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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-12-29
Welcome Hall News


have been very busy with the num-
Der of parties being given by vari-
Gus groups to them. The tots of
nursery school age were given a
party Wednesday, Dec. goth, at
400 P. M. by a group from the
Y. w. C. A. About twenty-eight
tots took part in the singing of
Christmas Carols, and the playing
of games. Refreshments were
served and all were given gifts
from the group.
Dec. 21st another group of thir-
ty children were entertained at
party given for the Junior boys
and girls of the Center. A very
pleasant afternoon was spent play
ing games which all enjoyed.
Beautiful and useful gifts were dis
tributed to all the children, and
very delicious repast served.
The Annual Community Xmas
tree was held at the Center Sat-
urday at noon, and was well at
tended by about two hundred chill
dren and their parents. A short
program was presented after
which gifts, nuts, fruit and candy
were distributed by Santa"
We wish to thank our many
friends who helped to make this
year one of the merriest ever for
the children and adults of the Cen
ter. We wish for each and all
Happy and Prosperous New Year.
The Pageant presented by the
Pageantry group Monday, Dec.
18th, was largely attended despite
the inclement weather. A chorus
of twenty-eight children sang
familiar hymns and Christmas
Carols. The Stewardship group is
planning to sponsor another play,
which will be announced in the fu-
ture, at which time we hope to
have the same interest and en-
thusiasm as in the past. The
Stewardship Xmas party was en-
joyed immensely Thursday, Dec.
21st. Each member received a
book marker as a gift. An inter-
esting program was held and re-
freshments were served. At their
program Sunday, Dec. oath; Mrs.
M. Oliver was guest speaker, Mrs.
G. Edgar was guest soloist. The
Stewardship group is one of the
most wide awake groups in the
Center. 1t extends a cordial in
vitation to the public to attend any
of its meetings, which are held
each Thursday from pa P. M. and
at its Sunday programs each fourth
Sunday of the month.
The Young Matrons' Club spon-
sored a Baby Contest which closed
Dec. goth, with Babies Reasby,
Payne, Jones, and Blakey, con-
testants. Gayle Payne won first
prize, a beautiful baby quilt which
was made by the Young Matrons.
Mildred Reasby won second prize
which was a baby sweater. Arlee
Lorraine Blakey, third prize of a
baby. set of dishes. Geraldine
Jones also received a set of dishes.
This group purchased the beautiful
floor covering for the office at the
Center. We always welcome visi-
tors and new members to this club
The Adult Education class has a
very interesting meeting last
Thursday evening closing with a
Xmas party. Seventeen members
enjoyed this party. Mr.. Peter Mac
Farlane happened in the Center
and extended Merry Xmas to this
group of wide awake mothers.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-12-29

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Evening star., 1939-05-13
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
In Evidence Again.

In Evidence Again.
Who guided by ambitious dreams,
Inspired by hope that gayly CLEANS
For years keeps nursing cherished
schemes?
The Candidate
Who youths imposing reasoning quotes
And then wakes up and gravely notes
The sort of speech that gathers votes?
The Candidate
Who shouts for freedom as he should,
Yet makes it strongly understood
That delegates must all be good?
The Candidate
Who leads the music and the dance,
Who knows since he has weighed each
chance,
Results some six months in advance?
The Candidate.
And who successful vainly tries
His conscious triumph to disguise
And wear look of sweet surprise?
The Candidate.
Evening star., 1939-05-13
Replacing Schools

