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Evening star., 1939-03-23
Where Do They Stund?

Gyrations Of the Prince Georges
County Commissioners leave the pub
lie a bit dizzy. Only two weeks ago
they indicated an intention to clean
up the county, so far as gambling
was concerned, by asking the Legis-
lature to enact laws which the
States attorney believed were needed
to drive out numbers operators and
organized gamblers.
Now they want slot machines, a
pernicious form Of gambling, legal
lied. The good burghers Of Prince
Georges hardly know what to expect
next.
The board merited commentator
for asking that the Montgomery
County bill which makes possession
Of gambling devices prima facie evi-
dence Of guilt be amended to apply
to Prince Georges. One member of
the board still deserves the public's
support for having the courage to
vote against the slot machine pro-
posal on the ground that it not only
Is inconsistent with the former ac-
ton. but because such devices are
themselves obnoxious.
The board stipulated that the pub
lie be given a "fair chance" Of win
ming by regulating the machines to
pay of at least thirty per cent of the
time. It attempts to justify such an
effort to capitalize on the dupes who
are willing to risk their money know
ing the odds are three to one against
them on the ground that the county
needs the revenue to be obtained
from slot machines license fees. The
county's legislators at least should
remain consistent and refuse to
sponsor any such proposal.
Evening star., 1939-03-23
The Former

He cherishes such rustic things as these:
The moss-green shingled roof: sweet
clover hay; a..
smoke-cured ham and homemade cot.
tage cheese;
The smell Of cherry pies on baking day;
High, oak-beamed rooms, on gusty nights
all snug;
The grave old family portraits on the
wall;
The kitchen stove and Mothers hand.
hooked rug;
The antique clock which stands out In
the hall.
He likes to take his lantern through the
snow,
Down to the barn and past the covered
well;
He hears the horses neigh, the cattle
low;
The old merino ewes insistent bell
Tinkles welcome from the sheltered
fold,
Where clean wheat straw keeps out tho
winters cold.
H.P. STODDARD.
Evening star., 1939-03-23
THIS AND THAT
lean Birds"-is to be published shortly
Maybe it will explain things.
BIZ Charles E. Trace1peH.

lean Birds"-is to be published shortly.
Maybe 1t will explain things.
4 -
The average bird lover, even If he
cannot understand the whole subject Of
migration, nevertheless is very much
interested in 1t in a practical way, for
1t Is this extremely mystifying bird prac-
tice which brings him his favorites each
spring.
The distances covered by birds in their
migratory flights is amazing.
The tiny ruby-throated hummingbird,
smallest of those which come to US,
makes an annual trip as far south as
Central America.
When one stops to think Of this small
creature flying to Honduras, one must
stand IN amazement. Over land and sea
IT goes, dropping down for food, but
that is about all.
And then when springtime comes
again to our own land, although it is
still warm where 1t is, the hummingbird
turns its tiny brain to thinking over the
necessity Of going north again.
1t Is understood that 1t does not think
as we think, Of course. but only as a
hummingbird thinks, and yet it is think
Ing Of sort.
Some sort Of thought must accompany
the act. If no more than certain sensa-
ton in the flying muscles.
Just as we may believe that a plant
thinks" In its fibres so we may feel
sure that the birds which annually come
to us In the spring, and fly away again
IN the fall, do exert some intelligence
in doing it.
we DO not believe that the mystery of
migration will ever be fully explained,
nor that even half-explanation can
leave out Of account the bird, itself, and
Its sensations, including that of thought,
or intelligence of sort.
The birds may have reasons of their
own for what they do, utterly outside
the human experience.
Talk Of food supplies, temperature, air
currents, and so on, these have their
place, and may seem to hold the sum of
migration, even explaining the "mys-
tery." but there is still hope in ,he
universe that thought exists totally out
side-and let us hope above-the thought
Of mankind.
1t is permissible to hope that the mess
into which humanity has worked itself
must seem utterly strange to birds and
beasts, at least to few super birds and
super-beasts who are able to see it.
1t may be that some gifted bird of
far OF times is going to call halt to
all our mass Stiffness, our selishness
and our vulgarity, and put us on the
right track again. Maybe a little bird
will tell us.
Evening star., 1939-03-23

locker numbers In darkened cor
ridors.
Against this laboriously saved
fund, District taxpayers pay out
some 100000 educating non-resi-
dent children and also thousands Of
dollars as tribute to youthful vandal-
ism in the form Of broken school
windows.
The community has before it a
definite economy problem. But 1t is
up to the community to give this
savings program the right direction.
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Reorganization

