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Huvunu MEETING

Secretary of State Hull is leaving
for Havana to meet representatives
Of the foreign Offices of the twenty
other American republics face to
face in a conference fraught with
the utmost Importance for the
future peace and security of this
hemisphere. Regardless of the prac-
tical accomplishments Of this second
meeting Of American foreign min
listers to consult about problems
arising from the European war, the
mere fact Of their talking frankly
with each other and exchanging
ideas around the conference table
should lead to an increased under
standing among them. Such UNDER
standing is prerequisite to any
effective unity Of action, so des-
perately needed in attempting to
cope with repercussions Of the war.
Immediate objective of the Ha-
vana conference, which will open
formally Sunday, may be described
as the creation of insurance poll
cies" to protect the New World
against known and unknown dan
gers from war developments. The
Americas cannot foresee the exact
nature Of all the problems that
may confront them. but they can
hope to agree upon Joint measures
to be taken In efforts to overcome
the perils they do know about or
can anticipate. Such agreements,
serving as warning in advance to
all the world that any threats to
the security Of this hemisphere will
be met by united front Of twenty
one nations acting in concert upon
a definite plan, might be sufficient
to prevent many of the threats from
materializing.
The most urgent problems facing
the Americas, and consequently
demanding principal attention of
the Havana conferees, concern
Allied possessions in this hemisphere
and loss Of trade with Europe. Pros
pect Of Germany and Italy trying
to force their way into control Of
New World territory now held by
France, the Netherlands and Great
Britain requires formulation of q
definite and all-Amerioan plan to
prevent any transfer Of territory
which would give the totalitarian
aggressors q foothold In this hemi-
sphere. OF equal importance are
measures for practical economic
cooperation to prevent the totali-
tartan powers from using the lever
OF barter trade to gain political
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Plymouth

Members Of the crew of a Dutch
freighter arriving in Boston yester-
day have reported that Plymouth, on
the south coast of England, has been
devastated by almost continuous
raids by German bombing planes. If
the assertion be true, there will be
many Americans by whom it is Ger
tain to be regarded as tragic news
indeed.
Thousands of voyagers from the
United States remember the beauty
Of Plymouth Harbor as they saw it in
times of peace. It's history is IA
miliar to a still larger public. From
the Sound some of the most noted
expeditions of Drake, Hawkins, Gil
bert, Frobisher, Cook and other
famous mariners put forth. Lord
Howard Of Eh1ngham prepared there
to meet the grand armada of Philip
II of Spain. From Sutton Pool the
Mayflower sailed for Massachusetts
on September 6, 1920.
Necessarily, Plymouth has been
fortified for centuries. As one of the
chief mercantile and naval centers
Of Britain, the town has been pro-
tected by defenses consistently
improved from decade to decade
throughout four hundred years.
During the Civil War the place long
was besieged by the Royalists in vain.
1t received William of Orange and
proclaimed him King in the great
revolution" OF 1888.
The monuments of Plymouth
included the old church of st.
Andrew, where the heart Of Admiral
Blake was buried when the rest Of
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Says Washington Should
Be Treeless City.

DC lTccleSS lily.
To the Editor Of The Star:
The trees of Washington are a detri-
ment to the health and progress of our
city and should be removed.
Let us weigh the evidence.
There is perhaps one point in favor of
retaining the trees, and that is their
beauty; even 80, they seem incongruous
in the city.
OF the points opposed there are many
Each tree sheds over barrel Of water
a day in the summer (more than 100, 1000
barrels in the entire city,: this water
raises the humidity to something over
IS per cent at times; it is well known
that it is the humidity that makes slug
gish our activity. Trees add to the
Nth Of . community by cluttering it
with broken limbs, fallen leaves. and by
acting As dirt catchers. During severe
storms. branches and quite often trees
fall, damaging property and ending
lives. In the winter our oaks, naples
1indens, ETC., catch snow and drop it At
inconvenient moments on our heads and
down our neckS.
Yes, the writer Is nature lover. He
takes daily walks to enjoy the sight Of
growing things, but trees and other
wild life nowhere seem Is beautiful ~
ins their natural, unfettered settings
such as parks and rural areas.
ROBERT LORENz HANSEN.
July IL.
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THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. Tr1ceUell.


