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Evening star., 1939-04-17
Enforcing Safety

With six weeks of experience be-
hind them, Washingtonians at last
are getting graphic and none too
drastic example of the operation of
pedestrian traffic regulations. With
police officers ordered to "crack
down." and more than a score of
arrests made Friday and Saturday,
the demonstration should have the
desired effect of correcting the mis-
taken belief of a few citizens that
they need not obey these rules for
the common good.
The demand for regulation Of
pedestrians for their own safety, and
of motorists for the protection of
those crossing intersections prop
erly, is based on no mere theoretical,
illusory premise. The first months
operation of the rules demonstrated
definitely one of the wrongs which
has beset Washingtons traffic. In
that one month the number of acci-
dents was reduced by more than a
hundred, as compared with the same
period of last year. The experience
has been the same elsewhere: Rhode
Island, Connecticut and Maryland
are among States where more recent
studies have shown the need for
furthering the protection of walkers
Studies in these States indicate most
accidents involve pedestrians and
that most pedestrians injured and
killed were those without driving ex-
perience, who apparently were not
fully cognizant of the dangers of
streets and highways.
Washington police are making a
sincere effort to make the streets of
the city safer. Many motorists and
most pedestrians are making just as
sincere an attempt to abide by rules
which they recognize as designed, not
to regiment them, but to save lives.
That a relatively few citizens feel
the regulations are unimportant,
foolish or unduly restrictive is re-
grettable. The inconvenience and
expense to which they are put
through receiving traffic tickets or
being taken to the police station in
patrol wagons may inspire sense of
persecution. But all should remem-
ber this: Scientific study of traffic
problems is very modern. New solu-
tions still must be found for the dan
ger factors. The best information
available to planning and enforce
ment officials has furnished the
background for Washington's present
pedestrian regulations. 1t would be
far better, if more reasonable meth
ods are known, to suggest their adop-
ton, but to continue observance of
the present rules until such changes
are made.
Evening star., 1939-04-17

artillery, planes and ammunition,
which could be brought up imme-
diately to resist aggression at the
point and at the moment that it is
made.
That promise of immediate mil
itary assistance to defend their
territory would weigh heavily
with the small members of the bloc
when the time comes to convert
these various temporary bilateral
agreements and unilateral declara-
tions into a solid multilateral pact
which will give added meaning to
the term collective security
The bonds of the emerging bloc
are taking shape, but they are still
tenuous and under constant pressure,
as Hitler's recently renewed demands
on n.Poland demonstrate Russia's de-
cision now to lend it's power for re-
sistance to the axis might stiffen the
resolution of the small states-who
stand to lose most-to defy Hitler's
and Mussolini's threats of retaliation
if they join the Anglo French coali-
ton.
Evening star., 1939-04-17
Waits of q City

They are truly waits of a city, those
two-Score young inmates of the Re-
ceiving Home for Children down in
Southeast Washington. Waits, as a
rule, are apt to receive Scant atten-
ton from the busy thousands outside
the four walls of their place of de-
tention, and the children of the drab
institution to which the Nations
Capital has applied the misnomer
home" are no exceptions to the rule.
Once more these unfortunate chill
dren have been overlooked in the
congressional program of new con-
struction for the municipality. The
House Subcommittee on District Ap-
preparations recommended funds
sufficient only to enable the "home"
to carry on in its present woefully in
adequate building-a small apart
ment house rented from private in
terests.
1t is the consensus of all who have
Inspected the quarters now occupied
by the Receiving Home that some
thing ought to be done" Last year
the House committee was so shocked
by the congested, antiquated and
generally unsatisfactory facilities
there that abandonment of the build
ing was proposed-but no funds were
provided for new structure, the
committee apparently believing it
it would be feasible to combine the
Receiving Home and the Women's
Bureau in the old Police Court build
ing. Such a move proved to be
wholly impracticable, however, and
eventually deficiency appropriation
was made to continue the home in
the converted apartment building.
The Receiving Home is not only a
place of detention for wayward boys
and girls who run afoul of the law,
but is a temporary refuge for inno-
cent young victims of marital dis
cord, eviction proceedings and other
home-Wrecking factors. Children
from one to eighteen years of age of
all colors and races are cared for
under the same roof. when we have
large number" an official of the
home testified at the recent hearings,
they are huddled pretty closely to-
gether." The only recreational space
is paved courtyard. Sanitary equip
ment is inadequate. Some of the in
mates are diseased, yet segregation
and clinical facilities are lacking.
Surely there must be some place in
the improvement program of a great
city like Washington for a Receiving
Home really worthy of the name.
Evening star., 1939-04-17
Agricultural DebucIe

