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Evening star., 1941-07-15
London Can Take 1t

Prime Minister Churchill, in ad-
| dressing LOndon'S civil defense work.
erS, was we'll advised to caution the
British people against undue Op-
timism based on the current lull in
the German bombing attacks.
The NaziS, for the time being at
least, probably have their hands full
with the Russian campaign. Ger
talnly, large portion of their avia-
ton has been diverted to the eastern
front. And Britain, properly enough,
is taking full advantage of this
opportunity to attack Germany from
the air, both by day and by night.
But it would be mistake to sup
pose that the Nazi bOmberS will not
return to London. AS Mr.. Churchill
pointed out, the people of Britain
have just come out of one long, hard
battle and may at any moment enter
upon another. For the moment
there is lull, but we must expect
that before long the enemy will
renew his attacks upon us"
That is sensible advice, for the re-
neWed attack, if it comes, will be
harder to endure should the British
people be pSychologically unprepared
for it. In this sense, it is better to
expect the worst, and then, if the
blow is less severe than anticipated,
the ability to absorb it will be CORE
Spondingly greater.
There is no reason, however, why
Britons should not take heart from
Mr. Churchill's words. If it be a fact
that British planes during the past
few weeks have dropped on Germany
about half the tonnage of explosives
that the LuftWaffe has rained on
English cities during the whole
course of the war, the implications
as to Britain's mounting offensive
strength in the air are plain. At
some time in the not too distant
future the Royal Air Force. con-
Stantly augmented from the United
States, should achieve the definite
superiority in the air which the
Prime Minister foreSees. And when
that day arrives new test will be
in the making.
The past ten months already have
established the truth of Mr.. Church
ills observation that London can
take 1t" The next ten, if his fore
cast is well founded, should bring
an answer to the question whether
the Germans can do likewise.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Many Happy Returns!

Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas
was in Topeka yesterday for the
celebration of the Seventy-SiXth
anniversary of his debut in this
troubled but fascinating world. A
crowd Of children were his guests at
an amusement park, taken over for
the occasion. No less than thirty
three parties of the same congenial
sort have passed into history, but
the youngsters distinguished host
has remained as youthful at heart as
ever he was in time long gone.
In Washington, too, great numbers
of people of all ages have reason to
rejoice with Mr.. Cappers Kansas
friends. He has been a faithful
friend to the District of Columbia
since first he came here to live in
1913. A natural interest in his
fellow citizens and his service as
chairman of the Senate District
Committee prompted his initial con-
Germ for the voteless residents of the
Nations Capital, who have never
failed to find in him a loyal cham
pion.
The community in which Senator
Capper makes his second home"
takes advantage of the opportunity
to thank him for his helpful kindness
and to wish him many additional
birthdays, each one increasingly
happy.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Billboard Problem

A'recent invention would seem to
be not only impossible but also COM
pletely useless and practically a con-
tradiction in terms. 1t is the invis-
ible billboard. 1t would have been
impossible for almost any one except
its inventor, who built up to it grad
ually by taking the job of selling ice
boxes to Eskimos in Alaska, and
actually getting away with it. After
that, anything else he tried to do was
a cinch, and accomplished almost as
soon as he thought of it.
In place of visibility he substituted
audibility. His billboard, unlike the
welltrained child, is heard but not
seen. 1t consists of a hidden wire
along the highway, which, at the ap-
proach of a motorist, wakes up and
in a loud electric voice urges him to
purchase Puff1e's Perfect Pies or Sc
lect Sizzle's Superior Soap, as the
case may be. In time, no doubt,
forty-eight State Legislatures will
pass laws to muzzle the billboard in
its new form, but the inventor prob
ably will be busy in the Congo selling
furnaces to Hottentots.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
An Unsound Procedure

