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Evening star., 1940-11-01
Too Much Swinq
"a bunch of the boys were whooping

"A punch or the boys were WnoOplng
it up in a Mexico saloon
And the lad that handled the music
box was playing ragtime tune"
To be exact, it was the wood
pecker Song" ground out by juke
box in a Mexico City barroom upon
the insertion of a nickel. But, alas,
this particular piece was the pet
peeve of a policeman who was long
on music appreciation and short on
judgment. Perhaps more in sorrow
than in anger, the officer promptly
pulled his pistol and perforated the
player, after which other gendarmes
appeared and took the musical
censor to the calaboose.
The "Woodpecker Song" has a lilt
that makes one beat time in unison
with the tapping of the woodpecker,
but it is better to do that with a
baton than a bullet. 1t is also a
good swing tune. However, those who
wish to employ it for swing purposes
are advised to use it in such fashion
that they can keep at least one foot
on, the ground instead of having both
permanently dangling in the air, due
to the unwelcome presence Of rope
around the neck.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
Campaign Buttons

Whatever the result of next Tues
days balloting, it may be said with
assurance right now that the cam
paign button manufacturers have
triumphed. More than a hundred
million of their products have been
distributed in aid of the candidates.
of Wendell Willkie and Franklin D.
Roosevelt or in more or less sardonic
comment upon their respective aspi-
rations. The Chicago Tribune has
reproduced sixty-seven Republican
designs, twenty-four New Deal Dem
ocratic. But many not shown in this
Intentionally comprehensive display
are reported to exist. Additional
varieties, it was suggested yesterday.
still are coming into the market.
Collectors already have begun to
Evening star., 1940-11-01

effected is conceded, but that some of
his policies, however good his intentions,
have created a trend to socialism is
prise, as he has said on occasion, why
have so many obtacles been placed in
the way of expansion of private industry
by restrictive legislation, and pump
printing" by the Government substi-
tuted? And where is the real recovery
promised through the latter method?
What real recovery we have today has
been brought about by the defense pro-
gram. Unless there is a change in
government policies, where will the
country be five years from now, when
the defense program is expected to be
about completed? Flat on its back, with
the most stupendous debt it has ever
known! Will the fact that. as the
President so naively said, I'VE owe it
to ourselves" make the burden lighter
for the generations to come?
The foregoing are my principal rea-
sons for opposing third term.
To the argument that a third term is
necessary now because of the critical
world situation, my reply-for what it
may be worth-is we need first to put.
our own house in order; let private
industry expand along peacetime lines
in the production of those things we
all can use, not just things for defense,
thus absorbing and making happier
millions more of those who need and
should have jobs of the kind for which
they are best fitted-and, under the
guiding hand of an able Secretary of
State such as our Mr.. Hull, and able
assistants, we can cope with the present
world situation and be able to perform
a great part in the adjustments that
will have to be made when peace at
last comes KATHERINE BAYLISS.
october 80.
Evening star., 1940-11-01

skills Of many types Of craftsmen,
from machinists and electricians to
carpenters and gunners. 1t takes
more than year of intensive train
ing to make a sailor proficient in
these highly specialized duties. When
he completes a full enlistment, he is
an expert technician-and the knowl-
edge he has gained will prove valuable
to him if he decides to quit the Navy
and re-enter civil life. 1t is because
of these advantages that the Navy's
recruiting offices are being kept busy.
And above all there is the desire of
American young men to serve their
country on its first line of defense"
in the gravest emergency of modern
times.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. TrdcetDelL.

