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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-22
kIPPERS

This is very appetizing fish.
Unless very small. split open and
bone. They may be soaked like
other salt fish, but are usually
fresheped by pouring boiling water
on them and allowed to stand for
10 minutes. Then broil, bake or pan
fry with butter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-22
DREAMED GOLDFISH
-Four TO Six Servings)

One and one-half cups flaked
fish. Ia cups medium white sauce.
Combine In saucepan over low
heat.
GOLDFISH BALLS
-Four TO Six Servings)
Combine 1 cup of cooked fish
with leftover mashed potatoes and
other vegetables Add ! beaten
egg. teaspoon butter, and \ tea
spoon pepper. Fry in deep fat or
pan fry in butter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-22

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Evening star., 1940-06-27

conventions as though they spoke fol
multitudes. They Influenced policy
chose candidates, often were doubly
paid for their services; but they had
no proper right to the seats they
occupied.
How imperative was reform may
be Illustrated by citation of the fact
that both Oregon and South Caro-
lima have ten delegates in the present
gathering in the Quaker City. In the
former State 122,706 citizens voted
for Governor Landon in 1895; in the
latter, only 1886.
The Rules Committee, which did
the surgical work, and the Repub-
lcan party rank and file, which
accepted it, alike deserve congratu-
lation.
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Needed Reform

If the 1910 convention of the
Republican party is remembered for
nothing else, it should be famous in
time to come for the correction of an
evil which dated back to the So
called reconstruction period" after
the Civil War. The delegates assem-
bled at Philadelphia gave approval
to a Rules Committee report which
included a sweeping plan to deny
representation in future to any con-
gressional district failing to poll a
thousand votes in national or State
election.
This proposal was designed to re-
form condition which periodically
has assumed scandalous significance.
In the South, as everybody knows,
the Republican party is so much a
minority organization as to be
practically non-existent. Yet few
leaders" in Mississippi, for example,
have been receive at quadrennial
Evening star., 1940-06-27

people. This would be the greatest and
most far-reaching service that the Fed
eral Government could render to the
Negro race at this time.
1t was suggested that the hospitals be
established at the following places:
Louisville, Memphis, Atlanta, Birming-
ham, Charleston, S. c., and Dallas. Tex.
These six hospitals, it was estimated,
would cost between s2,5OO,0OO and 50 ,oOO,-
600 to build and equip, including the sites
and nurses homes, which would be g.
comparatively small amount to spend
for the meeting of so crying and pressing
need and the solving of so vexed a
problem.
I wish to call on the hospital admins
traitors and medical leaders throughout
the country, who are most thoroughly
acquainted with the hospital needs of
the Negro race, to rally to the support
of this recommendation of the National
Negro Hospital foundation, Inc, as
vital and most necessary part of the
Nations defense program, for the great
est defense of Nation lies in the health
and happiness of all of its citizens,
June rs. AMOS H. CARNEGIE
Evening star., 1940-06-27

q matter Of dispute, but there is no
doubt that the boy was wounded in
the neck by a bullet from the police
mans gun.
According to the officer, he had
been cleaning the weapon and it
was discharged accidentally as he
was putting 1t back in its holster.
This is denied by the wounded boy
and an eleven-year-old girl COM
panion, who say that the shot was
fired when the sergeant, presumably
in playful mood, pointed the gun
at the youngster and asked: How
would you like some of this?"
There Is no reconciling these two
versions Of the shooting and it
should not be difficult matter, in
a properly conducted open hearing,
to determine which of them is cor
rect. If the facts support the story
told by the children, the sergeant,
at the least, should be summarily
dismissed from the force for such
reckless handling of his service re-
vclver, no matter how obviously ac-
cidental the firing Of the shot may
have been.
This incident reflects nothing but
discredit on the patronage method
OF appointing Capitol police officers.
and under no circumstances should
any political consideration be per-
mitted to stand in the way of max
Ing the fullest investigation of this
case and the taking of such action
as may be indicated by the findings,
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Fifth Column

