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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-08

Normally, the regulation of body
temperature doesn't require any as
slstance from you. There is no other
mechanism as complicated in struc'
ture and as scientifically operated
as the body.
The body is fed food regularly
This food must be s%oftened'
churned and dissolved so that II
can circulate in the blood stream
From it each part takes the fool
it needs. This involves a process
of burning" or oXidizing, Oro'
narily, this burning of food in 'ns
tissues releases enough heat U
keep the body at normal temper
allure, 1876 degrees Fahrenheit
In the winter we conserve 'n'
heat by heating our home, Schools
| places of work, and by wearing sur
ficient clothing. Comes the me-
warm weather and we must 90 "a.
reverse. And at this point the u''
comes in again.
Just how does diet affect the les
ulation of body temperatures =,
cessive food intake over a pelD,
Of time Produces a heavy AYE
fat. This fat acts as a SORT u
sulation-fne for keeping you
in winter-and hot in summer
Then too there is one class -.
proteins which whips up
body processes, creating ado''''"
heat-meat, fish, poultry. .,o
If you want to keep cooler
can do no better than get mos,
your protein diet from milk cNes
eggs, vegetables and cereal,' .ra
moderate amount of fish, meat aD'
poultry is all right. ,,,.r
Meat once a day is suficleh' ne
more than necessary most u mare
time. In place of meat, use
milk, eggs, vegetables n Al ,,cis
A diet too high in protein
can create 80 per cent more n,' Al,
calories than a normal lll'N1a
with moderate amounts OF pfor
Finally, there is an ala.
angle to this lighter sumi',s! ,rs
Eggs, milk and vegeta'IsS .,st
cheaper in the warmer seasons
meat.
You can cool off-and sa'"
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-08
Man bout

Bv George Tucker

NEW YORK, May 7.-tR- We
have an interesting if ticklish sit
uation here in Rockefeller Center
because the foreign correspondents
from Germany, France, Great Bri-
tain. Russia and Japan are all on
the same floor. They use the same
elevators and necessarily encoun-
ter each other every day.
It would be denied if you asked
one of these men about cross-cur-
rents of feeling, but the truth is
that personal relations are def
nitely strained. The boys from
the French and the British agen-
cies. Havas and Reuters, r ex-
tremely cordial. 1t is my personal
observation that when the jour-
nalistic representatives of Ger
many meet those of France or
Britain there's a surface polite
ness, but that is all. This is a con-
dition that has existed since the
morning Poland was invaded by
the Germans.
The German agency, D. N. B., is
Deutsches Nachrichten Buero,
Tass (Russian) means the Tele-
graph Agency of the USSR. The
Japanese agency is Domei. The
French is Agence Havas. The
British agency (Rueters) is head
ed by a lanky, dark Briton whose
name is A. Bernard Moloney. DR..
Luckenhaus is the German cor.
respondent. M. G.. Fritsch-Estran-
gin is the French bureau chief,
and MI. Kenneth Durant heads
the Russian agency. Most of these
agencies are well : stated with
writer's, Reuters having "a men.
1t is an outwardly cool and polite
set-up, but you know as well as
I know how it is underneath.
The first thing managers of or
chestras t h a t recently have
come into the big time talk about
is Kay Kyser Money" Kyser
holds the record for money paid
to a band durinng a single week
on Broadway. This is for appear
nee at Broadway motion picture
theatres. The other night I was
told by an enthusiastic manager,
We're getting Kay Kyser Money
now" He said Kay Kyser Money
meant $40, 900 a week. That's big
money. That's plenty of money.
But it isn't Kyser's top price. On
at least one occasion he was paid
$500 a week for appearing at
the Strand theatre.
I saw Kay just before he left
town. Ran into him coming out of
the Waldorf, where he lived all
last winter. He was feeling pretty
good. He was getting ready to go
to the coast, but said he had just
got a hurry up" call from Jim,
his man, back in Rocky Mount,
N. c.
Kay said the hurry up meant,
hurry up and send me a tuxedo,
so I car lead the grand march at
the ball"
The tux, in case you're inter-
ester, was already on the way
down.
The state liquor control board
is cycling with disapproval those
night club ads in the newspapers
which call attention to such al
legged sleep-producing connections
as Zombies, Draculas, etc. There
has been a wave of this recently
in the clubs featuring Latin and
South seas entertainment. The
Zombie is supposed to be a mys-
terry drink, and the management
has prominently displayed plac-
ards saying it will under no cir
cumstances sell more than 2 to a
customer. This, of course, is strict
~ the onion soup. They will sell
all you care to order. The ''mys-
terry" of the Zombie is that it on
tains 3, instead of one, jiggers of
rum, and two of these are quite
to immunity the aver
age patron.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-08
-
HOW
to EAT
to BEAT
the HEAT
Watch Protein
Diet When Sun
Blazes Hotter
BY ALICE II. SMITH
NutritiOnist, Cleveland Health
Camel

