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Evening star., 1939-09-23
SkyIond Development
Apartments OCCUPIED

With the first group Of families
occupying newly acquired apart
ments during the last week, the
mammoth large-scale housing devel-
opment erected at Twenty-fifth
street and Good Hope road Sc, by
Skyland. Inc, is expected by its
sponsors to be completely rented
within q short time.
Designed by Harvey Warwick, the
architect for the Westchester Apart.
ments, Colonial Village and numer-
Gus other apartment structures In
the Washington metropolitan area.
skyland occupies 13 acres Of rolling
ground on one Of the highest points
In the city. It commands q panor-
annie view Of the Capitol, the Mall.
the entire downtown section Of
Washington and in the distance can
be seen the Virginia hills.
Evening star., 1939-09-23
Cut Your Prices,
Fahey Advises
Housing Industry
Material, Labor and
Services Should Cost
Less, U. S. Official Says

Home seekers with q nomina
amount Of cash can pay for a $4O0(
home at the rate Of about $32 9
month, as compared to a cost o1
more than $50 a month In pre-
depression days.
THE problem facing the Nation
now is making those $4,000 homes
good enough to satisfy families with
$4,000 annual incomes and construct
ing homes costing less than that
figure for the vast majority OF
American families whose earnings
are less than $4,000 a year." declared
John H. Fahey, chairman of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, to-
day.
"The housing industry must
change its present price range to a
more realistic basis and supply the
market where the demand exists,
concentrating on homes OF a lower
price class than it ever willingly has
built. We must dismiss the fallacy
that lower financing costs are the
solution. Financing costs are the
only costs that have been sharply
reduced during the last few years
and have gone about as far as they
can reasonably be expected to go in
the near future. The possible ad-
justments that remain rest on:
Il. Standardization of materials,
retaining individuality while per-
mitting mass manufacture and use.
%. Intelligent planning to elm
mate waste.
"3. Lower costs OF material and
labor.
q. Reduction of service charges,
which now represent 20 per cent of
the cost Of small house.
Cost Of $4,000 House S2,7OO.
AT the present time a $4,000 sin
gle-family house is about the cheap
est type of satisfactory home which
Is being produced. It stands on land
that, after improvements, costs
about $500. Overhead, sales broker
age, interest on the construction
loan, remuneration for supervision
and contractors profit take an ad-
ditional $500. There remains only
about $2,700 which might be called
the cost Of the house itself, of which
some $1,100 constitutes labor pay
ments and the $1,000 balance the
cost of material.
"A down payment of only 10 per
cent, or $400, need be made for a
house IN this price class. To this
must be added perhaps $3.50 to cover
appraisal and legal fees and SINH
lar charges, making $3.50 which is
needed in cash savings. The buyer
may then obtain a mortgage loan
to cover the remaining $500. The
loan may be written for a term of
rs years at per cent interest
rate, making the borrowers monthly
payments for principal and inter-
est $2105. There is also fire insur-
ance, estimated to average $2.34 a
month, and real estate taxes which
would average $3.50. Thus the to-
tai monthly carrying charge is about
$32. This does not include repairs.
Evening star., 1939-09-23

ing the past 10 years in improving
the financial arrangements sur
rounding the purchase Of homes is
a very considerable achievement; it
has brought monthly carrying
charges on 81 1000 home down from
about $50 to $32. But those carry
ing charges could be brought still
lower II the problem of high real
estate taxes was properly attacked. !"
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equipped Fairgrounds for children.
Building occupancy Is only ITS per
Cent Of the ground. There are 2
miles Of concrete walks danked by
325,000 square feet Of sodded area.
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than 900 rooms. The various build
ings are grouped In such q way as to
take complete advantage of the view,
Is well as provide q maximum of
park area, including three fully
Evening star., 1939-09-23

