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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
Britain Registers
N-Year-0Ids for
Military Training
Enlistment Notices for
40,000-50, 900 Will
Go Out July !
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, June 3-Great Britain
today started registering the 20
year-old men who are to be called
up for military training in the
first peacetime consumption in the
nations history.
The labor ministry, in charge of
preliminary organi5a ton. began
listing the compulsory recruits at
its employment Offices, which nor
maly close at noon on Saturdays,
but today are remaining open until
$50 pm.
Notices Are Broadcast.
Notices to men in the required
age group to register were published,
broadcast and announced on bill
boards. No machinery has been
established to round up possible
defaulters. The government is re-
lying on the average citizens fire.
quent contacts with governmental
departments like the post office
or the health ministry to disclose
any who may fail to register.
Those registering today give
their names, ages, addresses, occu-
pations, They will 60 before a
military interviewing officer who
will ascertain their abilities and
preferences in types of training
The war Office will inform the labor
ministry how many men are re-
CURED for various branches of the
army and the first group of men
called, between 10000 and $4,000
will get enlistment notices about
July l, telling them to report two
weeks later.
Call $4,000 at One Time.
Approximately $4,000 conscripts
will be summoned at two-month
intervals until the years estimated
100000 have been called for a prof.
ected six months training,
The House of Commons on April
q approved the CONSUMPTION move
after the French government had
persistently demanded such step
as needed to bolster the French
British front.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
Moral Rearmament
Meeting Indorsed
By Gen. Pershing
Rededicution to Faith
Of Forefothers Urged
By A. (. F. Leader
By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

pE JAWES VALOO ANVIL L.
Cen John j. Pershing, sailing
from New York yesterday for his an
nual visit to France, strongly in
dorsed the National Meeting for
Moral Rearmament to be held in
Constitution Hall tomorrow evening
at $50 o'clock.
This moral rearmament," the
veteran commander of the A. E. F..
declared, should enlist the support
of all thinking people There is a
spiritual emotion which underlies
all true patriotism, and good citizen
ship itself is dependent upon the
high sense of moral obligation to
the people. Today, confronted by
conditions so threatening to world
peace, we must rededicate ourselves
to the faith of our forefathers, if we
are to be worthy of our heritage"
Speakers at the meeting, it was
announced today, will include repre-
sentatives of dozen foreign
countries. Among the messages to
be read will be greetings from 16
members of the British House OF
Lords. more than 100 members OF
the House of Commons. five leaders
Of British industry. spokesman for
British labor and friends of moral
rearmament in Denmark. Norway,
Sweden, Finland, Estonia, The Meth
erlands, Belgium, France, SWitzer-
land and South Africa.
The vanguard of the British dele
cation, led by Tod Sloan, arrived
in Washington last night. Con-
tingents from Canada. New York,
Philadelphia. Cleveland, Detroit,
Atlanta and other American cities
are expected today.
Dr. Frank Buchanan, who
launched the worldwide campaign
in behalf of peace and brotherhood
in London just year ago. will be
81 tomorrow. He was born at
Pennsburg. Pa. June 4. 1878, and
will celebrate his birthday ami
versary by delivering a radio address
to meetings assembled in England.
Scotland and Ireland at 1920
O'Clock tomorrow morning. Ar
rangements have been made for
him to speak from the main BALL
room of the Mayf1ower Hotel and
the public is invited to attend.
A cablegram from Brussels, given
out by DR.. Buchanan yesterday, in
dicated that Queen Wilhelmina of
the Netherlands and King Leopold
of the Belgians may employ the
principle of moral rearmament as
a basis for lasting international CO.
operation between the small nations
Of Europe.
Sponsors for tomorrow evenings
Constitution Hall meeting include:
Secretary of War Harry H. Wood
ring, Secretary of the Navy Claude
A, Swanson. Secretary of the In
terror Harold L. Ickes. Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins. Postmaster
General James A. Farley, many
Senators and Representatives and
a long list of private citizens.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
Roosevelt Student
Wins Essuy Prize

