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Evening star., 1940-04-08
"TWENTY-NINTH STREET.

Dear Sir: A. Is usual with uS, we
turned instantly to your article tonight
when The Star came and We read with
interest the continued comments as to
the bathing Of the cardinal.
Yesterday, our first warm day in
some time, we planted grass seed-then
turned on the sprinkler which forms
sort of a fountain spray and reaches
lower tree branches.
Almost instantly cardinal was bath
ing in this suay-wings-topkno
every feather moving to catch the water.
when we first bought our home In
the suburbs we had similar occurance
and the first bird we observed bathing
at about 6 o'clock in the afternoon-was
the cardinal in the spray which reached
q tree bough.
'Woodpeckers, we have read, bathe In
the moisture left on leaves, but we have
never seen one doing so in our bird bath.
"As always, we thank you for the
charm and information found in your
articles. Sincerely, H. M. g."
Well. that about finishes cardinals
bathing.
They do bathe!
There can be no doubt about their
bathing, according to our readers. Some
say in mud puddles, none says In
bird bath, but most point to the fine
spray of a garden hose.
There is great deal more to do with
q lawn hose than just let 1t wet the
sidewalk, as 50 many persons do, espe-
cially children.
There seems to be something about
the coverage of concrete with water
which fascinates 'em.
That gradual creeping of the black
over the white or near-white undoubt-
edly has its fascination.
And while on the subject of concrete,
let this column say that never have we
been offended by 1t, as some profess.
Concrete walks, steps-we like them,
and think them quite as good in 4 gar
den as tagging or brick.
II cement walks glare" as some say
they do, is not the remedy more plants,
better lawns?
There is something nice and trim
about concrete walks, or steps.
They have finality. You know where
they are. In wet weather you have
something to step on.
In recent years, many finicky ladies
and gentlemen have taken up gardening.
They really don't like 1t, but it is the
thing to do.
They assert with great positiveness
that "glaring' white concrete has no
place in garden. They are willing
to admit concrete bird BATH or bench,
but convenient white walk-ugh! or
whatever the exclamation is for great
horror.
Likewise, they profess to dislike ma
genta shades.
Evening star., 1940-04-08
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles Z. Trace1uell.

Horrible, in contrast, they say. But
nature is one Jump or two ahead of
them again. Just ~ she puts "glaring"
white sands on our beaches, and decks
the oily black, blue green of the waves
with glistening whitecaps. or foam, 50
she makes such profusion Of colors In
= good garden that 4 little magenta
here and there does not go aniss except
in the hoity-toity eye.
Don't acquire . hoity-toity eye. It
will make everything look wrong to you,
especially in garden.
\ 4
Holding the garden hose is always fun
at first.
Then there usually comes time when
watering the lawn becomes great bore.
Well, there are other ways to do it.
One Is to take of the nozzle COM
pletely, and just lay the open end on
the earth where you want the water.
An amazing amount Of liquid comes
out, that way. OF course, 1t isn't very
exciting to watch it.
Come back In 10 minutes, however,
especially in thin shoes, and walk within
10 feet of the open hose end. You will
flnd out that the earth is completely
sopped.
This is the way to treat those brown
spots which often develop In lawns in
the hot weather. Often enough there
are stony deposits not far down, under
even the disappearing grass
Nothing will snap them back to green
so much as really good rain or water
put on with a hose in the right way,
which is the open-end way.
Then there is that fine spray, which
the cardinals like. But they are not the
only birds which love that sort of
bathing
Robins and many others seek the mist.
II one determines to go in for this
sort OF use of the hose. there is no better
time than from 5 o'clock in the after
noon or evening, as you prefer.
Make a habit of regular time, so
that the birds can become used to II.
and look for it.
Wetting the lawn in this way is espe-
cially good for bringing up worms, and
these always attract that champion
worm eater, the robin.
How he loves his worms!
The finer the mist the more fun for
the birds.
Even the tiny hummingbirds are not
afraid OF the mist, which from some
nozzles or sprinklers almost assumes the
color and appearance of smoke.
Turn the mist on the shrubbery for
the warblers. They are supposed, one
and all, to like to get their water of of
leaves, where it settles in hollows and
the like
After the spray has been on shrubberv
for time, many species Of birds like to
hop around beneath the shrubs and eat
insects which have been swept down by
the water
Evening star., 1940-04-08
Arbitration on Oil