Does spring fever affect Your ap'
petite? Well, it's bound to; but not
like the fever doctors talk about,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-08
TOP % THE MORNING

If ue go as far as ICE can in the Way OF ouf
lutu, God will direct and enable as to do that
aOhich of ourselves aUe cannot do.
Matthew Henry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-08

of subscribers. The better service and the
provision for future demands are an Offset for
any temporary Inconvenience from changes in
numbers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-08

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Evening star., 1940-01-17

that America has turned back, that
the President now is leaning toward
the very isolationism which he so
often has denounced.
If Finland is lost as a result Of the
stand we are now taking, the shame
and the tragedy of her destruction
may be outweighed in the years to
come by the consequences of our
failure to pursue now against the
aggressor those methods short of
war, but stronger than mere words,
OF which Mr.. Roosevelt spoke so elo-
quently a year ago. What he said a
year ago was true then and is true
now: Acts OF aggression against sis
ter nations automatically undermine
all of us.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Letters to the Editor
Accuses British of
UlteriOr Motives.
To the Editor OF The Star

i
In times like these it would be well to
determine just who are our friends
among the great naval powers. and in
so doing be guided by their actions, not
by their words.
First of all consider Japan. She has
done very little that is friendly to us,
insulting our nationals, bombing mis-
sions and damaging our trade.
Great Britain has not been guilty Of
the first two, but she has practiced the
third in a subtle manner BY law our
ships cannot enter war zones or carry
war materials to combatants, yet the
British force them into British ports and
delay them, search their papers and
cargoes in order to determine all the
details of the transaction. All cables
must be in codes known to the British,
and over our protests our mail for neu-
trails is ransacked and delayed-all in
violation Of international law. and all
under the excuse of war exigencies.
The real reason back of these acts Is
to nose into our private business affairs
so as to better enable British merchants
to compete with us now and after the
war. ]. G. NIEMAND.
January 10.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
"Pay War Debts" Committee
Held Factor for Peace.


TO the Editor Of The Star:
I am greatly interested in the new
make Europe Pay War Debts Com
mittee" and the proposal Of its national
chairman, Senator Lundeen, that Amer
lea collect these debts by taking over
islands in the West Indies or deposits
in American banks. Evidently we are
never going to get our money back in
any other way, and If the big imperial
istic nations Of Europe are too poor or
are unwilling to pay in cash, we are cer-
tainly justified in asking that they cede
us some of their real estate and turn
over bank funds-when they have any.
What impresses me also is the value
of this movement as factor for world
peace. The younger generation of to-
day has little if any recollection of the
first World War, its horrors, its costs
and its follies. A good way to remind
the youthful contingent of the futility
and tragedy of the crime of 20 years ago
is to call attention to these war debts.
So many people are still unemployed or
only partly employed and there is still
such widespread privation that anybody
with half an eye can see how helpful 1t
would be to collect some Of these war
obligations. Prosperity would be aided
tremendously, aside from the stimulus
to the cause Of peace.
January 13. GEORGE A. KEANE.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
VIENNA, VA.

