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Evening star., 1940-06-08
Give

fEnrope's Silent Plea to the American
Red Cross
Great smiling land widespread beyond
the sea,
Still singing songs. still having faith
to pray.
Where love still laughs and little chill
dren play,
How sorely, deeply, have we need of
thee!
Shield from the storm thy flame Of
liberty
Lest in this dark hour freedoms last
bright ray
Shall flicker out, and we, who once
loved day,
Grope through an endless night Of
tyranny.
Our children manned, our maidens nut
to shame,
Our young men slain defending hearth
and soil,
While millions Of us sweat in hum
bling toll
For them we hate-such Is our hapless
doom,
America! Bewildered, blind and lama
We turn to thee to lift us from our gloom.
CHARLES J. BENEDICT.
Evening star., 1940-06-08

posters; safety education by means
of a touring model Safety City,;
and development Of. backyard play
grounds designed to interest chill
dren in activities which keep them
off the streets.
Backyard Fairgrounds, to be fos-
tered through model exhibits and
prizes for the best arranged yards in
various sections of the city, offer an
effective means not only of promot-
ing safety but of enhancing the well
fare of the community through
development of a more widespread
system of healthful activities.
These efforts deserve popular sup
port to the end that playing safely
will become a tradition in the con-
munity,
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Sufety for Children

During the first five months of 1889
seven children met their deaths on
Washington streets. So far this
year only two have been killed in
traffic, one while standing in a safety
zone, the other apparently while
playing in an alley. Within a few
days the summer vacation from
classes will begin, marked by nat
ural sense of exultation and release
from discipline Schoolboy patrols,
which for nine months have exerted
an effective control, will be dis
banded, and most of the school play
grounds will be closed.
1t is important that this change
In the manner of life for 100000
or more younger Washingtonians
should be met by increased safety
precautions. Primarily the burden of
summer safety rests with parents,
but the past has shown the made
quacy of attempting to localize that
responsibility. AS result, supple
mental efforts are being made this
year to prevent further accidents.
For weeks the schools have been
expounding the doctrine of self-pro-
lection through the practice of safe
habits. And, still more far-reaching,
since it touches closely upon the
home, is the program of the Recrea-
tion Department assisted by the
Work Projects Administration and
the Traffic Advisory Council. This
program consists OF three parts:
Constant reminders hY means of
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Agricultural Triumph

A farmer OF Columbia, Missouri,
owned ninety-three pigs which had
a bad habit of straying off the reser-
vation, showing uncanny ingenuity
in burrowing under fences. In order
to prevent wholesale emigration, he
took leaf out of the totalitarian
book and put up an electrified wire
fence on the frontier, equipped with
a balanced ration of volts and am
peres not strong enough to kill, but
powerful enough to keep the pigs
away. They soon learned to have
healthy respect for the device.
Once this lesson had been thor
oughly learned by the pigs, the next
step in farm economy was to shut
off the power. Being in absolute
control of the local information
service, the farmer was able to turn
off the current and keep that sig
nificant news from the pigs, so that
the deluded animals still stayed
home.
The farmer was now ready for the
grand climax. One bright day he
went out and removed the entire
fence, while interested neighbors
assembled to watch the stampede.
1t never developed. The regimented
pigs wistfully eyed the unguarded
frontier, but none was rash enough
to cross it. In this humble fashion,
and with much less trouble than
Marconi had, was born the latest
triumph of agriculture-the wireless
fence.
Evening star., 1940-06-08

will be kept clear during rush hours
and parking will be limited to thirty
minutes on the side streets.
This agreement is not a complete
answer to the problem of facilitating
through traffic, nor does it meet fully
with the wishes of Georgetown's
businessmen and citizens. But under
the circumstances it is the best ar
rangement that could be made at
this time. Merchants, depending to
large extent upon Virginia trade,
originally had opposed any restric-
ton, since very little space is avail
able in their section of the city for
off-street parking. Virginians and
others, meeting the dense jams which
impeded tfeir travel to and from
their homes, asked for a cleared
route, while residents of Georgetown
were forced to park blocks from their
homes because OF the curb-space con-
gestion of adjacent streets.
While the compromise will effect
some relief for all concerned, the
problem of Washington's Key Bridge
approach should be given a leading
position in any planning for the fu-
ture. Already demands have been
made for additional bridges, but the
Key span, serving the more populous
areas of Arlington and Fairfax
Counties, will remain an important
link. Work now under way will re-
lieve bottleneck conditions on the
Virginia side of the river, but little
of the sort has been done on the
District side.
The problem should be considered
Immediately in order to meet the
increased demands of the future.
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Help Allies Now
Is Readers Petition.
To the Editor Of The Star:

Let the United States openly and at
once declare itself q -belligerent ally
OF France and Great Britain. Lindbergh
says this country is safe from invasion,
SO what is there to fear?
Lindbergh should have added that this
country is safe from invasion only as
long as the Allies maintain their pres
ent status in the world. If they are de-
stroyed by Hitler's mechanized might,
built by his peoples seven years of sac
rifice, and by theft of money, food and
ammunition belonging to countries he
has killed, Europe and Africa will be di-
vided between Hitler, Stain and Musso-
lini, with Japan controlling the East.
In such case, billions for defense in
this country will be useless. It takes
years as we'll as money to build a war
machine, and the dictators will not wait
politely for the United States to prepare.
Utmost aid must be given to the Allies,
and now, before it is too late.
Through betrayal engineered by Nazis,
the Allies have lost vital part of their
army. Mussolini, like jackal, feels that
at last it is safe to creep forward for a
share in the spoils This fact is proof
that our first line of defense is in grave
danger
If this country does not. at once send
every available war weapon to the Allies,
she deserves to stand one day alone
against world of greedy enemies.
CLARE GLAZIER,
South Glastonbury, Conn.
May 81.
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Texan Would Amend
Bill of Rights.
To the Editor OF The Star

To the Editor OF The Star:
You are doubtless aware that we are
confronted with fifth column" scare
in the Lone Star State The proximity
OF the Mexican border adds to the hys-
terra generated in these parts. Permit
me to assure you that all this apparent
hysteria is not to be passed over. We
have situation here which calls for an
amendment to the Bill of Rights.
Why grant license to aliens to pro-
mulgate propaganda which is violently
against the ideas and ideals of the
Constitution?
There is one glaring defect in our gov
ernmental setup. We permit too much
license without guarantee Of neighborly
concord. 1t Is against all the precepts
of American Government to permit a
foreign element to shout about "un-
Americanism." TOWNSEND HOWES.
Dallas, Tex.
June 4.
Evening star., 1940-06-08
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Tracepell.

Good tools to work with are an essen
tial in any Job, and in none more so
than in gardening.
The amateur gardener will make his
biggest mistake If he stocks up on cheap
tools.
He needs really good lawn mower, a
good rake, a good spade, good grass clip
pers, good hose, good trowel, and SO on.
If he contents himself with the cheap
est makes he can find, he may get along,
in fashion, but not without fussing a. id
fuming as he goes, and in the end paying
far more for requirements than that for
which he could have secured first-class
articles to begin with.
The cheap attitude, In gardening,
mostly comes about because the anna
teur is an amateur, and has a poor out
look upon his job.
He neither pictures the work to be
done as serious, nor himself as serious in
its performance.
This is too bad. Digging in the earth,
even a little gets back to funda-
mentals. 1t means that the digger is at
one with all nature, at least for a few
minutes.
There is something soothing to the
spirit Of man about raking and digging.
Even il one has to force ones self to the
task!
Surely it does not come natural, as We
say. for a man who has never handled
anything more weighty than a pen or
pencil to take up spade or roll mower
for an hour or more over a humpy lawn.
His task will not be any the easier for
spade made by some one, like him.
self, who never did much digging.
Yet this is what happens, all too often.
And there are lawn mowers, seemingly
made by people who meyer moved a
lawn; trowels, which catch you in the
heel OF the palm and cause blisters, evi-
IDENTIFY constructed by those who never
mad any occasion to use a trowel gar
den hose, manufactured by wights who,
having no actual need for hose them
selves, didn't care whether it kinked
numerically in our hands or not.
There is all the difference in the world
between a good spade and a poor spade.
and almost as much between a good
spade and an Indifferent spade.
Even these light bamboo rakes with
which we rake the lawn twice a year, or
ought to, can be as different as anything.
Some Of them are nuisance to han
die. Others do the job neatly.
Lawn mowers are a chapter all in
themselves. 4 good mower costs more,
but it lasts four times as long, and gives
at least ten times as much service.
The additional cost of a good machine
Is really nothing, in comparison with
the added length Of life, and especially
the lack of trouble.
Nothing Is more harassing, in the
ordinary walks Of life, than a lawn now
er which is always getting out of order
Then the real life, too. is short, in the
cheap machine. You will be buying a
new one every year or two, whereas a
good one will run for at least 10 wears
Of hard service without needing a single
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Demands England Mobilize
Full Strength Against Foe.


