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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-02
GROOMING
 CELEB BRITY

Even as In New York, Washington society Is meaning low these days.
 We'll, part of it is, anyhow. A very ornamental and talented part, too-Mary dc Sibour, who has gone and hired out as . torch singer In one of the capitals fiossler hotels.
 Mary dc sibour is high society in her own right, and-having married the eldest son of tho late Count Henri dc sibour-will ono day be Q countess. Meanwhile, she eroons and carries the torch in Q luneh- and-supper-elub room, and does right well ct it tool
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-02
Todays Answers Co
 cRANlUM CRACKERS
Problems on Comic Page

1. True. The Sorbonne Is c uni- versity in Paris.
 2. False. A metronome Is an in- strument for marking exact time in music.
 8. False. Bats are not blind. {. True. A dinghy is a boat.
 s. Falso. Glaucoma is an eye disease.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-02

Pretoria. South Africa, has 6 build Ing boom.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-02

The committee on motor vehicles held a hearing yesterday on bili. similar to . Waterbury city ordi-
Evening star., 1939-03-17
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bride, receiving the guests. Her CO.'S
tune was of pale blue lace and she
wore corsage bouquet of pink
camellias.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schoenfelder left
later for wedding trip to New
York and will later go South. They
will be at home after March q at
206 North Trenton street, in Arling-
ton.
For the wedding trip the bride
wore a light blue REFER suit, navy
blue hat trimmed with dusty pink
and dark blue accessories. Her cor
sage was of orchids. Mrs. Schoen-
fielder received the degree of bache-
lor of science in architecture from
the University of PENNSYLVANIA,
where she was member of Alpha
Chi Omega Fraternity. Mr.. Schoen-
fielder is chief of the operations sec
ton of the Works Progress Admin
istration. He holds the degree Of
bachelor of arts from the George
Washington University, where he is
presently attending the law school.
He is member of the Sigma CHI
Fraternity.
The out-of-town guests included
Miss Hilda Ebert of PHILADELPHIA,
Miss Mary Eif1er of Altoona, Mr..
Harold w. Gilmore OF Philadelphia
and Mr.. E. L. D. Medlcott of Lon
don, England.
Evening star., 1939-03-17
Free Lance Writers
Announce Winners

Winners in the recent feature
article contest held by the Society
Of Free Lance Writers were an
nounced last night by Parke A..
Arnold, president of the society, at
a meeting at the Shoreham Hotel.
First prize went to Benjamin F.
Ferrill for his article, pole Fish
ing; second to Mrs. Gertrude Mac
Kenzie for Our Debt to Fort
Stephen" and third to William H.
Burrows for "Pampered Plausible
ity."
Honorable mention was given to
Mrs. Marie Bochoven for Radio
Dragnet Aids Law Enforcement"
and TO Parke A. Arnold for Soil
Erosion Problems in Colonial Times"
Evening star., 1939-03-17
Hopkins Not 10 Gust
Officials Who Served
Under Predecessor
Instead He Will Add
Aides Of His Own Choice
To Pep Up Department
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Hopkins has decided
against any wholesale dismissal Of
Commerce Department officials who
served under his predecessor, Daniel
G. Roper.
Mr.. Hopkins, it was learned today,
has decided to retain both the As
sistant Secretaries-Richard c. Pat
terson, jr., and Col j. Monroe john
son-and to date has no plans for
naming more than two new bureau
chiefs.
Instead, Mr.. Hopkins is super
imposing on the former personnel of
the department several personal
aides.
He has named Willard L. Thorp,
whom the Senate in 1884 refused to
confirm as chief of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, as
personal economic adviser, and has
selected Gen. Robert E. Wood of
Chicago, chairman of Sears, Roe
buck g. Co., as temporary business
adviser. A former Chicago news
paperman, Victor Sholis. has been
assigned to coordinate the depart
ment's publicity and other activities
and be personal spokesman for the
Secretary.
Evening star., 1939-03-17

Sylvia Pleckham OF Marshfield,
Wood County, Wis, will be given as
door prize. Wisconsin cheese OBJ
tanned direct from Wisconsin by Mr..
Sam Pasch of New Holstein will be
served with other refreshments. In
teresting prizes will be- given for the
winners at bridge and five hundred.
Miss Olive K. Grebe of Boscobel
and Lancaster has charge of ar
rangements, assisted by Mrs. Harvey
Craver of Madison, who will be In
charge Of the card tables.
Evening star., 1939-03-17
Palestine Benefit

