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Evening star., 1939-11-29
Perfumed Press

Those who complain that journal
ism has failed to advance with the
times should consider the case Of
the Daily Nebraskan, student paper
of the University of Nebraska. This
periodical is not stagnant; it is fra
grant. The staff, faced with the task
of getting out a fashion edition,
added touch of realism by concoct-
ing a mixture of perfume and rose
water to spray on each copy as 1t
came off the press. In order to hold
the herman subscribers it was also
decided at an editorial conference
to include dash of rum; and when
this was done and it appeared on
the campus, the entire edition be-
came the first and only genuine
three-scent paper in the country
Other publishers are waiting to see
what happens. Will advertisers turn
up their noses and sniff at the Daily
Nebraskan, claiming that confiden-
TALLY it smells, or will they take a
chance and try out four column,
three-odor cuts appealing to the
eyes, pocketbooks and nostrils of the
buying public? Will late-working
employees of the paper, arriving home
around dawn, get away with it when
they tell their wives that that was
no lady they were out with last night,
it was the 'verbena edition? These
and other peculiar problems must be
painstakingly pondered before pru-
dent publishers will lay themselves
open to a charge of fragrancy.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
OId-Age Pensions

Senator Harrison's prediction OF
strong congressional support for an
increase in the Government contri-
button to the States for old-age pen
sions is not encouraging in view OF
the condition of Federal finances.
The chairman of the Senate FL
nance Committee indicates favor for
the Senate plan of the last session,
under which the Government con-
tribution would be at a two-to-one
ratio for the first fifteen dollars in
benefits He believes the lower in
come States are not able to increase
materially their share of the pay
ments, but that if the Federal grant
were raised to ten dollars for the
States five dollars, it would be posi-
BILE to establish a fifteen dollar
monthly minimum in all States. At
present, the Federal Government and
the States contribute equally to old
age pensions, but while the Federal
Government will match grants up to
twenty dollars monthly, no States
meet that figure and less than half
dozen approach it, the national
average for pensions being nineteen
dollars and forty-two cents.
Senator Harrison puts the cost of
his plan at $35,O0OOOO annually; op-
ponents at the last session said it
might run as high as $12O,0O0,00O
But whatever the figure, Congress
should move slowly in increasing
the cost of the welfare program.
Liberalizing amendments that will
call for huge outlay already have
been added to the Social Security
Act, one feature alone, the revised
old-age insurance program which
goes into effect on January /, being
expected to entail annual payments
by 1855 that will exceed the net tax
receipts which then will approximate
two billion dollars and constitute a
six per cent tax on the Nations pay
roll, borne equally by employer and
employe.
These amendments, adopted after
long study, were recognized as
move by the administration to head
off the unsound pension schemes
whose advocates were besieging Con-
gress, but if Senator Harrison has
appraised the present situation cor
rectly, they were not enough.
Undoubtedly there will be other
proposals also advanced for widen
ing the benefits of the Social Secur-
ity Act, but with the country already
facing additional taxes to finance
defense, this is a burden that should
not be imposed
Evening star., 1939-11-29

his seed bills going up, and his better
birds going down.
If he is person with adequate sense
of nature, he will not take stern
measures against pigeons.
He will understand that he who puts
out free lunch must not complain at
the guests which come.
r. X \
At the same time, he will wish that
something could be done about those
pigeons!
He may attempt to devise some sort
Of covering which will keep them out
but permit smaller and more desirable
birds to get in.
Perhaps the most successful Of such
devices is the most simple.
1t is wire trash basket, turned upside
down on stump.
The small eaters hop through the
wires, but the pigeons and squirrels are
kept out.
In many cases, however, the keeper
finds that he is unable to keep either
squirrels or pigeons away from the food
The more elaborate squirrel-proof feeder
he makes, the more likely he is to fail
In time, he comes to accept both the
rodents and the fat birds as part of the
garden scene in autumn and winter.
Then, one day, he suddenly discovers
that he no longer has pigeons.
This is somewhat astonishing.
He cannot figure it out.
Have they found a new feeding place?
Has harm come to them? Has their
owner shut them up?
When day after day passes, and still
no pigeons, the bird feeder comes to
feel that they are gone for good.
How much better the feeder picture
looks to him!
There are more birds at the station,
too, which is the best part of it.
Then one day, he hears a familiar
gurgling sound at the caves.
Shortly, there is gray blue whirl in
the air. and down comes
The leader Of the old pigeon gang,
sure enough, lighting with all the grace
OF these clumsy waddlers on land.
On the earth, pigeons are anything
but graceful, with their uneven gait,
and wagging head at each step.
In the air, they fly as swiftly and
cleanly as any bird, winging their way
straight as an arrow to their goal.
When 1t comes to circling, they are
in class by themselves.
Those who have pigeons at their
feeding stations, and have decided to
put up with them, might as we'll take
real interest in them, and especially
note the large circles they make in
coming to earth.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
True or False

