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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. Trdceuell.

soil, and the first thing they knew they
would have good grass.
But they go right ahead planting any
old seed. in dirt that isn't the right sort.
then they wonder why they can't have
good grass.
"And all this" he expostulated, when
they are living right here where the
Government can help them. I always
found them willing to help, too"
The taximan was right, Of course.
The passenger hoped that the man
would not take too severe a look at his
own grass.
Here he had been bemoaning his lawn
for years, and all the time he had been
doing just what the taxi expert said one
shouldn't do. He had never had his soil
examined critically, hadn't even tested it
for relative acidity or alkalinity, and
then had purchased seed and put it
in the ground, without first finding out
what sort of soil he had.
Fools, they say, will never learn!
Home gardening is nice foolishness,
anyway. 1t means that one doesn't
have to run off to the experts. if one
doesn't want to do it.
There is, certain pleasure in being
foolish, perhaps, when 1t doesn't hurt
any one else.
But the taximan was right.
If one is going to garden at all, one
should use little intelligence in the
process.
That is why prior cleanup can be
advocated, in advance of the real fall
garden housekeeping.
There is the tidy gardener, and the
ultratidy gardener. and then the one who
simply lets the leaves fall where they
will, and the grass blades grow over
his shoe tops and the mosquitoes bite his
ankles.
Take look at the old home grounds
today, to see if there aren't any number
of branches sticking far out of the
general contour of the bushes.
These can be taken of with no trouble
at all, and there will be just that much
less to do in the fall.
Leaves have a surprising habit Of
collecting in corners and along fences,
even in July and August Leaves of
locust trees and others are falling all
the time, although not in sufficient
quantities to attract attention to them
selves.
You will find them along the fence,
where they might as well be swept up
now.
And those long canes of the climbing
roses! Perhaps this is bit early to DO
much about them, but certainly now is
as good as any to resolve highly that
something shall be done about them
later.
In the fall, cut out all the old wood,
and leave the new. That is where the
flowers come from next spring. But
pruning great climber is job. 1t will
be all the easier, if some of the old
wood is cut out now, and the tips of
the longest canes cut of. Then the
handy man can be called in when the
leaves begin to fall in earnest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21
Member Of the Associated Press,
Register Them All!

Action of the House Military
tentative stamp of approval on the
proposals in the original Burke
Wa6sworth bill to register all men
between the ages of eighteen and
sixty-four and to induct into active
service those between twenty-one
and forty-five will be applauded, The
Star believes, by an overwhelming
majority of the American people.
Nationwide polls and samplings of
community sentiment by various
newspapers and organizations In all
parts of the country attest the fact
that most citizens are convinced that
the Nation faces the gravest emer-
gency Of its history. that extraordi-
nary preparations for national de-
tense must be made at once and that
one Of the indispensable steps in the
preparedness program is an imme-
date selective draft of man power
for military training and for such
service as the ominous future may
demand.
In approving, for the time being at
least, the broad registration provi-
sion of the bill as first drafted by its
sponsors, the House committee has
evidenced a realistic appreciation OF
the perils which beset the United
States. Its companion committee in
the Senate, presumably as compro-
mise, reduced the age limits for reg
istration, as we'll as active duty, so as
to encompass only men from twenty
one to thirty-one years old. Under
the original bill the younger and
older men were to be registered for
home defense work. Thus, the bill
now under debate In the Senate
makes no provision whatever for
even so innocuous procedure as a
peacetime registration and classical
ton of all the potential man power
that would be available If war came
to this continent. Apparently the
Senate committee would have Amer
lea wait until an invading force was
on It's way to our shores before even
so much as taking a military census
of men in the eighteen-to-twenty
and the thirty two-to-sixty-four age
ranges, both inclusive. The Senate
committee, by reporting the amended
CONSUMPTION bill, demonstrated. its
approval OF the principle of selective
service, but its action in eliminating
the provision by which the Govern
ment would take stock of the younger
and older men specifically for home
defense duties was most shortsighted.
It is The Stars hope that Congress
will take the advice of the House
Military Affairs Committee, as ten
tatively propounded yesterday, and
that with the least possible delay it
will pass the Burke WadSworth bill
in its broadcast form and without
emasculating amendments. Day by
day there is mounting evidence that
any policy Of deferment is danger
Gus, that any vacillation now In
preparing to meet the gathering
storm may bring incalculable dis
aster later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21
Urges Support
OF Defense Program.

