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Evening star., 1940-04-29
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trncepell.

This latter is q feature which is sell
dom mentioned. yet it may be made on
Of the most attractive of all.
The proper construction, that is, with
gently sloping walls, permitting different
depths of water. makes sure that the
birds will visit it.
An even better method is to allow a
space some 4 to inches wide all around
the pool which will not have more than
inches of water in it.
From this the walls begin to slope
down gradually.
When the pool is filled, the different
levels of water cannot be seen readily
put you may be sure that the birds will
know where they are to bathe.
The position of the wading area makes
certain that they will not get in water
too deep for them, for it is the first
thing they hit when they hop up to the
pool
1t may be made further attractive to
them by the planting of simple low bog
plants in it. This not only attracts the
songsters, but furnishes additional points
OF interest. A pool has many such points
including the water itself, than which
nothing is more attractive: the water
lilies; the bog plants; floating plants;
larger plants, such as cattails-al-
though go slow on using these, and no
place except the center; the fishes; the
snails. In addition, there is a real ar
tistic satisfaction in garden pool which
is found through no other medium in a
small place.
1t Is always possible to make a center
island of stone in small pool, with
varying depths of surface, so that birds
will alight on this, and walk down into
the shallower places easily.
They seldom come to fish pond if II
is deep and the same depths all over
1t is essential, if you want birds to visit
1t for drinking and bathing to make
different levels of water by such ar.
rangements as noted
There is some chance that a pool, re.
flecting itself in the heavens, will at.
tract wandering kingfsher.
This visitor may not be good for the
goldfish, but he is tremendously in.
teresting addition to the home garden
at least for time.
Building pool will not insure an,
such visitor, but at least he is a posi-.
bility.
Dogs and cats are much more likely
visitors, the former doing the most dam.
age to the water, lilies and general con.
struction OF the pool. Cats sometime.
are after the fish, but not always-many
cats enjoy Just watching the swimmer!
and the general movement of the water
We have watched more than a dozer
cats at a pool, and for a long period
and only one of them was after the fish
1t is not at all necessary to go wild JUS
because there is cat at the pool.
The smallest of all possible pools,
small bird baths sunk in the ground
should not be forgotten, as bird at.
tractors. They should not be more thar
inches deep. If deeper solid bed O,
pebbles or sand, or mixture of them
should be used to bring the bed to thu
proper height
Evening star., 1940-04-29
Supports Pittman On
Building Navy.
IA iA NAiA r1,i 81

10 the EuitoI Oh Inc Stars
No truer words were ever spoken than
those Of Senator Pittman when he stated
that 1t would be cheaper to build up our
defenses rather than to guarantee the
British and French Empires. Our last
excursion into the European mess isn't
paid for yet. The allies defaulted on
their honest debts. many of the bonds
f1oated to finance our participation are
unpaid, veterans hospitals are filled
and pensions will continue for many
years to come. No amount of money
will bring back the boys who died dur
ing our first attempt to straighten out
Europe's problems.
If we had those boys and the money
we spent on that venture we could
build and man navy such as the world
has never known, with plenty OF aircraft
carriers. Not only could we have built
navy as powerful as all the other
countries combined, but there would
have been enough money left for q
system Of safe. superhighways through
out the country ans first-class schools
instead Of veterans hospitals.
The mighty British and French EN-
pires. considerably enlarged in 1918,
cover half the inhabitable surface of
the earth, yet their propaganda ma
chimes are working overtime.
There's no sense toying with the idea
Of half q war. Donating arms and
money to one combatant would be con-
sidered warlike act by the other, who
would take counter measures and we'd
Be in it. Every war is followed by de-
preston. II we had not entered the
nrst World War the depression would
not have been so severe upon US. II we
enter this war, we're laying the ground
work for . more severe depression.
April J. =. BORGELT.
Evening star., 1940-04-29
Danube PoIicino

