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Evening star., 1940-07-05
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Tr1ceUeI.

The butter, If good butter, would sup
ply certain vitamins and fat for heat
But that lack of protein, in time, would
prove the eaters undoing. II woman
as reported recently, could live for 10
years on nothing but lollypops, no doubt
the experimenter might live for 20 years
on bread and butter and nothing else.
Bread and milk, by supplying a su-
perior type Of protein, would enable an
experimenter to last a great deal longer
4 \ y
Had the robin spoken of cold milk and
pumpkin pie, now, he would have hit on
a good combination, too.
This, also, is a dish whose appeal
comes down from childhood.
Childhoods favorite combinations have
to be good, to hold through the ages.
There was sugar on hot buttered bread
That went over big, in the days of long
ago, but how many of us have ever
tried it since?
Bread and milk and bread and butter
are combinations which survive because
they are good. Used in good average
mixed diet, they hit the spot.
Il X
The robins favorite dish?
1t is not our favorite, but it suits him
and he may be seen looking for it or
every lawn in town.
He is, indeed, CHEEKY fellow. If any
bird could be thought to deliver SER
mons to humans, he would be the one
with his confident air and vigorous ways
His song is just suited to interpreta-
ton, being of recitative nature-that
is, flow of sounds without any set song
pattern.
You know how the big fat soprano
comes on the stage, in grand opera, and
sings around, with orchestra accom-
paniment, for several minutes, before
launching into her song or aria.
The recitative, or recitatif, is musical
defamation or recitation, as opposed to
strict melody. 1t aims to be a sort OF
musical colloquialism.
1t takes the strain off the audience
in the main, but not from all listeners
Some operagoers, were they honest
would admit that they never quite get
SOUNDS
silly. There are some excellent examples
in all operas, but particularly in Mas
cagnis "Cavalleria Rusticana."
* x*
1t is not at all odd for human, in
an unusually emotional state, to inter-
pref the songs of birds
1t is quite possible, for these songs
without words are just waiting for the
imaginative to put words to them.
Imagination, then, supplies the words
when the mind is heightened by some
thing unexpected.
Birds actually remind US, when we
stop to consider them, of Gods world
not mans political world.
What a mess man has made of his
world politically! Maybe some day this
era will strike surviving man, if any of
us are left, as strange and queer to a
degree which it never was before and
never will be again.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Discusses World Obligations
OF United States.

To the Editor of The Star:
Americas continued recognition of the
German government constitutes, in the
comfy of nations, tacit acquiescence in
the triumph of the lex talionis and ac-
ceptance of the pretensions Of irrespon-
sible force to impose its will against the
dictates of right and justice.
The dissolution of the French consti-
tuition by German arms and the reduc-
ton of the French nation to semi-yas-
salage emphasized the feebleness of the
law of nations and the responsibilities
OF the United States as guardian and
trustee of civilization.
If England were to be defeated. among
the potentialities for France would be
the permanent loss of it's liberties by
the French people in restoration of the
Bourbons, who would be bound to the
German European camp, from which
they would regain the crown. They and
their German lords would endeavor to
ALLEVIATE the sympathies of the French
people from the United States by pre-
tending that America failed France from
the beginning of the war to its humin-
ating end.
These conditions and possibilities. bod
ing i'll for the world, Americas neutrality
law continues to assist. The duty of the
United States in this situation does not
relate to the territories of Europe; they
concern rights that are universal and
that are not respected by the powers of
prey; rights of men and of nations that
required for their realization endless
centuries of war and sacrifice by nations
the world around. Only the British COM
monwealth is fighting today against the
challengers of the rights of man and
nations, to maintain in the earth Justice
and freedom. EDWARD CONN.
June "a.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Civil Service Needs