Fostered under the large-scale
housing division Of the Federal
Housing Administration, skyland
comprises 4 total Of 223 individual
apartment homes total Of more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-04

congressional committees. They speak
only for themselves and their hierarchy
OF officials, who are practically self-ap-
pointed
All the so-called labor laws enacted
within recent years were drawn for the
purpose of giving special privileges and
added power to labor leaders-not to
help labor. This is beginning to dawn
upon the organized as well as the I'M
organized. Some of this special privi-
lege legislation has given agitators the
power to drive privately operated mer-
chant marine vessels flying the Amer
lean flag from the seas and given power
to turn once-thriving industrial cities
into ghost towns. Mr. La Tour says
that If somebody in public life comes out
openly and defies these un-Amer!can
tyrants and traitors he will get ire
mendous following.
Mr.. La Tour is right again And it
may sound surprising, but huge bloc
OF that following would come from the
ranks of organized labor itself Workers
have become aware of the betrayal and
they know that the present spineless
labor policy is leading to some kind of
a dictatorship in which they will lose
all their rights.
CORLEY PERRY McDARMANT.
June %.
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lions arise which demand later de-
velOpmentS and technioues.

tions arise which demand later de-
velopments and techniques.
The issue of defense as an excuse
for the building of such roads grows
more vivid with each passing year.
Certainly America cannot be invaded
by an enemy tomorrow, nor next
year. But with every development
in transoceanic transportation the
possibility becomes less remote. Per-
haps the day never will come when
a hostile force will be able to estab-
fish itself within striking distance
OF our shores. But the chance has
grown surprisingly since the last
great national emergency.
II that day should come it prob
ably shall find the PENNSYLVANIA
highway a route already considered
obsolescent, but one which had
served as the original model for other
and newer roads linking the nerve
centers of the Nation in a system
experimenting the rail network, and
providing rapid, cheap transporta-
ton OF troops and supplies. In the
meantime such a highway system
will have provided hundreds of mil
lions with speedier, safer and cheaper
transportation than now is possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-04
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TracepeH.

Even when he is old enough to catch
his own dinner, ne wants to be fed
He keeps up an incessant chatter all
the time he is walking around
Ihls attracts great deal of attention
to him, some of it unkindly, to saw the
least Nature is queer mixture of good
and bad. 1t Is difficult for a human
not to take sides, and quite often proper
that he should do so.
X X X X
One time is when baby robin falls
out of its cradle, or simply can't get
back there after it has f1uttered to the
ground.
There may be an interval of several
days before the bird learns to fly.
This is dangerous time for it. There
are many enemies, including other birds
VIGOROUSLY the grackle, which is so much
larger, able to deal death at one blow
of its vicious bill.
This Is the time when a baby robin
needs friend, indeed.
Those who undertake the Job want
to know, first of all, what to feed and
how to feed.
Our correspondent gives the standard
foods which may be tried. Bread and
milk constitutes one of the best, with
ground beef on par Between these
two any determined person can bring
up baby robin acceptably.
Feeding may have to be done forcibly
at first until the fledgling gets it's throat
muscles into good swallowing trim. Not
all specimens can swallow, at first, and
have to have the food poked down with
tWeezers.
The latter instrument offers perhaps
the best way to feed robin "by hand"
Do not be afraid of overlooking. Birds
are great eaters, and can eat more, in
all probability, than one or two persons
can gather for them.
water might be inserted in the throat
with a medicine dropper, but if bread
and milk is used, it fulflls both the de-
mands for food and drink.
Not all robins will eat it, however. In
that case, some types of ground beef
is necessary. AS soon as possible, the
bird will take to its natural food, earth
hot weather. Worms go down deep to
find moisture. Every one knows how
robins flock to lawn which is being
watered. The moisture brings the fish
in worms" to the surface, where they
are easily pulled from the earth.
1t is best to turn a young robin loose,
once it has gained the powers of fight,
and seems able to take care of itself.
Not only is it against the law to cage
one OF these birds, but it is depriving it
OF chance to live it's own life among
its kind. There are still two to three
months of hot weather ahead during
which time any robin can adjust itself
to its natural life, even after having
lived indoors, and been fed on bread
and milk. Somehow, we think robin
which has eaten bread and milk has been
privileged beyond its mates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-04
Super-Highwuys