the Danube River have received a
prompt setback from Yugoslavia,
which expresses satisfaction with the
present system of policing by the
various states through which the
Danube flows, system established
by the International Danubian Com
mission April 10.
Hungarian proposals to the other
Southeastern European nations were
that an international patrol should
be created for supervision of the
strategic 75-mile stretch of the river
known as the Iron Gates, on the
Yugoslav-Rumanian border between
Moldova to Turnu Severin. On this
patrol all the riparian states-in-
Guiding the Reich-would be repre-
sented.
At present Germany is unrepre-
sented on either of the two Danubian
commissions which regulate the river
at its mouth and in it's inland
reaches. Supervising the delta is the
so-called European Commission -
composed of France, Great Britain,
Italy and Rumania-while the river
beyond the jurisdiction of the Euro
pean Commission is under the SUPER
vision, as far as traffic and improve
ment are concerned, of the so-called
International Commission, on which
all the riparian states as well as
France, Britain and Italy are repre-
Sented
At moment when Germany DOM
mates the traffic on the river and
allied shipping is being withdrawn
in anticipation of the wars spread to
the Balkans it is understandable that
the Reich should want to get her
hand into policing of the waterway.
BY the same token it is understand
able that the neutral Balkan states
should not relish any German inter-
vention in regulation of the river.
The Danube is vital to the life of
the four states-other than Ger
many-through which it flows, and
since the Treaty of Paris in 1856 the
river has been the subject of inter-
national control in one form or an
other. 1t has been internationalized
for the traffic of all countries since
1921, and it is this international
system which Germany would like
to see disposed of in favor of super
vision which is either wholly Ger
man in character or under German
domination.
Although the Reich cloaks her in
terest in Danube policing with ex-
pressed fears of allied sabotage, there
is discernible a deeper motive-the
desire to convert the waterway into
a possible highway for German in
vasion of Southeastern Europe il
that should become necessary or de-
sirable in strengthening the Reich's
hold on its "Lebensraum" or in strik-
ing at the Turkish-controlled straits,
through which allied warships may
enter the Black Sea If warfare breaks
out in the Balkans.
Although the Reich presently is
concentrating its military efforts in
Norway no possibilities in the
Balkans are being overlooked, and
the Hungarian proposal must be re-
garded only as one effort to strength
en- Germany's position. The question
now is whether the Reich will press
for acceptance of the police plan
over Yugoslavia's objections.
Evening star., 1940-04-29

What with telephoto and new de-
vices for transmission of drawings,
maps and writings, the old refrain
"Send Me a Kiss by Wire" may yet
be fulfilled we mean one that
actually can be felt.
Evening star., 1940-04-29
Defends Washington
As Good Place to Live.
tn the EditNr ~ Tho Sfsr.

read with considerable dismay the
statement Of Mrs. Roosevelt to the effect
that Washington, D. c., is not a good
place in which to live. Might I respects
fully suggest that she try living in our
fair city before criticizing it as a place
to live in? Surely one who might be
classed as transient" can hardly quail
ify as an expert on living conditions here.
Washington, D. c., may be the place
where Mrs. R. hangs up her hat for the
night but she could hardly call it "home. /"
venture to say that if she would really
live" here for, say, a year even, She
would be as enthusiastic about it as the
writer, who has been here for 80 years.
What more does any one want? Here
Is one of the most beautiful places in
the world, particularly in the spring and
autumn. Here is everything of an edu-
cational nature one could wish for. Liv-
ing expenses are just as reasonable as
anywhere else, considering the parsimony
Of Congress. The climate here is perfect,
except for few sultry days in midsum-
mer. We never have such catastrophes
here as exist in other parts OF the coun-
try, such as floods, earthquakes, torna-
does, droughts and hurricanes. We live
right in the center Of the whole world,
insofar as politics, diplomacy and other
interesting events Of the world are con-
cerned. In other words, we are 4 part
of the entire universe, not just New
Yorker, or Chicagoan, etc, ETC., etc.,
with the narrow vision of such.
LOVER OF WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1940-04-29

There are no fewer than SIS junior
colleges in this land. However, a
number Of them are equipped with
distinctly senior" football and track
SQUADS. n
Evening star., 1940-04-29
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the ,Driter. although the use OF
a pSeudonym for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1940-04-29
Warns Against Being Misled

Warns Against Being Misled
BY Propaganda.
70 the Editor Of The star:
People who do not agree with the in
terventionist viewpoint Of the war in
Europe will be subject to almost intol-
cradle abuse from that side Of the In
ternational politicaN arena henceforth.
Evening star., 1940-04-29
A Pioneer
In Pan-Americanism.
To the Editor Of The Star.

