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Evening star., 1939-03-17

prepared to get along In modern city life
even on 500 month. They may be
little prepared to invest wisely or to find
congenial surroundings during the twi-
light Of their lives. But, by wise man
agement, they could organize for group
planning, to insure them a comfortable
home, living, medical and hospital care
during their vacations and after retire.
ment as long as they live.
Example: Fifty could organize a cor
poration for 1000 each to buy land and
build a fine fireproof, air-conditioned
hotel Chome) in the Southland, with
Handicapped grounds, artificial lake and
modern conveniences few hours away
from Washington by auto, bus or fine
fast Pullman trains, where they with
their husbands or wives could live in
luxury for around $50 month each.
In this way 1t would be possible for
Government employees to make sure they
may have q home of their own with
ample provision for comforts and lux
uries safely provided for their old age.
March u. eLOCUM gibson.
Evening star., 1939-03-17
Opposes Relaxation of
Immigration Restrictions.

40 inc Eoltor Oh ne olar.
David Lawrence. who ordinarily dis
plays keen insight into the subjects
about which he writes. seems to have
missed the mark in his article in The
Star of March IL relating to the immi-
grafton question. He puts up an argu-
ment for admitting more immigrants
on the alleged grounds: Cd That the
outgo has been exceeding the intake
e! that the theory of restricted immi-
grafton was that l53.774 more persons
. would be allowed each year to enter
than would depart. and 90 that a re-
Taxation of immigration restriction
would now permit us to get the cream
of foreign populations.
That more immigrants have been
leaving than have been coming is a
gratuitous assumption, for we have no
official figures as to how many have
been entering illegally. This number
has been estimated to be large. When
the New Deal went into Office, Secre-
tary Perkins discharged a large force
Of employees whose duty it was to patrol
the Canadian and Mexican borders to
keep out bootleg immigrants. News
items from time to time indicate that
this bootleg business has been flourish
ing since she came into Office.
The theory Of our immigration laws
Of 1924 and 1927 was not as Mr.. Law
renee states to permit a net increase Of
153,774 year, but the laws were pred
NJ ooI
partiality: they were based on the ma
tional origins theory, that is to say, we
would admit on percentage basis so
as to keep our racial composition what
it was In those years. Since the en-
actment of those laws some countries
in Northern Europe have not filled their
quotas and to this extent the national
origins theory has not worked out. But
on the other hand some countries in
Southern Europe have kept their quotas
filled and Germany is now filling hers
To open our gates to more immigrants, as
Mr.. Lawrence suggests, would not help
the national origins theory; it would
bring about its collapse. And when the
national origin theory is overthrown
we will have all the difficulties We once
had from each national group trying
to get in more of their kinsmen.
1t used to be said that we were getting
the scum of the worlds population under
unrestricted immigration, but Mr..
Lawrence asks us to relax the restric-
tions and states that we will now get
the cream. AS matter of fact we never
got all scum or all cream and if we relax
the restrictions we will not get all cream
We have population of 10000, 1000
composed Of both scum and cream and
there is no evidence that we have q
shortage Of either so as to need more,
r. D. WILSON.
March II.
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THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. TraceUeU.

The outlook for ulacs this year is good.
Not every spring sees first-class lilac
flowers SO dear to memory.
Some years the blossoms are few and
far between in the average home garden,
whereas the very next the entire city
will be covered with them.
This makes the wonderful flowers, with
their fragrance so sweet, all the more
appealing. perhaps.
Just what 1t is which makes one year
good lilac year" and the next not, Is
unknown, but it is fact, nevertheless.
The type of winter seems to have
something to do with it. Cold, severe
months, followed by gradually develop
ing spring, may be the secret.
1t is well known, for instance, that
very old Ilacs in the New England
States flourish and blossom without any
attention. Some of them are in aban-
doned sites, where once stood prosper
GUS farms. Yet the lilacs bloom pro-
fusely every year. These are scarcely
bushes, but are almost true trees, so tall
anu widespread are Clley.
Even the weather authorities, we be-
lieve, have been willing to admit that
the weather has changed. In the old
days there was gradual warming-up
process, so definite to all observers, even
the least critical, that it was called
spring.
Nowadays, that is often changed.
Spring is no longer development, but
an all-of-a-sudden affair, sometimes
with many setbacks.
Plants and shrubs never know ex-
actly what is what, or which is which,
whether winter or spring.
~ **
Best plant development seems to come
when seasons follow one another ac-
cording to the ancient traditions.
There is certainly nothing new-fash-
ioned about nature. What has sue
ceeded, is what will succeed what has
developed, is what is developed. Even
more important, how it developed, is how
it will develop.
The constant experimentation which
must have taken place. over the CEN
turies, seems to have settled down long
ago. Tigers are tigers and lions are
lions, wherever you find them. One
species of lilacs throws just the same
color flowers year after year, with ex-
actly the same sort of fragrance. Gives
them, that is, if the weather conditions
have been right"
The weather explains much, many
home gardeners feel
Thus local weather has not been
right" for roses in recent years. Some
thing is the matter, but just what is any
bodys guess. 1t is much more difficult
to have good roses hereabouts today
than it was IS years ago.
Even the old hardy radiance does not
always bloom as it should.
~
AS for the llacs, both the old-fashioned
common sorts and the so-called French
hybrids, these seem to be completely at
Evening star., 1939-03-17
The Naval High Command