The sad plight of American agri-
culture was clearly exemplified in
the case of one Bean Lawrence who
visited a farm last fall and acci-
dentally dropped a wallet containing
hundred dollars, which was plowed
under. All winter long it lay under
ground. Mr.. Bean had hoped that
with the coming of warm weather
the bills would germinate, so he kent
looking over the ground for tender
little shoots of long green, which, #
observed, would unquestionably revo-
lutionize agriculture. AT length,
after heavy rain, he found a total
OF forty-five dollars Mr.. Bean re-
luctantly came to the conclusion that
no money could be made tina, way,
and attributed the loss to erosion,
with an alternative theory that with
the removal of the gold content some
years ago, the dollar is now too de-
vitalHed to sprout.
Many city dwellers are at this mo-
ment infected with a form of spring
fever urging them to turn rural and
buy farms. They are strongly ad-
vised to study the Bean case, and
then 60 out into the back yard and
assuage their agricultural yearnings
by planting radish. The overhead
on radish is very reasonable, ard
the upkeep is negligible. Further
more, the planter knows what will
come up, if anything does, which is
lot more than can be said of most
amateur farmers. Many an agricul-
turist who has planted wheat and
corn in spirit Of optimism, only to
reap later on vigorous and unmar-
ketable crop of bills, mortgages,
sheriff's attachments and bank debts,
would be more than glad to drop his
hot potato and exchange it for a
backyard vegetable.
Evening star., 1939-04-17
Patriot Takes Issue
With j. D. Mason.
To the Editor OF The Star:

TO the Editor Of The Star:
j. D. Mason's article of April 3, pub
hshed yesterday, would have his readers
believe that he merely wished to express
his mild conviction that Nazified Ger
many should be permitted to go on and
'on plundering and robbing less strong
European countries.
But, his entire article, thoughtfully
analyzed, brands him as a full-fledged
Nazifled He'll Hitler American, If Amer
ican he may be. Even now-after the
United States has declared for Great
Britain and against Nazi Germany on
the question of impending European war,
j. D. Mason is panning John Bull and
defending Nazi Germany.
j. D. Mason states patriotic member
ships with which am identified feel as
I do" All right, you have asked for it.
Here is an opportunity to cover yourself
with glory. Kindly publish complete
list of those patriotic memberships with
which you are identified" All Washing
tonians would like to see your list.
April II. MAY KLINE.
Evening star., 1939-04-17

Ing been. In the grabbing game many
years ahead of them. We heard much
about Germany going into Belgium in
1914, but very little about Great Britain
gong into Greece shortly thereafter, the
chief difference being that the Belgians
fought and the Greeks didn't.
To summarize: No European nation
taxes sides for purely idealistic or al
1rulstlc motives. There is always
selfish purpose. We are the worlds prize
suckers when it comes to fighting the
battles of others under the fiction of
making the world safe for democracy.
we refused to share in the spoils of war
asking only that reasonable part of the
war debt be paid. The victorious allies
became greedy defaulters. They used
the money in part to build up arma-
ments when the central powers had no
armaments and who continued to lose
territory for years after the war to other
grabbing neighbors. Poland, for ex-
ample disregarded the plebiscite in 1921
and proceeded to appropriate parts of
Germany peopled principally by Ger
mans. Perhaps the Germans haven't for
gotten what happened when they were
helpless. Perhaps the Italians haven't
forgotten the broken promises of the
allies regarding reward for Italys partic-
lpatlon in the World War. Certainly we
haven't forgotten those rows of crosses
nor those veterans whose lives are
broken.
Now the magic word is to "stop Hitler"
certainly Hitler should be stopped. so
should Italy, France, Russia, Japan and
certainly England. They all ought to be
stopped, but let's leave the stopping to
some other sucker. Let's stop making
other countries safe for this and that.
Let's stop stopping Hitler and let's stop
mlnding other peoples business.
Let's have a navy and a naval ayia-
ton that can keep the greedy from our
hemisphere, our shores and our sphere
OF influence. Let the Old World dog
night its own battles. Our ancestors
mad good reasons and good Judgment
Tor leaving the entire sordid mess and
Tor staying away and saying, mo foreign
entanglements." J. C. AIKEN
Arlington, Va.
April ID.
Evening star., 1939-04-17

believe that the co-!ncident measures
are disconnected.
At first blush, the impression arises
that the administration desires to
assure Germany and Italy that this
country does not wish them to mis-
conStrue the concentration of Ameri-
can sea power in the North Atlantic
as any indication of our association
with current European efforts to es-
tablish a non-aggression coalition.
An equally plausible Interpretation is
desire to offset the naval position
of the Berlin Rome Toxic axis in the
event of European war. With the Brit
ish and French fleets concentrating
upon the Mediterranean-Where Ger
man Squadrons are about to hold
maneuvers in Spanish waters within
striking distance of Gibraltar-the
japanese are likely to feel free in the
Pacific. Their recent seizure of the
Spratly Islands, a tiny group stra-
logically situated near British Hong
Kong, French Indo-C China, the Dutch
East Indies and the Philippines, sug-
gests that the Toxic end of the ''anti-
Comintern" triumvirate, true to
form, is alive to opportunities in the
Far East while Europe-especially
the Western democracies-is alb
sorbed in events nearer home. Re-
turn of the United States Fleet from
the Atlantic will tend to show Japan
that Washington has an eye on the
Pacific and to certain extent is
ready to relieve Anglo-French fears
respecting the Far East.
In his communication to Hitler and
Mussolini, President Roosevelt OBJ
served that America speaks not
through selfshness or fear or weak
ness" In returning the fleet to it's
normal operating areas in the Pa
cific," there is neither intent to with
draw from potential danger nor
to offer threat in any direction
Evening star., 1939-04-17

