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Evening star., 1940-06-19
COLUMBIA ROAD.

"Dear Sir:
Far be 1t from me to be an ornitholo-
gist or even an amateur bird lover, but by
the turn of fate, I find myself nurse
maid to one common little English
sparrow.
Last Tuesday while watching work.
men remove a hedge in front of the
apartment in which live it was noticed
that one of the men had picked up this
youngster and placed it out on the lawn.
On second thought figured one of the
neighborhood cats would be licking its
chops over free meal so decided to
make an adoption. That adoption still
holds good and I am now possessed of
a star boarder.
First thing done was to offer food
which was promptly refused. Next, I
decided to give him full run of the apart
ment which was accepted Immediately
Later found out that these actions were
merely test of confidence and he was
looking for good hideout just in case.
after that he became friendly and
accepted all the honors that could be
bestowed. Now it is impossible to slight
him in any way. He loves the radio and
goes in for lively melody.
when music does not suit he buries
his head under his wing and pretends to
sleep through it. When hungry he has
nice way of pecking at my fingers,
What an appetite! Offer him something
he doesn't like and you have a rumpus.
Might mention that Pete, which is
his name, has some bad habits as well
as any one. The worst is waking us up at
6 o'clock in the morning with a steady
volume of chirps
Last night I wanted to read the paper,
so put him to bed early. 1t didn't work.
If bird language could be translated I
do not believe his sayings would be
accepted for print. He won, but COM
promised by getting behind my back in
the chair. incidentally, his sleeping
quarters consist of one metal waste
basket.
pete sees his parents several times
each day. They come in the morning
ano carry on quite line of lingo In the
evening Pete is turned loose on the lawn
and seems to have a swell time with the
parent birds.
Never has he attempted to get away.
When I go for him it is not case of
catch, all that is to be done is hold out
finger and he will hop on.
"All this may sound incredible but the
proof of it is that Pete is sitting right
here beside me trying to get my at
tentlon while writing this.
Very truly yours, G. F. H."
4
There can be little question that some
individual birds are particularly at
tracted by human beings.
This is the only way to account for
such case as related by our cor
respondent, or as that told here last
year. In the latter case, a young scarlet
tanager showed real affection for a
Evening star., 1940-06-19

terms, II at all, unless we can organ
lie effectively to combat economic
force with the same kind of force.
Without a strong unity in this field,
any one of the American nations
would be at the mercy of the axis
powers. Germany and Italy could
say, in line with their pre-war trade
policies, to any one nation that I'VE
will take what you must export only
IN exchange for our manufactured
products" That country would be-
come dependent in its foreign COM
merce on the whims of the dictators.
who could be expected to 60 on from
there to dominate more and more
phases Of its national life. Since
most of the major exports from
South America are competitive with
domestic products here, there is little
nope that normal trade within the
hemisphere will relieve the situation.
Some such program as envisaged
by President Roosevelt and his ad-
viSers seems to be the only practical
answer. Details of the program
are yet to be perfected, but it is
expected to involve creation of
gigantic corporation to buy up all the
exRortable surpluses from all the
American nations, including Can
ada-and perhaps other of the Brit
ish domiAions if they want to partici-
pate. Then, to obtain the goods they
need from this hemisphere, Germany
and Italy would have to deal with one
unified agency instead of with one
country at time. Individual export
problems of each American nation
would be solved by dumping them
Into the lap of the super corpora
ton, which would speak with one
voice for all of them.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Reader Pays Tribute
To Martin A. Roberts.
To the Editor of The Star:


Your beautiful editorial on the late
Martin A. Roberts, chief assistant Ii
brarian of the Library of Congress was
real tribute to man who deserved it.
Eleven years ago I first knew him and
have never ceased to be grateful to
him for the way in which he aided me
in some difficult 18th century research
which I then had on hand
I found myself swamped in morass
of volumes-books piled high-a sentence
found in one tome perhaps needing five
or six more references to assure me of
authenticity. AS could not spend every
day and all day at the Library I was
in despair about the hours lost in re-
assembling my material Mr.. Roberts
came to the rescue. His assistants ar
ranged table for me in the stacks"
My work progressed in orderly fashion
and in time was completed. From then
on the Library of Congress was to me
no longer an awesome pile OF stone, but
place where I felt at home, happy in
my work and confident that within its
walls I would always meet encourage
ment and enthusiastic cooperation.
To me, and I am sure to hundreds of
other workers the atmosphere created
by Mr.. Roberts sums up the highest con-
tribution that librarian can give to
library. Scholarship, kindliness and self
effacement were the constant COM
panions of Martin A. Roberts and may
his example be forever borne in mind.
KATHARINE McCOOK KNOX.
June 18.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1Dell.

