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Evening star., 1939-02-28
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. TrdceUeH.

to fly to and fro, an exercise they always
like.
Being birds, Of course, they love to
fly, and evidently can see no reason
why they shouldn't indulge in their
favorite exercise while eating.
If there is just one feeder, they must
huddle around it constantly.
If they are two or more, at different
points, they can dip in one place, ny
to another, dip in there, fly back to the
other, and so on around.
Really, they seem to get great deal
of fun out Of it.
English sparrows settle this little mat
ter for themselves by flying around the
garden, every now and then, even If
there is only one feeder.
Smart birds, to mix their eating with
little shake-down cruise!
Not only is this sensible, on the birds
part, but 1t is interesting for observers.
The flight of birds has been studied
widely in recent years, owing to the
success of the airplane, but the average
bird observer has something still to learn.
The first thing he must do is to really
watch the bird flying.
Owing to the small size of the creature,
1t commonly is not followed by the
watching eye as it should be, but the
exercise is good for the eye, and often
furnishes the mind with fine exercise,
too.
The snowy landscape offers the very
best possible field for this good dual
exercise of mind and eye.
How sooty sparrows seem against it!
No one could call them uninteresting
or dull, then.
Against the snowy garden, the flight
of humble sparroWs takes on new
beauty.
They fly, the observer finds, maybe
with surprise, quite as well as any bird
Maybe he had been listening to the
sparrow detractors, and had somehow
got the idea that these ferocious, terrible
creatures could not fly with grace.
AS a matter of cold fact on wintry
day, the English SparroWS are expert
flyers, none better, and certainly few
more graceful.
Installation of two or more feeders
| at separated points, will enable the bird
enthusiast to get his moneys worth, as
the saying has it.
At the same time it may help to solve
| the mockingbird problem
| It also tends to prevent too great
| trampling down of the yard by scores Of
| sharp little claws. Those who have
watched the gradual destruction of g
great patch of sward at a single feeder
will be willing to admit that there might
be advantages to having more than one
feeder in operation.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
End of the Sit-Down

The fact that the sit-doWn strike
has become rather generally dis
credited as labor weapon does not
minimize the Importance of yester-
days decision by the Supreme Court
that workers engaging in such
strike may be lawfully discharged
by their employer.
Without this right of discharge
and the National Labor Relations
Board had contended vigorously that
1t did not exist-the strikers would
have retained their status as en-
ployes under the Wagner Act and
that statute, designed to promote
peace in industry, would have been
distorted into an instrument to
protect and encourage lawless and
riotous conduct on the part of
employees.
This danger was recognized by
Chief Justice Hughes when he said:
I'VE are of the opinion that to pro-
vide for the reinstatement or re-
employment of employees guilty of
the acts which the board finds to
have been committed in this instance
would not only not effectuate any
policy of the (Wagner) Act but would
directly tend to make abortive its
plan for peaceable procedure"
The real Importance of the deci-
sion lies in the fact that, by necessary
implication, it applies to any unlaw-
full conduct on the part of striking
employees. This means, in effect, that
an employer now has a clear right
to discharge a striking employe for
any unlawful conduct which would
have rendered him liable to dismissal
had a strike not been in progress,
provided always that the discharge
is not essentially an interference
with the rights of unionization and
collective bargaining.
Since lawfully discharged en-
ploye loses all of his rights under the
Wagner Act, 1t may be assumed that
the ruling Of the court will curb the
tendency OF some labor groups to
adopt a variety of violent and illegal
strike tactics when such methods
seem more expedient than a resort
to the orderly processes of the labor
act.
At the same time the decision puts
the Labor Board on notice that, while
1t may exercise broad discretion in
effectuating what it considers to be
the policies of the Wagner Act, it
may not abuse that discretion with
impunity.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
CHEVY CHASE, MD.