secretary OF State Hull, by propos-
ing arbitration of the oil controversy,
has offered Mexico an equitable
method of solving problem which,
in its various stages, has plagued
American-Mexican relations for
more than two years.
With delivery of the American note
to Mexican Ambassador Castillo Ma
jera the oil dispute becomes a full
diplomatic issue between the two
governments, a development which
the United States Government has
sought to avoid by encouraging di-
rect settlement between the oil COM
panies and Mexico.
Such settlement has not proved
possible. The Mexican Supreme
Court last fall upheld the expropria-
ton decree Of March 1s, 1898, and
valuation Of the seized properties is
now being carried on by the Mexican
government alone, the American
companies having declined to asso-
ciate themselves with the work.
The oil companies have valued
their lost properties at some $780,
100000; Mexico tentatively at ten
or fifteen million dollars. This wide
divergence of opinion as to the value
of the properties, rather than the
question of propriety of the seizures
in the first place, is the question be-
fore the American Government.
The Roosevelt administration has
never challenged the right of Mexico
to appropriate American properties,
making prompt and adequate COM
pensation for them in accordance
with Mexican law. But this COM
pensation has not been fixed, let
alone paid, and the chances of pay
ment any time soon are small.
It is in this situation that Secre-
tarly Hull now proposes that the
question-presumably limited to val
uation and compensation--be arhi-
Evening star., 1940-04-08
William Fuvershum

Actors, it might be supposed, die
when they cease to act. But to their
audiences, for while at least, they
live, unspoiled by time, unconquered
by the passing years. William
Faversha.n, who gave everything
that he had to the theater from 1885
until his retirement in 1881, might
be cited as an example Of the fate
which, for good or i'll, is the lot of
mummers as a class. Their rewards
are few, yet they rarely complain.
1t Is part Of the price they pay for
their great love for the stage that
they should toll arduously for small
Wages-and in the end leave nothing
but a memory.
Mr.. Faversham might have had a
military career. He followed two of
his brothers to India and served in
the army there for a while. But a
chance meeting with touring COM
pany "out from England" furnished
a new dynamic for his life. He re-
turned to London to serve his ap-
premiership behind the footlights
under the guidance of Carlotta LIE
Clerq. When Henry Irving offered
him an opportunity, he declined be-
cause he was not content with a
minor role. A stock opening at
Ramsgate provided him with the
chance he wanted to start at the
top. He justified his claim with a
vigorous portrayal of Hamlet, but
Britain at the moment was
crowded field even for stars.
So 1t happened that Mr.. Faver-
sham came to America in 1887. His
first effort in New York was fail
ure. The young thespian and his
bulldog were ousted from their
boarding house and learnt the lesson
OF homelessness and hunger. A job
as laborer solved their problem
until Rider Haggard's "she" was
produced at Niblo's Garden. Mr..
q IVA SAA0AAA WOO SOoV do Leu Ill U1lAI y
spectacle, and his future was bright.
He played Helmer in Ibsen's "A
Dolls House" with Minnie Maddern
and went on the road in "The Prince
and the Pauper" with Elsie Leslie.
But it was as Jim Carston in Edwin
Milton Royle's ''The Squaw Man"
that he won his richest laurels. The
present generation was born too late
to see him in that character, but it
may trust the judgment of its elders
that he deserved the fame he
achieved.
Later, Mr.. Faversham had a COM
pany of his own, presenting Shake
speare and the plays of lesser
authors. His talents reached their
maturity, he was happy in his ca
pacity to do his work. The clock,
however, continued to tick, and each
speeding minute cost him some
thing. Now he is gone, "is heard no
more" and only his name remains
to testify that he was a mighty
artist in his day and we'll merited
the applause he gained and the sat.
isfaction which that applause gave
to his sensitive and courageous
heart.
Evening star., 1940-04-08
Comfort

This much I know, life may take an
away,
All Joy, all love. all hope, my very
sight,
But shall yet have memory Of the dav
first saw plum trees In q lace of
white
I shall still have companionship of these:
Clouds banked against . wall Of blind
ing blue,
Seagulls above the foam Of dawn-srav
seas,
And pansies laughing through their
wells Of dew.
No pain may take away from me that
day
When I saw linnets nocking in tho
boughs;
Nor shall grief drive this memory away
Starred skies above the mountains'
deep blue brows.
When bitter things shall tear my soul
apart
The memory Of trees shall heal NJ
heart.
) BAATRic1 RAW.
Evening star., 1940-04-08
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH
April 3.
Discusses Motives Of
Russia's War on Finland.
To the Editor Of The Star:


