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Evening star., 1939-08-28
Outlook for japan

GermanyS non-aggreSSlon pact
with Soviet Russia is body blow to
Japan, leaving her extremely vulner-
able to Russian attack and forcing
her to revise her entire foreign
policy, building it on Japan's own
strength rather than upon the al
lance which she hoped would pre-
vent Soviet Russia from seriously
challenging her in the Far East.
Japan lives today under the threat
of a powerful Soviet Union which,
because it has little to fear from
Europe, can turn its entire attention
to the Far East. What Japan's ulti-
mate solution for the problem will
be probably has not yet been decided,
so deeply did Chancellor Hitler's
swing to Russia shake all her calcu-
lations. But the first steps toward
new policy already have been taken.
splendid isolation" phrase bor-
rowed from Englands nineteenth
century history, will be the keystone
Of the new policy. That much the
cabinet has decided, with the
approval OF the army, which, because
of its recent pressure for an out
right military alliance with Germany
and Italy, must be the most disillu-
stoned element in Dai Nippon.
But out OF this decision have al
ready sprung two other measures, a
protest to Berlin that the Russian
pact nullifies the anti-comintern
pact of 1896, in which Japan was
allied with Germany, Italy, Spain,
Manchukuo and Hungary; and resig-
nation Of the Japanese cabinet
to permit the domestic readjustment
necessary to a new foreign policy.
Resentment against Germany is not
confined to the government at Toxic,
for Germans at Tientsin are now
being subjected to the same slap
pings by japanese gendarmes which
have been dealt out to Britons and
even Americans in the past two
months.
Although Japan already has shown
signs of moderating her attitude to-
ward the United States, and will in
all likelihood have to make some
alteration in relations with Britain
and France, Toxic is faced with the
most serious problems in her rela-
tions with Russia.
Russia has a number of unsettled
scores with Japan. Since Japan con-
quered Manchuria, Russian interests
in the Far East have suffered heavily.
More recently Japanese and Russian
troops have engaged repeatedly in
skirmishes along the Siberian and
Outer Mongolian borders, and Jap
anese fishing rights in Soviet Far
Eastern waters have been a source
of dispute, as have Japan's oil and
coal concessions in Northern-Rus-
sian-Sakhalin Island. Furthermore,
Russia has lent considerable aid to
China in her resistance to japanese
invasion, and Russia is still deeply
concerned in the preservation of
China, chiefly as a counterweight to
Japan's growing power. Finally,
there is the menace to Russia's own
territory in Eastern Asia inherent in
Japan's proclaimed intention to
build new order" in Asia in which
she would be dominant.
Certainly the possibility of strong
policy toward Soviet Russia is greatly
diminished unless Toxic wishes to
risk direct attack from Siberia and
perhaps loss of all her gains in China
by the necessity of meeting the
menace from the north. The re-
vamping of the cabinet undoubtedly
is a move to strengthen Japan to
meet Russia's new strength.
Evening star., 1939-08-28
Urges Enforcement of
Antf-Noise Rule.

Anti Noise Rule.
To the Editor Of The Star:
Thanks for effort to abolish some of
the unnecessary noises.
I'm living within a stones throw of
a quiet zone on Lamont street where
there is much continued illness of many
people. This sign seems to have no de-
sired effect on automobilists, some stop
ping in front of it, blowing horn as much
as Is and 20 times for some one in guest
house to come. The blowers are always
men.
Please, Mr.. Commissioner and all In
authority, try to help the helpless.
August 20. A TAXPAYER.
Evening star., 1939-08-28
Extension of Six-Hour
Law Opposed.