To the Editor Of The Star:
With q full realization Of the gravity
Of the world situation and the inherent
danger to our own security, and con-
scious of the necessity of presenting
united front to the aggressor nations,
I feel that 1t is incumbent on every
American to support the defense program
Of the President during this critical
period Of national emergency, and not
weaken him before the world by factious
opposition. Assuredly, the seriousness Of
the situation transcends all personal and
political aspirations.
It must be evident to every student Of
the military history Of the United States
that the principal weakness in our
military system is our deficiency Of Or
ganized reserves, men trained in the
effective use of modern weapons Of de-
tense and subject to immediate service
should the need arise.
Our first line of defense, two-ocean
Navy, has already been authorized. The
present authorized strength Of the Regu-
lar Army and National Guard, as an
initial protective land force, seems to
be wholly adequate. However, it is Of
the utmost importance that we at once
begin building up trained reserve force
Of at least 1000 900 men.
Contrary to popular belief that mil
lion men will spring to arms overnight
in defense of their country, all military
history proves the fallacy of dependence
on our traditional policy of the volunteer
system. Responsibility for providing
adequate national defense rests solely
with Congress. The pending legislation
is belated attempt to rectify q very
serious mistake in military policy.
I call for the prompt enactment of the
principle Of . selective universal mill
tary training program as the only demo-
cratic, orderly and speedy method Of
mobilizing man power for total defense.
WILLIAM e. MARSH.
Elmwood. Conn.
August 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21

Leaves Of many garden plants seem
dry and brittle this summer. in contrast
with the Juicy feel they have in ordi-
nary years.
The drought has been too much for
them. Such sturdy growers as the
altheas and the barkerries almost rustic
as you handle their leaves.
Much trimming Of plants can be done
at this time.
The annual fall cleanup In the yard Is
not far of. The time will be here be-
fore we know 1t. So q good thing to
do is to begin now, while we think
about 1t.
OF course, the big cleanup is scarcely
in order That waits on cooler days and
the certain feel in the air which says
that summer is definitely at an end.
There Is no substitute for autumn.
Still, a great deal may be done now,
to get the garden in order for the big
time to come.
Overgrown bushes, especially. may be
Topped back bit.
You wouldn't call this real pruning,
Just sort of preliminary cutting, to get
things started.
Real pruning, whether done In early
spring or in the fall, requires certain
hardness of heart which not all gardeners
possess Many home owners find pruning
not only difficult, but almost impossible.
Why is this? Can it be merely disin-
clination to cut what has grown so well,
or is it based and founded solidly on
ignorance and lack Of faith?
Ignorance, in that we do not know
what plants can do; lack of faith, in that
we fail to admit that after such trim
ming they can grow again.
Perhaps 1t makes no difference. The
main thing Is that proper pruning is
one OF the most difficult of all garden
tasks, no matter the time Of year, or the
philosophical difficulties which attend it.
You see manifestations of this in all
parts of the city. Everywhere there are
shrubs and evergreens much too tall for
their situation. They were small, when
planted, and so put too close together.
The space between them seemed so
wide, at the time! Now they are push
ing into each other, and hide the win
dows. But no one comes out to cut
them back The owner shrinks from
the task, and he suspects that the handy
man who is so ready with his shippers
really doesn't know what he is doing.
Well. maybe he doesn't, but there can
be little question that something ought
to be done.
1t is the same way with grass. The
taximan reads his passenger a lesson.
YES" says the taximan, people keep
on going to the drugstore to buy grass
seed, any old grass seed. without trying
to find out what is the matter with their
soil.
If" continued the taxi driver, they
would take a handful of their soil to the
Government, they would soon find out
Just what their soil needed.
Then they could get the right seed,
and put the right ingredients in their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21
Upholds Opposition
To Draft Bill.

