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Evening star., 1939-01-18

various mixtures Of seeds usually labeled
wildbird food.
Feed bills become rather heavy If
feeding is kept up all day long all fall
and winter. Most birds eat chick feed
of it. If some sunflower seed Is mixed
with 1t, 1t makes an adequate ration.
For Christmas week we decided on real
bird seed and stocked a small feeder
with this mixture, leaving larger one
filled with chick feed.
That first day it was interesting to
watch the birds.
The little feeder did a land office busi-
ness. There were from to IL times
as many songsters eating real seed as
were at thee larger feeder filled with
cracked corn.
This preference was all the more
pointed since the two stations were
within few feet of each other in the
flower border beneath the rose vines.
y \
Speak Of the devil and he soon ap-
pears"
This was furry devil, however, and
no devil at ALL but a fine. specimen of
all-black squirrel.
He was the first one of this color ever
to appear in the neighborhood and
either came over from Rock Creek Park
or from the colony of them on the east
side OF Connecticut avenue Just south
of Chevy Chase Circle.
He came in from the west making q
fine picture against some evergreens at
the rear OF the yard.
Two gray squirrels already were at
the feeders, but when they saw the in
truder they left to investigate him.
"Ah! Here's a fight" came the
thought, but the moment the black fel-
low turned and looked at the gray ones
the latter fled for dear life, ascending a
tall tree.
The black squirrel did not follow, nor
did he discover the feeding stations. He
left the yard as he had come, apparently
going back to his home station
There have been few blue jays at the
feeders for several weeks. This is loss,
for there are few birds more beautiful
or interesting. We have not found them
| obnoxious to the other birds.
1t Is true that the smaller creatures
| fly into the vines at the blue jays ap-
| proach, but these big fellows are nat
ural roamers and never stay long They
are not very fond of either chick feed
or wildbird food, much preferring to fly
to the woods, where they not only find
edibles more to their liking, but where
no doubt, they have hidden choice NOR.
sells in crotches of trees against future
need. In this they are as wise a.
! squirrels and ants.
Evening star., 1939-01-18
The Mellon Gift

Perhaps no other citizen ever has
made so magnificent a gift to his
country as did the late Secretary of
the Treasury, Andrew w. Mellon,
The full wealth of his collection of
old masters definitely decided to the
National Gallery of Art, the palatial
home being built for them with the
funds he bequeathed, is now known
for the first time. Fra Angelica
Bellini, Botticelli, David, Ell Greco,
Gainsborough, Giotto, Goya, Frans
Halls, Holbein-just repetition Of the
alphabetical list carries the imagina-
ton to the highest peaks of mans
artistic genius.
The collection, combined with those
Of the other galleries here, makes
Washington one of the worlds great
art centers, place which may well
attract students and art lovers from
the other side of the Atlantic, as the
great galleries of Europe used to at
tract Americans in earlier days.
The painters were men of periods
and races. They depicted the soul
Of their times and of their peoples,
But beyond all this, or their works
would hardly have survived their own
funerals, they put into their pictures
in varying degrees something that is
universal and raceless and timeless
and indefinable. They caught it and
preserved it for all ages and all races.
Washington is proud to have been
entrusted with the high responsible
ity OF safeguarding this collection
and fervently hopes that many CEN
turies will elapse before it's capacity
for this responsibility can be ques-
toned. Mr. Mellon intended his gift
for the United States. Washington
is the custodian of it for the Nation.
But from it the people of this city,
living in immediate contact day after
day with the finest fruits of mans
genius, will obtain by far the greatest
advantage.
Mr.. Melons memory will always be
green in the city which he has so en-
riched by his munificence
Evening star., 1939-01-18
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdce1DeI.

