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Evening star., 1939-06-11
State Department
Announces Changes
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The State Department announced
yesterday foreign service changes
including:
Francis H. Styles of Falls Church,
Va, second secretary of American
Legation at Ottawa, Canada, has
been assigned American Consul at
Dublin. Ireland.
Carlton Hurst of WASHINGTON.
American Consul at Havana. Cuba
has been assigned American Consul
at Breslau, Germany.
Evening star., 1939-06-11
Club Elects President

DR.. Joel N Novick has been elected
president of the newly formed As.
sociates Club. social organization
of business, professional and govern
mental men. The group is planning
a fishing trip June 20 at Point
Lookout.
Evening star., 1939-06-11

(See D. c. BILLS, Page BID
Evening star., 1939-06-11
Receives Diploma

Cadet 1t. Donald M. Brattain of
1900 Fourteenth street NV. received
a scientific diploma at final exercises
OF Riverside Military Academy,
Gainesville, Ga. recently.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Traffic Signs Urged at
Kennedy and Ninth Streets,
To the Editor of The Sta,


Another serious automobile crash has
just occurred outside my house. The i'm
pact could be heard for blocks, so hard
did they hit. There is seldom day that
residents in the vicinity of Ninth and
Kennedy streets NV. do not hear the
loud screeching of brakes and the sub
sequent sickening crash at this point.
The object of this letter is to call to
the attention of the Traffic Department
officials the urgent need for stop signs
at this point. Automobiles on Kennedy
street travel fast and automobiles on
Ninth street travel fast. There is no
slowing down for the corner.
A stop sign on each side of Kennedy
street on the Ninth street thoroughfare
would eliminate these unnecessary
crashes. Failure to erect them soon will
assuredly result in more needless loss of
life.
May we have them?
Certainly, I feel we are entitled to
them.
This letter is sent in a humanitarian,
civic-minded spirit. I hope the sug-
yested remedy or similar corrective action
will be taken without further delay.
July 13. DANTE AMOROSO.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Traceuell.

interest seems to be the bugs in the bark
OF the tree he Is clinging to. Not the
wren, with his monotonous insistent
song-au his wants are insects about
him.
mot the hummingbird, whirring over
the gay petunias, slipping honey dew
from their cups. These, busy with their
own affairs, seem not to notice the quar-
rels of other birds.
Yesterday we had surprise visit.
Two brownish birds flew awkwardly onto
the porch, lighting on its railing. Fol-
lowing them was a bird regally dressed
in gold and black.
He was gorgeous oriole, the first I
had ever seen in our garden. The brown
ish birds were his children; they opened
their mouths and were fed as I watched.
There must be nest in this locality
beautiful purselike pocket hanging
from some outspread branch. have
looked for it, but have not been able to
find it. Every truly, E. NH"
Birds are among the most sharp-eyed
creatures in the world.
1t is with their eyes that they spot
most food
They can see something to eat for
many score yards-just how far, how is
there any way to tell? But the fact is
that any one can test their power in this
respect by suddenly placing a paper of
cantaloupe seed on the grass.
II will mt he O roipIfo boforo l.,
are at it.
Other birds will gather but mostly
they will not linger for cantaloupe seeds,
evidently, are not their meat.
The cardinals find them exactly to
their taste. They split each seed in the
middle, and eat the inner part.
The shell lies as neat as you please,
or as neat as the cardinal pleases.
He flies away, to return soon with two
babies
These are very dark, and quite large.
One OF them is fed cantaloupe seed
as fast as the parent can split them and
hand them to the youngster. We
should say bill them to him.
The other fledgling is not fed.
What is this? Is the father trying to
make it learn to eat by itself?
Minute after minute passes, with the
male cardinal pumping seed down the
one child, but giving nothing to the
other
Suddenly there is flash of darker red
as second male cardinal descends,
driving the other and its children away
Cantaloupe seed should be saved for
the birds. 1t makes excellent food for
such species as like it. Thousands of
pounds Of these seeds, good bird food
are thrown away every day in a great
city during the season.
Evening star., 1939-07-17

