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Evening star., 1940-03-22
ARLINGTON, Va.

Dear Sir:
"Your column Is the frst thing turn
to after reading the war news-it quiets
my nerves and enjoy 1t very much.
II admire and applaud your preach
ing Of tolerance OF all species Of birds.
IT your readers who write complain
ingly Of grackles, starlings, mockingbirds,
sparrows, ETC., would put out plenty Of
seed and other food they would have no
trouble and avoid the anguish they now
suffer in seeing their favorites getting
chased away from feeding stations.
"Our house is the last one on a dead
end road and in the woods beside us we
have hundreds of birds. But they all get
along we'll together and get all they can
possibly eat because I have IS feeding
stations which I keep supplied from
dawn to dusk.
I'VE are fortunate in having broad
brick window stills upon which we keep a
plentiful supply of seed, nine on the Sec
ond floor and four on the first floor.
VERY, very seldom do the starlings and
grackles feed at the sills because have
stations out in the yard for them-an
old tree stump that has ideal followed
out places to hold large amount of seed,
and my child's express wagon where we
put bread. apples and anything else that
starlings like-and they seem to eat any
thing and everything
Il always leave at least three large
pieces of suet nailed up at different trees
If things get crowded put up more so
that all the woodpeckers, grackles, etc,
can get all they want.
Nothing could be simpler than plenty
of suet, the butcher provides it free of
charge and couple of nails hold it up
on the tree.
Il keep no suet on the window sills ex-
cept one small piece on one sill for a
specie of small bird that I like better
than any of the others, he is so very
tame. The grackles scorn such a small
piece and every one is happy.
my pet Is not tree climber, so he
could not get his suet II 1t were not on
the sill.
With the above management, all the
small birds feed happily at the windows
What they knock down on the ground is
promptly eaten up by the sparrows. They
all at times peck around the tree stump
and express wagon. / have never seen
a starting or grackle deliberately chase
any OF the smaller birds away
! "As a matter of fact they all get along
and treat each other far better than
human beings do each other.
Il find 1t costs money to feed the birds
Fifteen to 20 pounds of seed a week at
10 cents per pound.
Back of their hate of the large unat-
tractive birds suspect many of your
readers Of conserva ton Of cash Just as
in all life, II there is insufficient food
the largest and strongest will get it.
However when there is no snow on
Evening star., 1940-03-22
The Rumspeck Bill

The delay that the Ramspeck civil
service extension bill is encountering
in the Senate Civil Service Commit
tee is unfortunate and not entirely
understandable.
Passed by the House on February
after being carried over from the
last session of Congress, the measure
since has been awaiting hearings by
the Senate committee, and there
still is doubt as to when these will
be held. Some OF the delay was un-
avoidable as the committee asked
for a report on the bill from the
Civil Service Commission, which re-
quired time to prepare in detail.
However, that report was sent to the
Capitol more than two weeks ago.
The subject matter the bill covers
is too we'll known to require long,
draWn-out hearings. 1t provides
simply for giving civil service status
to thousands of positions that have
been exempted by law, and for ex-
tending to field positions the Classi-
flcatlon Act pay scales that now
apply only to employment here. Both
objectives long have been sought by
employe organizations and others
interested in the upbuilding of the
civil service system in the Federal
Government, and their merit is un-
questioned.
In passing the bill, the House
adopted an unjust and unworkable
amendment that would bar civil
servior status to employees here who
hail from States which have more
than their allotment of positions in
the apportioned service, and while
the injection Of this ssue was calcu-
lated to cause study by the Senate
Civil Service Committee, the en-
phatic recommendation by the Civil
Service Commission that it be elimi-
mated in the interest Of fair and
efficient personnel administration,
should point clearly to the committee
the course to be followed.
Clarlfication also is needed to de-
termne how far the measure is to
go IN barring from its provisions
employees paid from Work Projects
Administration funds, as the present
language is open to varying inter
pretationS; but there is nothing
complex about this matter, either.
1t would be matter of regret if
the Senate delay ultimately pre-
vented passage of the bill which is so
vital part of President Roosevelts
civil service reform program. Some
time in the near future, the special
presidential committee, headed by
Supreme Court Justice Stanley F.
Reed, is expected to offer it's plan for
bringing under civil service technical
and professional positions whose
status is fixed by executive order,
and the Ramspeck bill Is an indis-
pensable complement to this as the
program in its entirety aims at en-
couraging careers in Government.
Unless the Senate Civil Service
Committee shows more disposition
to facilitate the legislation, how
ever, there is danger OF it getting
caught in a fatal jam at the end of
the session.
Evening star., 1940-03-22