Goldfnches, or wild canaries, usually
travel in small flocks, but there was Just
one on the locust tree that afternoon.
He saw a split open pod Of trumpet
vine seeds.
How was he to get to it?
One might think offhand that 1t
would have been the easiest task in the
world for bird.
He would just fly down
But he didn't.
He stepped over on long waving
branch of the vine. The pod was about
feet away.
The goldfinch began to slide toward
the pod.
He inched along, as the old phrase
has 1t.
Step by step he went along the branch
until at last he came to the pod.
1t was an interesting procedure, be-
cause an observer would have thought
he would have flown directly to the
pod.
Evidently the hitch hike OF his own
invention pleased him most.
X X
When the bird reached the pod he
nodded his head with satisfaction, then
dipped In his bill and extracted a seed.
There are millions of seeds waiting
the winter birds; these they find and
clear UP, If nothing better offers.
Birds OF the various species which
winter In the North and Middle Atlantic
States consume annually vast quantities
OF seeds, the greater bulk OF them weed
seeds. Thus they are an economic gain
to the country at large.
The wild canary, as it is sometimes
called, owing to the yellow on it, likes
best to fly with many companions.
They are more often seen hereabouts
in the autumn, when they alight in the
middle of the afternoon, usually, on the
nodding stems of annual flowers which
have. gone to seed.
They may be observed hereabouts
however, at all times of the fall and
winter and in early spring.
Few sights are more pleasing to the
friend OF birds than a band of these
little fellows eating the seeds OF the
dandelion.
AS light as the dandelion is, finch il
lighter. 1t can light on slender branch
without causing it to nod more than the
wind would make it do anyway.
* +*
We conducted an interesting little
experiment with bird foods at our feeder!
Christmas week
Up to this time we had been feeding
mixture widely known as chick feed
While birds eat 1t, they naturally prefer
Evening star., 1939-01-18
Quoddy's Resurrection

If conditions have changed greatly
since the summer of 1886, reason
may be found for the Presidents
resurrection of the Passamaquoddy
tidal power project and the Florida
ship canal. But unless there is
greater need for relief work, for
uninhibited spending to prime
pumps, for more electric power, or
for cheaper transportation, this is
hardly the time to call upon Congress
to throw itself into the renewal of
debate which was decided nearly two
years ago.
Before funds to continue the work
on the Quoddy project were refused,
some seven million dollars were
spent without actual construction of
the project itself having been started.
An almost identical sum, part of it
raised by the issuing of bonds by
Florida, was poured into the ship
canal, with the result that ditch
sixteen miles long, spanned by an
uncompleted bridge, was dug.
At the time the fate of these two
projects was being debated, less than
two years ago, the point was made
that if they were economically de-
fensible and feasible from an en-
gineering standpoint, their abandon
ment, in view Of the millions sunk
in them, would be a waste which
could not be condoned. But the
skepticism of the public, as well as
of Congress, as to their practicability
was demonstrated by the lack of
general protest when further ex-
penditures were refused. The only
complaints heard at that time, out
side the specific agencies interested,
came from Eastern Maine and from
Northern Florida.
There is little doubt that some day
either or both projects may be desir-
able and even necessary. At present
this has not been shown. The
military Importance of the projects,
limited at, remains to be demon
strated. If more work relief, or more
pump priming is needed, there are
Evening star., 1939-01-18
American Security

To gain any real security against
possibility of foreign attack, the
United States must be prepared to
prevent establishment of enemy
bases on land or water anywhere
within reach of our coasts, according
to Major General Frank NJ Andrews,
commanding general of the General
Headquarters Air Force.
Behind this theory of defense lies
the real reason for the giant long
range bombardment airplanes now
being acquired by the Army Air
Corps, General Andrews said. He
warned the Nation, however, that if
1t Is to gain security it must have
airplanes of these types in quantity.
The United States, he said, is a fifth
or sixth-rate air power today. The
G. H. @. Air Force, which is the entire
Army combat air force in the con-
tinental United States, he told the
National Aeronautic Association in
annual convention in st. Louis, now
numbers only slightly more than 400
modern combat airplanes. Germany,
by comparison, has force estimated
at from 1000 to 10000 airplanes.
General Andrews also warned his
countrymen that they cannot expect
much longer to count on the oceans
for security against hostile air at
>tackA. The ocean bulwarkS are
Evening star., 1939-01-18
Letters to The Star
Van Duzer Commends
Accident Diagrams.