To the Editor of The Star:
should like to call attention to an
excerpt from the article by David Lloyd
George in last Sundays Star: '"The Brit
ish Empire has not yet put forth one
fifth of her strength in men and ma
terial. They must be mobilized without
delay"
To those persons who have been clam
oring for us to rush to aid perfidious
Albion. this statement by Britain's ex-
wartime premier and outspoken states
man should prove an eye-opener While
hundreds of thousands of soldiers of her
allies are daily lost in the conflict, good
old England leaves over 80 per cent of
her own resources, both human and ma
terial, unmobilized!
We must stay at peace. Let faithless
England take care of the mess she got
herself into. Let us see those four -f1fths
OF her reserves put into action before we
begin rushing American boys to die on
Flanders fields. DANIEL LEROY,
May 20.
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Georgetown Compromise

Seeking to compose the differences
among conflicting interests, the Dis
trict Commissioners have put into
effect compromise affecting park
ing on M street in Georgetown.
Under the new regulations one side
of the only street connecting Key
Bridge with the center Of the city
Evening star., 1940-06-08

pointed out so effectively, this legisla-
ton Is vitality needed. and never so much
as now. when everything possible should
be done to enhance the efficiency and
effectiveness of the Federal administra-
tive establishment.
We are hopeful that with your con-
unued support, the enactment of this
bill into law can be accomplished at the
present session of Congress. Clearly.
sound public policy demands that this
step be taken.
LUTHER C. STEWARD,
President, National Federation of
June 4. Federal Employees.
Evening star., 1940-06-08

repair. If, of course, you are fortunate
1t may last IS to 20 years.
There are few machines Of any sort
which will last as long and give good
service, under hard conditions, as good
priced lawn mower.
America can be proud Of its machin-
lists, and especially of those who make
the millions of lawn mowers used in this
country. We are grassloving people.
Our lawns may not equal those of Eng
land, where climatic conditions are bet
ter suited to lawn making, but we love
our plots, nevertheless. This is shown by
the amount of time the American family
man spends upon the grounds.
Often more time than is necessary is
put upon recalcitrant lawn on account
of poor machine, which is always stick
ing and stopping and in many other ways
causing trouble and irritation. The
trouble is mechanical, the irritation
mental. Both hurt
A good mower speeds over the ground
enabling the handler to get through the
job in half the time taken by the neigh
Dor who tries to get along with a poor
machine Now, good machine need
not be one of these fancy affairs, super
light, with automobile tires and so many
gadgets that one looks for little head
lights to spring up at dark.
No, good mower means one properly
built of good materials, not too heavy,
not too light, and especially chosen to
suit the musculature of the wielder.
Mowers too narrow cause much added
work; too wide, they are difficult for any
one but an athlete to handle. And
athletes, it has been noticed, are par
ticularly reluctant about cutting the
lawn. Probably they think it is be-
meath them-which it is, in one very
good sense.
There can be all the difference in the
world between your mental outlook when
putting in tulip bulbs with a really good
trowel, and when trying to do the job
with a trowel with too small handle,
or generally too light construction.
Grass shippers, trimmers, cutters call
them what you will, are instruments of
torture, especially in causing finger blis-
tiers, If they are not good ones few
cents saved here will mean much misery,
especially to the back and legs.
So 1t goes all through the garden.
If beginners, especially, could get rid
OF the idea which they often have, that
what they are about to do is not of very
great moment, therefore any old tools
will do, they would save themselves much
nagging unhappiness and also save some
money.
Their tools, besides working effortlessly
for years. would last so much longer that
not only money would be saved, but also
patience, skin and muscles.
In the end. ones trusty tools would
become old friends, because they had
been, indeed, friends in need.
If beginning gardeners all these good
people who have just secured plots of
land, would take this advice to heart, and
act upon it, to the extent that their
finances permit, we feel sure that in the
years to come they would thank us
many times for this bit of advice
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Excess Guns and Planes