plans and for launching of actual
construction during the ensuing year.
Especially gratifying is the con-
gressional stamp of approval on the
East Capitol street site, which had
been selected by the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
Through misunderstanding on the
part Of some members of the House
as to the proposed appearance of the
structure, there had been a disposition
at one time to disregard the commits
sion's recommendation and place the
Armory in the already congested
Southwest section Of the city. In
fact, the House went on record in
favor of the Southwest location, after
fears were expressed that the Armory
would resemble warehouse" and
would be out of harmony with the
monumental development envisioned
for the Eastern part OF the city.
When these fears were shown to be
baseless-for the. building proposed
by the planners is artistic as we'll as
utilitarian-the House joined with
the Senate in agreeing on the East
Capitol site, which already is owned
by the Federal Government.
The new Armory will replace the
present disgraceful home of the
National Guard in the remains of the
old National Hotel Building, at Sixth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Several members of Congress who
visited this antiquated structure
recently were shocked to learn of
the adverse conditions under which
the local Guard has been operating
there. The new Armory, by contrast,
will have adequate drill facilities, a
properly safeguarded arsenal, modern
offices and all the other necessities
and refnements commensurate with
the Importance of Washington's
splendid Guard organization. The
city joins with the civilian soldiers
in saluting Congress for it's recogni-
tion of the vital service that the
District National Guard is ready to
render the Capital and the Nation
when an emergency beckons.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
T. V. A. Victory

It is gratifying that Congress has
at last approved legislation enabling
the Tennessee Valley Authority to
purchase properties of private utili-
ties whose earning capacity had been
threatened with destruction by COM
petition from the governmental
agency.
After protracted negotiations, off,
cials of the T. V. A. and representa-
tives of the Tennessee Electric Power
Company reached an agreement sew
eral months ago for the sale of the
private concern to r. v. A. on terms
which were mutually satisfactory.
But when legislation authorizing a
bond issue by T. v. A. to consummate
the purchase reached the House, it
was held up by opponents of the
Federal power agency.
This opposition group was deter
mined to limit future operations Of
Evening star., 1939-07-17

T. v. A., one amendment even pro-
posing to restrict its power sales to
the Tennessee watershed, The fight
which developed over the restrictive
amendments threatened for a time
to result in a stalemate which would
have automatically killed the bond
issue authorization. That would have
had the effect of blocking the pur-
chase of the T. E. P. c., with the re-
suit that its assets would have been
liquidated at great loss.
1t is to the advantage of all parties,
therefore, that the House has ac-
cepted compromise which will make
possible the purchase of the private
utility. If it is desired to restrict
further the operations of the T. v. A.,
legislation to accomplish that result
can be introduced at the next session,
when the issue can be fought out on
its merits and without danger of loss
to holders Of stock in private utilities
already face to face with the ruinous
threat of T. " A. competition.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
GIoriu Perkins

washington mas particular IN.
terest in Gloria Perkins It was here
in the Nations Capital that the
brilliant young violinist made her
professional debut with the National
Symphony Orchestra in 1888. Only
eleven at the time, The Star judged
her to have reasonable expectation
OF a musical career of the highest
distinction. DR.. Hans Kinder was
so pleased with her that he arranged
for her second appearance the fol-
lowing season, and she repeated her
achievement to his satisfaction and
the delight of capacity audience.
Now, returning to play at the
Water Gate last evening, her friends
find her art matured, her skill per-
fected. She no longer is prodigy"
Rather, she is the conscious mistress
OF her instrument which only an ex-
perienced student can be. Six hours
OF practice each day during these
past half dozen years have made her
acquainted with the heights and
depths of noble melody. Her mastery
OF the mechanics of the violin is
complete. The mysteries of Bee
thoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Bach,
Brahms, all the more modern COM
posers she has read and truly COM
pretended. Her performance of
Tchaikovskys ID Major Concerto"
met every requirement.
Perhaps in the throng that heard
Miss Perkins last night there were
a few veteran concertgoers who re-
member with undiminished gratitude
Maud Powell, probably the most
widely famous Of American women
v1ollnlstS. If so, some must have
realized that her successor represents
the principle Of history-the law of
life whereby the past is bridged with
the future. Great music needs great
Interpretation, and Gloria is of the
number of the most intelligent and
sympathetic virtuosi. Native-bord
and native-trained, she represents 4
new world and a new vision linked
to the old, but not enslaved to it..
She already has symbolized progress;
and at seventeen, as she herself De-
clarss. "one is merely starting"
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 10riter, although the use OF
a pseudonyn1 for publication is
permissible. Please be briefl