good thing. They train the young ones
to take advantage of such opportuni-
ties as come their way. This is good
training for bird or man.
Feeding operations need not be on the
same scale as during cold weather. There
Is, of course, no need for it, but small
station, kept reasonably we'll supplied,
will draw number of birds. 1t is not
beyond reason to feel that songsters
which eat seed and grain all winter will
work up rather liking for it, and con-
tinue to sample it in summer, even with
insects worms and grubs to draw on.
Some may think, on the other hand,
that with the return of fresh food, the
birds would pay no further attention
to dry fodder.
The opposite is the truth. As long as
the familiar supply of food is there,
blrds Will go to it. No sensitive person,
however, need feel that they will lose,
thereby, their natural abilities to find
1000 'on their own" The latter is truly
God-glVen; no animal forgets it. Even
pampered house cats are quick to re-
adjust themselves to wild life if neces-
sity demands
Birds in the open cannot lose any of
their faculties which they need in the
preservation of life.
If at times they seem to build their
nests rather losely, as does the cardinal
or carelessly, as does the robin, this must
be set down as part of their own proper
business.
Some eggs, and some youngsters, NAV
be lost, but in the end there is a gain
This seems to be all that Nature requires.
Persons who like both birds and cats
will find themselves rather perplexed at
nest-building time
While they will feel rather sure of
the good behavior of most of their furred
friends, they will find that in almost
every nelghborhood there will be at least
one animal which is a bad bird cat.
That is, 1t seems to have unusually
heightened powers to detect young birds
in the nest.
The sensible way of handling this
problem is to watch out for the particular
cat, and give him a good dose of cold
water every time he comes near the nest
Just before dark is a favorite time
for tWittering in the nest. This lures
predatory cat. He should be guarded
against particularly at this time.
In the main, the birds are able to
take care OF themselves. They have
been doing it for centuries. The human
Who at some time in his life, becomes
interested in the birds, should remind
himself Of this, and not allow himself
to be irritated past common sense bv
factors which are not exactly to his
hKlhg. Nature is not always nice" in
our civilized phrase; indeed, civilization
IS not always nice, as far as that goes
conservation has protected songbirds
more from man than from animals
Evening star., 1939-04-17
Believes We Should
"StOp Stopping Hitler"
the Editor of The Star.

Az tuC GuitOI Va Lie 0tdI.
Each newspaper carries such phrases
as the western Democracies" and stop
Hitler" An examination of the facts
shows that the so-called democracies are
not very democratic. England is ruled
by class and maintains social aris-
tocracy the like of which has no parallel
in history. To attain any prominence
one must be of noble birth or the gradu-
ate of a certain school The highly GEN.
tralized government of France, where
even school teachers are appointed by
the government, is not the American idea
of democracy.
That these so-called democracies hap
pen to be allies is more of coincidence
than an underlying reason for their al
lance, both being anxious to make
friends with the most autocratic and
despicable of all governments-that of
Soviet Russia. Great Britain has con-
sistently followed certain policies for
centuries; one was to oppose any Euro
pean nation which was becoming too
strong competitor in the markets of
the world or too powerful. Another was
to promote the best interests of Great
Britain by diplomacy or cannon. This
included obtaining over .one-fourth of
the world and, not being satisfied with
that, the British Empire gained the
lions share of the German-mandated
colonies, much of the former Turkish
Empire and less recently the control of
Egypt, Persia and the Boer Republic.
The history Of the British Empire reads
much like that of the Roman Empire
the conquest and exploitation of smaller
nations. That history showed only one
major setback, namely, when the Thir-
teen Colonies won their independence.
Germany and Italy attained national
ism too late to get in on much OF the
colonial spoils, England and France hav-
Evening star., 1939-04-17
Pedestrian Resents
Police DiscOurtesy.
To the Editor of The Sta

To the Editor of The Star:
AS Washington taxpayer, wish to
protest against the altogether inexcus-
able discourtesy of certain local traffic
"cops"
Recently, started across Eleventh and
G streets on the green light which sud-
denly changed. Having the right of way
I took some three or four extra steps
to the middle of the intersection and
was greeted by the loud and uncouth
utterance: "You haven't as much respect
Tor policeman as you have for the dirt
under your feet" To that choice remark
1 was tempted to reply that I had the
utmost respect for our law enforcers, but
certainly not for himself after a re-
mark reeking with dirt. reminded him
that had the right of way and had mis-
interpreted his signal. More growls!
I am aware that traffic officers have
much to contend with, but this does not
excuse uncalled-for rudeness.
The men on our police force that adopt
such roughneck policies should be se-
verely reprimanded.
PATIENT PEDESTRIAN.
April u.