10 Dr31t DILL
To the Editor Of The Star:
The opposition to the CONSUMPTION bill
voiced by President John L. Lewis OF
the G. I. o. should be supported by every
workingman and every progressive in
the country. The experiences of the Ia
Dor movement in Europe are the best
example of the viciousness Of this bill.
Every European country with q con-
scription plan has used it at one time
or another to break strikes and defeat
labor struggles. We have no guaran-
tee that the Burke Wadsworth bill
could not be used for the same purposes
here in the hands Of reactionary Army
and Government officials.
The experiences Of Spain and China
show that the working people of coun-
try are the best fighters for its integrity
and independence. Warsaw was de-
Tended by its working class long after
it had been deserted by its reactionary
army and government leaders. Con-
scription service for France was not a
guarantee Of French strength. A better
guarantee would have been govern
ment in which the working people Of
France could have faith.
July 30. EDWARD YOUNG.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21

Recent news pictures Of Mussolini
visiting the Alpine front show him
receiving a salute in the form Of an
appraised dagger in the hand Of
every soldier. With recent history
in mind, could any salute be more
appropriate for II Duce, or for his
minionS?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21

Criminals, following plant of an
extortion bomb in a Milwaukee store,
planned to make their getaway In
a small submarine made with tools
purchased on credit at the self-same
store. This reminds one somewhat
of a certain European country be-
ginning with the letter &C."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21

A man in Nevada discovered a
gold mine in his back yard. He can
hardly wait to dig it up, In order to
give the Government a chance to
bury it again In Kentucky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21
Sees Danger to Insurance
Policies in New Deal Spending.

Sees Danger to Insurance
Policies in New Deal Spending.
To the Editor Of The STAR.
There are 10000 900 holders Of insur-
ance policies, of which I am one. In the
United States. Many of these people
have passed the productive, earning age
of life, and their only source Of income
of that class are the annuities they re-
ceive from the companies. I wonder II
they are as apprehensive as am from
q realization Of the imminent danger
threatening the companies in which
they are insured. This danger is the
result of the prohigate, reckless and
irresponsible spending of the New Deal,
and of its waste Of the substance Of the
people, and of policies that have de-
stroyed free enterprise, petrided the
energies of our people, and curtailed the
production of industry, and also to the
terrifying national debt created by the
New Deal.
The point has been reached where the
Government no longer can operate on
the revenue derived from taxation, and
in consequence 1t has had to resort to
borrowing on bonds, which the banks
and the insurance companies have taken
at par. AS sure as night follows day
the time will come, and it may not be
long delayed, when the people will not
accept at par bonds which are part OF
a runaway debt. Let that point be
reached in the runaway debt which Mr..
Roosevelt has created, and every bank
in this country will be in distress, for
every bank is now loaded with the Gov
ernment's bonds. In that hour, the
Governments guarantee Of bank deposits
will be Of scant value. For the strength
behind the guarantee is the Govern
ment's credit, and that will have been
undermined by the collapse in the value
of the Governments bonds. In the same
way that deposits will have been stricken,
insurance policies will have been stricken,
for the insurance companies are loaded
with the bonds of the Government. De-
positors and policyholders will be paid
in pieces of paper Of swiftly diminishing
purchasing power.
The present situation with us finds
its parallel in the beginning and the
end Of the LIST century. A.D., of Roman
history. The beginning and the cul-
mination Of the misfortunes and degen-
Grafton Of the Romans found their origin
in the emergencies Of . depression like
our own. This depression furnished the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21
Letters to the Editor

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21
Miserere Mel

o Jesus, Savior, pity me,
The least Of all mankind.
In this, my hour Of misery.
Please, call my name to mind.
That name I bore, as I do now,
Though bear 1t not so well.
When I, lad behind a pillow,
My prayers by heart could tell.
Think Of me not as may seem,
But turn the years aside.
BY field and wood and meadow stream
There must q lad abide
Who once was I In other days.
He walks my memory still.
A stranger is the man who prays.
o Master, II you will,
Think Of me only in that spring.
BY ways used to 60,
A lad who went to church to sipo
The hymns ! used to know.
BRANSON BLA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21
Disappointed In Wilkes
Acceptance Speech.