and that of the Carolina chickadee as
Az inches. making it one of the smallest
birds to come to our yards.
The Hudsonian chickadee comes in be-
tween, at inches, but is easily detected
by its brownish crown and back.
Chester Reed, in his bird guide, says:
"The habits of this little Northerner
are like those of the bird we know so
well; If anything, they are even more
tame than our bird, especially in the
vicinity of lumbernen's camps. They are
only met with along our Northern
border or casually farther South; I have
seen one individual in company with
other chickadees in Massachusetts"
The song of the Hudsonian chickadee
is said to be indistinguishable from that
of other chickadees, but is uttered more
frequently.
1t must be confessed that the
chickadees we have around here do not
sing half as much as we would like
them to. The song is not very much
of song, but enough to clearly give the
bird the right to the title cheerful
chickadee." Perhaps this comes more
from the birds smallness and general
air of brightness than anything else
Hudsonian chickadeeS have been re-
ported from as far South as Northern
Illinois.
Whether an individual might get as
far as the National Capital is anybody's
guess.
1t might be possible for lone bird to
by some one person, but by nobody else.
Trained ornithologists hesitate to
identify a bird seen momentarily. espe-
cially if it is a species with which they
are not familiar
The old saying about "a bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush" has a
perfectly good application in bird
Identification.
Thus applied, 1t means that the bird
seen but briefly in shrub, and then
maybe only on one side, is not easy to
identify surely.
One must just guess at 1t, even II
acquainted with many species
How much better 1t would be to hold
the creature in the hand turn it around
and over and be sure of its markings!
If a chickadee were at some little
distance it would be almost impossible
to be sure that it had a brown head
instead of a black one.
Paintings of the various chickadees
show the Hudsonian bird with the same
large black splotch beneath the chin
which the other two have, but the head
is not the same color, being brown
If the bird were in the shadow of
shrub, however it would be practically
impossible to tell what was the real color
Of the back of its head.
There is one thing sure-whatever
chickadee one sees it will be a mighty
fine bird, and well worthy of all the
attention we can give it.
They can be attracted with suet, SUM-
flower seeds and peanut hearts. No
sight in bird feeding is better than that
of a chickadee holding down a sun
flower seed as 1t cracks it and draws
out the heart.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
Discusses Traffic Hazard
In Southwest.

To the Editor of The Star:
May call your attention to a situa-
tion which calls for a combined public
health and safety approach2
Numerous children have made indie
pendence avenue, from Twelfth to Four
teenth SW. their own, after dark. This
asphalt boulevard between the Agricul-
ture buildings appears to be remark
ably fine place to roller skate in the
open air on pleasant evenings. For pub
lie health-fine. For safety-terrible.
A couple of hundred motorists drive
through this quiet street in the course
of an evening. They blast their horns
angrily (to the disdain of the skaters
and weave rapidly among the happy
couples and groups. 1t makes a by
stander's hair stand on end. Really, IL
seems inconceivable that an evening can
pass without one serious accident.
G street SW. would easily accommo-
date the little traffic in the vicinity
at night. Why not close this magnl-
flcent, centrally located outdoor sKat-
ing rink to through traffic from' say
7:3o to midnight, during the skating
season, and give the kids chanceP
October 26. GREGORY POOLE.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
Would Send Food
To Europe's Needy.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Give us this day our daily bread
will be the cry of millions this winter
in Europe, where the hunger blockade
is being enforced. We know that these
people will suffer and many die while
we, here, are secure with our plenty.
Our excuse for not trying to break
this blockade is that the food will be
used to aid the German Army. How
ever, those who are planning to send
food will stop the trade just as soon as
England hints that the food is going
to German soldiers and not to the starv-
ing women aud children in Belgium,
Norway, Denmark and Holland. There
fore, if we send food to Europe we may
be sure that it will 60 to the women
and children. j. ROWLAND.
Route 5, Anacostia, D. c.
october %.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
assemble allegedly complete sets with