With the approval of President
Roosevelt, the naval high command
soon will undergo realignment
which, while it is concededly routine
in nature, may be regarded with
degree of significance in the light of
troubled world affairs. Impending
retirement of several top-ranking
officers has necessitated a number of
major shifts and promotions, and
these will have the effect of infusing
new blood in high quarters at a very
critical time.
Reaching far down the list of flag
officers, the Communicated of
the Army and Navy has chosen the
comparatively young but thoroughly
competent Rear Admiral Harold r.
Stark to succeed the veteran Admiral
William D. Leahy as Chief of Naval
Operations. Admiral Leahy will reach
the statutory age limit of 81 on June
l. In making this selection the Pres
ident has broken no traditions, it
should be pointed out. The Office of
Chief of Naval Operations was Gre
ated in 1915, and its first incumbent,
William S. Benson, was jumped from
captain to admiral to take over the
post. The second occupant, Robert
E. Coontz, was only fifty-fQur-five
years younger than Admiral Stark
when he, too, skipped from captain
to admiral to become operating chief
of the Navy. The late Admiral Eberle
was the same age as Admiral Stark
when he became the third chief.
The promotion of Admiral Stark
reflects in no way on the senior Off
GERS who were passed over. A study
of the table of age retirement dates
of flag officers of the line and staff
corps discloses that but few of these
officers could have completed four
year term as Chief of Naval Opera
tions because of compulsory retire.
ment-for-age provisions. The ap-
pointment to this key post of an
officer who does not reach retirement
age until 1914 should contribute to
the stability of the high command
at time when the Navy is girding
itself feverishly to meet any emer-
gency-ln an era of explosive inter-
national crises. Admiral Stark has
distinguished record as wartime COM
mander and peacetime executive and
is well deserving of the high honor
accorded him.
The advancement of Admiral Stark,
considered with the other changes
in the naval high command, suggests
that the Navy is fully alert to the
dangerous threats to world peace
now clouding the international hori-
zon and keenly aware of the grave
responsibilities resting upon those
charged with defending Americas
shores against invasion from any
source. The knowledge is most re-
assuring to those who read the dis
turbing dispatches from beyond the
seas.
Evening star., 1939-03-17

permanent peace is for nations to re-
linquish the right to act as judges of
their own claims or grievances, as in
diyiduals have had to do in all civilized
states.
In short, he believes that the only hope
for peace and the saving of civilization
Is in some form of international CO.
operation, including court or tribunal
to decide questions in dispute, and the
collective power to compel obedience to
its decisions.
AS to the fear of Committing our
selves" or being drawn into other
peoples quarrels," so prevalent in Eng
land as well as this country, he points
out that 10 nations were drawn into
the World War, and in no case was it
the result OF previous commitments.
On the contrary, it is quite certain that
If 1t had been known beforehand what
these nations would do, there would not
have been war. And it is almost Ger
tain that if England alone had declared
her position positively and in time the
war would have been prevented.
The author quotes the distinguished
British statesman, Lord Beaconsfield,
saying in 1868 that after attending the
Berlin conference he was convinced that
England could have prevented both the
Crimean War and the Franco German
War simply by deciding on her policy
and announcing it in time.
He says that England refused to CO.
operate with the United States to check
the japanese invasion of China by diplo-
matte means, saying that it was not
her concern. 1t became her concern by
tremendous losses in property, ships and
prestige, and may lose her whole posi-
ton and influence in Asia. In the same
way England and France refused to use
the means provided in the League of
Nations to stop the invasion of Abys-
sinia, and in consequence may find the
Mediterranean and the Suez Canal pass
entirely out of thGr control.
He calls attention to the fact that the
United States when young and COM
paratively weak Nation boldly COM
mitted itself to the protection of the
whole Western Hemisphere from for
eign aggression, and that this protection
has been effective for more than 100
years without the firing Of gun. M. G.
Warrepton, Va.
March 3.
Evening star., 1939-03-17
Shooting Stors
By pHILANDER JOHNSON.
A-Wearin' of thu

