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Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
TIE FOREST SHIYERs

If the nations forests could tell
us what is in their thoughts. they
would say they feel happier when
the tourist season is over. The bend
ing tree tops seem to be shaking
with fear lest some careless motor
ist should throw that burning ciga-
ret end into the dry leaves by the
way.
Great forests, which have taken a
century to grow, have been turned
into a black desert in a day. because
some careless tourist threw that
spark of fire into the woods as he
passed along. Then perhaps that
same man tried to build a house and
complained that the lumber cost
more than it did in his father's day
If so. he helped make it cost more
by an act of carelessness that burned
up a timber tract
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
CAMP REVELATIONS

You can get some idea what people
really are, by the way they behave in
camps where work is to he done. 1t
is pointed out that if young men and
young women could be members of
some nice party at a camp before
they became engaged. they would
have better chances of getting ac-
quainted. and would not so often
pick the wrong mate.
If the girl friend persisted in 60
ing out in the canoe about the time
she was supposed to help wash the
dishes, it would be a sign she was
not so good for a permanent mate.
And if the boy friend would absent
himself about the time the water had
to be lugged from the spring. or the
tirewood gathered for the stove. he
also would not look so nice as
steady bOarder.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
FIDELITY IN LABOR

Peoples future is largely shaped
by the kind of spirit they show in
youth. They begin making that flu
ture when they study in school. If
they are determined to master every
lesson and will let nothing stand in
the way of doing so, they create a
reputation for themselves as good
students. and get high Recommended
tions when they leave school.
1t is the same when they take jobs.
Some people think it makes no great
difference whether they do perfect
work in each little detail. But if they
leave things at loose ends, there are
complaints and dissatisfaction, and
some people lose their jobs. If they
perform each task perfectly and in
a finishing way, their reputation
grow every year. These are the peo-
pie who get promotions, and stand
the best chance of jobs when out of
work.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
THE MARCH TO THE BATH

The American people are said to
own 95 per cent of all the bathtubs
in the world. While six homes out
of 10 in our country have bathrooms,
in many countries the bathroom is
esteemed a luxury to he enjoyed only
by the wealthy. American sentiment
says the march to the bathroom
should be the first stunt of the day.
1t is welcome stunt in summers
heat.
If some of these foreign countries
would spend some of their war equip
ment money on bathtubs. they would
come out better A daily bath in
good ample tub sends a person out
into the world with new courage and
power. There is invigoration in that
abundant contact with stimulating
water, and people who come out
from the bath feel like doing things.
We can only hope the time will
soon come when every American
home will have its bathroom and
tub. Probably many more people
could have them, if they would spend
money for the things they need most.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
THE HARMONIOrS TOMN

Cities and towns which made good
progress are usually places where
there is little contention between
elements and factions. When a town
is noted for its quarrels. it is hard
to get cooperation. and without un-
ity of action the place is apt to re-
main stationary. People are slow to
start progressive movements. fear
ing they will not get united support.
When the different elements work
together. or when there is so little
friction that factional quarrels do
not arise, one of the greatest OBJ
stacles to progress is removed. If
people are carping and criticizing,
public movements are likely to fade
out under the breath of hostile feel
ing. But if everyone is cheering for
the causes of progress. they slip
along quite easily and get results.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
TOURISTS AND TRAFFIC RULES

The automobile tourist who roams
over the country has his troubles
with all the varying traffic rules and
habits. When he gets tangled up in
a congested city center. he often says
he has more than he can do to heed
all signals. void one way streets
and keep from hitting any person or
car.
If he is careless about parking his
car in forbidden places. if he tries
to jump red light. if he speeds up
as fast as he can when no cop is in
sight, he may come to grief before
he sees the old home burg again.
Traffic officers are usually lenient
with tourists. but they have a way
of sizing up the speed crowd who are
constantly looking out the back win
dow to see if any officer is after
them.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25
THE SLIPPERY WATER