The more we experiment with feed
ing ground beef to the birds the better
we like 1t, and so do the birds
This undoubtedly is one Of the hest
things you can do to attract and help
the songsters during the hot months.
The need for seeds and grains and
suet and other cold weather foods is
gone.
The birds need no Matchmaking ma
terials but rather plenty of food to take
to the youngsters In the nest. Any one
who has watched this forced feeding
knows how difficult 1t is for the parents
to keep the young bills filled
Any aid which is given the older birds
Is very much appreciated by old and
young alike.
Almost any sort Of beef will do.
There are many cheaper cuts, and
these are just as good as round steak,
as far as the birds are concerned.
The finer it is ground, the better.
1t is well to accustom the birds to re-
ceiving this help at certain time of
day. It is not necessary nor desirable
nor economical to try to feed them all
day long.
The best times are early morning and
evening, just before dusk.
Two birds may be killed with one
stone, as the saying has it, by putting
out double supply about o'clock these
summer evenings.
No doubt the birds say, I'VE wish
you would not use that old phrase, about
killing two birds with one stone. We
think it very poor, indeed"
<E&*
BY putting out more than the bird
can garner before dusk, there will be
plenty for them in the early morning.
These are the particular times they
seem to appreciate this help most Prob
ably it sums up to this, that during the
day they are able to find plenty of in
sects stirring around in the daily insect
duties, but that in the very early morn
ing these forms of live food have not
come out yet, and by evening they have
all been eaten
Hence the ground beef offered the
birds finds many regular takers. If a
portion cannot be stolen from the dogs
or cats meal little should be pur-
chased for this express purpose.
The finer the grind, the better, but
there is limit beyond which meat is
most difficult to grind. About the mid
die setting on an ordinary cheap meat
grinder will do
One of the best features to the meat
feeding station is that there Is never
any crowding.
Whereas at the grain and seed feeder
in fall and winter there are scores of
birds, all jostling each other, and af-
fording busy scene in which it is diff
f1cult to observe an individual bird, at
the meat feeder the birds come one by
one. or at most two by two, so that there
is always something to see and at the
same time it Is easily seen. They take
turns.
This is big help, especially when the
fledglings are brought Then the OBJ
server has plenty of time to study the
young birds individually.
There is never any crowding. First
will come catbird, then a cardinal,
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A Fine Achievement

For the first time plank favoring
extension of the right of suffrage to
the people of the District of Column
bia has found place in the plat
form of one of the great political
parties. That in itself is of great
significance, for it means that an
other important milestone in the
long fight for Americanization of the
American Capital has been passed.
There is great value to the people
of the District in this expression.
The Democratic party, in laying be-
fore the American electorate the
principles and policies it espouses,
includes as one of them the right
of suffrage for the District. In addi-
ton to the party's support thus
promised in the fight for suffrage the
voters of the Nation are, for the first
time, acquainted through the plat
form with a condition existing in
the American Capital of which many
of them were ignorant. The plank is
of high value in thus publicizing the
voteless condition OF the District.
The incorporation of this plank
represents another advance in the
movement so courageously pressed
four years ago at Philadelphia, when
friends of the District of Columbia,
unable to win platform recogni-
ton, succeeded in obtaining passage
of convention resolution calling on
Congress for a study and report ION
granting to the residents of the Dis
trict of Columbia the right of suf-
frage."
That resolution found response in
the hearings before the House Judi
ciary Committee on the Capper-
Norton and Lewis Randolph resolu-
lions for national representation,
hearings which left the distinguished
chairman, Representative Hatton
Summers of Texas, and many of the
committee members sympathetic
with the fight for national repre-
sentation and enlisted in the cause.
This week the fight in Chicago for
incorporation of the District SUI
frage plank, according to Mr.. Ken
nedy's article in The Star today, was
apparently doomed to failure, for
twice the plank was voted down. But
by continued and skillful efforts Of
the Districts friends, in and out of
Congress, it finally triumphed, thus
adding more laurels to the victory.
The fight will not stop with the gains
thus made. Suffrage for the people
of the District, in the form of repre-
sentation in Congress and the elec-
toral college, has been advanced.
And The Star takes this occasion to
acknowledge for the community the
splendid efforts of those Washington
mans and their co-laborers at Chi
cago who were responsible for
great achievement.
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w. p. A. Officials
Criticized in Emergency.
To the Editor Of The Star:

Criticized in Emergency.
To the Editor Of The Star:
The District of Columbia w. p. A.
officials state that there are about
5000 needy men and women in WASH
ington who have been dismissed or never
given work. With the passage of the
new appropriation they should be at
work, but they are not.
These same officials have failed to
create worthwhile work to relieve the
destitute after spending millions in ex-
pertinent. For eight years they have had
political favorites supervising worthless
work, about which they knew absolutely
nothing; why, then, suppose that they
will be capable of conducting the proper
defense measures? The best defense
would have been to create the right kind
Of work. Then there would not be so
many millions who have learned to de-
pend on taxpayers money, handed out
by hish-salaried ofacials, with a strong
sense that they were getting something
for doing nothing.
According to investigators, actual
foreign enemies have been given key po-
sitions In w. p. A. There is something
80 radically wrong with the entire agency
that honest men and women should de-
mand that 1t be corrected and cleared
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then jay, then an English sparrow,
then song sparrow. then a starting. and
so on through the list, but never all to-
gether.
Even a wood thrush comes, OCCASION
ally.
Neighborhood dogs are something
of nuisances II the meat station is
placed on the ground.
least a mile-well. maybe a block, any,
way.
If the station is on the ground, it will
not be long before hungry pup appears,
and cleans it out with one mighty swal-
low. What gobblers dogs are! A pound
of meat to a dog is just one good
mouthful.
A few ounces, we'll ground, is enough
dinner for an entire garden of birds.
The best way to provide for them, in
this respect, is to construct small feed
ing station with bottom and roof, prefer
ably open at the sides. What is known
as robin shelf" is good. This is
supposed to permit the robins to fly in
and out from the sides They will not
take to box which does not permit
them three-way entry and exit.
~ -
If such a feeder can be adjusted on
pole or post just high enough to reach
easily, it will be out of dog range, at the
same time the birds can be seen easily.
Servicing such feeding station is of
some importance, SO it should not he
placed so high that it cannot be reached
easily by the one who, in the main. must
do the reaching.
Another point to keep in mind is
cleanliness.
1t is best, therefore, to line the bot
tom of the feeder, which should have a
little rim around it at least half an
inch, or better an inch high, with a
doubled piece of waxed paper.
When this becomes soiled it may be
replaced easily, thus keeping the floor
of the feeder clean. We do not know
whether the birds appreciate this or
not, but the human element in the
scene will.
4
Soft, yellow, greasy fat is not liked by
the birds, so if there is any of this on the
meat you get for them, be sure to cut
if off.
They will accept fat which is on the
firm side, of a suet-like consistency, and
this may be ground right along with the
lean meat. While the birds do not need
suet at this time of year, they will eat
it, of course, in small way.
The only bird which has shown any
enthusiasm for salmon is the startling,
and as he is not desirable addition we
did not try this experiment a second
time. We have no count against this
bird except the harsh grating noise it
makes when eating meat Experience is
showing that the startling is one of the
best catchers of Japanese beetles, so no
one need fear having them around
in summer. English sparrows, too, eat
quantities of these beetles 1t would be
something rare, after all, if the con-
frmed sparrow and starting haters
would have to admit, in the end, that
these despised birds are the prime
eradicators of the Japanese beetles
which threaten our gardens.
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Opposes Formation of
American Trade Bloc.

