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Evening star., 1941-03-24

Then, If they are officer material, they
can be trained and commissioned. In
cidentally, there are many good medical
men in many armies who do not wear
bars, just as there are many engineers.
And as to the relative military impor-
tance of the two groups-if you we're to
ask the chief of staff of any army if he
could more easily do with a poor corps
of engineers or poor medical corps, he
would tell you that his engineers are his
more important branch. I do not recall
a medical corps ever having won a bat
tie. The engineers often do. 1t was the
Union chief of engineers at Gettysburg
who actually prevented a Confederate
victory; it was the engineers who de-
feated the Germans at Cantigny. If you
were to ask the German chief of staff
which of his branches were more re-
Sponsible for their 1889 and 1910 VIC
tories, he would tell you his quartermas-
ter and engineer corps.
You always have preached democracy.
Well, the Selective Service is a demo-
cratic process, while what you advocate
is not. Your plan sounds like pressure
politics from a minority group with a
good lobby. Let's drop this attempt at
class legislation. If engineers, who from
military view are the more impor-
tant group, are being drafted as soldiers.
surely the medicos should be likewise.
WILLIAM ]. WHITE.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Cites Increase in Living Costs
In Behalf of Right to Strike.

To the Editor of The Star:
I have seen many letters to your paper
urging limitation Of the right to strike.
I also have read the speeches Of many
Congressman who wish to stop men from
striking. But it is a strange fact that
the Congressman and letter writer's who
most passionately deny workingmen the
privilege of striking against skyrocketing
rents and other living costs are in
variably the very ones who refuse to
permit any law to be passed that will
hold down these booming prices.
month ago I believed in the prin-
Ciple of the leaSe-lend bill and aid to
Britain. I have come to believe that
these are being used by capitalists in
the United States primarily to increase
their own profits and take away the
workers constitutional rights at the
same time. My own rent for two-room
anything but up to date, 50-year-old
apartment was s4750 and has just been
hiked to S55. In most cities in the
United States it would be hard to get
$40 month for the same accommoda-
tionS. MY Congressman told me he was
afraid any legislation to hold down rents
would stop building" But he denounced
passionately the men who strike to keep
their pay in line with their rising living
costs. If any Congressman believes this
attitude IS going to create unity he can
think again. JAMES OLDS.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Necessity for Planning

The most surprising development
in connection with the recently an
nounced plans for erection of a group
of Federal office buildings near Suit
land, Maryland, is the revelation that
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission was not informed
of the proposition until it was an
nounced. Fortunately, the commits
sion has now been given an opportu-
nifty to study the plans and has made
recommendation for their mOditlCa-
ton. The stable door may be locked
In time.
But after the mistakes which re-
suited from the sudden increase in
Washingtons population after the
first World War. it would be no less
than tragic if, through lack of CO.
ordination in dealing with the pres
ent emergency and failure to call into
service the activities of such bodies
as the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, we are to see
a repetition of the same mistakes in
new forms
The jurisdiction of the planning
commission is strictly limited. But
It was created to plan an orderly
development of the American Capt.
tai. 1t has made a continuous study
Of the many and closely interviewer
problems in connection with the de-
velopment of Washington. 1t does
not consider merely the location of
Government buildings without con-
sderation of the collateral problems
that inevitably accompany new con-
struction and new shifts in popula-
ton. If the commissions services, its
knowledge and experience are neg
lected by agencies dealing merely
with the immediate problems Of
office space and housing for defense
employees, mistakes are to be antici-
pated and orderly development of the
Capital seriously handicapped.
The wisdom of the Suitland prof.
ect. as modified by the commissions
suggestions, may now have been es-
tablished. But certainly the lack Of
wisdom in the original plans has been
established beyond doubt by the
commissions discussion. For in
stance, the grand scheme Of building
on the Suitland location a group Of
Offices to house $4,000 Federal work
ers would mean, as John Nolen, jr.,
director of planning, described it, a
satellite" community of 10000 per-
sons, which Is almost twice the popu-
lation Of all Of Prince Georges Coun-
ty as shown in the last census.
The fact that much of the ab-
normal growth now taking place is
setting up a demand for provision
OF new facilities on temporary"
basis is in itself sufficiently serious
to warrant every safeguard in the
provision Of such facilities. One of
the best safeguards is to seek the
guidance of the planning groups,
established to prevent repetition of
costly mistakes incurred by lack Of
planning in the past.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Necessary Writers

