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Evening star., 1939-01-21

No doubt there are many newcomers
to bird watching who have ranted against
the English sparroWs at their feeders
and wanted to trap and exterminate all
of them.
Yet If they did so-whicll we hope they
didn't and never do-they would have
got rid Of some Of the best birds we have,
simply because they were unable to tell
one sparrow from another.
Secure any good bird book and examine
carefully the colored plates devoted to
the members of the finch family, to
which the various sparroWs belong
1t will be seen at glance, especially
If a number of species are pictured on
the same plate, how amazingly alike they
are at first glance.
Better looking, however, shows them to
be OF different sizes, with far different
markings.
What no color plate can show, however
fine 1t may be, is the peculiar action
which often differentiates it from others
of the same tribe.
Thus no one who has seen and known
white -throated sparrow could possibly
confuse 1t with even the fattest mother
English sparrow, nor could either be mis-
taken for the reddish, almost pink, fox
sparrow.
The freedom with which all sparrows.
and, indeed, all other birds, mix with
and tolerate the English sparrows speaks
Volumes
If the other birds can stand them. and
get along with them so well, surely the
human watcher should be able to see
beauty in them at his feeding station
He would not be sentimental in the
least If he recalled Coleridge's line of the
Ancient Mariner about the great God
making and loving them all.
Certainly there is nothing sentimental
about an English sparrow rustling up its
dinner. Nor about any other bird, for
that matter0 1t is a hard, cold PROPOSE
ton in the wintertime.
Yet these SparroWS get along remark
ably we'll together, and with all other
birds, including the beautiful cardinal
unless there happens to be a Bully in the
crowd
Fifty sparroWs may be at the feeder
all conducting themselves very decently
only to have the bully sparrow give bao
name to all of them by his actions
He persists in chasing others, running
at first one and then another. He flies
bodily at one, knocks him over, rolls him
In the snow, and then flies to another tC
try the same sport with him.
These actions are as disconcerting tc
the other birds as they are to the human
who has established the feeding station
and sees to it that it is kept stocked with
grain and seed.
What rejoicing, all around, when a
blue jay arrives and drives the bully
sparrow away!
A blue jay never stays long Even be.
fore he leaves. the other 49 sparrows are
beginning to hop down out of the rose
vine. tWe call it the sparrow vine
When he leaves, they are eating away az
II nothing had happened. The bully is
up at the other end of the block. Let us
hope that he doesn't coroe hook coo,
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Relief Fund as Capital
Investment Suggested.
TO the Editor of The Sta

To the Editor of The Star:
1t might be possible for 100000 I'M
employed in these United States to
pretend that they had just arrived in
the country destitute. Assume, in that
event, that the Government should allow
them credit of $725 900, 900 on condition
that they looked out for themselves and
did not enter into competition with men
who were already employed.
With this amount of capital they
could buy food, tools and certain neces-
saries while they set to work to make
themselves self-supporting.
Then they could begin to cultivate
much of the land which is now neg
lected, though good enough to yield fair
returns for hard work. They could use
inferior timber lands to provide them
selves with log cabins, rough furniture
and fuel. They could work poor or aban-
doned mines. BY buying out-of-date
machinery at bargain they could soon
make woolen clothes and blankets for
themselves.
Why cannot a permanent cure be Sc
cured for the amount which we now
propose to spend for a few months re-
lief? Are we decadent? Or are we just
working toward the peaceful ideal of
an 11-hour week, while mass production
and power plants provide us with all that
we need, leaving us>to prepare ourselves
for eternal life by playing golf and con-
tract bridge, and listening to radio
,yoioo ~ rroooc of 1ovoc
Is there any chance of another new
deal, or will the infection of our body
polite spread until inexorable fate forces
us to undergo the old-fashioned surgical
operation of war?
AMATEUR ECONOMIST.
January II.
Evening star., 1939-01-21

This Nation, with its many thou
sands OF winter sports devotees,
seems at long last to be coming into
its own. Believe it or not, at White
field, New Hampshire, is a skiing
instructor who teaches and stresses
the american STYLE" rather than
the Austrian, Swiss or Norwegian.
More power and plenty of pupils to
him!
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Schucht Walks the Plank

