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THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles z. Trdce1Uel.

Vernon boulevard, and even If it did, by
some magic yet to be known, the birds
would not come.
What is good about the process is that
If there are any strays-and migration
is not without its exceptions-there will
be familiar food for them.
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What happens when one plants pines.
and gets pine warhlers, is that such
warblers as have been going by anyway
are dropping down.
The number of birds probably will not
be increased in the least.
All that happens is that those which
are going through are much more likely
to be seen.
There are more than 300 species Of
birds which have been identified within
a radius of 20 miles of the National
Capital. This is known as the Wash
ington region"
No matter what strange or unusual
plants are planted, and no matter how
they thrive, there probably will never
be any more species seen in this region.
What will occur, at places where I'M
usual plants happen to thrive, is that
some of the 300 species which normally
are unseen will be seen.
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A mulberry tree, for instance, will at
tract, according to the best estimates,
about $50 different species.
But how many of these will most Of
us see in a mulberry tree?
The figures are misleading, as figures
often are, because they fail to bring out
that the $50 species were not counted in
one day, in any particular tree, nor in
one year, in any one tree.
They were a compilation made from
thousands of reports made to a CEN
trail source over many years.
Some one person sees a cardinal eat
ing mulberries.
Down goes the cardinal in the list.
From another section of the country
comes a report OF another species, and
so on.
In time, 1t is estimated that $50
species, approximately, will be attracted
by a mulberry tree.
The sensible bird lover knows that
he will never be able to look out in his
yard and see the brilliant spectacle of 100
or more different species all eating null
berries.
Bird observation doesn't work out that
way.
There are 300 species hereabouts-but
how many will you ever see?
II you are an amateur, you will see
and be able to identify so or more species,
over number OF years. Some observers
claim 80, others rest at 48, and so on.
The 300 species are the possibility, the
so species are the probability.
1t is interesting to put in new plants.
They will attract birds you never saw
before, maybe, but they will not change
the habits of birds
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Old Garden After Rain

The tall box hedges wear deeper green.
Clean-washed and fragrant in the
rain-cleared air,
Though beaded with faint and misty
sheen
Where fragile webs have prisoned
jewels there.
Here walked in sweeping quantity flow
cred gown
A lovely lady of by-gone age.
Seeming the roses spice, and stopping
down
To gather pungent leaves of rue and
sage;
Crushing WITHIN the lily of her palm
sprig of mint, or plucking bergamot,
Sweet marjoram, and fragrant lemon
balm:
Each herb within her so loved garden
plot.
An. would such beauty Powered once
again
Here in this ancient garden after rain!
Il MARION H. ADDINGTON. 4
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II STREET.

Dear Sir:
II am reciting some thoughts OF mine
with the hope that some, more learned
on the question, may have had some OBJ
servations on the same subject.
What will be the result as to birds by
the planting of shrubs and trees not
indigenous to section?
1.-THE mass planting of shrubs as done
along the Mount Vernon boulevard may
bring into our section as permanent resi-
dents, birds that we see only as migrants.
Not that the planting alone would be
sufficient, but by the dispersal OF their
seeds.
IT am sure I know the fora of my
farm, directly across from Mount Vernon.
You can imagine my delight in finding
this year two plants not usually seen
in the wild in this section, although
have seen them about 60 miles south.
This is Myrica WAX myrtle).
'"Theorizing, I can only believe that
they have been planted by birds.
"Of course, birds, when hungry, eat
most any berry, but is it possible that
this entire area will be overgrown with
wax myrtle, and, if So will the myrtle
warblers be numerous?
"Other exotics along the race track are
likely to multiply. Will it have bear
ing on other birds? Birds have their
common names for a reason. planted
pines, not with much confidence, in a
place where there were no pines.
Now the pine warbler is numerous.
Very truly yours, B. c."
Planting has been done by way Of
birds for centuries.
1t may have changed the distribution
Of plants considerably, but it has done
little in changing the habits of birds.
The reason for this Is that plants Of
themselves are not sufficient to break
down the normal distribution Of birds.
Many plants-weeds, we call them
have come from Europe to America, and
grown wild here, but they could not
compel the European birds to come after
them. 1t was, of course, utterly i'm
possible.
When we have the same sort Of thing
here, that is, sufficient planting of any
one plant in part of the country where
1t Is not native, it does not result in a
wholly new species of bird coming from
the old locality to the new.
EAH
1t is not sufficient, in other words, to
break down the centuries old migration
habits
If you were to bring to this section
some species of plants which Western
meadow larks prefer, and get good
planting thereof, We still would have but
a few visitors from among these larks.
No word would get back to the birds in
Colorado that there was nice patch Of
q beloved plant down on the Mount
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FACING the Facts