The Commissioners have followed
a curious and illogical procedure in
prevailing upon Chairman Randolph
of the House District Committee to
introduce Legislation to increase the
Districts gasoline tax from two to
four cents as the first step in giving
effect to the Whitehurst highway
Improvement program.
A buSineSSlike approach to this
matter would seem to call first for
the preparation and approval of
definite program of improvements to
be undertaken. If that were done, it
would then be possible to work out
method of financing on some realis-
tic basis. Instead of taking this
course, however, the Commissioners
have elected to ask initially for a 100
per cent increase in the gas tax
which, if approved, may be expected
on the basis of experience to result in
program designed to spend all of
the added revenue, and with less
attention than might otherwise have
been paid to the desirability of and
the need for particular projects.
Certain other objections also are
presented. The Whitehurst report,
for example, called for an increase
in the number of parking meters as
a necessary accompaniment of other
steps contemplated in relation to
the provision of off-street parking.
But the Schultz Subcommittee on
Streets and Traffic already has re-
ported adversely on meter extern
sion proposal. Do the Commission
ers propose to override this action
in giving effect to the Whitehurst
plan, and, if not, why do they ask for
tax increase to pay for parking
meters? Captain WhitehurSt also
recommended construction of tun-
mel under the Potomac River, con-
Meeting with Alexandria. This clearly
would be benefit to Virginia as we'll
as the District, and should not be
financed exclusively from District
revenues. But the Commissioners,
in their unqualified request for the
gas tax increase, seem to have left
this factor out of account.
The Whitehurst report, calling for
an expenditure of some S44,45O 900
over an eight-year period, was sub
mitted to the Commissioners almost
three months ago. 1t may be sup
posed that its recommendation are
under consideration at the District
Building, but to this date no specific
legislation to put the program in
effect has been drawn. The i'm
portant recommendations regarding
a carefully prepared program to solve
the parking problem-an integral
part of the highway problem-are
yet to be placed in legislative form.
1t is, therefore. difficult to avoid the
conclusion that the request for the
tax increase is both premature and
contrary to sound business practice.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
@. What is boundling?-H NJ M.
Mountain Top

No,U 1Oe forget the hours of climbing
toll,
The tangled brush. the uineS that
trip and coil.
Behind US are the nets Of fallen trees,
The pits of leaves, the flies that
buzzed like bees.
NoU 1Ue haUe conquered banks OF
1Daist-deep fern,
And bogs, and mossy rocks that slip
and turn.
Here on our peak the ,Dorld is clean
and 1Uide
And endless 1Uindy blue on every side.
Horizons 1Uider than 1Ue eUer kne,U
Are opened from our Sky-top rem
desuOuS.
Nearer the sun than zoe hare euer
stood
We stand alone-dnd loneliness -
good.
GERALD RAFTERY.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
British Compulsory Savings

In view of the current discussion
of compulsory savings as a means of
helping to finance the costs of the
expanding defense program, particu-
lar timelineSs attaches to the
analysis of the new British budget
appearing in the latest issue of
Foreign Commerce Weekly. official
publication of the Department of
Commerce. Though leaders of all
political parties sharply criticized
the proposal for compulsory savings
advanced by John Maynard Keynes
in November, 1889, this principle has
now been adopted, as part of the
income tax machinery, in the Brit
ish budget for the fiscal year 1912.
Legislative action on the budget is
nearing completion.
Under the new proposals, personal
allowances for both married and
single persons will be substantially
lowered, and those for earned in
come will be reduced by from one
sixth to one tenth. The taxpayer
will be given a credit, up to a maxi
mum of SiXty-five pounds. equivalent
to the extra tax paid as result of
the reductions in the personal and
earned income allowances. After the
war, but not before, these credits will
be turned back to the British tax
payers.
During a full year it is estimated
that these compulsory savings will
increase the revenues of the British
treasury by 125,OOO,OOO pounds. The
budget proposals, which also call for
increased taxes on lower incomes,
will create 100000 new taxpayers,
thus broadening still further the
British tax base.
The plan for compulsory savings
has two objectiveS. One is to provide
additional revenue. The other is to
build another bulWark against in
fation. Though the voluntary saw
ings campaign has diverted large
sums from civilian spending, the
British government believes fur
Evening star., 1941-07-15
THIS AND THAT
Bu Charles z. Trace1UeH.