assemble allegedly complete sets with
the rarer types at premium prices.
Celluloid was invented in 1869, but
it does not appear to have been
employed for campaign buttons until
the Decentralization contest of
1892. Mark Hanna, according to re-
liable authorities, really started the
fad when he ordered five million rim
less lapel portraits of william Nc
Kinley in 1896. Catch phrases were
adopted from the start, the list of
those reported including: II Am for
Sound Money" and 1.-The Full Dinner
Pail" This years slogans, commen-
tators agree, are the most provocative
ever. Relatively mild examples are:
Roosevelt for Ex-PreSident" and
win What With Willkie?"
AS indices of political trends cam
paign buttons undoubtedly are sig
nificant. But neither can it be ques-
toned that they sometimes exemplify
nothing more than the wearer's sense
of fun. A messenger boy encountered
in a public elevator had decorated
one shoulder with pro-third term
labels, the other with anti. He ex-
planned that he wanted to "stay out
of trouble" but he added, rather
wistfully, that it was difficult to do
that in world divided. 81 guess III
leave 'em all at home tomorrow"
seemed to be his final decision He
certainly will not exhibit all of them
on Wednesday, November 6.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
"WHITEHAVEN STREET.
Dear Sir:

Lear OlT.
Being bird lover myself, your letters
in The Star give me great pleasure and
much information.
Perhaps you will be interested to
know that a pair Of blue grosbeaks paid
a visit to my garden on october 25, as
DR.. Chapman speaks of their being un-
common from May to September in
Washington, so that these must have
been very late in going south.
They only stopped for some thorn
berries and have not been seen since.
II have long wanted to consult you
about bird that came to my feeding
stand in the spring of 80.
HE nested here SO I caught him feed
ing young bird several times. In going
over number of books on birds the only
description that fitted him seemed to be
the Hudsonian chickadee, but all said
that they never came south of Massa-
chusetts.
80 I gave it up until during the
summer I looked over the collection of
birds in the museum at Quebec, and
there was my bird labelled Hudsonian
chickadee.
Has one ever been seen here?
Thanking you for your articles,
VERY sincerely yours, M. L. B."
+&&&
AS far as this column knows, the Hud-
sonian chickadee does not come to this
area.
The two chickadees seen in Washing
ton are the familiar black-capped one,
and the Carolina chickadee.
The latter is the usual one hereabouts,
although most persons think they are
seeing the black-capped chickadee
Both have the black cap, but the
Carolina chickadee is even smaller than
the real black-cap, and it has no white
edge to the wing feathers.
The real black-capped chickadee is
said by authorities to be very rare win
ter visitant.
May Thatcher Cooke, in Birds of the
Washington Region" says that 1t has
been frequently reported, but there are
few records that can be considered au-
thentic. Sight records, she says, are not
reliable in the majority Of cases.
Amateur bird lovers know just how
unreliable sight records can be. The
other day We looked down on a very
small bird in the rhododendrons by the
back windows.
1t was impossible to see the birds
stomach, so the best Identification We
could make was that it might be least
fycatcher. or again it might be a Phil
adelphia vireo.
1t was another case of take your
choice, for the bird was so small, and
remained for just few seconds, making
it impossible for the observer to be sure.
-
The Carolina chickadee-which, let us
remember, is also black-capped-is the
common permanent resident here.
Usually they begin nesting in April
The all-over length of the black
capped chickadee is given as 514 inches
Evening star., 1940-11-01
Treatment Of Letter
Draws Criticism.
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
An informative development was
shown in the courteous letter of Mrs.
William H Fain of Greenwich, Conn,
addressed to President Roosevelt, June
IA last, protesting the tone of his address
at the University of Virginia, as cal
culated to build up a psychosis which
may drive us into a war, etc." which
letter was referred TO the Department of
Justice and filed in the Criminal Division
of that department, and the reply of
Assistant Attorney General o. J. Rogge
to Mrs. Fain stating that her statements
had been carefully noted" The Star
is to be commended for reproducing this
correspondence in its issue of october 80.
The point the writer would make is
that we already seem to have an
o. G. P. U. in free America and the con-
centration camp looms ahead. A. B.
October 81.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
Navy and CONSUMPTION

