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Evening star., 1939-06-13

NIT the law is not perfect and no
doubt more of these imperfections
will be ironed out as time goes on.
The Senate action increases the
total subsidy payments to $73,O00,OOO
annually. But actually, they will be
considerably less. The U. S. H. A.
borrows money at the going" rate of
interest, 13s per cent, and lends it to
the local authorities at per cent and
in some instances at 3l4 per cent. To
date its annual profit of $2O,OO0,OOO is
being applied to reducing the annual
payments, so tn. expectation is that
the latter will not exceed $4,000 900
a year. This year the budget car
ries only $5,o0O,ooO for rental sub
sides.
One of the chief criticisms aimed
at the Housing Act is that the local
authorities should put up more than
the 10 per cent of the construction
cost of project. This is a matter
that probably will be corrected be-,
fore long. The u S. H. A. is trying
to encourage local agencies to bear
a greater burden of the cost. With
this in view the Wagner bill proposes
to make the obligations of local
housing authorities available for in
vestment by national banks.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
The Army and Peace

Fresh from bidding farewell to
King George and Queen Elizabeth,
President Roosevelt seized appro-
priately upt the British sovereigns'
visit to the United States as a text
for his address to the 1889 gradual
ing class at West Point. Cooperation
was its theme. After dwelling on
the increased necessity of co-opera-
tion between the various components
of an army in this new era of
diversified mechanization, the Presi-
dent told the future commanders of
the military establishment that if
teamwork can be developed inter-
nationally as we'll as nationally, we
shall be materially nearer to a
realization of our hopes of peace"
Mr.. Roosevelt clearly implied
that the Kings American sojourn
betokened that international CO.
operation which makes for amicable
relations among the peoples of the
world. The West Pointers were
privileged to hear the President de-
scribe last weeks royal events in
Washington and New York as "a
courteous recognition (on the Kings
part) of the cordiality and good will
which prevails between two great
nations"
From that unambiguous statement
the Commander in Chief of the
Nations armed forces diverted
naturally to thoughts appropriate
to the setting in which he spoke
Anglo-American friendship is pos
slble, he pointed out, because both
Britain and America ARE without
fear OF any act of aggression of
one against the other" But more
than the ties of sentiment and
mutual respect are requisite to that
end. They must be bulwarked by
"strength''-strength that comes mot
from arms alone, but from restraint,
understanding and cooperation
which are in turn the product of
trained and disciplined minds"
The President does we'll to implant
In the newest crop of the Army's
officers the lesson of cooperation as
a factor in international life. They
join the line at a period in history
which has provided dramatic illus
trations of the fate of undefended
nations"-events, Mr.. Roosevelt as
serts, which require still greater
emphasis upon the vitalization of
our defense" America seeks peace,
the young men leaving the pic
turesque ramparts high above the
Hudson were assured, "by honorable
and pacific conduct of our interna-
tional relations, but our desire for
peace must never be mistaken for
weakness"
Evening star., 1939-06-13
Housing Program Approved

The substantial majority vote by
which the Senate passed the Wagner
bill doubling the loan authorizations
OF the United States Housing Au-
thority to $1,600, 100000 is significant
for at least two reasons. First, it
appears to be clean-cut approval
of the Nation wide slum Clearance
and low-rent housing program. Sec
ondly, it indicates that Congress,
with national election not far off,
is as yet unready to apply effective
brakes to the issuing of bonds by
Federal agencies.
The Wagner bill is important for
still another reason. A surprise
move by its sponsor, Senator Wagner,
Democrat, of New York, tied into the
United States Housing Act a COM
prehensive program to assist public
housing authorities in the develop
ment of rural housing projects for
farm families of low income. This
would be done in cooperation with
the Department of Agriculture,
which, naturally, is most favorable to
the idea.
There is little doubt now that the
House will follow the action of the
Senate in providing $500 100000 in
additional loans to local housing
authorities for slum. clearance. The
only real test in the Senate came on
an amendment by Senator Taft, Re-
publican, of Ohio to reduce the loan
authorizations to $4OO,OOO,OOO and
to provide $30,00O,OOO instead of $45,-
100000 additional for the annual
Federal contributions used in sub
sidizing rentals for the lowest income
groups. This was rejected by vote of
thirty-nine to twenty-six.
1t will be interesting to see how the
rural housing program will work out.
The proposal was sprung on the
Senate without prior consideration.
1t provides assistance for public
housing in blighted rural areas under
the same conditions which must exist
in the case of urban housing.
The debate in the Senate did much
to clarity the atmosphere with re-
spect to some of the controversial
policies of the U. S. H. A. It brought
out that newly negotiated contracts
show a steady downward revision in
construction costs. The Federal
agency appears to have kept to the
spirit and the letter Of the law. Even
stanch proponents Of housing ad-
Evening star., 1939-06-13
Shadow of Beauty