The Washington unit of Junior
Hadassah will hold nautical
night" celebration tomorrow at the
Jewish Community Center to aid
the projects in Palestine, toward
which it contributes.
Evening star., 1939-03-17
Wisconsin Society
Will Hold Party

The members of the Wisconsin
State Society and its friends will be
entertained tomorrow evening at the
Women's City Club, 736 Jackson
place, opposite Lafayette Square. A
Wisconsin cheese donated by Miss
Evening star., 1939-03-17

=| 311 7th St. NV, MA. 293s
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Star Neutrality Editorials
Commended by Congressman.
To the Editor Of The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
AS chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the House of Representa-
tiyes and one who has studied this ques-
tion for the past 16 years in the Con-
gress, I was very pleased to receive the
pamphlet issued by The Washington
Evening and Sunday Star containing
compendium of recent editorials on the
subjects of neutrality, the embargo and
peace.
I have read the editorials from time
to time as they appeared in The Eve
ming and Sunday Star and I have
thought so much of them because of their
unbiased presentation of the true facts
concerning the neutrality situation that
I have inserted many of them in the
Congressional Record so that they will
be read throughout the entire United
States and preserved as part of the Off
cial records in the Government archives.
I want to congratulate The Evening
and Sunday Star on publishing these
editorials in such handy pamphlet for
know they will be of the greatest bene-
fit and assistance to people studying the
neutrality problem. SOL BLOOM.
September q.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Conversation With. q
Squirrel

Will you have some nuts from my walnut
tree?
There are acorns, too. Take some.
They're free
Don't just flick that plumy tail and jeer
When offer food stores. Autumns here.
Don't you see her signs In bronze and
brass
On the maple tree and frost-touched
grass?
Can't you hear heralding wild geese saw.
'"The Ice King is coming! He's on his
way?
Where's your boarding instinct? Whers
is your thrift?
The least you can do is to store nv gift.
Yet all day you've raced or sprawled at
ease
On taut light wires or the poplar trees
NOW you're edging closer, poised for
fight
Tiny paws mincing, greedy eyes bright.
Oh, you'll take this nut that I've shelled
you say?
Pampered city squirrel! All right. You
may.
NELLIE GRAY souRDEAux.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Democratic Discipline

Secretary Ickes, in formulating
new set of rules to govern the issuing
OF permits for the use of Washing
tons parks as public forums, ap-
proaches an old problem from a new
angle.
In the past the public squares have
been used as a means of reaching
wider audience by individuals of va
rious beliefs and varied ambitions.
Some have been earnest persons of
missionary spirit, bent upon spread
ing their message to as large a seq
ment of the community as they could
reach. Some, driven by forces which
they could never know, have striven
to give meaning to an ethics they
could never understand. Still others,
presumably acting upon the guidance
of conscience, have taken the op-
portunity granted by democratic
principles to preach doctrines con-
trary to the beliefs which constitute
the accepted standard of the Nation.
Regardless of their mission, all
have the liberty to speak openly what
is in their minds. Short of protec-
ton against incitation of riot or dis
turbance OF the peace, no legal linn
itation can be imposed. Hence, it
is conceivable that liberty itself can,
with little stretch'of the Imagination,
become its own enemy.
The regulations announced by the
Office of National Capital Parks,
however, offer an interesting solu-
ton. Hereafter all persons or groups
seeking permits to hold meetings in
the parks must apply for them in
time to allow any citizens with con-
flicting views an opportunity to pre-
pare an answer. Those interested in
replying will be given first preference
in the issuing of subsequent permits.
In the words of the Secretary of
Interior, speakers who use public
grounds henceforth for promulgating
their, beliefs must submit to the
democratic discipline of open de-
bate"
Aside from the possible psychologi-
cal effects of the order as a damper
on overardent partisan claims, in
view of a prepared challenge, the
plan is an excellent one from the
standpoint of practical, living de-
mocracy. BY giving the opposition
an opportunity to prepare an answer,
and a pertinent time to speak, the
new rule actually enhances the cause
of free speech.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Says Americas Should
Aid Democracies.