In another column of The Star
today appears news report Of an
address, delivered yesterday to the
American public by Finland's Min
lister to the United States. The Rus
sian Ambassador had been invited to
speak on the same program, to ex-
plain to America his governments
version of the current crisis between
Finland and Russia. He failed, quite
possibly for reasons from which no
unfavorable implications should be
drawn, to avail himself of the in.
vitation. The Minister from Finland
spoke. And The Star has this COM
ment to make upon his speech:
The American public has listened,
attentively, to innumerable ad-
dresses made to the end OF influence
ing it's sympathies since the German
juggernaut rolled into Poland. Shrill
and strident, calm and cogent, eff
fective or ineffective-the air waves
have faithfully served those who re-
sorted to their use to mold world
opinion. And out of the welter of all
this frank special pleading no
speech delivered to date, has been
so convincing as to its unembellished
honesty as that spoken last night by
the Finnish Minister.
Truth rang clarion through the
brief moments one listened. Even
before he spoke, the American pub
lie had little doubt as to the absurdity
of the claim by Moscow that the
current crisis was of Finnish making.
Having heard this speech-simple,
undismayed, and observation-disclosures
can be no doubt but that any Amer.
lean will henceforth regard such a
claim as a preposterous affront to
his native intelligence.
Finland, it was made crystal clear,
wants peace and honor. Just what
does Russia want?
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Sees Danger in Union
Contract Clause.

To the Editor of The Star:
Is the initiation balloon at last ready to
60 up? A report from New York states
that about dozen labor contracts have
been won by the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union containing
clause which automatically raises the
wages of that union when the cost of
living index rises by as much as per
centum This is highly significant news.
Food clothing and rent are the three
essentials controlling the cost of living
index. The Government, by increased
taxation, will certainly raise rents. Food
prices at the farm will not increase but
the organized food handlers, haulers, etc,
in the cities will raise the cost to con-
Sumers This will raise the cost of living
index and automatically raise the wages
OF garment workers. The raise of the
garment workers raises the cost of cloth
ing, thus shooting upward once more the
cost of living index
The I. l.. G. w. union is in position
to raise and re-raise its wages automatic
ally through this control of the cost of
living index. The alarming thing about
this automatic raise" clause is that in
the eight European countries where the
labor unions won it during the past 81
years, not one escaped civil war Or die
tatorship. The unions raised and re-
raised against one another until economic
chaos occurred-and then, the newt
able dictatorship!
CORLEY PERRY McDARMENT.
November 26.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
A Lesson Learned