Let us recognize that Stain and Hit
Ter are allies. This permits us to as
sumo that the attack on Finland was
definitely integrated to the German cam
paign. The purpose of the invasion,
therefore, may have been to force Eng
land and France to fight on another
front. This, we know, almost happened.
1t was prevented only by the sluggish
ness Of England in sending aid. Had
the British and the French gone to the
aid of Finland, their forces would have
been separated and unity of command
eliminated - some troops fighting in
France, some in Finland, still others in
Southeastern Europe or in Western Asia
Minor. Then, too, the forces of England
and France would have been weakened,
because troops would have been with
drawn from established fronts and re-
serve bases.
ROBERT LoRENZ HANSEN.
Ap9U 1
Evening star., 1940-04-08
Hopes Fire Tragedy VIII
Spur Safety Efforts.
TO the Editor OF The Star:

10 the Eoltor OF The Star:
May have space in your good paper
to commemorate the name Of a pathetic
victim Of the o street fire on April /?
Miss Carrie Dunahue was q quiet. we'll
bred gentlewoman, q devout Christian.
member Of the Episcopal Church, a
kind and thoughtful friend. We who
knew her felt the genuineness of her
character, and her many friends in Lees
burg, Waterford and this city sincerely
mourn her tragic death. One who knew
her from childhood remembers her dread
and horror Of fre and no doubt she
trembled in spirit, reciting the words of
the htany-"from battle, and murder,
and from sudden death, Good Lord, de-
liver us!" But perhaps she and the other
victims have not died in vain If this ter
rible tragedy shall spur the dilatory gov-
eminent of Washington to safeguard in
future the lives and property of its
citizens. E.F. L, SMITH.
April 4. =, .-
Evening star., 1940-04-08
for this country to begin to think what
we will do about it,

for this country to begin to think what
we will do about it,"
There is nothing for us ito do about
it" other than to suggest to the British
and French that 1t will then be time
for them to sit down and arrange for
sensible peace. which they apparently
are not ready to do now. They are the
nations that began the present war and,
instead of their waiting for the Germans
ito start something' the burden of pro-
ceeding Is on them, as in court of law.
AS matter Of fact, the proper solu-
ton already is in plain sight-a solution
that should result in stable economic
and political equilibrium for many years
In the future. But Britain and France
stubbornly refuse to see 1t, much like
the ostrich that sticks its head in the
sand.
The proper solution should include a
pure Polish state as buffer between
Germany and Russia with an autono-
nous Jewish province somewhere in the
same region. Poland, as thus consti-
tuted, should have access to the Baltic
Sea. 1t should not embrace Russians.
Ukrainians, Germans or other minori-
ties
The recreation of a heterogeneous and
polyglot independent Czecho-Slovakian
nation would only revive one of the
crimes of the Versailles treaty, especially
If Britain and France should have a
hand in it, presenting various racial
minority questions that would cause
constant irritation and trouble in that
area. Like the Beers and French-Ca-
nadians, their status should be auton-
omous provinces within the German
boundaries
Arguments for the detachment of
Austria from Germany have no more
force and merit than the detachment
OF the Scotch or the Welsh from Eng
land or of Normandy or Lorraine from
France. This idea requires no further
consideration.
The only question that presents any
dimculty Is that of restoration Of colonies
TO Germany. and 1t may be said that
the continuance Of the war is chiefly on
this phase Of the matter, as Hitler
would retire upon the conclusion Of 4
fair peace. VALLEY FORCE
April 5.
Evening star., 1940-04-08
Control Is Needed