DR.. Schacht was often in the Nazi
doghouse. Always an opportunist,
he accepted Hitlerism in 1888, al
though his early political antecedents
were democratic. The Weimar Re-
public, established by the Social
Democrats on the ruins of Hohen-
zollernism, gave the young national
economist" in 1923 his first real
chance in public life with the pres
idency Of the Reichsbank. The post
was awarded to Schacht in recog-
milton Of his services on the Reich
currency commission, which brought
the fabulous period of German in
flation to an end and stabilized the
mark.
Dr.. Schacht's incumbency of the
Reichsbank presidency and of the
correlated ministership of economics
under the Nazis was continuous
story of storm and stress and of
almost incessant controversy with
the totalitarian autocrats. Trained
In the conservative school of busi-
ness and finance and of far more
practical mind than the zealots of
the movement" Schacht periodi-
cally found himself at loggerheads
with the apostles of planned econ
omy, with its burdensome restric-
tions on private enterprise, its
chronic shortage of raw materials
and foreign exchange, the barter sys-
tenn in export trade, "blocked marks"
and host of other desperate and
unorthodox trade apd financial re-
courses. An inordinately ambitious
man, who, before the Hitler era,
f1irted with the idea of becoming
Chancellor, Schacht decided that
discretion was the better part of valor,
and gradually he invoked, more or
less reluctantly, successive economic
concepts which notoriously ran coun-
ter to his own notions of sound busi-
ness conduct alike for government
and industry.
Having made career" as a young
banker with the encouragement and
support of Jewish f1nanciers and
captains of industry, Schacht prob
ably never sympathized whole-heart-
edly with the anti-Semitic madness
Of Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Himmler
and Streicher. He realized it was
not only an inhumane policy, but
a conspicuously unenlightened one,
for none knew better than he what
a constructive role the Jews of the
Ballin, Rathenau and Bleichroeder
type played in making the Reich an
economic power of the first mag
nitude.
Though Schacht in recent years
welshed on his early liberalism and
hitched his wagon to the extreme
right, he did not fully embrace the
Nazi faith. He was certainly not
convert to those of its tenets which
resulted in ruthless treatment of the
Jews. 1t is on that rock that he
seems now to have been shipwrecked.
All the early evidence indicates that
Hitler decapitated the veteran finan-
cial wizard because Schacht ap-
parently was won over to the idea
Of more humane program for the
expatriation of Germany's oppressed
Jews. 1t fell to his official lot to
advocate the outrageous ransom"
scheme, whereby the Jews were to
be liberated only on condition that
their escape from bondage would
lead to expanded German export
trade. The circumstances of Schacht's
departure from Office suggest that
the Rublee refugee negotiations,
which were taking favorable course,
may collapse.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Maps for War

An army defending it's home soil
has theoretically one enormous ad-
vantage - intimate knowledge of
every footpath, spring, clump of trees,
stone wall and briar patch within the
area of battle.
The enemy's knowledge Of the ter
Evening star., 1939-01-21
True Confession.

do you like insincere people?"
Frankly" answered Miss Cayenne IT
must say that I do. Whenever any one
tells me that she is going to speak
straightforwardly, as friend, know
am going to hear something disagree
able'
Evening star., 1939-01-21

One reason why Hitler wears his
mustache so short may be to facili-
tate licking his lips every time he
thinks of Latin America.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
The Main Chance.

"Why have you changed your opinion
in that matter?"
my dear sir" answered Senator Sor-
ghum, Il am far too progressive in my
ideas to hold on to an out-of-date opin-
ion when find I can replace it with
one that is modern, convenient and
profitable"
Evening star., 1939-01-21

A Spanish matador, struck squarely
In the head by an ice-cream cone
hurled by critical spectator, now
knows something of how a baseball
umpire sometimes feels. Apparently
the pop bottle is not yet considered
cricket at the bull ring.
Evening star., 1939-01-21

Some well-informed persons de-
clare that the franchise for District
residents is near. 1t is hoped no one
will jinx the whole movement by de-
scribing it as "just around the
corner"
Evening star., 1939-01-21

While local taxes for general fund
use have increased by twenty-three
per cent, substantial portion of the
increase has been offset by thirty
seven per cent lump-sum reduction.
Both gasoline and water taxes, in
addition to general property taxes,
have also been increased. The pend
ing tax program for the District pro-
poses another three or four million
dollar boost in local taxes. Heavy
increases in the local tax burden are
already under way. The increase long
overdue is in the Federal payment.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
The Question.

If everybody told the truth,
And Ananias had no chance,
What would the public do, In sooth,
For oratory and romance?
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Methods,

