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Political Traditions

1t was a sore spot in the phalanX
OF Texas Democrats in particular and
of Democratic voters generally that
Republican Candidate Wendell Will
kie chose to probe yesterday in
searching for anti-NeW Deal and
other votes in the wide open spaces
of the Southwest. Recognizing that
the South is proud of its traditions,
not the least of which is its habit
of going down the line for Demo-
cratic office aSpirantS, Mr.. Willkie
aptly pointed out that there are ira
ditions and traditions; that now the
South must make choice between
the tradition of party regularity and
the tradition, especially strong in
Texas, that no President of the
United States should remain in the
White House longer than two terms.
And, as Mr.. Willkie emphasized, the
tradition against a third term is the
older of the two, dating back to the
founding fathers.
The no-third-term tradition is
especially strong in Texas because
the State is the home of one of the
outstanding Democratic opponents
Of third term for President ROoSe-
welt, Vice President John Nance
Garner. Mr.. Garner has made no
secret of the fact that he thinks two
tnrr,oc nf0nI1oIo for M. pnncaua1t
and there are many stanch Demo-
Gratis in Texas and elsewhere who
subscribe to the same belief. He
would have liked to be President,
himself, but the so-called draft" of
his chief deprived him of his chance
to become nominee. So Mr.. Garner
hied himself away to Texas, where
reports are current that he will take
no part in the presidential campaign.
The Vice President is a popular and
Yevered man in his home State.
There must be a large number of
Texas Democrats who are torn be-
tween their admiration for Cactus
Jacks" principles and their loyalty
to the party and to President RooSe-
velt. 1t was for the benefit of such
harassed partisans that Mr.. Willkie
hurled his challenges to the doctrine
Of "indiSpensability." Whether the
Republican candidate can hope to
break the seldom broken tradition
of the solid South by his brave swing
through Southwestern territory is a
question for the political prophets
TO wrestle with. Certainly he seems
to have been received quite cordially
and thoughtfully-in Texas.
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Alexandra Parks

Convinced that AleXandria'S pres
ent park facilities are inadequate,
the City Planning Commission has
prepared a comprehensive ten-year
plan for their expansion. The mat
ter now is in the hands of the City
Council, which, properly, intends to
proceed cautiously with the proposal.
There can be little doubt, however,
that historic Alexandria, which, with
other communities in the Washing
ton Metropolitan Area, is enjoying
building boom, can be made more
attractive by an adequate park sys-
tenn. While financial and other prob
lens may delay inauguration of work
on such project, town officials will
take a progressive step if they sue
ceed in agreeing promptly on a plan
of procedure.
The proposal now before them calls
for a waterfront park affording
anchorage for small boats, acquisi-
ton of lands for at least three addi-
tional Fairgrounds, establishment of
public parks in areas of natural
beauty" conversion of certain prop
erty now in city ownership into park
and recreational usage, and improve
ment and expansion of existing
facilities. Locations under cOnSid-
Grafton include Four Mile Run, an
area in which the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission is
attempting to acquire tract of land
for park purposes. Gravel rights in
the Potomac would be exchanged for
tract near the run now owned by
gravel company and which the park
body fears might be developed in an
undesirable way unless it acquires
ownership.
The Federal plan, like the program
of the Alexandria Planning Commis-
sion, appears meritorious from the
long-range public standpoint. Ger
tainly the commission, with the aid
of planning expert and the CO.
operation of civic groups, has done
a thorough job in preparing its
sixty-six-page report and helping
focus attention on one of the major
problems of the fast-growing eighth
largest city in Virginia.
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Army Morale

