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Evening star., 1939-05-06
Derby Forecast

Today Louisville Is jammed to ca
pacity, and then some, with thou
sands Of visitors filled with the laud-
able ambition Of witnessing the Der
by and knocking it of II possible.
Needless to state, 1t is difficult to
predict just what will happen, but
when the huge crowd Is considered,
the laws of probability indicate the
virtual certainty of a number Of in
teresting events during the after
Moons program of racing.
It is therefore confidently forecast
that group Of husbands, who have
made an intensely scientific study
Of form, only to bet twenty dollars
on a loser, will feel an almost ire
sistible impulse to strangle their
wives, who proudly but tactlessly
display winning two dollar tickets
selected by the color of the jockeys
shirt or by the even simpler process
Of sticking pins into the entries.
Another group will buy tickets on
horse A, and subsequently get into
conversation with friends who scorn-
fully advise them that A is a cheap,
quitting cripple who would fit better
into the economy of a glue factory
than that Of a race track, and has
absolutely no chance against B. On
the strength of this advice, they will
with some difficulty exchange tick
cts, only to- see B run out of the
money while A romps home, paying
hat full, and threatening a sudden
Jump in the Kentucky homicide rate.
At least one young woman, who
has had a dream about a baseball
game, will march up to the window
and ask for ticket number eight, to
correspond with her understanding
OF the number Of players on the team.
After the betting has closed, she will
discover too late that the clerk made
mistake and gave her number six.
Six will win, and pay of in boxcar
figures.
AS for the Derby itself, undoubt-
edly Ell Chico will win, unless Johns
towns form improves enough to beat
Technician, an easy winner if he can
handle Challedon, who figures on top
except for Viscounty, one that may
have trouble with Heather Broom,
logical choice, with Xalapa Clown
coming in ahead.
Evening star., 1939-05-06

Murder In the garden:
Grackles got the three baby cardinals
last Sunday morning, Just after they
were out Of the nest.
Notorious nest robbers, the grackles
new in Just after light, and evidently
made an onslaught on the little home.
perched atop the fence beneath the great
canes Of the DR.. Van Fleet rose.
The sharp warning cries Of the mother
and father cardinals came through .
sleepy world.
BY the time we got to the window,
two Of the babies had been devoured,
and the last lay, round Of gray about
the size Of q moderate fist, on the drive
way.
The great purple-black birds were
perched now in a tree, herded there by
the attacks Of the cardinals.
Other birds had taken up the clamor.
The normal morning song Of birdland
had been turned into alarm. There were
sharp notes-chip, chip, chip-harsh me-
tallic ciicks-coming from all sides.
Murderers Of baby birds were loose In
the land.
The culprits made no move to fly far
ther, and the parent birds, deprived OF
their little ones, could make no headway.
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The deed had been done.
The last young cardinal lay silent,
single cash in the breast showing where
the great bill of the grackle had struck
home.
How proudly the little birds had sat
on the branch Of the vine the evening
before!
It was their first day out. The feath-
ers had grown magically. covering them
with soft gray. They looked more like
the mother than the father, but one had
q suspicion of scarlet in his breast.
"Cheep, cheep, cheep" they called,
which, being interpreted, meant food,
food, food.
Ceaselessly, father and mother flew to
the vine, popped worms into the gaping
bills and were of again.
-
Now 1t was all over.
Inc urSI nest DulQlu8 OF A8j0 naQ
turned into failure.
No cat, no human, no storm, but two
black, slinky shapes out Of birdland IT.
self, had done all this.
The mother and father ventured to
the nest.
They called, but no babies answered.
At first the birds seemed puzzled, but no
strength Of imagination or sentiment
could say that they seemed hurt.
Evening star., 1939-05-06
Army Retirement Plan
Held Unsound.