To the Editor of The Star:
Why Is there so much furor in Con-
gress over the questions of neutrality
and embargo? Why should we mildly
remark "It's just too bad" when Jews
and Catholics are prosecuted, churches
are destroyed, and children taken from
their mothers to be brought up by the
State? Why do we allow warplanes to
destroy half-civilized Ethiopians? Why
should Austria have its government de-
stroyed and Czecho-Slovakia be torn
apart? Why should mechanical army
march into Poland and slaughter its in
nocents?
Why can't the United States and all
the Americas mobilize great army, not
to cross the seas, but to furnish food,
clothing, medical supplies and means Of
defense to the victims Of dictators?
Also an army to guard our coasts, and
a greater army of peace to raise all food
possible and store the excess? To 60
into mines. mills and factories to manu-
facture needed articles; into shipyards
to build the boats to carry these goods,
and then with arms and convoy take
them to our allies? E. M. HUsSEY.
Silver Spring, Md.
October 10,
Evening star., 1939-10-16
County Service Building

Another milestone in the growth OF
Prince Georges County has been
passed with the dedication of the new
$125, 900 county service building at
Hyattsville, Md. The significance Of
the event was attested by the pres
ence of the Governor and United
States Senator and Representative at
the exercises. The latter was so op-
timistic as to prophesy that Greater
Washington, stretching far out into
Maryland, some day may outgrow
New York and Chicago and become
the largest city in the country.
Regardless of whether this vision
materializes, it is clear that the coun-
tys growth to date and its prospects
for the immediate future require such
a building. The problem of admin
istering Prince Georges, with it's vast
suburban development, from the
rural county seat at Upper Marlboro
is similar to the problem of admin
istering Montgomery County from
Rockville. Montgomery long has had
suburban buildings at Bethesda and
Silver Spring.
Necessity also required the estab-
lishment of certain county Offices in
suburban Prince Georges several
years ago. All have been housed in
rented quarters, many in converted
bank building. The new county
building, erected with the aid of p.
w. A. funds, will therefore not only
be a distinct asset to the Hyattsville
area but also will meet long-stand-
ing need for uniting the suburban
county offices under one roof.
Symbolic as it is of the county's
growth, the new building will raise in
many minds questions concerning
various methods Of governing q
Evening star., 1939-10-16
THIS AND THAT
By Charles =. Trnce1oell.

Z Then the bird watcher will have on
his hands one nice feeding station, well
stocked, totally without customers.
Do not say this can't happen.
It can.
You may not believe II, however, until
1t occours in your own yard.
Probably the grackles will be to blame
This is the first time in four years
that We have not had scores, and even
hundreds Of birds, at feeding station.
We can thank the purple grackles.
We believe that II other friends Of
birds are informed Of what happens
when grackles are permitted to be guests
at feeding station, they may be on the
watch for them, and not tolerate them
on the mistaken assumption that they
will do no ultimate harm.
Even after they had pecked two SPAR
rows to death, the grackles did not
seem to be doing any particular harm.
The crowd of sparrows and others at
the station was as large as ever.
But so gradually that we did not miss
them, they began to thin out, and one
morning We realized that our feeding
station simply had no guests, in COM
parison with old times.
~ 4 X
Eight or nine cardinals, it is true were
seen every evening, and half a dozen
pigeons from time 10 time through the
day, but the hurry and hustle of old
times was lacking.
Most of those missing, of course, were
English sparroWs.
Some bird lovers" might think this a
blessing in disguise, to get rid of the
sparroWs, but we have never felt that
way about these birds, as most readers
here realize.
English sparrows have been welcomed
In the belief that they form the back
ground chorus of the bird feeding sta
ton.
Now they have flown away.
We saw the band down the block the
other morning, but the members would
not fly back to the old stand.
When will they get over their fright?
AS lar as we, can see, the purple
grackles, with their powerful necks, long
bills and mean, yellow eyes, have gone
to parts unknown.
But the sparrows, evidently, are not
sure. They can find food anywhere at
thls season OF year, when grass seed is
easily found in every lawn.
DO not tolerate the presence of
grackles at feeding station Drive them
away at once, and keep after them until
they are discouraged and leave for good.
The smaller birds will come back, if the
grackles have not injured them, but it
remains to be seen whether they will do
SO, once they are frightened by the pow
erful and cruel "blackbirds."
Evening star., 1939-10-16