President Roosevelt is taking a
step designed to strengthen the civil
service system by re-creating the
Council of Personnel Administration
within the Civil Service Commission
to act in an advisory and planning
capacity, but the fullest possibilities
of the project are not going to be
realized until the executive agencies
are stated throughout by civil serv-
ice personnel, instead of a mixture
of merit and patronage appointees.
Two simple remedies will effect
this Improvement: The Ramspeck
bill, to permit the inclusion under
civil service of thousands of posi-
tions that are exempt by law,
should be speeded to final passage,
and the President then should sup
plement this legislation by exercis-
ing his authority to bring into the
competitive system a group of about
five thousand upper-bracket posi-
tions.
The Ramspeck bill, which passed
the House in February, has been
indefensibly delayed in the Senate,
where it was held up in the Civil
Service Committee four months.
Once it is approved, the President
will be in better position to act on
the executive order positions. 1t is
understood that recommendations
for putting these under civil service
finally have been shaped up by a
special committee, headed by Su-
preme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed,
which has been studying the matter
a year and half, and it seems
advisable that the non-civil service
/ positions be considered IN their
entirety as they are fitted into the
merit system framework.
To be effective, civil service must
be career service, but that goal is
not to be attained so long as any
appointment can turn on politics or
other form of preferment rather
than the fitness of the applicant.
The President, believing the Council
of Personnel Administration a neces-
sity, set it up as a part of the COM
mission after Congress had denied
funds to maintain it as an inde-
pendent agency. 1t is to be hoped
that he now insists on passage of the
Ramspeck bill without further delay,
to carry through to conclusion the
ambitious civil service reform pro-
gram launched two years ago.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Wants President Roosevelt
To Be Candidate Again.


Will you spare me little space in
your paper to express what I and num-
dreds of others hope and pray for, that
our President will run again and be
elected? In this whole United States
there is not man, on either side, who
can do what he is doing at such criti-
cal time. If Congress had allowed his
plans of protection and other necessary
measures he wanted to carry through
some five years ago, we would be fully
prepared for an emergency today.
This is no time to change Presidents,
even if there we're one as good.
FAIR PLAY.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Further Defense Steps

Ihere can be no doubt of the
determination and readiness of the
American people to take whatever
steps are necessary to make our
defense ramparts as impregnable as
our dollars, our manpoWer, our
material resources and our military
genius will permit. Congress, re-
flecting this spirit of an aroused
Nation, may be relied upon to grant
promptly the additional five billions
of dollars for defense which Presi-
dent Roosevelt has indicated he will
request within few days.
Most of these billions will be used
for supplying the Army with the
implements of war it needs to meet
the growing threat to American
security. But implements of war are
OF little avail unless there is a suff1-
cheney of manpower to use them to
the maximum degree of effectiveness.
1t is appropriate, therefore, that the
President should be preparing a spe-
cial message to Congress on the vital
subject of compulsory military train
ing. There is no other sure and
equitable way of providing the re-
serve man power that must be
Instantly available for action in an
emergency; no better means of guar
anteeing that the enormous amounts
being spent for the Army and Navy
will constitute an investment that
will yield proper returns.
The supplemental appropriation,
1t was indicated at the White House,
will provide for a drastic expan-
sion of the Army, especially a
strengthening of its weaker spots
the air arm, the mechanical units and
the artillery. Although full details
are not available, it is reported that
much of the money would be devoted
to increasing production facilities
for aircraft, tanks, guns and other
equipment badly needed by our
growing land forces. 1t will take
huge sums to convert peacetime fac
tories into armament plants or to
build additional ones. New tools and
dies must be fashioned, new ma
chimes built, new skills developed
among workmen. Private industry
cannot be expected to bear this
burden without Federal assistance,
for when the emergency has passed,
the facilities for producing instru-
ments of war will be of little value
for commercial manufacture. Once
the facilities for speedy production
of war machines have been estab-
Ished, however, the Nation as a
whole will derive the benefits not
only of the material output of the
factories but of the greatly increased
security which comes from produc-
tive capacity alone. 1t was the
inadequacy of this productive capac-
ity which played an important part
in the downfall of France and which
aggravates the danger facing Eng
land today.
America must act quickly to gear
her own industrial machine to the
demands of the present emergency.
And paralleling the production of
machines of war there should be a
broad program of universal training
for the production of men skilled in
their use.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Britain decides that, after all.