The good old summer time is not
so good for some folks who go out in
boats and canoes without realizing
what slippery thing water is. In
their inland locations many of them
look at water as merely a beautiful
element, on which they can disport
themselves with as little thought as
if they were waltzing on a smooth
dance floor.
Water is as slippery as an icy
surface on a road. If you get your
center of gravity outside the base
which supports it, that boat or canoe
may slip out from under you. When
you slip on an icy surface, you at
least fall to the safe ground. but if
the boat slips out from under you.
you may take up your residence per-
manently among the fishes.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25

BUSINESS may be able to exist
without advertising, and so people
can live without eating enough food
to make them strong and healthy.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25

THE FRIENDS PEOPLE have
push them ahead in life. So city is
pushed ahead by its friends. When
ever it creates advantages for its
residents, and gives handsome treat
ment to visitors, it makes these help
full friends.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25

IN PROMOTING PROGRESS in
the home town, one good worker Is
worth a dozen critics.
Milford chronicle., 1939-08-25

PEOPLE can usually remember
their home town when ii owes them
any. money.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
Zane GREY

To all who revelled in the red
blooded adventure of the conquest
of the West as portrayed in the fast
moving novels of Zane Grey, news Of
his death will be received with sincere
regret. He helped "sell" the West
not only to the East but to the world.
AS writer of clean, exciting romance
he yields ground to no one in the
general appeal of his works. Is there
a boy who can read who has not
heard Of Zane Grey? If the melo-
dramatic caliber of his works re-
moves them from first rank literary
performance, their high moral level
lifts them far above the "dime novel"
Western thriller.
A witness to the appeal of his par
ticular genius is the number of his
tales that Hollywood moguls have
seen fit to make into moving pictures.
Death for Zane Grey is physical
only. There will be many a lad in
the years to come who will burn the
midnight oil "unbeknownst" to his
parents, buried in the exploits of the
bordermen, the Jorths and the Is
bells, Buck Duane, riders of the pur-
pie sage and other characters in
books "by Zane Grey"
Evening star., 1939-10-25
Says United States Should
Conserve Own Resources.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
In their zeal to pursue a safe course
and serve the interests of all, both the
retentionist and the repealist blocs of
Congress have lost sight Of the fact that
the objects they advocate are harmful
to the better interests Of the United
States. The retentionists protest the
lifting of the embargo on implements of
war but they condone the sale and ship
ment Of raw materials. The repealers
demand the elimination Of the ban on
arms, airplanes and ammunition and ad-
vocate the sale and shipment of all ma
terials to foreign countries in the war
zone. In other words, both retentionists
and repealists advocate the sale and ship
ment of commodities which are of vital
use to this oountrys safety in times of
stress like these. If the United States
Government intends to protect its natu-
raj resources, its trade routes and markets
within the American sphere of influence
and to cooperate with the Latin Amer
ican states In consultations on defense Of
these vital interests. then the Congress
should conserve the flow of materials out
side its own sphere and retain them for
our own consumption as a measure of
sef-defense. II the United States Gov
srnfnent expects to safeguard its heritage
Evening star., 1939-10-25

matched and inexhaustible resources
versus hand-to-mouth conditions
that will confront Hitler from the
moment his initial reserves begin to
scrape bottom. The gallant feats of
his submarines and bombing planes
may achieve sporadic and sensational
successes. But they do not hold out
any prospect Of filling the gasoline
tanks of Germany's mechanical
forces or of its aircraft, or the oil
bunkers Of Raeder's pocket battle
ships and raiding cruisers, or of
assuaging the pangs of already un-
dernourished German stomachs.
Ribbentrop might have done better
at Danzig to devote himself to some
of these realities of the war than to
fantasies and ali'bis about the wars
origin.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
Washington, D. G.