Dear Sir:
1.-THE letters of your correspondents
concerning the mockingbird interest me
because several years ago had a similar
experience with that redoubtable little
warrior
For long time have had a feeding
tray for wildbirds, outside my window,
which is sheltered by tree. Many
different birds come to the tray, sparrows,
bluejays, and few starlings, Of course.
"Also the joyous chickadee, nuthatch,
song sparrows, juncos, pair Of cardinals
who always come together, also lone
mockingbird, and handsome towhee,
and during the migrating season many
lovely little tourists are with us for
just day or two en- route to their
desired haven
For such family have a sort Of
bird cafeteria. SunfloWer, and other
mixed seed, peanuts in the shell for the
jays and chickadees, raisins for the
mocker and suet for all who like It.
Three years ago crust Of snow and
ice covered the ground for some days
and food was scarce, except on the tray.
Then the mocker suddenly became
berserk.
HE perched in the highest branches
of the tree and permitted neither friend
or foe to come near the tray.
ITO drive him out of the yard was
impossible. wrote to Nature magazine,
and Mr.. Horsfall replied that the mocker
was only fighting for his food, raisins
and suet "a trait not confined to the
bird kingdom) and suggested that put
his food in another place.
II did So 1t took him only short
time to find it on smaller tray at
another window, and peace and harmony
were restored.
"Since then the mocker has become
so tame he often comes to the tray and
finding no raisins gives an impatient
little chirp and flies to the tree to wait
for his favorite food.
May add that in the mating season
the Knockers and catbirds both raise their
families in the shrubbery near us, and
I keep large supply of raisins on the
tray which they also feed to their young,
and supply of sunflower seed entices
the cardinals to bring their lovely young
sters to the tray.
Pardon this lengthy letter, but the
birds have been such Joy to me and
my family, and the mocker such fine
vocalist, 1 would like to remove some Of
the odium from his name.
Yours sincerely,
E. A. T."
4 i
This is another instance of the good
of having several feeders in yard.
Not only is it good strategy, in regard
to mockingbirds, but it enables the birds
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Says Washington Must
Keep Its Orchestra.
To the Editor OF The Star;


In the critical situation that confronts
the National Symphony Orchestra with
its continued existence hanging in the
balance. one outstanding fact must not
be lost sight Of. If the required guaran-
tee fund is not raised and the orchestra
is compelled to disband at the close of
the present season, 1t is perfectly safe
bet that never again will any one under
take so foolhardy an experiment as the
establishing of major symphony or
chestra in this city. In the past 20 or Is
years several futile attempts have been
made to establish such an orchestra, but
it remained for Hans Kinder, through
his own personal efforts and determina-
ton, to bring the thing to pass, and his
success has been brilliant. Now, after
eight years of outstanding achievement
and with our orchestra in top form and
ranking with the best in the land, are
we going to permit 1t to collapse? II
we do then we bid farewell to any hope
of ever again possessing an orchestra OF
our own and must depend for our music
upon such crumbs of comfort as visiting
orchestras may give us. With the Cor
coran Gallery, the National Gallery, the
Freer Gallery and the Mellon Gallery
Washington has a plethora of art, but
without great music we should have a
very lop-sided artistic and cultural de-
velopment. Save the orchestra and some
day, please Heaven, we shall have an
opera house, too.
Another thing: Washington business
houses apparently do not at all appre-
ciate the advertising value of our Or
chestra. If they did, they alone would
make up the guarantee fund. Our Or
chestra in its tours covers territory in
cluding Canada, New England and the
deep South, everywhere carrying the
name of our city and impressing it upon
the minds of people in the most forceful
way. Is that, or is it not, good adver-
tising?
When one thinks of Philadelphia what
comes Immediately to mind? 1ndepend-
ence Hall, undoubtedly, but the Phila-
delphia Orchestra, unquestionably. Bos-
ton is recalled as the home of the Bos-
ton Orchestra. The word washington"
connotes the Capitol, the Monument, the
White House and the Lincoln Memorial,
but it also calls to mind the fact that
Hans Kindler's National Symphony Or
chestra makes its home here, and so
the National Music Teachers Associa-
ton, the Federation of Music Clubs, the
League of American Pen Women and
numerous others naturally hold their
conventions here, bringing thousands to
this city. Is that good advertising, Mr..
Businessman? And are you going to
let it die? Twenty of our leading COM
mercial houses and banks could SUBJ
scribe the whole guarantee fund with
out financial strain and with great profit
to themselves. Why don't you do 1t?
EDWARD c. POTTER.
February "a.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Ambassador Suito