Law Opposed.
To the Editor Of The Star:
In response to the letter in The Star
OF Henry Ash, suggesting that police be
allowed to hold prisoners 4s hours, let
me advise the writer that he is confused.
AS far as Washington is concerned, we
have no real law enforcement. The
Constitution of the United States, and
, especially the fourth, seventh and four
teenth amendments, is now dead
There is no Justification for holding
a suspect without charge for more than
six hours in a police cell.
The remedy for this is a magistrates
court and public defender.
August %. B. j. LAWLOR.
Evening star., 1939-08-28
Believes Chamberlain
Needs Umbrella,

To the Editor Of The Star:
One would think that Mr.. Chamberlain
would have most decided limp and
need crutches. His leg has been pulled
20 far. But probably each leg was pulled
alternately and equally, 70 he gets along
with m umbrella. Thank God for the
umbrella JAMES ARNOLD
Richmond, Va.
August n.
Evening star., 1939-08-28

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the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights Of publication of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1939-08-28
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
Dear the name and address OF
the 1oriter, although the use OF
a pseudonym for publication Is
permissible. Please be brietl
Evening star., 1939-08-28
Urges Less Publicity
For Hitler,

crisis is being brewed. The stock market
falls. Axis officials make widely pub
hcized airplane trips from capital to
capital. English cabinet ministers dra-
matlcally cut short vacations and return
to London. The newspapers-apparen
innocent OF conscious desire to be
funny-write gravely of the imminence
OF war. This becomes monotonous.
Hitler must derive macabre endowment
from his ability to throw his democratic
rivals into the jitters, employing a tech
nlque aided by the avidness with which
the worlds news agencies hang upon his
words and deeds.
hazard the prophecy that we shall
see no war this year. I believe Hitler is
bluffng, that he has no stomach for a
showdown fight with the democracies
that he knows that by provoking such a
conflict he would sign his own and Ger
many's death warrant. If war does break
out, 1t will be through spontaneous COM
bustion, and not because Hitler wills it.,
IT Hitler could not have won a general
European war before Munich, how could
full year to prepare themselves and in
the face Of an internal financial and
economic condition much weaker than
before?
AS Tor us, how can we win surcease
from further repeated Preparations of
this moth-eaten farce? Here is one
answer: Let Britain and her allies
would that America became one of those
alliesD announce categorically that one
more coup by Hitler or Mussolini will
mean war and let them give teeth to
their announcement by continued mill
tary preparation. That done, let Britain
and the rest of the peace-loving world
including the New York Stock Market
sit back, relax, and treat Hitlers foam
ing at the mouth with the amused con-
tempt it deserves.
Above all, let the American press and
the international news agencies, by more
sanely appraising news values, quit serv-
ing as Hitler's press agent.
August 81. HARRY N. STARK.
Says America Should
Avoid War.
To the Editor of The Star:
With the impending crisis in Europe
today 1t is time for the American people
to take firm Standard take it imme-
diately.
II the mothers, wives and girls of
America say, "Our husbands, sons and
sweethearts will not go to war" 1t may
possibly bear some weight.
Again we will be called upon to lend,
lend, say, probably never to be repaid.
What did we gain from the World War?
Nothing but debts never to be repaid by
England and France, who could well have
done 50 long ago. The late visit of the
King and Queen OF England was purely
visit to obtain our good will and pledge
to aid them in case of war-not word
about paying the huge war debt still
owed us. How can England and France
be so well prepared if they have no
money to pay US? And yet they will again
have the colossal nerve to ask for aid.
LOYAL AMERICAN.
August -.
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He was STOPPING over looking at
the little house they had been so
proud Of when they had built 1t.
''Hal" said he, ''I'm afraid you viii
have to build a new house some
where else, Danny Meadow Mouse,
for have got to clean up around
here and take away all the old corn
stalks. ] wonder what the inside
Of your house is like"
With that he picked up the house
in his great hands and began to tear
it open to see what it was like in
side. Poor Danny and Nanny Mead
ow Mousel It was more than they
could stand. Danny shut his eyes
so as not to see what was going to
happen, but Nanny, because her
mother love was so great, actually
ran out In plain sight. She didn't
dare 60 quite to her babies, but she
went just as near as she did dare to.
When Farmer Browns boy had
torn open the roof of the little house
so that he could see inside he gave
a long whistle of surprise. Then
very gently he lifted out Teeny and
Weeny and Midget and Mite and
held them in the hollow Of one hand
while he looked at them closely. OF
course they were too little to be
much afraid, but they didn't like
the bright light, for you know that
ever since they were born they had
been In the dark and now the light
hurt their eyes. So they snuggled
together and they tried to get their
heads under each other.
Just then Farmer Browns boy
happened to look down straight into
the terribly anxious eyes of Nanny.
Slowly a smile lighted up his freck-
led face. Don't you worry, Mrs.
Meadow Mouse" said he. 81
wouldn't hurt your babies for the
world. I guess I've spoiled your
house and I'm sorry. I wouldn't
have done it if / thought there might
be babies there"
Very gently he put the four ba-
bies back in their bed of grass and
as well as he could, which, of course
was not very well, he pulled the
broken roof together over them.
Then he put the house back where
he had found it and stepped back
few steps. Nanny looked at him
very hard. Then suddenly she dart
ed forward and into her house.
"You brave little mother" said
Farmer Browns boy softly, and be-
gan to put back the cornstalks he
had taken from the pile. When at
last the little house was once more
in the middle of the pile he started
on. "I'n wait until you have that
family off your hands before clean
up here" said he softly as he saw
Nanny's bright eyes anxiously peep
ing at him.
ct. w. Burgess.-WNU Service.
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looked her up and down, hesitated,
raised his hat and passed on.
1 Arline's heart sank.

