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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-04

THAT guy is such stoolpigeon."
related union official, that when he
dies they will call a taxidermist in
stead of a coroner.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-04

If by now you haven't been exempt
from the wage-hour law, send letter
to Administrator Philip B. Fleming.
He will be glad to oblige
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-04

PLAGIARISTS
In discussion on M-Day plans
three members of U. S. Atty. Gen
Jackson's staff suggest forced labo
camps, suspension of civil rights ant
curtailment of union rights.
Too bad Hitler didn't get his ac
copyrighted.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-12-04

Both labor conventions Indignantly
protested the attack on unions under
the antitrust laws.
SO here's the lineup on that issue:
Thurman Arnold, prosecutor, and the
chambers of commerce VS.. 100000
organized Americans.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

For entertaining serve crown roast OF
pork. It's gala dish served with pan
roasted potatoes, buttered peas and pan.
roasted onions.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Whipped Potatoes

Peel and boil six potatoes drain and shake over heat
to dry Force through ricer coarse sieve Add
three tablespoons butter and half cup hot milk.
Beat with wire whisk until light and fluffy, adding
more milk if desired Season to taste with salt pepper
paprika and a little finely chopped parsley.
Evening star., 1940-01-11
Potatoes O'Brien

Cut boiled and chilled medium potatoes into dice Add
l green pepper, chopped onion, chopped TABLESPOON
-FOUR cup graded cheese salt, pepper, cayenne Four
these ingredients in a creased baking dish, add to
them cup milk with bread crumbs dot with but
ter and bake in moderate oven for about IS minutes.
Evening star., 1940-01-11

Pare potatoes And cut in desired shape;
place layer In buttered baking dish,
sprinkle with salt and pepper, and
dredge with flour. Repeat, add butter
to hot milk and pour over potatoes.
Bake covered, in moderately hot oven
(3750F) for y hour, then uncover and
bake 10 to is minutes longer, or until a
delicately Drowned crust has formed on
top. portions.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
merit" and T. v. A.

senator schwartz OF Wyoming has
presented an argument for keeping
Tennessee Valley Authority employees
outside of civil service which, what
ever else may be said about it, has
the virtue of complete candor.
Put these employees under civil
service, he said, and they won't
thereafter be worth a thin dime to
the Democratic party"
The Senator, it appears, knows
whereof he speaks. Once upon a
time, according to his testimony be-
fore the Senate Civil Service Com
mittee, he was covered into civil
service, That practically ended his
interest in politics, and he wouldn't
like to see history repeat itself.
The homily of the junior Senator
from Wyoming was prompted by
Republican criticism that the Rams
peck civil service extension bill, on
which the Senate committee is con-
Quoting hearings, would freeze in
office an army of Democrats. He dis
agrees. He believes that employees
affected no longer would be Demo-
Gratis; that the freezing process
would cool their party enthusiasm.
Senator Schwartz sees another
danger in extending civil service to
the T. V. A-the possibility that en-
ployes chosen by open, competitive
examination might not be such firm
believers in tine philosophy behind
that vast Government project as
those who are hand-picked, and that,
therefore, they would lack the spirit
that must 60 with job there.
Furthermore, in Senator Schwartz's
opinion, the merit system" under
which the T. V. A. operates is much
better suited to its needs than regu-
lar civil service. One of the things
in its favor, he pointed out, is the
strict prohibition against intermin-
Cling politics in personnel matters.
In fact, the penalty is dismissal for
everybody concerned if it develops
that an appointment or promotion
has a political tinge.
On this latter score, the Wyoming
Senator appears to have fallen into
something of an inconsistency, his
pride in the T. V. A. merit system"
seeming not to harmonic with his
frank concern for the welfare of the
Democratic party. But, be that as
it may, there is no doubt whatever
that the partisan philosophy he
espouses is a fundamental obstacle
to that improved government service
which should be the objective of all
citizens, regardless of their political
affiliations.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