VIENNA, VA.
Dear Sir: In The Star dated January
5 the following paragraph appears under
This and That:
"It is said single tree sparrow can
and will eat many tons Of weed seeds in
a year.
"One ton Of weed seeds weighs 1000
pounds and many times 1000 pounds
would be lot OF weed seeds.
If a sparrow was to eat one ton OF
weed seeds in year 1t would have to
eat about 16 times its own weight each
and every day and again say that II
the sparrow was to eat many times 16
times its own weight that would still be
lot of weed seeds.
+
"Out our way the sparrow does not
stick strictly to the seed diet; during
April, May, June, July, August and Sep
tember 1t takes on diet of worms and
insects, grapes, berries and other fruits.
$50 to consume many tons Of weed
seeds In a year it would have to double
up its portions during the winter months
and eat 80 times its weight each day,
plus many times.
II may be wrong, but do not think
the sparrow can do it, and II it is true,
will you explain why we have so darn
many weeds out here in Virginia?
Sincerely, W. o. McQ"
kx
Following up our correspondents gen.
tie ribbing, we announce the following
supplementary statistics:
That each tree sparrow really eats
about one-quarter ounce of weed seed
per day, at which rate it would take him
between 300 and 500 years to eat ton!
1t is an unfortunate thing that no tree
sparrow can live that long. Surely such
a fascinating small creature merits a
long life, filled with happiness and
many, many weed seeds.
What we meant to say, of course, was
that all the sparroWs in the United
States, between them, do consume many
tons of weed seeds each and every year.
Just how many tons, no one can say,
because no one knows how many SPAR
rows there are, and these, of course, by
no means are all the species which eat
weed seeds
1t must be several thousand tons of
such inimical seeds which are consumed
by all the seed-eating birds in the
United States every year.
This is a great service to agriculture.
X
Any one who has watched birds at a
feeding station will almost be willing to
admit that tree sparrow could eat at
the fabulous rate which slipped through
one busy typewriter.
Peck peck, peck, peck-time after
time, time after time, second after Sec
ond, minute after minute, from first
light to about pm
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Resolving d Crisis

The statements delivered before
the House of Commons yesterday by
Prime Minister Chamberlain and
former War Secretary Hore-Belisha
did little to clarity the reasons for
dismissal OF the stormy petrol of the
British cabinet, but Mr.. Hore-
Belisha's evident acceptance of his
removal has resolved governmental
crisis which might have been par
ticularly embarrassing, coming as it
did in the midst of Britain's great
war effort.
If Mr.. Hore-Belisha had chosen to
fight and pour forth all the resent
ment he undoubtedly feels over vir-
tual reputation and replacement,
he would certainly have had con-
siderable backing in the House of
Commons, where the Chamberlain
government has been the target of
opposition fire much of the time
since the war began. But his deci-
sion not to press the matter and Mr..
Chamberlain's carefully worded "ex-
planation' have put at rest any fears
of an immediate crisis imperiling
the cabinet.
But the question remains, and will
cause some pondering until the true
story is revealed, as to what was be-
hind the dismissal Of Mr.. Hore-
Belisha. Only by implication is the
motive referred to in either Mr.
Chamberlain or Mr.. Hore- -Belisha's S
remarks.
What the "difficulties" were that
arose out of the very great qualities"
OF the former war secretary, making
1t desirable that a change should
occur" Mr.. Chamberlain failed to
reveal, but that there had been
friction, if not a conflict of policies,
as Mr.. Chamberlain insisted, arising
out of the vigorous" personality of
Mr.. Hore-Belisha is clear.
Contrary to widespread reports at
the time Mr.. Hore- -Belisha left the
war Office, there was no pressure from
the army to replace the war secre-
tary, Mr.. Chamberlain said, and Mr..
Hore-Belisha joined in this effort to
clear his subordinates of culpability,
although in so qualified manner as
to leave the question open. He was
reluctant" he said, "to believe that
any high officers with whom I have
been associated would have been so
unfaithful to the code which imbues
the whole army as to make any rep
resentations irregularly, or that If he
had done so, it would have been
countenanced."
That Mr.. Hore -Belisha's demo-
cratic reforms in the army may have
had something to do with the change,
in spite of the Prime Minister'S dis
claimer that policy differences were
involved, was indicated by the de-
tense the former war secretary made
of those reforms.
The good grace with which Mr..
Hore-Belisha has taken the loss of
his cabinet post leaves the way open
for utilization of his immense ener-
gies in other directions.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles z. Truce1pell.