Held Unsound.
To the Editor Of The Star:
A proposed revitalization Of the COM
missioned personnel of the Army has just
been blazoned across the front pages
Certainly we should revitalize the Army
and it's long. overdue. But why select
the purge technique on the basis of age
in grade at time when there Is more
international danger than at any time
since 1914 1t has cost the taxpayers a
pretty penny to give the present field
onicers their experience, education and
training. Why eliminate these expert
enced officers who are our most valuable
military asset at time when even the
humblest officer has quite q suspicion
that we may need them almost any day?
Let us look at the wartime require
ments for regular officers of field grade
They are for command and staff Of COM
bat units, Of course, requiring physical
vigor and hardness; for the even more
numerous duties in executive and staff
positions in the War Department, the
Corps Area service commands, the Army
and Navy Munitions Board, the Once of
the Assistant Secretary of War, the sup
ply services, including their Washington
of11ces and their procurement districts
and variety of superagencies, such as
the War Resources Administration, Pub
lie Relations Administration, Selective
Service, and the like. For these jobs a
lesser degree of physical vigor is neces-
sary, but at least the same level of
mental vigor and emotional stability.
In view of this great need, why not
retire for physical disability only those
unable to perform either field or desk
jobs. and then classify those retained as
fit for limited service (not in the field
and unlimited service, according to their
physical capacity? We would thus con-
serve our enormous investment In COM
missioned personnel.
Now to the real rehabilitation! Espe-
cially in each Of the field grades in every
arm and service we have officers who
have either reached or passed their limit
of capacity or service ceiling" in grade
They are beyond their depth. They are
readily identified. Their general ef-
ficiency rating has been low for the last
decade. Their chiefs have dificulty in
placing them in assignments appropri-
ate to their grade. Why not clip the
required number off the bottom of each
grade based on relative usefulness as
indicated by their general efficiency rat
ing? Under an age in grade retirement
plan many Of these will escape elimina-
ton and in their place we will lose more
efdcient officers. Such q method of at
triton is justified, whether the motive is
the real improvement Of the Army or the
acceleration of promotion for the benefit
Of the young Turks"-that group of
predatorily ambitious young officers
who in their struggle for shot at the
stars" (of generals) are ruthlessly ell
bowing their way to the top Of the pro-
motion list by advocating q system of
elimination that can be executed by q
corporal, since no exercise OF judgment
is entailed. NOT AFFECTED.
May s.
Evening star., 1939-05-06

buyers could get together and fix
prices more easily at verbal auction
than on the hogshead market where
bids are made in writing.
The new market is the growers
answer to unsatisfactory prices-17
cents pound average-on the Balti-
more market last year. The farmers
who had the enterprise to set it up
can be counted on to exert every
effort to make it succeed.
Evening star., 1939-05-06
Drafting Wealth in War

war Is an expensive business. 1t
costs lives and it costs dollars. Once
engaged in warfare, 1t behooves
nation to use every ounce of its
energy in the effort to achieve vic
tory. If it is to survive, it must have
the right to throw all of its re-
sources, if necessary, into the fight.
That right has been freely recog-
nized in the past with respect to
manpower, but it has not been so
readily exercised with respect to an
other important resource-money.
During the World War the Govern
ment drafted men, but not money.
Wartime laws called for compulsory
enlistment of fighting men, but the
raising of money was accomplished
by taxation and voluntary lending
through bond issues. The money was
forthcoming in plentiful amounts,
it is true, but the invidious distinc-
tion made between lives and dollars,
coupled with charges of proflteering,
did not help national morale.
With that background in mind,
the Senate Military Affairs Commit
tee has approved bill to permit the
Government to draft private capital
as well as manpower in time of war.
Under this proposal there would be
census of wealth taken upon decla-
ration Of national emergency, and
when the net assets of an individual
have been determined he would be
required to spend percentage of his
wealth on f1fty-year war loan bonds
bearing one per cent interest. The
percentage would vary from five per
cent in the case of persons owning
from one to ten thousand dollars, to
seventy-five per cent for those whose
net wealth exceeds one hundred mil
lion dollars. Senator Lee, Demo-
crat, of Oklahoma, sponsor of the
measure, pointed out that his plan
would not entail confiscation of
wealth, but a forced loan at nominal
interest.
The Senate committee approved
the bill without a voice being raised
against it. That was undoubtedly
because it is difficult to argue that
it is right to draft men but not right
to draft money for war purposes.
The men may not come back-but
the money will, with interest. The
investment, compulsory though it be,
might avert a worse catastrophe
conflscation by the enemy. And Ger
tainly the drafting of wealth would
tend to chill the enthusiasm for war
which those in position to profit
by it might have.
There are drawbacks to the plan
which should be carefully considered,
however. Treasury officials envision
difficulties in administration and
possible legal complications over the
Interpretation of wealth" Military
authorities fearful of delay in raising
funds in an emergency are said to
prefer the tried and proved methods
OF taxation and bond issues. But,
while these problems merit thor
ough study, they do not appear to
be impossible Of solution, and it is
to that task that Congress should
direct its attention.
Evening star., 1939-05-06
New Tobacco Market