To the Editor of The Star:
have noted a statement that the
American Government is taking steps
to make economic warfare upon Ger
many, now that Hitler has succeeded
militarily in Europe. The formation OF
an economic union of some sort in the
Western Hemisphere is highly desira-
BILE thing from the general point of view
and should have taken place years ago.
In fact, there should have been Ameri-
can (both North and South solidarity
long before the present trend of events
in Europe. The United States has been
notably shortsighted in its policy toward
Latin America.
Now, however. the Government pro-
poses to oppose economically not Ger
many alone (for it is evident that the
Reich has succeeded in Europe and will
shortly form an economic bloc on that
continenD, but all of Europe which will
come or has come under the domina-
ton of Germany. This means as
matter of actual fact economic warfare
against Europe.
This country, by attempting to aid
France and England in their war against
Germany, and at the same time by re-
fusing to enter the war as a belligerent,
has incurred the dislike not only of the
dictator nations but also of the French
and British. If we now proceed to
obstruct trade between all these nations
and those dependent upon them, and
the Western Hemisphere, we shall sue
coed in mourning their complete enmity.
This administration in its eight years Of
activity will have succeeded in chang
ing this country from one of the most
respected and well-iked nations to the
most hated nation in the world.
June 10. ELEANOR H. FINCH.
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While Ulster considers itself at
war, along with the rest Of the
United Kingdom, President de Va
lera Of Fire is absolutely determined
that his country will remain neu-
trail" It all sounds very much like
one perch in a painful being abso-
lutely determined not to be fried.
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To the Editor of The Star:
I would like to offer through your
columns the following suggestion: That
our Government establish at strategic
points in this country, four or five per-
manent junior military and naval
academies for the purpose Of training
officers for the Regular Army and Navy
After receiving their appointments, each
young man would spend the first two
years of hts training at one Of the junior
academies and the remaining two years
at either West Point or Annapolis.
I believe II this plan could be worked
out 1t would give to the Army and Navy
each year thousands of trained officers,
instead OF few hundred.
w. EARL HOPPER.
Weehawken, N. ].
July 10.
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Member Of the Associated Press
Third-Term Candidate