In ordinary times, the human race
may be able to get along very nicely
without skilled practitioners of liter
ary art. Nations or epochs which
have no annals certainly stand in no
special need for annaliStS Their
peacefulneSs demands no chronicler,
their happineSs-if the theory of
Thomas Carlyle be juStifed-wants
no historian.
But in a period like that of the
turbulent present it is probable that
reporters have a useful function.
Harold Raymond, in his page of
London Calling" says quite simply
and plainly: Our flying men are
sorely in need of writer's to interpret
them" To illustrate his point he
mentions the name of John LleWelyn
Rhys. a flight lieutenant bred Of the
free blood of Wales, who, killed on
active service last year, has left COL
lection of stories and sketches brought
together under the title, England
Is My Village" The dead dreamer,
his commentator declares, had two
ambitions in life to fly and to write.
I suspect that he flew, to use his
own words, because it was risky, be-
cause it was eXhilarating, because it
called for the confidence that is born
in the conquest Of fear"
Mr.. Raymond having quoted these
phrases, StipulateS: "Earth-bOund
people . . require to be reminded
that airmen are neither gods nor
elaborate extensions of their own
machines, but human beings subject
ing themselves to that constant dis
cipline which their work demands"
In other language, the R. A. F.,
crowned with immortal laurels, is a
power which uneXceptional men
freely have made for the doing of
work needed to be done for freedom.
That this might be established may
have cost young Rhys his life His
sacrifice, however, is not wasted.
In the shelf with the volumes pub
lished a quarter century ago for
Evening star., 1941-03-24
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrdceDeH.

scaup duck mallard duck, pintail duck,
breasted merganser, shoveler duck,
wood duck, 4.
American egret, purple finch Acadan
f1ycatcher, 6; alder f1ycatcher least fly
catcher crested f1ycatcher, 5; yellow
bellied flycatcher, blue-gray gnatcatcher,
5; Canada goose, horned grebe, pied
billed grebe, rose-breasted groSbeak,
Bonaparte's gull, herring gull laughing
gull, ring-billed gull, broad-winged hawk,
4; Cooper's hawk, 4; duck hawk, marsh
hawk, black-crowned night heron, 3;
little blue heron, green heron, 5; ruby
throated hummingbird, s.
Slate-colored junco, kingbird, s;
golden-crowned kinglet, ruby-crowned
kinglet; prairie horned lark 5; purple
martin, 5; night hawk, 6; red-breasted
nuthatch, Baltimore oriole, 5; orchard
oriole, 5; osprey, 4; oven bird 5; wood
pewee, 6; phoebe, 4; American pipit, up
land plover, sora rail, American redstart,
5; northern robin, southern robin, 4;
least Sandpiper, pectoral sandpiper, semi
palmated Sandpiper, solitary sandpiper,
spotted sandpiper, s.; yellow-b -bellied sap
sucker, pine siskin, Wilson'S snipe.
Chipping sparrow, 5; English sparrow,
3; field saprrow, s; fox sparrow, grass
hopper sparrow, 5; Henslow's sparrow, 5;
Savannah sparrow, swamp sparrow, tree
sparrow, vesper sparrow, 6; white
crowned sparrow, White-throated SPAR
row, bank swallow, 5; barn swallow, 5;
rough -Windged swallow, 5; tree swallow
chimney swift, 6; scarlet tanager, 5;
summer tanager, 6; black tern, common
tern, gray-cheeked thrush, hermit
thrush, olive backed thrush, wood
thrush, 5; veery, blue headed or solitary
vireo
Red-eyed vireo. s; White-eyed vireo. 5; !;
yellow w-throated vireo, 5; black vulture,
q; bay-breasted warbler, Blackburn
warbler, black-poll warbler, black
throated blue warbler, black-t -throated
green warbler, black and white Warb-
Ter, 5; blueWinged warbler, Canada
warbler, Cape May warbler, chestnut
sided warbler Connecticut warbler, gold
en-Winged warbler, hooded warbler, 5;
Kentucky warbler, 5; magnolia warbler.
mourning warbler, myrtle warbler, Nash
vile warbler, parula warbler, 5; pine
warbler, 5; prairie warbler, 5; prothono-
tary warbler, g.; Tennessee warbler, Will
sons warbler, Worm-eating warbler, 5;
yellow warbler, 5 yellow palm warbler.
yellOW-th -thrOated warbler, 5.
Louisiana water thrush, 5; northern
water thrush, Whip-poor- will, 5: Ameri-
can Woodcock, 3; house wren, 5; long
billed marsh wren, s. winter wren, great
er yellow legs, lesser yellow legs Mary
land yellow throat, s.
Birds without dates do not nest in this
territory.
Nav is the beginning Of the nesting
period for the majority of the migratory
birds
There are many birds in the above
list which most homeowners will never
see in their yards AS to the difference
between the northern and southern
robins, that is something of a mystery.
but the one We see around here from now
on is the famous southern robin.
Most of us wouldn't know a northern
robin if We saw one, and probably very
few of US have ever seen one.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Wants Engineers and Physicians
Treated Alike by Army Authorities.