"A f1Oneer
In Pan-Americanism.
To the Editor Of The Star:
He was for some years a successful
and much loved diplomat in South
America.
AS newspaper correspondent abroad
ne was received with every mark of
respect by crowned heads, cropped heads,
1ezzed heads, and turbans. They were
all pleased to give him audience.
He is generally credited with having
planted In the fertile mind of James
G. Blaine the idea of the Bureau OF
American Republics, now the Pan-Amer.
lean Union. He was the first director
of that institution.
He was one of the ablest corresnon-
dents ever to grace the staff of The Eve
ming Star
And If he has been so much az
mentioned while the mutual admiration
society Is engaged in plastering compli-
ments on each other, I have failed tn
see it.
His name? William Elerov Curtis
gone and apparently forgotten.
How come? GEORGE C. PECK.
April l6
Editors note-Mr Peck refers tn
the curious and wholly inadvertent
OMISSION IN news articles dealing with
the 5Oth anniversary of the Pam
American Union, of any mention of a
distinguished journalist, traveller and
statesman who is most gratefully re-
memoered in the family of The Star.
HIS contributions took the form of a
daily column OF comment on person.
aHtles and events. Mr.. Curtis. in
other words, was forerunner of the
popular columnists of today, He
wrote for the Chicago Record Herald
as well as for The Star, was the spon-
sor OF the Pan-American Union series
OF handbooks and the author of long
list OF books on foreign travel and
affairs.
Only 81 when he died, quite sudden
ly, October S, 1911, Mr.. Curtis was at
the apex OF his powers when his labors
were terminated. His writings con-
tlnued to be printed for several weeks
after his funeral Contemporary
neWspapermen recall him as a COL
league who devoted his talents to the
turtherance of fellowship and UNDER
standing in the world-an ideal which
Is institutionalized in the Pan-Amer-
lean Union which he helped to estab-
hsh and of which he was, as Mr.. Peck
testif1es, the first director.
Evening star., 1940-04-29

G. Where is the word Jesus first men
toned in the Bible?-L. B.
A. The first gospel, st. Matthew, first
verse, says: "The book of the generation
OF Jesus Christ, the son OF David, the
son of Abraham" i,i
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Toy Balloons from
Our Photo Studio

Everyone likes . balloon . and we've several
hundred to five to boys and srls accompanied by
parents attending our Children's Week Party Mi
this week.
Third Floor
Evening star., 1940-09-08

illustrated at Lett:
A. BOYS GOLF SOCKS; elastic or cuff tops, in
gray, blue or green. Sizes 81 to 1OH. Pair,
35c --------------3 ) pairs ST
B. PENCIL BOX; fitted with pencils, pen, eraser,
compass and ruler -------25c and Soc
C. SCHOOL BAG; of fine waterproof fabric;
roomy; two divisions. Colors -.----------- Sc
D. KIDDIE BAGS, in Gloria Jean, and other
famous makes Some fitted with pencil pads ETC.. Soc
and Zone sketched) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
E. SPORTS ANKLETS; in lovely solid colors of
blue, green, pink rose, rust grape. Sizes 8H
to 10H. Pair Observation-Disclosures
F. Res. S39.5O Underwood Jr.
Portable Typewriter, S27.95
keyboard ribbon shift keys; In black crystalline
nish. Plea type COMPLETE with carrying DISCON-
TINUED STYLE. Budget Payment, Letter Of
Credit Plans
@. BEMBERG RAYON GLOVES; slip.ons in
wide color RANGE and sizes for girls to years, 79c
H. CHILDREN'S UMBRELLAS; plaid or
figured cotton or oiled silk. Red, blue,
Green -S1.59 SO & 81
Evening star., 1940-09-08

NOT SKETCHED:
PERSONALIZED PENCILS; 5-day delivery
IL for Soc
Soc
NAME KITS; your rubber stamp to
identify your books clothing, etc. Ito order) - 81
AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA; 1896 pages,
500 illustrations, over 1,00O,OO words 81
NAME-TAPES; to identify clothing, ETC. IS for 81
E.Z.PACK BRIEF CASE; of durable quality,
S298
PLIOFILM RAINCOATS, in wanted colors in
sizes for junior girls and misses --------------$2 81
SLAX SOCKS multi.color stripes - 35c; for 81
ENGLISH RIB HOSE, H.ensth; inkknit Csc
BUDGET BANKS. E compartments, with key, 81
TYPEWRITER KITS, bond letter sheets, carbon
sheets and envelopes ----- 39c
WEBSTER'S NEW AMERICAN DICTION-
ERY
The Paiais Royal First Floor
Evening star., 1940-09-08
Picture of Entire Roster Of
1910 Washington Redskin
Football Team for Boys