His views were bulwarked by ominous
statements made to the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee by military
experts, including a declaration by
the director of the Armys War Plans
Division that a single air raid by
enemy bombers might succeed in
putting the present canal out OF
commission for months.
The new set Of locks would be
entirely independent of the existing
facilities and would be reserved for
the exclusive use of warships. They
would be constructed of materials
designed to Withstand the explosive
power Of the heaviest bombs. That
the present canal is vulnerable has
been an open secret for long time.
Besides the possibility of damage by
well-aimed air bombs, there Is the
ever-present threat of sabotage to be
guarded against. 1t has been pointed
out that a ship carrying hidden ex-
plosives could cause grave damage
to the great waterway in time of
national emergency. In approving
the $15,000,00O safety measure, the
Senate undoubtedly had its weather
eye on the swirling war clouds
abroad. The House, when it recon-
siders this item, can i'll afford to dis
regard those same threatening signs
OF trouble ahead for the supporters
and defenders of democracy.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrnceDell.

Many persons report q great many
more birds, Of any given species, than
one person is likely to see. Really
Reports Of 200 Of any species, for in
stance, where ordinarily ore will see only
one or two pairs, may be taken with the
proverbial grain of salt.
Maybe they think they see that many,
but, on the other hand, it may be that
their enthusiasm gets the better of
their judgment.
We all know how that Is!
1t is an amazing thing, how the
numerical strength OF things seen may
increase with the telling thereof! We
have all done it, and often marvelled
at ourselves for the doing, but we tend
to do 1t just the same. The fact is that
the tale starts out modestly enough; 1t
gives even the teller "kick" to talk
about so birds-perhaps because the
number shocks even him.
In the second telling, the narrator may
surprise himself to find that he calmly
announces 100 birds, this time.
He doesn't know just why he increases
the number twofold.
He didn't mean to do it, honestly.
1t just slipped out!
Worse slippings are at hand, however
Before the day is over, the number Of
birds has increased to solid 200 speci-
mems.
Should the commonness or rarity Of
any species be based on city-wide dis
tribution, or the average home yard?
For daily bird talk, we believe, the
home garden is the best criterion.
What comes, is common, and what
does not come, is rare.
1t follows that no two observers will
have exactly the same findings. 1t does
Templeton Jones no particular good to
rave about your bluebirds, II he has
nothing but English sparrows.
We believe that any one who has fol-
lowed these discussions through the
winter will have been impressed with
the variety of opinion expressed here
by many observers, sort of get
together in print, in which one shares
with all, and all share with one.
If we all found exactly the same thing
and all saw everything in exactly the
same way, observing birds wouldn't be
half the fun it is.
Last autumn one correspondent doubt
ed this column because it spoke of eight
cardinals in the yard at one time. That
observer had never had but one red
bird. hence he could not credit any one
who said he had eight.
But since then, reports have come in
of as many as 78 in one yard.
Birds are where and how you find
them, as we have said many times.
Nature is large, she contains multi
tudes, as the poet said. She is un-
changeable. IN sense, but variable, too,
with an unending number of combina-
tions
Before the bombs strike, let us be
happy to sit in on natures constant
changeability, if We may so call it.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
Safeguarding the Canal

With commendable dispatch, the
Senate yesterday passed the Army
''civil functions" appropriation bill
after restoring a $15,000,00O allot-
ment urgently needed by the War
Department to begin construction
of a new set of bombproof locks at
the Panama Canal. This item had
been eliminated by the House on the
ground that work could not be start
ed on this important project for
another year or SO. In lieu of the
construction fund, the House ap-
proved an appropriation of $850,000
with which to prepare plans for the
locks. But President Roosevelt, after
a personal inspection Of the canal
and of the site Of the proposed i'm
provements, sent word to the Capt.
tol that work could and should be
begun at once on the extra locks.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
UNIVERSITY PARK, Md.