family. 1t would hop into their car,
and sing for them while they sat listen
ing.
This affection of a bird for some
human is almost staggering.
Affection the other way round the
human for a bird, seems natural enough
for we have minds and hearts, or at
least are supposed to have them whereas
birds are different order, and are no.
believed to understand affection and
love.
Dogs, of all animals, have made the
closest approach to stepping out of their
ancestral ranks and loving creatures of
another species.
1t is perfectly easy, in watching the
look in Fido's eyes, to believe that he
loves us.
Those who are fond of cats are will
ing to testify that they find much the
same love and affection in their pets
although admittedly less lavish in dis
play.
Somehow the generality of mankind
are not willing to admit that mere bird
can have the same degree of affection.
The only exception, perhaps, is the
canary, which many fanciers swear is
just as loving and affectionate as any
dog.
But for the mass of sparrows and
other birds in the open air no such ideas
OF affection can prevail They are jittery
creatures, at best, intent on keeping alive
and away from dangers which threaten
them, and which are many.
What is it, after all, which makes a
dog or cat, or bird, like an individual
human?
1t may be odor
An animal, with its keen scent, finds
something about the smell of some parti-
cular human which it prefers.
The scent, with animals, is not some
thing to shrink from; it is, as one
knows who has watched dog or cat, a
real part of life.
1t is not at all impossible that when
Fido Or Tabby shows a preference for
any one member of family over all
others, it is registering nasal satisfac-
ton.
The fragrance of the human race must
be overpowering to the animals.
They can scent us a mile off, in all
probability
Just as their preferences for food are
not the same as ours, neither are their
hkings in the odor or scent line.
There may be something familiar
homely, likeable, to them in the odor
OF the person they like, which makes
that one creature apart.
In one of the volumes of ''The Tale of
Genji." wonderful Japanese novel whose
translation in English was completed a
few years ago, there is a prince who
exhaled personal perfume which made
his presence known wherever he went.
Perhaps we are all princes to the
animals, and every now and then chance
to meet some creature which finds us
perfectly thrilling, in the aural sense.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Praises Vision of
Woodrow Wilson.
H.a h Eli


In letter from one of the most dis
tlngulshed scholars of England appears
this statement: II look on Woodrow
Wilson as one infatuated with the de-
ceptlve idea of the reasonableness of
man." This observation is not only a
tribute to the intellectual and spiritual
greatness of Woodrow Wilson, but it is
an indictment of the intelligence of the
human race. Man takes great pride in
the products of his intelligence and his
intellectual achievements, yet after
thousands OF years of existence, he is
not a reasonable creature. This "un-
reasonableness' of man in his conduct
and relations with other men is the
primary cause of all the wars of history
and mans inhumanity to man." 1t
might also be argued that because of
this quality of "unreasonableness" man
is not SO intelligent after all, because
real intelligence and enlightenment
manifest spirit of tolerance and good
will toward other men.
IWenty-one years ago, Woodrow
Wilson appealed to the intelligence of
the world to make world settlement
based on justice and fair dealings
among nations. He appealed to the
best there is in humanity. He appealed
to the noblest motives of the human
race. He appealed to the reasonable
ness of man, but alas! he found it
not. The realistic" statesmen like
Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Poincaire,
Tardieu, and others of like thinking,
wrote into the peace treaty their spirit
OF vindictiveness, and hatred toward
the enemy. It was their purpose to
hold in subsection the German people
and deny them their proper place In
the affairs Of the world.
Now another World War confronts
humanity. Instead of this country
participating in the League of Nations
and using its tremendous power and in
duence in rectifying some 4 Of the
mistakes and injustices contained In
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Brituin's Resolve

At a desperate hour in British
history Prime Minister Churchill
addressed to Britain and her empire
a message of hope and encourage
ment, reminder that all is not lost,
and that Britain has survived other
such ordeals.
He coupled with his dread balance
Evening star., 1940-06-19
Suggests Plan
To Help Allies.