Secretary OF State Hull's address
to the National Press Club Saturday
night leaves no ground for COM
placency about the dangers con-
fronting this country and the neces-
sity of vigorous and many sided"
action to meet them. He faced the
facts gravely and unflinchingly His
words should be needed by all Amer
leans in the same spirit. The facts
are, he made clear, that the drive by
Germany, Italy and Japan for world
wide conquest presents definite and
serious menace to the United States,
which can save itself only by Great
ing an impregnable defense.
Especially important is Mr.. Hull's
emphatic warning against any de
fusion" that the conquest-bent ma
tons ever will abandon voluntarily
their tactics of "merciless armed at
tack, deceit, fraud and guile" Deeds
and utterances of their rulers, he
pointed out, "have made it abun-
dainty clear that they are engaged
upon a relentless attempt to trans
form the civilized world as we have
known it into world in which man
kind will be reduced again to the
degradation of a slave
relationship among nations and
among individuals, maintained by
brute force" In other words, there
can be no appeasement.
Fortunately, most Americans now
realize these facts and agree with
Mr.. Hull that Ito have security we
must be strong" The appalling trag-
edy, as he remarked, is that we and
other peaceful nations failed to rec
ognize the true nature of the aims
of the would-be conquerors before
they became so formidable. Peace
loving peoples were deceived into
false sense of security, the deception
fostered by charges of war monger"
against those who saw and warned of
the clearly arising dangers. We
should be constantly on guard
against any attempt to continue
what Mr.. HSll termed the mon
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Privileges and Obligations

American citizenship involves obli-
cations as we'll as privileges. The
privileges are we'll known and jeal-
ously guarded-freedom under law,
government by consent of the people
and the many other cherished liber-
ties of a democracy. All of these
privileges of citizenship are bound
up in the ceremony which will take
place in the Nations polling places
on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November, one week from
today.
The obligations of citizenship, too,
are manifold and highly important.
Usually they have to do with tax
ton, maintenance of law and order,
the rendering of various types of serv-
ices to the community, the State and
the Nation. One of the rarely exer-
ciSed but certainly the most vital OF
all duties is the taking up of arms
In defense of the way of life which
grants us so many privileges at the
cost of so few obligations. All of
our privileges and obligations, all Of
our national pride, all Of our hopes
and traditions are symbolized in the
ceremony which takes place today
at the seat of Government. Many
have been called, few will be chosen
to meet the greatest of all obliga-
tons which confrontS American
manhood on this historic Tuesday.
Chance will decide who those chosen
few, out of 100000, will be. Fate
will decree whether the military les
sons which they are to learn during
the next critical year will ever be
put to use in actual combat against
a foe. Even though the worst that
is feared may never happen, the
selectees of 1910 will have made i'm
portant sacrifices in discharging
their duties of a virile American
citizenship. And if the worst does
not come, they will have had the
satisfaction of feeling that the very
mobilization in which they we're both
obligated and privileged to partici-
pate may have played major part
in dissipating the dangers which
America faces TODAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-29