To the ECltor OF The Star:
have noticed with great deal Of
interest the diagrams and comments
prepared by The Star in regard to traffic
fatalities in the District.
The publication of this information in
The Star should be of great value in
calling attention to the causes of motor
vehicle accidents. AS soon as people
find out the causes they will be inclined,
I think, to be more careful. The publica-
ton of this material in The Star should,
therefore, result in reducing the number
of accidents on the streets.
May I suggest that these diagrams and
comments be republished for each month
in The Sunday Star on the Sunday
following the end of each month? In
that way everybody will be able to study
them. w. A. VAN DUZER,
Director of Vehicles and Traffic.
January 16.
Evening star., 1939-01-18

shrinking rapidly and aeronautical
development will make OF the Atlantic
an English Channel, he explained.
The world is now on the threshold
of the period when military aircraft
will be able to span the ocean with
full military load and return to home
bases, and the United States should
be the first country to demonstrate
that this can be done.
Todays defense problem for the
United States is that of establishing
sphere of air influence around the
Western Hemisphere. TomorroW's
problem involves security against air
attack initiated from bases across the
ocean.
Obviously, this is a text for the con-
gressional national defense investi-
gators to consider.
Evening star., 1939-01-18
Newcomer Advocates
Pedestrian Control.
To the Editor Of The Star:

have recently come here from the
interested in watching traffic and its con-
troll, and most heartily agree with letter
in your column of December 81, signed,
"A Confirmed Pedestrian"
So far as I have been able to observe,
vehicular traffic is very obedient to con-
troll signals and the signals are we'll
worked out. But the pedestrian here
seems to belong to that class of people
who "do not believe in signs"
When am at home I am both driver
and pedestrian. AS a pedestrian, know
that the motor vehicle is here to stay in
ever-1ncreasing numbers, and we should
realize that these drivers have their
rights. When one pedestrian crosses a
busy intersection where there is no signal,
he should not expect vehicular traffic to
stop to let him cross. My work takes me,
twice day, across several uncontrolled
intersections in the vicinity of Capitol
Park, the Union Depot and the Post
Office. The first few times I crossed
was nearly frantic, but I soon discovered
tIldG NY uolll6 lIAy llcdU dllQ Watching 1OT
my chance to cross, I would be all right.
would rather watch for an opening and
get across whole" than insist on the
right of way, and go to the hospital or
the morgue. A lost minute or two is
of far less consequence than a lost life
or limb.
The driver is obliged, by law, to heed
signals or take the consequences. Is there
any reason why pedestrians should not
do the same? In the districts away from
the downtown section I'll admit that I
occasionally cross on red light, but only
when it is perfectly clear But I have
been amazed at the nonchalance with
which people step into traffic downtown,
on red light, and If there should be an
accident, of course the driver would be
blamed. Why does the pedestrian never
take any responsibility for his own safety?
He nearly always expects the other fellow
to look out for him. But my life is more
valuable to me than to some one else and
I expect to continue to look ont for
myself.
I say, Control the Pedestrian"
January Is. G. B. D.
Evening star., 1939-01-18

A movement is afoot to memorial
lie the late John Philip Sousa with
statue of the March King" clad In the
now old-fashioned high-collar uni
form and standing on a marble
podium in front of one hundred
and-seventy-foot marble triptych
background that shows his band in
bas-relief. Surely something more
esthetic would be devised, if only
some lovely graceful and simple de-
sign, with the first few bars of "The
Stars and Stripes Forever" incised
therein.
Evening star., 1939-01-18
Shooting Sturs
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The TOiler.

1t takes heap O. weekdays
To prepare for Sundays rest:
1t takes heap O. ripenin'
Till the fruit is at it's best;
1t takes heap O. practice
Till you learn to sing a song
A lot O. patience is required
To push this world along.
1t takes heap O. weather
Coin every kind O. way
Before we see the splendor
OF a truly perfect day.
An it often takes long sorrow
Ere you earn the right to smile,
But it sure is worth the waitin'
To be happy for while.
Evening star., 1939-01-18

other things the country still requires
which would more readily justify
their addition to the national deficit
There may be reasons why the
revival of these two rejected works is
being attempted. But it is not i'm
pertinent to ask for them.
Evening star., 1939-01-18

A prominent University of Chicago
research scientist declares that, con-
trary to widespread belief, crime
and insanity seldom go together"
Perhaps not on the scene of the
crime, but they seem to get pretty
close in the courtroom.
Evening star., 1939-01-18
The FIarehack,

My son, beware the cares that lurk
IN a dishonest furry.
A CRATER doesn't do much work
But how he has to worry.
Evening star., 1939-01-18

TO the Editor OF The StAf:
Kindly grant me space to quote, for the
benefit of Dan Romine and others who
may be interested, the following para
graph from Charles and Mary Boards
History of the United States: when
jackson took the oath OF Office on March
4, 1929, the Government Of the United
States entered into Q new era. -
Evening star., 1939-01-18
Experts All.

