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Evening star., 1940-06-10

Cottonseed Oil.
Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
- lower. Sales, 1Os contracts July.
sol: September. 6.07; October, Sob;
December 6.09b; January, 612b. Bid.
New Orleans Prices
NEW ORLEANS June 10 P,-Cotton
futures took Mussolins war declaration
calmly today trading remained quiet and
closing prices were steady net unchanged
tn Z n0nts hioher
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New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK June 10 tP,.-National As
Sociatlon Securities Dealers Inc:
Quotations as of > o clOck)
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BONDS ON N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE
By private wire direct to The Star.

Approximate Transactions Todo,
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Chicago Stock Market

CHICAGO June 10 lPr-Folloulng Is
the complete list of transactions on the
CHICAGO Stock EXCHANGE toosy
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Locke Steel 1.20a
Lone Star 2Us
Long Island Ltg
Long Isl Ltg pf
La Land&Ex zoe
Lynch Corp 90
Now III msDredg
Majestic RADIO
Master Elec 1.20e
Mead John t3a)
Metal Textile.10e
Mich Bumber
Mich Steel (.30)-
Midland Stl t1e)
Midvale (2.50e)
MID West Corp =
Midwest Oil 90
MINI M & 8 soc
Miss R Pw pf (6)
Mock Jud v 25e
Molybdenum soc
Monarch M 1.50e.
Mount City c. :
Mount Prod (.60)
Mount Sta P (1e)
Muskogee (.25e)
Nat City L pf (3)
Nat Cont (.45e) j.
Nat Fuei Gas 90
Nat Oil Prod Soc
Nat Tranp't soc
Nat Tunnei& Min
Nat I'm Radio In,
Navarro OIL .40A-
Eehi Corp 1859.
Evening star., 1940-08-03
Would Send Fleet
To Aid England.

If were President I would send our
Navy and air force to the Orkney Islands
under sealed orders to proceed to Liver
pool on the day Germany elects to In
wade England. Even If we should lose
half our destroyers and most of our air.
planes the price would be negligible COM
pared to the benefit to the world in gen.
eral and to the Americas in particular in
defeating Hitler and in aiding Britain to
keep her homeland, her navy, her air
fleet, her shipyards and her factories
from falling into Germany's hands to be
used against us at Hitler's convenience.
OF course, should expect certain Sena-
tors whom we all know to demand my
impeachment after saving England and
America; however, 1t would be too late
to prevent the defeat of Hitler, which is
all that matters.
Most people seem to think that the
fifth column is a real and great danger
to our safety. through sabotage, but I
am convinced our greatest danger lies at
the door of q small group of solons in
Congress who are trying to prevent quick
and complete mobilization of all our re-
sources by the most expeditions means
at our command. Surely they cannot be
playing politics while the world is afire.
Neither would any one think of listing
them with the fifth column, yet the re-
suit of their blocking tactics has the
effect desired by the fifth column.
FRED r. PATTON.
Randolph, Utah,
July 20.
Evening star., 1940-08-03

ocratic machine in the Bronx for
eighteen years, breaking with Tam
many in 1882 to throw his support
to Mr.. Roosevelt at the Chicago con-
vention. His political acumen, dem
onstrated at that time, has not been
made less doubtful by the large ma
jorities the Bronx has returned for
Mr.. Roosevelt in the past two cleo
tions.
But it remains to be seen whether
Mr.. Flynn's knowledge Of machine
politics will enable him to match
the successes Mr.. Farley achieved in
the grass root" districts. The abil-
ity to work successfully with organ
izations like those of Mayor Hague
in Jersey City and Mayor Kelly in
Chicago does not necessarily qualify
Mr.. Flynn to enlist that degree of
good will and cooperation from
Democratic leaders, large and small,
throughout the country which will
be essential to the Democrats in the
1910 campaign.
Evening star., 1940-08-03
Member of the Associated Press,
In q Friends Hands