Britain decides that, after all, it
will recruit men for service in the
Far East and other outlying possess
sions. Good-it might even be that
the last man to enroll in her fur
thest-flung colony could be the de-
Gliding factor in proving the declara-
tion that Britons never, never. never
will be slaves.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
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To Star Readers

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Evening star., 1940-07-05

Certain sects are told, and firmly
believe, that the end of the world
again is at hand. These examinations
remind one Of the farewell concert
tours of the late Adelina Patti.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 1oriter, although the use OF
q pseudonyn1 for publication is
permissible. The Star reSerDes
the right to edit all letters 1Uith
q UzeU to condensation.
Evening star., 1940-07-05

The saddest of sayings to remem-
ber: They might have stopped him
last September"
Evening star., 1940-07-05

A., The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of ell news dispatches
credited to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Care of the Feet

A 32-page booklet containing authori-
tative general information on selection
Of correct shoes and stockings, foot
hygiene and proper exercises for
strengthening the feet.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
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Evening star., 1940-06-23

sturdy old yard, Newell managed to scrape
ND a little financial backing to bid in on it.
Baths hopes we're raised as the day for the
auction arrived.
But the New York bidders were there too
and for an hour, while Newells fellow workers
looked on tensely, the battle of bids that
would mean life or death to Bath went on.
But finally Newell's limit was reached - and
Evening star., 1940-06-23

passed - and the plant was sold to New
York firm for less than 100000 - property
that had once been worth two million.
The shipfitters. the joiners, the welders,
the carpenters went sadly home They knew,
as Newell did, that it was the end
Wreckers soon moved into the yards.
Cars and trucks rumbled out, loaded with
hoists, wrenches, machinery, nuts, bolts,
Evening star., 1940-03-20
Dugon, Zoos Friendly Penguin,
Is frustrated by Plate Glass

association with his pals-the men
who scratched his back and gave
him fish. For a time Dugan re-
fused to eat unless somebody
scratched his back first.
Being the only Emperor penguin
in the United States, he was feeling
pretty blue. True, there were other
penguins in the cage, but they were
preoccupied with domestic affairs,
alternately sitting on two nests. Be-
sides, they were no more than knee
high to the Emperor, who was dis
posed to ignore such small fry.
Dugan is still trying to associate
with the men he can see all day in
front of his cage. A hundred times
a day he tries to stroll over and join
the party, and as many times he is
brought back on his heels by a hard,
invisible wall he can no more un-
derstand than he can see. Dugan
had seen lot of ice in his day, but
this was his first encounter with
plate glass. The thing has Dugan
stumped. His keepers say he is be-
ginning to have frustrated look.
ALI day, while lesser penguins
argue over eggs and such, Dugan
walks a solitary patrol in front of
the plate glass. Being sociable soul
at heart, he keeps trying to walk
right out Of his cage and shake
hands with the boys.
= And having been born and reared
so far from the haunts of man. he is
probably the only bird in the United
States who thinks everybody he sees
Is q friend.
Evening star., 1940-03-20
Man Leaps Into River,
browns Despite
Rescue Efforts
Victim Is Identified
As Charles F. Pace,
Senate Financial Clerk
10-Cent Minimum Rejected

The body of a man identified as
Charles F. Pace, the chief financial
clerk of the Senate, was taken from
the river at the tip of Hains Point
shortly after noon today.
Firemen worked over the body for
half an hour in an attempt to revive
the man. They were unsuccessful,
however, and an Emergency Hospi-
tai ambulance doctor pronounced
him dead.
Arthur R. Olson of Silver Spring,
Md, told Park Policemen o. A.
Salmons and M. T. Clark that he
saw the man jump in. He rushed
to the waters edge, grabbed a life
preserver and threw it into the
choppy water beyond the point
where the man was struggling.
Mr.. Olson pulled the body in. He
said the man made no attempt to
hold on to the preserver. With the
help of others. he pulled the body
from the water. The Fire Rescue
Squad was summoned and admins
tered first aid.
At Mr.. PAGES Office in the Capitol
it was said that he had been absent
from work for several months be-
cause of poor health. He had lived
at 1851 Columbia road NV. with a
sister, it was said.
Mr.. Pace had been employed at
the Capitol since he came to Wash
ington from Florida in 1918. He was
a graduate of Georgetown Univer-
(See PACE. Page A-5D
Evening star., 1940-03-20
BY WILLIAM H. SHIPPEN, Jr.