To the Editor of The Star:
Reference is made to your editorial of
March 10, entitled doctors and De-
fense" In the last paragraph of this
editorial speaking of the members of
the medical profession, you state: But
the men who protect the health of the
Nation certainly are performing an ex-
ceptionally vital job that merits excep-
tional consideration"
From this I gather that you believe
that the medical profession protects the
health of the Nation in the sense that
doctors prevent epidemics, etc. I dis
agree. Preventive medicine is practiced
by the medical profession in very lim-
tied degree by use of vaccines, anti
toxins and diet control, etc Hence I be-
lieve you are attempting to credit this
profession with prerogatives which are
not in the large sense justifably theirs.
1t would seem to me that if credit is
to go to any group for protecting the
health of the Nation, it should rightly
go to those who do the major work in
this field, namely, the civil engineers. 1t
Is this group which gives us pure water
and adequate sewage disposal. Without
these life in modern cities would be dan
gerous indeed.
Now, civil engineers are being drafted
into the Army as soldiers. After this they
usually are assigned to units where their
prior training is of value, e. g., to the
construction division of the Quarter
master Corps, the Sanitary Corps or the
Corps of Engineers. Many of them will
be commissioned from the ranks if they
have the necessary qualities of leader
ship.
Why should medical men be regarded
differently? After being drafted they
undoubtedly will be assigned to the Medi-
cal Corps or chemical warfare service.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Crisis at BELGRADE

These are fateful hours at Bel
grade, the Yugoslav capital. On the
final decision taken by the govern
ment may depend not merely the
direction of foreign policy but the
nations unity as we'll.
In the White Palace overlooking
the broad Danube River, lights burn
late as Prince Paul, regent for boy
King Peter, strives with Wrangling
cabinet ministers. The Prince and
Premier Cvetkovich seem inclined to
make a bargain with the axis on a
compromise basis. But outside the
palace, in officers casinos and in
numberlesS coffee houses, angry pa
triotS condemn the governments
yielding attitude, voice defiance of
the axis and chant war songs.
Here once again is revealed the
fierce, indomitable spirit of the Serbs,
a hardy folk, Graded in war for
generations and ever ready to die
for their cherished independence.
Thus did they defiantly reject the
ultimatum served on their govern
ment by the AuStro-Hungarian En-
pire in the summer of 1914, thereby
precipitating the World War. The
epic struggle of the Serbian armies,
driven from their country, retreating
doggedly through mountainous Al
bania in the dead of winter, yet
always maintaining their existence,
is a proud inspiration for the Serbs
of today. If YugoSlavia were entirely
made up of Serbs, axis demands
would probably be rejected with de-
fiance, no matter what the conSe-
quences.
However, the Serbs form only
about one third of Yugoslavia'S COM
plex population. They are the hard
core of the country, and though a
minority they have kept their grip
on the army and the government.
The other elements, politically united
with the Serbs only in the last
twenty years, have no such national
traditions or martial training. The
CroatS and SloveneS of the northern
provinces differ from the Serbs in
religion, culture and historical back
ground. Much the same Is true OF
the inhabitants of Bosnia -Herzego-
Evening star., 1941-03-24