With fOrty-tWo school buildings
more than half century old now a
part of the public school system, the
question of replacement becomes
highly pertinent.
1t is heartening therefore to note
that Senator Overton, chairman of
the District Subcommittee of the Sem
ate Appropriation Committee, is in
full accord with school officials on
this point. Indeed, the whole sub
committee is planning to visit some
OF these ancient structures next week
in connection with their discussion of
proposals to add some S2,5OO,OOO to
the 1910 supply bill for requirements.
The case against the old buildings
shapes up in this way. In the first
place, they are small, eight-room
structures which, in the professional
opinion of the officers, are outmoded
as educational units The officers be-
lieve better educational program
could be made available in bigger.
more modern buildings. Some of
these smaller buildings are already
consolidated into administrative
units where this is feasible.
In the second place the small, old
buildings are expensive to operate
and maintain. They require separate
heating plants, for example, and
more personnel and equipment as
individual units than would single
larger building replacing two or
three of the old buildings.
Thus the replacement program
logically would appear more efficient
educationally and, in the long run,
more economical than the present
buildings. Yet it should be modestly
begun and gradually continued. To
add more than two million dollars to
the budget for this item alone in
single year would make reductions
necessary elsewhere, or increase the
difference between obligations and
revenue expectation. To appropriate
initial sums for number of buildings
would obligate future revenues to
complete them without knowledge of
what other demands the future may
make.
Thus the best procedure would
seem to call for gradual replacement
of one or two buildings at time in
accordance with the urgency of the
need as felt by the school officers.
Evening star., 1939-05-13

promptly to Britain's aid in Palestine
and Egypt.
Germany's Drang mach Osten pro-
gram has always envisaged Turkey
as friendly If not as an allied ter
minus. Now the Reich finds it's World
War partner, undoubtedly after due
deliberation as to where the greater
advantage lay, aligned with the
group bent not on "encircling" Ger
many, but merely on seeing that a
halt is called to her policy of domi-
nation of Europe by force-either
through the use of it or the threat
of it.
1t will be interesting to observe if
the umbrella now advances to Mos
cow after its impressive triumph at
Ankara. And it will be no less in
teresting to see whether Hitler's zeal
to dragoon Poland is not cooled by
the checkmating of Nazi hopes on
the opposite side of the Continent.
Evening star., 1939-05-13
Drunken Drivinq

The demand of Representative
Schultz for more severe penalties for
drunken and reckless driving, cou-
pied with startling figures collected
by the Traffic Bureau on the results
of arrests on these charges, calls for
immediate and decisive action. Out
of three hundred forty-five arrests
on charges of drunken driving last
year, two hundred thirty-four per-
sons were convicted, and in eighty
nine cases the charges were changed
to lesser accusations. Of the total
convicted, only fifty-seven went to
jail, one hundred thirty-six paid fines
and eighty-seven were placed on
probation.
The apparent broad use of proba-
ton in such cases has done much
to pull the teeth of the law. While it
is regrettable when an otherwise
reputable citizen is sent to Jail for
drunken driving, his disregard for the
lives of his fellow citizens calls for
severe punishment. The probation
system is valuable and when used
judiciously tempers the harshness of
the letter of the law. But severity
toward the drunken driver, regard
less of his place in the social scale,
is essential to traffic safety.
The practice of reducing a charge
from drunken driving to reckleSsnesS
or some lesser accusation, has merit
in certain cases. Granting the in
tegrity of the Corporation Counsel's
office when such action is taken,
and its imperviousness to pres
sure and "ixers," it is sometimes
more in the interest of the public
and of safety to make sure of con-
viction on lesser charge than to go
into court with an inadequately sup
ported accusation of a more serious
nature.
Two safeguards, reputedly success
full in other Jurisdictions, offer them
selves as deterrents to this necessity.
One is a scientific and accurate de-
termination of the degree of intoxi-
cation at the time of arrest. The
other, probably as difficult to put into
effect in Washington as in any other
city, is the complete elimination of
fixing"
In any event, the determination of
Mr. Schultz to seek the cooperation
of the Districts Police Court judges
in establishing mandatory jail SEN
tences for driving recklessly or while
intoxicated, and for setting up a
uniform scale of penalties is hearten-
ing. It's success will guarantee equal
treatment of all offenders and will
increase the degree of assurance that
the more serious charges will bring
commensurate penalties.
Evening star., 1939-05-13
MT. PLEASANT STREET.