I'm the course of time," said the motor
enthusiast, Everybody will be an auto
mobile expert"
YES" answered the man who walks,
"those who can't run car themselves
will be expert dodgers
Evening star., 1939-01-18
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Evening star., 1939-01-18
Shameless.

There was once a political CRATER
Who met all rebukes with great laughter:
At grand juries he sneered
And in sin persevered
Just as if there were not q hereafter.
Evening star., 1939-01-18
In Training.

do those low-fying airplanes over
your house make you nervous?"
Yes" answered Farmer Corntossel,
II rekin' them aviators are trying to
drive everybody crazy so as they'll be
air minded"
Evening star., 1939-01-18
That Depends.

do you believe in the survival of the
fittest?"
Well" answered Senator Sorghum. II
suppose I am like most people in that
respect. My opinion depends good deal
on how fit happen to be feeling myself"
Evening star., 1939-01-18

Some folks" said Uncle Eben, "ex-
poets too much reform from de new year
when you considers de fack dat it's got
to do business Wit de same o. human
beings"
Evening star., 1939-01-18

II always laugh at Hi Hats stupid
Jokes" said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town. There is no reason why should
be impolite simply because he isn't
funny"
Evening star., 1939-01-18

no sense of guilt about having begun his
business adventure in the new land by
appropriating to his own uses money
which was not his own.
Duvid had been a farmer in Russia,
and his ambition was to buy land and
farm in America. Mississippi attracted
him because he had heard that it was a
cline where the snow never fell, where
there was abundant warmth and sun
shine and where the land yielded rich
harvests. So in New York he worked
and saved and longed for his wife and
children through years of hardship and
struggle until he had saved enough to
make his way to Mississippi and buy
farm.
When at last Duvid attained his goal
and was able to send for his family he
felt that forever after his cup of happi-
ness would overflow, but only his wife
seemed familiar when they arrived. His
children had outgrown him, and they
had ideas of their own about the things
they wanted to do in their adopted
country. He was pleased by their eager
ness to become thoroughly American, but
was overwhelmed by their haste in
changing their names and setting about
to realize their own ambitions. Most of
all, he was shocked by their cold-blooded
philosophy of realism and their lack of
the broad sense Of humanity which he
had expected them to have.
From this point the story goes on to
another phase of life for Duvid, life with
the family from which he had been sepa-
rated 50 long and for which he had
sacrificed 80 much. 1t is a story that
makes 4 sympathetic appeal
Evening star., 1939-01-18

In the House of Representatives in 1914
@. Please give biography of the Eng
lish aviatrix who was lost at sea in 49,
or 1929.-M. K. L.
A. Elsie Mackay, English aviatrix ana
actress, daughter Of Lord Inchcape, was
born in 1894. She married 1t. Dennis
Wyndham in 1917, subsequently appear
ing on the stage as Poppy Wyndham.
The marriage was annulled in 1921 AS
an aviatrix, she obtained the Royal Aero
Clubs certificate in 1922 On March IA,
1928, with Capt. Walter Hinchcliffe, she
took off from Cranwell Airdrome, Lin
colnshire, in an attempt to make a west
ward transatlantic flight. 1t is pre-
sumed that both flyers were lost at sea.
In July, 1928, her father gave $2,500,0 900
to the British nation In her memory.
@. Who first told the story Of George
Washington and his hatchet?-E. s. L.
A. Parson Weems, the first biographer
Of George Washington, was the writer.
who first told the story.
O. What royal family has ruled for the
longest period?-W. r. H.
A. The reigning family Of Japan. The
Emperor Of Japan traces his line back to
Jimmu, who assembled the throne in $50
B. C.
@. Has the Alabama system of giving q
two weeks Christmas parole to prisoners
been successful?-J. R. K.
A. Since the custom was established
in 1927 at Kilby Prison near Montgomery,
Of the 302S convicts paroled at Christmas
time al but s. have returned voluntarily.
Evening star., 1939-01-18
Jackson Held Originator