The five counties Of Southern
Maryland will watch with keenest
interest the results of the new loose
leaf or auction block tobacco mar
kets established at Hughesville and
Upper Marlboro.
For 800 years growers in Prince
Georges, Charles, Calvert, st. Marys
and Anne Arundel have shipped their
chief money crop to Baltimore for
sale in hogsheads. That system,
which dates back to Colonial times
in Maryland, has been discarded in
other Southern tobacco growing
States such as Virginia, Kentucky,
North Carolina and Tennessee.
It will continue to operate in Mary
land, but henceforth must prove its
worth in competition with the loose
leaf markets where the tobacco is
sold in baskets. Should the loose leaf
markets prove as successful as the
initial sessions indicated, others may
be established. Tobacco men claim
there is enough potential business to
justify a market Of that type in each
county.
Those interested in the loose leaf
enterprise prophesy that the growers
will receive three to five cents more
pound from the buyers who can see
just what they are getting instead of
having to depend on samples to
suggest what a hogshead contains.
1t also is pointed out that growers
dissatisfied with the auction block
bid can take their tobacco home and
ship it to Baltimore or bring it back
later when they think prices will be
higher. Some contend . possible
shortcoming to the system is that
Evening star., 1939-05-06

DR.. Goebbels says he looks upon all
democracies with sovereign disdain."
We do not know just where you get
the sovereign" Herr Doktor, but we
can assure you the viewpoint is re-
ciprocal.
Evening star., 1939-05-06
Return

Again I tread the path across the hin
To where the meadow dips all lush and
green.
The weathered house where poplars rise,
is still,
With empty, echoing rooms. I pause and
lean
Upon the orchard wall. The snarled
limbs,
Once dropped with russet load, hang
bare Of fruit;
A crows derisive cav drifts harshly.
dims,
A stricken oak lies prone with upturned
root.
Useless return. What Is this poirnant
lack
That grips the human heart with futile
tears?
Youths treasured spots seem drab. I
must 60 back!
But wait! Ethereal to listening ears.
FROM out the forest depths, grown vague
remote,
Rings Wild and sweet the Veery's trillin,
note.
IVY L1NDsLEY.
Evening star., 1939-05-06

Japan plans to ask the Netherlands
government for oil concessions in
Borneo and to send part of her navy
to enforce the request" Police and
criminal court judges have name
for this sort of activity.
Evening star., 1939-05-06

Science says the nearest approach
to perpetual motion would be tun-
ing fork twanging in a vacuum. Such
would not continue indefinitely, but
would vibrate about 100000 times a
minute. The whole setup seems an
adequate description of the tongues
of some statesmen"
Evening star., 1939-05-06

