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with the same degree of sacrifice to the
individual. In other words, when a
young man is taken from a position in
civilian life which pays him, let us
say, $3.50 per month and is placed in the
Army at salary of $50 per month"; is not
his wealth being conscripted at the rate
of s120 per month?
Our policy in the raising of revenue
has always been to tax the individual
according to his ability to pay. To
preserve this democratic concept, there
seems to be only one solution in the
CONSUMPTION of men and of wealth.
This is to maintain for conscripts salaries
which approach, at least, the salaries
they have been receiving.
Immediate protest against this idea will
be that the cost of such CONSUMPTION
would be prohibitive to the budget. The
solution to this question, however must
be the same solution as has been applied
to all other questions of budgetary
deficiency on the part of our National
Government-that is to tax according
to ability to pay. Truly the mass of
taxpayers who have not been called
into service will protest paying adj
ditional taxes to provide adequate
salaries for those who have been called.
Is it not equitable, however, that the
sacrifice should be borne equally in
stead of by the youth who will be forced
to enter service? JOHN F. MARSHALL.
September 3.
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Challenges Wilkes Stand
Against Industry Draft"
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor OF The Star:
cannot understand why attention
has not been called to the ridiculous
position of Wendell Willkie in his stand
on the transcription of industry" amend
ment to the Burke Wadsworth bill. Ac-
cording to him it is step towards die
President to declare himself on it.
The youngest law clerk knows that
the Government has always had the
right to take (conscripD private prop
erty for public use whenever deemed
necessary, subject to the protection of
the fifth amendment that Just COM
pensation be given. Private property
includes industrial property. No statute
can repeal the Constitution, and, in fact,
the amendment specifically acknowledges
the right to just compensation.
Under the accurate title of "condemna-
ton" the Government takes private
property every day of the year. When
the Government wants an Office build
ing, a dock, or land for a post office,
lighthouse, cantonment, ETC., if it can
not come to terms with the owner, it
simply takes the property and leaves the
former owner to his remedy in the Court
of Claims. This is an attribute of gov
eminent; no one has ever questioned it
before and certainly no one should in
time of national emergency.
Il Mr.. Willkie, the public utility lawyer,
does not know this, he is abysmally
ignorant.
In any event, disregarding the con-
stitutional argument, he has declared
himself in favor Of conscripting boys but
not wealth. e. e. s.
September 4
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Gives Views on Draft
As Patriotic Service.

To the Editor Of The Star.
Reference to your files during the
Wilson administration will disclose the
facts of my untiring efforts in Behalf
OF preparedness up to my being called
for service on our entry into the World
War.
I organized the Interior Department
Home Club Target Association, and we
taught both men and women how to use
arms. These rifle clubs were later or
gained in each of the other depart
ments. The Marine Corps enthusiastic
cally supported us and made their target
ranges available to us.
We had no reserve officers training
schools at that time, SO I organized the
National Capital Military College, in
which practically every cabinet member
became intimately interested and young
men with proper academic qualihca-
tons and who were physically fit were
enrolled and properly instructed in mill
tary science.
I also advised-and still adviSe-that
the different branches of the military
service be made attractive to young
men by the organization of schools
and colleges wherein young man
might receive an education along any
line for which he might be fitted, or
for which he might desire to quail
ify, to enable him to become sue
cessfu1 in civil or military life, such
schools to issue certificates, or diplomas,
on graduation which would be equal to
and accorded the same recognition as
those issued by any other school or
college anywhere.
There is no good reason why this
should not be done. The cost would be
negligible and such a move would at
tract fine young men to the service in
numbers sufficient to keep the ranks full.
Just think of the number of young
men whom you, personally, know who
would be glad to enlist in order to
secure an education they cannot other
wise afford. Think of the physical and
mental and moral training they would
benefit by-as we'll as the firm and solid
foundation they would have in patriot
ism, American ideals and standards.
Every officer and non commissioned
officer is an able and efficient teacher
in one or more lines; and every trade,
art and science is represented in the
service.
I favor compulsory military training
and think that, in every home and school,
patriotism, love of country, reverence
for our flag and the principles of the
freedom and democracy for which it
stands, should be instilled into the
minds of children from infancy.
No veteran wants to see another war
nor to have his son become gun fod-
der" but every veteran is for ample
preparedness at all times to insure real
and lasting peace.
SPENCER E. BOMAR,
Formerly Major Infantry, U. S. A.
San Fernando, Calf.
August 20,
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Senator King filled the post for the
past seven years in a manner that
won the gratitude and respect of
the people of the District. Following
the Senate tradition, he made a
sincere effort, as chairman, to
ascertain and follow the wishes of
the people of Washington in shaping
local legislation. And Washington
mans have considered it significant
that Senator King, for so many years
a Skeptic in the matter of votes for
Washington, became a champion, in
the end, of this movement. Like
others who have served before him,
the greater and more detailed his
knowledge of this unique community,
the more sympathetic he became to
the proposition of removing its dis
abling weakness by granting to
Washingtonians their full voting
rights as Americans.
In his forthcoming retirement
from public life Senator King will
carry with him the warm friendship
and sincere good wishes of the people
of Washington.
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American property-both oil and
agrarian-in Mexico. In general the
right Of appropriation has not been
challenged.
The entire foreign-owped oil in
dustry in Mexico was valued-in-
Guiding the extensive oil reserves
at upward of $40O,OOO,OO of which
the American companies-chiefly
Standard Oil of New Jersey, Cities
Service and Sinclair-were estimated
to own $l50,O00,000. Mexico has ar
rived at a settlement with the Sin
clair interests on the basis of pay
ment of $8,500,000 to the company
and purchase by Sinclair of Mexican
oil. Presumably the present ap-
praisal is exclusive of the Sinclair
interests.
In any event, the valuation now
offered by Mexico for the foreign
properties represents in no way a
compromise between two divergent
points of view, but Mexico's own VAL
uation, in which capacity to pay
undoubtedly has been taken into
consideration.
How much the companies will
finally realize is highly uncertain,
for pending against them are various
charges, among them demands of
workers for severance pay and other
items which total about $23, 100000,
leaving s12,OoO,ooO to be distributed
among the companies.
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Bomburdment of Britain

