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Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-14

Mrs. America Sims, 28l6 Thirteenth
Ave. So, is still very ill at the General
Hospital.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-14

The Northside Political Club met
January 9th, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Walker, sol Aldrich Ave,
North.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-14

Mrs. Lizzie Briggs, US Sixth Ave
North, is somewhat under the wealth.
er.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-14

The M.A.C.W. district board met
Friday, January 9th, at the Phyllis
Wheatley House. Mrs. Frances Dun
can was appointed temporary chairman
at the request of Mrs. M. c. Washing.
ton, former chairman.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-14

Mrs. Alberta Wyatt of Chicago, III.
was called to the bedside of her sis.
ter, Mrs. America Sims.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-14

Mrs. Christine Bannon, 1920 Tenth
Ave. south is all at the General Hos
pital.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-14
Local News

The most elaborate pajama party of
the season was given by Miss Marcella
Copeland, Eula Vassar and Dorys
Bradshaw at the home of Miss Vassar,
200 North St. Adams. The guest list
included Misses Shirlee Harris, Ade-
laid Sykes, Rosamond Collyer, Mrs.
John Mitchell and Mrs. Lola Vassar.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-14

Mr.. Willie (Wee Willie) Burrell,
ol9 Sixth Ave. North, we'll known
musician, is ill at his home.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1939-01-14

Master Bernard Wilkerson, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. ]. Wilkerson of 1858
Herxes Ave, celebrated his 18th BIRTH
day January 10th.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Believes We Should
Support England.

To the Editor of The Star:
Granting Admiral Leahy was correct in
saying the British should have sup
ported Secretary of State Stimson when
he wanted to take joint action against
the japanese in China, that is no reason
why this country should not now sup
port the other democracies in their
effort to restrict efforts of the dictators
to destroy them.
1t is not the mistakes that were made
in the past that should shape our policy
now. We should be guided by what we
now know we should do before it is too
late. We all know, no matter how
self1shly England has acted at times,
that she has helped us to preserve the
Monroe Doctrine. And If the British
Empire is destroyed now, the United
States will have real job on it's hands
to keep the dictator countries from
taking over South America. Should we
fail, our foreign trade will be gone and
the time may not be far distant when we
will have to resist invasion by, ruthless
triumvirate. T. H. WALKER.
San Jose, Calf.
June ~.
Evening star., 1939-07-06

Chinese doing such queer things as
Americans have been doing in recent
years. The Chinese, who benefit from
the American actions, cannot possibly
understand the American mentality in
this respect.
During the past several years there
have been imported into the United
States from China quite few million
dollars worth of sesamum seed and
vegetable particularly cottonseeD oil.
on which the American public has paid
high rates of duty. These importations
were made necessary because of crop
restrictions in this country, and the
irony of the situation is that the busi-
ness in China of this character is ham
died by European, and not by American
merchants. AS against this the United
States has shipped to buyers in China
huge quantities of wheat, on which the
United States Government has sustained
a loss of 20 cents bushel.
July 5. GEO. w. MISSEMER.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
The Road Worker

His arms are tanned as brown as saddle
leather;
His hands are gnarled; his kindly face.
work-worn
His faded cotton shirt is held together
With patchwork, and his old felt hat
is torn.
Great wrinkled shoes, bespattered with
red dirt,
Seem leaden weights upon his weary
feet;
He pauses now and then to ease their
hurt,
And shield his aching back from
blazing heat.
At noon-a stained newspaper on his
He eats cold sausages with hunks of
bread;
And from a bottle, drinks strong.
lukeWarm tea;
And feels, somehow, that he is amply
fed
Then, with grin, he rolls a cigarette,
And turns again to labor and to sweat.
H. P. sTQDDARD.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trace1DeH.