looked her up and down, hesitated,
raised his hat and passed on.
4 Arline's heart sank.
For two days thereafter she ex-
listed in something OF a daze, poig-
nantly conscious of only two thingss
her burning, all-consuming love for
Alec, and the hopelessness Of that
love.
On the third day she did a des-
perate thing. .4e ~
She phoned him at his apartment,
but she didn't say the thing she'd
intended. For as soon as Alec heard
her voice, he cried: -
airline! I-I-may I come overf
! was just about to call"
Arline's heart skipped a beat. She
steadied herself with an effort.
''Of course" she said. do"
Alec arrived within a haf-hour
and at sight of him Airline discov-
cred that once more her nicely re-
hearsed speech was going to be fore
stalled.
Alec said: airline, I got to think
ing on the way over here. You
called me for some reason. What
was it,"
Taken quite unawares. Airline hes
itated.
'Why-I-I-"
"Was it because you-you're
ready to- marry me?" he asked.
Airline made choking sound.
Perhaps" she began. a|
'Darling!" He swept her into his
arms. ''Oh, sweetheart, I made an
awful fool of myself I tried to
make you want me by becoming in
different, by paying attention to an
other woman. I was an idiot to
think it would work. That day we
met in the lobby and I saw you were
no longer wearing my ring, I real
lied how stupid I'd BEEN"
"But, Alec, it was about the ring
I called you"
"Eh?" said Alec, bewildered.
81 was going to tell you that il
you wanted the ring back you'd have
to 60 get it from the restaurant
where I left it as security for my
meal check, after you left me
stranded"
Alec's jaw fell open.
"Then, it wasn't because-then
you called me tonight only be-
cause"
He stopped and stared ruefully,
because Airline had begun to laugh.
Darling, I've always played my
lunches. And when left that ring,
had hunch it might serve as a
good excuse sometime to call you
up"
She broke of, for at that moment,
Alec seemed to have hunch-and
played it.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Word Rhapsody In Music
Was Used by Franz Liszt

The use of the word Rhapsody as
applied to music, was one of Franz
LISTS many happy hits in musical
terms, relates writer in the De-
troit News.
The ancient Greeks used the word
to refer to recitations selected from
epic poetry-the type which recalls
great events and tells about them in
lofty style, full of feeling, piecing
together bits of this and that like
rich quilt.
AS a result of his Hungarian child
hood, and his deep love of gypsy
music, List wrote 10 Hungarian
Rhapsodies. They are collections of
Magyar melodies with gypsy-like or
naments. Trills and scales hang
over the melodies like colored
strands of sparkling beads.
One of the most popular old Hun
garian dances is the Czardas, with
its very slow spots full of desolation
and its "friska" which increases to
furious gayety.
The Czardas has cast its shadow
over all LISTS RhapSodleS for they
all have these extreme contrasts Of
mood.
List wrote his Rhapsodies for his
own instrument, the piano, and
many of them, particularly the IA
vored second Rhapsody, have been
arranged for orchestra and other in
StrumentS.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