fully over the bark you cannot say
definitely that he is after insects.
He may be trying to find some seeds
stored away by the jays. Other birds,
such as the nuthatches, also indulge in
this habit.
Jays are not large eaters as birds go.
Usually they are content with eating
for few minutes at time, in contrast
with the sparrows, which like to eat all
day long, almost without stopping.
When a jay is finished, 1t has just begun
it's storing Often it will carry away
food for many minutes thereafter.
If peanuts are put out, the jays will
carry them all away. We watched one
bird fly away with "a peanuts, which
he took one at a time
He was not gone long enough to have
eaten them.
Once We watched a squirrel remove
about the same number of peanuts and
solemnly bury them in the yard in a
radius Of not more than 20 feet.
Since this treasure ground was easily
ullucl tIc eye, IL Wdo Wd0tilcu ClOScIy
for many weeks.
The idea was to see if the same squirrel
came back to the buried treasure.
AS far as we could observe, no squirrel
ever found them.
Can it be. then, that much of the food
burying habit is instinct without result?
The animals go through the process of
digging and hiding the food and care
fully patting down the grass all to no
purpose, in many cases.
Neither the ones which put the food in
the ground nor their mates ever find it.
Just how they ever find it is a question
Certainly it cannot be through memory
of having hidden a certain type of food
at certain spot in the yard.
Our guess is that such discovery as is
made is done through scent All animals
have sense of smell far beyond any,
thing which human beings know II
would be perfectly possible, We believe,
for squirrel to recognize his own scent
in the grass even after the rains and
winds of months have blown over it.
-
There must be a vast amount Of food
hiding, however, which goes to waste
You can feed squirrels pieces of milk
chocolate. for instance. which they will
solemnly and carefully bury in the earth
While they tend to live in one neigh
borhood, they are constantly moving
forward, as in waves, SO that the squirrel
population of any given area or block
gradually undergoes, or is undergoing, a
change.
Squirrels are always coming into the
neighborhood and moving out again
and no doubt they take some of the old
hands with them from time to time.
This movement, within the wave, is
easily seen when black squirrel comes
into the neighborhood 1t will remain a
day, or maybe two or three days, but
seldom longer.
Evening star., 1941-07-15

ther cut in consumption is needed to
counteract the forces of imitation.
BY means of compulsory savings, it
hopes to reduce consumer spending
even more draStically, thus closing
the so-called 'inf1ationary gap" be-
tween the spending power of the
public and the volume of available
goods.
In addition to the compulsory saw
ings plan: another important prin-
ciple has been incorporated into the
British income tax system in connec-
tion with the new budget. This is
the placing of limit of 1000 pounds
annually on the net income which
any person may receive in one year.
This means, in effect, an income
ceiling"
In the 1941-2 budget, described
by the Department of Commerce as
the first of the war budgets based on
a realistic recognition of the eco
nomic and financial implications of
total war;" all British expenditures
are estimated at 4,2O7, 900, 900 pounds,
and revenues at 1,636,0O0 900 pounds,
leaving deficit of 2,571 100000
pounds. These budgets have been
characterized by a progressive rise
in war expenditure and by cor
responding increases in taxation, i'm
posed on people who before the
war was bearing the heaviest tax
burden of any major nation" the
Department of Commerce points out.
AS Congress prepares new and
heavier taxes to meet in part the
expenditures of rearmament, the
British war budgets and the meth
ods employed to hold initiation in
check merit careful study by Amer
leans. For in many respects, our
financial problems are the same as
those faced by Great Britain.
Evening star., 1941-07-15

The blue jay lit in the curved branch
of the locust.
Out of his mouth he took a sun1ower
seed.
He laid the seed on the branch, and
then moved backward about inches.
Out of his bill came another seed.
This he carefully placed in middle Of
| the branch.
Back he stepped, and out came another
seed.
When he had finished, he had a neat
row of six seeds along the branch.
The question was, what would he do
now?
The answer was not long forthcoming
The jay ate the first seed, holding it
down with his claws while he hacked off
the outer covering.
Then he went on to the second seed.
He had hoped backward. for the placing;
now he simply moved forward for the
eating
Each seed took about six strokes with
the bill, to get the covering off
The eating thereof was much faster.
4 X
After the jay had gone, squirrel
came up the tree and out over the
branch.
This branch deserves mention of its
own. 1t is about inches in diameter,
with nice curve.
1t is a bough, rather than a branch,
in popular phrasing
The squirrels love to perch on it all
day long.
When the animal saw the sunf1ower
seed huSkS, he poked his nose forward
eagerly. There are few foods that
squirrels like better They are quite as
fond of them as the birds.
AS soon as the animal found he had
been fooled, he waved his tail in disgust,
and made off down the tree
He knew where he could find fresh seed
at any time of day.
For some reason or other, the 10
squirrels which inhabit the yard all
winter long have been absent for days.
and seldom seen at the sunfloWer seed
in the bird feeding stations
Just one squirrel has returned to take
up his old stand in the feeder by the
dining room window
This he shares with cardinals. jays
and SparroWs
Blue jays often carry away a cheek
crammed with food.
Seeds they either eat or place in
crevices or at the crotches
Whether the same bird regularly re-
turns to the treasures he has so faith
fully put away for the rainy season is
rather a question.
Much of this stored food falls TO other
and smaller birds. Without doubt the
squirrels get most of it.
In this way the birds and beasts help
each other.
When you see a small bird going care
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Rumanian Representative Discusses
"Opinion' Expressed by Mr.. Sheean.