It is not too late for a "selectee"
to volunteer for regular service in
the Army, Navy or Marine Corps.
The Navy, particularly, in the midst
of highly successful recruiting drive,
would like to emphasize this. While
the Navy does not plan to ask for
any of the one-year selective service
recruits, it will welcome men who
desire to enlist for the full first
enlistment term of six years or the
re-enlistment term of four years.
Secretary of the Navy Knox ex-
planned several weeks ago that the
Navy will have no need of selectees
because of the steady flow of recruits
under the six-year enlistment plan.
The voluntary enlistments have been
averaging nearly 1000 per week, and
these increments have been taxing
naval training facilities to capacity.
But these facilities are being eX-
panded rapidly to take care of the
new men who must be enlisted
steadily to man the new ships which
are being added to our expanding
Navy. The Navy today has more than
10000 enlisted men. BY 1945 or 1946,
when the two-ocean Navy becomes a
reality, naval man power must have
attained a strength of more than half
a million men. Because of the an
nouncement that no selectees would
be allotted to the Navy, some con-
fusion has arisen as to the Navy's
policy toward registered men who
wished to join the Navy. 1t was to
clear up this matter that the Navy
Department has just announced that
selectees may volunteer for the Navy
at any time prior to their actual in
duction into active service by the
Army. If found qualified for naval
service, these men will be put on a
waiting list and their names will be
stricken from the selective service
rolls.
The Navy cites some good reasons
for refusing to accept recruits on
one-year enlistment basis. Modern
warships, it is pointed out, are COM
plicated mechanisms requiring the
Evening star., 1940-11-01
States Reasons for
Opposing Third Term.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
I am unequivocally opposed to third
term for any President, whatever his
name or party label, because of the
dangerous implications so often cited
by others in recent weeks and which
need not be repeated here in detail.
I consider our liberties, so hard won,
too precious heritage for us to take
chance on their being lost, and we
would, I think, be taking, just that
chance in electing for third time a
President who has so clearly demon
strated his love for power.
That some needed reforms have been
Evening star., 1940-11-01

tide toward despotism by refusing to
believe that we need Roosevelt Cor any
one else) forever, and casting their
ballot on November for Wendell
Willkie, who, while he may have many
shortcomings, believes in the American
way and the preservation of those self
evident truths bequeathed to US?
In spite of every New Deal spellbinder
who offers an overnight panacea for
our Nations ills, I say there is no
substitute for sacrifice and sincere effort.
Democracy can be made to work if we
are willing that it should, and If we
elect leader who believes that it can.
Wendell Willkie is that man.
HARRY J. MAGINNIS.
NcfnhAr N
Evening star., 1940-11-01
The WiIlkie Trend

Since he first loomed prominently
on the political horizon, Wendell
Willkie has insisted that he was
"ahead of a trend" the beneficiary
of a drift in public sentiment away
from the New Deal. And as the 1910
race moves into the home stretch
there is abundant evidence that he
was right.
All of the straws that are supposed
to show the course of the political
currents indicate that the Repub-
lican candidate is closing with a
rush. The polls show gains for him
of from three to seven per cent. If
they accurately reflect the public
attitude, or even if they are approx
mately correct, Mr.. Willkie is going
to be hard to stop.
The best evidence that this is true
is to be found in the conduct of the
President himself. No longer is he
waiting for the people to draft him.
Last summer Mr.. Roosevelt was de-
termined not to seek the Office, to
serve only if an insistent electorate
called him to the task, but he is
fighting now, and fighting hard. As
an "old campaigner who loves good
fight" the President for the first
time has met worthy foe. But the
big question, the question that will
not be answered until all the votes
are counted, is whether Mr.. Roosevelt
has not waited too long to make his
bid
AS the picture shapes up now, the
crucial test will come in New York,
where Mr.. Willkie seems to have a
slight lead in the race for the Empire
States vital forty-seven electoral
votes. In only two elections since
the Civil War-those of 1876 and
1916-has the whole country failed
to follow the example of New York
in picking a President, and, needless
to say, its importance this year is
not being overlooked by either
candidate.
In New York, as in other States,
Mr.. Willkie appears to have come
from behind. But not merely as a
result of riding trend away from
his opponent. The Republican noni-
nee has waged one of the most re-
markable campaigns in American
political history, and when he moves
into Madison Square Garden tomor-
row night to make his last big effort,
he will have covered nearly $4,000
miles by train, nearly 5000 by plane,
1900 by automobile, and will have
made 544 speeches.
Those figures reflect truly Cruel
ing effort. Few men could have stood
up under such self-imposed punish
ment, and it has taken its toll from
Mr.. Willkie, who seems to have car
ried on through sheer determination
when less vigorous men would have
been forced to call a halt. But the
effort, if Furnishing, has been produc-
tive Of almost incredible results.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the tCrtter. although the use OF
a DSeudonynl for publication is
permissible. The Star reSerDeS
the right to edit all letters l0ith
q Uie1O to condensation.
Evening star., 1940-11-01