Dugan, in all the innocence Of
his Antarctic origin, is confirmed
lover of mankind.
To Dugan, men are those invari-
ably amiable creatures who scratch
his back, pat him on the head and
hand him fish.
The first man he ever saw came
ambling over the snowy wastes of
Little America at time when
Dugan was pretty lonely. His fam
lily and friends had gone some
where, and Dugan was just stand
ing around talking to himself-one
solitary penguin in vast desola-
tion of ice and snow.
The man tickled the feathers on
Dugan's head and wrapped him in
a warm blanket. He carried him
back to ship which had pulled in
at the ice pack. and Dugan made
himself at home among the men
of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's
United States Antarctic expedition.
It was the first time Dugan ever
got so many fish without diving for
them. That was two months ago
and Dugan since has sailed many a
stormy sea, beating up to the coast
of Chile aboard the expedition S
supply ship North Star and trans
shipping to passenger liner which
came through the Panama Canal.
In all that time Dugan never lacked
for friends or fish.
Now that he has been installed
in refrigerated, glass-fronted
home at the Zoo, however, Dugan is
beginning to miss his former free
Evening star., 1940-03-20
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 2O.-Premier Ed
ourad Daaladier resigned today
amid criticism of Frances prosecu-
ton of war against Germany and
President Albert Lebrun asked
Finance Minister Paul Reynaud to
form war cabinet"
M. Reynaud said he would give
M. Lebrun his answer tomorrow
morning
The President called in M. Rey-
maud, who has been notably success
full at his finance post, after M.
Daladiers Radical-Socialist party
announced the retiring premier S
refusal to attempt new combina-
ton.
M. Daladier declined in conform
ity with parliamentary tradition, "
1t Was announced. That meant he
interpreted as an expression of dis
approval of his conduct of the war
a minority vote Of confidence which
the Chamber of Deputies had given
him earlier in the day.
800 Abstentions in Vote.
Although the vote was 239 to in
his favor, there were more than 300
abstentions in the total chamber
membership of 551.
Some 300 Deputies thus showed
their disapproval of M. Daladier's
virtually dictatorial rule. His critics
have demanded a more extensive
and vigorous execution of the war
against Germany.
NJ Reynaud, who, parliamentary
circles thought, could speedily form
the action" government for which
all the press has been clamoring,
Evening star., 1940-03-20
Nazi Losses Heavy
In Attacks, Say French
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PARIS, March 20.-A series of
German patrols, operating west OF
the Saar River and Vosges Noun
tains, were reported by French mill
tary sources today to have sustained
serious losses" in futile attempts to
penetrate French advance lines.
The NaZi sorties were described as
desperate, but beaten back in every
instance.
In the Saar River district fighting
one German patrol walked into a
French ambush and a spirited en-
gagement followed. Heavy auto
matte fire from French guns inflicted
serious losses"
In retreating the Nazis withdrew
so hurriedly they abandoned their
weapons.
West of the Vosges the second
series of German patrols were re-
pulsed by French advance guards,
who not only killed or wounded
many of the enemy, but also took an
unspecified number of prisoners.
Aviation continued relatively in
active, although both sides made
flights over the fighting lines.
The high commands morning
communique follows:
"A calm night on the whole. West
of the Vosges our advance posts re.
pulsed enemy patrols and inflicted
some losses"
Evening star., 1940-03-20
Hitler Names
Todt to Spur
Arms Output
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 20-Adolf Hitler
today appointed DR.. Fritz Todt,
builder of the Siegfried Line, as
minister of munitions with instruc-
tions to step up production by all
feasible means.
DR.. Todt rated an able engineer,
long has been Hitler's chief assistant
In his most ambitious building prof.
ects. He is largely responsible for
Germanys system of super-high-
ways.
In his capacity as inspector-gen-
eral of highway construction, DR..
Todt directed program which put
nearly ITO 600 new cars on German
roads during 1885 For his achieve
ments in highway and transport de-
velopment, Dr.. Todt was awarded
in 1898 German equivalent for the
Nobel Prize, which citizens of the
Reich are not allowed to accept.
Early this year DR.. Todt visited
the Russian border in the Caucasus
IN an advisory capacity.
Evening star., 1940-03-20
French Government Resiqns
After Slim Confidence Vote
300 Abstentons in Chamber Ballot Show
Dissatisfaction With War Conduct