signed to defeat the charge that the
law was intended to perpetuate Dem
ocrats In Office. It favored the
administration in power to GER
tain extent, because the terms Of the
larger offices are expiring in its life
time, as is evidenced by permanent
appointments already made at such
points as New York, Philadelphia, st.
Louis and Pittsburgh. From a nu-
merical standpoint, however, it pro-
vided approximately for an equal
division. For example, the first ses-
sion OF the Seventy-s sixth Congress
confirmed 1854 postmasters for life,
and presumably the figure for the
second session will be similar. The
others, under ordinary circumstances,
will be subject to the approval Of
the Seventy-seventh Congress, to be
elected next year. But If the resolu-
ton adopted at the recent convention
here of the National Association Of
Postmasters is carried out, the law
will be changed to confer life status
now on all in contravention of the
original intent to have incumbents
complete the four-year terms before
being reappointed permanently.
That not only would be violative of
the spirit of the new law, but it
would constitute a form of manipu-
lation that could not be defended on
any grounds. Further, 1t would en-
courage tinkering with the act by
succeeding administra tions, for If
1t is to become a political football,
everybody will feel entitled to kick.
In the end, of course, there would
be no law, and that would be re-
grettable, for while the present
statute is not perfect, 1t is a
tremendous improvement over the
former system under which postmas-
terships were legal tender for party
service every four years.
The National Association of Post
masters would do we'll to forget this
particular resolution.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
The Postmusters Resolve

The National Association of Post
masters is manifesting extremely
poor judgment in proposing to
amend the civil service law for post
masters to "freeze" in Office all in
cumbents.
When the Ramspeck O'Mahoney
bill to put postmasters of the first,
second and third class under civil
service became law on June Is, 1888,
it provided life tenure for those
thereafter" appointed. Because the
postmasters were serving four-year
terms, on a staggered basis, it was
evident that about half of the $4,000
positions affected would be filled by
permanent appointees of this ad-
ministration, while the rest would
extend over to the next to be acted
upon. That was fair and was de-
Evening star., 1939-10-16
School War

With the opening of school in Sep
tember the annual assault on the
liberty and happiness of the down.
trodden minors is we'll under way,
and as usual the resistance is feeble
and badly organized. The activities
of truant officers cause heavy cas-
ualties, and what little success the
boys have Is due to no efforts of their
own. Occasionally the enemy suffers
a financial breakdown at weak spots
on the economic front, when a school
closes from lack of funds with which
to pay the teachers or buy. fuel.
Every now and then CLEAN of hope
enlightens the besieged when a
promising epidemic of measles be-
gins, but the board of health almost
Invariably opens up ruthless bar
rage, isolates the resistance by
quarantine and destroys it.
Still, amazingly enough, the spirit
of youth cannot be completely
crushed. For instance, a bulletin
from the Newark IN. j. sector re-
ports chiseling attack on a strong
hold Of oppression known as Public
School Number Three. A number of
bricks have been pried from the
walls, with the obvious idea Of rem
dering it untenable by the enemy.
However, the School Board Of STRAIT
egy promptly met the crisis. They
detailed their allies, the police, to
watch out for the snipers, and then
grimly ordered the janitor to hold the
building and repair the damage at
all costs.
It is thus obvious that even guer-
rilla tactics are doomed to failure
and that the boys had better make
peace on what terms they can.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
TAILS CHURCH, VA.