BY establishing a morale division
In the office of the Adjutant General,
the War Department has given ap-
propriate recognition to the recrea-
tional and welfare needs of our ex-
panding Army. Under the direction
OF the new unit, service clubs will be
established in all the larger camps,
athletic and social events will be ar
ranged, new theaters will be con-
structed for the showing of latest
Hollywood films to soldier audiences,
and the Army will be provided with
more libraries. In its welfare pro-
gram, the War Department will seek
to facilitate and make easier the
transition from civilian to Army life,
and a special effort will be made to
establish a close cooperation be-
tween each camp and the neigh
boring communities.
That the Federal Government, in
raising large army, has a real re-
sponsibility to provide adequate
recreational facilities for the men
called to the colors is plain. The
value of play and entertainment in
maintaining morale, both among
soldiers ana civilians, has long been
recognized. After a hard day on
the drill ground, an evenings en-
tertainment in a motion picture
will ,o11Iph tn fortif1y q
recruit for the grind that follows
reveille the next morning. By the
same token, Saturday night dance
at the service club, or an inter-
regimental baseball game on Satur-
day afternoon, will help ease the
strain on a soldier, and thus increase
his military efficiency.
During the first World War, both
In camps here and in the A. E. F..
overseas, the Army placed great
stress on recreational activities. Sup
plementing the Army's efforts, the
Young Mems Christian Association,
the Knights of Columbus and other
civilian organizations rendered a
valuable service through their well
fare and recreational work in main
tanning at high level the morale of
Americas fighting men. The prob
lem now is much the same as it was
in 1917 and 1918. Hundreds of thou
sands of Americans sooh will be
called into military service, and for
many the change from civilian en-
vironment to an army life will
not be easy. In preparing its plans
for recreational activities the Army
has had the benefit of the expert
ence gained during the World War.
There is good reason to believe,
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THIS AND THAT
Bu Charles E. Trdce1Uell.

The small bird bath flush in the
ground at the gate had q customer.
1t was the first time this summer
that this particular bath had done any
business except with wandering dogs.
For some reason or other, the birds
had passed 1t up. An old turtle now and
then cooled himself of in it.
Today, however, was different.
A female cardinal was having a fine
time in the little bath, about q foot
In diameter, and inches deep.
She was not alone, though.
Two impudent English sparrows in
sisted on taking bath with her!
The cardinal was properly indignant.
While she did not give up for a second
the fluttering of her wings, to spray the
water over her more completely, she
kept her bill open at the sparrows all
theI time
Every now and then she would make
kissing sound, which evidently was de-
signed to scare the intruderS away.
The cardinal occupied one side of the
bath, while the two small brown birds
took the other.
But this was not ALL
On the circular rim, which is we'll
defined, a gallery of six sparrows
watched the bathing party.
4 X \
AS this was the first cardinal OF either
sex we had ever seen bathe in any sort
of container, we watched the proceedings
with interest.
The redbird must have been in the
water for at least five minutes before
she flew away.
BY this time she was thoroughly wet.
The two sparrows remained behind
her, and were joined at once by several
OF the sparrows on the rim.
No doubt they had just been waiting
for her to get out before they hoped
in.
Once they saw her bathing, they
decided that they would try it, too.
Just why this bath had gone unused
all summer was something of a mystery.
1t was surrounded on three sides by
pldIlIS, "IliSIl IlO" dIc III lull UIOOIIl.
These are Sedum spectabile, with soft
light rose blossoms, and blue ageratum.
Maybe the birds had been waiting for
this spot to become a bower, before
trying it as bathing place.
We had thought for a long time that
maybe the reason was that the place
was too well surrounded by foliage, max
ing the birds afraid to come there
Where there is plenty of foliage, there
is plenty Of chance for an enemy to
lurk.
Since no possible enemy had ever been
seen there, the explanation probably
was not good one
1t just seems as if some bird baths
have no takers. The position seems
to have little to do with it. Birds will
come to bath close to house or far
away in the corner of the yard.
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Lesson in Preparedness