Over the eastern hall. of the Unit
ed States and some Of southeastern
Canada the short-tailed shrews are
abundant and important small man.
mails, although they are rarely seen,
writes Vernon Bailey in Nature
Magazine. We call them small. but
among the shrews they are one of
the largest, being about mouse site
and Of sturdy build and bloodthirsty
disposition.
They are burrowers and ground
jewellers, keeping much under COW
er and out of sight. Almost mole
like in structure and habits, they
have functional, although small
eyes, scarcely visible ears, short
legs, short tail, and velvety fur that
always keeps clean and glossy. A
pointed flexible nose serves the
place Of eyes in dark tunnels where
much Of their food is gathered by
sense Of smell and feeling, but the
pinhead eyes may be keen in the
dark at short range. Their beauti-
full brown-tipped teeth are effective
weapons for holding, cutting and
crushing their prey, most of which
are insects and other small animals
up to their own size or even larger.
While true insectivores and
equipped with hooked incisors in
tended mainly for catching and hold
ing insects and their relatives, while
crushing them with their heavy mo-
lars, they are able also to kill and
eat vertebrat2s as large as them
selves.
With simple but rapid digestive
system, they are hearty feeders and
full of dynamic energy, strength and
activity. In few hours one will
eat its own weight in earthworms,
insects or meat, and be ready for
another hearty meal q little. later.
They sleep or rest by short inter-
walls Of an hour or so during the
night and day, and eat or search for
food between these short maps. They
never become fat and are active
throughout the year, generally work
ing under the snow in the coolest
weather, making long lines of UNI
mistakable tracks over the surface,
and then tunneling back to the earth
to their regular runways, tunnels
and burrows.
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to build a house somewhere else,
Danny Meadow Mouse"
frightened and when people are ter
ribly frightened they run away from
the thing that has frightened them.
AT least that is what most people do,
and it is what Danny and Nanny
did now.
With frightened squeaks they ran
along the secret little galleries Dan
ny had made for just such a need.
And then quite suddenly Nanny
stopped. She had thought of the
four babies left in that dear little
house. She had remembered Teeny,
Weeny, Midget, and Mite left to the
mercy of Farmer Browns boy. She
couldn't run another step.
Hurry" squeaked Danny, scam
pering on ahead. But Nanny didn't.
Instead she began to go back. Dan
ny looked back over his shoulder
and saw her. what are" he be-
gan, and then he, too, remembered
the helpless babies and feeling of
great shame swept over him at the
thought of how he was running away
and leaving those babies with no one
to even try to protect them. He
turned back and hurried to catch
up with Nanny. Together they
peeped out to see what Farmer
Browns boy was doing.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

a GOOD practitioner has a very
\ definite technique of procedure.
It is not the same for all investi-
gators in the field, but they all have
the same end in view-the discov-
cry of the hidden cause of the per-
sonality disturbance. The dreams
of the patient are taken into con-
sideration; that dreams have a
meaning is certain; that the mean
ing can be found is not so certain,
although some have been helped in
this way. Worries, fears, memory
lapses, slips of the tongue, peculi-
arities of writing, any and all per-
sonal idiosyncrasies of the individ-
ual are data for the psychoanalyst.
Copyright.-WNU Service.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
May Not UnIucky Month

May is not an unlucky birth
month, asserts a writer in Pear
sons London Weekly. The May
born should be happy in married
life, especially if they wear the
right birth stone-an emerald. But
May has been regarded as unlucky
for weddings ever since Roman
times. Marry in May and you'll
rue the day" is our proverb. Hot
weather in May is supposed to pre-
sage poor harvest; a cold windy
May brings later compensations.
No other month appears to have
special lore, except that "October's
child is born for woe and LIES vicis-
STUDIES must know" This however,
can be remedied by wearing an
opal birth stone.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Discovers Nerve Current
Is Speeded Up by Warmth