lily be killed than to spy on the pros
pective murderer!
Two little girls were walking through
a meadow and they were afraid of a
COW that stood nearby. One Of them
said. Let's just walk on and pretend
we don't notice her" The other, who
had been taught never to deceive an
swered, NO, that would be deceiving the
cow
Why this sudden streak of righteous
ness? The bandit may spend his life
deceiving, robbing, numbering his fellow
men, but the law officer must let him
escape rather than trap him by wire
tapping! He may go on, then, robbing
and killing innocent people. He may
never be caught, but if he is, it must be
by open and aboveboard means-no
such crafty tricks as wire tapping.
We are known everywhere as the most
gang-ridden country in the world. The
bandits will rejoice at this turn of the
tide. They will feel that they have
new lease and our reputation abroad
Will not be enhanced. H. w. ELSON.
Plainfleld, N. ].
March IT,
Evening star., 1940-03-22
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. TYnceDell.

the ground, I find all the birds prefer
to look after themselves.
Unlike many humans, they only &C.
cept relief when 1t is absolutely nec-
essary.
I'm good weather, less than five pounds
Of seed week is eaten-by evening there
is always uneaten seed on the sills. Only
the suet is eaten as much as In bad
weather.
Speaking Of suet-I have never found
1t necessary to tie it to tree or use soap
dishes.
1T is very satisfactory simply nailed
on the trunk up as high as you can
reach-on the lee side during storm.
Il know little about birds, but today
identified cardinals, blue Jays. wood
peckers, little birds suppose were chick
adees sparrows, grackles, starlings and
many birds that look like purple finches
and about a dozen other species OF
birds that have no idea what they are
Il like them all.
MY pet is the size of a sparrow. soft
gray back with a gray crest on its head
light breast with a splotch of orange
What is it? 1t likes suet.
Yours truly, r. B. T.
"P. S.-We even have hawk 1t just
flies over and does no harm. 1t is after
our chipmunk."
There, friends, we submit, is the way
to enjoy feeding the birds.
Two points in our correspondent S
letter deserve stressing.
One is that the more feeding stations,
the more fun.
The other is that it is not at all neces-
sary to know the precise names Of birds
to enjoy watching them, and to get a
great kick out of feeding them.
Sometimes we think that bird lovers
put too much time and attention on
Identification.
OF course, 1t is fine to know the name
Of every bird you see. Not word can
be said against it.
There are, however, different tempera :
ments, and If your own temperament
does not run that way" do not worry
at all over the fact that you may not
know what it is called" either scien-
tifically, or Just its common name.
1t makes no difference, really.
Our correspondents pet" is just al
much pleasure to her, just as much &
fine bird, whether she knows 1t Is a tit.
mouse or not.
Tolerant people get the most pleasur.
out of bird feeding and observation. moi
only because they have no hates, bu
also because they have more birds.
They have more birds because they
are willing to keep more stations sup.
piled with food. Also. We think theil
attitude is communicated to the feath.
cred hosts of the air.
How can any one doubt this? Ever
tiny children seem to know instinctivel,
when older persons do not like them.
Birds, with millions of years behinc
them, know their friends.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
buildings, fall within the limitations