Dear ST.
II was somewhat surprised at the
statement in your column that tbs red
breasted nuthatch is rare bird, seldom
seen In this vicinity.
These nuthatches have been regular
daily visitors at my window sill feeding
station for the past two winters.
"Since at this station 1t is possible to
view both the red-breasted and the
white breasted nuthatches at very close
range, there can be no doubt OF their
identity.
ALSO, I have been very well acquainted
with the red-breasted nuthatch for many
years in Northern Minnesota, where
the species is very common.
Sincerely yours, L. T."
This column is very likely to think Of
species as rare If a specimen does not
come to our own yard!
That is human vagary, no doubt.
We tend to think of thing as rare II
we do not see it, common If other folks
see it.
This particular observer has Unidentified
SIS species of birds in one nearby Mary.
land garden.
He is, perhaps, to be forgiven if what
he has not seen is held by him to be
rare"
Some Of the books indicate that the
red-breasted nuthatch is common enough
around here, in certain years, quite rare
in others.
Perhaps another criterion this column
goes on, as to the commonness or
scarcity of any particular bird, is the
number of times readers ask about It,.
In past years, no word of inquiry has
been received as to the red-breasted
variety, although many correspondents
have spoken of the white breasted nut
hatch. This winter, on the other hand,
several persons have written about the
former
This season must be, therefore, one of
those In which the red-breasted nut
hatch is fairly common. No one seems
to be able to account for the vagary of
the bird in this respect. 1t is just another
case of now you see it, now you don't
Most amateur bird observers, as we
are all, do not hesitate to think of birds
as either rare or common. according to
the frequency with which they appear
in any one garden.
We believe. for instance, that blue
birds are exceedingly rare hereabouts,
although at one time quite common. We
know, too, that there are certain spots,
In and around Washington. where they
stay all winter. To persons who see them
regularly, statement that they are
comparatively rare must appear rather
odd. But if those same persons were to
take up their stand in our yard, day and
night, for 10 years, and never see but
one pair of bluebirds, no doubt they, too,
would come to the conclusion that the
bluebird is rare bird, indeed.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
No Centenary Stomp?

More than a year ago the organ
lied philatelists of the United States
requested their Government to bring
out stamp to mark the centennial
of the first adhesive postage label
ever issued-the famous Penny Black
of Great Britain, released in London
on May 6, 1840.
Supported by the American Phila-
telic Society and the National Feder-
alton of Stamp Clubs, the petition
was received with enthusiasm by Of
ficials of the Post Office Department.
Designs were prepared by the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing for the
inspection of the Nations most dis
tinguished practitioner of the phila-
telic hobby, President Roosevelt.
Orders for the commemorative
poured into the Philatelic Agency.
Artistic first-day covers were manu-
factured for use when it should go on
sale. The centenary stamp was to be
a feature of the celebration arranged
by collectors as far back as 1886.
But the European war has inter-
fered with the plan. Late last week
the press bureau of the Post Office
Department announced that no CEN
tennial commemorative would be
authorized. When an explanation
was demanded, it was limited that an
objection had been raised by the
State Department. The proposed
stamp perhaps might be regarded as
"a gesture OF friendship to Great
Britain" and IAN affront to Germany
and Russia" American neutrality
perhaps would be infringed. Condi-
tions being what they are, it was
thought best" not to proceed with
the production of the special issue.
1t is a fair question, however, as to
whether the people of the United
States, frankly hostile to the aggres-
sor nations as they are, desire any
such concession made to them. The
influence of the Nazi and the Boil
shevik dictators, surely, ought not to
be extended to so small matter as
an American postage sticker intend
ed to testify to the debt of gratitude
which the whole world owes to Sir
Rowland Hill, the great postal re-
former, and to Jacob Perkins, the
Evening star., 1940-04-18

Massachusetts, inventor Of steel en-
craving, who was his colleague.
Stamp collectors, as might be ex-
pected, protest the decision. To
them it is of small Importance that
Hill was an Englishman. They would
have wanted the commemorative
even If he had been a German or a
Russian. It is their hope that the
logic of their argument may yet be
recognized, but, even if 1t is not, their
celebration will be something to re-
member.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
A Mothers Prayer

Oh, Mary, Mother Of the Christ, with
anguished heart I pray
Be at the very door Of heaven to greet
my child today.
And take him gently in your arms, ana
soothe his fears away.
OF all the hosts who gather before tho
Great White Throne
There is not one among them my little
lad has known;
Oh, he will feel so strange and lost, 10
frightened and alone.
You are another Mother; know when
day was done
You often Graded on your breast your
own beloved Son;
On, Mary. I beseech you, watch o'er my
little one.
BESSIE q. BUNTEN.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
Letters to the Editor