~ ID IlSIlly gratifying TO Lne peO-
pie of the District that Senator King
has taken the sponsorship, in the
Senate, of the original Summers
amendment. Senator Kings consist
emily helpful work at the Capitol
for the people of the District is too
well known to require elaboration
here. But it is of some interest to
recall the enthusiastic response to
his speech to the Board of Trade
last winter when, confessing his past
skepticism in connection with many
preceding proposals for votes for the
District, he gave his unqualified
Endorsement to the Summers resolu-
ton. Friends of that resolution felt
added pleasure from the fact that
this added support came from SEN
:, ator King.
The chairmen of the Senate Dis
trict Committee have with few
exceptions been champions of the
: interests of their voteless constitu-
d ents in Washington. Senator Capper,
Senator Kings immediate predeces-
sor as District Committee chairman,
occupies unique place in the affec-
tions of Washingtonians, not only
on account of the work he has done
for national representation, but for
his successful efforts in behalf of
other beneficial legislation. Senator
, Ball OF Delaware, who occupied the
Craftsmanship for several years, was
another firm friend of the District
and it was under his chairmanship
that the committee, in 1922, reported
favorably on the Jones national
representation amendment. Another
strong advocate of the Districts
cause was Senator Gallinger of New
Hampshire, for many years chair
man of the District Committee.
When the Senate District Commit
tee, in 1927, reaffirmed it's indorse-
ment of national representation,
Senator King obtained an unwritten
understanding then that succeeding
resolutions would be referred to the
Judiciary Committee. Pending reso-
lutions had gone to the District
Committee but it was his strong
feeling that only the Judiciary Com
mittee should consider a constitu-
tional amendment. The District is
again fortunate in the fact that the
Summers resolution now comes be-
fore friendly chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, for Senator
Ashurst has strongly indorsed the
purposes of the resolution, and that
the ranking majority member of the
Judiciary Committee, Senator King,
Is sponsoring the resolution.
Evening star., 1940-08-03
IntonqibIe Witness

When DR.. Boyce of Los Angeles,
plaintiff, insisted on the appearance
in court of a certain witness in his
behalf, he created a situation that
would have puzzled Blackstone him.
self. The doctor called for one Sho
Sha, described by him as a resident
Of the spirit world. The judge, &C
cording to legal custom, thereupon
issued a subpoena for the person of
Sho Sha, assuming that ghost has
a person, and passed it on to pair
of deputies to serve.
Subpoena servers, in order to sur
vive at their trade, have to be re-
sourceful. From constant practice
they are usually able to put the bite
on their customers, but in this case
they had not the ghost Of chance.
The only address they had was care
of Mrs. Loretta Julian, psychic sensi-
tive, who had first introduced Sho
Sha to the doctor. The medium, ad-
mitting that Sho Sha was under her
management, obligingly put in a call
for him by going into trance, while
the deputies stood by waiting to
hand over the legal document as
soon as the spirit materialized enough
to take it. But her efforts proved
futile. Sho Sha declined to appear
and is now held in contempt subject
to q hundred-dollar fine. In this
whole shady story the haziest posi-
bility of all is that of collecting.
Evening star., 1940-08-03
John R. McCurI

The death of John Raymond
McCarl recalls the iron rule he once
exercised over spending by Govern
ment agencies.
Installed as the first Controller
General of the United States in 1921,
the stocky Nebraskan made that
office feared and respected through
out his fifteen-year term, challeng-
ing any item open to question
whether it involved ten cents or
that many millions.
Personalities made no difference,
even the White House on occasion
running afoul of the Controller Gen.
erals rulings, and although he was
Republican and had been ap-
pointed by President Harding after
serving as secretary of the Repub-
lican Congressional Committee, Mr..
McCarl held three Republican ad-
ministrations as strictly to account
as he did the New Deal, which he
thoroughly disliked.
AS the agent of Congress he
measured every proposition by the
single Standard:
docs it conform to the law?"
Critics often assailed him as capri
cious and arbitrary; his decisions at
times were reversed by the Court OF
Claims and Congress not infre-
quently adjusted accounts which
the Controller General had refused
to approve-but without causing Mr..
McCarl to alter his course in the
slightest degree.
He did his duty as he saw it and
served his Government well.
Evening star., 1940-08-03
A Fortnight Statement