Many bird watchers at this time Of
year envy the songsters the ease with
which they get good living from the
countryside, and never seem to under
eat or overeat.
You never see bird too fat or too
thin, or under any necessity OF dieting,
or trying to figure out what to eat
and when and how, and especially why.
No. the birds take what is at claw,
whether it is a natural "handout" or
seed and grain thoughtfully placed for
them by some human interested in them.
Nature sees to it that birds eat what
is good for them"
Not only that, she balances their meals
very well. She sees that they get not
only protein, with some vegetable mat
ter, but that many species get fruits,
filled with vitamins and minerals.
4 4 \
Take the robin.
Nature has endowed the parent birds
with a sure knowledge Of what is good
lot tnelr 1leQgllnRS.
The other day this column printed
a letter from a local observer telling
how pair of robins never made mis-
take as to which baby got the last worm.
They divided them evenly. Although
all three babies chirped constantly, the
parent bird always gave the Iood to the
one whose turn it was
Now comes clipping from The James,
vile (WisD Gazette, in which a writer
tells how mother robin alternately fed
her fledglings on worms and cherries.
This was the start of a rotation which
continued until every baby robin had
had its fill. First the entree of worms,
then the dessert of cherries and so on
until the morning repast was cCm-
pleted."
Many humans have discovered for
themselves that it is possible to live
we'll on much more limited diet than
some people think possible
The birds discovered this centuries
ago. No doubt necessity had something
to do with it, Necessity is not cnly
supposed to be the mother of invention,
but it also plays a part in food require
ments and supply.
The very structures of living things
are nodded by the foods they eat. What
they are, in essence, is physically due
to foods. The very way they have
grown and developed, over the centuries,
has been the result Of the food they ate.
The basic requirement for the build
ing and rebuilding of living tissue is
protein.
Animals get this by killing ard eating
other animals. The birds secure 1t from
worms or from huge consumption of
vegetable matter. II a seed-eating bird
can get enough seed, it can also get
enough protein.
The second necessity is carbohydrate,
either as starch or sugars of some sort.
This requirement is met both in vege-
tables and fruits. Therefore birds which
eat fruits not only get sugar, which
helps them keep.up their 1ncessant ac-
Evening star., 1939-07-06
The Senate Speaks Again

The Senate'S overwhelming vote
in support of Senator Overton and
its conferees on the District tax bill
should hasten satisfactory and equi-
table agreement on the District reve-
nue. and appropriation bills now
deadlocked.
For If the House has been waiting
to test sentiment in the Senate be-
fore reSuming the normal processes
of legislation through conference
agreement, the Senate has made its
sentiment clear and unmistakable.
The Senate has again given notice
that its views on legislation are en-
titled to respectful consideration by
the House and are not to be arbi-
trarily cast aside as unworthy of
notice.
The Senate has reiterated it's al
ready positive stand in favor of fiscal
equity for the people of the District
of Columbia, to be expressed either
through a temporary increase in the
lump sum or by the enactment of
reasonable formula for the scientific
and fair measurement, each year, of
the amount of the Federal payment.
Senator Overton and those serving
with him as conferees on the two
oils have exercised the spirit of con-
ciliation, necessary in all legislation,
without sacrifice of the equitable
principles they champion. They have
offered one compromise after an
other.
The fiat refusals of the House to
accept any deviation from its own
pronouncements on the Federal pay
ment have been explained by the
statement that such refusals reflect
''the temper" of the House. Is it
really "the temper" of the House
leadership and membership to as
sumo position that amounts to an
offensive ultimatum to the Senate
to take it or leave it,? Is it really
"the temper" of the House to seek to
force the Senate to admit that it is
no longer a coordinate branch of
Congress, possessing, with the House,
an equal voice in the enactment of
legislation? Is it really "the temper"
of the House to repudiate the solemn
obligation imposed upon Congress
by the Constitution to exercise
exclusively the power of legislation
in the District of Columbia? Is it
really "the temper" of the House to
leave logic and fairness aside when
dealing with the District of Co.
lumbia?
One does not willingly accept this
to be "the temper" of the House of
representatives, or believe that the
House will be led by prejudices-most
of which are based on unfortunate
misunderstanding about the Dis
trict-into wholly untenable posi-
tion that can only reflect discredit
upon its membership.
Evening star., 1939-07-06

not only on the necessity Of safe
guarding the hemisphere's territorial
security, but of keeping our cher
ished democracy inviolate." That
"the American way" is under system
attic fire by adherents of the total
itarian ideologies, who hope to make
its destruction the opening wedge for
political and economic aggrandize-
ment, is an international open secret.
Arresting statements on this score
were made at Charlottesville by
General George v. Strong of the war
plans section Of the General Staff.
He suggested that "our initial effort
dn the field Of hemisphere defense)
may well be in the direction of on
posing non-American participation
in the development of such a situa-
ton as we have recently seen in
Spain" General Strong asserted that
the United States, in preparing for
possible violation of the Monroe
Doctrine, must visualize the follow
ing steps by one or more European
poWers-(a) open support of revolu-
tionary governments in the Americas
hostile to us or antagonistic to dem
ocratic principles; (b) movements Of
armed forces to this hemisphere.
only when the European situation is
such as to insure the impotence of
the larger democratic powers.
Congress one day will be called
upon to plug several holes in the
Army establishment, General Strong
says, If our mission from Point Bar
row to TERRA del Fuego" is to be es-
sayed with assurance Of success
Some 10000 men, he contends, need
to be added to overseas garrisons,
raising their total strength to 10000.
At present available divisions are
"woefully weak" and undereouipped
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Longtime Resident
Comments on Chinese,