Hope Tor Justice Seen
In Walter-Logan Bill.
To the Editor Of The Star:
On the facade Of the new building Of
the Department Of Justice appears the
inscription: "Where Law Ends Tyranny
Begins"
This is an arresting but untrue state
ment.
Tyranny begins we'll within the "law'
and it exists when the administration
of "law" can defeat justice. Such
situation is presented when the concept
upon which the law is based is unjust,
or when the law is not administered
impartially, or when the impediments
between the individual Cor body and
a just result induce him to relinquish
his cause though it be just one. Any
government which indulges in, or con-
dones, such practices, or does not ter
inmate them once they have become
apparent, is tyrannous.
The background for the separation of
the legislative, executive and judicial
functions incorporated in the American
Federal Constitution was long and
costly experience with the sovereign
executive, which in Great Britain once
reduced the judiciary to agents of the
sovereign executive will. There was
nothing new in more recent attempt
except the actors.
1t is implicit in the Constitution that
the judicial function remain independent
and apart from other functions of
government and that there be free ac-
cess to the courts.
Yet school of indoctrinated cir
cumventionists, skilled in ways Of avoid
ing the letter of the Constitution, have
in disregard of its basic principles, and
the experience upon which they are
grounded, constructed executive agen-
cies" which, under the guise of ad-
ministering some "act" of Congress
committed to their charge, not only
legislate, but try before themselves such
as they select for the distinction. And
they have even claimed, and sought to
establish, that their decisions are final
and not renewable by the courts.
In other words, we have arrived at
what Lord Hewart of Bury Lord Chief
Justice of EnglanO characterizes as THE
New Despotism."
The Walter-Logan bill is designed to
scotch it and to restore the American
idoo (ond british ton-for that matter)
that the administration Of justice should
be wholly lodged in a skilled and In
dependent judiciary. 1t should become
law.
1.-The true administration Of justice Is
the firmest pillar Of good government" :"
1t cannot exist where the citizens ac-
cess to the courts Is circumscribed or
limited. HARRISON TILGHMAN.
April IS.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
Commends Speaker On
Star Radio Forum.
sTo the Editor of Ts11a Qtar.

Mr.. Lawrence Duggan's address on
inter-American relations made on Mon
day under the auspices of your National
Radio Forum was the most elaborate and
comprehensive I ever heard over the
radio on that subject.
It was particularly gratifying, believe,
to the interested listeners, that in at
least two instances, Mr.. Duggan stressed
the importance to Americans OF know
ing Spanish and Portuguese languages,
in order to make closer our commercial
and cultural relations with the southern
neighbors.
Strangely enough, this fact is rarely
brought out by the speakers and writer's
on Latin America.
ALEXANDER H. YACOBY.
New York. N. Y. .... -.
April Is.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

The Old Testament phrase of "corn
and oil" for supplies essential to
mankind, has given place to the
modern wheat and OIL" Wheat
and corn In this case are synony-
nous, but, oh, what difference in
the word "oil"! 49,.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

The new Glow" in advertising for
the year seems to have been at
tanned by boosters for one of the
big Western national parks. This is
the phrase: "Pink-fleshed trout
whoppers-that allow themselves to
be caught without struggle"
Evening star., 1940-04-18

Little Switzerland has brought her
hog population up from about
million in 1887 to 100000. It is a
good bet that no canny Swiss was
subsidized for refraining to raise
any or for killing any already born.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

Mayor La Guardia states that the
New York police department is one
hundred per cent police and zero per
cent politics. Some of us who are not
so old can remember the days of Bill
Devery when it was almost exactly
the other way.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

American bicycles are being intro
duced into Turkey. This may be in
the nature of a return for those
Turkish trousers introduced here in
the gay nineties by Daisy Belle.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

French may be the traditional
language Of diplomacy, but talking
turkey seems to be the most efficient
linguistic medium.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
Union Blamed for Collapse
OF Orchestra.