To the Editor Of The Star:
THE performance that didn't come up
to the promise" is an apt description Of
Mr.. WILKES acceptance speech. We
were led to expect decisive statements Of
the issues OF the day which would Justify
his candidacy. What did we get but suf-
ficient Endorsement Of Mr.. Roosevelt's
policies to warrant support Of Mr.. Roose-
welt? There is not single decisive line
drawn. Every essential point Of the
speech could be made, only with better
delivery. by the President himself, except
some of the criticism Of some Of the
Presidents conduct in reaction to war
developments.
As one who was beginning to view
Mr.. Willkie as the lesser evil must con-
fess tremendous disappointment. particu-
larry In the light Of his Endorsement OF
conscription--or maybe he didn't indorse
1t! Who knows?
August 10. STANLEY GOODWIN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-21
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28

Germany and Norway under the
Hitler proclamation puts Denmark
in a queer position, since she is
serving as a basis of operations for
a German army fighting against
her traditional and natural friend
in the north.
Denmark, although occupied by
the German army, still is an 1nde-
pendent kingdom in the German
view.
The occupied Norwegian terrific
ries, on the other hand, have taken
on a status somewhat similar to
that of Poland.
Under the Fuehrer's decree, Josef
Terboven is civil governor and Gen.
eral Nikolaus Won Falkenhorst is the
military chief of the occupied areas.
Both, however. must operate along
lines prescribed for them by Hitler
or two of his appointees. DR.. Hans
hammers, secretary of the chancel-
lery, and Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel,
chief of the high command.
Since the decree also said that the
existing law in Norway would re
main in force only so long as it X
compatible with the aims of the &C.
cupation, this meant to all intents
and purposes that Hitler will decide
the future of that part Of Norway
controlled by his army.
The decree further gave the Ger
man police authority in Norwa.-.
Under this clause, it may be as
sumed, Heinrich Himmler's famed
secret police will be active in these
areas against any subversive ele'
ments, just as they we're effective
in putting down civilian opposition
in Poland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
r MTG. CAMP
RECRUITS SOUGHT
rxoininq Period Scheduled At
Fort Bragg From June
II To July IL

.o1trnent for the 1910 Citizens
..r ha Training Camp to be held
N'I Fort Bragg, June II, July II is
a. rrder way and hundreds of
~" and Young men from North
l~.,,,ns and d section of South
CCr.ina are planning to spend the
.@- 5av period at this large army
pV onotas rlave been assigned to the
oounties in North Carolina and
~ counties in South Carolina that
-. in the Fort Bragg area and a
~ number of the counties have
.aodv exceeded their enrolment.
Tl rive every eligible youth in ev.
county and opportunity to at
The camp this year, the quo
n 1,il he adhered to for several
1"9 vet. it was announced, be-
+be enrolment is thrown open
to all. ~ ~
eouth Carolina who desire to
s++ord this summer camp should
:rNnadiatelv see their county C. NJ.
n ~ representative regarding the
a,un and obtain an application
tIant TO be filled out and sent in.
r. they are unable to contact their
county representative they may
ur,rn direct 10: C. NJ. T. c. Officer,
rort Bragg, n. c., for information
and enrolment blank.
at is not the purpose of a Citiz-
ems Military Training Camp to make
soIdiers out Of young men," ex-
nlsined Col. j. ". HARRISON, Civil
fsn Aide to the Secretary Of War
for North Carolina. mo obligation
e., future military service after
camp is assumed. The military
training is merely incidental to the
development Of self-discipline, team
work and qualities of leadership"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28
HITLER BLAMES
WAR ON BRITISH