Little more than a shadow Of its
controversial predecessor which was
defeated year ago, the reorganiza-
ton bill has managed to get through
the Senate after two-week strug-
gle and now goes to conference,
where differences in the measure as
passed by the House will be ironed
out.
In taking a final vote the Senate
very properly reversed earlier action
and killed the Wheeler amendment
which would have required Congress
to act aff1rmatively on any program
put forward by the President before
1t could be effective. AS it is now,
the veto power rests with Congress,
just as it did in the reorganization
measure adopted in 1888, though both
houses must .disapprove to block a
change.
The extent Of the improvements
that can be worked out under the
terms of the new legislation is en-
tirely a matter Of speculation. ALI
the principal administrative agencies
are exempt from its provisions, and
further restriction was applied by
adoption of the O'Mahoney amend
ment which strips the President Of
authority to abolish functions"
Representative Warren, Democrat,
of North Carolina, who was one of
the leaders in getting reorganization
started through the House, has been
quoted as expressing satisfaction
with the measure, however, and as
anticipating quick disposal by the
conferees, so presumably it is in the
approximate form in which 1t will
go to the President.
AS the bill now stands, there is
little in it from which Mr.. Roosevelt
can derive satisfaction, unless, per-
haps, it might come from the fact
that the Senate has left intact the
provision to give the President six
assistants.
Evening star., 1939-03-23

labor since the Popular Front intro
duced the forty-hour week and
higher pay in 1895.
The Popular Front has died in the
intervening years, as has much that
1t accomplished, under the growing
threat from beyond the Rhineland.
There is no present indication of
moderation in the international
crisis which destroyed its work.
The extremes to which France has
been forced to strengthen her de-
lenses are the same extremes re-
sorted to by the Fascists of Italy
and the Nazis Of Germany to build
up their aggressive machines, with
the. resulting destruction of labor
organization and sweating of work.
ers at long hours and low pay.
The methods are so akin that
France might well be thought now
to have gone Fascist to defend herself
against Fascism II it were not for a
fundamental difference in the bene-
f1ciaries Of the new measures. In
Germany and Italy 1t was first, the
large industrialists, captains of
finance, the wealthy classes and now
Hitler and Mussolini: in France it is
Marianne herself, Frances own ma
tional existence.
The French people are being
lashed into terrific drive to keep
up with the vastly expanding power
of the potential enemy to the east,
but France does not benefit from
accretions Of military power from
newly-subjected neighbors, as does
the Reich. It is not French lash,
but the lash Of fear that Hitler's
aggressions may engulf France and
sweep away everything that she has
built up since the revolution in 1889.
The question is whether, when the
emergency is over and France has
won or lost the coming war, she will
be able to return to the social level
she has been forced to forsake with
out renewal of the bitter class
struggle of 1936-38.
Evening star., 1939-03-23
WADEsBORO, N. @.