distinction between methods and OBJ
Jectives. Common ends will tolerate di-
vergent means. The European powers
are all tarred with the same discredited
diplomatic stick. Their ways are not
our ways. Our broad prairies and wide
oceans have made us more straightfor-
ward and ingenious. And perhaps more
brave. Remembering these things we
must make our choice between those who
share. to some degree at least, our New
World ideals and purposes and those
who openly deride and secretly subvert
them. A little charity cast upon the in
ternational waters today will return
again to us tomorrow. And tomorrow we
may need it. R.D. MILLER
July IA.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Lord Lothian Has an Ideo

Great Brltaln'S Ambassador -deSig-
nate to the United States, the Mar
guess of Lothian, has bright idea.
He is anxious to inaugurate his mis-
sion at Washington next Fall with
some action likely to get it of to
flying start. To that end Lord Lo-
THAN, with reputed cabinet consent,
has been exploring the possibilities
of joint Anglo French action looking
to curtailment of the round $1O,OOO,-
100000 of war debts which the two
European democracies owe the United
States. There is no suggestion of
any considerable lump-sum payment
on account, but, apparently, only
of plan to resume token INSTALL
ments on defaulted principal and
interest after a lapse of more than
five years.
Paris is reported less enthusiastic
over the project than London, whose
hands, it is understood, are more or
less tied by an understanding be-
tween the French and British gov
ernments to act only concurrently in
connection with the war debt. The
celebrated Balfour memorandum on
the subject, it will be remembered,
committed Britain in effect either
to make debt payments to creditors,
or to cancel debts owed her by war
allies only as, respectively, she her
self received payments from debtors
or was granted reductions by her
creditors.
Evidently under the spell of reviv-
ifled Anglo American fraternity fol-
lowing the recent royal visit to the
United States, the British seem more
debt payment-minded than at any
time since 1884, when they went
formally into default on the Treas
ury's books. Lord Lothian has just
returned from Paris, where he
sounded the Daladier government on
a possible plan for an Anglo-French
debt readjustment program to be
financed by loans in Britain, France
and the United States. These loans,
according to London dispatches,
would be bulwarked by ironclad Brit
ish and French government guar
antees giving them giltedged prior
ity rank as funding issues. British
financiers indicate that "a drastic
reduction" of the principal of the
present funded war debt would have
to be the basis of the proposed new
debt deal.
With isolationist sentiment so
strongly in the saddle at Washing
ton, as manifested by the congress
sional attitude on neutrality, there is
grave question as to the concession
mindedness of House and Senate,
whose approval is necessary in all
debt matters. OF one thing there is
no question-that a genuine, con-
crete move by Britain and France to
lay the debt ghost would be gesture
certain to command the admiration
and respect, possibly even the formal
assent, of the American taxpayer.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Distortion Of Emphasis
Laid Against Borah.
To the Edi