The many eager applicants for
the position are advised that there
is authority for only ninety-nine of
the new army hostesses." If King
Solomon could maintain a thousand
wives it does seem as if Uncle Sam
uel could provide for an even hun
dred of these worthy ladies.
Evening star., 1940-11-01

Ancient ceremonies of the Seneca
tribe of the Iroquois Confederation
are called "Hadihadiyas." One hears
these syllableS frequently at large
afternoon teas here in Washington.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
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Washington. D. c.
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Evening star., 1940-11-01

Whatever may be the outcome Of
the approaching elections, it appears
that Mr.. Cordell Hull Is the one sure
winner.
Evening star., 1940-11-01
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Huskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. HasEin.

A reader can get the anSDer to any
question OF fact by writing The Eue-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric j. HGSktn, director, Washington,
D. c. Please incLoSe stamp for reply.
Evening star., 1940-11-01

@. What is the salary of first lieu
tenant in the Army?-P. VII.
A. A first lieutenant in the Regular
Army who has less than three years
service receives 81 500 annual base pay.
In addition he receives $40 month for
rent and s18 a month for subsistence.
Evening star., 1940-11-01

@. About how much mail do the Clip
pers carry on Atlantic fights2-
B. j.
Evening star., 1940-11-01

A. The airline Clippers carry an
average of $500 pounds of mail, or 1O7 500
letters on each one-way Atlantic crossing.
Evening star., 1940-11-01

y. What is the average winter tenn
perature at Palm Springs, Calif?-L.
H. M.
A. The average temperature at noon,
from November to May, is 81 degrees,
with an average night temperature of
As degrees. Humidity averages % de-
grees, with no fogs, mists, or heavy dews.
Evening star., 1940-11-01

Q. Is 1t true that many years ago
Cheyenne, Wyo., was one Of the wealth.
lest cities in the world?-E. B.
A. In 1886, Cheyenne, as capital Of
Wyoning's immense cattle industry, had
the largest per capita wealth in the
world, livestock being valued at more
than SIS 900 ,OOO
Evening star., 1940-11-01

.. Is it lawful to Use the American
flag as a trade-mark?-J. r. w.
A. The Federal flag law provides that
no trademark may be registered which
consists of or comprises, among other
things, the flag. coat of arms or other
insignia of the United States.
Evening star., 1940-11-01

". WnaC Is tne NatlVe BoTn woman
Act which was amended in 1940?-W.
F. D.
A. 1t is as follows: "'An act to
repatriate native-born women who have
heretofore lost their citizenship by mar
riage to an alien, and for other purposes
approved June IS. 1886, is amended by
inserting after terminated the follow
ing: or who has resided continuously
in the United States since the date of
such marriage"
Evening star., 1940-11-01

@. When will frequency modulatIon
broadcasting begin on a commercial
basis?-K. S. H.
A. January l, 1941, has been set by
the Federal Communications Comm1s-
sion for the opening of FIN programs
on a commercial scale.