Ine need Tor curbing the ever
widening authority assumed by ex-
ecutive agencies Is nc whit abated
by President Roosevelt's complaint
that administrative processes would
be slowed unduly II they were re-
quired to conform more closely to the
pattern of the courts.
The Presidents comment was oc-
casioned by discussion of the pend
ing Walter-Logan bill. This bill
would furnish additional safeguards
for the rights of litigants by en-
larging the powers of Federal courts
to pass on rulings by depart
ments and independent agencies
that affect the public interest. Mr..
Roosevelt admitted his unfamiliarity
with the measure, and explained,
therefore, that he was not certain if
his criticism would apply. But he
added that, as general principle, the
subordination of these groups to the
courts would encourage delay in
cases and give the side with the
most money an unfair advantage in
pursuing dilatory tactics.
Whether, in actual practice, rea-
sonable regulation would bog down
the ordinary operations of boards,
bureaus and commissions is open to
argument, for it has yet to be tried.
Speed, however, is not always either
desirable or essential, and the fact
that a Itigant possesses sufficient
funds to prevent summary DISPOSE
ton OF his case hardly would be
grounds for denying him his full
rights.
This problem should not be
shunted aside for fear of hypotheti-
cal diff1culties surrounding attempts
at solution. Whether the Walter
Logan bill is the answer is beside
the question. That bill was intro
duced to meet well-recognized de-
mand, for while it is broad enough to
cover intradepartmental units, it is
aimed principally at those quasi
legislative and quasi-judicial inde-
pendent groups in which an inde-
fensible system OF uncontrolled rule
making and enforcement has grown
into dangerous proportions.
On this point, it Is interesting to
recall the comment of the Brownlow
report in 1887, which was the basis
for President Roosevelt's celebrated
reorganization plan that was re-
jected by Congress. Proposing that
these units be brought under de-
partments, the report said:
"They constitute headless
fourth branch of the Government, a
haphazard deposit of irresponsible
agencies and unco-ordinated powers.
They do violence to the basic theory
OF the American Constitution that
there should be three major branches
OF the Government and, only three.
The Congress has found no effective
way of supervising them, they can
not be controlled by the President
and they are answerable to the
courts only in respect to the legality
of their activities"
Presumably the President indorsed
these sentiments at the time they
were expressed, and it is to be regret
ted that he seems to have forgotten
them now.
Evening star., 1940-04-08
Warriors Are Called
Scourge Of the Earth.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Many are of the opinion that the
present reign of lawlessness is attribut-
able, IN a great measure, to the last
World War, although people were led
10 believe that when Kaiser Bill" was
defeated something resembling a social
millennium would dawn, as the princi-
pies OF a true and lasting democracy
would be established. Today, Herr Hitler
has stepped into the Kaisers shoes and
we are being told that when Adolph is
annihilated foundations will be laid for
world peace. A few generations ago the
English speaking race was menaced bv
Napoleon and few generations hence
another Hitler, Kaiser Wilhelm, Ma
poleon, or, perhaps, Stain, or Nero.
Will disturb the peace and silly men
will attempt once more to make the
world safe" by releasing poison gas and
pouring liquid lead upon their enemies.
One might just as we'll maintain tnat
building would be made secure from
fire by spraying 1t with gasoline every
once in a while
warriors are the scourge Of the
EARTH" wrote Guy de Maupassant. 1--WE
struggle against nature and ignorance,
against obstacles of all kind, in order to
lessen the hardships of our miserable
existence. Men, benefactors, scholars
wear out their lives toiling, seeking
what may help, what may solace their
brethren. = War is declared! In six
months the generals have destroyed
the efforts of 20 years of patience and
genius. And this is what is called not
falling into the most hideous material
ISM"
EDMUND K. GOLDsBOROUGH.
Evening star., 1940-04-08
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the tDriter although the use OF
a pseudonyn1 for publication is
permissible. Please be brief!
Evening star., 1940-04-08

Wr1ter ACCUSES Allies
OF War Guilt.
To the Editor of The Star:
In recent article In The Star, Messrs.
Alsop and Kintner stated that about two
years more OF this war will result In the
depletion Of the British and French
foreign credits and that ut u now time
Evening star., 1940-04-08
Member Of the Associated pr.ss

Entered as second-class matter post ONCE.
Washington D. C..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18

a road between Bostic and route 100;
roadway, Probst Construction COM
pany of Concord, ~$3S,152.43; struc-
lures, Hobbs Peabody Construction
Co, of Charlotte, $15, 1880.
Alamance, sand-asphaIt surfacing
of 1.22 miles of routes 54 and 100
between Burlington and Glen Raven;
Leon Ellis, $~27,969.15.
Mecklenburg, grading, concrete
paving and structures on Ley miles
of route 40, from appoint nine miles
southwest of Charlotte to a point
about seven miles southwest OF
Charlotte: roadWork, Blythe Brothers
of Charlotte, $5S,715.70; structures
Hobbs Peabody, ~$16,513.60.
Richmond, grading and structures
on 100 miles of L. S. route IA be-
tween the Peedee river. bridge and
Rockingham; roadway, r. G.. Foster
of Wadley, Ga, $25,121.25; struc-
lures, Hobbs Peabody, 81, 46S.
Pre-mixed concrete, West Con
struction company, $22,275.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
Extension OF Trade
Treaty Act Is Asked