Overriding tradition which has
stood for century and half, the
Democratic party has committed it.
self to third term for Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
BY an overwhelming vote, the dele
gates to the Chicago convention are
now on record as subscribing to the
doctrine of Mr. Roosevelt's indispen-
stability. He is held forth as the one
man who is capable of leading the
Nation in this time of great emer-
gency, nor is there any evidence that
the delegates are in the least
dismayed by the fact that their
platform in important measure mega
tives the Presidents position in
foreign affairs.
Taken at it's face value, the renom-
nation of Mr.. Roosevelt is a con-
fession of poverty on the part of the
Democratic party. On the surface, it
is an acknowledgment that, after
eight years in power, the party has
been unable to produce any other
man who is qualified for the office of
President. That, of course, is false
picture. The truth of the matter is
that the candidates. of other poten-
tial nominees were killed in infancy
by the Presidents silence as to his
own intentions and by the activities
OF the Ratchet men of the New Deal.
When the balloting began at Chica-
60, the great majority of the dele
gates had but one thought in mind
to select candidate who offered the
greatest promise of Success at the
polls They talked of service to
country, but they were thinking of
election day, and their choice of Mr..
Roosevelt simply reflects their faith
in his demonstrated vote getting
ability.
There were few men at Chicago
who chung to their conviction that no
President should seek a third term.
Three Of them-James A. Farley.
Vice President Garner and Senator
Tydings-entered the lists against
the President in what was purely
gesture of protest, but fewer than
one hundred and fifty of the dele
gates supported them. They, with
Senator Glass and other opponents
of the third term, followed a course
dictated, as MIR. Farley expressed it,
by deepest conviction" and al
though they lost the hopeless battle,
they won the lasting respect of all
Americans who understand the mo-
tives which inspired them.
Now that the third term advocates
have triumphed within their party,
the final decision is left to the voters
of the country. The result at Chicago
reveals that it is relatively easy
matter for powerful political ma
chine to dictate third-term nomi-
nation, but it remains to be seen
whether a majority of the people can
be convinced that tradition should be
broken to give third term to a
President whose domestic policies,
despite unprecedented peacetime
powers and the expenditure of vast
sums of money during eight years,
have fallen far short of restoring to
the country that measure Of pros
perity and tranquility which had
been promised it and which it had
every right to expect.
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Suggests Plan to Increase
Defense Enlistments.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Events have shown that it will not be
easy to secure 100000 volunteer recruits
for our Army. The other alternative, as
publicly discussed, Is CONSUMPTION, which
Is out Of the question when Congress is
about to adjourn for reelection in No.
vember. 1t looks like dilemma, but
the solution is curiously simple and
could be made Immediately effective.
Let Congress enact the requisite meas
ures to provide for some given number of
Army divisions, say 20. Give them dis
tinguishing name, such as Defense Di-
visions" Let its members be armed in
the most efficient manner for defensive
land warfare. Let Congress provide that
the enlistment is limited only to service
in the Continental United States, and
shall also act as a waiver to free the
soldier from CONSUMPTION for any other
service. During his enlistment he shall
be vocationally tested, and given a
thorough education and apprenticeship
for the civil occupation for which he
proves best fitted; this to be combined
With MS military training, and all at
high pressure
With this plan in effect, and supple
mented by a "Fireside Chat" real sup
port by the War Department, and sensi-
BILE publicity by press and radio. re-
cruiting campaign would appear likely
to furnish recruits as fast as the Gov
eminent could furnish equipment and
training. For overseas service there
would be- Of course, the Navy and Marine
Corps, and in the meantime the present
Army personnel would make up into 10
or IL divisions to be designated as
Regular.
trust that this somewhat obvious So
luton of an immediate and pressing
problem will commend itself to you.
GORDON STRONG.
Dickerson Station, Md.
July 8.
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Out In Missouri an ambitious ter
rier dug himself in 80 far after
rabbit that it took rescue squad
three hours to extricate him. He
appears almost to have accomplished
the old wheeze about digging q hole
and pulling the hole In after him.
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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the ,Driter although the use OF
q pseudonyrn for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters NTH
a UieD to condensation.
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Field of Honor

Not as a conqueror comes
With thunder-throated drums,
But silent, from his pillow,
Homeward he trudges now.
He did no valorous deed.
He had . field to weed.
He had a fence to mend.
He had his fiocks to tend.
Still, with his honor bright,
Homeward he walks tonight,
Climbing the pasture bars
Under eternal stars.
BRANsON 1s.AKl
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of political parasites. The w. P. AS
cruel and discriminating procedure
may defeat the present administration.
SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT.
TIL
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Hoskin Service
To Stur Readers

Besides answering questions, the
Haskin service offers information or
various subjects in booklet form for g
small cost and handling charge.
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Map of North America

map OF NORM America
The latest published plates-from thd
Equator to the North Pole-completd
agricultural and commercial data fol
every country This colored map is 21x2d
inches. It will help you understand the
news dispatches telling about our defense
plans. To order, inclose 10 cents in coin
wrapped in this clipping.
Street
City-.
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Q. What is a cynosure?-M. M.
A. A center of attraction, anything t.
which attention is strongly turned. TIL,
root meaning in Greek is dogs tail, ant
the word was originally applied to tn,
constellation Ursa Minor, to which tn.
eyes of mariners and travellers were
often directed because it contained thu
North Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-18

@. What will remove ice cream stains
from clothing?-D. j. r.
A. The stain should first be cleansed
with cold water and then sponged thor
oughly with carbon tetrachloride.
@. Please give the population of Bal
timore, Md. B. S.
A. According to the preliminary l94d
census figures, the city has a popula !
ton of 854,114
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July 9.