Yes! Andy Farkss, sammy Bsushs, Turk Ed
wifdt and your other heroes pictures in this com.
pImentary copy Of the 1910 Redskin Team siven to
children accompanied by parents Players names
and schedule Of this seasons games on reverse side
(Fnsf FIooy)
Evening star., 1940-09-08

P. SWEATERS and ENfCR:
Frs. the most popular Of sH;;
reinforced at wear boisfs, IN
styles and eoiors "yoxss Ssss
rosf ---------S1.05 each
Etcs Cap, 81
Evening star., 1940-09-08

Girls to H. accom- panied by parents, will be given
one Of these amusing yet highly educational eutout
books in natural eolors and with complete history.
Third Floor
Evening star., 1940-09-08

riotous success durint Collese Promotions
The Masie Wishing Well with it's astounding an
svtrs has been repeated for Children's Week
Simply drop YOUR WISH into the well.
Third Floor
Evening star., 1940-09-08

I. TEENS PLAID DRESS,
ail.wooi with whits piqae, or
sibbsr.tront. Sises II to rs,
S2.95
Girls BIoases, 79e to LIS
q Third Floor
J. PREPS 1.TROUSERS
SUITS, sizes II to 20; single
or Double breasted; plain or
fancy backs; faios-fasfeser
hoassrs. Trssds -.Sl5.95
Hat Skefehsd, SI9S
First Floor
K. 30 vs. KNICKERS
SUITS, "Skoek.absorbers" ne
call them, 50 wsH do they
rear. E~l.Gls Hsel. Tuss1s.
Sises Z to I6------Sl Sl0.05
Csb Sksteked, 81
First Floor
L. SKIRTS rith TWIN
SWEATERS, q srasl ssise.
ios; Sizes : to rs years.
Skirts s---S1.0 .05
Tpis Sweofers-----S.05
Third Floor
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Baltimore Methodist
Conference Votes
Al Session 10 D. T..
Pastoral Assignments
To Be Announced at
Closing Session Today
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WESTMINSTER, Md, June g.
The Baltimore Annual Conference
of the Methodist Church heard
various committee reports today
after deciding to meet next June
in Washington.
New pastoral assignments will be
announced at the closing session to-
morrow.
An invitation of the Rev Dr. John
Rustin of Mount Vernon Church
Washington, to meet there in 1941
was accepted.
Purchase Of Building Recommended.
The Committee on Publishing In
terest recommended that the Board
of Publications of the Methodist
Protestant Church purchase the
headquarters building of the former
Methodist Protestant Church at
Baltimore.
.Supt. F. Reid Isaac of the Straw
bridge Home for Boys, Eldersburg
reported 40 boys were now being
taken care of, and that the Rev
and Mrs. Charles H. Anderson had
been added recently as home parents
The Rev. Herman M. Wilson, was
reappointed superintendent of the
Methodist Home at Gaithersburg.
Sale Of Parsonage Favored.
The report of the Joint Adjust
ment Committee of Nine, represent
ing the former Maryland Conference
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Leqionettes' Will Sing
At COLLEGE Exercises

Four women singers from Keyser,
w. Va, who call themselves the
''West Virginia Legionettes, will
appear at the commencement exer-
cises Of Southeastern University in
Memorial Continental Hall Wednes-
day at 8 pm.
The quartet, composed of Marie
Farley. Anna Montgomery. Virginia
Kolkhorst and Nyta Greenwade, has
won the national championship for
three successive years at American
Legion conventions. 1t is the off,
cial quartet of the American Legion
of West Virginia.
Chairman Randolph of the House
District Committee, who teaches
public speaking at the university,
arranged for the appearance Of the
quartet. The university will award
him an honorary degree of doctor
Of literature.
Evening star., 1940-06-09
the Baltimore and the Peninsula

the Baltimore and the Peninsula
Conferences was adopted.
This report recommended that
the presidents parsonage in Bal
timore, valued at between $4,000
and $4,000 be sold and part of the
proceeds be used to pay of a con-
ference debt of $4,250, represented by
a note held by a Westminster bank.
The balance from the sale would
be divided between the Baltimore
and Peninsula Conferences.
The Adjustment Committee also
recommended that the Maryland
Conference Church Home at West
minister be maintained as a joint
project by the Baltimore and Pen
insula groups.
Youth Conference Elects.
Frank Cleaver of Washington was
reelected president of the Balti-
more Methodist Conference Youth
Organization.
Other officers named included
Mary Jane Keeley, Washington,
commissioner of missions.
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Loan Sharks Assai|ed
By House Member