One form of fifth column invasion
that the United States has endured
for some time is that of the jap
anese beetle, which flies with
impunity across State lines and
penetrates behind quarantine sta
tions with the utmost ease. These
insidious insects, in their search for
a place in the rising sun, insist that
they have no intention of annexing
territory or interfering with the
operations Of farmers. In fact, the
more crops they raise, the better
satisfied are the beetles.
Faced with this situation, ento-
mologists at College Park are meet
ing guile with guile. They are organ
izing sort of super fifth column to
prey on the fifth column, by employ
ing as saboteurs Japanese wasps,
Tiphia vernalis. The one idea of
Tiphia vernalis-the thing that
gives her most Joy in life-is to
head for the nearest japanese beetle
grub and lay eggs in it. In ten days
they hatch, and from then on the
grubs are doomed.
There is good prospect that soon
the Japanese beetle will be done for,
entirely displaced by swarms of the
Japanese wasp. AS yet, it is too early
to predict what bug, from what
country, will be hired to take care
Of the Rasps.
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Dreamer

To you 1t seems my life is duh and slow.
You think walk along a narrow line:
You do not know what turquoise dreams
are mine,
Nor what strange musics through nv
spirit flow!
You do not know the wild adventures I
Have known; although seldom leavs
my room,
My spirits feet know caverns' limestone
gloom,
Ano oiue- e-green glaciers under Arctic sky.
Win all your pleasures you may never
know
Inc tlngling of my spirits magic wine.
You may not know the charm whereby
I fly,
Inc carpet woven on q rainbow loom.
BEATRICE RAW.
Evening star., 1940-06-27
CHEVY CHASE, Md.

Dear Sir:
please tell me, If you can, the name
Of a bird which none OF my bird books
seem to have any record Of.
ut is much like cardinal, bright red
crested, same size, but 1t has short
squared-on tail, and Immediately back
Of the tail is bunch Of sky-blue nun
"It has eaten from my window feed
ing tray, but have been unable to hear
its call or song.
II haven't been able to see the fe-
male at close range, but know she is
colored about as the female cardinal
and has no blue fuff.
II shall appreciate anything you can
tell me, or any list Of books about our
local birds.
Thank you, w. M. P.
"P. 81 have forgotten to tell you I
have read your articles In The Star for
years and have learned much from
them"
Our correspondents strange bird
probably is cardinal.
Despite its odd blue nun" 1t cor
responds more closely to that bird than
to scarlet tanager or a summer
tanager.
Immature males, in their first or even
second season, sometimes show up odd
tiles Of coloring.
The short "squared-off tail" does not
fit any Of them, but 1t might be DOS
sible for an observer to see the tail that
way without it really being that way.
The fact that it has a crest would
seem to indicate it to be cardinal, al
though at times all young birds can
fluff up their head feathers so that they
somewhat resemble 8 crest.
The fact that the female seemed to
be female Of the cardinal or redbird
species is indicative that these birds
really are what they seem to be.
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Small differences do not count.
Just as no one could mistake a jap
anese for a Scotsman, even though the
former wore kits, so an English SPAR
row cannot be regarded as a bluebird,
even If 1t had a blue feather on it
somewhere.
Watching the birds in real life and
looking at their pictures in the hooks
is the best way to get types well in mind
Then one will not be fooled by oddities
which crop up now and then.
There are albino specimens, for in
stance, in almost all the species.
AS many as half dozen albino robins
exist in the United States at any one
time, according to the authorities, al
though most of us will never see one.
This column for several years mas
contained accounts of Whitley, the fe-
male English sparrow with part white
wings and tail. Although Whitley prob
ably has gone the way Of all sparrows
by this time, there is some chance that
she is still alive. Whether any of iler
offspring would have much white In
wings and tail we do not know but no
doubt they might.
One bird book, instead of putting
stress Oh colored plates, has gone to
Evening star., 1940-06-27
THIS AND THAT
BY Charles Z. Trdce1pell.