Dear Sir:
1T Is robin time again, and am send
ing you . clipping from q magazine. You
Will recall that sent you report Of q
robin roost in Montgomery County, N. c.,
last year.
This year they were in Davidson
County. Don't know whether any Of
them roasted in Montgomery this spring
before leaving for the North.
THE birds are plentiful this spring.
Sincerely, m B."
The roost is thing of the past until
next year, but 1t must have been sight
to see.
The report sent by our correspondent
follows:
AFTER three weeks most Of the esti-
mated million or more robins continue
to use the big roost near Denton nightly,
reported ]. Walter Cashatt, game pro-
tector, this morning.
Yesterday afternoon about 500 people
gathered there, some driving for many
miles, to see the robins come in and
settle down for the night.
wv. @. Lisk, State deputy game COM
missioner Of Richfleld, has joined the
State and Federal forces guarding the
roost.
Mr.. Lisk said this week that 1t ap-
peared that some Of the robins are al
ready beginning to move on and he
predicted that within about 10 days the
entire group will probably head north
ward, probably to the Brush Noun
tains. where almost every year great
roosts are established.
He recalled one there few years ago
that extended for about IA miles and
contained many millions Of robins.
During the past 10 years, Mr.. Lisk
said, he had visited a number Of robin
roosts in this part Of the State.
The largest was on Black Greek, Ran
dolph County. 10 years ago, and he esti-
mated 1t to have been 10 times as large
as the one near Denton now.
Others in recent years have been in
Montgomery and Anson Counties"
The time of the foregoing roost was
February.
The robins we have in our yards today
left the South early this year, and by
this time most of them are parading our
lawns.
AS far as we know the robins are the
only migrating birds which congregate
In this manner before leaving the South.
What the purpose is, who can say?
The whole question Of the migration Of
American birds is mystery
It Is interesting to know that book
with that title-""The Migration of Amer
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Threat to HOUSING

The solid Republican bloc in the
House which has stood four square
against major New Deal legislation
under the adroit leadership of Rep
resentative Martin Of Massachusetts,
was split this week on the shoals Of
the housing issue.
Reversing previous action Of the
House, large number Of the mi
nority party deserted to the Demo-
cratic side Monday to help defeat,
by landslide vote Of 200 to II, a
Republican amendment that would
have paralyzed the entire slum clear
ance and low-rent housing program
had it become law. The astonishing
result was a complete vindication
for the United States Housing
Authority, subjected to singing criti-
cism for allegedly excessive construc-
tion costs. To supporters OF public
housing in and out of Congress, how
ever, the vote was even more cheer
Ing. For it seemed a convincing DEM
onstration that the elected repre-
sentatives Of the people rightly re-
gard the cause of public housing as
one in which partisan politics should
have no role.
The defeated White amendment,
which would have limited the over
all cost per dwelling unit to $500,
a cost impossible to achieve, would
have resulted in the cancellation Of
millions of dollars in loan contracts
to one hundred and forty cities. AS
soon as word Of its earlier passage
reached the country, protests poured
into Washington from all sides. In
Philadelphia, the Republican con-
trolled housing authority felt COM
PEELED to call halt to all housing
work until the final outcome was
known. The headquarters Of the C..
I. O. and the A. F. OF L., realized
more than others, perhaps, the dis
astrous effect a cessation Of the
housing program would have on the
building trades. Forgetting their
differences over the control Of labor
IN general, each sent vigorous pro-
test to Congress.
The U. S. H. A. however, soon
found that it had escaped the frying
pan only to get burned in the fire.
AS the Interior Department supply
bill containing the housing appro-
priation passed the House, language
was deleted on points Of order with
the result that the administrative
expense allowance will, in effect, be
reduced $2,500,0O0 below the $4,5O0-
600 authorized in the bill. Repre-
sentative White was again the spon-
Sor OF this destructive move which,
unless remedied in the Senate and
IN conference, may compel the Au-
thority to discharge at least half Of
It's administrative staff Of 1907 en-
ployes after June 30. The points Of
order were sustained under the House
rules.
When the effect of this drastic
curtailment of funds becomes fully
realized, it is believed that Repub-
licans in both the Senate and House
will rally to correct it before it is
too late. The threatened reduction
in administrative expenses comes at
time when the work load of the
U. s. H. A. is approaching its peak.
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Shooting Stors
By PHnANDER JOHNSON.
The Question.