Senator Borah is so formidable de-
bator that nobody with reputation to
lose can afford to cross swords with him.
Great moral earnestness and trenchant
style give to his pronouncements on
foreign affairs an authority few care to
question. Yet fearless examination of
his favorite argument will, I believe,
discover enough distortion of emphasis
If not actual fact, to warrant q very diff
ferent conclusion.
That argument is twofold and, it seems
to me, almost naively redundant. If
world affairs do not concern us, If our
only business is to keep the home fires
burning, nothing more need be said. The
case is closed. But we are further re-
minded that the so-called democracies
are no better than they should be, are
indeed no more to be trusted than their
totalitarian rivals for world power. Both
are playing the same game. Both are so
bad that 1t cannot matter to us which of
them wins.
So the case is not closed after ALL
Despite our assumed aloofness we are not
and cannot be Indifferent to the merits
of the struggle that is shaking the world
today. Hence the technique which
have called distortion of emphasis" It
Is as old as diSputatious man. In an
cient Athens it was making the worse
appear the better cause" IN modern
Washington it is enough to make it just
as good. Its hallmarks are such phrases
as II hold no brief for" II admit" IT do
indeed deplore." The manifest shortcom-
ings of the unacknowledged client are
thus conceded, but with no more en-
phasis than is needed to create an i'm
preston of fairness. Then all ones
moral indignation may be concentrated
upon the real enemy It Is q strategy
which cannot be too strongly condemned.
No one believes, of course, that Mr..
Borah has soft spot in his heart for
Mr.. Hitler. Under different circum-
stance his treatment of that gentleman
would leave nothing to be desired. But
his present job is to make the whole
European setup abhorrent to us. It is
not dificult. Old World diplomacy has
been a stencil in our nostrils for many
decades. We thank God we are not as
other nations and cannot understand,
much less pardon, the shameless be-
trayal of Czecho- -Slovakia.
And this makes us ready victim of
the distortion Of emphasis of which
complain. In a small world that is
daily growing smaller, in an evil world
that daily grows more sinister, we sense
the inevitable conflict and would avoid
1t by complete withdrawal. And so all
potential good beyond our shores is hope
lessly confused with what is evil in an
orgy Of self-righteous denunciation.
The remedy lies, Of course, In . clear
Evening star., 1939-07-17
SILVER SPRING, MD.

SILVER SPRING, MD.
Dear Sir: agree with you that the
mockingbird is . rascal, but he certainly
is a most interesting one.
"As q musician he is par excellence
maestro.
HE takes the calls, whistles and songs
Of other birds, and with his own melody
makes them harmonious whole.
This he whistles and trills not only
by day but often through the night.
"Have you ever been wakened on q
moonlight night by such a concert? He
goes through his entire repertoire. The
song is liquid music in the stiffness of
the night.
X ~
ut is the mockingbird as policeman
guarding the bush honeysuckle that
grows near the porch that interests me
THE berries Of this are ripe, they
gleam like rubies among the green
leaves.
'Mr. Mocker has appropriated this
bush as his own. Many visiting birds
are here-robins, catbrds, wood thrushes
brown thrashers; wonder how they
found out that there was such a feast
of honeysuckle berries.
Perhaps the wind carried the scent of
the ripening fruit, perhaps some scout
with magnifying eyes, soaring high
above, caught sight of them, or maybe
there is special bird radio among the
fiyers-anyway, there they are, but will
get very little If Mr. Mocker has his way
*+ x X
They dare not go into the bush while
he is here. They wait until he has had
his fill and flies to the nearest tree to
watch, then they venture to the laden
branches, but the watcher swoops down
in such threatening way that they
leave.
HE waits on tree top for a while, then
flies OH. The others see him go and are
soon among the berries. The robin fool
ishly gives his cackling call Il think this
is his way of laughing.
"The song is heard, back comes the
mockingbird, with him another, perhaps
his mate. They dive down to the bush
their outspread wings showing their
white markings. on go, the unlimited
guests.
X 4
Il wonder why they all fear the mock
ingbird. Yet there are some birds in the
garden which do not seem to have that
fear.
Not the goldfnch, with his canarylike
note, fitting and dipping over the blue
corn flowers, swaying and fitting on the
slender stems as he picks seeds from
the faded blooms.
Not the woodpecker in his black and
white suit and gay red cap. His only
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Thinks Time Has Come
To Stop Special Privileges.