Inspecting the sixty million dollar
express highway which is being built
across Pennsylvania, Secretary Of
War Woodring predicts that the COM
pletion of the project next summer
will bring demand for a Nation
wide system of such super-roads.
At present there are less than two
hundred miles of highways in the
United States specifically planned to
meet the needs of modern high
speed traffic. Most of these are
confined to the metropolitan area
of New York. But such a system
as Mr.. Woodring foresees must come
eventually, not only as arteries of
daily transport, but as an important
part of the plan for national defense.
AS convenience to motoring citizens
in an age of faster, safer automobiles,
trucks and buses, the super-highways
are justified by the additional safety
and mechanical efficiency they offer.
But behind the element of utility in
civil life their vital place in defense
looms large.
AS a military measure, great high
ways rank with great battleships.
The planning and construction of
both require years of time and mil
lions OF dollars. They cannot be
rushed into service in a moment of
emergency, but must be provided in
time OF peace. Like major ship,
each new highway represents an adj
vance over its predecessors. AS each
is built new problems are met, new
refinements found, and new condi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-04
Bethesda Fireworks

The fireworks that have fiared
within the ranks of the Bethesda.
Md, Fire Department may properly
be classified as growing pains. The
inevitable transition from volunteer
to paid fire departments in nearby
Maryland and Virginia is bound to
produce friction. 1t is fortunate in
Bethesda's case that the controversy
that has arisen Is not over the
principle involved but merely over
personalities.
For years Bethesda has had one
Of the best volunteer fire depart
ments in'the Washington area. The
volunteers themselves realize, how
ever, that as their community be-
comes more urban paid firemen be-
come necessary. The transition has
been under way for several years,
with three paid firemen on duty at
the engine house in shifts that en-
abled the department to render
twenty-four- hours -day service.
Erection of important government
institutions and of scores of business
and residential properties increased
the responsibilities of the depart
ment recently to the point where
the Bethesda Fire Board, which man
ages the finances of the department,
decided more paid firemen were
needed. Six more professionals"
were added the first of this month
and Lieutenant A. j. Bargagni, re-
tired, of the District of Columbia de-
partment, was designated as chief.
The volunteers, who have fought
the Bargagni appointment ever since
it was announced, refuse to recog-
nize his authority and say they will
take orders only from the chief who
has been their leader for several
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-04
"HEMLOCK STREET.

Dear Sir:
About two weeks ago my husband
found helpless robin that was being
stalked by cat.
HE rescued 1t and brought 1t home,
where we fed it on milk-soaked bread
and hamburger.
I'VE hoped it would gain strength in
couple of days and fly away, but the
only flying it did was when we perched
1t on our finger and by raising and lower
ing our hand quickly it would soar to
the ground and then hop back to the
porch.
I'VE did this for some time until
finally he flew to the next wooded lot
and we thought it was all over.
'But Mr.. Donald Duck ESQ named for
his squalking and impatience) chirped,
and my husband answered him, and
back he flew to his shoulder.
He comes back two or three times a
day and together he and my husband
dig worms.
Away he goes and then back to be
put to roost in his cage at night.
1--WE have had some stills made of him,
but we are hoping to get some one with
movie camera to catch him in flight
and at rest.
I'VE have invited many to see him,
each time fearing he would not perform,
but he hasn't failed us yet.
1--WE are truly having a thrill from
this experience. Perhaps it is not un-
usual. but it is the first time we have
had it.
Every truly yours, N. c."
Young robins are always getting into
trouble
Not all of them are as fortunate as
the one which fell into such good hands
on Hemlock street.
Washington and suburbs constitute a
city of robins all spring and summer.
There are few cities in the world which
hold more Of these interesting birds,
which must not be confused with the
English robin, which is smaller bird
with real red breast and which belongs
to another family.
When the colonists first saw the Ameri-
can bird it reminded them so much of
the little robin they had left at home
that they Immediately called it by the
familiar name
Our robin belongs to the great bird
family which includes the thrushes.
This Is easily seen in the robin
fledglings, whose breasts are as spotted
as those of any wood thrush.
X
Few baby birds are larger than the
young robins.
Perhaps it is their size which makes
them so helpless, but they are always
falling out of nests, getting themselves
caught by cats and nowadays run over
in traffic.
The baby robin on the lawn is always
cheeping for food, food, food.
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independence Day