Marie Louise Ralph of Roosevelt
High School has been announced the
winner of the prize for the best es-
say on THE Merit System versus
the Spells System in the Govern
ment Service" sponsored by the Dis
trict Federation of Federal En-
ployes Unions.
Judges were Senator Bulow. chair
man of the Senate civil service COM
mittee; Representative Rogers
member of the House civil service
committee, and Harry B. Mitchell,
president of the Civil Service Com
mission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
landon Sees Finances
Biz ISSUE for 1910
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WATERFOWL, N. Y. June s.
ALI M. Landon. 1896 Republican
nominee, comedies social security,
wage and hour legislation and other
national Democratic policies are
there to stay and sees finances the
"big issue" in 1910.
What we must have in the United
States is wise finances" the former
Kansas Governor said in an inter-
view in the WATERFOWL Times, pub
lished by Harold B. johnson, his host
on week end fishing trip.
Republicans must nominate
progressive" minded candidate on
sound, sensible and concise plat
form and back him with harder
work than ever before" to win next
year, he added
The Kansan attributed Republican
losses throughout the Nation last
year to a "defeatist" attitude, and
said party leaders were "in a de-
pressed mood" They could have
won more races for Governor and
more congressional elections, he said,
IF they had been on the ball"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
Senator Hill to Talk

BEALLSVILLE, Md, June g.
Senator Hill of Alabama is to be
the principal speaker tomorrow at
Confederate Memorial Day exer-
cises in Monocacy Cemetery here.
The program is scheduled to begin
at 2 pm. and will include readings
and singing.
The United Daughters of the
Confederacy will decorate graves Of
Confederate soldiers in the cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
Soviet Reply Centers
On Corrections in
Text Of Pact
French Are Optimistic
As. Only Extension Of
Pledges Are Sought

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 3.-Soviet Russia S
reply to Britain's proposals for her
participation in the British French
front was described by informed
diplomatic sources today as CENTER
ing principally around corrections"
In the text in order to provide auto
matte guarantees for three Baltic
states.
Sources close to the French for
eign Office said Moscow negotiators
were In accord with London and
Paris on the ACCESSIBILITY of a mu-
tual assistance pact. France sup
ported the British proposals, Soviet
rejection of which was disclosed this
week in a speech by Premier Foreign
Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotoff to
the Supreme Soviet, Russias Parlia-
ment.
Baltic Guarantees Asked.
The Russians, however. expressed
desire for guarantees to Estonia
Latvia and Finland similar to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
Ex-PoIicemun Held
On Morals Choroe .

William D. Haislip. a 45-year- old
former sergeant of the Metropolitan
Police Department, was ordered held
for grand jury action under $4,000
bond when arraigned before United
States Commissioner Needham C..
Turnage yesterday on a charge of
incest. He pleaded not guilty to the
charge.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents testified his 21-year old
daughter had borne him two chill
dren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
james M. Todd Dies

BUFFALO, N. Y. June 3 (P.-
James M. Todd. retired United States
steamboat inspector and veteran of
more than half century of Great
Lakes navigation, died last night.
He was 80.
Todd retired eight years ago, after
having risen from cabin boy to
master on lake vessels that ranged
from sail to steam.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
Navy Yord Tests

Examinations for Is classes of
employment at the Washington
Navy Yard have been opened by the
Civil Service Commission. and ap-
plications will be received through
Wednesday at the Office of the
Fourth Civil Service District, GIG
G street NV. Skilled trades and
railroad enginemen and conduc-
tors are in the list.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
Street Car MonqIes Hand

His hand mangled while at work
in a pit at the street car barn,
Fourteenth and Decatur street NV,
Frank Fuller, 66, of 81 I street
NV, was admitted to Emergency
Hospital today. He told police his
hand slipped on rail and q street
car ran over it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
White House Trespusser

A man, taken into custody yes
terday afternoon at the White House
grounds, was held today in Gal
linger Hospital for observation. Po-
lice said the man was arrested
after acting suspiciously and iden-
titled himself as John Boroski, so,
of Cleveland, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
Puqeunt Cancelled