To the Editor Of The Star:
Would you allow me as native born
American citizen, who has spent IS out
of 81 years of his life in China, to make
the following comments on recent events?
The Chinese are the inventors of fire.
crackers and to this day the importa-
tion of frecrackers to the United States
is of sufficient Importance to be listed
in the commerce reports. The Chinese
celebrate every imaginable event with
1recrackers - weddings, departures of
guests, eclipses of the moon and espe-
cially victories or supposed victories over
the Japanese. On one occasion a false
report of a Chinese victory resulted
in a fusillade of crackers by the Chinese
population in Shanghai for more than
quarter of an hour of such proportions
that many Americans in the city mis-
took the noise for serious battle be-
tween the two contending forces After
such fusillade of crackers the streets
are lined with shreds from New Testa-
mentS and strips Of daily newspapers
from various Pacific Coast cities, the
over-run copies of which find a ready
market in China to the tune of thou
sands of tons.
During all my long residence in China
I have never heard of any Chinese be-
ing seriously hurt-much less killed-as
the result of the use of frecrackers.
While nearly all of the many hundreds
of deaths that have occurred in this
country incidental to the Fourth of July
holiday have been due to other causes
than firecrackers, yet there must be
something peculiarly careless about the
American public, for the fact is that
the yearly per capita death rate in this
country as the result of accidents is
greater than the mortality of Americans
in China, exposed to two years of war;
fare of no mean proportions. Yet my
friends ask me how can I think of
going to China, in view of the danger!
1t seems to me that ban on the use
OF f1recrackers in America is hardly the
way to handle this situation. If any
restrictions are to be invoked they Ger
tainly ought to be placed on the manu-
facturers of crackers of really danger
GUS character, not on the children.
Incidentally, many people here ask
me if don't find the Chinese queer"
people. On the contrary, I find them
exceedingly level-headed. BY no stretch
Of the imagination can conceive the
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Stones From the Sky

Millions of meteorites, it is esti-
mated, hit the surface of the earth
every day. The vast majority of them
are grains of dust Even so, in the
course OF millenniums, they add ma
terially to the size of the planet.
They have been falling since the
earth began. Rarely the globe is hit
by some larger body from outer space,
ranging in size from lead shot to a
mass of iron weighing many tons,
such as the great masses of iron
from the skies brought back from
Northern Greenland by Admiral
Peary, models of which now are in
the National Museum.
Throughout history there has
never been recorded an instance
where human being ever has been
hit by one of these shooting stars"
The large ones all have fallen in re-
mote places-such as the great ST.
berian fall of twenty-five years ago
and those responsible for the Arizona
and Australian meteor craters. But
in the past few years there has been
an apparently curious change-pos-
sibly to be explained merely on the
basis of better observations. Mete-
orites of moderate size seem to have
been hitting closer. One in Pennsyl-
vania last summer graZed a church
in the sight of many neighbors and,
allegedly, hit COW. Several instances
have been recorded in which build
ings have been hit. In one case in
Indiana a shooting star allegedly
pierced the roof of an automobile
Now, it appears from reports, a big
one came close to towns in Washing
ton and Oregon-only few hundred
miles away from some large cities.
The shock was felt through the coun-
tryside. Possibly the planet is passing
through a region OF space infested
with unusually bulky fragments of
some similar planet which is be-
leved to have been smashed in some
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Decries Gen. JOhnsOn's
Attack on Ickes.

To the Editor of The Star:
OF course Gen. Hugh S. johnson was
in belligerent, bellicose mood when at
tacking Secretary Ickes' statement-"I
want Roosevelt for third term'-ap-
pearing in The Star July 3.
The general makes statement mo
man is indispensable to this country
least of all those who have almost
ruined it."
Had Gen. johnson not been parading
his partisan politics, greatly stimulated
with spasmodic energy and reckless
utterance, he would have remained true
to his writing some time prior when he
wrote his column from Bethany Beach,
Del, as follows: ut is the conviction of
this writer that the second four years
Of Roosevelt will be the ablest admin
istration of our time"
AS to the statement about Secretary
Ickes' fear of losing his position, one
need only remember Mr.. Ickes' loyalty
to his chief and the Nations President
July 3. FRANK MANDRELL.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Calls Attention to
Fiscal Inequity Here.