said it was clear that British troops
were On their way to Norway even
before the British announced the lay.
ing of a mine field off the Nor
wegian coast April s to hat German
ships in Norwegian territorial wa,
ters.
Chief among these alleged docu-
ments was what p%urported 70 be a
British plan for an expeditionary
force, outlined under the code name:
"Stratforce."
According to this asserted docu-
mentation, an operation order Of the
Eighth battalion of Sherwood For
esters showed that on April Z, the
battalion was on its way to Norway
in the British cruiser Glasgow, to be
landed at Stavanger, and the first
battalion of Leicestershires also was
scheduled to take part in the eXpe.
dition.
Won Ribbentrop, speaking in the
new Reichs ~chancellery to the i'm
pressive assemblage, declared Nor
ways government 'aided and abet-
ted" these plans for an Allied Scan
dinavian front from which Germany
might be destroyed"
Compliments Sweden
But he complimented Sweden for
staying out.
Sweden he said, interpreted its
declaration Of neutrality very Sc
riously indeed, and at no time did
anything or let anything happen
which might not have been in &C.
cord with it,
The foreign minister, unsmiling
and grim throughout his half-hour
speech, was particularly vehement
when he accused the Allies of mis-
representing their true aims in
Scandinavia.
The knuckles of his clenched fist
were white as he declared that the
assurances of those in power in
Britain and France Chat they did
not plan to send troops to Norway
are only lies and falsehoods."
He was equally bitter in his de-
nunciation of the Norwegian gov
eminent of Premier Johan Nygaards-
void.
"In full consciousness" he said,
tit disregarded the vital interests of
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-28

lsh-Norwegian opposition appeared
thus far ineffective in central Nor
way south Of Trondheim. One for.
elgn neutral military observer OF
long experience expressed the con.
viction that the Nazis could not
we'll be stopped.
The German drive is in three
main sections, along the railroad
inland from Bergen and in the
Roros and Dombas sectors farther
north. The thanking column is an
offshoot, sprouting northward be-
tween the two latter places.
The Nazi Aim
The Nazi aim apparently is to
establish efficient communications
among these three main sectors
and at the same time push against
the British troops now established
IN the Steinkjer area SO miles
north of Trondheim. The prize Of
victory will be the control of all
but the narrow northern part of
Norway.
The Germans acknowledged that
their operations around Arctic Mar
vlk had been delayed, but put. the
blame on now and cold rather
than on opposing armies.
The Allies themselves acknowl-
edged an early retreat in the Dom
bas sector and a Norwegian COM
munique spoke of Nazi advances
along the Bergen railway.
Border dispatches told Of minor
Nazi forces holding Roros and said
the main fighting in that sector
was to the east around Djuposolien
near the Swedish border.
German. engineer troops advanc
ed north of Roros to Nyplass to re
pair a bridge dynamited by the
Norwegians.
Both armies are using their all
forces, but the Swedish press gave
much prominence to a warning at
tributed to English newspapers thar
too great optimism was not war
ranted-that the Germans contro
the airfields in Norway and all bur
the smallest ports in which it il
most difficult to land troops.
Not Yet Stopped
Foreign military observers = SINH
larry concluded that the British
navy had not stopped the transpor
of Nazi troops by sea (the contin
ued landing of troops was reported
at Oslo), and that the British with
out reinforcement could not re.takt
the Nazi-held territory.
Neutral Sweden, meanwhile, tool
new steps to safeguard her neu
trallty. A recruiting office wa!
opened for home defense guards. O.
men over As and for youths be
tween II and 20.
These guards would be used tt
fight parachute troops or mino1
troops which strayed from the
main force Of any enemy Sweder
might encounter.
A bill with new definitions o.
espionage and treason was introduc
ed in parliament.
Here and there in midtown
Stockholm, a few merchants for
the first time started boarding
their display windows against air
raid dangers. There also was some
sandbagging of buildings but not
yet on a large scale.