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The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-04

Keep 'em rolling" is the watch
word in Army On Wheels" as
ammunition and weapon carriers;
troop transports and artillery car
riers; command cards and "kitch-
en-" trucks take the field in the
spectacular maneuvers recently at
Fort Benning, Georgia, and parts
of Louisiana and Texas.
In brief, Uncle Sam for the first
time parades his mighty mecha-
nized forces for your approval.
For that reason "Army On
Wheels" becomes a motion pic
ture must" for every American
man, woman and child! It's truly
the "Big Parade" of 1941 and the
most important document of the
past decade!
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-04

of the car is such that it can be
reconditioned to the point that we
can warrant it to give satisfactory
service to the next owner.
1--WE are not large enough to
have a separate used car recon
ditioning shop and all our used
cars are overhauled by the same
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-04

praisal reconditioning and sale of
the used car trade in, says II. K.
Moag of Moag Motor Co., Coolidge
Dodge Plymouth Dealer.
Before we appraise a used
car" says Moag "we decide if
the make and model is salable in
our territory, and if the condition
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-04
Coolidge D0dge-PlymOuth
Dealer In New Quarters

Preparations have been completed to entertain visi-
tors all day tomorrow at H. R. Moag Motor Company
Arizona Boulevard Harold Moag formally opens his
automobile show repair and service depart
mentS
Dealers for Dodge and Plymouth passenger cars and
trucks the firm has for several years located Main
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-04

mechanics and methods used on
our customer repair work. Re-
placements are made with genuine
factory parts.
eve believe that we give you
a superior job in a used car as
is evidenced by the fact that most
of our trade ins are spoken for
before they are ready to deliver.
We are glad to equal any Life
Time, 5000 or other guarantee
in effect in Arizona"
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-04
Major Bowes'
Amateur Hour
Nets 3O2, ,554 Votes

Telephoned votes to Major
BOwes Chrysler Programs now
total 3,102,544.
1885 telephone operators.
working under S12 supervisors,
assisted by 964 messengers, and
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-04
Moag Explains
Appraisal Policy

The success of an automobile
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-04
Dear Friend


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and
Valley vide recognition Of the superiority Of
repair
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The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-04

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Evening star., 1941-09-06
Money Back

The origin of the money back"
guarantee is undoubtedly lost in an
cient history, as it must have started
shortly after the invention of money
itself-an unknown date. But from
Denver comes brand-new applica-
ton of the principle-the installment
repayment of a courtship that fiv-
vered, through no fault of the wooer,
as the fair object of his affection
admitted.
This plan, if universally adopted,
would both stabilize and stimulate
courtship. 1t would make girl think
twice before jilting her beau. She
would have to have lot of mad
money in her nylon stocking to be
able to afford the luxury of giving
him the air.
Probably it will not gain wide IA
vor. In the Denver case, the insult
able suitor, tired of trying to recover
a 5000 Cupid's expense account by
driblets of intermittent and often
skipped fve-dollar installments, at
tempted to speed up collection by
hurting ammonia in the face of the
debtor He wound up in jail, with
the debt outlawed, and subject to a
fine with no refund on the grounds
that the Judge was unsatisfactory.
Evening star., 1941-09-06
The Court Again

1t is peculiarly distressing that the
President, at a time when the pro-
motion of national unity should be
one of his primary concerns, has
seen fit needlessly to revive and give
renewed vitality to the bitter con-
troversy which was aroused by the
fight of four years ago to mold the
Supreme Court to the shape of the
New Deal. Yet that, indubitably, is
what he has done in the first of
series of articles written for Golfers
magazine.
The article, in essence, is harsh
attack on the personnel of the "old
court" and an attempted juStit1ca-
ton of his unsuccessful effort to re-
organize the tribunal by creating
new majority of individuals who
agreed with him, rendering impotent
those who did not.
With the passage of time, the Pres
ident has had his way and the court
now includes seven members of his
OWL VI GlACl1A cSllC1CllOD
of the New Deal philosophy. But the
defeat of the ill-cOnceived method by
which the President sought to &C
complish his purpose in 1887 SEEM
ingly still rankles. And, strangely
enough, the President evidently has
not yet realized that the popular re-
volt against his court bill was aimed
more at the method chosen than the
objective sought.
In his discussion of the subject in
Golfers, he says: by the time of the
election of 1886, however, it had be-
come clear that this new concept of
government (the New DeaD and of
It's relation to economic and social
problems was in danger of frustra-
ton" at the hands of the court.
That being the case, it might be sup
posed that the President would have
made an issue of the court during
the 1886 campaign, but he did not do
80. Instead, he waited until after
election to spring his court plan on
the country and, under those cir
Evening star., 1941-09-06
"BETHESDA, Md.