buildings, fall within the limitations
OF this plan.
Strong objection has been voiced
by builders against the proposed
limitations. And to some extent the
objections merit consideration. It is
possible that within certain limits
larger apartments would be bene-
ficial in few localities. 1t is also
possible that the comprehensive
coming code which is being con-
sidered for the county will provide
additional classifications, allowing
greater densities of population in
specific locations.
But the county is faced with the
problems of todays rapid increase in
population and the welfare of to-
morrow's residents. It's best interests
lie with these rather than with those
who are interested primarily in
making a quick profit. Arlington's
suburban character, with the at
tendant benefits which attract
home-building type Of population,
cannot be replaced once they have
been lost through shortsighted sur
render to speed and cheapness.
The County Board has recessed its
consideration of the limitations until
next week. Notifications Of the
plan, through gradations to permit
some structures more than two
stories high, may be of benefit. But
in general the plan is most desirable
lest the Jerry building of today
should become the slums of to-
morrow.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Puerto Rican SCOTS
At Three-Acre Farms.

To the Editor Of The Star:
read with interest The Stars article,
United States Scientists Seek Answers
to Puerto Ricos Problems February
25). and noted that we are to get another
dose OF the three acres and a mule"
theory for Puerto Rican survival.
In reporting on what is wrong with
Puerto Rican economy most Department
of Agriculture experts carefully dodge
any reference to the sugar quotas. They
find that Puerto Ricans will wax
wealthy and achieve new happiness If
every family is given a 3-acre farm. The
out magnihcently If there were enough
acres to 60 around.
We have an island of something over
three million acres supporting a popula-
tion Of two million people. More than
million acres are in mountain tops, arid
land and land that cannot be prohtably
farmed. Your correspondent, Jessie FAINT
Evans, would divide the useful land
among 100000 families. giving each
small farm, but she doesn't make 1t clear
where the Government farm land" is
to come from Unless she has a collectiv-
list thought in mind, she will never find
the land.
1t is always pleasure to entertain ex-
perts who find the solution for all our
woes during visit of 10 or II days.
They are engaging and earnest people.
Often, because Of their departmental as
sociations, they find it difficult to be
completely frank. We could make
good deal Of use of two or three experts
who could lift the sugar quota restric-
tions and amend the wage-hour law.
If any one will come along with an
argument that will lead Congress to
relax laws that are keeping thousands
Of our workers in virtual peonase to the
w. p. A., we will let you have the experts.
If we are permitted to open our factories
and plow our sugar lands, there will be
jobs for every one. Give the Puerto
Rican a job and you can forget the
land owning theory and save yourself
the trouble of locating thousands Of
acres Of non-existent Government
farm lands
G. LEIGH STEVENSON.
Publicity Section. Department
OF Agriculture and Commerce.
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
March II.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
The Cross

Behold the cross on which the Saviour
died,
For you and are part Of this sad day.
We may have placed Him there as
much as they,
Who Knocked and gave Him to be cruci-
fed.
We, too, have sinned and often have
denied
Him as our Lord-O let us n,lmbly pray.
Forgiveness for each fault within-obey
Gods still small voice and let His love
abide.
For Jesus died that you and may share
The love on Calvary so freely poured.
O let us try to follow Christ the Lord.
And help to prove to all men everywhere,
That Jesus sacrifice was not In vain.
But will II lived, restore earths peace
again. e,
MONICA WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1940-03-22

and place for launching an effective
military blow at Germany.
Unless the vagaries of French
politics force still further changes
in the cabinet, France, under the
premiership of M. Reynaud, appears
now to be ready for the long deferred
drive against the Reich, and waiting
only on Britain.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Marine Armory
Called "a Disgrace"
IN the Editor NJ T-ba atar.

TO the Editor Of The Star:
Congressional investigation should be
made OF the United States Marine Corps
Reserve Armory on Indiana avenue.
That dilapidated building is due to be
torn down before it falls down.
The Marines are not included in Ma
tional Guard Armory plans, although
they were invited into the new Armory
by both District and National Guard Of
ficials.
Unless something is done-and quickly
you will have the picture Of fine body
Of 500 men stacking arms In the street,
the band playing Where Do We Go
From Here?"
Here's military Blue Plains" that
will not stand the light Of investigation.
q building characterized years ago by
Senator David I. Walsh AZ "a disgrace
to the Nations Capital"
ELWOOD w. BURNS,
March ls. Private. U. 8. M. G. r.
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Good Riddunce