Here stands city, founded on Q dream:
Immortal now, in greater things than
stone.
From 1t shall go forth one great con.
slant stream
OF hope. endowing from this source
alone,
A mystic power in the hearts Of men
In other lands, where altar fires haye
died.
The gift Of vision Is the mission, then.
Until New World rises, glorified.
This city shapes the concepts Of man.
kind:
Renews the failing virtues, lost in hate.
Sends out compassion, gentle and refined
Upon weeping world, 50 desolate.
The power and the glory Of its nams
May resurrect humanity from shame.
JOHN PooLEY WRIGHT.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
The Medical Case

The refusal of the Supreme Court
at this time to review District Court
decision dismissing the antitrust
case indictment against the Amer
ican Medical Association and several
co-defendants is in line with the
established policy Of the high tri-
bunal not to pass upon litigation, ex-
cept in rare instances, unless the
customary appeal procedure has been
followed. For this reason, the action
Of the court should not be construed
as bearing in any way on the merits
of the real issue in the case, nor is
it to be considered as indicative of
the final position the court will take
If and when it reviews the dispute.
After the indictment had been
thrown out the Department Of Jus
tice perfected its appeal to the United
States Court of Appeals, and also
sought Supreme Court review with
out waiting for the Circuit Court to
act. Had the case involved any vital
constitutional question or had it been
similar to other litigation already be-
fore the court, the request for i'm
mediate review might have been
granted, but since neither of these
elements was present the Supreme
Court properly denied the petition.
The issue Of law at stake In the
appeal is whether physicians are en-
gagged In trade within the meaning
Of the antitrust law. Important
though that determination is, it in
wolves only an Interpretation of the
statute, and there is no reason why
the Department of Justice, although
its desire for prompt final adjudi-
cation is understandable, should not
follow the established procedure in
pressing its appeal. In the absence
of compelling reasons for haste, the
Supreme Court prefers to form its
judgments after appropriate records
have been made in the lower appel
late courts. That is sound as gen.
eral policy and the justices were wise
to adhere to it in this case, for it's
implications are too broad to justify
a resort to legal short cuts.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TraceweH,