70 the Editor of The Star:
I think it will be generally conceded
that the duty of the leader Of a labor
union is to secure the best wages and
working conditions possible for the men
whom he represents. Therefore, no
blame can be attached to the leader OF
the local Musicians Protective Union for
the original effort to get increased pay
for the musicians in the National Sym
phony Orchestra. seq
After long negotiation, the union
leader not only has not succeeded in
getting increased pay for the men, but
Evening star., 1940-04-18

on the contrary, has destroyed their
jobs entirely. Perhaps it is not yet too
late for him to redeem himself, and
secure better pay for the musicians, by
accepting the compromise plan of the
Labor Department conciliator, which
has already been accepted by the direc-
tors OF the orchestra. If he persists in
his present stand it will be evidence of
incapacity for the position of respon-
sibilty which he occupies.
The union should also consider that
destruction of the Symphony Orchestra
may also quite conceivably cause a con-
siderable decrease in the demand for the
services in other ways of union musicians,
on account of the natural resentment
which symphony supporters will feel
toward the union.
The directors Of the orchestra have
made every possible effort to reach an
agreement which would permit continu-
ance OF the orchestra. If the orchestra
Is destroyed, the musicians union must
shoulder the responsibility.
April 16. MARY P. MEYER.
Sermon On Meanness In
Politics Recalled.
70 the Editor OF The Star:
Some 40 years ago, at an evening serv-
Ice Of his church, decided stir in the
congregation was noticeable as the Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmadge spoke of the mean
ness Of American politics." It was evi-
dent that many members of Congress
were listening to the sermon. That
phrase as he spoke it was unforgettable.
A great many instances have been
noted since that time. Among those of
late years the smear-Hoover campaign
is fine example. Today no one regrets
it more than the men who financed it.
Then there was the exceedingly bitter
editorial written by Claude Bowers on
Hoovers Des Moines speech In which he
stated that the gold standard was threat
ened. No charge made in the cam.
paign equalled 1t in bitterness and venom.
Today it hurts only the writer. Later
when the gold standard was changed, a
cry was heard clear from Spain calling
for relief from hardship caused by the
change
A petty instance was the changing OF
the name Of the Hoover dam by Secre-
tary 1ckes. That good Democrat, Will
Rogers, in his daily comment, showed
how hurt he felt that a member of his
party showed sueh vindictiveness. It
may have given Mr. Ickes great satisfac-
ton to make that change, but one can
not imagine Democrats like Garner, AL
Smith, or Jim Farley doing anything
like that.
Now we are informed that men are
wanted with iron in their blood" as
bureau chiefs. So we are to have real
bureaucratic Government. Will that be
better than democratic Government? It
is feared not by many able men.
The attack on Dewey reminds us that
Jefferson was attacked in a similar
manner. Some bureaucrat may prohibit
the use Of the Encyclopedias Britannica
as 1t records that Jefferson was "a good
violinist, good singer and nne dancer.
Let us hope We can have q campaign
with more honest debate and far less
Of meanness. A. T. LEITH.
April 10.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

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the use for republica ton Of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rights Of publication Of special dispatches
herein also are reserved.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 1Driter, although the use OF
a pSeudonynl for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1940-04-18
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Entered as second-class matter post ONCE.
washington D. c.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

@. What is the origin Of taking the
census?-K. r. T.
A. The Old Testament records the
enumeration at the Exodus Of the fight
ing strength Of the children Of Israel
and Of the non-military Levites. In the
Roman census, from which the modern
custom derives its name, the members
and property of every family were
enumerated quinquennially for the pur-
pose Of determining their civil status
and corresponding liabilities. Dating
from pre-republican Rome, the Roman
census was extended by Augustus in
5 B. G. to the Roman empire and thus
covered the whole Of the civilized world
of those times.
Q. Who was Mayor Of Kansas City In
1900?-R. B.
A. Mr.. James A. Reed.
Evening star., 1940-06-15

CONVENIENT TERMS ARRANGED.
New six-room and 2-bath home. con-
structed of 13" solid stone walls. slate roof
copper eutterins and spoutins. attached
screened porch and garage, near stores and
Transportation. To reach. out r.. I. ave. to
18th st. ne, left on 18th st. 70 home
For informa ton call Mr.. Tracy DE. 0913
or WAPLE & JAMES, INC, D1. 334o.
Evening star., 1940-06-15

OVER 40O-FT. FRONTAGE CONCRETE
road. leading TO Greenbelt acres, small
2-rm house. other bldgs.. flowers, fruit
trees city water. elec. avail Sacrlflce
$4,000. OWNER. ewes, Sunday, Hyatt