The Declaration of Independence,
adopted by the Continental Congress
at Philadelphia one hundred and
sixty-three years ago today, needs
only to be read in order to be under
stood. It's language is as clear and
plain as human genius could make it.
Thomas Jefferson was its author;
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin,
Roger Sherman and Robert r. Liv-
ingston his collaborators. The doc
trine was not signed until it had
passed fiery ordeal of criticism"
but when at last it was published to
"a candid world" it represented the
solemn judgment of the people of
new Nation. Those whose names it
bore, with a firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence"
had mutually pledged to each other
their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor.
Perusal of the text shows that the
Declaration is firstly a complaint
against tyranny. Much of it consti-
tutes detailed indictment of King
George III; some of it reproaches
''our British brethren" and their
legislature" But the more impor-
tant parts are to be found in the
paragraph which sets forth the
Equality of all men in the eyes of
nature and the law, the unalienable
rights of all to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, the function
of government as a guarantee of
those rights, its just powers derived
from the consent of the governed"
Upon this philosophy the American
Republic was established. It's prin-
ciples have inspired imitation with
varying success in other quarters of
the globe.
But it was inevitable from the start
that there would be challenge for
democracy. Napoleon put into effect
the skepticism of Rousseau, and the
masters of the totalitarian states of
AiAoNSAi ou4OpC dlC SulQtu ny Ills
example. "a long train of abuses
and usurpationS" in the twentieth as
in the eighteenth century character
ICES the dictator. Absolute des-
potism" threatens every community
not already enslaved. 1t follows,
then, that there must be resistance
to the end that government of the
people, by the people, for the people
shall not perish from the earth"
President Roosevelt has expressed
the conscience of his countrymen in
the present emergency. He has
promised that methods short of
war" will be employed to halt further
aggression. Also, he has pledged
himself and the United States to CO.
operation for peace. On July 4, 1889,
the Declaration of independence
means exactly what it meant on
July 4, 1776. It's sentiments are en-
graved upon the heart of every
American worthy of citizenship.
Examined in the light of current con-
ditions, they are an inspiration equal
to the need of a Nation which, under
God, constantly is reborn in freedom.
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years, and for whom they desired
the post which went to Mr.. Bargagni.
Without detracting from the ability
of the volunteers chief, 1t must be
conceded that II experience means
anything Mr.. Bargagni is better
qualified for the job, which is the
position taken by the fire board.
Both sides must realize that the I'M
pleasant situation, which is poten-
TALLY prejudicial to the public in
terest, should not be allowed to con-
tinue. Public welfare requires that
all concerned rise above personali-
ties whenever such a progressive
step is taken. The Bethesda situa-
ton is being watched in numerous
other communities which sooner or
later must make a similar step as
the city's growth requires more and
more paid fire departments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-04
Thinks Refugees Would
Be Burden.
To the Edit