To the Editor Of The Star:
May offer plan to aid the Allies?
If all grocery stores would place a large
container where their customers could
see it as they buy their own supplies,
they would get an extra can or two OF
n-perishable food and leave it in the
container to be collected and sent to the
Allies.
Perhaps it may prove a blessing to
them, as they now stand in need of
everything. Most of us have so much
that can or two would not be missed.
June IL. A. l. L.
Evening star., 1940-06-19
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Evening star., 1940-01-28
A Cappella Choir
Prepares for Lent

The Washington A Cappella Choir,
directed by Ruby Smith Stahl, will
be heard in its ninth annual Lenten
concert on Monday night, March II,
in constitution Hall. This choir
unit of First Congregational Church
has spent the past Is years, blazing
a trail for better church music in a
cappella field, in the Capital City,
and has now achieved a reputation
for fine unaccompanied singing in
many cities as we'll as in WASH
ington.
In addition to it's regular schedule,
the choir is now holding two re-
hearsals each week, on Tuesday and
Saturday nights. OF the 60 men,
bers of the group, approximately 60
per cent have been singing with the
choir for more than two years.
There is at this time room for a
few new members, and additions
may be arranged for with Mrs. Stahl,
who is likewise holding a series of
afternoon study periods for class
in choral work, from Sis to 6:l5
each Monday afternoon in the par
lors OF First Congregational Church.
Evening star., 1940-01-28

Dorsey for Tuesday evening, Feb
ruary 6, at $3.50 o'clock, when Lily
Pons, distinguished French colora-
tura soprano of the Metropolitan
Opera and stellar favorite of con-
cert, radio and screen audiences,
will make her only recital appear
ance of the current season in WASH
ington at Constitution Hall.
Miss Pons, who will be assisted by
Frank La Forge, celebrated American
pianist and composer, and Domenico
1sacone, first f1autist of the National
Symphony Orchestra, will sing two
songs with flute accompaniment:
The Mad Scene from Hamlet" and
Sir Henry Bishops Echo Song" as
arranged by Mr.. La Forge, who con-
tributes no less than five selections
and arrangements to Miss Pons'
program.
The air from j. S. Bach's "The
Challenge of Phoebus and Pan" the
Caro- Nome" aria from "Rigoletto"
and selections by Paradies, Handel,
Faure, Chabrier, Debussy and others
will be included in the group of
songs Miss Pons will sing. Seats for
the recital are available at Mrs. Dor
sey's concert bureau, in Droop's,
1900 G street NV.
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Visit by Miss
Macdonald Is
Now Awaited
Singer Had Notable
Success on Tour
Last Season

Jeanette Macdonald, the vivacious
singing star of stage, screen and
radio, comes to Washington Wednes-
day, February %, at $3.50 pm, at
Constitution Hall, in her first con-
cert appearance in the National
Capital. Her screen contracts have
been so exacting of her time that it
was not until last year she could ar
range any concert schedule at ALL
She never has made any of the usual
vaudeville type of personal appear
ance" tours at motion picture houses.
Miss MacDonald's first tour in
1899 was record-breaking. Not since
Jenny Linds triumphant American
debut has so much excitement been
aroused in Middle West and Southern
towns, in which this tour was
booked. In one town no seat was
unsold four hours after her concert
had It's initial announcement. In
another town-in several in fact
merchants declared a holiday the
day of her concert and fans jammed
the sidewalks and streets about her
hotel from am. till midnight. Her
success has surpassed that of any
other singer making the same tour.
Already in Washington, a month
before her concert, huge Constitu-
ton Hall is more than half-sold for
the event.
Due to such enthusiasm on the
part Of fans, Miss MacDonald's con-
tract has a clause in it prohibiting
the selling of any seats on the stage.
Reservations can be made at Jor-
dams box office, 1899 G NV.
Evening star., 1940-01-28
In Local Music Circles