To the Editor of The Star:
Eight million dollars is lot of money.
but it is a drop in a barrel in contrast
with one and quarter billions.
Congress gives our farmers $1,250000.-
900 and denies the District of Columbia
measly $S,OO0,OOO to maintain this. the
greatest capital in the world.
Washington freeholders own most Of
the real estate in the District It's true.
But it is not their city alone. Wash
ington is the Nations city.
Striking a dead level average, every
member of the United States Senate
has voted a gift of more than forty mil
lions to support individual farmers in his
State, rich or poor. The eight millions
asked by the voteless District is not
sought for the support of individuals,
but for the expansion and upkeep of
the Capital of the United States.
A study of the fiscal ARRANGEMENTS
between national governments and their
capitals discloses no such situation in
any other capital. could go into details,
but you can verify this statement,
July 8. NELSON ANDERSON.
Evening star., 1939-07-06

tivity, but they also get plenty Of
minerals and vitamins.
1t seems rather absurd to think of
these little fellows eating scientifically,
but that is just what they are doing.
Those which eat worms and insects get
plenty OF protein. with all the vitamins
inherent in their raw diet. Most of the
insects feed on vegetable matter, so in
consuming the insects the birds get
both proteins and plenty of minerals and
vitamins.
Robins which alternate worms and
cherries in feeding their young are doing
quite as right by their little ones as the
human parent who heeds the latest ad-
vice Of the baby doctor and feeds baby
on plenty of milk, vegetables, fruits and
fruit juices.
A limited dietary is not harmful, pro-
vided it is taken with some knowledge
and plenty of common sense. Humans
who have harmed themselves by reckless
dieting have done so through failure to
include the latter ingredients rather
than through smaller number of foods
than usual.
The great necessity is twofold, to see
that the diet is adequate as regards the
necessary food elements, including such
minerals as iron and such vitamins as
A, D and c.; and adequate as regards
calories necessary for the person of a
certain weight, whatever it may be.
X
Fortunately, the birds need no advice
in this important matter
Their great problem is finding the
food.
If they can find it, they can eat it, and
above all can digest it. Their alimentary
tract Is SO short that they have few
digestive difficulties.
They eat all the time, a little at
time. Their digestive organs work most
of the time, except when they sleep, Just
as their hearts beat all the time.
Despite the amazing disparity between
the various foods taken by the many
score species of birds, ranging from
vultures to hummingbirds, the necessary
food elements are in all their diets, for
their incessant eating takes care of
that.
Seeds, buds, insects, worms, fruits.
caperpillars, beetles, cicadas in season
and many others, all are grist in the
craws of birdland.
Out of them all each species of bird
gets what it needs, what is good for it,
and each one, no matter what it eats,
gets enough protein, enough starch
enough fat enough minerals and enough
yitamins.
The rest is waste matter, and makes
no difference. In human feeding, the
excess must be considered because mod
ern humanity is not as natural as bird
life and can be overfed-shall we say
overstuffed-much more easily than
bird Perhaps human beings could eat
much more food without becoming fat
If they took care to be constantly on
the go and never to eat food which had
been processed, kept too long, or de-
vitaEzed in any way.
Evening star., 1939-07-06
Hemisphere Defense

At the University of Virginia's
Institute of Public Affairs, the cur
tain has just been lifted on some of
the United States Army's plans for
hemisphere defense" Hitherto but
vaguely understood, even when the
term was first used by President
Roosevelt last year, it was defined
by Assistant Secretary of War Louis
Johnson as prevention of the seizure
and occupation of any additional
territory in the Western Hemisphere
by European or Asiatic power"
This streamlined epitome of the
Monroe Doctrine was even more
graphically described by Colonel
Johnson when he said it means our
ability ito concentrate adequate
force at any vulnerable point in the
three Americas, from Point Barrow
to TERRA del Fuego."
Recent contacts between leaders
of the United States Army and those
of Latin American Substantially
the visits exchanged by General Mon
teiro, Brazilian chief of staff, and
General George Marshall, the new
chief of staff of our land establish
ment-Were tangible testimony that
mutual defense problems are engag-
ing the intensive attention of the
sister Americas. The omission of the
other American republics from the
embargo provisions of existing and
proposed neutrality legislation sup
plies further evidence that our good
neighbor policy is not a mere matter
of sentiment or even of economics,
but contains the bone and sinew of
force.
War Department spokesmen at
Charlottesville disclosed that the
Army's arrangements for practical
hemisphere defense" plans are we'll
advanced. The national defense pro-
gram sponsored by the President and
approved by Congress will create
forees-men, guns and planes-"in
strength sufficient to repel any threat
to the peace of the Americas"
Colonel Johnson announced. The
Assistant Secretary Of War pointed
out that the Army's program is based
Evening star., 1939-07-06
great explosion a couple Of billion
wears ago.

great explosion a couple Of billion
years ago.
But the last thing to worry about
is the possibility of being hit by a
meteorite. The chance is too minute
for estimation. There Is about sin
gle chance in a number which could
be expressed by writing after the fig
ure one enough ciphers to fill up a
good part of this column.
Scientifically, these stones from the
sky are of extreme interest. One Of
the largest collections in the world is
now in Washington and National
Museum geologists are augmenting
it by thirty to forty specimens a year
picked up all over the earth. The
Oregon meteorite, if or when found,
may well constitute the prize of the
whole collection.