The magnificent fight which the
Allied Armies are waging along the
"Weygand Line" should spur Amer
lea even more in her belated efforts
to speed material aid to Britain
and France in this desperate stand
against Hitlerism. stubborn resist
ance," the German high command
calls it, in acknowledging that the
intended blitzkrieg toward Paris has
been slowed down by General Wey-
gandS staggered machine gun nests,
75-millimeter batteries and cannon
bearing planes. But the French are
battling in the face of almost over
whelming odds. They need more
planes and more guns-eSpecially
75s-and they need the support of
British divisions which escaped from
Flanders, but which cannot re-enter
the fray until they have been sup
piled with rifles and ammunition
and other equipment which they lost
In retreat.
President Roosevelt undoubtedly
had this disturbing picture in mind
when he asked Congress yesterday
for legislative authority to release,
under trade-in plan, considerable
quantities of Out-of-date war sup
plies to the hard-pressed European
defenders of our democratic way of
life. Specific legal authorization is
necessary, he said, to trade in" GER
tain outmoded rifles, artillery, am
munition and other implements of
war to manufacturers, who could
then sell the materiel to the Allies.
BY a similar method, the Navy pre-
viously had made available to Brit
ain and France some half hundred
bombers, which, while comparatively
new, already had become obsolescent
by reason of rapid developments in
alrplane engineering While the
plane transaction apparently was
possible without special legislation,
administration officials desire con-
gressional approval of the trade-in
device for releasing warehouse stocks
OF old French 75S, obsolete rifles and
machine guns and other equipment
not essential to our own defense.
Outright deliveries of some of this
equipment already have been made
through third parties, without bene-
f1t Of the exchange arrangement.
1t is highly important to American
security that the necessary congress
sional authority for these transac-
tionS be given quickly and that the
surplus and out-of style materiel-
since we have nothing better to offer
at this time-be rushed to the be-
leaguered Allied forces across the
Atlantic. If the British Tommies
and the French Poilus can make
use Of these excess weapons in
staving off the German "Panzer"
divisions and thereby abate the
menace of world anarchy, it is
to Americas interest to speed the can
non and planes to the Allied front.
The longer Hitler'S mechanical
armies can be held at bay, the
greater are the chances that the tide
of battle will turn in favor of the
Allies and the less are our chances
of getting involved in this war. Lay
Ing aside sympathy entirely, pru-
dence demands that we should slash
red tape at every turn and facilitate
in every way possible the delivery to
Britain and France of every plane
and gun we can spare.
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Formula for Pleasure:
Give to Red Cross.

To the Editor Of The Star:
In these days of blacklist savagery and
OF omnipresent distress and distrust, may
I suggest that some of those being daily
publici0ed as seeking vain and self
indulgent pleasure in lavish entertain
ment, curtail ''for the duration" such
futile and effervescent expenditure and
contribute the price instead to the Red
Cross fund and the many other agencies
for the relief of starvation?
Would not the potentialities for good
of the money involved be thus multiplied
q thousandfold?
June4 SOCIAL REGIsTERITE.
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Scores Critics Of
Defense Program.
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
II 1t were not so hackneyeo I'D true
to form it would be interesting to OBJ
serve how many Washington editors,
columnists and letter-writers are finding
any and every thing being done toward
national defense to be the wrong thing!
Would it not be just little more
helpful as well as patriotic to keep
quiet while those whose responsibility
1t is work out the way?
May 30. NJ. 7. BROWN.
Evening star., 1940-06-08