o'clock and Sunday night at
o'clock.
Those taking part are Carmalita
Woods, Eleanor Stewart, Barbara
Niedig, Sara Jo Saxelby, Sara Lou
Murgia, Eleanor Solnitsky, Patty
Emery, Beverly Spencer, jeanne
Cooke, Jeanne Dinwoody, Camilla
Goldsborough, Jean McBeath,
Frank Hoffman, Suzanne Parker,
Dorothy Solnitsky, Patricia Thomp-
son, Allen Lurie, Milicent Vogel,
Kent Thorup, Phyllis Amirol, Betty
Jane Cleaton, Alice Nix, Barbara
Chapline, John Saunders, Suzanne
Offutt, Kathryn Creech, Jeanne
Parks, Edith Harrington, Carol
Hollingsworth. Gloria Masgoret. g..
The choir Of the Washington
Chapel of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, will
sing at the evensong service at the
Church of st. Stephen and the In
carnation, Sixteenth and Newton
streets NV. at o'clock this eve
ming This is the second visit of
this choir to st. Stephens parish.
Kathryn Sale English, contralto,
will assist Lewis Atwater, organist,
in program Of Cesar Franck music
this afternoon at 5 o'clock at All
Souls Unitarian Church.
Evening star., 1940-01-28

awaiting composer than the first
production of his opera. He stands
or falls with the public reaction.
Verdi was genius in his instructive
feeling for theatrical effects, the
manner in which the component
parts of this feeling fitted into each
other. To the same degree If not
to the same amount were Mascagni,
Leoncavallo, Bizet, Gounod and
Puccini. The latter's career was
determined by his enthusiasm for
Aida" to hear which he had walked
Is miles.
The vitality of such operas as
were played here last week has its
source in the humanness of their
story and their musical worth. AS
long as human nature is what it is
these works will ever be popular.
Nor have their possibilities been ex-
hausted, for, from time to time, new
artists with ideas will appear to add
something to the character define
alton. Only when we are stepped in
their melodies and are thoroughly
versed in their stories should we
look about for newer plots and newer
types of music. Until then the COM
mon people, who never tire of these
same familiar works, will continue
to be the judges through whom the
success of opera will be determined.
At any rate, until we have surfeit
of opera in this city we should be
grateful to be able to hear these
glorious, familiar works so splen-
didly performed as the San Carlo
artists presented them.
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Song Stars
And Pianist
In Musicale
Singers Are New ir
Concerts Before
Audiences Here

. Two young singers, both new to
concert audiences in Washington,
and a pianist, who in his debut in
Mrs. Townsend's musicales last
season was so successful that he
has been re-engaged for this year,
will present the program at the
Mayflower tomorrow morning at
11:15 o'clock-the next to last in
Mrs. Townsend's current series.
The pianist will be the young
Frenchman. Emile Baume, widely
acclaimed both for his amazing
physical resemblance to the great
Chopin and his equally impressive
playing of that composers works.
The singers will be Suzanne Stem,
prima donna till comparatively re-
Gently of the Prague Opera, and
John Seagle, successful concert and
radio baritone, son of Oscar Seagle,
who was associated for some time
with Jean de Reszke. Oscar Seagle
was one of Mrs. Townsend's artists
o few years ago-now his son prom
ises to step into his fathers shoes
there, as elsewhere.
Miss Stem, who comes to Amer
lea for the first time this season,
was born in tiny Eberswalde near
Berlin. She is of Hungarian and
Viennese ancestry and left Ger
many in 1888 forever-completely
out of sympathy, artistically and
with the Nazi regime.
Reservations for this program
can, as usual, be made directly with
Mrs. Townsend at her home, 1709
Twenty first street NV.
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Visiting Choir

This afternoon at 4 o'clock the
Heidelberg College Concert Choir
of Tifln, Ohio, will present a pro-
gram of sacred songs at Concordia
Lutheran Evangelical Church,
Twentieth and G streets NV. The
program will include selections from
such well-known composers as
Kountz, Jones, Gaul, Bach, Wood,
Bailey, Brahms, Christensen and
others.
The Heidelberg College Choir is
composed of some 40 voices, selected
by annual competitive "tryouts." F"
1t has won enviable commendation
from the press, radio and pulpit
for its comparative excellence in
musical attainment. It has ap-
peared in practically every city of
size in the East and Middle West, as
well as in the open countryside and
smaller urban centers.
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Pianist on Faculty
For Seminary Music