The average American presumably
has been puzzled about the effects
of the hail Of missiles which German
cruisers of the skies have poured
upon England during the past month.
Reading reports of the dropping of
hundreds of bombs from the clouds,
he wonders to what extent such vital
facilities as electric power lines, oil
and gasoline supply stations, water
mains, railroads, airportS, munitions
plants, etc, have been damaged.
Photographs from Poland, Finland,
the Netherlands, Belgium and France
have prepared him to believe that it
is the NaZi habit to make use of
planes for the destruction of what
ever the enemy may need for the
maintenance of his existence. That,
of course, is a natural attitude on the
part of Hitler and his associates.
They are engaged in conquest and
may be expected to practice an eff
Gent ruthlessness in their cam
paigns. Der 'Fuehrer has an excuse
for undertaking to "raze" English
towns and cities. Vandalism is his
business; humiliation his trade.
But is he really the master of total
war" which he has aspired to be? The
people of the United States as re-
Gently as August were ready to
believe that terrific damage could be
inflicted upon Britain from the air.
A prodigious blitzkrieg had been
promised. Yet the fulfllment of the
pledge of reckless devastation has
not been achieved. The R. A. F. still
raids Berlin and Milan.
Coincidentally, the home defense
of England is supported with cour-
age and a perfection of skill which
deserve American appreciation. The
Nazi flyers no longer cross the Chan
mel with impunity. A warm recep-
ton, they understand, is awaiting
them. The R. A. F. keeps them too
high above their detectives to permit
invariably successful attack. Not
every bomb dropped reaches target.
Some do not explode at all; others
blow up harmlessly. The expense
in pilots as well as in machines
could be catastrophe. Not even
the Reich, prepared as it was for the
coStlieSt of conflicts, can continue
Indefinitely to sacrifice its best ma
terrell and men for seemingly inconSe-
quential triumphs. There is no evil
dence thus far to suggest that the
Smelling of Britain from the heavens
has produced any result decisively
helpful to the Nazi cause. Instead,
it has been relatively fruitless ex-
cept in that it has increased the
determination of England not to
yield and stimulated the sympathy
of America for that determination.
Military experts may read a more
definitely scientific lesson from the
story of the latest phase of the
second World War. To the lay mind
it is sufficient for the moment to
think that final victory over Britain
will not be attained by air assault
alone. A correlative supposition,
seemingly reasonable, is that time
likewise is working against Germany
in other efforts.
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Fifteen pigeons, a flicker, and a song