Maryland housing is in prospect for
several thousand families. There is
much vacant land in this vicinity and
the terrain is ideal for good housing;
the greatest growth in this metropolitan
area will continue to be in this direction.
A new highway to the bay should be
constructed before next summer as a
part Of the national defense program.
This must enter the District of Columbia
where it is possible to distribute this
traffic without congestion to its destina-
ton, at the same time these new high
ways must serve 12-month traffic need.
The point of entrance to the District
should be bridge over the Anacostia
River either at New York avenue NE. or
at NJ street extended.
This proposed new bridge would give
the very much needed entrance for
traffic from the far Northeast and from
adjacent Maryland. 1t would also serve
as an entrance for the proposed Wash
ington- boulevard that will
enter via Anacostia Park. To create a
new six-lane dual arterial highway to
the Northwest from the bridge at M
street extended, M street and Mount
Olivet road should be Strengthened.
widened and continued on a viaduct over
the lexington railroad yards, delivering
this traffic at North Capitol street. All
intersections with other arterial high
ways should be grade separation struc-
lures.
To provide for traffic destined to the
business section an underpass on Mary
land avenue should be constructed at
Fifteenth and H streets NE. Also K
street should be continued from Twelfth
street NE to Bladensburg road. The
distance from the existing bridge at
Benning road to the Defense highway
is miles and is without any east-west
highway entering the District. This is
serious defect in city planning.
With the highway congestion in the
Northeast eliminated the vacant land
in that area would be available for either
Federal Office buildings or apartment
buildings to house workers on the ma
tional defence program. When this
emergency is past the Federal office
buildings could be used for housing by
the u S. H. A., If so designed.
HOWARD D. WOODSON.
October 20.
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A japanese Withdrawal

Of no major importance in itself
or of immediate effect on the war as
whole, the japanese Army's an
nounced withdrawal from Manning,
strategic communications center in
KWangsi Province, is of immense psy-
Geological significance from China's
standpoint. Manning has been held
by the invaders since last November
Despite official assurances that the
city was evacuated on their "oWn
initiative" it is not the practice Of
japanese military leaders to order
such action except as measure Of
necessity. The explanation is that
further occupation is meaningless,
following the entry of japanese
troops into Indo-China."
Chinese officials jubilantly por-
tray the move in different and more
plausible colors. They assert that,
far from being voluntary, it was
ordered because of the steady pres
sure by Chang Kai-shek's forces
which have been attacking the Japa-
nese in KWangsi. Because Of the
transfer of main fighting operations
into the interior, Manning has lost
some of its former value as a dis
tributing point for Chinese war sup
plies, but its reoccupation is never
theless regarded as a definite mill
tary achievement.
1t does not seem improbable that
Nanning's abandonment is attribut-
able in part to the reopening of the
Burma road, with its assurance of a
renewed source of replenishments
for the Chinese armies, and the con-
sequent necessity of revising Japan's
regional plan of campaign for sub
jugation Of the stubborn foe The
undeclared war, which Toxic still
terms "the China incident" is now
we'll advanced into its fourth year.
Generalissimo Chang and his
people, whose unbroken resistance
evokes continuous admiration are
entitled to derive satisfaction and
encouragement from events at Nam
ming. They do not signify that the
tide of war has changed in China's
favor. But they denote that she has
1t within her power to harass the
japanese and drive them from
worthwhile positions.
From this country's standpoint,
the development in Kwangsi is not
without interest. 1t shows that, as
sured continuous support of the kind
China is receiving from the United
States in the form of credits, plus
supplies via the Burma road, the
Chinese may be able to prolong their
fight for survival to point that will
impel a baff1ed and exhausted Japan
to give up her costly venture. Ger
tainly as long as the Chinese rivet
the energies of the islanders in
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Relief Special