To the Editor of The Star:
I have read the story of Vincent
Sheean published under the caption
England and America Warned to Ac-
cept Russia as Ally" and a London
dateline in The Star of July 10 wherein
he advances the opinion that 1t would
have been in the interest of the democ-
racies to condone the Russian aggres-
sion on Finland, the Baltic states,
Poland and Bessarabia; criticized the
United States State Department for in
sisting that all forms of aggression are
indistinguishable," expresses diSmay that
the Communists failed Ito persuade the
Firms that it was necessary for Russia's
defense to occupy the Finnish) ap-
proaches to Leningrad" and regret that,
having thus failed, M. Stain had not
then taken "the whole of Finland from
the Aaland Islands to the Arctic Circle, |"
and lastly asserts that the case of Fin
land, the Baltic states and Poland Ger
tainly must be reconsidered," but not
that of Rumanian Bessarabia, where
the Communists have legitimate claim
on the ground that the population is
largely Russian"
All this, of course, is personal history.
As matter of fact, all the states
bordering on Russia from the Arctic
to the Black Sea, Finland, the Baltic
nations, Poland and Rumanian Bes-
sarabia, were overrun by Russia between
1850 and 1912, or long before there was
any necessity for her to protect" herself
against a then inexistent Germany by
strangling the liberties of small peoples,
partitioning their defenseless territories
and substituting the cultured" Russian
way of living for their own backward"
way.
In Bessarabia. the partisan ofiicial
Russian census Of 1897 shows only sos
Evening star., 1941-07-15
BRUTUS COSTE.
Charge d'Affaires ad int.

Says Democracy-Not Christianity
Is the Issue of the Present War.
To the Editor of The Star:
On July IL The Star published a letter
signed Good Samaritan" in which the
author strongly dissented from the con-
clusion of those Christian Scientists
who urge active participation of this
country in war now as Britain's ally
in order to save" world democracy from
Hitlerian destruction.
Good Samaritan" maintains, in a
measure of Christian consistency, that
it is never the part of a Christian
Scientist to favor war in any case, but
tive quotations from the writings of
Mary Baker Eddy, discoverer and
founder of Christ Science But just how
Mrs. Eddy's followers should construe
Christ's injunction, Render unto Caesar
the things that are Caesars and unto
God the things that are Gods we'll may
be determined by themselves-each,
severally. What constrains comment on
Good Samaritan's offering, however, is
concluding paragraph question, namely:
Nov, would Christ countenance an al
lance with Red Russia, with its atheism
and cruelty, in order to save Chris
tianity?" The answer, categorically, is,
mol"
Primarily and fundamentally. because
pure Christianity is self-sustaining, and
will even save what was Red Russia.
What Hitlerism menaces is freedom of
worship, which. in the United States
and England, has never rendered dis
tinction between God and mammon.
Accordingly, democracy - not Chris
tianity-is the issue of this World War.
RIENZI B. LEMUS.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Blames Motorists for Wrecks
Involving Modern" Cars.

To the Editor of The Star
Maryland Motor Chief Elgin has
started a drive to remove all old cars
from the roadways. 1t could not be
that they are unsafe for they have
been tested for headlights and brakes.
Most wrecks are caused by drivers.
A survey Of any towing garage and junk
yard will convince any one that 900
of the cars in wrecks are modern, with
good brakes and headlights
Seabrook, Md. JOHN RIGdLES.
Evening star., 1941-07-15

concerning statehood for the District.
That should by all means be done,
because the oral opinions on the
subject informally expressed by the
Senators are confusing and, in the
light of past study, wholly mislead-
iOp
Evening star., 1941-07-15