vina, many of whom are Mohamme-
dams To be sure, all these people
are South Slavs, and are thus basical-
ly kin. But there are also sizable
alien minoritieS, especially Hun
garianS and Germans, while in the
Macedonian south many persons feel
themselves to be Bulgarian.
Controversies over foreign policy
tend to follow provincial lines. The
Serbs seem to be almost solid for de-
flance of the axis. EX-Premier Stoy-
adinovich, handed over to the British
for safekeeping as potential "Quis-
ling" is the Serbian exception that
proves the rule" The Croat and
Slovene politicians furnish most of
the recruits for an "appeaSement"
policy. That does not mean they are
pro-aXiS. 1t does mean, however,
that they dread the certain occupa-
ton of their provinces by axis armies,
since these could not be defended
against major German attack. The
only real pro-Germans are among
the Germanic and Magyar minori-
ties, who have never been reconciled
to Yugoslav rule, imposed upon them
twenty years ago when the expanded
YugoSlav state was established.
These are the varied elements in
an unstable balance of forces operat-
ing in Belgrade today. The outcome
will be determined by many factors.
But, whatever it may be, it is bound
to entail momentous consequences
for YugoSlavia, for the Balkans, and
for the war situation as whole.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
The Riqht Dope

Hamlet once said that something
was rotten in Denmark, and the cat
tie of that unfortunate country know
what is is-their fodder. According
to the Danish Royal Agricultural So,
ciety, the correct and about the only
available menu for COWS consists Of
acornS, nettles, certain fish by-prod-
ucts, kitchen scraps, shredded heath
er, peat dust. pine cones and weeds.
Under this diet boSsy moOS more
plaintively than buck private COM
planning about the mess sergeant,
and she has practically given up try
ing to turn the conglomerate asSort-
ment of semi-edible junk into milk
or beef.
Alarmed at the situation, this same
society has now rushed to the rescue
and recommends one other avail
able addition to the diet-cakes made
from poppy seeds, with a note that
care must be taken not to make the
animals opium addicts. 1t is doubt
full if many farmers will worry about
that possibility. After all, if a COW
must eat nettles. peat dust and pine
cones, it would seem only humane to
let her hit the pipe now and then
and try to imagine that she is con-
suming hay, bran and other luxuries,
and become a contented COW. If that
is the only way to get her to produce
milk and beef for half-starved pop
ulace, it would seem to be, literally
and truly the right dope.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS.
Dear Sir:

Dear Sir:
Several interested persons have sug-
geSted that l send you the incloSed check
list of birds recently issued by this Office
They seem to feel that you would be
interested in the new scheme which has
been employed to make such list use
full to the amateur bird lover.
"As you will notice, the birds which
are residents here are indicated by capi-
tai letters and those which nest in the
region are indicated by the figures of
the month the nesting period commences
following the name of the bird.
"A survey of the chart will give some
idea of the significance of migration pc
riods as related to this vicinity.
Very truly yours, D. E. McH.,
Park Naturalist"
~ X X
The check list of birds regularly seen
in the parks of the National Capital,
particularly in Rock Greek Park and
Potomac Park, the two largest areas, is
a neatly gotten up folder of four pages,
rather crowded in appearance, but con-
tanning great deal of information.
Birds nesting in the vicinity are shown
by the number of the month, such as
for May, etc, which indicates that May
is the beginning of the nesting period
for that particular bird.
Resident birds, those which more or
less remain here the year around, with
the month of nesting, are as follows:
winged blackbird, S. buebird, 4;
bobwhite. 5; cardinal, 4; chewink, or
towhee, 5; Carolina chickadee, 4; fish
crow, q; common crow, q; mourning dove,
d bald eagle, 2; flicker, 5; goldfnch, T;
purple grackle, 4 blue jay, 4; killdeer, q:
belted kingfisher. 6; meadow lark, q;
mockingbird, q; white breasted nuthatch,
A. barn owl, g. barred owl, g.
Screech owl, d. migrant shrike, 4;
English sparrow, 3; song sparrow. 4;
starting 4; brown thrasher, 5: tufted
titmouse, T. turkey vulture, 4; cedar wax
wing, 6; downy woodpecker, ); hairy
woodpecker d red-bellied woodpecker,
4; red-headed woodpecker, 5; Carolina
wren. f.
This list shows that April is the great
month for the beginning of nesting by
our resident birds.
It may come as surprise TO some
readers that there are bald eagles IN
this vicinity Our guess is that there are
not many any more, but some do live
permanently hereabouts, more commonly
observed in summer. They breed near
Mount Vernon and have bred near Great
Falls. Eggs were found there February
20, 1897
Migratory birds. according to the list,
as prepared by the park naturalist, work
ing under the National Park Service Of
the Department of the Interior, are as
follows:
American bittern, 5; least bittern, 6;
rusty blackbrd, bob-o-link, indigo bunt-
ing, s. catbird, 5: yellow breasted chat,
5; American coot, coWbird, 5; brown
creeper, black billed cuckoo, s; yellow
billed cuckoo, s; American golden-eyed
duck, American merganser, bald-pate
duck, black duck, blue winged teal. cam
vas back duck, great Scaup duck, green
winged teal, hooded merganSer, lesser
Evening star., 1941-03-24
Believes American Youth
Are Superior to Others.