From the Troy Record.
The London Spectator solicits lists OF
six words that can best be spared from
our overcrowded language. Maybe we
should contact London and give 1t CON
tact"
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the ioriter. although the use OF
a pseudonynl for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1940-03-22
Member Of the Associated Press,

4. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use Tor republication OF I'll news dispatches
credited to It OF not otherwise credited in this
paper md llso the local news published herein
Al, rights of publication of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1940-03-22

Ing (3U). lneSe 1OuT CldSSlIlCdllONS are
serious violations and should be given
maximum punishment. 1t Is gratifying
tnat these represent only slightly over
per cent Of the arrests, and 1t is hoped
that these serious violations are not
committed any more frequently than the
figures would indicate.
Further analyzing these moving traf-
fic violations, 90 we're for failure to give
hald signal. I seriously doubt that this
represents per cent of the drivers COM
mitting this violation during the month
of January. Failure to keep to the
right turning from wrong lane"
passing on the right" weaving In and
out OF traffic" passing at intersections"
were causes for 70 arrests, or less than
/ per cent of the total
These violations listed Immediately
above are so generally committed
in Washington that the average driver
has no thought that he is violating a
law or creating trafic hazard. Surely
an intensive campaign with emphasis on
such violations, coupled with the prose-
cution for such violations, by the Trafiic
Department, would do more to move
traffic in Washington during the two
peak loads daily with greater dispatch
and with material reduction of acci-
dents than would the continued en-
phasis on prosecution of parking and
non-moving trafiic violations.
1t is on the basis of the above analysis
tnat your reader feels your commenta-
tors were guilty Of modesty or under
statement in their remarks with regard
to the Police Department statistics.
March s.. Ebert w. SMITH.
Evening star., 1940-03-22

@. Who wrote the poem beginning
There is destiny that makes us broth
ers; none goes his way alone"?-W. B.
A. This poem, entitled "A Creed" is
by Edwin Markham
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-22

Bulgaria and Hungary in the thick of the
fighting. The Axis interests are so deeply in
volved in this area, with Hitler's supplies in
large measure coming from Rumania and his
need for Balkan peace so great while he is
fighting the Battle of Britain, he cannot be
supposed to have told II Duce to bully Greece
or to be in sympathy with his aims there.
Mussolini, of course, may have taken a
flyer on his own account without consulting
Hitler or surveying possible consequences to
the Axis cause. Whatever motivates the die
tator at Rome in his attitude toward III e
Metaxas government, there can be no doubt
that he is jeopardizing Hitler, if not actually
inviting disaster. Hitler can ill afford a di-
version now, especially with the British taking
the initiative.
Furthermore, any outbreak in the Balkans
will be a signal for Stain to draw closer to
the D~ardane1les and extend his control to ad-
ditional Balkan territory. The Fascist buzzard
may have had his heart set on a dainty
morsel, when he turned coward Athens, but is
likely to find Moscow in his way.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-22
Editorial Comments
o Other Angles
CITY MANAGER NOTES
Fayetteville Observer


In view of Fayetteville's recent agitation
for a city manager form of government many
interested citizens of this city will watch close
ly the results of the election which will be held
in Raleigh October l to decide whether the
capital city of the State shall retain its COM
missioner form of government or adopt one
based on a city council and city manager.
Commenting on the approaching R a l e i 6 h
election The Wilmington Star reminds us that
while Wilmington is the only other city in the
State which retains what The Raleigh News
and Observer describes as "the cumbersome
and inefficient three-man commission type of
government, there is a movement underway,
sponsored by the Wilmington newspapers,
which calls for a consolidated city-county
government under council-manager admins
tration.
We have pointed out frequently that good
roads, telephones and generally improved sys-
TENS of communication and transportation are
breaking doWn for practical purposes til e
boundaries between country and town.
1t would be just as easy to administer
Cumberland county as a unit as it is to ad-
minister the several governmental units which
the geographical boundaries of the county con-
tain.
Savings to taxpayers would be tremendous,
efficiency in government would be enormously
increased.
But the change, like the proposed consolida-
ton of counties, would involve the reduction
in the number of political jobs available; and
that is heresy in any tax-eater's dictionary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-22
Rotary Club Right