January II.
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80 YEARS AGO-lsos

The married men were winners
over the single men by a score of 9
TO 0 In the last baseball game.
Guy Story had returned home
from San Francisco, where he mad
6een attending business college.
Miss Cora Sercombe and Nellie
Brown visited in Horse Heaven Sum
day with Miss Browns parents.
In reply to the invitation sen. by
Geo. Richardson to President Taft
the president wired, Dear George
Your fervid petition received. Please
advise me street railway composed
4 am too fat to walk in the sand.
Taft.
The s. p. & s. railroad company
4 mad completed an industrial side
track 1000 feet in length. The in
crease of business due to the de-
velopment Of irrigation here had
made it necessary to increase the IA
cilities. ~ H..
Mrs. Thomas McKain left for
Roseburg. Oregon, where she was
visiting with a son and daughter
for two months.
The home occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs. H. E. Huntington was COM
pletely destroyed by fire was thought
to have been started from a for
maldehyde candle which was being
used upstairs for fumigation. ONLY
q Few household articles were saved
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Former Resident Here
Calls On Old Neighbol

RICHLAND-Arthur Anon, son
OF Howard Anon. donor of the local
Anon park, called on his old neigh
Dor, S M. Ross, for a short visit
Monday afternoon. Anon is a ma
tive of this district and resided
here many years. He is now pacific
ing law in New York City.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Ellington were
guests Friday evening at the home
of Mrs. Eudora Johnson in Finley.
Zearida LaFavour who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Ted Collins
for the past two weeks. returned to
her home at Baker Wednesday.
Shirley Dillon. Betty Kinney, June
Simpson, Kay and Mary Weir, re-
turned Monday from Rim Rock.
Mrs. Bentamine, Mary Carroll
Harding and Lauren Clark and Ped
Haase returned from Mountain Air
institute Monday.
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Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Anon will be pleased to know that
they have moved to Pasco and are
occupying house near the Triangle
service station at the end Of Bridge
street. Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle Simme-
link were visitors there Sunday, aft
er which they came to the hills to
shoot rabbits.
Mr.. and Mrs. jess willis and SON,
Richard, Of Reardon were Monday
visitors at the M. 6immelink home.
Mrs. Willis was the former Elsie Col
land, and she, with her parents,
were homesteaders in the Horse
Heaven Hills.
Mrs. Ellrie Stafford is q patient in
the Pasco hospital where she UNDER
went an operation on Wednesday.
The Neel brothers win finish their
harvest Thursday Of this week and
are the first ranchers to finish their
combine work this year.
Showing the very peculiar condi-
ton Of wheat crops in this area, Ted
Reese was forced to lay off combin-.
ing few days in order that his last
field Of spring grain would ripen
thoroly for threshing. In many 9TH
er places the spring wheat was cut
before the fall wheat.
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A. S. Mcintyre. who has been
visiting his parents at Palmer, Ida
no, returned Tuesday.
Clell Ashby spent Sunday with
home folks.
Mrs. j. r. Mcdonnell and daugh-
ter. Miss Nora Mcdonnell, and Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard Leigh and fam
lily Of Seattle, visited Mrs. Minnie
Ashby Monday.
Everett Moss IS hauling wheat for
William Thomas.
A number of families from here
attended the Nazarene Sunday
school picnic in Kennewick last Fri
day.
John Mccoy. who is sewing sacks
at the Edwards ranch IN Locust
Grove, spent the weekend at home.
MIR. and Mrs. Charles McFadden
spent several days at the home Of
his parents in Pasco last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mills and
family motored to Walla Walla Mon
Gay.
George Mcintyre IS working in
harvest on the Carl Deffenbaugh
ranch in Horse Heaven.
Reverend and Mrs. Hornibrook of
Sunnyside were overnight guests at
the ]. E. Cochran home Monday.
Lynn Mills was dinner guest at
the Everett Aman home in Kenne-
wick Sunday.