1t was Hirosi Saito's fate to serve
as japanese Ambassador in Washing
ton at a period destined to be marked
by severe strain in the traditionally
friendly relations between his coun-
try and the United States. From the
inception of the North China Incl
dent" by which euphonious term the
undeclared war in the Far East is still
known at Toxic, this country's atti-
tude toward Mr.. Saito's government
was one of undisguised resentment.
1t was an attitude which sprang from
the conviction that China was the
victim Of unprovoked aggression,
from indignation over Japans ruth
less methods of warfare and from
increasing evidence that she was
violating international rights in
prosecuting her campaign of con-
quest.
Ambassador Saito's duty was to
put the best possible face on this
new order in Asia," a task which was
not always to his taste. When the
U. S. S. Panay was bombed at the
end OF 1887, and American impa-
tience with Japanese military and
naval pretensions reached the boil
ing point, Tokio's envoy realized
that the possibilities of reknitting
old Japanese American ties were
fraught with unprecedented difficult
ties. He himself took the initiative
in publicly expressing regret for the
Panay incident-an action under
stood to have displeased his supe-
riors at Toxic and to have under
mined his status in their eyes. Some
Of the Ambassadors friends think
his failure In health, which set in
about that time, was partially trace
able to his personal remorse over the
state into which Japanese american
relations had drifted.
Mr.. Saitos acquaintance with the
United States was of long standing.
No diplomat of any country under
stood us, our language, our political
institutions and our susceptibilities,
especially as these were affected by
untoward developments in the Far
East, more thoroughly than the
slight, gentle japanese for whom
funeral services are being held today
at the Embassy on Massachusetts
avenue, over which he presided for
the better part of five years.
To Madame Saito, his widow, and
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Care Needed.

"Why do we want more laws?" asked
the obstructionist. Haven't we had more
than enough for all practical purposes?"
"Well," answered Senator Sorghum
cautiously, you must remember that the
breakage of laws has been very great
of late"
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Senator Reynolds Says
"Vindicators" Misrepresented.

To the Editor of The Star:
In view Of the fact that have been
grossly misrepresented in some quarters
in connection with the indicators move-
ment which started, respectfully re-
quest that, in all fairness to me, you
publish the contents of this letter.
wish to briefly state the aims Of this
program:
l. Keep America out of war by enact
ing strict neutrality laws; staying clear
of foreign political entanglements and
embroilme.c..--, I'D stop meddling in the
internal affairs of other nations.
2. Benish all foreign Gems" (Nazi.
j~-n, Fascism and COMMIT.
:. stop all immigration for the nax1
Evening star., 1939-02-28

Most of us can think of no view
that would be more Illuminating and
salutary for Adolf Hitler than the
vistas down the throats of the ten
14-inch guns on the newest British
battleship.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Different Methods.
There was a man
Of wisdom great;
He had a plan
To help the state.
But all his sense
Availed him naught.
They cried, 60 hence!
Your mien is fraught
With looks severe
And words unkind.
You have, It's clear
A grouchy mind"
Another man
OF far less brain
For office ran
With might and main.
His speech he'd make
In accents bland.
He loved to shake
The voters hand.
He won applause
And made his pile,
And all because
He wore a smile.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Knows Her Charley.

NHOWS 1IcT VHdF1eys
"Why did you leave the room so hur-
riedly?"
Because" answered young Mrs. Tor
kins, Charley is beginning to talk about
the weather. approve OF what he is
going to say, though I don't think it
proper for me to hear it."
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Busy.

Most everybody in this land
Is making something pay.
Some of us are making speeches
Because we can't make hay.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Letters to The Star

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the writer, although the use OF
a pseudonyn1 for publication IS
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Universal.