Our British cousins have always
been most meticulous about costume
and armament when cunning for
pheasant, woodcock, waterfowl or
stag. 1t is thought that they will
become much more casual when it
comes to popping off at parachutists.
Evening star., 1940-06-08

If-and it is an awfully big "if"-
that victory parade that should have
occurred in 1918 ever goes down
Unter Den Linden, the head of the
column should consist of Czech, Nor
wegian. Danish and Dutch detach-
mentS.
Evening star., 1940-06-08

A, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
TIE use Tor republlcatlon OF all news dSpstch
creolted to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 1Driter, although the use OF
a pseudonynn for publication is
permissible Please be brief!
Evening star., 1940-06-08
Stars Support Of Merit
System Appreciated.
10 the Editor of The Star.

On behalf of the National Federation
OF Federal Employees and the National
Legislative Council Of Federal Employe
Organizations wish to express thanks
and appreciation for your consistent
and vigorous editorial support of H. r.
$780, Representative Ramspeck's bill to
extend the merit system and classifca-
tion and to provide other needed i'm
provements and modernizatio in the
Federal system of personnel administra-
ton.
~ your editorials ON this subject have
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Evening star., 1940-06-08

most likely source Of butadiene in the
New World
Russia also Is reputed to be making
about $4,000 tons of rubber year, some
of it by the buna process and some by
processes stolen from the United States.
Little is known about the progress of
the Russian synthetic rubber industry.
A few samples examined here have been
inferior to both the German and the
American output.
There are several other processes
known for making artificial rubbers, some
OF which are superior in several respects
to the natural product. One is chloro-
prene, the patent for which is possessed
by the Du Pont Co., in which chlorine
from salt enters into the formula. It is
superior to natural rubber in several
respects and also more expensive. An
other Is thiokol, produced by a different
chemical process which can be turned
out at from IS to 60 cents q pound.
Much experimental work on artificial
rubber has been carried on over the
past decade by the United States Bureau
Of Standards in Washington. The Gov
ernment chemists also have kept close
track of the developments in Europe.
Their information is at the service of
the American people.
The United States, the bureau chem
lists say, can make all the rubber it wants
whenever it is willing to pay the price.
But even with the most efficient mass
production methods it can hardly hope
to meet the present costs Of natural rub
Der and 100000 tons year will require
some enormous factories
Evening star., 1940-06-08

@. Is 1t true that more muscles are
used in frowning than in smiling?-A. I.
A. 1t is estimated that so muscles are
employed in frowning and only 13 in
smiling.
Evening star., 1940-06-08

@. What is the quotation from Long
fellow which Robert Taylor uses in the
motion picture, Waterloo Bridge"?-J.
H. M.
A. 1t is THE thoughts of youth are
long, long thoughts" from MY Lost
Youth"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-19
CKSONVl

JACKSONVILLE, May 18.-Mes-
danes w. T. Jessup, John Cur
ganus, o. L. Russ, Frank Pierce
and Sallie Scott spent Tuesday in
Wilmington.-Ben Mentor, of San
ford, was a visitor here Tuesday,
Miss Mary Dean Thompson has re-
turned here after spending several
days in Kinston. - Miss Glennie
Russell has returned home after
working during the winter in Flor
ida.-Miss Dorothy Farnell con-
tinues ill at her home here.-Mrs.
Frederick Hargett spent last week
end at her former home at Vista.
Miss Adelaide Simmons, of
Rocky Mount, spent the past week
end here with her mother, Mrs.
Blanche Simmons.-Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Petteway, of Norfolk, visited
relatives here last week-end.-R.
F. Tallman, of Goldsboro, w a S
here last weekend, visiting his par
ents, MI. and Mrs. R. R. Tallman.
-Mesdames Annie Price, Vernon
Ccwell, H. M. 10y, John Murrlll
and Willard Ferguson spent Thurs.
day in Wilmington shopping.-k.
w. Clark went to Raleigh la S
! weekend.