A shining aura clings about your face,
From days when you were younger and
more fair;
Keeping tnviolate, in lasting grace,
Shadow Of beauty, lingering like a prayer.
1t holds you, like portrait in frame.
A thing apart, too lovely to withdraw:
While ruthless years relent, or pass in
shame,
As recognizing beautys holier law.
Not loveliness alone that greets the eve,
But LIES deep etching on your mind and
soul;
Such beauty tarries long, and will not
die
It is beyond relentless times control:
And when earth yields you up to heaven
at last,
Faint fragrance still will inger where
you passed.
LOUISE WILSON DuNwELL.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
DiscOurtesy to Bishop
Freeman Deplored.

To the Editor of The Star:
I 1wonder what the seventy-five or more
million Protestants in America think of
the insult offered to DR.. Freeman. Bishon
Of Washington, by the official committee
responsible for the f1asco at the Cathe-
dral grounds on Friday, June 9.
DR.. Freeman is the most outstanding
Protestant Bishop of America and one
Of the best loved of all American clergy
men. He also represents the church of
which the King and Queen are members,
as well as the bulk of English citizenry
The royal party was not to blame. as
1t had to follow the program Of its
hosts I doubt if their majesties knew
they were passing the Cathedral grounds
"Officialdom" knew what was planned
and just how the plans were to be car
ried out. To say there was not time is
too flimsy to be considered, as there
was time for everything else. Besides
Bishop Freeman was allowed to believe
there was time up to the last minute.
Why was he not informed earlier?
June II: STAR SUBSCRIBER.
Evening star., 1939-06-13

the acts OF individuals. It seems to be
IAN old German custom" way of dis
playing German superiority" and 'kul-
tur"
And be it noted that this latest in
stance OF German brutality occurred,
not on their own soil, but in another
land, among foreign people, where they
had no right to be. Had Policeman
kniest and other Reich Germans been
at home, he would probably have been
unharmed.
10 understand the situation, it should
be noted that ever since the Germans
seized Czecho-Slovakia they have been
literally plundering the country and
stripping it of every valuable thing
which can be carried away. The forests
are being rutblessly hacked down
Every bit of available iron and other
metals is being collected for German USE
Foodstuffs are being shipped out of the
country to such an extent that the
Czechs, who up to a few months ago
were well supplied with food, are now
facing a serious shortage in many lines.
The control of industrial plants, banks
and other property is being concentrated
IN German hands, often without ade-
quate compensation. Many art treas
ures and other valuables have been
taken to Germany. Thousands of
prominent Czechs have been imprisoned
Tor no other reason than that thev
were leaders among their people and
loyal to their country. Libraries are
being ruthlessly shorn of all works fa-
vorable to the Czech cause. Hundreds
OF thousands of the people themselves
are being shipped to Germany for forced
labor. An entire nation is being robbed.
starved and enslaved for the benefit of
Germany.
And all of this is the direct result
OF the deal between the -four traders"
at Munich. This is the price which the
Czech people are paying in order that
England, France and the rest of Europe
may enjoy peace. This is the result of
Czecho-Slovakia's yielding to appeals
from various governments, including o,,r
own, that she settle her differences with
Germany without resort to arms. and to
the promises of guarantees of her new
frontiers. And it is a sad commentary.
June 10. EDW. WOLESENSKY.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
Old Experience Recalled
BY Bakery Strike.