A member of the Maine Legislature
is said to have introduced bill max
ing it punishable of1ense to add
tomatoes to clam chowder. Real
chowder lovers will agree that, while
no such measure will probably ever
pass, this lawmaker really had some
thing there.
Evening star., 1939-05-06
Hitler's Speech
Is Criticized.
To the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor Of The Star:
There seems to be an inclination In Ger
tain quarters to regard Hitler's recent
reply to Roosevelt" as . skillful and
clever political stroke. It impresses me
as . clumsy tissue Of misstatements,
specious arguments and fantastic in
ventions. It is contradictory and incon-
sistent even with itself, and fails to
hide the insincerity, cunning and Gym
icism which lie behind It,
The leader" tries to show that the
smaller countries do not consider them
selves menaced by Germany, but fails to
explain why they have mobilised their
armies and are hurriedly increasing their
ornaments. He claims German Mon.
roe doctrine" for Central Europe, but
fails to see that the principle underlying
the American doctrine Is protection while
Evening star., 1939-05-06
Ask Any Cundidote

Prom the Kansas Oity star.
Mayor La Guardia says It's "tims TO
stop thinking in terms Of personalities"
But wouldn't that bs rather empa1rass-
ing In 1910?
Evening star., 1939-05-06
On the Hill.

Now speech is bounteously tossed,
While we reflect with glee,
Whatever beef or grain may cost,
That food for thought is freel
Evening star., 1939-05-06
Submits Questions ON
European Situation.
tn thA Editor of The 9tAr.

To the Editor OF The Star:
flavor the democratic form of govern
ment, and sympathize with the Jews,
Czechs and Chinese. However, can't
get away from the force Of the follow
ing questions:
l. If certain provisions Of the Versailles
treaty respecting Germany are vicious
(as now seems to be generally agreeO,
why get excited when Germany sets them
aside?
2. If 1t is necessary for the economic
health of Germany to. have a broader
access to raw materials Gas many disin-
terested experts allege), why consider 1t
strange when she reaches for them?
3. II Woodrow Wilson's principle Of
self-determination is sound (as appears
to be true), why isn't it good statesman
ship to bring the German-speaking peo-
Piles of Austria, Sudetenland, Memel and
Danzig together?
4. If Great Britain has acquired con-
troll of approximately one-fourth Of the
worlds land, and has been engaged in
war during Sc per cent Of the period Of
her history Gas Is mathematically cor
rect), why may she not be considered an
aggressor nation?
S. II it is Great Britain's historic pol
icy to keep Europe weak by division (as
is unquestionably the fact), isn't it more
than likely that she is now engaged In
carrying out that policy?
8. If the good-neighbor program is ap-
propriate for the dictators Of the West
ern Hemisphere Gas the administration
contends), why isn't 1t equally appro-
pirate for the dictators Of the Eastern
Hemisphere?
2. II the Christian philosophy y valid,
and the United States is Christian ma
ton Gas many good people assert), where
is the justification for our current build
up Of international hate?
&. II we have thus far failed In solving
the pressing American problems Of un-
employment and crop surpluses Gas none
can deny, why shouldn't We mind our
own business and expend our energies at
homer MORE LIGHT.
May (.
Evening star., 1939-05-06

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Evening star., 1939-05-06
UnderestimAtinK Father.

"They say your son-in-law does not
appreciate the value of money"
Eyes, he does" answered Mr.. Cumrox,
but I don't believe he thinks do"
Evening star., 1939-05-06
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the ,Oriter. although the use OF
a pseudonym for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1939-05-06