I the other extreme ana merely indicated
the general outline OF color, as one
might say, by making the differences
merely differences in intensity Of blacks
and shaded areas.
In this way the observer is taught to
|stry to take in the general aspect Of the
bird, before all, with this general aspect
stressed as thing apart from the
colorinss, but caused by them, too.
This is not dificult to understand
once you begin to know a species per-
fectly. Even If you saw it with light
behind ito so that all colorings were
obliterated in the glare, you still would
be able to place it perfectly.
That jaunty outline Of the jay, for
instance, is like nothing else in the
bird world.
The very attitude OF a hawk, any
hawk. tells you instantly what bird 1t
is, even If you could not gauge It's size
or really see its coloration.
We are sorry we did not get to talk
to the gentleman who called up about
q hawk he had caught.
we nope ne let IL go.
There are but three hawks which are
bad hawks. The propaganda against
hawks has subsided in recent years, as it
came more and more to be realized
that most Of the hawks do real service
In the world.
sample Of what 1t means to get to
know your birds by outline was given
late the other evening, just at dusk.
The towhee had been absent about a
month.
This bird, a male, spent the entire
winter In our yard, feeding daily at
the feeding stations with the other
guests.
His speciality, of course, was scratch
ing for his dinner.
This back and forward motion with
the feet, shared with the fox sparrow,
the white-throated sparrow, the song
sparrow, and the brown thrasher, is one
OF the towhee's distinctive traits, but 1t
is the general build Of the bird, its very
architecture" which sets it of.
VIC Ildu WdICIicu ILLS DlTQ SO MUCH
that this general outline, and carriage,
had been burned into the consciousness.
Well, the other evening, Just at dusk,
when it was so dark that no bird colora-
tion could be distinguished, We happened
to note solitary bird feeding at the
station beneath the maple some so feet
away.
Remember, we had not seen the tow
hee for a month.
But few glances made us sure that
he had returned at last.
There could be no mistaking that
silhouette! And when he began to
scratch, backwards and forwards, there
could be no doubt of it at all.
The towhee Is back!'
This glad news ran around the house.
The towhee was back! A very little
thing, and very little piece of news,
1t must be admitted, but in one house.
hold they loomed large, quite as i'm
portant for the moment as the conven-
tion and the war news. Bird observers
will understand.
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Political Phenomenon

for the Republican presidential
nomination has every surface mark
Ing Of political nonsense.
Ey all the old tests, he ought to
consider himself lucky to be ad-
mitted to the convention hall. The
mere suggestion that he regarded
himself seriously as suitable party
nominee ought to be enough to make
any. normal Republican delegate
wonder what institution would be
best equipped to care for such a
pathetic casee But the Willkie BOOM
ers do not seem to take these things
into account. If there can be such
thing as political phenomenon,
his candidacy meets the specifica-
tions.
Here is man who was a registered
Democrat until 1898. He supported
Mr.. Roosevelt in 1882 and contrib
uted to the Democratic campaign
fund in that year. Never has he
labored in the Republican vineyard.
His reputation was made as a public
utility executive and he knows his
way around in Wall Street. Further
more, he committed what some Re-
publicans consider the objectionable
of1ense of supporting the principle
OF the Hull reciprocal trade agree
ments when that issue was before
the Senate-a stand which, in their
judgment, implied the heterodoxal
belief that we should buy COM
modities from those to whom we
would sell our own goods For this
departure from protectionism he is
encountering the bitter opposition
OF critics from the Middle West. And
on top OF all this, he has given
substantial support to President
Roosevelt's policy of extending ma
terial aid to France and Britain-a
cardinal sin in the eyes OF the isola-
tionists OF the party.
In their totality, under the old
rules, these factors ought to convert
the Willkie candidacy into a not
very-funny joke, but the boom goes
on and the managers of the other
candidates have no thought now but
to find some means of stopping
Willkie. The discovery may be made
today or tomorrow. But it is still
uncertain whether there is any way
to stop Willkie, a phenomenon in
itself.
The reasons underlying the amaz-
ing growth Of his drive are obscure.
His unconventionality undoubtedly
Is point in his favor. He has a real
record of achievement behind him
and it is the product of his own
unalded efforts. He has demon
strated that he can get things done.
He has a magnetic personality and
he knows how to talk the other fell
lows language. Without benefit of
any real political organization he
appears to have made a stronger ap-
peal to public imagination than any
OF the other Republican candidates,
and, from all indications, he has
been able to convince many of the
convention delegates that he has
the ability to wage winning cam
paign.
All OF which is very persuasive
consideration with politicians who
have been on the outside looking in
for seven long years.
Evening star., 1940-06-27
OBVIOUSLY Accidental