It is an interesting thing to note,
among the many interesting facts to
dwell on in the sport Of bird feeding,
that the cardinal is the first and the
last bird at a station.
Their metallic chirp is often heard
before first light really has come.
The redbirds remain, usually, for an
hour after the English sparrows have
flown away to rest.
Just why the hardy English species
takes to the trees and evergreens first
is something of a mystery.
Usually they leave about 1 o'clock to
60 to their sleeping places. Sometimes
We have wondered If they do no. fly
back to town, where they have warmer
roosting places than in the suburbs.
The cardinals and the song sparrows,
with an occasional white-throat, remain
at the feeders until dark.
This Is their hour, and there is really
no more pleasing sight in the sport than
this Of these three fine birds eating
amicably together.
The confirmed addict will always be
somewhat torn and divided in his mind,
as to whether 1t Is better to have just
few birds, or a great many.
Surely on cold, icy snowy day, when
the flakes are falling, 1t is tremendously
stimulating to have real flocks of birds at
the feeding trays.
Tho e,1Idop AioI,fc of ithaca hord-
across the yard, from one feeder to an
other, offer study in motion.
The jostling< mass of them on the sta
ton, and spread out on the ground be-
meath, afford life and movement in the
cold.
On the other hand Just few species,
and one or two merely of each, give a
better chance to study the individual.
This sort Of feeding is quieter, and
does not require so much food.
1t is best close to a window There
are certain drawbacks to having 100
eager sparrows clamoring for food close
at hand.
But the windoW-sill feeder, or one on a
stake few feet from a window, by
presenting few birds at time, gives
just enough to be studied carefully.
1t is possible in this way to really
see how bird approaches station, how
it uses its wings and feet, and Just how
it eats.
If the evidence of depleted seed and
grain sacks were not enough to prove
! amount of seeds and grains, given the
chance, the actual watching of them
at the task would show it to any one.
They really never seem to take time out,
but bob their heads up and down in an
almost mechanical fashion as they fight
life's battle with the elements.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Fire Department Changes
Strongly Condemned.
o the Editor Of The Star:


In my opinion all the claims advanced
by the Survey Committee relative to the
advantages to be obtained by conson-
dating the Fire Department are mis-
leading, and would be found so under
a thorough checkup. The changes, If
put into effect, will prove more costly
in every way, besides destroying the
efficiency that has hitherto existed, a
fact which would be demonstrated If two
or more large conflagrations were to
break out simultaneously. In this case
howl of indignation would be heard
from all sources, and the blame would
be put squarely upon those advocating
the changes. Why. run such risk and
possibly wipe out all the good that has
been gained up to now? earnestly trust
that Congress will reject the recon-
mendations of the Survey Committee.
January Is. HENRY F. ASH.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Lee Highwoy