~ tte Eoltor OF Inc Star:
The Washington edition of "Ahce's
Adventures in Wonderland" presents a
chapter on farm relief as the most whim-
slcal episode of this inimitable fantasy.
In violation of the rule of democracy
against giving special privileges to any,
more than seven billion dollars of public
money has been given to agriculture
within the past few years, while the
industry has been protected by high
tariff taxes including AZ cents a bushel
on wheat and Is cents bushel on corn.
Every State has an agricultural college
which gives all possible aid to farmers,
to which is added the very expensive
services Of the Department of Agricul-
ture. Farmers are paid millions for rais-
ing the crops they were going to raise
anyway and additional millions for not
raising crops they were not going to raise
anyway.
These immense favors to one industry
at the expense of all others are because
OF the voting strength of this greatest
single class. But the result is unfortu-
nate. The industry is made unnaturally
attractive by these favors. The result
is overproduction of staple products to-
gether with new demands for additional
favors, such as Federal loans to farmers,
minimum prices, Federal crop insurance
and guaranteed profits on all products.
Meanwhile, crop failures have followed
one another in Kansas counties for or
10 successive years. And it is to be
noted that these Federal favors are not
extended TO insurance men, newspaper
men or the thousands engaged in other
callings where the voting strength is of
minor Importance. Is it not time for the
average citizen to demand equal rights
for ALL" special privileges to none?
HENRY WARE ALLEN.
Wichita, Kans.
July II.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
An Armory at Lost

Washington's ong-cherished dream
of an imposing National Guard
Armory at the foot of East Capitol
street finally is to be realized, thanks
to the present Congress. An initial
sum of half a million dollars is pro-
vided in the District appropriation
bill to get the much-needed project
under way, and the ultimate cost is
fixed at two million, seven hundred
thousand dollars. The first INSTALL
ment is for preparation of detailed
Evening star., 1939-07-17
CommendubIe Firmness

The firm stand taken by the Presi-
dent and administrative officials of
the w. P. A. in the face of what is
obviously an attempt by striking
relief workers to coerce the Govern
ment is deserving of commendation
The strike is nothing more than
resort to direct and violent action by
minority group seeking to dictate
the policy of Congress, and as such
1t carries serious threat to the
sovereignty of the Government. Mr..
Roosevelt, under the circumstances,
was wholly justified in asserting that
you cannot strike against the Gov
ernment," and he should be sup
ported in that position by citizens of
all political faiths.
AS result OF the refusal of ad-
ministrative officials to yield in the
face OF pressure and the public re-
sentiment OF the tactics of the strik-
ers, the group of Senators who had
undertaken to secure restoration of
the prevailing wage clause of the
relief act, elimination of which led
to the strikes, have announced
abandonment of their efforts for the
present. In making that announce
ment, Senator Murray, OF Montana,
leader OF the restoration movement,
said the strikes had made it "embar-
RAISING" for his group to proceed.
While the accuracy of that statement
cannot be doubted, it should be
pointed out that the willingness of
the Montana Senator and his asso-
ciates to press for amendment of the
act in the first instance undoubtedly
gave encouragement to the leaders of
the strike
In announcing the decision to
abandon efforts at amendment, Sen
ator Murray said his group agreed
that the President had authority to
restore prevailing wage standards
under the present law. Somewhat
similar suggestions have come from
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Mayor La Guardia, of New York, and
it has been stated that the PrOsi-
dent might seek ruling from the
Attorney General on this point.
These suggestions apparently are de-
signed to embarrass Mr.. Roosevelt,
for, in effect, they ask him to over
ride the plain intent of Congress or
incur the displeasure of labor groups
which heretofore have enjoyed an
unstinted measure of New Deal sup
port. +
1t is to be hoped that the President
will rebuff these latest maneuvers
with the same flrmness which has
marked his attitude throughout the
strike. 1t would be a serious mis-
take at this time to make any con-
cession which might be construed
as surrender to the strikers. AS a
result of the exceedingly bad judg-
ment shown by the leaders of the
strike, the w. p A. crisis now presents
the question of whether an organ
lied minority group, seeking to serve
its own selfish purposes, can be per-
mitted to dominate the governmental
representatives of the whole people.
There can be but one answer to that.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
BIue-Eyed Grass

Flower OF the summer grass,
Wind-shaken star,
Frailest Of things that pass,
Briefest-you are.
AT dusk. at chill Of dew,
At wane Of light,
Eternity for you
Begins tonight
NEZ BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1939-07-17
Letters to the Editor
Appreciates Cooperation
Given by The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
On behalf of the officers and members
Of the Catholic Theater Conference. I
wish to extend our gratitude for the
splendid cooperation you extended to
us during our convention by giving us
adequate space in your paper.
REV. BRENDAN LARNEN, o. P.
July 13.