Deciding that the shooting last
Monday of ten-year-old colored
boy by Capitol police sergeant was
obviously accidental" the Capitol
Police Board has recommended that
the officer be reprimanded and
punished in some unspecified man
ner. If that is to be the end of the
matter, it is most obviously in
adequate treatment of this particu-
lar case.
The boy was taken into custody
with several other children while
playing in a park fountain. What
happened in the Capitol guardrooni,
where the eehfdren were held, Is
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Day of Prayer Urged
For France and Britain.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Why, in these weeks of such terrific
calamities, has no day of prayer been
held for the Allies-now Allies no longer?
There was time and not SO many years
ago when it would have been suggested
and ordered long ere this.
On our coins does the motto "In God
We Trust" mean nothing to us as a
Nation?
We call ourselves Christian Nation,
which means we believe in the power of
almighty God?
Why not act as if we do SO believe.
suggest a day of prayer for our Nation
In behalf of France and Great Britain.
Crescent City, Fla. ETHEL HALE.
June 23. 4
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Aid to Britain
Held Vital Now,


To the Editor of The Star:
Hourly the foreign situation goes from
bad to worse. Hitler now owns France.
Belgium and Holland, and it is reported
today that Japan has bombed the British
and French consulates in Chungking.
China, making one more open enemy for
Great Britain to face.
More than century ago our Monroe
Doctrine guaranteed protection from
foreign aggression to all countries and
islands in North and South America, in
cluding the valuable colonial possessions
of Britain, France and Holland. In SIM
pie truth, however, the United States is
sued the guarantee but the British Navy
up to now has supplied the protection.
All Americans know these facts; also
that fulfllment of our guarantees might
bring us into war. They have always
accepted the risks involved and will not
shirk the duty now so clearly ours to
carry out. Congress alone seems to have
lost its head, its courage and its faith
in their fellow-countrymen. If Britain
fails to hold her own in the terrific sturg-
gle now starting, and unless Congress
permits our Uncle Sans pledged word
to become just another scrap of paper, it
must take immediate action to 90 to
Britain's aid with all that we have to
offer. VOICE OF CONSCIENCE.
June "a.
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Thanks Star for Urging
Care Of Pets.

To the Editor Of The Star:
I,want to commend your paper for its
editorial in last nights Evening Star en-
titled Abandoned Pets" and also for the
article which you printed regarding the
Animal Rescue League. telling people to
bring their unwanted pets to them in
stead of letting them starve. 1t is hard
to understand how people can be so
thoughtless and unkind as to abandon
their pets and go of on vacation and
enjoy themselves. Such people are to be
pitied and should take a lesson from
their dumb friends in faithfulness and
constancy.
With all the needless suffering going
on in the world 1t shows that there are
lights still shining when big daily paper
will give space to such appeals.
June rs. L. M. PARRISH.
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 1Drtter, although the use OF
a pseudonyn, for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters 1pith
q UteD to condensation,
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Cites Medical Needs
OF Negro Race.