"Dear Sir: Birds have not been men,
toned lately in your column, but we
certainly have had them In our yard
and field.
'First, let me mention our Knockers.
And they are good little mockingbirds,
without lot Of belligerentness.
"One sings good part of the day, and
the rest of them play tag, bathe and
drink in the bird bath, search for bugs
and generally enjoy their own company.
Believe 1t or not, actually counted
II Knockers in our barberry bush as they
few out, one by one.
"How they love to perch in that bushl
Don't you think we have more mocking-
birds than Is usual for one yard2
"Next come the towhees.
How beautiful is the male towhee.
The female is almost as pretty but looks
more like small robin to an amateur
bird watcher. We have number of these
sociable birds. They-with the cardinals,
song sparrows, and yes, the English
sparrows-enjoy the seeds and grain I
sprinkle for them on the ground.
"One lone dove joins them OCCASION
ally. The dove is not as shy as many
people believe
Lastly come the fat bobwhites. I
don't know whether my grain attracted
them, but there they were one evening,
IS Of them, feeding right within few
yards of our back door.
"They stayed around, not in the least
nervous, and played tag with one an
other, calling to the others if they would
linger too far away.
Next morning they came early and
played around for some time, ate under
the trees. then gathered under the bar
berry bush to preen themselves. They
seemed more like chickens than wild
birds. feel that we have a miniature
bird sanctuary.
Sincerely, G. B. S."
This column has had no bird reviews
recently because the station beneath the
maple has been practically deserted for
several weeks.
This is due, We believe, to the fact that
we permitted band of grackles to drive
away all the songsters, with the excep-
ton of the cardinals, without our real
iZing it.
Let this be warning to all bird lovers
not to tolerate for second such mur-
derers as purple grackles.
They are interesting to watch. The
observer may simply count them as more
material at first.
He will not realize that they will sue
coed, if permitted, in running away most
OF the other birds, then leave them
selves.
Evening star., 1939-10-16

county such as Prince Georges, which
is part suburban and part rural. The
question of whether there should be
provision for a county manager, such
as Arlington has found satisfactory,
naturally comes to mind. The build
ing also suggests the recurring pro-
posal to transfer the county seat to
the populous suburban area, the ques-
ton of dividing the county into two
units, one rural, one suburban, and
the often-studied plan to merge sew
eral Of the nearby Maryland counties.
It is clear, however, that Prince
Georges authorities have no inten-
tion of moving the county seat, for
even as the suburban building was
dedicated, the Marlboro courthouse
was being enlarged. And the other
questions also can safely be left to
the future while county residents en-
Joy the welcome facilities which the
new structure affords.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Industriulizinq Canada

bTlClSn plans Tor the development
IN Canada of great industrial en-
pire for the production of war ma
teriel have aroused interest of busi-
ness and financial circles on this side
OF the Canadian border. According
to reports circulating in Wall Street,
Great Britain is preparing to spend
as much as three billions of dollars
on plant and production program
designed particularly to turn out war;
planes, munitions and other military
and naval equipment, but capable of
being adapted later to non military
needs OF peaceful purpose. At least
half billion dollars is Immediately
available for launching the huge en-
terprise, it is said.
Under the tentative program use
would be made eventually of from six
to fifteen billions of dollars of re-
sources, including commercial credits,
which England and France have in
the United States. Apparently the
Canadian plants would look to the
United States for much of the raw
materials and machinery required to
start manufacture and to carry it on.
Negotiations with American motor
and plane firms toward this end al
ready have begun, it is rumored.
Neither the present neutrality law
nor the one proposed by the admins
tration would prevent participation,
within certain limits, of United
States business and financial inter-
eSts in such an undertaking, despite
the listing of Canada as belligerent
In President Roosevelt's neutrality
proclamation. The existing embargo
on "arms, ammunition and imple-
ments OF war" as has been pointed
out in these columns repeatedly, does
not cover the metals and many other
materials needed to make planes,
guns and shells; nor the chemicals
and cotton needed to produce gun
cotton. Cancellation under the
Presidents proclamation of orders
which France and Britain had
placed in this country for planes and
other implements of war" left cred
its which conceivably could be used
to finance parts of the Canadian in
dustrial establishment. The title
and-carry" plan embodied in the
pending Hull peace bill would not
seriously interfere with the trans
portation to Canada of any supplies
needed for the war factories.
The creation by our next-door
neighbor of a great allied war supply
base would be certain to draw special
attention from the German high
command. Canada, being belliger-
ent, would be fair game for Nazi
sabotage agents and even for bomb
ing planes-if they had ways of
striking so far from base. Before
American interests lend a hand, the
whole project should be given careful
scrutiny by executive and legislative
branches of the Government, with a
view to safeguarding the neutrality
and the security of the United States.