To the Editor of The Star:
There is bakers strike on. I don't
know thing about the details. But
right now the men are getting better
than 81 an hour
Now, about As years ago in Baltimore,
baking was one of the most miserably
paid trades in all creation And it was
skilled occupation, calling for 3-year
apprenticeship. A first hand" CASUALLY
married) received 81 week, bread for
his family, his own meals and also beer.
A second hand was rated at 81. As for
the qualifications of first hand" he
had to know as much as the boss
himself.
Then there was the general rousta-
bout" (pfannenaugust at So a week. I
put up (about 18 at that time, and Just
stripling) with exactly one week of
that slavery-beer or no beer. Sixteen
hours a day, II with the regular bakers
who then went to bed and another S
saving cordwood. much preferred TAX
ing chance at hoboing
Baltimore, in those days, had anv
number of small cellar bakeries" no
doubt insanitary. Some only baked up
barrel and a half in whole week, and
yet. they worried along, and the under
paid help didn't commit suicide, either.
This may cause some "wishful thinker"
to ask, why not return to those frugal
standards, where every one stayed alive
without Government assistance?" Swell
chance! Every generation, as 1t seems,
has its own standards, its own ways of
dealing with problems. Says Goethe, i'll
substance, ''The old is dead, the times
have changed, and new deal is sprout-
ing forth from the ancient ruins"
In the late eighties Bismarck could
still say, "The workman should be de-
Gently paid and labor long hours. This
prevents him from getting notions into
his head" Now the good word is, 1.-The
workman should be excellently paid and
work short hours. That1l give him a
chance to stuff his head with lots of
notions"
In any case-tempora mutantor.
June "a. FRED VETTEH.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. TracetUeH.

own personal ideas of the exact con-
ditions which should prevail at bird
feeding station
Ideal conditions, of course, are easy
to plot in the mind.
They are just as difficult to achieve as
any other ideal, however, and perhaps
one would find ones self quite uncom-
Portable, if gained.
Perfection is scarcely human.
Let no one believe that bird feeding
is anything except human. The human
angle to it bulks large. The birds and
other wild creatures get the food, but
some man or woman has to put it out,
in the first place, and the second place,
and the third place, and every place
marked by succession of days.
This means habit, and that, of course,
is where the human element comes in
with a rush.
What is habitual is either good or bad
as the individual makes it.
To draw up list of acceptable birds,
and list of unacceptable, is to begin to
make ones mind subject to the reign of
hate.
There is quite distance between de-
Gliding for ones self which birds or ami
mails one would rather have stay away,
and taking active steps to keep them
away.
There is all the difference in the
world.
Often those who start on the latter
course check themselves in time as they
come to see that their preconceived no.
tlons quite often are erroneous.
sometimes close study of an un-
wanted creature reveals clearly good
traits which one never suspected existed.
There is, above all, the humorous at
titude. If one who begins to feed the
birds keeps his sense of humor, he will
be able to find many laugh in the bird
day.
He sees the entire drama Of their lives,
not just part of it..
The actors in this good play are not
just selected cast, but the entire COM
pany. The scene is not one, but many.
The situations are multiplied, as we'll as
the plot, so that every facet of life is
exhibited. There is tragedy, as well as
comic relief
The only way to get all the play is to
accept the guests which come to your
free lunch as you accept the actors at
good theater. You do not rise in your
seat and shout villain at the man who
plays that part. You watch him, and as
he plays the role judge him.
IT bird feeding is accepted in the same
way, the observer has rewards which are
utterly unknown to the person who in
slsts on drawing up list of good and
bad. in advance and shouting directions
to the players from the front row.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
Pecuniury AIIerqy