Dear Sir:
What has become of Whitley? You
haven't written about your sparrow
friend for long time, and I am sure
there are many readers who would like
to hear some more about her. To me
one of the drawbacks of feeding the
birds is their impersonality. 1t was
welcome, after all the nameless ones,
to have at least one bird with name.
Whitley, the semi white English SPAR
row, became a character. And after
making her character you dropped
her, or maybe she dropped you, which
was It?
Sincerely, A. B. L."
Whitley was a fine bird, indeed.
She showed up one fall, about five
years ago and remained at the feeding
stations, more or less, for four years.
Then she disappeared, and that was
the last we ever saw of her. No doubt
she went the way of all good birds.
We can sympathize with our CORE
spondent in wanting to have specimens
at his feeders which stand out, and
which he can identify.
In bird feeding, however, 1t is neces-
sary to get another viewpoint.
In some ways, this is very satisfac-
tory viewpoint. Wordsworth, We believe,
said that the world is too much with
us. Part of that too muchness" is
too much personality. 1t is an uncon-
scious understanding of this, at least
in some degree, which promotes city
people to withdraw from other people.
They move into a block and never take
the trouble to find out the names of
the folks next door, They know too
many people by name already! 1t is
not surliness, one may feel sure, which
prevents the man down the block from
speaking to you. At times he looks
as if he might but then he turns his
head. He knows so many people now
that he sees no reason for knowing
some one else.
In feeding the birds we will do we'll
to cultivate this attitude.
There are two aspects to the COM
bined indoor -outdoor sport which merit
consideration. One is the general as
pect of health and security in bird
land. The watcher seldom sees a sick
bird. AS far as he can tell, they are
all sound and healthy. Writers often
have commented on how seldom one
sees bird die or glimpses a dead one.
Nature takes care of their little bodies.
We know Of but one account of an OBJ
server watching an old bird die and
tumble into a stream as he took his
last drink.
1t is this aspect of Immortality, almost,
which makes such an appeal. Although
we know better, we like to think of the
birds as winged immortals, coming and
going as they please, secure with the
universal security after which mankind
pants so avidly.
Not for these feathered people, we
think, the ordinary processes of life
and living. For them, rather, a hap
py, secure life, with springs OF song
and nesting, and with winters in the
warm Southland, or happily warm here,
through the daily Handouts" which
we give them.
Evening star., 1941-09-06
THIS AND THAT
By Charles +. TrdcetueH.