Dear Sir:
"We enjoy your interesting column.
We live near the edge Of the park in a
second-floor apartment. and we feed the
birds on our window sills.
I'VE have nuuhatches, cardinals, tit
mice and chickadees the year round,
and although the feeding space is limited.
they get along very harmoniously.
They sit on the roof Of the house next
door or on tree and wait their turn.
We used to have little perches nailed out
from the sills to facilitate the landing.
The chickadees and the titmice would
hold the seed against the perch and pick,
pick, pick to open it. Now they have to
carry their seeds to a nearby tree to
shell them.
"The cardinal shells the seed in his
mouth and will stay at the window for
quite a while. but the other birds will
come and grab a seed and fly away
with it.
"The young cardinals, titmice and
chickadees come to the windows as soon
as they can fly. The male cardinal will
shell seed after seed and feed the babies.
He often shells seed for the female, too.
"Once my mother saw ttmouse grab
shelled sunf1ower seed out of cardi-
nails mouth. The cardinal picked up
another seed as if nothing had hap
pened.
I'VE always keep moistened bread for
them while the birds are young. The
old birds fly away with their mouths
full of soft bread before we see young
bird. l suppose it serves as both food
and drink for the babies.
In spice of your aovlce, we do try to
choose our birds, but it is because of our
limited feeding space.
In the Wintertime when the weather
is stormy We let them all come, but at
other times we drive the starlings, SPAR
rows, bluejays and pigeons away.
In the winter we have large numbers
of juncos, and sometimes flocks of pur-
pie finches.
occasionally we have a downy wood
pecker, and sometimes a mockingbird
comes, but we do not cater to them.
One summer we were greatly thrilled
by frequent visits of a beautiful pair of
scarlet tanagers, the first we had ever
seen.
Sometimes robin comes for the soft
ened bread and one summer, when we
were bothered by bluejays, a young
thrush used to come with them. The
jays would sit on the roof next door
while the thrush came to the window.
Il notice that you heard your first
thrush a week earlier than normal this
year Our toWhee came on April this
year and on the 10Th last year He is
one OF our favorites, less timid than most
OF the birds, which are easily startled by
the movements of people in the room, al
though they will all come to the window
when we are sitting beside it.
I'VE can always tell when the towhee
Is coming to the window, as he gives his
characteristic CHEEKY call from the tree.
and again when he alights on the win
Evening star., 1939-05-13

BUSY trying to stop Hitler and MuSsO-
lini to maintain effectively their foot
holds on Chinese territory, Japan has
begun an offensive to drive the
foreigners out of their international
settlements.
The seizure of the settlement at
Annoy, on the flimsy pretext that the
killing of Chinese there during the
visit of the japanese naval COM
mander endangered the latter's life
and that the authorities did not take
adequate steps to punish the assail-
ants, foreShadoWs what Japan would
like to do at Shanghai, Tientsin,
Peiping, Canton, HankoW, Kiukiang
and Newchwang. Already Japanese
have suggested that similar action
may be necessary" at Shanghai.
The first phase of Nippons anti
foreign drive was indiscriminate
bombing of foreigners and their prop
erty on the excuse that their ma
tionality could not be distinguished
or that they were near military OBJ
jectives. The second phase was di-
rected at severance of Chinas eco
nomic relations with the world by
taking over customs and communica-
tions and by depriving foreigners of
the right to trade or travel in con-
quered territories. The excuse was
military necessity.
The third phase, now beginning,
Is aimed to finish this exclusion of
foreigners by depriving them, by
force If necessary, of the sole refuge
they have had against Japanese con-
trol-the foreign settlements and
concessions.
Foremost in the Japanese mind is
absorption of Shanghai's settlement,
and the American and British gov
ernments now have before them for
study japanese demand of May 3
for increased participation in the
Shanghai Municipal Council which
governs the settlement. Shanghai
is the sharpest thorn in Japan's side
for until foreign influence there is
wiped out Chinese resistance to
Japan's rule will receive continuous
support and encouragement.
This latest phase of attack bellies
all Japans protestations that it does
not intend to close Chinas door to
the world or to exclude foreigners or
their commerce, and gives the West
ern powers clear warning that, unless
they can settle their differences and
act in concert to curb Japan's drive
on the foreign settlements they may
lose what little they have left of their
once important interests in China,
leaving Japan supreme in the Far
East.
Evening star., 1939-05-13
Let Congress Lead