Allergy is curious phenomenon
with many variations. Some of it's
victims cannot eat tomatoes, straw
berries, eggs, and other delicacies
without breaking out in spots. Others,
In the presence of ragweed, hay, or
goldenrod, break out in sneezes and
Wheezes. One has only to stop and
think bit to realize that it is more
prevalent than commonly supposed,
the average citizen being intensely
allergic to taxes, so that the mere
sight of a tax bill will often send
him into spasm of complaint
against the administration. All these
are bad enough, but they pale into
1nsignificance against the complaint
OF certain Iowa man who is ac-
tually ellergic to money. He has had
to give up his job as clerk, and go
on relief, because handling five and
ten dollar bills made his hands break
out into rash. Fortunately he is
not allergic to relief checks, which
seem quite large when cashed in
dimes.
He is advised to be patient. The
country is doing everything it can to
help him in his affliction, by making
it possible for him to keep money for
an ever shorter length of time. The
butchers and others are doing their
best to alleviate his distress. At
present the national debt is in a
kettle whose lid is very shakily wired
on at almost the forty-f1ve billion
dollar mark, and If 1t ever blows off
his troubles are over, as he can then
hand dollars over to a non-allergic
treasury as fast as he can get them.
Occasionally different form of
pecuniary allergy overtakes bank
cashier, who becomes averse not to
the money he handles, but to the
sad thought that it is not fulfilling it's
proper mission by doing on counters
and sleeping in vaults. This some
times causes an itching in the fin
gers, with ten-spots before the eyes,
accompanied by visions OF blonds
and steam yachts. Unless checked
it may result in a severe case of
wanderlust aggravated by a corps of
determined detectives just two Jumps
behind the victim.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
Research and Defense

IL would indeed be serious mis-
take if Congress should fail to heed
the warning of Colonel Charles A.
Lindbergh and other experts that the
key to adequate aerial defense of the
United States is to be found not so
much in mere numbers of airplanes
as In an aggressive program of funda-
mental and applied aeronautical re-
search.
The point is not new but it de-
serves repeating again and again
until Congress is moved to supply a
deficiency which may be vital to the
future welfare and security of the
Nation. Without research, there can
be no proper development and i'm
provement of American aircraft.
Without this continued improvement,
the expenditure of vast sums for air.
planes is wasted.
Colonel Lindbergh was far from
being alone in his position in support
OF expansion of our aeronautical re-
search program before the Commit
tee. Secretary of War Woodring,
Major General Henry H. Arnold,
chief of the Army Air Corps; Colonel
John H. Jouette, president of the
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce,
and Colonel Edgar S. Gorrell, presi-
dent of the Air Transport Association
of America, all argued strongly for
Increased research.
President Roosevelt earlier in the
session asked Congress to authorize
an additional fundamental research
laboratory for the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics at Sunny
vale, Calf, to supplement its present
base at Langley Field, Va. The
Budget Bureau approved funds for
the project, which had the support
OF the Army, Navy, the National Ad-
visory Committe for Aeronautics and
non-Federal aviation organizations.
Congress threw out the item after
controversy which was largely sec
tlonal in character. But the fight for
funds for the new research base has
not ended. 1t should not be permitted
to end until the necessary authoriza-
ton has been granted and funds
made available.
The United States, Colonel Lind
bergh testified, cannot hope to catch
up with Europe in the vital field of
aeronautical research in less than
three to five years, even though we
concentrate on the problems in
volved and push ahead as fast as
we can, because we are definitely
behind"
General Arnold advocated the ex-
penditure Of at least $2OO0O,OOO for
all forms of experimental and re-
search development in connection
with the Air Corps program. Colonel
Gorrell advocated that to 4 per cent
OF the funds appropriated for mill
tary air power be made available for
research, at least until we catch up
with the foreign research programs,
when the percentage might be re-
duced to a basic figure of perhaps
2 per cent.
There seems to be no difference of
opinion as to the need for greatly
expanded aeronautical research &C
tivity in the United States. If men,
bers of Congress hold up so vital an
item because they cannot agree on a
site for laboratory, they are failing
In their duty pettily and lamentably
In matter which is vital to national
safety and prestige.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
TRYING STREET.

