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Evening star., 1940-02-12
Letters to the Editor
Urges Unrestricted Aid
To Finland.


To Finland.
TO the Editor of The Star:
Like ]. NJ. M. Of Detroit also believe
that nearly all the American people are
in sympathy with Finland, but also be-
lieve that we should loan them all the
money We can to be used for whatever
purpose they choose. We should realize
that there is much more at stake than
the independence Of one nation After
watching the continued aggression of
Germany we should be doubly concerned
as the problem is now twice as great.
There seem to be no boundaries beyond
which Germany and Russia will not
trespass. We must use every means in
our power, short OF war, to see that these
two menaces are checked as soon as pos
sible. It is our problem as well as the
problem Of the nations more directly con-
cerned at present.
As for using the money to help those
in need here we should remember that
there has always been poverty. and even
the many millions that have been spent
in the last few years have done little to
alleviate it. The security Of the whole
world is the pressing necessity at the
present. .
We should also remember that there
Is statute forbidding loans to any ma
ton which has not repaid her debts.
This should be an effective check against
loans to any of the other belligerents.
Let us have more far-sighted policy.
February Z. MILDRED REES.
Evening star., 1940-02-12
Hard-BoiIed Turkey

The attitude Turkey is adopting
toward Germany is alien to the
timidity with which some Of the Nazi
Reich's neighbors have faced Hitler's
threats. Turkey is a small nation,
but she is not easily intimidated.
In line with this policy the Ankara
government seized the Krupp ship
yards on the Golden Horn and
ordered 100 Nazi technicians, assist
ing in Turkeys military preparations,
to leave the country within 4S hours.
AS the sequel to these remarkable
events, for which no explanation was
given at the time, 1t is charged in
Istanbul that Germany has been en-
gagged in planning sabotage in the
Near East II the war spreads to that
area. According to authoritative
sources In Istanbul, Nazi secret
agents were ready to perpetrate ex-
plosions, train wrecks and create
havoc wherever they could at the
proper moment. Other reports in
dicate that some of the German
technicians were preparing to steal
q Turkish U-boat on its test run.
1t was considered inadvisable, there
fore, to have Germans in positions
where they could wreak havoc with
Turkeys Army and Navy.
That there should be plots Of
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Two Patrons Discuss
Symphony Orchestra Dispute.
TO the Editor Of The Star:

Symphony Orchestra Dispute.
TO the Editor Of The Star:
As an associate Of the National Sym
phony Orchestra, have just received
notice Of the decision to call OF the
campaign for next year.
May I most sympathetically express
my dismay at what appears to be q
shortsighted. and unnecessary action on
the part Of the Musicians Protective
Union, by which the career Of the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra, it seems,
will be ended.
The orchestra has been made possible
only as result of the efforts of hun
dreds Of individuals, organizations and
schools, in and about Washington. It
has in the past nine years not only be-
come an integral part Of the Nations
Capital, but has also achieved deserved
recognition and praise elsewhere in the
United States and in Canada.
II this enterprise is now really to be
cut short, one wonders what the Mu-
sicians' Union is protecting" by its
refusal Of the cooperative offer, made
on January a, by the orchestras board.
It would here seem that the admissible
protective aims Of the union organiza-
ton have degenerated into an uncom-
promising self-interest at the expense
of artistic ideals and educational achieve
ment. CALDERON HOWE.
Boston. Mass.
February 8.
Evening star., 1940-02-12

sabotage In Turkey at this critical
moment for the Balkans is not sur
prising, for wherever the German
Ambassador to Turkey. Franz Won
Papen, goes, there 60 also intrigue
and catastrophe. Won Papen as Ger
man military attache in Washington
In the early years Of the World War
was linked directly with sabotage
plots in this country, disclosure Of
which resulted in American demand
for his recall.
Chancellor Hitler found ready use
for his abilities. and when AnSchluss
with Austria was decided on Won
Papen was sent to Vienna to conspire
with the Austrian Nazis to destroy
the Austrian state. More recently
Hitler sent his ace conspirator to
Turkey to intrigue against the allies.
The present revelations in Istanbul
are not the first which have con-
cerned the German Ambassador.
Turkey recently was forced to sup
press propaganda activities of Ger
mans both in Ankara and Istanbul,
activities which were suspected of
emanating from the German EN-
bassy.
Turkeys courage is not to be min
1mized by the mere fact of distance
from Germany and the difficulties
of direct German attack upon her
territory. To the north of Turkey is
Russia, Germany's partner in aggres-
sion, and war could be carried di-.
rectly to Turkish territory.
Ankara's boldness reflects her con-
f1dence In the allies and their ability
to aid her effectively with the half
million men they have stationed in
the Near East, and this evidence that
Turkey stands irrevocably with the
French and the British raises pow-
erful barrier against any designs
Germany may have to carry the war
into the Balkans.
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milk and dairy products, insurance.
chain stores, transient merchants.
Almost all Of the other thirty
nine States In the Union have some
form Of law providing what In effect
Is a customs duty on goods from
neighboring States. But one en-
couraging note in the new report is
its presentation of charts showing
the development Of reciprocity agree
ments which can serve as agents
for the gradual elimination Of many
OF the barriers. Each of the nine
States studied has a Commission for
Interstate Cooperation, which in
itself is q long step forward away
from the sort Of costly isolationistic
jealousy represented by the barrier
laws.
Evening star., 1940-02-12
Abraham Lincoln