The National Radio Forum address
of Assistant Secretary of State Henry
F. Grady Monday night revealed the
thoroughness with which American
statesmen and business leaders have
learned the great lesson of the war
of 19l4-1918-that war is false
foundation upon which to expand
American industry.
What. misery might the United
States have been spared, what de-
pressions, unemployment and hu-
man suffering if that lesson could
have been learned early In the last
war. before expansion became so ex-
tensive that the reaction of hard
times when the war was over became
inevitable?
Recognizing the undoubted oppor-
tunities for increased trade which
accrue to neutrals in time of war
trade not only with belligerents but
with other neutrals whose markets
and sources of supply are cut off
Mr.. Grady urged American business
to be cautious but ready to i'm
prove outlets for American products
wherever that can be done by means
Of the reciprocal trade program.
Far from granting that the war in
Europe represents a material setback
to the aims and accomplishments of
the reciprocal trade program, Mr.
Grady projected for Americas trade
expansion policy new tasks, new
fields to be won, new contributions to
make to the welfare of the world
when the time comes to revive
healthy international economic order
At the moment, and strictly for the
benefit of the United States, the
program can serve, and is being
made to serve, the expansion of
American trade on sound basis
the mutual elimination of trade bar
riers between nations.
For the future, and for the benefit
of all nations, the program offers a
basis on which a healthy economic
order may be re-established in Eu-
rope, torn as it has been ever since
1918 by suspicious, fears of aggres-
sion, drives for -sufflciency, and
general elevation of barriers against
economic ties which would result in
foreign economic dependence.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Give Thanks

There are words too oft misused-
Love is one;
Words by tainted lips abused
God is one
Words that man should never hear
Till their full intent Is clear.
There are gifts by some refused
Peace is one;
Passions, blind, that are excused
Hate is one
Fear nor greed should e'er beguile
Things that make our lives worthwhile
There are words too much unused
Thanks is one:
Good intentions lost, diffused-
Give Is one
Thanks is crest OF Nobleman,
Send 1t, give it while you cani
ERWIN r. eTOKEA
Evening star., 1939-11-29
New Technique Of War

The evolution of the art OF war has
not reached it's apex. Perhaps with
in the next few weeks a new tech
nique of offense, if not a hitherto
unknown defensive strategy, may be
announced to a world already ter
rorized by systematic slaughter. Brit
ish naval authorities have declared
that they already know the secret
of the so-called magnetic mine with
which Germany recently has wrought
such havoc. It Is logical to suppose,
then, that they have begun work on
the answer to this latest challenge to
British control of the seas.
Camilla H. Wedgwood of Sydney
University, New South Wales, de-
clares that "the earliest missiles
which man or subman ever used
were the untrimmed stick or stone,
hand-thrown. To give greater force
and carrying power to stones, devices
such as the sling and the pellet-bow
have been constructed. The
stick thrown by hand has also be-
come a specialized weapon. AS an
object for piercing, it has developed
into the dart, javelin, spear and
arrow; as an object for stunning or
crushing, into the throwing stick
and throwing club" The sword, it
seems, is simply spear which is not
thrown or an equivalent of a sharp
ened stone which is retained in the
hand of the owner. Bullets, sprayed
from a machine gun, are merely i'm
proved varieties of stones such as
primitive savages employed in their
assaults upon other not Jess civilized
savages.
Modern armor likewise traces
back to shields made of leather or
wood stretched over a basketry
frame. The genius who first went
into battle so equipped to resist at
tack must have been a mighty con-
queror-at least until his foes imi-
tated his invention to their own
advantage. William Jennings Bryan
once explained to an audience In
Carnegie Hall, New York, how the
same engineers who designed "im-
penetrable" steel coverings for war
ships, on request would undertake
to create shells which would pene-
trate those same projections. Arnold
Won Winkelried discovered the way
to demolish the Macedonian phalanx,
the French and Indians IN Western
Pennsylvania taught General Brad
dock the foolhardiness Of scarlet
uniforms on parade In the wilderness,
John Ericsson devised the Monitor to
Evening star., 1939-11-29
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Tracepell.