Dear Sir:
II noticed in recent edition of The
Star that in This and That a request
was made for any reader who had had
any unique experience with mocking-
birds to write about it.
"Since we began feeding the birds we
have had many birds who come to us,
including grackles, robins, sparrows of
many kinds, bluejays, cardinals and
several mockingbirds.
"One day We had purchased raisins
especially for the mockingbirds since we
knew this was their favorite repast.
1--WE put some out when the mocking-
birds came.
Just as one of them was about to put
one in his bill startling snatched it and
flew up into nearby mimosa tree.
while his back was turned the mock
ingbird flew up and snatched the raisin
out of his bill before he had time to
swallow it.
1T was most amusing to watch and
interested me in that did not know
mockingbird had so much spunk.'
I'VE have two squirrels which come to
our upper-story windows for nuts almost
every day. The peanuts they eat but the
English walnuts they hide in the flower
pots on the lower front porch.
If the nuts are put on the floor, the
blueJays are too quick for the squirrels
and gobble them up but if we put them
on the window sill the jays are too timid
TO come that near us to secure food, and
the squirrels can then have a feast.
I'VE have the nest of song sparrow
in the yard with one egg left in it and
have no idea why the sparrow has de-
serted her nest, leaving this egg un-
Matched, since she has frequently flown
back and forth to the nest.
Il have gained much information
through This and That and it is always
pleasure to read it.
Very truly, Emp"
This Is good letter because it shows
good humored acceptance of all the wild
guests which come when one starts feed
ing the birds.
Unless the unasked creatures are so
accepted, feeding the birds is very likely
to turn into what is called, in the yer-
nacular, pain in the neck, depending
upon the individual.
Some persons who take up this pleasant
sport work up spleen against English
sparroWs.
Others select the startling as their pet
peeve
Still others work themselves into
rage every time they see squirrel ap-
preaching
There is scarcely living creature
including man-which such persons cam
not find hugely interfering with their
Evening star., 1939-06-13
Enlarges Upon Argument
Against Closed Shop.

To the Editor OF The Star:
1t is perfectly true as "Prolab" states
In his letter appearing in Thursdays
paper, that the Constitution does not in
so many words guarantee life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.
1t does say, however, that no person
shall be deprived of life, liberty or prop
erty without due process of law, and it
further states that no citizen shall be
denied the equal protection of the laws.
These provisions, of course, apply only to
governmental action, but 1 submit that
the spirit behind them should be followed
by individuals and groups as we'll.
A, closed shop denies to the individual
the right to hold and to act upon his
personal convictions and opinions regard
ing unions in general or a particular
union and its officers or members, unless
he forfeits his right to work and support
himself and his family. The foremost
labor leaders will. have no doubt, stoutlv
maintain that it is improper for an en-
ployer to refuse man employment
because of his race, his color, his religious
creed, or his political opinions. It is e
violation Of law to dismiss him from en-
ployment for his activity in favor of a
union. Why then should it not be
equally improper to deny him employ
ment for failing to be member of a
union? Why is not law which pre-
vents discrimination against union men,
bers, and allows discrimination against
non-members, denial of the equal pro-
lection of the laws, or of due process?
Why this blindness to one form of CO.
ercion of the individual, on the part of
admitted liberals who are averse to all
other aspects of economic coercion, in
timidation and discrimination? May I
ask what safeguard has "Prolab" that if
some day he should have differences with
his union or its leaders, he will not sum-
marily be removed from union and job as
well? Where then is his lob security?
AS against the employer, I concede that
the closed shop is highly effective and
desirable means of promoting the welfare
OF labor. From the point of view OF mi
nority employees, be they non-union or
members of another union, am not so
sure that the desirability of having a
strong weapon for use against the en-
ployers outweighs the economic coercion
of individuals who are entitled to free
dom of thought, speech and action, and
to be free to join or not to join any
organization without the coercion of los
ing their employment. This is particu-
larly true where the closed-shop contract
covers an entire industry and excludes
the minority from all employment in
their trade. 1t seems to me that legis-
lation could be worked out which would
leave the minority free while preventing
the employer from using them as tools
against the majority union, and this
would remove the necessity for the closed
shop.
The trouble is, of course, that then the
unions would have to 60 to work to earn
the dues they receive, and meet the COM
petition for members just like any other
membership organization does. That
would be too bad.
June 9. ANT1-MONOPOLY.
Evening star., 1939-06-13

practical limit. Freezing the lump
sum payment at $5,000,000 as an ac-
companying gesture is not merely
unfair-it condemns the Capital tc
less than necessary revenues for
maintenance and development.
Evening star., 1939-06-13
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