"I am looking forward to state Of
society,"" said the reformer, "in which
every citizen will be happy and COM
Portable and unmolested by graft"
"Of course" answered Mr.. Sirius Bar
ker. Everybody is. We all expect even
tually to attain Heaven"
Evening star., 1939-02-28

Eternal vigilance may be the price of
success" said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town, "but the man who winds up with
insomnia will never attain it,"
Evening star., 1939-02-28

10 years, or until such time as all OF our
idle are re-employed.
T. Register and fngerprint all aliens
in order that we may ascertain the
number of aliens in the United States
and where located.
S. Deport all criminals and undesira-
BILE aliens and expel those here illegally
or those who arrived legally and have
remained illegally.
The word "vindicators' merely desig-
mates those who are participating in
this Nationwide patriotic movement to
bring about the enactment Of legisla-
ton to carry out the objectives stated
above. Any American citizen, regardless
OF race. political aftlliation or religious
creed, may become a member of the
indicators. There is no initiation fee,
nor are there any dues.
am Of the opinion that those who
have bitterly condemned this movement
have done so without having learned
the facts. If there are any opponents
to the above program would appreciate
their advising me Of their objections,
and I would likewise appreciate those
in sympathy with the program writing
me so that may have the benefit of
their cooperation and encouragement.
Those indorsing this movement are
striving to glorify Americanism and
patriotism. We are endeavoring to
arouse the American people to the
realization of the dangers of these
foreign "isms, Nazi-ism
and Fascism-that now infest our coun-
try and threaten to undermine the
foundation of our republic. The time
has arrived when we must rekindle the
flame of true American democracy
when we must rally and unite to pre-
serve and strengthen the ideals, the
doctrines and the institutions that have
made our Nation the worlds greatest
citadel of freedom and liberty. do not
conceive how any real American would
object to these principles and objec-
tiveS.
With the interest of all Americans
in mind we have adopted the slogan,
"our citizens, our country. first"
ROBERT r. REYNOLDS,
February %. United States Senate.
Evening star., 1939-02-28
All Other States and Ca,
Member of the Associated Press

A.. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights Of publication of special dispatches
herein also reserved
Evening star., 1939-02-28
Voices Opposition

Voices Opposition
To Sales Tax.
To the Editor Of The Star:
1t has been announced that there will
be hearings to discuss means of raising
money to meet current expenses in the
District. The Advisory Committee, ap-
pointed to study the tax structure in the
District has suggested sales tax. Resi-
dents of Washington should investigate
the possible effects sales tax might
have.
The recent repeal Of the sales tax in
Philadelphia should demonstrate to
Washington residents the undesirability
of the sales tax. In Philadelphia mer-
chants, citizen groups and organized
labor united to oppose sales tax and the
law was repealed. It was discovered there
that the sales tax was diverting business
to outlying districts where purchases
could be made tax-free. Here in WASH
ington it would be much easier to avoid
sales tax because we are SO near to
Maryland and Virginia.
Citizen groups and other interested
individuals, when they take all things
into consideration, must agree that a
sales tax can only have disastrous effects.
But more than realizing the disadvan-
tages Of sales tax, they should take
action to see that no such law Is foisted
upon them.
MARCEL LINDHEIMER.
Evening star., 1939-02-28

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Saws Uncle Eben.

De weather we's been gittin' here
Has lef' us at loss;
We hardly knows which mos to fear.
De glnstroke or de fros'.
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This is another instance of the good
of having several feeders in yard.
Not only is it good strategy, in regard
to mockingbirds, but it enables the birds
Evening star., 1939-02-28