Wilmington Rotarians exhibited their
customary sound judgment when they endors-
ed the reestablishment of Fort Caswell as a
military base and the creation of a military
highway from Fort Bragg to Wilmington and
Southport.
Both of these projects would be Of great
value in the defense of this section of the
seaboard in a war emergency, the
one offering a concentration point either for
training air force detachments or for anti
aircraft batteries, the other for quick move
ments of artillery and mechanical forces to
any endangered spot not only in this area but
southwark to the tip of Florida.
There has been some effort to induce the
government tip reacquire Fort Caswell. Any
impetus the Rotary club can give to it would
be in the interest of area secruity, and the
Rotarians should not be left alone to promote
it. The city's other civic clubs could well
afford to participate in the effort, as could
the community's business leaders.
The Fort Bragg-Wilmington highway h a S
long been an objective of this city and Fayette-
vile, but for the most part has had only
nominal support, as something to dream about
but neglect while awake. The time has come
for the two cities to bear doWn on the proper
federal authorities with combined power. The
ought to be built. The one way to get it done
is through joint, intensive promotion by the
cities chiefly concerned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-22
In Safe Hands

In Donald Conner of Birmingham, the Textile
Foundation will have a director of unexcelled
efficiency. He succeeds Stuart W. Cramer, of
Cramerton, this state.
Mr.. Conner is the son of former Governor
B. B. Conner of Alabama. With the exception
of service in the army from 1898 to 1902, chief
ly in the Philippines, he has been associated
with the textile industry since boyhood. He
helped his father in the administration of the
vast Conner PLANTATION, which extended over
1000 acres, and when the elder Conner was
elected chief executive of Alabama went to
Birmingham to operate the Avondale Mills,
which under his fathers and his own admins
trations nave grown from one small plant to
seven employing 1000 workers. He knows
cotton from seed to boil weevil as few men
have ever known it.
Something of his varied interests and service
may be gained from a glance at his record.
He is a member of the executive committee of
the Cotton-Textile Institute, Inc, and served
as its southern vice president in 1884. He is
vice president of the Southern States Industrial
council, was chairman Of the Alabama public
works board and Alabama state director of
the Rural Rehabilitation corporation. He re-
Gently was appointed by the Governor of Ala
bama as head of '"the decade OF progress
campaign" in Alabama, sponsored by tn e
Southern Governors conference. He was a
member of the cotton-textile code authority
under MIRA and was president of the American
Cotton Manufacturers association in 1934-35.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-22

Well, that setting couldn't be
anybody's hut George Cuker's. And
it's philadelphia Story"
Let's try another, a newspaper
office, full of characters" It's the
whole Works-that door from Bar
bara Stanwyck's columnar cubby-
hole, where she writes odds and
Ends The door opens into the
city room. 1t looks like a city
room. Miss StanWyck entering en-
ragged, kicking over a wastebaSket,
might be said to act like a column
mist. The old ~proofreader, who en-.
tiers and asks her for another stick
of type to fill out her space, is a
character" Everybody around is
a "character." The dialogue lets
you know that some rich old So
and-so has just bought the paper
and is doing some promiscuous fir
ing. The director sits under the
camera lens and suggests, quietly,
certain changes in the proceedings.
He's mild and sure and he doesn't
raise his voice-but the setting, the
"characters," and the story situa.
ton yell out that he's Frank Capra,
starting Meet John Doe"
And another, a colossal set, full
of Indians and bright-coated SOL
diers. There's rush and hustle;
there's a plenitude of makeup men
and hair-dressers and first, second
and third assistants all yelling
through loudspeakers for QUIET.
There's the director, not sparins
his own loudspeaker. There are
flunkies and stooges and yes-yes-
men all over the place, which is
colossal, Colossal, COLOSSAL, Co.
lossal B. DeMille and Northwest
Mounted Police" 4