they do they do because they enjoy the
process.
Gardeners should feel that no garden
is complete without bird bath.
1t will be worth while to get bath
which can stand freezing, for the song
sters which stay with us all winter like
their baths In cold as well as hot
weather.
They do not mind cold water in the
least.
Some enthusiastic bird watchers have
gone to the trouble and expense of in
stalling electrically heated baths for their
friends, but probably most persons will
not be able or willing to do this. 1t Is
not at all necessary. All that is es-
sential is to keep the bath filled, and the
ice broken. This, of course, saying that
the bath can stand being frozen. Most
of the commercial baths cannot stand
the strain 1t is better, therefore, to take
them in when freezing weather sets in,
rather than to permit them to become
cracked and broken
pan in the earth is as good as any. Birds
like this type of bath. It is at once
natural and easy. Care must be taken
to keep 1t filled Usually such pan can
be filed twice day with complete salts
faction. Most wintering birds prefer to
bathe in the sunny morning hours, or
sometimes in the middle of the after
noon. If the bath is kept open at these
times, its full purpose will be served.
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Shallow little pans may be affixed to
feeding station platforms.
They will not be as extensively used
as larger and deeper baths, but still they
fill purpose, and should be tried, at
any rate.
Owing to their shallowness, they must
be watched carefully if they are to be
of any service to ones feathered guests.
dust bath is liked very much by our
birds.
Ground is ordinarily as hard as flint
in freezing weather, but it may be pull
verized and kept in dust condition by
little thought and application.
Perhaps the best place for this type
OF fall and winter bath is beneath a
shrub. This is entirely natural, and
keeps the dust from becoming wet and
soggy.
The mixture of a small amount of
sand with such dust heap will keep it
from all blowing away in a wind.
Two feeding stations in yard, We be-
heve, are just twice as good as one, not
only from the window viewpoint but also
from the standpoint of flypoint of the
birds themselves.
Two small stations are better than
one large one. An elaborate feeder may
impress ones human friends, but not
ones feathered ones. What they want
is food. and the more places they find it
the better satisfied they will be- Flying
from station to station gives watchers
increased enjoyment Birds are never
quite so much birds as when in flight.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
Repeal of 'UnneutruI'
Embargo Demanded
Ban on Sole of Munitions
Held Beneficial to
Luwless Motions
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The arms embargo should be repealed
because 1t is unneutral. 1t takes away
a natural geographical advantage which
Great Britain and France would other
wise have. To repeal 1t is simply to re-
store the balance with which we ought
not to have interfered.
Germany has the advantage of inside
lines and the protection of the neutral
states On her border The natural ad-
vantage which Great Britain and France
have is the freedom of the. seas, en-
abling them to get munitions from us.
To take away this advantage was grossly
unfair. This is case in which we our
selves have upset the balance. It is
therefore our duty to restore it, and with
it, genuine neutrality.
Those opposed are offering superficial
reasoning, which does not get down to
the essence Of neutrality. AS to inter-
national law in the second Hague treaty
of 1907 Germany and most of the other
nations agreed (preamble of convention
10 that the rules might be altered during
a war by neutral where experience has
shown the necessity for such change for
the protection of the rights of that
power" phrase so broad that it shows
a clear intent to leave a wide-open door
in such cases.
The present act is inherently unsound
because it almost inevitably favors the
lawless nations and works to the dis
advantage of the good-neighbor nations.
If the world, including our own coun-
try, would use the machinery of collec-
tive security. fortunately already estab-
lished at Geneva and The Hague, the
subject of neutrality would seldom, If
ever, arise. Securing the cooperation
necessary to do this and creating the
habit of such practice among the ma
tions, based on the correct mental and
moral attitude, takes time. When we
reach this stage In the evolution of inter-
much better chance of preventing such
monstrous assaults and batteries as we
have witnessed recently. Then we will
be free to impose collective embargoes
and other sanctions. In fact, the poten-
tial power Of the collective system in
itself may then be sufficient to prevent
unruly nations from making the world
miserable as they are doing today by
their uncivillzed use of force.
1t is significant that men like Senators
Borah and Johnson, who must bear their
share of the responsibility for the failure
of collective security in these critical
years. are among the most active in the
effort to maintain the pseudo neutrality
Of the embargo act.
There is no reason why the question
OF embargo and the question of going
into the war should not each be settled
on its own merits. There is no reason
why Senators and Representatives can
not vote yes" on repeal and no" on
going into the war. They have the final
decision on both. MYRON E. PIERCE.
Boston, Mass.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
Blue jays bathe In 2 minutes or less.

Blue jays bathe In minutes or less.
Robins and English sparrows take at
least minutes, sometimes more.
Catbirds and mockingbirds are satisfied
with from 2 to minutes in the water,
We have never seen wood thrush or a
dove take bath, no matter how splendid
the fixtures put out for them.
The larger the bird, the more water
1t displaces, but this is only part of the
reason an active bird bath will have to
be ref1lled at least twice day.
The big question is: How much fuss
does the bird make in taking its bath?
English sparrows, despite their COM
parative smallness, can splash all the
water out of a shallow basin in a few
minutes.
This is because they are active little
fellows which really like their baths, and
put up such futtering and splashing
that most Of the water goes over the
rim.
1t is failure to watch closely and really
note how much water is displaced which
leads to so many dry bird baths.
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The ideal bath for birds is compara-
lively shallow, not more than inches
deep at the center. less at the edges.
An inch or so, one way or the other,
makes little difference, but to get bath
too deep is far worse than to have it
too shallow.
With their active wings, and ability
to crouch, your average birds have no
trouble at all in covering themselves
with water, no matter how shallow the
basin, whereas they are somewhat fear
full If the water is too deep.
Cardinals have been known, however,
to hook their claws over the rim of a
tub, and then dip themselves rapidly in
the water, first forwards, then revers-
ing, backwards. This has been seen by
a reader of this column, and so reported
here.
The faithfulness of many species to
their daily baths is an interesting aspect
OF pure nature.
Few animals seem to have any such
need. Dogs really prefer to be dirty. AS
for cats, their methods of taking bath
are unusual, to say the least. 1t is not
bathing in the sense that birds bathe.
The fact that feathers are made more
or less waterproof, with special oil, may
have something to do with the liking Of
birds for water. Fur becomes soaked.
and does not dry easily, whereas feathers
do not become really wet, and can be
dried in few shakes.
Most birds which bathe are careful to
get the entire body beneath the water.
They indulge in much Hopping, making
the water fly; no doubt the main purpose
Of this is to get every part wet The
bird, Of course, can have no abstract
idea of cleanliness. 1t just must like the
feel of the water. This is quite evident
from watching them in a bath. What
Evening star., 1939-10-25