Fifteen pigeons, a flicker, and a song
sparrow were spread out over the yard,
busily eating crab grass seed.
Perhaps pigeon guests at bird feed
ing station would prove themselves Of
some value. after all.
Maybe this would be a better way Of
getting rid of the crab grass than at
tempting to root it out by hand.
And maybe not.
Nothing is harder to get rid Of, once
1t gets in. What good does 1t do to
root it up in your own yard, when other
yards remain full of it?
So often enough the final solution Of
the crab grass problem is to do exactly
nothing at ALL
It resembles the pigeon problem at
a bird feeding station.
What are you going to do about them?
No friend of birds wants the pigeons.
They are not interesting, they crowd out
the smaller and better songsters, and
they eat an amazing amount of food.
Probably all Of them belong to some
one, so the bird watcher Is helping
feed some one else's pets. In some
cases, he may believe that he is feeding
them completely, since they are at the
feeding station from first light to last
This situation occurs all over town, and
In the suburbs For these are intelligent
eating but for spotting food.
Nothing is sarer than this, that if one
pigeon finds food, dozen will follow
him, and eat, too.
The solutions are many, including
damage to the pigeons. chasing them
away, and leaving them alone.
A great many persons, when they take
up the sport of bird feeding never seem
to recognize this latter solution
They are determined to do some
thing about those pigeons" They are
SO used to forcible solutions that they
seem to forget that there is another
solution, that of doing nothing.
The world of today is full of solutions
by force, and the sad part is they really
do not seem to solve anything If they
do, it is only for a time.
The solution by doing nothing may not
work in great matters, but it can be rec
commended in multitude of small ones
Often such solution is the best, for
it permits the matter to work itself out
This is natures way of taking care of
many problems. When nature solves
them in this way, usually they stay
solved.
Doing nothing about the pigeons at a
bird feeding station has one good result,
at least.
1t helps build up tolerance. Many a
man has surprised himself, when events
forced him into an attitude of doing
nothing for a time, by discovering at
last that he no longer wanted to do any
thing.
The matter had solved itself, not by
any drastic change, and especially for
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BruziIiun Bombers

A new note in the hemisphere
defense symphony Is to be sounded
with the takeoff from Los Angeles of
the first six of an order of thirty new
Californian built attack dive bonn
bardment airplanes on a ten-thou-
sand-mile flight to Brazil, where they
are to be added to the Brazilian
Army air force.
1t will be a welcome note to many
who have privately deplored the
constant stream of aircraft (some-
times only trickle, to be sure) NOV
ing toward Europe while American
defense has Jagged.
The flight will mark the first
aerial delivery of American-made
aircraft to Brazil and is considered
significant of the new cooperative
effort toward Western Hemisphere
defense now being made by the
United States and its sister republics
of South America.
The unusual flight, which is to be
made by way of Mexico, Central
America, the South American west
coast to Santiago, Chile, across the
Andes to Buenos Aires and then up
the east coast to Rio de Janeiro,
should provide a thorough test of
men and equipment.
Washingtonians will be interested
to note that the commander Of the
expedition is Major ]. S. Macedo, who
flew to this country last November
in the squadron of flying fortress
bombers then returning from
South American goodwill flight, and
who since that time has been on
duty at the Brazilian Embassy here
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THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdce1DeH.

the better, but because he found that
he no longer worried over the matter.
1t is this human worrying which makes
SO many of the petty problems, of which
SO many could be solved simply by
letting the worry die natural death.
1t somewhat resembles the motto
which has an old man exclaim. IT have
happened.
What nuiSances animals can make Of
themselves at times!
Even their greatest admirers, people
who have looked around at the human
world and found it bad, at times think
the four-legged creatures In fur and
the two-legged ones in feathers are very
troublesome, too.
See what these squirrels have done
to this garage door. A thick garage
door, not a flimsy one.
They have gnawed all around the edge,
and not just gentle gnawing, either,
but whole toothed one
They were trying to get to that bag
of peanut hearts in the garage.
Not satisfied with several handfuls
mixed with the suhf1ower and other seeds
in the feeding station, these pesky
rodents have tried to take matters into
their own paws.
Using their chisel-like teeth, they have
gnawed away great chunks of wood.
The solution is to kill the squirrels,
or to bring out the entire bag OF pea
nuts and turn them over to the rodents.
But no one with a speck of admiration
for the animal world would kill a
squirrel, no matter how much it annoyed
one.
So the solution is to give them the
entire bag of peanut hearts?
No, we will try something else first. We
will take the bag inside, put it in the
pantry, wait and see If the busy rodents
will try to gnaw their way through the
back door.
We do not believe they will That
would be little thick" even for a
squirrel
In this way it is possible to solve most
of the many little problems which come
up in feeding the birds.
These petty problems, although
nothing to person who is not interested
in the sport of bird watching loom large
on the horizon bounded by back and
side fences or hedges.
Squirrels will come to feeding sta
tons. So will the pigeons. The latter
are even dirtier birds than starlings.
Such hue and cry has been raised
against the latter it is a wonder people
do not get after the pigeons, too.
liberation, doing nothing, is often the
best solution of all, because 1t leaves
the best after effects, especially on the
human being involved.
Watching the birds may be a sort of
adult training school, in which the
best grades are not given for the most
birds seen and identified, but rather
for the best mental attitude maintained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-05