A-Wearin' Of the Green.
st. Patrick's Day! st. Patrick's Day
And here you are again
To drive all evil things away
From hillside and from glen!
'Tis like gentleman you try
To Danish from the scene
All ugliness as spring comes by
A-wearin of the green
The violet with timid charm
Is waiting to draw nigh, :
But winds that fill her with alarm
Come muttering from the sky.
So never mind the toads or snakes,
But let your might expand
To chase away the cloud that makes
The trouble in our land!
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the mercy Of the elements, at least so
far as profuse blooming is concerned.
Enthusiasts who fertilize them to the
limit and prune them carefully and try
to keep the borers out OF them, know
that the ultimate decision is not in their
hands.
No doubt this accounts for the fact
that you do not hear as much talk about
ilacs as once upon a time.
Their uncertain blooming tends to
make the average owner shy away from
talking about them, but worse than that
1t keeps people from planting them.
Many gardens no longer have these
fine bushes, whose heart-shaped leaves
lend grace to the yard all summer, whose
blossoms are famous in song and story.
The common purple lilac is only one
llac-there are many other sorts. in
Guiding some very fine ones practically
unknown to the average home garden.
Their absence is to be regretted, because
they are fine shrubs, irrespective of
whether they bloom well all the time or
not. While the lilac is not as hardy as
the forsythia, strangely enough, in this
vicinity, 1t always does well, except for
the aforementioned shyness of blooming
at times.
1t is interesting to note that Louise
Bush-Brown, in her Flowers for Every
Garden" includes the lilacs among
shrubs particularly suited to city condi-
tions The list is as follows: Japanese
barberry, forsythia, rose of sharon
(althea, privet, snoWberry, ninebark,
lilac and viburnum. Trees recommended
are ailanthus, ginkgo, European linden,
black locust, oriental plane, horsechest-
nut, Colorado spruce and Scotch pine.
She says of the lilac: 1T is a wise plan
occasionally to give ones lilac bushes a
top dressing of well-rotted stable manure
or bone meal and pulverized sheep
manure. This top dressing should be
administered early in the spring before
growth starts. Old lilac bushes may be
rejuvenated by this treatment, plus d
little wise pruning to remove some of
the branches which have passed their
days of usefulness - In damp seasons
Wilcil uldC UuSllcS axe lIOuUlcu WIN NIL.
dew, dust the foliage occasionally with
flowers of sulphur. Lilacs are rather sus-
ceptible to oyster-shell scale and one
should watch vigilantly for this in the
spring. The best method Of control is
spraying with whale-oil soap solution.
The spray should be applied in early
June, as it is then that the scales breed
and the new soft bodies may be most
easily destroyed before their hard scaly
shells form"
Since the above was written, new
sprays for this pest have been devised
and every one with pet lilac bushes
should be on the watch for it.
Borers are more difficult to control
The best way is to cut out completely the
branch or cane which holds them, and
to burn it. This gives a necessary prun-
ing, too, Job which is always distaste-
full to soft-hearted gardeners.
Evening star., 1939-03-17
New Guam Proposal