Convention, and it is expected, there
lore, that a demand will be made on
Russia for the release of the steam
ship. It must be recognized, however.
that article % Of The Hague Conven-
ton, despite the fact that we have
refused to accept 1t, has some stand
Ing IN international law and would
AFFORD colorado basis for a refusal
by Russia to accede to a request for
release of the vessel pending a hear
Ing OF the case by a German prize
court.
In this connection it is also well to
remember that the commander of
the German cruiser followed the
most moderate course open to him
under the circumstances. With Ger
manys' ports closed by the British
blockade, and in view of the fact
that he could not reasonably have
been expected to permit the City of
Flint to continue on to her destina-
ton, he had to choose between de-
stroying the steamship and the cargo
or sending the vessel to some neutral
port. So long as American merchant
ships are permitted to trade with bel
ligerents, this Government, if it
presses a claim for the release of the
City of Flint, must recognize the fact
that the closing of neutral ports to
German prizes would tend to place
commanders of German warships in
a position where they would have no
alternative but to sink contraband
carriers.
The real solution from this coun-
trys standpoint, of course, is to adopt
the pending neutrality legislation,
which would prevent our merchant
vessels from exposing themselves to
the fate that has overtaken the City
Of Flint. It is to be hoped that the
lesson to be learned from this Incl
dent will not be lost on Congress.
Evening star., 1939-10-25
Takes Issue With Attack
On Col. Lindbergh.

To the Editor OF The Star:
In the october 18 Star, Gwynn Griffith
accuses Col. Lindbergh of ingratitude to
England, particularly to The Cliveden
Set" I cannot see that he is under any
obligations to THE Cliveden Set,"
because, however kind their hospitality
may have been, it should not earn them
anything more than like hospitality
should they visit America. 1t certainly
should not interfere with his political
views on problems vital to this country
Furthermore to retain the courage of
your convictions and express them when
they be in opposition to your friends re-
quires more courage and honesty than
keeping silent or thinking one thing and
saying another.
Who knows. outside Col. Lindbergh and
his wife, whether the many kindnesses
and honors shown them by number
Of nations, were always kindness for
kindness sake or for other motives?
The above writer also stated: What
would be the net result were he to gain
his point, and by force take over the
British West indies" etc. Force was
not mentioned in his speech in this re-
spect. He said, Sooner or later we must
demand the freedom of this continent
and its surrounding islands from the
dictates of European powers" I take
exception to the way this statement is
put more than to the idea behind it
because I too. have recently thought
that union of this continent would be
better protection for all against Europe
that seems to be slipping back into the
dark ages of cruelty and stupidity. How
ever this must not be obtained by force,
only by the desire and consent of the
majority of all the people.
Perhaps the above writer confused the
speeches of COL Lindbergh with that of
Senator Lundeen. 1t was the Senator
from Minnesota who made the brilliant"
remarks about taking the British and
French possessions by force, in payment
of their war debts. I can sympathize
with the Senator's desire to obtain pay
ments but not in the manner recon-
mended. ARDIS KAWLEY SNOW.
Alexandria, Va.
October 81.