To the Editor Of The Star:
There are so many who make use of
free speech and free press to tear down
anything and everything, instead of
using these blessings to encourage and
to build up our youth and our peoples
activities. Those who claim that our
educational system is wrong, or that our
youth are not as advanced as the youth
of the totalitarian countries should lis
ten to the School of the Air and then
it will dawn upon them just how much
more superior our system and youth
are. ANNA LANSBURGH.
Evening star., 1941-03-24

Q. How is rainfall measured?-S. T D.
A. Rain is measured by exposing a
suitable gauge in a position where it will
catch approximately the full amount
of water that falls upon the earths sur
face at the point in question. The re-
ceiving can is usually 10 times the di-
ameter Of the small measuring tube into
which the contents of the larger can are
poured for convenience in measuring.
O. Is it true that there are many for
eign colonies in Paraguay?-E. K. H
A. More than so colonies of various
foreign peoples are settled in different
parts of the republic, having their own
schools, churches, hospitals and stores.
One of these is the colony of Mennonites
(about 5000. mostly from Canada, but
few from the United States and Europe.
@. Is it true that tear gas smells like
a f1oWer?-H. J. N.
A. The odor is said to resemble that
of apple blossoms.
Evening star., 1941-03-24


original printing in her files
Tue been meditatinq lately that,
Uhen everything is told
There's something in the English
after all:
They may be too bent on conquest
and too eager after gold.
But there's something in the Eng
lish after all:
Though their sins and tGuHS are
many, and I ,con't exhaust my
breath
By endeauorino to tell you OF them
all,
Yet they hare a sense of duty, and
they'll face it to the death,
SO there's something in the Eng
liSh after all.
II you're wounded By Sdrdoe tn,
and bugleS sound Retire"
There's something in the EnoliS;,
after all.
You may bet your life they'll carry
you beyond the zone of fire,
For there's something in the Eng
liSh after all
Yes, although their guns be empty,
and their blood be ebbing fast,
And to stag By 1rounded comrades
be to fall,
Yet they'll set their teeth like bull
dogs, and protect you to the last,
Or they'll die-like English soldiers
latter all.
When the seas demand their tributs
and a British ship goes do1Cn.
There's something in the Enqlisi'
after all
There's no panic rush for SAFETY
1Ohere the 1Uedk are LETT to drOUn.
For there's something in the Eng
liSh after dH,'
But the 1Uomen and the children are
the first to leaUe the 1Dreck,
With the cre1O in hand as steady
as 1CdH,
And the captain is the last to stand
upon the sinking deck,
SO there's something in the Eng
liSh after all.
Though the halt of Europe hates
them, and uould joy in their
decline,
Yet there's something in the Eng
liSh after all:
They may scorn the Scanty numbers
of the thin red British line,
Yet they fear its lean battalons
after all:
For they knot0 that, from the colonel
to the drummer in the band,
There is not a single soldier in
them all
But Mould 90 to blind destruction,
1Uere their country to command.
And call it simply "duty'-dtter all.
Bertrand ShddUeH.
Evening star., 1941-03-24

Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas,
Maitland Hardyman, Alan Seeger,
Joyce Kilmer and others of the same
company his book will remain. Slender
though his contribution may seem,
he has deserved his place among the
imperative interpreters for whom
beWildered humanity is grateful.
Evening star., 1941-03-24

Italian bachelor officers, hitherto
ineligible for promotion, now have
a chance to become generals. Many
may march to the altar, considering
marriage less risky.
Evening star., 1941-03-24
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