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-l9-
Taking sharp issue with IL rerlbli-
can contention that reciprocal trade
agreements constituted a "share'
our-wealth" program, Henry f.
Grady. assistant secretary of state,
urged congress today to extend the
executive power to negotiate the
treaties.
Grady appeared before the house
ways and means committee.
When Rep. Knutson (R-Minn), a
committee member, argued that the
program was a Notwithstanding IDEA
Grady replied that industry in the
United States, with higher pay fol
labor and shorter hours, "still car
produce and compete in world mar
kets." He added that half Of
American exports were in manu-
featured goods.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
Wolcott Declares WPA
Workers Being Used
As u. S. Secret Police

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-(APS
A charge that WPA employees are
being used las the secret police of
the government was made today
by Rep. Wolcott R-Mich). He ac-
cused WPA officials of ''snooping"
on congressman and reporting to
headquarters on their activities.
A year ago, Wolcott said, Rep.
|Taber R-1IY) questioned Harry Hop
kins, then WPA administrator,
about a sewer project in New York
during hearings on the emergency
relief appropriation act, after which
"a member of the OGPU who hap
pened to be on the payroll of the
WPA was asked to make a report
Wolcott said he did so, or the
letterhead of the "WPA of New
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
WAR HALTED BUYING

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17-CP-Of-
ficials of the Commodity Credit cor
poration said tonight that British
companies had purchased no tobac-
co in this country since the out
break of war but that some had been
shipped to England under prior con-
tracts.
The corporation set up a $40, 000,-
900 fund to finance purchases of
flue-cured tobacco when the British
buying ceased in the first week OF
September. The tobacco technically
was purchased for the corporations
account, with the British companies
receiving options to take it lat IT
Most of this fund has been a%llocate6
but not all of it has been spent.
A similar fund of 81, 000, 900 was
set up for dark-fired tobacco but
English purchases of this normal.
are small.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
BROWDER ADMITS
HIS USE OF ALIAS
Continued From Page One)

eye blinking slowly and his hand
occasionally seeking the part in his
grazing hair.
Browder is on trial specifically for
using a passport obtained through
false representation. The govern.
ment claims he used the aliases
George Morris and Albert Henry
Richards on visas and borrowed the
name of Nicholas Dozenberg, a one
time "comrade'' who has pleaded
guilty to passport misuse. and is ex-
pected to testify for the government.
Cahi1Ts statement of what he eX-
pected to show va made after a
half dozen defense attacks upon the
indictment had been denied by fed
eral Judge Alfred Coke.
The prosecutor, saying his case
would rest largely on documentary
and handwriting evidence, never
once mentioned PROVIDERS position
in the communist party and the jury
at the outset was admonished to CHS
regard any communist implications.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-18
ITALIANS WARNED
OF WAR THREATS
CONTINUED From Page One)

quent press concentrations of
Italy's remaining on the sidelines.
After stating that Italy might
have to fight 'at any moment"
Mutt continued:
sit must therefore be prepared in
it's and above all in its
spirit. 1t is we'll to add that it is
absurd and dangerous to derive
too much satisfaction from the re-
cent demonstrations of internation-
al sympathy which are without
justification or foundation and not
even in harmony with the true
sentiment of the italian people,
which has learned not to forget
the history which it has lived
dramatically, especially in these re-
cent times"
Mutt declared there was no
change in Premier Mussolinis IAN
ti-democratic, anti-Bolshevik, anti
bourgeois policy in words which
authoritative fascists interpreted as
meaning Italy would follow her
own course independently of other
powers.
Some attributed rejection Of Gin
ternational sympathy" to the Ital'
ian belief that Britain and France
would not hesitate to accept the
Soviets as collaborators in forma-
ton of "a better world if that
could be made to coincide witt
British-French aims and doml
nance" This view was expressed
in La Tribuna by Umberto Gugliel
motif. Italy is bitterly antl-Soviet.
The newspaper Avvenire quoted
Soviet radio stations as saying Italy
was world enemy No. L. an6
defying Italy to halt the march Of
Soviet armies.
The newspaper said the radios
statement was occasioned by "the
success of Rome's plans" to com.
bat Bolshevism in the Balkans an(
concrete aid which is being sen
from Rome by land and sea tt
Finland"