Problems everywhere we turn!
Everybody wants to learn
Something that nobody knows;
So the daily story goes.
Problem plays that make us blush;
Problems that we cannot hush,
Dealing with domestic strife
And the smarter side of life,
Problems dealing with finance,
Reckonings on the laws of chance.
Tariff problems every year,
Much discussed, but never clear;
Every generation comes
Working at the same old sums.
Figuring hard. both day and night
No one gets the answer right!
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Wonders Where Mr.. Douglas
Got His 6 Gents.
TO the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor OF The Star:
It has been stated by several COM
mentators and printed in your newspa-
per that William Douglas, just appointed
to = seat in the Supreme Court, hitch
hiked to New York on freight train
to take his law course in Columbia UNI
versity. According to these reports the
then young Douglas had just cents in
his pocket when he arrived in New York.
Now the question agitating several of my
friends is where did Mr.. Douglas get
the cents. Will you please have one
Of your keen reporters run this matter
down 50 we can read this important
information? From all the accounts about
Mr.. Douglas, we'll bet cup Of coffee
and two doughnuts that it wasn't "taint-
ed" money. We only hope the Senate
will not make an Investigation Of the
origin Of those cents. JIM. M.
March 20,
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Argues Against
Patriotic Rallies at Movies,
By Thomas r. Henri.
0 the Editor Of Tho Star:

To the Editor Of Tho Star:
Several Of your correspondents have
written lately about the display of the
waving STARS and Stripes" on the screen
and the lack of enthusiasm OF movie
patrons which follows.
Mr.. Edward L. Foster, jr., in his letter,
published March 20, expresses my views,
namely, that the movie theater is q very
poor place to be suddenly turned into
rousing, singing, patriotic rally. The in
appropriateness is recognized by most Of
the patrons, and the resulting protest
against the theater management shows
itself by the disgruntled, scattered, rising
of few.
In times Of war or national emergency,
such patriotic displays and singing are
IN order. Today, such ramming of patri-
otism down the throats Of movie patrons
Is rather poor taste.
CHARLES G. RAGSDALE.
March 20,
Evening star., 1939-03-23
March 20.
Says New Deal Aimed
At Tyranny.

0Ay8 NeW Oe1l AIWe0
At Tyranny.
TO the Editor Of The Star:
Senator Tydings hit the nail squarely
on the head. The whole attempt of the
New Deal administration" has been
directed to the end of de-federalizing the
Union and substituting an amalgamated
state under the dominion Of a personal
ruler, erroneously styled an executive"
and to whom the courts would be wholly
subordinate.
In other words they set out to nullify
the fruits Of Magma Charta, the Revolu-
ton OF 1888 In England, and Of the Revo-
lutionary War Of 177e-17s3 in America,
induced by just the sort Of thing which
they have attempted to foist upon this
country (thus established) 20 that their
planning" might proceed unimpeded.
HARRISON TuGfMAN.
Easton. Md. ....
| March q.
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Private Business Urged to
Employ w. p. A. Workers.