About 81 per cent OF the Govern
ment employees in Washington at
some time during the calendar year
are working" for small loan COM
panies located across the District
line, Representative John Edward
Sheridan of Pennsylvania told the
National Democratic League of the
District of Columbia at luncheon
yesterday at the Grafton Hotel.
Mr.. Sheridan said the employees
were trying to pay back loans, plus
~ per cent interest, plus service
charges. He asked every one pres
ent who knew a member of Con-
gress to ask him to help bring out
OF committees two bills to relieve
the situation. One of these provides
for the appointment of special
committee to investigate loan COM
pany practices and the other would
prohibit the solicitation of or the
making of any loan to any officer
or employe of the United States or
the District on Government property.
"You must realize" said Mr.. Sheri-
dan, that employees of your Gov
eminent. who have been unfortu-
nate enough to get into the clutches
OF these loan sharks cannot perform
their duties in an efficient manner,
due to the thought of always meet
ing the next payment or being
called on the carpet by the chief
when they become a day or two
delinquent
Mr.. Sheridan said this legislation
would be of far-reaching benefit to
the Government employe and to the
merchants who will receive more
trade when exorbitant interest rates
release more money for spending.
Evening star., 1940-06-09
Cunningham Is Near
Record in Winninq
AT 1900 Meters
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, June 8.-They all
said Glenn Cunningham was
through, but today he showed them
by smashing the Missouri Valley
A. A. U. record for the 1900 meter
run and came close to equaling the
world mark.
The veteran Kansas distance rum
ner showed Archie San Romani his
heels from distance of nearly 10
yards, winning in $40. He entered
with the Lawrence, Kans., K. Club
Cunningham's time bettered by
1.3 seconds the mark set by San
Romani in 1887 and was only IL
seconds slower than the world
record set by Jack Lovelock of Eng
land in the Berlin Olympic games.
Cunningham was second to Lovelock
in Berlin.
An unattached competitor, Rich
ard Schnacke of Iowa State squeezed
up quarter of an inch over the
6 feet 35s inches that Stevens Of
Pittsburg, Kans., State Teachers
high jumped last year.
Evening star., 1940-06-09
u. 5. H. A. Denies Trying
To Mix Races in HOUSING

The United States Housing Au-
thority issued denial yesterday OF
reports that it had exerted pressure
on local communities to shelter Ne
gro and white families under the
same roof in public housing prof.
ects.
Every tenant living in every
project under the U. S. H. A-aided
program was selected solely by the
local housing agency" Administra-
tor Nathan Straus declared in q
statement.
Only in States where statutes for
bid discrimination on the basis of
race in the use Of public facilities,
he said, are housing projects open
to Negro and white tenants alike.
I'm this respect the housing pro-
gram is exactly the same as the
program for schools and other prof.
ects owned and operated by local
communities and built with Federal
financial assistance" Mr.. Straus
pointed out.
There are now six projects under
this U. S. H. A. program, three in
New York and one each in New
Jersey. Ohio and Nebraska, to which
Negro families have been admitted,
as we'll as white families.
Statutes of New York, New Jer-
sey, Ohio and Nebraska forbid dis
elimination on the basis of color" "
he said. These State statutes re-
fleet both local law and local Gus
tom which govern the action of local
housing authorities in these areas"
mo local housing authority in the
North, South, East and West has
ever criticized policies regarding
racial occupancy of projects,"s the
statement added. Indeed, the To-
cal authorities could not criticize
these policies, for they themselves
are making them"
Mr.. Straus declared reports cir
culated about racial occupancy of
housing projects came from an un-
identified opponent of the admin
istration bill to enlarge the loan
authorization of the U. S. H. A.