The Maryland Jockey Club an
nounces that at the opening of PIN
leo the entire mutuel handle for the
day will be donated to the British
war relief fund. 1t should be no
small amount. There is always
large crowd of optimists there on
opening day, and on this occasion
there is a feature race for the "horse
of the year" title, in which Challedon,
Hash, Midland and Can't Wait strug-
gle for the honor while their hackers
struggle for the cash. The usual I'M
certainty which makes racing pos
sible will be modified in the case of
the British, who will be the only
sure winners.
The idea is all very well if only
too much grief is not transferred
from the Pimlice district of London
to it's namesake in Baltimore. Only
one horse will win, barring the I'M
likely possibility of a dead heat, and
it may be the wrong one, as so often
is the case. Some havoc, at least, is
inevitable. AS in the other Pimlico,
mop-up squads will clean up debris,
in this case losing tickets, those sad
memoirs of wishful thinking. In
fact, so gruesome seems the prospect
of financial wreckage that one is al
most tempted to ask Britain to rally
round and relieve all those Ameri-
cans who lost so much in their mis-
directa efforts to relieve Britain. 4
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Explains Original Failure
OF Madame Butterfly"
To the Editor of The Star:

10 the EDITOR OF Inc otal'
An editorial in The Sunday Star states
sit seems incredible that the first pre-
sentation of the most widely popular of
modern operas should have been a
failure
This reflects my own attitude before
learned from an authentic source the
reasons for Madame Butterfys" failure
While I was teaching voice in Milan
during 1927 my accompanist was Saliva
tore Messina, an eminent conductor and
composer, and a close friend of Puccini,
who had conducted many performances
of his operas in Italy and in South
America. At the time knew Messina
he was almost blind, but he knew every
note of the Puccini operas and the mere
mention of two or three words of the
ibretto sufficed to recall the music at
that point in the score.
I asked him one day to tell me why
the first performance Of Madame But
terfly" had failed so miserably Briefly,
this is what he told me: He had begged
Puccini to divide the opera into at least
two acts, pointing out that no audience
could endure the strain of listening
without interruption to such a lengthy
work But Puccini was adamant, and
the performance was dismal failure.
This reason, however, was far from
being the only one. Messina, who had
a prodigious memory, sat down at the
piano and played for me lengthy por-
tons of the original score, including the
famous aria I'm bel d." to which your
editorial refers. I can truthfully state
that it failed miserably. Instead of pro-
crossing logically, and to a climax, it
meandered and finally petered out.
MessIna told me of Puccinis reaction
when the curtain fell. He Immediately
rushed to the office of his publisher
Ricordi, and demanded that every copy
of Madame Butterfly be recalled and
the entire edition, which had been pub
lished at an enormous cost, be destroyed
His request was granted, and he at once
courageously assumed the task of re-
writing the entire opera.
Therefore, Madame Butterfly" as we
know it is far from being the Madame
Butterfly" first heard.
Puccini was a great melodist, with
fine perception of harmonic appropriate
ness and of orchestral coloring. More
over. he made it rule never to use a
ibretto that had not succeeded as a
play. He had but one serious deficiency:
Inability to set the individual word to
music. This has always puzzled me,
and I can explain it in but one way:
melody flowed so torrentially in his brain
that its food obscured his perception OF
the fine art Of setting words to music.
CAMBRIDGE CRIST, Sr.
October 27
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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the tDriter, although the use OF
a pseudonym for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters NTH
q Uie1U to condensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-29
Historic Churches
In the United States

In almost every State of the Union
are old and historic churches of all de-
nominations, whose colorful and ro-
mantle history pictures the early days
in America. Fifty-three such churches
are included in the booklet Historic
Churches in the United States" Illus
trated with fine photographs, the text
includes, besides historical data, many
little incidents which show that the
rugged pioneers had a sense of humor.
You will find it excellent reading, in
formative and entertaining. To secure
your copy inclose 10 cents in coin,
wrapped in this clipping. and mail to
The Star Information Bureau.
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the heart Of Asia, just 50 long will
Japanese aggression in other direc-
tons, nnenacing Western interests In
the Far East, be held in check.
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October 27.
Highway Program
For Northeast.