Employ w. p. A. Workers.
To the Editor Of The Star:
The contemplated reductions in the
number of workers. on the rolls of the
Works Progress administration would
open up a reservoir of qualified labor
which should not be overlooked in in
creasing employment in private enter
prises during the current seasonal busi-
ness upsurge.
Workers on projects Of the w. p. A.
have kept apace with chronological ad-
vances in their respective trades, skills
and professions. Under competent super
vision these workers have gained added
knowledge and . wealth Of practical ex-
perience on the vast range Of work-relief
projects for which they qualified and
to which they were assigned.
These workers have built roads, streets,
highways, parks, Fairgrounds and public
buildings. They have built water and
sewer systems, and airports. They have
advanced the level of public health and
sanitation through professional and serv-
ice projects. These workers have con-
served waterways, mineral deposits, for
ests and soil. They have transformed
swamps and disease-breeding basins into
useful, hlled-in land; historic shrines
have been restored because of their work.
They have made clothing for distribution
to persons less fortunate than they. Be-
cause Of the w. P. A. projects which cre-
ated necessary work, they have raised the
level of education, pointed the way to
wholesome use Of leisure, contributed to
the advance Of sciences and the arts.
They have evaluated business trends and
charted the economic, social and civic
implications Of our present urban and
rural life.
Workers on projects Of the w. p. A.
have done all these things and more as
they held fast to a personal pride nee
essary to the morale of all workers.
These workers have neither rested nor
rusted on their laurels as qualified work.
ers, but have applied their knowledge
with the hope that by their good work
they would ultimately gain employment
in private industry.
A recent announcement of Col. F. G.
Harrington, administrator Of the w. p.
A.. states that more than $500 600, 900
worth Of orders were placed in private
industrial channels through the purchase
of building materials, equipment and
supplies for the w. P. A. projects in
three and one-haH years, ending De-
cember 81, 1898. Private industry
has also benefited from the average
monthly wage Of $52.50 paid the
some 100000 workers reported on the
rolls Of the w. p. A. as Of February l,
1899. These are by-products Of an en-
ployment program which provided q
source of living and respectability for the
average four and three-tenths persons
dependent upon the wages of the w. p.
A. project workers.
With the same scientific planning by
which the w. p. A. projects were tniti-
ated to prevent competition with private
business and industrial enterprises, heads
of these enterprises could well employ
these workers who now return fresh from
the proving ground Of . laudable Gov
ernment employment program.
March 13. DUTTON FERGUSON.
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Sixty-Hour Week

When the life of nation is in the
balance it becomes necessary to take
steps which would be intolerable un-
der normal conditions.
Inauguration Of the sixty-hour
week in French railway, mining and
other industries falls in the category
Of such expedients, for 1t wipes out
q lot Of the achievement Of French
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Public Dollars and tho
Wagner Act Discussed.

To the Editor OF The Star:
The trouble with the Wagner Act, to
put it bluntly, is that 1t has no basis in
common sense. Common sense forbids
that we try to make thing created
greater than its creator, and hired labor
is created by the hiring dollar and moth
ing else. Neither labor in its broad
sense, nor capital In its broad sense, can
possibly control these hiring dollars,
which originate With the consumer only.
II ~ "nsvG mind the why's and
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Saws Uncle Eben.

Says UnCle Eden.
When de songbird chirps and hollers
On q sunny day,
I don't want no million dollars
Fob to make me gay.
Lemme go out whah de trees is
OATS whah comforts found,
Listen to de whisperin' breezes;
les Q 1oolin' round.
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Hockey.

Now doth the season come to terms
With all that heart could wish.
The ground is full o. f1shin' worms:
The river full o. fish.
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Some Satisfaction.

"A life of temperance and elf-denial
tends to promote cheerful conversation" :"
said the philosopher.
II suppose it does," answered Mr..
Dustin Stax. 1T may disappoint your
stomach some, but 1t will keep your ply
sician from talking to you about your
liver"
Evening star., 1939-03-23

Every father believes his own son to
be the smartest boy on earth," said HI
Ho, the sage of Chinatown. He re-
CARDS such circumstance as simple
manifestation of the law Of heredity."
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Success,

"Has that retiring official had what
you would call successful career?"
II couldn't express an opinion" an
swered Senator Sorghum. II have no
means Of knowing anything about his
personal investments or his bank
account"
Evening star., 1939-03-23
Tho Victim.

Behold q prisoner sad and bent,
A victim Of laws fury,
OF any crime he's innocent.
They've got him on the Jury.
Evening star., 1939-03-23
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the ground in three old whiskey
TASKS, was dug up last week
somewhere along the Glacier
Highway" by two Juneau men.
The gold, which weighs slightly
over five pounds in all, was found
by accident when pick welded by
one of the young men, aged %,
struck one of the TASKS and broke
it, splitting the rusty red treasure
out into the dirt.
Two more bottles we're found be-
side the first, the spilled gold
being scooped up carefully and
later washed out in a pan.
In Old F1asks
F'lasks in which the gold was
found were of the old, old type
which haven't held liquor in these
parts for 40 years or more. The
corks we're mouldy and black, but