Nine. Julia Elbogen of Vienna
has recently arrived in the city to
take up her duties as head of the
piano department at Mount Vernon
Seminary.
Nine. Elbogen, a colleague of Ru-
dolf Serkin, attended the Conserva-
tory in Vienna, studying with pupil
of the great Rubinstein, and upon
graduating from the conservatory,
began to study and work with Prof
Richard Robert, a period of training
and close association that continued
for 10 years, and towards the latter
end of which she became his as
sistant Born Julia Goldner, she and
her two sisters-Trudie, a violinist,
now Trudie Gundert, and Steffy, a
harpist, now Mrs. Eugene Ormandy
were well known in Vienna for
their chamber music, and their ap-
pearances with orchestra in their
native city.
Five years ago, Nine. Elbogen
taught for a season in the McPhail
School of Music in Minneapolis, and
appeared as soloist with the Min
neapolis Symphony, at that time
conducted by Eugene Ormandy.
Evening star., 1940-01-28
Symphony
Emphasizing
Guest Conductor,
Noted Mexican,
To Lead Sunday

The engagement of Carlos Chavez.
Mexican conductor composer, by
the National Symphony Orchestra
for its concert at Constitution Hall
next Sunday afternoon, February 4,
is a further indication of the cul-
tural exchange between the Amer
icas which Washington's symphony
organization has been quietly fos-
tering since its founding nine years
ago.
The National Symphonys method
OF international exchange has been
both modest and simple. Without
fanfare, it has engaged the out
standing conductors of Brazil, MexA
leo and Canada for guest appear
ances, and, as soloists, the first
pianists of Puerto Rico and Brazil.
Each of these artists has had the
widest latitude in selecting his pro-
gram, and it is at least probable
that each gave to National SYM
phony patrons the best of his coun-
try's musical creations.
Chavez, next Sundays guest con-
ductor, is without doubt the out
standing composer and conductor of
Mexico. He organized and is per-
manent conductor of the Orquestra
Sinfonica de Mexico, is director of
the National Conservatory at Mex
leo City, followed Toscanini as con-
ductor of the N. B. c. Symphony
Orchestra two years ago, and has
guest-conducted the New York Phil
harmonic, Boston and Philadelphia
Orchestras. A prolific composer, his
most famous work is the ballet
II. P.," which Stokowsk introduced
to this country in 1882. While
Chavez's approach to music is truly
international, he is including on
next Sunday afternoons program
his own arrangement of Buxte-
hude's "Chaconna."
Less than two weeks ago the
Brazilian pianist Guiomar Novaes
gave with the National Symphony
the first North American perform
ance of Mono Precoce," by Heitor
Villa-Lobos, not OILY the most
gifted Of Brazilian composers, but
in the front rank of musical Gre
ators of the day. Last summer,
when Burle Marx, leading conductor
of Brazil, occupied the podium dur
ing Water Gate concert, he also
presented examples of Villa-Lobos'
work two excerpts from his Bach
lana Brasiliera') as well as the
composition of an earlier Brazil
ian, Antonio Carlos Comes (over-
ture to III Guarany.") During
Marks two earlier appearances with
the National Symphony in the sum-
mer of 1885, he introduced works by
four other South American COM
posers-the Brazilians Nepomuceno,
Oswald and Mignone-and the Ar
gentinian Juan Jose Castro. And
one of the soloists on last summers
Sunset Symphonies was the out
standing pianist of Puerto Rico,
Jesus Maria Sanroma.
There has been an even more di-
rect reciprocity between the musical
life Of Canada and that of this Ma
tion's Capital. The National SYM
phony Orchestra made three Ca
madam tours, and DR.. Kinder only
last summer made series of guest
appearances with Toronto's famed
Promenade Concerts. And the Ma
tional Symphony has drawn upon
Canada for the two outstanding
figures of that nations musical life
- NRoAki1Io~a 4
Stewart. Sir Ernest, conductor of
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra,
included in his program his own
arrangements of two Bach chorale
preludeS,