With the Guam project out of the
naval defense bill as it undergoes
Senate committee consideration, an
acceptable substitute for its REIN
sertion in the naval bill is the pro-
posal by Senator Walsh, perhaps
emanating from the President him.
self, that it be included in the rivers
and harbors bill, where it could be
enacted without the implication of
naval expansion.
The improvements desired by the
Navy at Guam are important to the
United States. In the last analysis it
makes little difference whether they
are accomplished in the name of
national defense or Improvement of
navigation. The point is that the
island should be made suitable for
American naval operations.
OF course, it is still possible that
the Senate Naval Committee will
reverse the action of the House and
send the measure to the Senate with
the Guam project included The
only argument for Senator Walsh's
proposal is that some legislators, who
may hold the balance of power,
might support it in a rivers and har-
bors bill, which is subject to log
rolling, although they would oppose
it in a defense measure.
While the fortnight procedure of
restoring the five million dollar item
to the naval bill is to be preferred,
it would be far better to cover the
same ground in the rivers and har-
bors bill than to abandon the project
altogether.
Evening star., 1939-03-17
Would Bar Those Who
Are Un-American,

10 the Editor OF The Star:
This is free country. But what do
we mean by "free' country? 1t seems
to me we've got to decide
think we should all agree that ours
is a free country for Americans We
must draw the line somewhere. If this
is to be free country for Nazi Germans
and Communist Russians, and every
other kind of radical who wants to come
mere and be not an American, then we
should divide it up into a Little Ger
many and Little Russia, etc. and for
get about America.
We must make it known, and en-
phatically, that this is a free country
for Americans. If a German wants to
come here and be an American, this is
his country-so long as he wants to be,
and strives to be, day by day, better
American, and is honestly in sympathy
with American principles. So with a
Russian. But If he insists on brandish-
ing his communism Cor his Nazism)-if
ne does not believe in our ideals and our
principles, he is not an American, he is
Russian Communist or he is a Ger
man Nazl and this is not his free coun-
try. He has no place in it, and should
not be allowed one.
The only reason for joining any
group-a fraternal order, church, or
labor union, is because one is in SYM
pathy with its aims and beliefs, and
wants to so identify himself. Suppose a
worker would say: II want to join the
union-I don't believe in anything it
stands for-Ill do and say everything I
can to discredit and weaken it, but I
want all the benefits it affords to men,
bers." They wouldn't quite receive him
with open arms-do you think?
This business of freedom" can be
carried too far. This is free America, OF,
by and for free Americans.
March II. L. M. VAUGHAN.
Evening star., 1939-03-17

Constitution. Sometimes it is stated
there is a possibility that the Con-
stitution may come also," or there
might be difficulty in getting her
away from Boston," and other
phrases to the same general effect.
The man In the street is puzzled.
Is the Constitution, he asks, the
property of the Nation or of one of
its component States? Has it status
any different from that of any other
retired ship? Who restored her and
how? Was it not done jointly by
congressional appropriation and the
contributions of the school children
of the Nation-not just Massachu-
setts? When she went on her last
extended cruise to the Pacific Coast
who manned her, United States naval
men or Massachusetts, Naval Reserve
personnel? Is not the navy yard at
Boston regular Federal navy yard?
Should the fact that "Old Ironsides"
happened to be built in Massachu-
setts make that State her basic
possessor? If President Roosevelt
can take these other vessels from
wherever they are why, in the name
OF all that is logical, cannot he order
the Constitution here? There must
be answers to these queries. The
only one that has been heard is to the
effect that Massachusetts,, recently,
though by no means always Demo-
cratic, wants her. That, perhaps, is
natural enough, but should, to use
New England phrase, "cut no ice."
If the other vessels come here, she
should, and there are many who
think she should be here anyhow,
museum or no museum.
Evening star., 1939-03-17
Suggests Cooperative Home
For Government Employees.

To tho Editor OF The Star:
Many people come from distant States
to work as Government employees. Some
marry and have families and homes of
their own. But many others choose to go
it alone and serve their time until they
reach their retirement status. The lat
ter, sometimes, arrive at retirement age
with little opportunity to create ties
that really mean anything to them in
their surroundings while at work. Homes
they find may not be real homelike
homes.
During their 80 or more years Of serv-
ice time gets in its work. Relatives,
friends and loved ones they left back
home scatter, die or mean little to the
average Government employees reaching
retirement status.
The result is the retired employe
sometimes goes out into this modern
world with no place to call home; little
Evening star., 1939-03-17
Whut Will II Duce Do?