In intellect strange contrasts lurk;
There isn't any doubt of it.
Some use their brains for doing work
And some for getting out of it.
Evening star., 1939-01-21

ut is not the way a man gets into
politics" said Hi Ho, the sage OF China
town, that is the measure of its impor-
tance; it is the way he comes out"
Evening star., 1939-01-21
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Evening star., 1939-01-21

first American declaration of neutrality
toward Europe still obtain today. The
United States owes its present existence
and happy conditions of life for its citi-
zens to the fact that it has refrained
to its utmost ability from becoming en-
tangled in the dissensions continually
arl5lng in Europe. More than that, it
will have no meddling by the European
powers in the affairs of the Western
Hemisphere. We see today in Europes
Sufferlngs what we ourselves would be
suffering but for the happy circumstances
of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and
an ever present desire for individual free
dom and happiness.
The attempts today to transplant to
this continent the elements of hatred and
oppression which are always present in
Europe, constitute the greatest piece of
brazen impudence which has been per-
petrated since the days of the World
War, when certain foreign diplomats
were handed their passports by this
Government, due to their unwelcome
activities in the United States. Propa-
ganda designed to arouse inNthis coun-
try the disSension and intolerance which
ravage Europe is flooding the country
and taking effect. The methods of its
dissemination are an insult to the people
and the Government of the United States.
If we Americans value the peaceful, tol-
Grant and free life we enjoy in a country
blessed beyond all others in the world,
then it is time for us to unite to pre-
serve our peace and our liberties against
those who would destroy them not only
by sowing internal quarrels, but by in
jecting us into the maelstrom of Eu-
ropean struggles of every kind
January Is. ELEANOR H. FINCH.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
Lifting of Embargo
Protested.

Lifting of Embargo
Protested.
To the Editor of The Star:
Why must the name of one of our
greatest Presidents be defiled by an un-
American group of so-called Americans,
who have joined the Stalinites of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Russia, to help
Red Spain attain the democracy" of
Russia?
Why is it that the groups most inter-
ested in having the embargo lifted are
the same ones who have been identified
with CommunistA activities by the Dies
committee?
How, in view of the fact that the
Loyalists obtain arms and ammunition
from France and Russia, and the Ma
tionalists from Italy and Germany, can
the United States be accused of unfair
ness to Red Spain, when we sell to
neither side?
Why did the Communist Interna-
tional, the official organ of the Com
munist party print the shibboleth, ITO
help Spain (meaning Red SPAIN is to
help our cause?"
The above questions will be answered
If the embargo is lifted. Real Americans
know the answers and do not have to be
shown. They will unite in upholding the
neutrality law. MRS. c. K.
January IS.
Evening star., 1939-01-21
COnVenienceS.

"You say you yearn for the Arctic
regions?"
"Yes," answered the explorer. "Up
there when there is heavy snowfall you
have dogs, sleds and other proper equip
ment. You don't have to depend on
buses and overshoes."
1T pears" said Uncle Eben, 'like no
body ever gifts rich an easy-goin' enough
to quit tellin' what he'd do If he had mo-
time an mo- money"
Evening star., 1939-01-21
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Bombardment of Propaganda
On Spain Protested.

January Is
Evening star., 1939-11-26
Girl Spends Vacations on
Dude Ranch in the West

not have been there for al We saw
Of Them" Dorothy said. why,
sometimes We seemed to 20 straight
down the mountainside."
At an altitude Of 1900 feet the
party stopped to eat. Although 1t
was Ia July, they were on snow.
covered ground and melted some
snow for making soup. "Broiled
steaks also were on the menu and
tasted better than any I've had
SINCE" Dorothy related.
One Of their guides told them
that just over the crest Of the hill
was herd Of elk and that the dude
ranchers could see the elk If they
rode fast enough. At a given sig
nal the party raced over the hill
just In time to see the frightened
animals scurrying away.
I'VE also saw deer, moose, bears
and mountain goats" Dorothy said
"One night we even saw Q genuine
Western free-for-all. There was q
nixup Of cattle and the cowboys In
charge Of rounding them up we're
from two dif1ereat ranches. Each
claimed 1ome Of the same cattle.
They went Into town 70 fight, but
the sheri6 took away th6ir guns. II
was just Ike . movie
Dorothy likes duds ranch life u
w3ll that sls would hke 70 return
eyesy summer 4 I ooUl6
Evening star., 1939-11-26


inclined plane. Were 1t not for them,
there would be no modern civiliza-
ton, no intricate machinery. That
seems like a broad statement. but If
you want to see the answer with
your own eyes. visit the Smithsonian
Institution and there witness the
progress of man-made machines,
based upon these four elements.
Back of them are some Of the
most romantic and intriguing stories
Of history. Take the inclined plane,
for example. You've read about and
studied the great pyramids Of Egypt.
One Of the ancient Pharaohs Of
Egypt who was directing construc-
ton of the pyramids was impatient
with the progress, or lack Of prog
ress. Of thousands Of his slaves.
The slaves were moving into place
only one or two great stone blocks
day. The higher the pyramid went,
the harder their task. Then one day
q man approached the king with
ideas He proposed the building Of
a mile-long road leading to the top
of the pyramid-the element of the
inclined plane-and on its surface
the placing of small round logs over
which the stone blocks could be
rolled to the top. The king adopted
the ideas, so the story goes. but had
the man killed because he was too
wise.
From this start, you can trace
the history of the inclined plane
from the pyramids to the Archime-
dian screw, to the motorboat pro-
peller, to the airplane propeller.
| The first wheel probably was a
rounded block Of wood on an OK cart.
Next came the chariot wheel, IN our
own pioneer days the metal-rimmed
wheels Of stage coach. and later
the wheels Of steam engines and
automobiles. To the wheel was
added the axle, and in engines the
wheel became the gear and the axle
the gear shaft.
In the Smithsonian today you
will find wooden gears, the kind first
used perhaps to drive windmills and
water wheels. With gears the
world has been converted from .
world Of horses and buggies to pur-
ring machines of vast power.
A gentleman English farmer
named Dean Herbert was ridiculed
and threatened when he used q
windmill on his farm during the
Crusades. On the other hand, 1t
was lazy boy, Humphrey Potter,
who lived in England in later CEN
Evening star., 1939-11-26