that Of the Na1 policy Is domination
and exploitation of the nations affected.
He tears up treaties and Immediately Of
fers to sign new ones, but apparently
fails to see that this very tearing up of
treaties whenever 1t suits his purposes,
makes all other contemplated or exist
ing treaties valueless.
Germany's idol" claims to have re-
established the right of self lf-determina-
ton" But what then is he doing in
Czecho- -Slovakia? He charges the democ-
racies with attempts at "encirclement"
of Germany. But has he not also, with
the aid of his good friend" Mussolini,
encircled France? He did the same to
Czecho- -Slovakia, and only recently to
Yugoslavia. Now he is trying to encircle
Poland. He charges that the democra-
cies tried, last year, to stir up an armed
conflict between Germany and Czecho-
Slovakia, yet 1t is well known that the
purpose of the Runciman mission and
of Chamberlain's pilgrimages to Codes
berg and Munich was to avert war.
Hitler is always crying about the in
justices of the treaty of Versailles; but
he says nothing of the harshness and
unscrupulousness Of the treaty of Brest-
Ltovsk which was far worse than the
treaty of Versailles and disclosed Ger
many's idea of a victor's peace. And the
first thing he did in Czecho- -Slovakia was
to seize that country's monetary gold re-
serve and cart it away to Germany. This
act of piracy alone indicates his pur-
poses in Central and Eastern Europe
May2. EDW. WOLESENSKY.
Evening star., 1939-05-06
The AutOcrat,

It Is the silent man whose might
Decides when thought is deeply stirred,
The statesman speaks both day and
night;
The voter seldom says q word.
Evening star., 1939-05-06
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Evening star., 1939-05-06

Don't be too trustf,ll Of man." said
Uncle Eben, "jcs because his talk sounds
flne De music on bod q ship sounds
mighty good, but 1t ain nigh as impor-
tant - de BLOWN Of de fog horn"
Evening star., 1939-05-06
Honest Confession.

"A man in politics cannot be expected
to love his enemies"
NO." answered Senator Sorghum, "he
can't love 'em, but occasionally, away
down in his heart, he must have GER
tain respect for their Judgment"
Evening star., 1939-05-06
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"The pen may be mightier than the
sword" said Hi Ho, the sage of China
town, but when it comes to impressing
the public the camera is mightier than
either"
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
Pictures Launches
Nationwide 7 ToIent Quest

report to this city. From these
will be chosen two of the appli-
cantS.
They will be rephotographed
in a series of poses and record
ings made of their voices. This
data will be forwarded to Hol-
lywood and form the basis on
which the Gateway to Holly
wood committee will select nine
boy and girl finalists.
These will go to Hollywood
and be trained at the expense of
Gateway to Hollywood" to par
ticipate in the Doublemint Gum
radio program which will even
tually determine the young man
and young woman to be awarded
contracts with RKO Radio Pic
lures. In addition to expenses,
each of the applicants brought
to Hollywood will be given $25 a
week.
The Doublemint Gum program,
to be broadcast over the Colum-
bia Broadcasting Systems coast
to-coast network from Holly
wood at $50 EST. each Sunday
evening, will extend over a Pc
riod of 13 weeks, first was broad
cast last night.
Mr.. Lasky will appear on the
programs to outline the purposes
L.
talent search and news of its
progress. A famous orchestra
will supply musical interludes.
The highlight, however, will be
the dramatic skit, featuring a
different boy and girl team"
among the 18 applicants each
week. Outstanding Hollywood
stars will take leading roles in
these vehicles.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09

most unusual motion pictures to
be seen in the Capital recently.
Edge of the World" tells
story of the inhabitants of a
tiny island in the North Sea
who struggle bravely for many
years to maintain life there but
finally are forced to admit de-
feat and move to the mainland,
leaving victory to nature. The
film is of the Man of Aran"
pattern, offering magnificent
shots of the meeting of cliffs
and ocean, but plot is not for
gotten in bringing scenic splen-
dor of the rugged sort to the
screen. A capable British cast
enacts the tale of conflict be-
tween elders and youths coupled
with an appealing story of
troubled love. Direction and
photography are excellent.
"The Adventures of Chico" is
a simple story, simply but ef-
fectively told, of the compan.
ionship of a small Mexican
peon boy and bird. The major
portion of the footage is de-
voted to shots of animals, and
the scene showing tiny but
courageous road runner doing
battle with two rattlesnakes
that are threatening his human
friend packs as many thrills as
the cobra-mongoose duel.