What had become of the pigeons at the
feeding station?
Nobody knew.
In contrast to the general increase In
these birds in the city, the pigeon popu-
lation at one feeder had fallen off to the
famous exactly nothing"
Those who formerly had decried the
daily presence Of the birds, now found
themselves wondering where they were.
Had harm come to them?
Pigeons are something Of a nuisance at
any well-conducted bird-feeding station.
Not only do they consume most Of the
food, but they insist on roosting upon
ones house.
Sometimes they even nest on window
sill.
While interesting natural history sub
jects, they are rather messy birds at such
close quarters.
All in all, they are best kept at some
distance, just as the starlings are.
Presence of half a dozen or more pig
cons at feeder runs up the seed bill
amazingly, too
Even If cracked corn is used the feeder
bill is increased largely over what it
would be without pigeons.
The worst part of it is that often the
kind-hearted person who caters to his
aerial friends believes that he is simply
feeding somebody else's pet. birds.
Whether this Is so or not is anybody's
guess nowadays. The increase in WASH
ingtons pigeon population has been
steady, particularly in recent years.
There was time, 10 yearsor so ago. when
there were only few hundred wild pig
cons in the city. but now there are
thousands.
These birds are wild only in the sense
that they have no particular owners.
Outside that. they are just the same as
most collectors birds. we mean the ordi-
nary run Of kept pigeons.
Being on their own has made them
very sensitive to the location of possible
foodstuffs
That is how and why they find feed
ing station, usually, not long after it is
established.
Their arrival is dark day for the per-
son who Is interested in the smaller birds
Pigeons do not, of course, chase chicka-
dees and titmice away.
1t is merely their bodily presence, liter
ally hogging the station, which keeps the
slighter birds off, or at least tends to
keep them away.
When to the big flyers are added from
two to six squirrels. in almost any sub
urban district, the keeper suddenly finds
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Urges Support of
Our Democracy.
DSAAAVSA oNys
To the Editor of The Star:

AZ tue GuiloI VI 1 ne olaI.
can't resist expounding on the glories
of this wonderful country of ours, espe-
cially when I read of the terrible things
that are going on abroad There is one
thing, however, that I cannot under
stand, and that is why such organizations
as the German Rund and the c. !. o. are
tolerated by those who have the interest
OF our country at heart. Why do we per-
init these groups to spring up in this land
Of ours? True, we exhort on freedom of
action, freedom of the press and free
speech. but it seems to me that when
any person or organization threatens our
welfare it is time to take action.
OF course we have our poor. We al
ways have had and will probably always
have them. Even if all the wealth of
the country were distributed evenly to
each man, woman and child in the land
1t would not be long before the intelligent
would have the bulk of the wealth, and
there Is no way that this can be averted
where initiative is permitted. We have
the power to get the wealth back into
circulation through our democratic form
of government. If we are to continue to
be free country and one where each
and every individual can enjoy freedom
Of action we must preserve the freedom
that Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson
gave us. These men fought to obtain for
America the freedom it now enjoys. Let
no one take 1t from us. Now is the time
for all good true supporters of our demo-
cratic form Of government to come to the
aid Of this grand old United States OF
America. B. F. g.
November 20.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

Leof1ler's company is engaged in a
perfectly legitimate operation and
he has conducted his part of the
operation ehiciently-this part be-
ing the maintenance Of the courses,
in the formal language of the con-
tract, ito the satisfaction of the
Secretary of the Interior" and their
operation at a profit to himself and
a cash return to the Government.
But in The Stars opinion the pub
lie courses are not being maintained
nor improved as they should be in
the interests of the golfers. The fault
may not lie with Mr. Leoffler, but
with the system under which private
operation of public park facilities
works to the financial gain of the
Government and the operator, with
the public taking what 1t will put up
with. That Is true Of other con-
cessions in the parks. The recent
park report pointed to the actual
deterioration Of tennis courts-leased
to another concessionaire-und an
absurd statutory prohibition which
discourages if it does not actually
prevent turning back profits into
improvement and new construction.
The park report should, and The
Star believes 1t will, result in a new,
thorough study of the proper sys-
tenn for maintenance and operation
in the public interest of golf courses
and other recreational facilities in
the public parks.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Seven Per Cent