We come but to remember. We could
bring
No fresh. untarnished laurels to 81
name
Already lifted to shining fame.
No note Of glory has been left to sing.
We bring our own sad hearts for com
forting;
Selfish, distrusting, sick Of war and
shame,
The warmth Of his great tenderness we
claim,
A moment to his plying hands we cling.
How childishly we seek to penetrate
The darkly folded secret Of his power,
Search all his deeds and words and
thoughts to find
The hidden attributes that made him
great,
While clear before us like an open
flower
The simple answer lies: That he
was kind.
1NEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1940-02-12
Hurdles for Commerce

It Is almost a year since Secretary
OF Agriculture Wallace, in a long,
critical report, aroused the country
to some concern over the broadening
system OF interstate trade barriers,
those discriminatory hurdles which
one State puts in the way of COM
merce with other States. The evil
still exists. Now, eleven months later,
we get from the Interdepartmental
Committee on Interstate Trade Bar
riers a new picture of how far this
"Balkanizing" Of the United States
has gone. The committee presents
$50 examples Of laws on the statute
books in the nine States whose legis-
latures meet this year-Virginia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Nebraska, New Jersey, New York,
Rhode Island and South Carolina.
The hint is plain for the legisla-
lures OF these States to take action
in eradicating the barriers. Virginia,
along with many others, discrimi-
mates against meat packers and cot
ton seed producers, operating In
States outside the Old Dominion, by
putting difficulties in the way Of
marketing oleomargarine. A resi-
dent OF South Carolina pays sixty
dollars for the license to catch
sturgeon, which costs the out-of.
State fisherman i've hundred dollars.
A Kentucky brewer can sell his beer
directly to retailers or consumers,
while resident brewers must sell
through Kentucky wholesalers. There
are discriminatory laws ON motor
vehicles, nursery stock, livestock,
Evening star., 1940-02-12
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1oell.

sons whose only idea as to hawk-any
hawks to kill it.
Our correspondents attitude is q
wholesome corrective.
For truly there are few more hand
some birds than these, as class.
Ornithologists are agreed today that
only three hawks deserve determination.
We will not name them here, for our
idea is to call attention to hawks, as a
group, and to point out simply that
they are much prosecuted.
We do not believe that the average
person, seeing hawk, is able to tell 1t
from any other hawk.
Therefore, the best plan is to look
Upon all hawks as interesting, picturesque
birds.
The best thing is to get into ones
head the idea that hawks are best
watched, not killed.
In this way, the number of killers will
be reduced. AS for the inimical hawks,
there will always be plenty of persons
whose ways Of life are rough and ready,
and upon whose ears all pleas for mercy
Tor any smaller living things fall with
out avail. There will always be enough
OF such persons to more than make war
upon the hawks. Unfortunately, they
will war against the good hawks, too, but
that cannot be helped.
Our point today is that there is no
reason in the world for the average
householder to grow red in the face
and rush for gun the moment a hawk
heaves into sight.
Even If its coming scares away all the
smaller birds at feeding station, as it
Will, OF course, and with almost miracu-
lous celerity, this is true.
AS our correspondent points out. the
song birds will come back.
They may remain away four or five
hours. but one by one they will return.
AS for the hawk, 1t will remain only
few minutes.
Those few minutes give the amateur
bird observer a chance to do some real
observing.
II suddenly all the small birds vanish
from your station, run over the list of
possible causes, and try to find which
one it Is.
X
Never omit the possibility that hawk
has arrived.
He probably will be in some nearby
tree, on branch about 20 feet from the
ground.
There his proud figure will be well
silhouetted, an excellent target for in.
quisitive eyes.
The poise Of hawk is marvellous
Few living things have better posture.
This should appeal to humans, for we
talk great deal about carriage, and
try to avoid being stoop shouldered, as
we say.
Part Of the hawks truly MAGNIFICENT
posture Is secured by the firm neck
muscles, which are very powerful.
We may add that our correspondents
hawk was not looking for birds, but for
mice or rats, which they prefer.
Evening star., 1940-02-12
east FALLS CHURCH, VA