Owing to inclement weather, the
colored Elks pageant scheduled for
tonight at Griffith Stadium has been
cancelled, DR.. Charles A. Marshall,
deputy grand exalted ruler, an
nounced today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-03
80 900 Ton 'Surqery'

LOS CERRILLOS, N. Mex, June 3
R.-An 80-000-ton chunk was dy-
namited from the devils throne"
giant rock near here, so precisely
that no damage was done to Santa
Fe Railroad tracks, roads or tele-
graph wires.
The broken volcanic rock. diorite,
will be used as track ballast.
Evening star., 1939-03-01
Palestine Compromise

The one clear evidence that
emerges from more than two weeks
of futile negotiation in London be-
tween the British, Jewish and Arab
delegations is that Great Britain, in
despair to find a workable compro-
mise between the hostile Palestine
factions, has turned now to the type
of appeasement which led to the dis
memberment of Czecho-Slovakia.
Progress toward settlement of the
Palestine feud since it rose to it's
present proportions two and half
years ago has been practically nil.
Jews and Arabs prepare to leave
London feeling no less bitter than
when they went there more than
two weeks ago, except that the Arabs
are encouraged to hope that the Holy
Land will be made theirs by the solu-
tion Britain appears ready to impose.
Instead Of pursuing the idea of
compromise which was inherent in
the Peel Commissions partition plan
the British government has turned
now to a forceful settlement which
would meet practically all of the de-
mands of the Arabs while forcing
the Jews to surrender their ultimate
goal-a national home based on a
majority of population in Palestine.
The outlines of the British pro-
posal are now pretty well estab-
ushed-restricted Jewish immigra-
Evening star., 1939-03-01
Lee Boulevard zoninu

The Arlington County Board has,
In the opinion of the Federal Bureau
of Public Roads and many county
citizens, violated gentleman's
agreement in authorizing a local
business zone on Lee boulevard at
Pershing drive to permit erection of
hotel. Even two members of the
board said they were morally bound"
to oppose the rezoning because of
understandings with the Federal and
State governments, which furnished
the major share of the cost of build
ing the splendid highway.
County sentiment, as reflected by
the Arlington Civic Federation, de-
plores the three-to-two vote by
which the proposal PASSED. not only
because the board thereby repudi-
ated a reported pact but also because
of the precedent involved. The
county Chamber of Commerce, the
county manager and the majority of
the county board justified the action
by contending there never was any
understanding with Federal authori-
ties, and the hotel to be- built on the
tract is not an Objectionable struc-
ture.
Even opponents of the rezoning
conceded that a hotel may be a de-
sirable institution in a growing
community such as Arlington, but
argued that hotel is hard to isolate.
Hotels naturally become surrounded
with business properties, stores, fill
ing stations, etc, and there were
ample sites elsewhere in Arlington.
The Federal bureau gave ample
notice of its policy when it required
rezoning of a local business tract to
residential even before it allocated
funds for the road 1t was such Incl
dents that led citizens to conclude
that Lee boulevard would be one
gateway to the Capital that would
not be commercialized. Their dis
appointment is keen at finding that
their county board has reached other
conclusions and takes what they con-
slider a shortsighted view of Arling-
tons welfare.
Evening star., 1939-03-01

Jugoslavia, and in addition she played an
active and prominent part in the League
of Nations. And, far from having neg
lected her ornaments and depending on
other nations to defend her, she was one
of the most heavily armed nations in
Europe, IN proportion to her size. She was
also ready and willing to do her share of
fighting. and would undoubtedly have
fought furiously if it had come to war.
But her alliances failed her at the last
minute, and she was left alone, a small
nation, to fight not only big Germany
but also Poland and Hungary, all at the
same time Her situation was simply
hopeless
And here the chairman of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee might have
drawn another lesson, namely. that we
cannot depend for our security on al
Iances, but only on our own strong right
arm. For the smaller nations, the ma
jority, even this is not sufficient Indeed,
In the light of post-Munich events, it is
not certain that even the stronger ma
tlons can stand up alone, when several
nations gang up against one; and one
may well ask whether, in the absence of
international morality, there is any such
thing as national security.
Under the circumstances, it seems that
the best we can do is to prepare our de-
fense the best we know how. cooperate
with all nations whose aims and ideals
are SIMILAR to our own, and hope for the
best. EDW. WOLESENSKY.
February 81.
Evening star., 1939-03-01
A Thought on
Defining Immortality.
To the Editor of The Star:

Uennlng immortality.
To the Editor of The Star:
The fact that God was not mentioned
independence was doubtless due to the
fact that the founders of our Republic
realized that religious conceptions are
forever subject to change. and as minds
broaden, conceptions do likewise.
Not so long ago, people regarded God
as revengeful Being who consigned the
wicked to eternal flames. This has been
largely supplanted by the idea of God
of Love, while many modern thinkers
conceive God to be an infinite energy,
constructive. impersonal power which
moves to good"
One thing is absolutely certain: The
finite mind of man can never grasp the
infinite, and we approach immeasurable
being in a multiplicity and variety of
ways. What seems to bring solace to one
may not appeal in the least to another.
Hence it is futile and fatuous to imagine
that any single Interpretation of truth
will gain universal acceptance. No
mortal can define or outline immortality.
Opinions will continue to differ.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote:
$50 many Gods; so many creeds,
So many ways that wind and wind;
When just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs"
E. K. GOLDSBOROUGH
February 26.
Evening star., 1939-03-01
Wants Cotton Sold
Wherever Possible.


Last Sunday I read in The Star an
article which stated that there was less
American cotton being exported to Eu-
rope this year than at any time since
the century began. Figures were given
which showed a sharp land what I
would consider unnaturaD decline in
cotton exports from even this year over
last year. It was really most amaz-
ing article, and if it is true that our
Government is actually withholding
American cotton from these dictator ma
tions-or at least making it more diff
cult for them to get-in order to force q
change in their internal policy, it is the
most disgraceful and shameful thing any
government ever perpetrated. That this
Government would jeopardize the al
ready shaky security of about Is per cent
Of our people In order to spite govern
ment whose actions are none of our
business, is shocking and nearly un-
believable. But there must be some
devious reason for the sharp decline in
cotton exports this year, for it doesn't
fit in with the rising tide Of world
prosperity.
It is the duty of every government to
foster the sale of Its peoples goods or
produce to any place or every place. I
only wish the article to which have
referred could be circulated to every cot.
ton growing community in the country.
February ~. L. r. H.
Evening star., 1939-03-01

cars at one dollar each, is said to
have the support of the motorists but
to be opposed by the administration
on the ground that the revenue pro-
duced would not be sufficient.
At all events, the Free States mo-
torists, who voted for Harry w. Nice
and two-dollar tags in 1934-only to
fail to get the cheap tags-have
voiced strenuous objection to two
dollar driving permits.
Annapolis observers say there has
been more articulate opposition to
that feature than to any item on the
O'Conor plan to boost the States
revenue and balance the largest
budget in Maryland's history. Over
10000 petitions have been circulated
in opposition, it is reported.
1t is pointed out that motorists are
taxed heavily by the State and Fed
eral governments and the two-dollar
charge cannot be justified by service
rendered. The proposal seems to
have been inspired by the financially
successful, but unpopular, reregis-
tration at one dollar per driver two
years ago.
If the Senate committee retains
the attentiveness to public sentiment
and independence of executive DOM
nation that was evident when it
voted last week, it will prevent efforts
to revive the obnoxious charge and
find fairer levy.
Evening star., 1939-03-01
Shooting Stors
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Remembered.
Epistolary art is lost,
Or so the critics say:
The time and trouble it would cost
Is far too great to pay.
And yet though leagues may separate
Two souls all fond and dear,
They make, by methods up to date,
Their sentiments quite clear.
The understanding day by day
Harsh words will never wreck,
For mother sends postcard gay
And father sends check.
Evening star., 1939-03-01
Reregistering Drivers