For Northeast.
To the Editor of The Star:
A very extensive national program
for constructing new arterial highways
as part of the national defense has been
prepared. We should see that the bottle
neck at Fifteenth and H streets NE. Is
eliminated in this program. On week
ends during the summer cars returning
from shore resorts cause intense traffic
congestion at Fifteenth and H streets
NE. and at Defense highway and the
Washington Baltimore boulevard. Dur
ing rush hours in the morning and eve
ming the congestion at Fifteenth and
H streets is severe. Housing projected
for the immediate future in the North
east by the A. D. A. and private real
estate development companies will pro-
vide for 5000 familieh In adjacent
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@. How many tourists visit the ma
tional parks?-E. B.
A. Figures to date show that so far
this year over 100000 persons have
visited the parks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-29

@. Is there any psychological expla.
nation Of the desire TO be tattooed?-
z. H
A. Psychiatrists accredit the urge to
be tattooed to exhibitionism, display
of the body, or masochism, the pleasure
derived from suffering pain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-07
FORMER RULERS
 OF ELk5 LODGE
 STAGE BIG SHOW

Past Exalted Rulers turned out strong last night at the weekly meet ing of the Elks, took over the meet ing, put on regular vaudeville show and threws in beer and groceries to cap the night.
 Among the Past Exalted Rulers in the chairs were Dr. G. F. Free burger, Walter Scott, Harry Sperling, M E. Monagle, John Walmer Ralph Martin, Dr. A. w. Stewart, Norman c. Banfield, Henry Messerschmidt, R. E. Robertson, George Messer- schmidt and L. w Turoff
 On the entertainment list were, songs by Lee and Babe, Negro en- tertainers, violin solo by Stanley Tol- lefsen, accompanied by Gene Rula- ford, songs by Lillian Uggen, hula dance by Frances Paul, and leger- demain by amateur magician Ed ward KrauSe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-07
Hollywood Sighh Aud Sonmds
By Robbin Coons.

HOLLYWOOD Cal, March 7.-Whats going seeing things? Has a back-fp watch ing re-nake of Elizabeth Essex?
 No dope. This is The Sea Hawk" This is the Elizabeth that's different that ladyin the dak hared hthe the sg girl in pearl brocade. isn't Olivia De Haviland
 Queen Robson quite ell right Miss Robson Queen Be and in Engand before Bettes remarkable technicolored life Robson supeave Queen Bess.
 when Besss waiting isn't Olivia De Havil land and Hymns leading lady swashbuckng drama Havlland things according Hoyle turning down "Satur days Children
 Who's this then? You wouldn't recognize her, but Marshall Remember Brenda? The long ghaired girl in Espionage Agent? No wouldn't know her these
 There's Brenda for they we finished the Shes cfarrner Ina will? Well, will for o Havilland
 the role here the makeup department probably through Olvas lip Brenda and started curling her black hair in Olivia coffe Why not? It was
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-07
'U-Boat 29' Is Showing
 Al Capitol
Wartime Story Being Fea- tured Here = Last
 Times Tonight

With amazing timeliness, Colum- bias sensational "U-Boat 29," show ing for the last times tonight at the Capitol, brings to the screen wartime story of the struggle be- tween German and British agents Just as the English Secret Service is today maneuvering to foil the machinations of the German Ges- tapo, the film graphically depicts the actions of two loyal agents as they work to prevent the torpedo ing of a whole squadron of the Royal Navy
 It was only a few days after the outbreak of the war that Scotland Yard swung into action In the same manner in which Valerie Hob- son and Sebastian Shaw set trap for Conrad Veidt in "U-Boat 29," large drag-nets and searches were instituted. Lists of suspects had been compiled months before the war started and so great was the secrecy with which the plans were made, that not one of the suspects managed to escape.
 Persons taken into custody fell into three categories: tD active enemy agents; @ persons sus- pected of acting as enemy agents; (3) sympathizers likely to assist enemy agents.