@. What are the opening and closing
dates of the two world fairs this year?
IT. R. M.
A. The New York Worlds Fair will
open on April 80 and close on December
8, 1899. The Golden Gate International
Exposition at San Francisco opened on
February 18 and will close on December
2, 1899.
@. In what stage production did
Jeanette Macdonald play with Lynne
Overman and Frank McIntyre?-T. j. r.
A. 1t was Sunny Days." musical
version of "a Kiss in a Taxi" which
opened at the Imperial Theater, New
York City, on February 8, 1928.
@. Please give the name and accom-
plishment OF the aviator who won
$4,000 prize offered by Victor j. Evans
of Washington, D. C.-R. S. G.
A. Harry N. Atwood Of Boston broke
the worlds record Cup to August Is.
1s1D for cross-country flying In an
airplane when he Travelled from st.
Louis, Mo-, to New York City, via Chi
cago, a distance Of 1885 miles, in IL
days. He left st. Louis on August IA.
1911, and arrived at Governors Island
on August Is. His time in the air was
% hours 9 minutes. For this feat he
was given the Evans Award.
@. Which of Dorothy Thompson's ar
ticles resulted in her expulsion from
Germany2-J. G. H.
A. It was her interview called II Saw
Hitler"
@. Who made the first cold cream?-
B. S. F.
A. Cold cream was invented by Galen.
. Roman. His formula is essentially the
same a. that used today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-18

years. Rockefeller Center started
work on its ice skating pond /.
Oh, we know everything.

years, Rockefeller Center started
work on its ice skating pond
Oh, we know everything.
The News had this headline: 20
s. Aids Firms. Best Debt Payer
Best, hell OnlyIll. The
Casino Russo In the sos has @atmos-
phere often Is better than
name" patrons The Hellza-
poppas explain why half the girls
are being let out = they're not
dancers, they tell the column. And
they hired Gae Foster to put on the
new routines 81. La Fosters dane
ers are usually contortionists. Acs
robats, anyhow =. It win be in
teresting to see what happens whe1
Olsen and johnson start trying te
produce a CLASSY show instead of g
good one One reason why
newspapers in New York hire Broad
way columnists: Last week Barbara
Blair returned from abroad. Most
papers photo'd Barbara and de-
scribed her as a British actress
which she amt. Barbara is better
known to vaudeville customers as q
clown named aSnooney" Blair, for
mer partner of Herman Timbere
and, click on her own hook
She gives out with the ademoids
accent I'M front of strangers. But
If e columnist is lookin', she busts
out laffin'.
This story comes from never mino
his name-he just knows it's true
When Won Ribbentrop, the
Nad messenger boy, visited Moscow
the Russians wanted to decorate
the city with Nazi flags :, But
not one of them could be found
The Commys finallys went t.
their movie studios and got one Of
the Nazi flags out of the prop dept
.s.s The flag was one of severa'
used in Professor Mamlock", the
| famous anti-Hitler movie :. Ship.
wreck Kelly's stunt atop the Chanir
bldg. on Friday, the 18th STAND
| ing on his head on a chair placed
on the edge of the edifice), Swipec
the newspaper space planned fol
| The Screwballs Assn the same day
That Smart Set Quartet dds.
covered" by Ted Straeter, who put
them into his choir on Kate Smith!
program Con the strength of being
q knockdown in London is actual!
from Kansas City. Here's az
example Of the terrific selectivity O
Lies editors. Stan Shaw, the all
night recording man at WNEW
was shot $50 times; IS separate
negatives were submitted; Lift
used a dozen.
| Jay Irving's little boy, 8, peddle
Benjamin Franklin's Weekly afte
school jays cartoons appea
exclusively in Golfers 1. The cop
in the vicinity of Madison Avenu
| Tin the "600s'C have had many com
| plants about the scantily clad gal
who exercise in their school in from
of mdraped windows Such
complaint What goes on? A
the lt4h Assembly, 5th Election Dis
trict the other registration day, twt
very British sounding men went II
and adenoided: "Can we registe
here to vote against Roosevelt?
h.. Overheard by Fred Eisenstadt
Pardon me, stranger. Where can
| find 14th STU" =. 4. "Over on 42nt
Street," was a grumpy New York
er's retort n. So James Bepet Il
The New Republic considers "Com
munazi" silly phrase, does he
Well, then, why doesn't Jane
think up one to replace it? Ont
that Is, editors all over the countr
will quote as much as communaz
since it was born recently ;.
There's a beggar on Riverside Driv
1 who wears a change machine!
! Orson Welles walks around hi