EAST FALLS CHURCH, VA.
Dear Sir: Just outside our living room
window is large piece OF ground where
we have scattered grain and sunnower
seed for the birds.
Nearby we have tree which we have
not had planted as yet, which is covered
over with piece Of canvas to protect
1t from the weather.
Under this canvas I am sure there Is
q nice rats home, for rats like sun
flower seed, and 1t is placed so conven.
iently for them.
Il have seen the young rat as he
comes out Of his abode and snatches q
seed or two.
But I am not the only one that has
seen the rascal.
To-day, as I looked out the window
perchance to see some of the birds, what
did see but what looked to my startled
eyes to be some ones stray hen, but upon
closer examination I saw-to my great
delight--a large brown hawk, standing
near the rats home.
'This hawk looked larger to my eyes
than crow, had long tail, and bars
or streaks on his breast.
II was too excited to notice the small
details, for in my excitement I screamed,
and the hawk looked up at me-a bare
6 feet away-and flew away.
$50 II sunhower seed placed for the
birds will attract rats and mice and
thereby attract such magnificent speci-
mems of birds, then let me have a few
Of these rodents.
IT know some of your readers will not
agree with me, but If they could have
seen what I saw this morning, don't
know how any Of them could help but
agree.
And may add that although the
song birds were noticeably absent dur
ing this hawks presence, we still have
plenty of them about at other times
Sincerely, g. B. s."
This is an unusual attitude toward
hawks, but If it were more common a
great many more people would get more
pleasure out Of bird feeding and watch
ing.
Truly, the hawks are MAGNIFICENT
birds, with only three of them really
harmful.
Much harm has hen done bird life
by wholesale destruction of the hawks,
good and bad, without any discrimina-
ton.
Even today, when true conservation
has been preached for many years, the
very first idea of nine out of ten men,
when they see hawk, is to shoot it.
Perhaps we should amend that. Ten
out Of ten young men will shoot a hawk
on sight, whether it is q harmful
species. or good species.
As they grow older, they will learn
more about the hawks, and come to have
some regard for group which serves
a good purpose in the world.
Still, there will be far too many per-
Evening star., 1940-02-12
Drivers and Pedestrians Urged
To Get Together.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
1t has been with great interest and
some amusement that have followed the
letters on the editorial page in which the
drivers and the pedestrians give each
other verbal "face slappings" Both
groups are certain that they are right. :
I am motorist or pedestrian as the
occasion demands; consequently, I am
very interested in the solution that this
quaint" overgrown town will finally
settle upon. incidentally, am certain
that both pedestrians and motorists are
right when they say, "The other will have
to obey the rules" To be truthful feel
the drivers obey the traffic laws much
more carefully than do the pedestrians.
Once or twice during the six years in
which have been driving in Washing
ton I have seen an automobile go through
a red light. while other cars have been
waiting for the same light to change.
Many times, however, since the pedes-
trian control drive was oficially started
have stood on the curb while waiting
for the correct signal and watched one
impatient person start to cross against
the light; that one person Is the bell
wether-the rest Of the flock at the curb
follows him. OF course, in every group
in like situation there are one or two
civic-minded individualists who wait for
the green light.
There is also the problem Of cars max
ing right or left turns. Here I feel that
both motorists and pedestrians are justi-
fed in their complaints. These COM
plants. however, are Neutrality-suspicious.
Of calling each other names, both sides
should get together and say to the Traf-
f1c Department, Look at this dreadful
situation. We both have the right Of
way according to the lights, and yet we
seem to get entangled, We want this
trouble rcmedied."
ROBERT LoRENz HANSEN.
February 8.
Evening star., 1940-02-12
Quotes Excerpt From Letter
On German Air Raid.

To the Editor Of The Star:
AS showing the inhunan manner, In
attacking defenseless people, in which
the Germans are conducting the present
war, I quote below some extracts from a
letter, just received, from an English lady
residing in Norfolk on the coast Of the
North Sea:
During the past week we have had
German airplanes over our house and
they attacked our Trinity relief boat,
which was in full view Of our house. This
boat Is unarmed and takes the men to the
Hghtships to relieve the men who have
been on duty there for some weeks.
These inhuman Huns new over and
over our defenseless relief men and
fishing trawler, which was near, and then
made on as II 1t was not going to attack
them. Suddenly 1t few back and flying
very close swept the decks Of both ships.
Tho second ofiicer had both legs
blown on and has nercifully since died
in = Yarmouth hospital Another man
also has died and several are now having
treatment there.
The sound Of the explosions was awful
and the ceiling paper in our dining room
came down. Can you imagine the
horror Of the people In this country
when the news became known that an
unarmed relief boat should have been
hit in this brutal manner?
THE wives Of the relief men to the
lightship had spent all of the day before
making nice pies and cakes, ETC., for their
men folks who would be on duty for some
weeks, and these were all destroyed"
February 8. HENRY CALVER.
Evening star., 1940-02-12
Lincoln