It has been known for a century
that electric charges follow nerve
impulses, but it was only about 10
years ago that it became possible
to measure the equivalent action Of
the brain. The measurers found to
their establishment that even when
no impulses are sent into the brain
nerve cells nevertheless beat cleo
trically just as the heart beats me-
chanically when we are asleep.
According to DR.. Ralph W..
Gerard, associate professor Of phys
iology in the University of Chicago,
this discovery has revolutionized the
conception of the nervous system.
In the old days, meaning FIVE years
ago and longer, the nerves were
supposed to stand idle until appro-
pirate buttons were pushed, like a
telephone exchange waiting fer
somebody to take a receiver of its
hook. Now it is known that the
nerves are always active.
Are the electrical beats produced
by ring, a chain of nerve cells
which pass on the impulses one TO
another, just as electrical impulses
are passed along the individual
molecules Of an electrical circuit1
Doctor Gerard says not. u
Recent investigation shows that
these spontaneous beats are affect
ed by warmth (Which speeds up the
rate), by chemicals potassium is
an accelerator, calcium a retarder)
and by regular nerve stimuli such
as the tap. under the knee cap which
makes us kick the lower leg invol-
unfairly.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Oxide Used IS Canoe

The. drea, an inflated oxhide, is
used as canoe on the waters of
the river Sutlej. India. The ease
with which this curious craft can
be carried is a great advantage;
on the other hand, it is so easily
overturned when afioat that crest
care and skill are required in its
manipulation. The native. lies
ACROSS the drea, which he ipropeb
with his hands or with short pad
die, and steers with his feet. Il 4
passenger Is carried, he sits astride
Of the Grew" which must make
the balancing Of the vessel stiu
more difficult.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28

GEOGRAPHY means eoins
~ places and has to do with col.
ors on q map. Maps are very con
fusing since. the World war, how
ever. Europe has gone hogwild and
where is Austria. anyway?
Travel goes all over. ~
But how 50 many people got 50
far away Is q mystery. h9ostSSf
them are 30 uneducated they can
barely speak English. A spelling bee
would be no place for them. Words
like naphtha would be fatal.
Mountains with their forests are
exceedingly numerous. Housewives
should be eternally grateful, need
ing cedar closets to store linen.
Odor is more important to bed
clothes sometimes than wrinkles.
Rivers wear out little around the
mouth, but, MI IN all. geography ID
remarkably permanent.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Psychological Savages

The natives of Dahomey, a French
West African colony, seldom seek
divorce; they have q custom that,
usually, makes it unnecessary.
Tribal tradition centuries Old
established by some ancient chief
rich in human understandable
DEGREES that when a man, and his
wife quarrel, both must 60 to oppov
site corners of the room and, facing
the wall, mediate in silence, fora
fixed period. This over, tho man
speaks first, but all he Is permitted
TO- say 10 "rm an idiot" This he
shouts 100 times. When he has in
ished the wife does likewise. Then
both turn, advance to- the center of
the room and together cry I'VE ere
idiots" This ends the ritual. Beth
are now free 10 do whatever itt,ey
please. hn innumerable instances
they do just what the old chief ex-
pected-burst oat laughing and for
get their quarrel.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
WHAT FARMER BROWNS
BOY DID

OF COURSE when Farmer
~ Browns boy lifted of the upper
half of the pile Of old cornstalks in
the middle of which Danny and Nam
ny Meadow Mouse had built their
home he had no idea that anyone
was living there. It is q question II
Danny and Nanny were any more
surprised than he was. OF course
they ran-ran as fast as ever they
could. They did it to save their
lives. At. least that is what they
thought. You see it was all so sud-
den that they were just terribly
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1939-04-28
Use q Contact nsiss.

Contact poison is . poison which
Is used against insects that. suck
their foods. In other words, tho
poison comes IN contact with the
body surface and kills the creature
which cannot be poisoned by =
stomach poison which Is the oppo-
site Of contact poison. Nicotine,
pyrethrum. rotenone, sulphur, and
oils are the usual contact poisons.
Corrosive sublimate is q chemical
compound commonly used as q dis
infectant for plant diseases. espe-
cially soil-borne diseases. In other
words, it disinfects the soil or the
roots at nlants such as iris.