per cent Russians to Abs per cent
Rumanians; were the Ukrainians to be
included, the proportion would still be
only 278 per cent Russians and Ukrain-
ians to almost so per cent Rumanians
for the province as whole, the Ru-
manian majorities increasing according
to the same source to 629 per cent for
the country of Lapusna 6351 per cent
for that of Soroca, 6637 per cent for
that of Balti and 77.86 per cent for
that of Orhei, and this after IS years
of Russian oppression and forced Rus
sifcation through church. school. army
administration and judiciary The fig
ures of the Rumanian census of 1880,
whose objectivity has never been ques-
toned, are 56.2 per cent Rumanlans to
only 1873 per cent Russians and II per
cent Ukrainians for the whole province;
in five out of the nine counties the
Rumanians are in absolute majority,
53.4 per cent in Tghina, 701 per cent
in Balti, 1876 per cent in Soroca, 778
per cent in Lapusna and S73 per cent
in Orhei
throughout centuries the Rumanlan
lands have been mangled in the battles
of the great powers and their meager
resources and efforts exhausted in re-
pairing destruction and restoring normal
conditions instead of fostering educa-
ton, sanitation and general advance
ment. They are looking forward to
future that will guarantee them these
modest opportunities. in the past denied
them on Just such grounds as Mr..
Sheean upholds.
PPITTTTC rOCTE
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 1Uriter, although the use of
a pSeudonym for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters NTH
q Uie1U to condensation.
Evening star., 1941-07-15

There are in existence 21,00OO 900
draft files of men who were never
inducted in the first World War and
the problem is how to dispose of
them. 1t would be fine if some way
could be found to burn them as fuel
in case of an oil or coal shortage.
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Wants War on Germany
Without Further Delay.

To the Editor OF The Star: ...
How often our dread of task meas
ures that tasks Importance! Our shrink
ing from an actual declaration of war
against today's total warmaker meas
ures the tremendous and instantaneous
effect such an act surely would have.
Hitler could not shield his people
"a hours from the devastating news
that America, the undefeated champion
Of human freedom, had declared that it.
too, must be defeated before Hitlers
many victories could become real and
lasting.
And nothing on earth could prevent
the entire free world. along with the
enslaved peoples. from rejoicing with
that life-renewing. fight-renewing JOY
which would shake the tight-rope walk
er. Hitler. into the same oblivion into
which it shook the Kaiser in 1918.
Such thing can happen only if We
recover enough of the bold spirit of
1776 and 1917 to walk up to our deadly
peril and grasp it by the horns-the one
and only way which offers us salvation
Knowing Nazi air power to be so taxed
by the Russian campaign that few
planes now meet British bombers. we
easily can believe Nazi morale equally
is taxed, not only in German cities so
necessarily bombed, but also in the
armies now moving into an unknown
fate in enigmatic Russia. If We ever
are going to declare war against the
enemy of all who love freedom for what
more favorable moment are we waiting?
Would Hitler. in our place, hesitate one
instant? Today, the only thing that
comes to him who waits is slavery!
BOILING SOMERVILLE.
Norwood Va
Evening star., 1941-07-15
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. HaSkin.

A reader can get the ans1Oer to any
question OF fact by Urtttng The Epe-
nina Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. HaSkin, director, washington,
d. C. Please inclose stamp for reply.
@. How much did the Bio cost2-
r. H. G..
A. The United States Armys new
super bomber was built at cost OF $3,-
100000.
@. Who has been described as per.
feet ball player?-H. C. A.
A. Joe Mccarthy of the New York
Yankees so described Frank Frisch. say
ing that he could run, hit from either
side, throw, bunt and had competi-
tive temperament.
c. How much of the sale price OF the
average car does the dealer receiver
T. N. S.
A. Wards 1941 Automotive Year Book
estimates the average retail price of
1891 passenger car, without extra equip
ment, at S905. OF this price, the manu-
facturer gets s643, or II per cent. The
remaining % per cent, or 1852, is split
among local taxes, shipping charges and
the dealer, who gets S208 as his share.
O. Who said Look up and not down,
forward and not back PA. R. K.
A. ITO look up and not down, to look
forward and not back. to look out and
not in-and to lend hand is from the
work entitled Ten Times One Is Ten"
by Edward Everett Hale.
@. What is the origin of the EXPIRES
sion crazy as a loon"?-E. c.
A. 1t is derived from the uncanny
laughter-hke notes of the bird known
as the loon.