bt0IenCS hooseH. ulCISdSCu Will
gifts from friends and relatives. Hey
group includes airdales, Scotch ter
riers, bulldogs. cocker spaniels and
q large shepherd dog.
The first dog that she received. q
black and white terrier, is the
smallest In her collection, being
only half an inch high. The largest
dog, a black Scottie, 6 inches high,
is her favorite, and was gift from
her aunt. Elvalou has her collection
arranged on the top of bookcase
in the living room of her home. Her
father surprised her one evening last
month by bringing home a small
live terrier which has been named
Bingo.
Besides this hobby, Elvalou also
plays the saxophone. She has taken
lessons for two years and was for
merly q member Of her school band
in Kansas City. She now plays in
the band Of the Sherwood Presby-
terian Church in Woodbridge.
Elvalou takes an interest in quite
q few Of the school activities. She
was recently elected president Of
her class and also president of
Mount Rainier Highs Chemistry
Club. She Is q member Of the Arts
and Crafts, Music and Principals
Advisory Clubs.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

me and pulled me out Of danger, be-
cause was too scared to move. I
was worried about Rover, because
had grown very fond Of him, and
knew the bite of q rattler was IA
tai. tried to call him o6. but he
paid no attention. When I saw It
was useless to try to call him away,
watched in wonderment at the
skill and precision of his attack.
He made one quick dive and
grabbed the snake by the back Of
the neck and shook furiously until
the snake iell from his mouth and
lay lifeless on the ground.
After the excitement was over, we
gathered up our berries and started
home. Rover ran proudly along be-
side us. When we reached home,
we told my grandmother Of the In
cident. I'VE shall never forget your
heroic deed" she said ~ she gave
him . very special dinner.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

to our friends until they were lost
In the inky blackness of the night.
At last, all we could see were the
many lights Of Manhattan. Excited
and sleepy, I went to bed shortly
after the ship sailed.
One Of the most interesting days
aboard was the next morning, June
!. After exploring the ship, we
quickly made friends with our fel-
low passengers. Then we tried out
all the sports and amusements. Our
first was shufneboard. Deck tennis
excited US, too, as every second ring
seemed to sail overheard. Deck golf,
another kind Of golf game, and
pigeonhole shooting were some Of
the other pastimes, but we played
ptngpong most of the time. Al.
though we played 1t much in WASH
ington, we never tired of it, and,
rain or shine, we we're always to be
found at the pingpong table.
The library furnished US with
reading material, the social hall
with radio and gramaphone and
the dining room with three whole
some meals q day. On our first
night at sea there was q wiener
party for the passengers, q sort Of
get-together, at which hot DOGS"
were served, and dancing. There
were movies, too.
One morning at 7 O'Clock the
ships engines stopped. Bursting
with curiosity, We rushed on deck.
1t was . thrilling experience, be-
cause we saw q sick man removed
from a freighter to our steamer.
The freighter was . small one and
did not have proper facilities for
treating the sick member of the
crew.
+ Our ship circled q rowboat which
came from the freighter. It car.
ried the patient and was manned
ny six men and the nrst mate. Our
ship poured out oil to calm the
water and finally took the iniured
man aboard. Then the men roved
oack TO their own ship and We con.
tlnued our course. The patient was
suffering with an internal illness
and could not undergo an opera
ton.
We arrived at our destination
CuxnaVen, at noon June 9. Tho
ma! masquerade party, the can.
talns dinner and other festivities
Afforded pleasant memories FRAT vs
Will never forget.
Evening star., 1939-11-26

on. HE has . lot Of models In his
ONCE there, and he told me mine
had very good workmanship on it.
I intend to enter 1t In the school
hobby show this winter, and any
other contest can. (,
Where did I gather my informa-
tion?" Norman said In reply to>a .
question. well, do q lot Of read
Ing from three aiTplane model mas
a1tnas. Also thaee q 3 retired ma