Mr.. Roosevelt's somewhat casual
discussion at his press conference
yesterday of the disturbing problem
of tax revision makes it reasonably
clear that the administration will
exert no positive leadership, in the
present session at least, toward carry
ing out such a program.
1t will be plainly remembered that
in the late fall and early winter of
1938-1939 administration spokesmen,
notably Mr.. Roosevelt himself and
his Cabinet aides Hopkins and Nor
genthau, took particular pains to as
sure the country that they would
lend their strength to efforts to cor
rect tax conditions generally con-
sidered depressing in their effect on
business. Such correction, not to in
clude any revision which might be-
come an avenue to evasion, would be
to the best economic interests of the
Nation, it was acknowledged by all.
Yet for some reason not generally
known the high spirited promises
failed to bring comparably vigorous
action on the part of those possessed
of greatest influence on Capitol Hill.
And now, with nearly five months
OF the session gone and Congress be-
ginning its annual fret to get away
from Washington, virtually nothing
has been accomplished and Mr..
Roosevelt himself is taking refuge in
a defense that those seeking the cor
rections have failed to submit an
alternative plan for making up what
ever revenue is sacrificed. It is in
deed a dlscouraging answer to those
who hoped most sincerely for CO.
operation by the administration in
this regard.
Yet it need not be a final answer
and for those more desirous of busi
ness improvement than of political
face-saving there is here presented
genuine opportunity for leadership
In a service to the entire Nation.
Congress has no duty outside of
Washington more urgent than that
of remaining here until it reviews
this question of taxes.
1t is to be hoped that the Monday
conference at the White House will
provide an actual beginning on this
task and that the administration at
least will not stand opposed to
some reasonable compromise on the
matter.
Evening star., 1939-05-13
Thanks Star for School
Cadet Drill Editorial.
To the Editor of The Star.

TO the Editor of The Star:
May express to you our appreciation
OF the complimentary editorial under
the caption ."Cadet Drill in yesterday S
Star.
1t is pleasing to us to note that the
editorial refers to the underlying princi-
pie of our training in the Cadet Corps:
Development of material for future citi-
zens who must understand and appre-
ciate the privileges as we'll as the re-
sponsibilities of good citizenship.
I am requesting my assistants to call
to the attention of all cadets under their
supervision the editorial; and may I
ask your permission to reprint it in our
1910 year book, The Adjutant? We
thank you for this real tribute both to
the Cadet Corps and to the American
youngster. WALLACE M. CRAIGIE.
May II.
Evening star., 1939-05-13
Anti-Axis Turkey
Mr.. Chamberlain's umbrella d

Mr.. Chamberlain's umbrella diplo-
macy-a not inappropriate figure,
for his policy aims at bringing all
peace-minded and security craving
European states under common
cover-has scored a substantial sue
cess in persuading Turkey to enter
the non-aggression bloc. Berlin ad-
mits Hitler has lost round, for only
a fortnight ago he assigned his ace
envoy, Colonel Won Papen, the task
of thWarting British efforts to tie
Turkey into the o-French- Gre
co-Rumanian anti-axis mutual as
sistance orbit.
Nazi SpokeSmen seek to minimize
the Anglo-TurkiSh agreement by say
Ing it only 'evenS the score" in the
duel for preferential positions in the
Balkans, because Germany beat
Britain to the gun by placing Ru-
mania within the Reich's economic
sphere of influence. Italy, too, is try
Ing to belittle the Importance of the
Turkish alliance for the democracies,
by pointing out that any guarantee of
aid by the Turks is of "problematical
value" because they presumably
would be asked to defend Palestine,
Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus, which
territories Britain and France took
away from Turkey in 1919
The agreement provides for mu-
tual Anglo Turkish aid "in the event
OF an act of aggression leading to
war in the Mediterranean. The
pledges so far exchanged, Mr.. Cham
berlain told Parliament yesterday,
are preliminary to "definitive long
term agreement of reciprocal char
acter in the interest of the national
security of both countries"
Turkeys role as an ally in the
event OF war in Southeastern Europe
is inestimable, primarily because of
her strategic position in the Eastern
Mediterranean. Through the Darda-
nelles she holds the key to the Black
Sea. She is also in position to come
Evening star., 1939-05-13
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E.. TrdceUeU,