Citizens of Washington, it was
announced yesterday, have sub
scribed ninety-three per cent of the
million dollar budget of their
Community Chest. The seven per
cent still needed amounts to $133, 100
"a sum so small that there is ample
reason to believe that it will be
raised without great difficulty. It
represents the metaphoric salt in the
bread which is to sustain the CO.
operating agencies during 1910.
That salt, OF course, Is imperatively
required. Without it the minimum
services of the agencies would have
to be trimmed. Such contingency
is one which those familiar with the
demand cannot contemplate philo-
sophically. They know that there
can be no compromise with distress.
To fail in any part is, in effect, to
fail in all.
But the Nations Capital surely
will not withhold from the Chest the
funds for which it has asked With
complete victory in sight, the resi-
dents of the District of Columbia
certainly will agree that it must be
achieved. Campaign headquarters
at the Willard Hotel will remain
open until Monday. The Star sin
cerely hopes that by that "deadline"
the final seven per cent will have
been received. Considering the hu-
man values involved, it even dares
to appeal to it's readers to see to it
that the budget is oversubscribed.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

The former Kaiser has eleven
grandsons at the front. If they are
no more exposed to danger than were
their fathers and uncles back in
1914-1916, the old gentleman can
still muster a pretty good family
football team.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

The vast difference between quail
ity and quantity is brought strongly
home to Americans who view in the
newsreels our marvellous anti-air-
craft guns in action; then emerge
and buy newspaper which informs
them that our entire collection would
not protect one big city.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

Fascists have recently celebrated
the seventeenth anniversary of their
march on Rome. Their motto was,
when in Rome, Make the Romans
Do as You Do"
Evening star., 1939-11-29

combat the Merrimac at Hampton
Roads In 1852.
Only quarter century ago a block
ade could stop the Kaiser as it had
stopped Napoleon. Now 1t no longer
is completely effective. What will
take its place remains to be dis
closed. The historians of war are
waiting,
Evening star., 1939-11-29

Add American fables: Once there
was a sports broadcaster who said
simply baseball" instead of "the old
apple" and "the ball" instead of
"that football"
Evening star., 1939-11-29

these pronouncements and believe that
justice will be triumphant European
peace and stability will not be complete
if Ukraine is left in the Russian yoke.
November a. EUGENE SKOTZKO.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

Talk about preparedness: London
ers have removed to a place of safety
that famous metal statue of Eros,
whose bowstring got snapped of on
last Armistice night.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

If you can remember when making
an all-America football team really
meant something, then you are mid
dle-aged, my boy.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

Too often a glamour girl (never
forget that extra voweD eventually
turns out to be q Calamity Jane.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the Uriter, although the use OF
a pseudonyna for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1939-11-29

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rights Of publication Of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1939-11-29
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Evening star., 1939-12-06

See the Disney Gang Come to Life
With Mickey Mouse Horace Hore.Collar Snow White Pluto
and oil the Dwar in great mechanical window,
of St. 1h-shown by special permission of Walt
Disney Enterprises.
W1ch for Horace HoeCo our next page of this series
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-02
GERMANS FLAYED
BY YALE LEADER
Chas. Seymour Sees Dam
ger of Freedom Involved
in Nazi Victory

New Haven, Conn.,, Oct. 2-(UP)
"A German victory over Britain
and France would be disaster of
the first magnitude" TO: the United
States, Yale University President
Charles Seymour believed today.
A defeat for the Western demo-
cracies, President Seymour said in
a naturalization address, would Zeal
deadly blow to principles Of in
ternational morality upon which our
future peace inevitably depends"
I'VE would not view with any
comfort" he said, "a situation char
acterized by the predominance in
western Europe of victorious Nazi
government which has opened the
eastern gates of the continent to
the Russian flood of CcmmunIstic
imperialism"
Speaking of the presen. German
government, DR.. Seymour contin-
ued:
who shall place confidence in
this government?
Who shall say that we Amer
leans, thousands of miles away, are
not deeply disturbed by the moral
effect upon the world if such bad
faith should seem to be justified by
final victory?
"Not once but again and .gain i.
has pledged its word and within a
few months cynically torn up the
pledge"
There is" President Seymour
continued, great danger to the
principle of individual freedom in
volved in the possible victory of
Nazi Germany. There is even
greater danger to that principle
from within, from ourselves.
Let us be certain that in our alb
horrence of the dictators' mastery
Of mind and conscience abroad, we
do not impose an unofficial censor
ship at home. No matter how
fiercely the nations outside may
rage, in the university world no ma
tional lines will be drawn. That is
our responsibility"