Optimism of Arlington County
members of the Virginia Assembly on
the probability of correcting the
confusion resulting from insufficient
speed-limit signs on Lee highway is
encouraging in view of the relation
ship of the present condition to the
accident record of that section of the
thoroughfare closest to the metro
politan area.
Nearly two years ago, acting on
orders of the Legislature, the State
Highway Commission removed all
scattered speed-limit signs and re-
placed them with billboards at points
where roads entered the State. These
boards list the various speed limits
allowed each class of vehicle, but
the removal of the small signs
resulted in confusion concerning the
boundaries Of the zones where limits
were to be reduced. AS a result, the
basic limit of fifty-flve miles an hour
was extended in many cases into the
heart of populous areas.
Forming the main link between the
North and the inland route to the
South and Southwest, Lee highway,
through Arlington and Fairfax
Counties, bisecting a well-developed
metropolitan section, has become
particularly dangerous as a result of
the uncertainty of regulations.
Methods which are well adapted to
every other section of the State have
become in this case a menace to
safety.
Cooperation Of the highway COM
mission in efforts by county officials
to restore the signs has been prom
ised, but action by the Assembly is
required.
The billboards at the States boun-
daries undoubtedly are of great value
in apprising incoming motorists of
the various speeds allowed for pas
senger cars, trucks, buses and other
vehicles. But just as certainly they
should be supplemented by other
markers designating thickly populat-
ed areas, corporate limits and open
highways in such sections as Arling-
ton, where one community nestles
so close to another.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Takes Issue With
Representative Hoffman.
To the Editor Of The Star:
TO the Editor of The Star:

The other day Representative Hoff-
man Of Michigan, referring to the N. L.
r. BIS woman lawyers, said from the
floor, "You can tell that they haven't
changed a diaper or hung out a wash
ing"
In reply wish to state that careful
investigation fails to disclose that chang
ing diapers or hanging out washing is
among the requirements for position as
attorney or any other Government job
fortunately. How many male attorneys
In any governmental agency could quail
ify2 No male, not even ! Congressman,
objects to women holding menial jobs,
washing clothes or dishes, or scrubbing
floors, do they, Mr.. Congressman? But
when they aspire to something bigger
and better-call out the marines.
ANOTHER FEMALE ATTORNEY.
January Is.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Hurbor Work

In reporting to Congress that
1911 600 could be "profitably ex-
pended" on the Washington Chan
mel water front program and the
Anacostia Park reclamation project
during the coming fiscal year, the
Army engineers, in effect, have rec
commended a speeding up of both
these important projects for reasons
Of construction efficiency. This is to
be desired in both instances.
In the case of the water front pro-
gram, the first unit has been COM
pleted and work on the second has
begun. The two units, representing
the first two years of work on the
long-sought and very desirable pro-
gram, cover the completion of two
yacht basins, above and below the
Municipal Fish Market and wharf.
The recommendation OF the en-
gineers contemplate an enlarged
third unit which would include both
$257,000 commercial pier and a
$478,000 passenger steamer pier. It
is believed both operations could be
carried on more efficiently and less
expensively as a single undertaking
and both are badly needed to re-
place existing unsatisfactory IA
cilities.
Recommended expenditure Of
100000 on the Anacostia Park prof.
ect also is based on sound principles.
For some years the annual appropri-
ations for this work have averaged
about $4,000. At this rate, the rec
lamation work would be stretched
over period of ten years more.
Dredges and other equipment can be
employed only for short periods each
year when such limited funds are
available. During greater part Of
the year, they must be laid up. If
the work is speeded, the present
equipment can finish the Anacostia
job, it is believed. II the work is
stretched out over a period of an
other decade, virtually all Of the
equipment probably will have to be
replaced before the end of that time,
at a considerable increase in the
total cost.
Moreover, Anacostia Park should
be completed soon. It is to be the
District portal for the proposed
Washington-Baltimore motor park
way and will be a vital link in the
Capitals future parkway and traf-
fic system. This parkway work
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the ,Driter, although the use OF
a pseudonyn1 for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!

to convert Guam into a veritable Amer
ican Gibraltar in the Pacific indicates
sentiment in this country for America
to stay put in the Orient. The United
States, as stabilizing force, faces the
imperative necessity of rebuilding her
traditional prestige over the Pacific,
with the alternative of completely
withdrawing her interests in Asia, which
have been recurrently trampled upon
with the rise of Japanese imperialism
and the spread of Japanese aggression.
TEDDY DE NOLASCO.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
January 13.