The unequivocal character of Pres
ident Roosevelt's Endorsement of
compulsory military training based
on a selective draft should put an
end to the efforts by some opponents
OF the pending Burke adsworth
bill to create the impression that
Mr.. Roosevelt, at best, is lukewarm
in his support OF the principle of
this legislation.
Nor is the President properly sub
ject to criticism for declining to
urge passage of the pending bill or
any other specific measure. In in
dorsing the principle, and in stating
the reasons which have convinced
him that selective training is essen
tial to adequate national defense,
MIR. Roosevelt has discharged his
responsibility. The actual drafting
OF a statute to put this principle
into effect is and ought to be the
function of the Congress. It is for
the legislators to decide what age
groups should be made liable to
service, how many should be called
and the length of the training
period. There is not the slightest
reason to suppose that Congress is
incapable of making these deter
limitations without further assistance
from the President, and it is to be
hoped that the Senate Military
Affairs Committee, which has had
the Burke-W -Wadsworth measure under
consideration, will report it favorably
to the Senate on Monday.
The real fight on this issue will
come when the bill is called up in
the Senate. Opponents have served
notice that every argument against
the measure will be thoroughly
debated, and that is as it should be,
but If the debate begins to assume
the aspect of fllibuster, the Presi-
dent might find it desirable to secure
a public statement of the opinion
which Wendell Willkie, the Repub-
lican presidential nominee, holds on
the question of selective service. The
opposition to the Burke-Wadsworth
bill is anything but partisan in
nature, but there are number of
Republican members Of Congress
who have mot announced whether
they are for or against the measure.
If Mr.. Willkie, who has said that he
Is willing to announce his views If
the President asks him to do so,
Evening star., 1940-08-03
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. Tracepell.

the yard begging to be fed just . few
days ago.
II called to the children to come
quick and see what is in our yard, and
1t turned and came straight toward me.
by the time called the third time
1t was on the top step, and If I hadn't
slammed the door would have come
right into the house. You may add that
to what the birds say If you choose; 1t
certainly doesn't make me feel very
happy to think that I sound like blue
jay,
while I have learned little about
what the birds look like or sound like I
have learned several things which they
like from living here.
"The robins and catbirds like to take
soft worms from plowed ground, but
most Of the other birds like leaves to
scratch in, underbrush to hide In, trees
to nest in, sweet red berries to eat and
no cats.
IF those who complain of the BIRDS
eating their strawberries and red rasp-
berries will plant blackberries, black
cherries and black raspberries, am sure
they will get relief from that trouble,
especially If they keep a cat.
Everything but wrens-I have seen
wren 60 on serenely feeding her babies
on the same porch with seven women
gabbing and two cats sleeping.
That is good. for wrens have such an
q - fNr 1oy,rv l. k1nn IL
the country would surely have famine
II they were all run of.
THE fire I mentioned above was
stopped by ditch which one of my
neighbors had dug along his line to
drain his land.
with all the forest fires we are hav-
ing over the country it might be we'll
for people living in wooded areas to
think seriously about putting a ditch
around their places for fire protection as
well as drainage.
yours very truly, A. s. c."
4 y
The great tragedies known as forest
fires destroy not only millions of feet of
wood and the beauty of the forests, but
also LIlOuSdIluS Vi DlTuS dIlU IlllllOIlS Oh
eggs every year.
When We are searching for a reason
for the undoubted decline of bird life
in recent years, We cannot overlook
these vast fires. and their smaller coun-
terparts. such as described by our corre-
spondent. The smaller fires are equally
tragic, merely being on lesser scale
that is all
Most Of these fires are unnecessary
brought about through sheer careless
ness.
In hot summers, with little rainfall,
every right-thinking person in the woods
should take special pains to see that
nothing Of this sort happens through his
negligence.
There are two worlds, here and now
the world which man has inherited
and the world which he has made.
Through his stupid handling of his
psychology, he is running both Of them
The mind of man is at fault, which at
once abuses the physical world he has
inherited, and tends to destroy the world
he has made for himself through much
travail.
Evening star., 1940-08-03
.ANACosTIA.