One of the major battles of the
current session of the Maryland
General Assembly appears to be
brewing over Governor O'Conor's
plan to reregister all automobile
drivers at two dollars each. The
proposal appeared dead last week
when the Senate Finance Commit
tee voted unanimously against it, but
administration forces are trying to
revive it. A substitute plan, to set
up State inspection stations and re-
quire semi-annual examination Of
Evening star., 1939-03-01
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Traceuell,
witness to certify to the truth of my ac-
count and to my friends discontinue.
Respectfully submitted, DR.. T. u"

witness to certify to the truth of my ac-
count and to my friends discontinue.
Respectfully submitted, DIR. T. u"
ARLINGTON, VA.
Dear Sir: Here's letter in answer to
E. s. B.
Il must have Old Smarty's mate in
my back yard. The description you gave
in The Star recently exactly describes
the action of our Old Smarty.
Il think it Is the same bird that has
been around the yard for several years
In the winter, all alone, but this wear
when the first snow was on the ground
he took complete possession of the feed
boxes and drives all the other birds
away
Il feed them from wire trough tackled
up under the back porch.
Had to do this to keep the starlings
from eating it all up.
"They would come by the flock, hun
dred at time, should say. I had four
jays and four cardinals, to say nothing
of the sparrows, that would breakfast
with me every morning.
my wife changed seats with me at the
breakfast table so I could watch them.
1t is interesting to see him boss the gang.
Our Old Smarty, as you have named
him, is especially fond of grapes and
raisins that cut up fine and put out
for him.
1--WE don't like to see him run all the
other birds away, but it is certainly
pleasing to see him rout the flock of
starlings.
Il can't concede that you have the
champion mockingbird, If you will in
clude Arlington County, where live, in
your territory.
'Yours sincerely, A. G. P"
The shrike, both the Northern species
and the so-called loggerhead, is an in
teresting bird. The latter is slightly
smaller, being about 8 inches long.
This is the famous butcher bird, which
impales its victims, sometimes sparrows,
on a thorn.
1t is believed that it does this in order
to get a firm hold on its food, its claws
not being strong enough to hold while it
is tearing at the flesh with its scissorslike
bill
Toleration would call for letting the
shrike have his meals as he pleases. We
do not believe he would get many SPAR
rows. after all. They can fly, you know.
Mostly his food would be field mice, and
the smallest moles.
We are glad to hear tnat our Arlington
correspondent is inviting the birds to
his breakfast. That is the way to enjoy
them. Such happy little pals at break
fast would set any one up for the days
work. This is good thought when es-
tablishing feeding statictl.
Put it where it can be seen from the
breakfast table. That way, men and
birds eat together. in a very good sense.
1t is liberation in action.
Evening star., 1939-03-01

ton, a permanent minority status
with guarantees for the Jews, re-
linquishment of the mandate, and
an independent Arab state. The
Jews refusal to consider such plan
Is understandable.
The British motivation is apparent
concession to superior force or
threat of force, both actual and i'm
piled. The Arabs position is a
powerful one. With their brothers
scattered throughout the Near East
and their co-religionists throughout
all the Orient the Arabs know, as do
the British, that ferment could easily
be famed into open fire. In the
background stand Hitler and Mus
solini.
The Jews, on the other hand, are
In much inferior strategic posi-
ton. With the hand of most of the
world against them they have few
levers to use against the British
government, which could, if it were
so disposed, throw the entire Jewish
national home out the,Window, leav-
ing the Jewish race without hand
full of soil to call its own.
The United States is estopped from
interfering on behalf of the Jews
unless it wants to take responsibility
itself for the peace of Palestine.
This country has certain rights
which Britain may not alter without
American assent, but termination of
the mandate and creation of an in
dependent state in themselves can
not be the cause of American inter-
vention.
Suppression of one side or the
other will not bring peace, for among
both Jews and Arabs are extremists.
Compromise, to which all parties
contribute, is the only true basis for
peace in the Holy Land