Each successive anniversary of the
birth of Abraham Lincoln serves to
educate his countrymen to more
comprehensive appreciation OF his
character and personality, yet it may
be wondered if he ever will be per-
fectly understood. His biographers
are unanimous in their belief that
he could not fathom himself; his
contemporaries were puzzled by him;
the heirs of his sacrifice, therefore,
need not apologize for failure to read
riddle which grows in complexity
with the passing years.
The most obvious paradox involved
In the problem is that of Lincolns
disappointments. He is tragedy
from the start. Obscurely born,
early deprived of his mother, neg
lected by his father, reared in pov-
erty, unschooled, abandoned to his
own devices, he knew little in child
hood and youth save struggle and
suffering. His first sweetheart died
unaware of his pathetic love; he mar
ried unwisely; business and profess
sional Illustration was his expert
ence through period when he sorely
needed encouragement to try again.
Election to Congress brought him
only disillusionment, his earnings at
the bar were meager, his domestic
responsibilities increased from day
to day, he toyed with the idea of
suicide. But he could not surrender.
Some power which he could not
name kept him alive for his ultimate
destiny. In agony of spirit he ap-
pealed to God for a sign of His in
tention. What answer was received
remains a mystery. The savior of the
Union was chosen to the presidency
on compromise platform-a mi
nority victor. He came to Washing
ton warned that he would be assas-
sinated. Submitting to 2 fate which
he was persuaded was Inevitable, he
took no precaution to protect his life.
Looking back to the events of three
quarters of a century ago, the story
appears to have been finished before
1t began. Lincoln, it seems, was Sc
lected for the performance of one
single service. His immolation was
part Of the price he paid for his
patriotism. Other men lived and died
in the conflict he vainly sought to
avoid, but he felt the Nations an
guish as though it were exclusively
his own. His melancholy grew upon
him. Even victory brought him no
satisfaction. He was conscious, of
course, that he had prevented seces-
sion, but the price staggered him.
His faith in Providence was not
shaken; it could not be so late-it
survived with a desperate intensity
In the second inaugural. Then the
blow which he had anticipated so
long fell upon him, and he was gone
with his work unfinished.
Yet he did not labor in vain. The
world, however dimly, sees that with
out Lincoln America might have be-
come what Europe is today. His
success may be found in the fact
that government Of the people, by
the people, for the people" has not
perished altogether from the earth.
For the rest, nothing can be said
without tears.
Evening star., 1940-02-12

To the habitual smoker, alas,
there seems to be but two seasons.
In one the cigarette goes like pow
der fuse, whereas during the other it
is hardly possible to draw the smoke
through the soggy tobacco.
Evening star., 1940-02-12
To the Editor Of The Star.

As regular attendant Of local sym
phony concerts, and as one deeply in
terested In the future Of the National
Symphony Orchestra. certain phases Of
the present stalemate in the symphony's
relations with its musicians have come
to my attention that believe should be
brought before the public to help In the
settlement Of the controversy.
Through the newspapers haye gath
Evening star., 1940-02-12

"How can one prevent candles from
dripping?" is query coming to q
question and answer column. The
best way Il not to Iisht thsm.
Evening star., 1940-02-12

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the tDrtter. although the use OF
a pseudonyn, for publication Is
permissible. Please be briet!
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want to extend our
sincere thanks and appreciation 70
Rev. II. Svinth. Mrs. Barry and MRS;
johnson, and our neighbors and
many friends for their kind consid :
Grafton IN words and deeds and
beautiful floral offerings In our re-
cent sorrow in the loss OF our be-
loved husband. father and brother.
tSignedl
Mrs. Hans Brandt
wallace Brandt
Mr.. and Mrs jacob Brandt
ana family
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Brandt
and family
Mr.. and Mrs. Axel Brandt
and family
liner and Peter Brandt
Signe MeKnight
Mr.. and Mrs. Prank Ismeertsen
and family
Mr. and Mrs. George Iambertsen
and family
Mr.. and Mrs, John Durham
and family.
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Local Market
Prices Firm

The local wholesale market
passed = quiet day Wednesday.
with prices unchanged. Dealers
received frcsh produce from Cali
fornia, Including cauliflower.
kttuce and cabbage.
Spinach, onions. heets and car
xots from the Puyallup valley were
a IL market In small Quantities
n wIn Be . few weeks yet before
larger amounts Of local produce
I'm ~ expected. dealers said.
me wholesale price for butter
ranged from Sih 70 ssh cents .
pound; for cheese. l7iz to 31ik
centA and Tor eggs, 10 TO Il cents
= doeen- Butterfat was still 80
cents . pound, wholesale.
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BABY CHICKS-Leghorns l0c, pu
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Poultry and Supplies
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Special Notices

I WILL NOT be responsible for any
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