xAANhS>>o \ AAs
Dear Sir:
'"I enjoy reading your column very
much, especially now that / am living
in place swarming with birds know
nothing about. Just the other night you
described towhee and I find that
have had pair scratching about in the
woods about my house for three years
and didn't know what they were.
IAN this summer have noticed pair
scooting along few feet in front OF me
every time walk along q certain path,
and yesterday, quite by accident, found
that they have nest with three eggs in
1t about three feet from where I have
been walking all summer.
Il also have light brown bird little
more slender than q robin which hops
or runs along in front OF me in the same
tame manner (though few feet farther
away, throwing leaves In first one direc-
ton and then the other with it, bill as
1t goes.
Y have beer told that this Is Cape
Cod mocking bird and wonder If 1t is
the same as the brown wood thrush you
write Of.
"You spoke of birds being SO much
more numerous at times for no apparent
reason.
There must always be a reason, and
not always a happy one, which forces
birds to flock to feeding station. Our
little patch Of woods has had q regular
deluge Of birds this summer, and 1t Is
no mystery.
1--WE live in the northeast corner of q
strip Of woods four or five miles long.
Early last spring the southwest cor
ner of the woods caught on fire and
burned one whole morning before being
put out. Later the southeast corner
burned all day, being put out about 800
feet from my house.
"Over all those hundreds Of acres the
pine trees were killed and the leaves and
underbrush burned and also any food
and nesting materials In the area.
Undoubtedly many birds which nor
mally would have lived and fed in that
burned-over area have taken up their
residence in my little patch of woods,
some of them building practically under
my feet. One day had to get out and
shoe of a pair of beautiful light brown
birds with fat gray and black speckled
breasts, which were trying to take pos
session of my front porch-but got
there too late to prevent them from
flushing the baby wrens.
After our garden was plowed whole
block Of little sparrows came to it about
sundown for several days.
when the strawberries ripened all
kinds Of birds descended-even q mock
ingbird-and left as soon as the crop
was gathered in. Mornings and evenings
the woods are filled with such a medley
OF song that it is impossible to distin-
guish the individual songs, even If I
knew which song belonged to which bird.
= -
Something seems to have scattered
the noisy flock of blue jays which lived
here last summer.
However, they are not entirely gone.
for saw baby Jay hopping about in
Evening star., 1940-08-03

the world for shutting off the export to
Japan Of these means of destruction, first
and most important because it is right,
and secondly because it would probably
soon end Japan's ability to assist in any
manner the totalitarian powers of
Europe, incidentally releasing our entire
fleet for other purposes.
To any protest our State Department
might well reply that there is now a
Chinese government recognized by
Japan, the government of Wang Ching
wei, and that We are prepared to rec
ognize its authority as soon as Japan
proves 1t to be representative Chinese
government, as she claims it u.s. by with
drawing her armies and leaving Wang
to the support of his Chinese subjects.
July 81. JOHN r. SWANTON.
Evening star., 1940-08-03
Calls Attention to
Unsightly Hedge.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
While the campaign is on to clean up
Washington of unsightly trash call at
tention to the neglect Of the hedge
around the Corcoran Art Gallery.
Having lived in that neighborhood for
years, wonder why such a condition
could exist when there is full staff Of
able-bodied men on duty and supposedly
some one to direct them.
It is amazing to many that Of all
places the grounds of famous art GAL
lery presents such sight year after year.
The hedge looks as though 1t is never
clipped Certainly it has had no atten-
ton this season.
July 81. MARIE c. SEARLES.
Evening star., 1940-08-03
Beuuvais

Photographs recently received in
Washington indicate, if indeed they
do not prove conclusively, the total
destruction Of Beauvais, excepting
only the diocesan church for which,
particularly, the city has been
famous.
Great numbers Of Americans dur
ing the past four decades have
journeyed to the spot to see with
their own eyes "one of the great
curiosities Of France" the unfinished
Cathedral of st. Peter, marred by its
condition Of incompleteness yet so
richly beautiful as to be, in certain
respects, unique in loveliness. 1t is
a Misrepresentation of a sort to say,
as some writer's do, that "its proper
tions are gigantic to the verge OF
temerity." In justice 1t should be
added that the sponsors of the work
aspired not merely to raise the
highest Gothic pinnacles in Chris
tendon but also the most delicately
graceful. Not size so much as gran
deur was the objective of the archi-
tect. He visioned, of course, a sacred
building which should lack no
essential feature of a great design.
Robert de Luzarches was his name
and his credentials were his achieve
ments at Amiens. But Beauvais was
little town, comparatively; its in
habitants were poor folk, mot able
to pour out treasures" This COM
bination Of poverty and ambition
had disastrous results" The apse
and the choir were pushed toward
the sky at least one hundred and
fifty-two feet, possibly five feet fur
ther. But the weight was not ade-
quately bulwarked. pillars and
buttresses were too weak and too
few" Down came the ceiling with
crash the like of which probably
never had been heard in Europe.
The chapter, however, was not
discouraged. Promptly it ordered a
second campaign. Again the stones
were piled together to form the
loftiest sanctuary ever conceived by
the heart Of man; again, in 1894
according to the ancient chronicle,
the enterprise. mathematically illog-
ical, tumbled down in ruins. Still
Beauvais refused to confess defeat.
BY 1922 the reparations were done.
Then nothing followed until 1900,
when the first stone of the transept
was laid. A fieche Of oak, four hun
dred and ninety-two feet in height,
was constructed by Jean Vast in the
years Immediately preceding 1863
only to crumple in 1873. Since that
date much has been done, but the
cathedral never has had the nave it
needs so sadly.
Everything which once surrounded
the church now is reported gone.
The narrow streets of shops with
overhanging attics have been swept
with fire. Bombardment from the
clouds has laid low a thousand walls.
The entire community must be re-
constructed. But the people are
equal to the task The spirit of two
brave women will help them. One
was Jeanne Hachette, the heroine of
the siege Of 1888. The other was
Jeanne dare, who was burned in the
old market at Rouen in 1431-the
victim of Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of
Beauvais from 1920 until 1929, when
his people, weary Of his treasons,
drove him from his throne and into
the mischief which made the Maid
martyr and gave to France saint to
support her in her present suffering.
Evening star., 1940-08-03
Another Case of
Passing the Buck?


