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trace,peu,

The former is . simple platform, or
tray, with slightly raised edge, affixed
to the sill. Sometimes it has a glass top,
10 that the watcher can see the birds.
The yard feeder more generally is a
box Of some type, In essence, fixed to a
post, or put on some sort Of table. Some
times an old table, with an edge built
around it, is used.
The site selected should be not too
far from the main window of observ-
ance. Much will depend on the terrain
and the height of the pane from the
ground.
Usually about 20 feet out, and pref
erably to one side, is best.
The height from the ground-but still
depending on visibility-is usually be-
tween and feet
This will keep the platform from al
most any snow we are likely to have.
The weather vane principle, as our
correspondent calls it, aims to keep the
open side Of the feeder away from the
wind, but depends upon whether the
bearing is good, and capable of keeping
the box turned in even the slightest wind.
Mostly it is not necessary, If the sta
ton can be placed so that it offers a
solid back to west and north winds.
An extended roof, coming out over
the widest part of the platform, will pro-
tect the food, and as for the birds they
do not mind wind and rain and snow at
all, provided they have enough to eat.
This will mean systematic filling of
the hopper, which is best stocked from
the top, by mere lifting OF the lid or
roof.
A small soap box put on four blocks
one at each corner, with the bottom
open, and the top easily lifted of, and
this on table. which Is several inches
larger, and rail or guard built around
There you have bird-feeding station
as good as any, if neatly painted Dark
green or white paint, or a combination
Of the two, or dark brown stain may be
used.
Or simply let it weather. The birds
are not particular.
vi dlIlS dllu SccQ uSeQ III WllQO1rQ
mixtures" are cracked corn, hemp, vetch,
wheat, rice, millet rye, oats, kaflr corn,
buckwheat.
Sunfiower seed, liked by all songsters,
Is an important addition to any general
mixture. The more costly mixtures
usually contain some, but 1t is a good
plan to buy an additional quantity, and
add bit on your own.
Peanuts, either whole or shelled, and
roasted or raw, make an acceptable ad-
dition.
All types of breadstuffs may be used.
various fruits and suet. This latter may
be purchased in cakes, to which berries,
nuts and seeds have been added. Some
species like to pick at these cakes, others
ignore them.
Beef suet is the best. Many clean
leftovers from the family table had
better 90 to the birds than the garbage
can.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
TAKOMA PARK, Md.

Dear Sir:
Being interested in birds, I read your
column In The Star with considerable
interest and pleasure. I grew up in q
small town and learned to identify most
Of the birds seen In this section Of the
country.
Have attempted to feed birds at
times, but never In very systematic
manner and am wondering If you could
give me directions for a simple back
yard feeding station-how far from the
house 1t would need to be and how high
from the ground, what kind Of containers
to put on 1t and whether the weather.
vane principle has any great advantage.
would also like to know what kinds
OF food to put out and where the proper
kinds of seeds and grain can be pur-
chased.
Thanking you for your courtesy,
''Very truly yours, v. E. W."
\
The simplest backyard feeding station
is, Of course, the ground.
The earth beneath a shrub, or in the
perennial border, makes a very nice and
acceptable feeding place.
Mixed seed and grains, to be had at
any pet store and many hardware stores,
is thrown on the chosen spot.
The birds do the rest.
Actually, bird feeding in systematic
way is as simple as that Many persons
who have at first gone in" for elaborate
hopper feeders with glass sides, wind
vanes, ETC., come around at last to
feeding in the easy way just described.
The drawback, more from tho human
viewpoint than from that of the feath-
cred guests, comes in rainy and snowy
weather.
A deep snow seems to remove the mix
ture far from claw and bill, but really
does not, for, except in a blizzard, the
birds quickly dig their way down to It.,
provided they have been used to coming
to the selected place. That is why it is
good thing to begin feeding in the fall
before snow comes.
1t is a good idea. If the plain earth
method is tried, to choose a site beneath
good evergreen, or shrub or vine with
many branches. These offer some pro-
lection. An old rose vine on a fence
makes an excellent place. The songsters
like to perch in it between bites.
1t is also good, in snowy weather to
clear the ground at the feeding place
each morning before putting in the
food
4 X
1t must be admitted, however. that the
man-made feeding station, with some
protection for the food, and an elevation
from the ground, seems better to fill
the bill, from the human standpoint.
Whether it does from the birds stand
point is another question.
There are. in the main, two types of
feeding stations, boxes, trays, tables
call them what you will
These are the window feeder and the
yard feeder.
Evening star., 1939-12-12
Paying for Results

When the automobile became an
instrument of public convenience
and necessity it brought with it
problems and benefits which were
undreamed of In the earlier days of
the development of the Nations
cities. These were so manifest at an
early date that the motor car owner
found himself facing new forms of
taxation. Although it has been mis-
called class legislation at times, the
special taxes are not unjustifed The
motor car created need for expen-
sive types of roadbuilding and of new
agencies of government previously
unknown. So long as the special
taxes were devoted to paying the cost
OF improvements directly attribut-
able to the automobile, no legitimate
complaint was made. But during the
lean years which followed 1929 many
jurisdictions found these funds rich
source for bolstering their declining
income and began diverting them to
the support of schools, of relief, or
turning them into the general funds.
In this respect Washington has been
fortunate. The revenues from auto
mobile taxation in recent years have
paid the cost of the traffic and high
way departments, yet the surpluses
have not been misused.
So rapid have been the effects of
the automobile industry's growth
that even today no definitely perma-
nent policy can be adopted. Begin
ming with the passage of the Federal
Aid program in 1916, the country has
seen the development of a system of
inter-city highways, reducing the
number of minor metropolitan CEN
ters, increasing the trading areas of
the larger towns and cities, and unit
ing the Nation. Tremendous strides
have been made, but this has not
been a complete program. Many
States and most counties failed
to follow through as efficiently as
they might have. AS a result only a
fraction of the country's highways
are all-weather roads, comparatively
few are paved, and the majority of
the national mileage is In mud.
Many Of the hard-surfaced thor
oughfares are virtual tunnels
through the areas they were designed
to serve, since the approaches from
feeder" routes haKe not been mod
Evening star., 1939-12-12
Potomac Dusk

saw the twilight haze less dreary grow
As every laggard hue came into place:
Straight stacks and frost-stripped trees
in dark embrace
Beyond the bridge; leaden sheet below,
And in the fore pearly lustered pool,
Pale pink and blue soft blended with
the gray
AS in a mussel shell, and very near
Three mud hens on log, whose shadows
clear
And black upon the lacquered ripples lay.
Then thought I, Even winter dusks are
fair
Do We but stop to notice what is there"
q 3. q. Z
Evening star., 1939-12-12
MARYLAND Senatorial Race

The lineup is forming early in the
Maryland Democratic primary for
United States Senator. Although the
voters do not 60 to the polls until
next May, two candidates already
have entered the lists-George L.
Radcliffe, who is seeking reelection,
and Howard Bruce, the Democratic
national committeeman from Mary
land. Perhaps the Christmas shop