A superintendent at movie thea
ter had, or thought he had, occasion
to fire an usher. The usher, how
ever, was made of stern stuff; be-
meath his admiral's uniform beat a
stout heart. He declared a state of
war and announced the establish
ment of a blockade. Hour after hour
he paraded up and down in front
of the theater, waiting for his quarry
to sneak out.
1t was largely war of nerves. The
super would sit through the feature,
somewhat cheered by the way the
hero won out, and then take fur
tive look at the usher outside, only
to lose confidence when he reflected
that the latter was an amateur
boxer He would then return to his
base and repeat the performance.
Each time in reel life with monot-
onous regularity virtue triumphed-
but would it do the same in real life,
where the invaluable assistance of
the moguls of Hollywood was lack
ing? He doubted it. Under a flag
of truce parley was conducted and
in the ensuing peace negotiations the
status quo was re-established. All
the usher wanted was his rightful
place in the dark, and he got it.
"It was quite simple, buddy" he
said upon being interviewed by a
Congressman. when the emer-
gency came up, I was ready for it.
AS it happened, I was already in
uniform at the time. am sure glad
I did not have to wait sixty days to
put It on"
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mocracy is gravely menaced. We are the
third large democracy. Can We learn
from our opponents? Why have they
triumphed?
Obviously, they have won to date
because of disciplined national unity
1t is true that that discipline is imposed
from the top down. But il is also true
that the source of discipline does not
matter in a military sense. A disciplined
totalitarian country can walk over an
undisciplined democracy regardless of
the latter'S higher standards Of personal
liberty
What is the answer? Obviously that
only self-imposed discipline can meet
the totalitarian discipline. We can take
our pick, one or the other But We can
not match totalitarian discipline with
democratic indisciplne.
Have We. through acts Of our elected
representatives, been demonstrating self
imposed democratic discipline? Not If
press and radio reports are accurate.
In world threatened by totalitarian
power, our administration is trying to
combine national defense and New Deal
ism, social gains and city machines into
a political melodrama whose climax will
be, it is hoped, third term. The shat
tering of highly respected tradition as
old as the country itself would hardly
seem a good starting point for demo-
cratic ef-discipline.
In Congress We have been treated to a
prolonged spree of individuaistic ora
tory reaching fantastic limits of irrele-
want invective and personal objurgation.
In the House this actually eliminated
in fist fight.
If two rowdies started pummeling
each other in the Reichstag while Hit
Ter was speaking, not only would they
be thrown into Jail, but their superiors
would be lucky to get off with merely a
thorough dressing down. Yet, when the
people of the United States as repre-
sented by press and radio reporters, the
leaders of Congress are content with the
mild rebuke of "expunging" the original
remarks from the record. We, the peo-
pie, get less respect than Der Fuhrer.
Our discipline does not need to be of
the Nazi type. But it has to be as good
as their type. In a democracy, that
means discipline self-imposed by intelh-
gence. 1t means subordination of i'm
pulses to play politics or pour out tor
rents of oratory. To date, we have had
few examples of such discipline.
There are people in this country who
honor and value basic American ways
of living. There are patriotic and ca
pable men In high Office in Washington.
If the former will insist that the latter
clamp down ruthlessly on those who
have no sense Of responsibility and self
control, we can make a start toward
national self-discipline. If in Novem-
be we can eliminate the visionary
spirit of New Dealism with its strange
companion, machine politics, we will
have learned something from our op-
ponents. We will be ready to match
his totalitarian discipline with demo-
cratic discipline, and he may not dare
to become an actual enemy.
Del Mar, Calf. G. B. STUDLEY.
September 8.
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Tate Gallery

More than a few Americans, it may
be supposed, thought of cube of
sugar when they heard that German
bombers had struck at the Tate
Gallery in London. 1t was, as they
will remember, upon the trick of
COMPRISING the granulated product
of saccharum officinarum for domes-
tic uses that Sir Henry Tate founded
the fortune which, in terms of active
service to his country and the world
at large, has proved his monument.
Like Andrew w. Mellon in the United
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Sorrows for England
OF Charles Dickens.
To the Editc

TO the Edltor OF Ine star:
I have loved England for 80 years
without ever having visited IT.. am
living over my memories Of the England
of Dickens. I recall Bret Hartes verse
about the miners in a rude Western
camp of the United States: THE whole
camp with Nell in English meadows
wandered and lost their way" And
David Copperfeld," after his long days
of wandering, at last, on the white
cliffs of Dover, found "a home and
friend-those white cliffs which soon
will be shattered by German bombs.
Some one once said I'VE must believe
in Immortality because Shakespeare
and Keats lived" One feels the same
about Charles Dickens.
EDITH HALLOWELL.
Silver Spring, Md.
September IS.
Evening star., 1940-09-18
Presidents Speech Decried
As "Demagogic."
To the Editor Of The Star:

40 the EullUI OF Inc Stdr.
The most demagogic political address
ever delivered by presidential nominee
was that of the thirdterm candidate
before the International Teamsters' Con-
vention Wednesday night. In his care
fully prepared speech, Mr.. Roosevelt
blandly asserted, II am in a sort of
quandary tonight. don't know whether
this is a political speech or not De-
risive laughter, at this assertion. must
have echoed oyer the air waves from
his unseen listeners
Winston Churchill, in his first address
as Prime Minister, to the empire and
particularly 10 Britain, said, Il cannot
promise You anything but blood and
tears, toll and sweat" Mr. Roosevelt
on the contrary, painted different pic
ture in his plea for national unity in
the present preparedness emergency.
Nobody will feel the pinch. Labor is
promised new benefits and overtime pay
for overtime work.
In England the output of every in
dustry essential to defense has increased
out any increase in wages. The workers
there are giving every ounce of their
strength to the common cause. If Amer
lean labor is not also willing to speed
up production to meet the Hitler menace
without increased compensation, it con-
tributes exactly nothing to national de-
Tense.
Mr.. Roosevelt's speech was one not
calculated or intended to promote ma
tional solidarity. 1t was a bid for votes
from first to last. While voicing his
friendship for labor he knows that his
administration has fully co-operated
with high-powered, high-paid labor
racketeers in forcing unwilling nom
union workers to join unions and pay
tribute for the privilege of holding their
jobs and earning their living.
America is on the same downward road
as was France under the Blum govern
ment. May it change roads and leaders
in November. A. S. B.
September IA.
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They like them either flush with the
ground, or raised on pedestal.
Just what factors draw them or keep
them away we have not been able to
determine.
It was interesting to note that the
female cardinal was the first bird to
break the ice, as it were.
The female is by far the braver Of
this species.
The male cardinal, while making many
hostile sounds, including the metallic
click which is their warning cry, seem
rather cowardly.
He is always the last to come to a
newly established feeding station. He
will seldom become used to eating at
feeder elevated on a stake, although
the female will use 1t freely.
Every time the male cardinal flies
in, he looks around nervously to see if
any larger bird is flying near. At the
same time, he has an air Of being rather
proud of himself, Just as If his mate
hadn't been coming to the feeder all the
time.
Even II the birds hadn't got much
use from this small bath, the dogs had
kept it drained all summer through.
Nothing goes TO waste in nature.
The birds wouldn't use this water. but
the dogs and the cats would and did
You could tell which was drinking,
even without looking, by the amount Of
noise made.
The dogs won, tongues down.
When great stopping noise came from
that particular gate, it was easy to see
one of the wanderers standing there.
head almost filling up the little round of
water.
Chickadees are coming back from the
woods these days, to join the nuthatches
which have been back for several weeks.
Nuthatches are wonderful little fellows
Some observers come to have a parti-
cular affection for them, in their neat
suits of gray and blue, touched with
| white
1 A44S ID do III cosy a D4lu dS lIltle Is,
there is something SO trim and neat
| about it.
Their habits are in every way COM
mendable. They are not so shy as
| chickadees and titmice, but almost as
| pretty. They are just little too large
to be regarded as cute" but far prettier
in every way than the larger birds such
| as robins and the jays
These white-breasted nuthatches like
peanut hearts, which can be secured
from some Of the peanut handlers and
manufacturers.
Squirrels also like them, naturally
enough. But if small feeding station
| is placed at some elevation, especially
on tree, just one squirrel can use it at
a time, and while one is being chased
out, the nuthatches have a good chance
to creep in, in their odd way, and
snatch few hearts.
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Letters to the Editor

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therefore, that the morale Of the
American soldier of 1910 and 1941
will be every whit as high as that Of
the Army commanded by General
Pershing nearly twenty-five years
Evening star., 1940-09-18
Need for Discipline
In . Democracy.

To the Editor Of The Star:
The man who cannot learn from his
opponent may let that opponent become
an enemy. The same is true of coun-
tries. The totalitarian countries have
set up a system of government opposed
to the democratic system. They have
conquered many small democracies and
one large one. The second large de-
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