Italy is reported to be taking the
latest unilateral triumph of the Ber-
In-Rome axis with a smile, which is
probably more wry than real, and
protesting pleasure at the new DEM
onstration of totalitarian invinci-
billty in Central Europe. At the
same time Rome admits that Hitler's
coup filled MuSsolini with surprise,
not unmixed with envy and even un-
easiness. Ever since he assumed his
place in shining armor alongside the
Fuehrer at Munich last September,
II Duce has indulged in the delusion
that Germany hereafter would essay
no major venture in Europe without
at least the knowledge, if not the
consent or aid, of the Fascist ally.
Now Italy suddenly surveys a Reich
expanded within a week by about
1900 square miles and by some
100000 inhabitants, without so
much as notice to Rome that so por-
tentous an enterprise was under way.
Probably the most significant COM
ment to come out of Italy during the
past seventy-two hours is the re-
mark attributed to the man in the
Corso and the Piazza Venezia to the
effect that they (meaning Britain
and France) have even stood that
that" being the unopposed conquest
OF the state lately ruled from Prague.
Having long resented the Nazis sys-
tematic and untrammeled success in
territorial aggrandizement in Eu-
rope-f1rst Austria, then the Sude-
tenland, now o-Slovakia-Mus-
solini is not likely to delay unduly
the pressing of Italys claims for
larger place In the sun. It is known
in Washington that at the end of
February II Duce sought and received
Hitler'S assurance that if Italy de-
cided to make demands on France
in Tunisia and at Djibouti, the Fas-
cists might rely upon whole-hearted
German support.
Foreign diplomats in Rome, tabu-
lating the results of Italo-German
fraternity since in 1885, estimate the
division of profits as about three to
one in Germany's favor. Cd The
Reich supported Italy's invasion of
Ethiopia, which cost Germany moth
Ing and was in line with her efforts
to undermine the League of Nations;
(2) Italy backed Germany in num-
Der of important moves, such as re-
militarization of the Rhineland,
which enabled Hitler to embark upon
his expansion program; (3) Italy
approved Austrian Anschluss with
Germany, at the sacrifice of one of
the cardinal points of Fascist foreign
policy-a separate Austria under
Italian inf1uence-and uncomplain-
1ngly accepted the presence of a
Reich army at the Brenner Pass; and
"a Mussolini lined up Loyalty with
Hitler at Munich and assented to the
subsequent annexation of the Sude-
ten provinces, despite the resultant
increased disparity in strength of the
axis partners, to 1talys definite dis
advantage.
Mussolini will be revealed to a sur
prised world in an unaccustomed
mood of restraint and self-efface-
ment If he fails to exploit events in
Central Europe as his cue to step up
to the territorial pie-counter and
ask for his share of the booty. The
dictator on the Tiber is under the
same necessitous compulsion to prove
to his people that totalitarianism
pays dividends as is his brother auto
crat on the Spree.
Evening star., 1939-03-17

probably will be no return to his
fatherland for Hurban after the po-
sition he has taken. But he is used
to expatriation. He was a colonel in
that strange military expedition of
homeless Czechs who marched across
Siberia to the Pacific in 1917. His
presence in that group testified to
his defiance of the Austria which
then controlled his homeland. In a
subtler way he now defies the new
giant, Germany.
Evening star., 1939-03-17
Reasonable Objection.

what is your objection to man who
tries to seem bigger than his party?"
asked the political amateur.
Hes too much like a man trying tn
look at himself through microscope"
answered Senator Sorghum, mot only is
the effort Intellectual, but the attitude is
grotesque.''
Evening star., 1939-03-17

II admit" said Hi Ho, the sage OF
Chinatown, "that people can be happy
without wealth, but it is a point upon
which most men are willing to accept
hearsay evidence"
Evening star., 1939-03-17
March IL.
Commends Book by
Sir Norman Angel.
To the Editor Of The Star:

I wish all Americans would read a
book called Peace With Dictators," by
Sir Norman Angel.
Though published before the Munich
crisis, the book disposes of the appease-
ment idea. The author says the die
tators cannot be satisfied bygiving them
what they want, because they want q
preponderance which they can only
have by depriving other nations of their
rights.
As In all wars both sides think they
are right. He says the first step for
Evening star., 1939-03-17

Hold the boat! Here come the
Croats, demanding independence
from Yugoslavia. Herr Hitler surely
started something. Carried to it's
logical conclusion, it won't be all over
until the MacGregors are out from
under Clan Alpin and the Blackfeet
from under Sioux suzerainty.