entered the presidential palace at
4:45 pm. and still was conferring
with M. Lebrun an hour later.
NJ Reynaud as Premier was ex-
pected to have the support of both
Rightists and Leftists.
Moderate Rightist.
AS he left the Elysee Palace M.
Reynaud said:
THE President of the republic
has paid me the honor of asking me
to constitute a new government. I
will give him my definite reply to-
morrow morning
M. Reynaud Is a member of the
Left Republican party, which is
slightly to the right of center po-
litically. 1t is an alliance of 40
Deputies headed by former Premier
Pierre-Etienne Flandin
M. Reynaud said IF I accept
hope to form a ministry rapidly"
M. Daladier previously had re-
fused to try to form a new cabinet
and close personal friend said he
also would refuse any post in it.
Chamber of Deputies sources who
considered M. Reynaud best fitted
to form a new action" ministry to
prosecute the war believed he would
accept and form cabinet including
all parties from the Socialists to the
extreme right.
M. Daladier had given notice that
he intended to revise his government.
The cabinet met early this morn
ing, six hours after the chamber s
reluctant vote of confidence.
The session. at the War Ministry
(See FRANCE. Page A-5O
Evening star., 1940-03-20
D. C.. SoIes-Income Tax Voted
By House Committee, 8 to 6
Levy Would Be on Transactions of Cents
Or More; l0-Cent Limit Beaten

The full House District Commit
tee. at a special executive meeting
today, approved the new Nichols tax
bill calling for combination per
cent tax on retail sales of cents or
more and tax on earned incomes in
excess of $4,000 year and on un-
earned incomes above $1,000
The vote, it is understood, was s
to 6. Names of those voting, how
ever, were not disclosed.
Before approving the bill. the
committee defeated a move by Rep
resentative Poage, Democrat, of
Texas to kill the measure and also
to repeal the existing tax on per-
sonal incomes, which would have
Evening star., 1940-03-20
Edison Will Enter
Race for Governor
In New Jersey
Announcement Is Seen
As indication Roosevelt
Will Run Again
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Secretary of the Navy Charles
Edison announced today he would
seek the Democratic nomination for
Governor of New Jersey. The an
nouncement was made at his home
in West Orange.
The announcement was seized
upon in New Jersey as an indication
President Roosevelt is likely to run
for third term, the implication be-
ing that Mr.. Edison might not other
wise have entered the race.
However, in Washington the fact
that Mr.. Edison was being urged to
become candidate for Governor of
New Jersey, to insure a strong Dem
ocratic ticket there next fall, has
been known for long time. His
candidacy is expected to build up
strength for the ticket, whoever may
be the Democratic presidential
nominee.
Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey
City, the Democratic boss of Hud-
son County and the State, was
among those who strongly urged
Mr.. Edison to become a candi-
date. Mayor Hague is also one
OF the leading advocates of a third
term nomination for the President
From Miami Beach, where he is
vacationing, Mr.. Hague sent word
that "the Democratic State organi-
zation will be 100 per cent behind
Mr. Edison"
Mr.. Edison is expected to re-
turn to Washington late this after
noon. In making his announce
ment he did not say whether he
intended to resign his cabinet Of
flee. From New Jersey, however,
the report came that it was ex-
pected he would remain in the cab
met until after the primary, May
Il, and for a long enough period
after that to wind up certain af-
fairs as Secretary of Navy.
Davies Mentioned as Successor.
Speculation as to a possible sue
ceSSor to Mr. Edison as head of the
Navy Department brought again to
the fore the name of Joseph E.
Davies. former Ambassador to Rus
sia and to Belgium, who is now a
(See EDISON, Page A-4D