The valuation of appropriated for
eign oil properties by a Mexican court
at S35, 100000 brings to a close the
legal procedure in the Mexican
courts provided under the constitu-
ton of 1917, but that the companies,
for the most part, will be unwilling to
abide by the judgment is a foregone
conclusion.
The companies - American, Eng
lish and Dutch-refuSed, when val
uation proceedings were instituted
after the legality of the expropria-
ton was upheld by the Mexican
Supreme Court, to participate in
them. Mexico thereupon appointed
three appraisers upon whose mar
rowly differing estimates the Mexi-
can court made its verdict.
The basis upon which the ap-
praisals would be made was clearly
revealed beforehand. In general, it
was to be payment for plant and
equipment, both movable and i'm
movable, which the companies pos
sessed at the time of the expropria-
tion-adjusted with regard to origi-
nal investment and depreciation
but not for the vast oil reserves and
land, which Mexico contends was
nationally owned property.
Whether the Mexican courts
present decision is just depends en-
tirely upon the point of view, and it
remains for the State Department
to decide whether, for the purposes
of further diplomatic action, the
award is adequate compensation for
the American companies. Adequate
compensation is the only point upon
which this Government has insisted
in connection with the seizures Of
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Senator kinq

The defeat of Senator King in
Utahs primary comes as a surprise
and a shock to the people of Wash
irfgton. In his long service at the
Capitol, first in the House and for
the past four terms in the Senate,
he had become something of a
fixture in the life of the Washington
community, an able legislator who
knew the city and its people and
their problems. Conscientious and
tireless in the performance of his
duties, he was a powerful friend of
his voteless constituents of the Dis
trict whom he represented. as
chairman of the District Committee,
in the Senate.
AS chairman of This committee,
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Compulsory Production
For Defense Urged.
ia tha Eaitnr Of Thu atar.

May suggest an idea that may be
useful in the present emergency? 1t
seems to me that in modern war we
need something more than trained men,
that the Army needs an industrial ma
chine behind it that can be relied on,
that during such an emergency as this
the captains of industry should be re-
quired to obey the same as Army cap
tains, and that the Nation should have
such control over manufacturers as
would enable us to count on schedules
of production being followed.
A national planning board could be
created that would have control over
all war industries. Its duty would be to
plan ahead the quantity of materials to
be manufactured, and to assign to each
concern quota. These quotas would be
based on inventories of the concerns
productive machinery.
WILLIAM OWENS.
September 8.
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Warning to japan


warning to Japan yesterday, coinci-
dent with the sudden arrival of
Admiral Hart, commander of the
United States Asiatic Fleet, at
Shanghai, is associated with antici-
pated imminent developments of
gravity in the seething Far Eastern
situation. A fresh crisis has arisen
in connection with reported Japanese
demands on French Indo-China.
According to authoritative British
reports originating at Hong Kong,
Toxic has informed the Indo-China
government at Hanoi that Japanese
troops are ready tosenter the colony
because of the unsatisfactory reply
of the Vichy home government to a
request for the right to move forces
across the territory into China. There
is mention of a virtual ultimatum to
the French, demanding immediate
use of Haiphong, main port on the
Gulf of Tonkin, as a military base,
and the right as we'll to utilize the
French-owned Yunnan railroad to
the Chinese border.
Realizing that such operations by
the invaders are palpably designed
to attack him through his back door,
Chang Kai-shek has declared
through his foreign minister that
China will not wait for the japanese
to launch such operations, but will
on her own account invade Indo-
China if the islanders send troops
there. Thus, even if the French and
their colonial native forces do not
resist Japan, the Chinese may turn
the rich European possession on the
South China Sea into a battle
ground.
The Toxic Army clique, in firm
control in Japan, has long had its
eye on Indo- China as spoils destined
sooner or later to fall into Japan's
lap as a result of war in the west.
Frances collapse whetted the mill
tarists' appetite, just as the fall of
the Netherlands stirred their ambi-
tons to acquire the Dutch East
Indies. Japan is inspired by twin
motives in the moves she is now
said to be aiming at Indo-China.
She Graves, first, to create military
conditions which would promote her
abortive attempts to bring China to
surrender, and, second, to exploit
the general international situation
for extension of Japanese territory
and power within that new order
in Asia" which has become the island
empires goal.
The United States has said in I'M
equivocal terms that any change in
the Pacific status quo, which would
result from the realization of Japan's
eXpansionist plans, would encounter
the unyielding disapproval of this
country Secretary Hull reiterated
this policy in his statements yester-
day. warning Toxic that an invasion
of Indo-China would have "unfor-
tunate" repercussions in the United
States, and expressing hope that
an early settlement of the Shanghai
dispute will be effected. Admiral
Harris presence in the latest zone of
threatened upheaval is an earnest of
Americas intention to keep, vigilant
watch and ward over developments
related to our resolve to preserve
endangered rights and interests in
the Far East.
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