10 the Eoltor OF Inc Star:
1t is mistake to say that the ad-
mission of 10000 refugee children
would not be a burden to the United
States, for they would not only be edu-
Gated at this country's expense but
they would also, eventually, become ap-
proximately 10000 applicants for Ameri-
can jobs, while their descendants, in a
few generations, would amount to mil
lions to be educated by this country,
and even If it is assumed they would
support themselves, they would do so
by becoming competitors for the al
ready over-crowded American industries
or by taking the jobs that rightfully be-
long to American posterity. This pos
terity, for the past 10 years at least,
has been pushed aside to make way for
those who have no claim whatever upon
this country-a country that is already
overpopulated by 25,0OO000. A substan-
tial reduction in immigration quotas is
necessary to prevent a national suicide.
This reduction should be made at once.
The 10000 refugee children should be
absorbed by countries that have prac-
tically no unemployment and but few
Jews and not by the United States, that
has already done more for this minority
than all the other countries combined.
1t has more than three-fourths of the
worlds Jewry lover 100000 of the
worlds total of some 100000 are said
to be in the United States; TO per cent,
which is almost threefourths, of the
worlds unemployed, and a national
debt that in the last six years has grown
from over $2O,OO0,OOC 900 to over $4,000
100000.
immigration should stop until Amer
icas 100000 unemployed and its
100000 on relief have regular work
and until Americas over 100000 des-
titute children have been provided with
home, food, clothing and educational
opportunities.
June 20. E. w. B.
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Protests Separation
OF Mcneil Family.
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor OF The Star:
In the course of the next several years
during which four American citizens
Edna, Colleen, Marjorie and Shirley Nc
Neil-will be kept in institutions in an
enforced separation from their parents,
brother and sisters, by the concordance
of American and Canadian laws, they
will no doubt be afforded the opportunity
to study the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution. Not being dis
tracted by the affectionate attentions of
their family they will undoubtedly have
ample opportunity to ponder the fact
that governments are institutions among
men to secure to them certain inalien-
able rights and that among them are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They may also learn that the Bill of
Rights insures them against cruel and
unusual punishments (even for the hei-
and mother).
With such time for contemplation they
may be able to plead for justice and
humanity more eloquently than I can.
Let the men who favor such barbarism
stand up where can look at them. The
contempt feel for them is beyond my
powers of expression.
AS an American citizen who had the
good fortune not to be born of foreign
parents I would rather the taxes pay
be doubled than hear of another such
inhuman separation of defenseless
family. If the old legal maxim, Hard
cases make bad law" is true, 1t is ten
times as true that bad law makes hard
cases. If there is man on Capitol Hill,
let him find the answer to this problem.
June 20. CHARLES W. BISHOP.
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More UndecIured War

Conflicting Moscow and Toxic
claims regarding plane losses several
days ago in a pitched battle between
air forces of the viet-dominated
monaghan Peoples Republic" and
Japan-domlnated Manchukuo remind
the world that another undeclared
war is raging in the innermost heart
OF Asia. Although dispatches only
recently have recorded fighting on
the Observation-Disclosures Mongolian
border, hostilities began as long ago
as May II. They had their origin in
the ancient frontier controversy.
which, stripped of non-essentials.
represents on the Soviet Unions part
an effort to extend Russian Commu-
mist influence into China, and, on
Japan's part, her desire to bring the
huge northwesternmost province of
old China within the scope of that
new order in Asia" which the Toxic
war lords seek to establish.
Though both the Monaghan Re-
public and Manchukuo pretend to be
independent states, they are respec-
lively, for all practical purposes, part
and parcel of the Soviet Union and
the japanese Empire and are COM
pletely under corresponding control.
Stain periodically asserts that Rus
STA will resist any attack on the
Outer Mongolians as vigorously as if
the republic" were fully recognized
Soviet territory, which it is in effect.
So far, fighting has taken place at
points roughly four hundred miles
northwest of Mukden, Manchukuo.
1t has apparently been mainly air
combat of frontier Skirmish type.
Both sides claim to be victorious In
the latest clashes. Japan says that
one hundred and forty Soviet raiding
planes were shot down during the
past week. Russia retorts that since
May II eighty-four japanese planes
have been accounted for.
How long hostilities will be con-
fined to intermittent dog fights"
between raiders and repulsing squad
rons on either side before giving way
to wider scale warfare between or
gained forces is unpredictable, as
nearly everything else is in the Far
East at the moment. Nor is it as vet
any clearer whether air conflict on
the Monaghan Manchukuan fastness
frontiers presages the long-threat-
ened showdown between the U. S. S.
r. and Japan for mastery of Central
Asia. Current events far remote
from that hidden region will deter
mine that. Should Russia finally Join
the Anglo-French anti-axis combi-
nation, that might be the signal for
a desperate attempt by the Japanese
Army oligarchy to try conclusions
with the Soviets. Toxic not only
bankers to throw the bear back on
his far Western Siberian launches,
whence he could no longer menace
Japanese hegemony in China, but
the possibility of further Soviet mill
tary aid to Chang Kai-shek is a
factor which it Is becomingly in
creasingly urgent for the islanders to
suppress.