To the Editor of The Star:
Now that the Federal Government is
contemplating a $60,000000 hospital
building program, at the rate of 10000
600 year for six years, I, as founder and
executive secretary of the National Negro
Hospital Foundation, Inc, wish to draw
attention to the woeful need for up-to-
date Negro hospitals throughout the
United States to assist in providing ade-
quate disqualification of the Negro sick
and training and practice for Negro
physicians and nurses.
According to the provisions of the bill
which passed the Senate, the hospitals
are to be built and equipped by the Fed
eral Government and leased to States
and communities which apply for them.
1t matters not how many hospitals are
built and leased to States and commune
ties, the status of Negro physicians and
nurses in them will remain UNCHANGED
from what 1t is at the present time.
Today Negro physicians and nurses
are virtual outcasts of the public hos
pltals OF the country, having no oppor-
tunity for training or for practice, except
in three exclusively Negro public hos
pitals and one which is over IS per cent
Negro. 1t matters not what the qualifl-
cations of a Negro physician might be,
when his patient needs disqualification
he has to surrender him to other physi-
clans. I need not say how embarrassing
and humiliating this is to the physician
and patient.
After studying this condition in ITO
cities throughout the-48 States of the
Union, I have come to the conclusion
that Negro physicians and nurses will
get opportunities for training and prac-
tice only in Negro hospitals. If, there
fore, the Negro race, which constitutes
10 per cent of the population of the
United States. Is to be benefited by
hospital building program such as the
Federal Government is about to UNDER
take, there will have to be established
at strategic points Negro hospitals which
will provide training and practice for
Negro physicians and nurses.
Last Monday, meeting at the Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church, the
National Board Of Trustees of the Ma
tional Negro Hospital Foundation, Inc,
recommended that at least one 100-bed
hospital be established each year for six
years in the South, where over 10000, 900
Negroes live, to be used for the training
OF Negro physicians and nurses to min
; lister to the health need .of their own
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Wants Full Investigation
OF Shooting Incident.
To the Editor Of r

To the Editor Of The Star:
Please let me urge through your COL
umns that the proposed investigation of
the shooting of the boy, Fred Walker, by
sergt. Vernon o. Deus Of the Capitol
Police Force be prosecuted with utmost
thoroughness. The explanation offered
Is superlatively ridiculous.
June Is. J. w. HAYWOOD, Jr.
Evening star., 1940-06-27
Member of the Associated Press

Entered as second-class matter post ONCE
Washington D. c.
Evening star., 1940-06-27

11OH11DNI UI tIIt FfSSUCIdIGU fT6SS,
a, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republicat ton Of all news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein,
a.! rights OF publication Of special dispatches
Evening star., 1940-06-27

The Evening Star Newspaper Company.
Main once: 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
New York once: 110 East 42nd St.
Chicago once 435 North Michigan Ave.
Evening star., 1940-06-27

Q. What Is the shortest alphabet7-
B. M.
A. The Hawaiian alphabet, consisting
Of II letters, Is the shortest.
Evening star., 1940-06-27

Collection made at the end Of each month or
each week, Orders may be sent by mail or tele-
phone National 5000.
Evening star., 1940-06-27

@. Do any OF the Western universities
have courses in mountain climbing
G. H. NJ.
A. Such courses are available in the
summer school Of the University Of
Colorado at Boulder.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1940-07-18
Twenty-Five Years Ago
From Issue of July 16, 1915.

The general public is offered an OPP
portunity to invest in the stock of the
Section 80 Mining company. Lewis H
Merritt and company, Duluth, have
been authorized by the company to
sell 10000 shares at $3.50. Eight
thousand shares of this issue were
placed previous to the four thousand
shares offered for public subscription
this week. The company's capital is
100000 shares of a par value of SIC
each.
The marriage of Miss Lille LeBeau OF
this city to H Stefanus of st. Paul, was
solemnized at Duluth, Saturday noon
Miss LeBeau, up to a short time ago
was employed with the D. & I. R. r
telephone company. Mr.. Stefanus was
employed in the construction of the new
Washington school. They will make
their home in st. Paul.
Frank Anderson of this city and Miss
Larson of Fergus Falls were married
last week at the home of the brides
parents in Fergus Falls. The bride
groom's mother, Mrs. Clara Anderson
and sisters, Miss Elsie of this city, Mrs
Albin Sundholm of Section 80, Miss
Edith of St. Paul, and Mrs. John Oist
of Chisholm attended the wedding.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Edward st
Marie, Tuesday, girl. Mike
Gordon spent a few days in Virginia