To the Editor of The Star:
am much interested in supporting a
"Cleanliness for Washington Program"
but I am wondering what the public
really can do about it, beyond, of course,
ourselves obeying the law.
We happen to live not far from line
OF stores and in going through their alley
recently saw everything from rats,
loose trash strewn around, uncovered
garbage cans. to bushel baskets piled
double high.
A policeman to whom I spoke said
that nothing could be done about it. IF
garbage cans are uncovered" I asked,
"can nothing be done?"
mo, they are on the store property.
They are not on public property. That Is
a matter for the Public Health. We are
not doctors" was the reply.
"And uncovered bushel baskets? Moth
ing can be done about paper piled loosely
in those, for every wind to blow?"
mot If it is on private property" was
the answer. Those are the regulations"
asked him to send or bring me copy
Of these regulations" To date I have
not seen them nor the policeman.
So what is the use of having a program
to clean up a city If you have right to
make dumping place out of your pri-
vate property, that the Health Depart
ment, which understand is already
overburdened with work, has little chance
Of seeing.
Or is the policeman mistaken? would
really like to know If there are no laws
applicable, can some not be drafted?
HOUSEWIFE.
July 30.
(The policeman probably was correct
according to the letter of the regulations.
The Star does not believe, however, that
he was powerless to do anything. The
great dinlculty in remedying conditions
described by the writer is the evident
lack Of coordination between the various
departments Of the municipal govern
ment and the total lack Of initiative in
bringing about such coordination. The
policeman should have notified the
Health Department, which has ample
authority. under the law, to remedy the
condition described)
Evening star., 1940-08-03
Indorses Embargo Of
Aviation Gasoline.
tn the Editor ~ The Rtar.

The Presidents decision to bar exports
of aviation gasoline is heartening news
and it will be still more heartening If
he also bars the expectation of scrap
iron. Whether so intended or not, this
hits at an American disgrace of three
years standing, our tacit support Of
Japan in her assault upon the Chinese
Republic. During all those years we
Americans have been silent partners in
Japan's crime, crime camouf1aged un-
der the intriguing name of "the new
order in ASIA" A sample of this new
order" is contained in the letter of q
missionary describing bombing raids on
Chungking. In q sunken road, he says,
"cars and trucks, scores of rickshas, had
taken refuge thinking the precipitous
rock walls lining one side of that de-
scending road would protect them. The
dead were lying all about in grotesque
positions" -. but will spare you. He
continues: 1--WE went home sick at heart,
not only sick at what we had seen, but
sick with the thought that this brutal
massacre goes on with the aid Of Amer
ican gasoline and scrap iron; that with
out it Japan could not have kept up
this mass murder of friendly Chinese
for nearly three years. How can we
escape retribution? Your hands are
full Of blood - when ye make many
prayers I will not hear Going home,
I heard Japan's boast over the radio
that she has 600 new bombers, that
she will send 200 day for the next 10
days until Chuneking is destroyed. And
she has plenty of aviation gasoline. for
some Of the biggest shipments on record
have just come through from America. :"
We have two Of the best reasons In
Evening star., 1940-08-03

believes in the principle of selective
service and thinks 1t should be put
into effect as soon as possible, q
clear-cut statement to that effect
from him might prove helpful in
the cases Of these members of his
party.