dow sill. We suppose that it is the same
male which has been calling for several
years. We have never seen any young
towhees, and the female has never come
to the window so far as we know.
"One spring we saw her with him in
the catalpa tree in front of the house
just once. suppose he was telling her
that it would be well TO build nearby.
Sincerely, c. T."
Bluejays which bring thrushes with
them cannot be half-bad visitors at
feeding stations, can they?
There is something to be said, evil
IDENTIFY, for both approaches to bird feed
lng-one, to try to select your guests;
two. to accept them as they come.
II one adopts the first policy, it will
be necessary to attempt to chase away
at al! times the jays, pigeons, English
sparroWs and starlings, and, let us sug-
gest, the purple grackles. The latter, if
tolerated, will come back to kill baby
birds in the neighborhood.
If the feeding stations happen to be
on the ground, there will be squirrels if
the location is suburban-and what
about them?
The squirrel at the feeder is the
greatest nuisance of all, in a sense, since
he eats SO much and wastes so much
by scattering it on the ground.
Attempts to build squirrelproof sta
tions are interesting, but most often end
in failure, since this is a shreWd rodent,
and usually finds a way to outWit the
builder.
Ever SO often some correspondent
sends this column a newly devised feed
ing station intended to permit songbirds
to feed, but to keep out the squirrels.
And regularly these same correspond
ents write in later to admit their ideas
were not entirely feasible, that is, the
squirrels managed to get the food in
the end.
One danger in attempting to drive
away English sparrows is that you will
drive away the beautiful song sparrow
and the white-throated sparrow, unless
you are very careful
Many persons interested in bird feed
ing do not know a song sparrow from an
English sparrow. They are all spar
rows to them But the song sparrow is
one Of our very finest birds, and it
would be better to have English spar
rows with them than to have none at all,
There is, certainly, more justification
in driving unwanted birds from a win
dow sill feeder than from a station in
the yard, where there is more room,
Space on sill is limited only a few
birds can come at one time; perhaps it
Is best to have these choice
We have tried both methods and be-
lieve that, for ordinary yard feeding. the
second method is best If you put out a
free lunch you cannot complain because
some hungry creature accepts your invi-
tatlon to eat. Over the years, this
method will bring you more species, pro-
vide more interesting sights and situa-
tions and feed more birds-the primary
reason, after all, for the establishment of
feeding station
Evening star., 1939-05-13
Protests Fee Charged for
Operating Wheel Chair.

To The Editor of The Star:
In your issue of Tuesday, May 9, you
have an account of Gordon Walter and
his "jitterbug" or motorized wheel chair
1t appears Mr. Walter is the victim of
infantile paralysis, but even in the de-
plorable condition in which this disease
left him, he has the energy and fortitude
to try and make his own living and not
be burden to any one.
Now appears on the scene the District
government and charges him IS for the
privilege of operating his vehicle over the
streets of Washington. Your article says
at first they were going to make him
pay $25 Instead of making this unfor-
tunate man pay cent they should vote
him medal for the effort he is putting
forth to overcome his terrible handicap
I feel safe in saying that as bad as
Stalin Hitler and Mussolini are. no one
of them would permit such thing to
be done to a citizen of their country in
such condition. And we boast of our
culture, humanity and such. Why not
show little of it in dealing with this
unfortunate but courageous young man?
ROBERT L. JAYNES.
Fredericksburg, Va.
May 10.
Evening star., 1939-05-13
Jupon's New Def

Japan has chosen moment of
great preoccupation in the Western
World to launch the third and what
may be the final phase of the cam
paign, which has paralleled the ad-
vance OF her army and navy, to
destroy every vestige of third powers
interests in China.
Confident that the United States.
Great Britain and France are too
Evening star., 1939-05-13

The bartenderS' union of Harris
burg, Pa, opposes barmaids on the
ground that 1T is undignified for a
woman to serve behind bar" Some
old-fashioned people think she would
look about as well behind one as in
front of one.