1t does not cost much to feed the
birds. If we are content to put out a
little food once day, preferably in the
morning, 1t will be enough. A second
meal in the middle of the afternoon is
better. Three meals a day is best.
1t is not necessary to feed all the
time, although # one likes to do 1t,
and has the money, there Is nothing
against 1t, especially in winter. In
summer. we are beginning to feel,
steady all-day diet of seeds and grain
is bit too much, even for English SPAR
rows.
The other aspect of bird feeding which
deserves attention is the very one
brought up by our correspondent.
If We could identify every individ-
ual bird and knew whether it came every
day and when it was absent we would
introduce something into the sport
which is not there now, and which
would only make for possible unhap-
piness.
Names are all right with dogs and
cats. but with birds in the open air
they would add the element of GER
tainty, where now the uncertainty is
the very essence of it all.
In other words, If we like to think
of the birds at the feeders as happy
and healthy, we might be eating of
forbidden fruit of knowledge to know
each one perfectly. 1t simply isn't
necessary. The world today is too full
of unnecessary things, as it is. So many
deeds, SO many words, so much ar
gument, so much fighting, all of it so
| unnecessary. If only some dictator with
good heart could arise, who, instead
of fighting, destroying, booming would
calmly do away with the unnecessary
acts Of mankind, then we might see a
| dictator with purpose, man who knew
how to use power.
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1t is good thing, we believe, that
practically all of the birds in a species
look alike
That is, that if there are four male
cardinals in the yard, or even eight, as is
sometimes the case. they look so alike
that even the most careful observer
cannot tell one from tother.
Thus there is no sorrow when one
of the eight puts out for the next COM
munity and never shows up again.
When last seen he was fit and healthy.
| No doubt he is fit and healthy there.
The happy scene in the snow is not
marred because a favorite has not
shown up.
They are all favorites!
| That, it seems to us, is the essence of
bird watching in the home garden.
They are all favorites, these birds,
and they seem so happy and healthy
and immortal that we would not do a
thing to change the situation.
If we took the trouble to brood over
them, we might realize that they, too,
were subject to ills to which all flesh
is heir.
But we do not take the trouble to
brood.
We rejoice in their seeming immortal
ity, in the plain fact that we have a
hundred birds, morning after morning
Here, at least, is one scene in which
mans silly planning" has not inter-
fered.
Evening star., 1941-09-06
Attack on the Greer

Assuming that the submarine
which attacked the American de-
stroyer U. S. S. Greer was an Axis
craft, and that the torpedoes were
fired with knowledge of the targets
identity or in reckless disregard OF
its nationality, the determination OF
the American Navy to hunt down
and eliminate" the marauder is
abundantly justified.
The destroyer, travelling alone, was
bound for Iceland with mail. BY no
stretch of the imagination could
such a mission be deemed a valid
excuse for any attack. Adolf Hitler,
to be sure, has decreed the sea ap-
proach to Iceland including waters
extending almost to the coast OF
Greenland, to be war zone, and has
repeatedly stated that his submarine
commanders would torpedo any ship
entering the zone if engaged on an
errand useful to England. But this
Government has neither recognized
the war zone nor the legitimacy of
Hitler'S threats, and it is entirely
within its rights in both respects.
1t is important, also, to remember
that the attack on the U. S. S. Greer
is not an isolated incident. On May
21 German submarine commander,
with full knowledge of his victims
identity, sank the American freighter
Robin Moor in the South Atlantic.
Passengers and crew were left to
shift for themselves in life boats,
the submarine commander falling to
summon aid, and they suffered great
hardships before finally being res
cued. So far as is known, Berlin has
ignored this Governments formal
protest.
OF that attack, the President, in a
report to Congress a month later,
said: This sinking is notice that no
American ship or cargo on any of
the seven seas can consider itself
immune from acts of piracy.
It Is warning that the United States
may use the high seas of the world
only with Nazi consent" Declaring
the United States would never sub
NIT to such a piratical attitude, the
President added: eve are not yield
ing and we do not propose to yield"
Those words might be even more
appropriately applied to the situation
which results from the attack on the
U. S. S. Greer, if the attempt to sink
the destroyer means that the Axis
now is bent upon disrupting our
communications with Iceland. On
the basis of known facts it is difficult
TO believe that Hitler has decided
upon such policy, but, since the two
attacks have occurred, the burden Of
establishing a contrary intent GER
tainly rests with Berlin. Meanwhile,
there is ample reason to expect that
the Navy will do everything in its
power to insure safe passage for
American ships in any waters not
closed to them by law.
Evening star., 1941-09-06
Another Army Shuke-up

Approximately 400 overage Regular
officers and some 4,400 National
Guard officers, from major generals
in command of divisions to lieutenant
platoon leaders, are awaiting trans
fers to less physically exacting ad-
ministrative assignments in the
largest shake-up the United States
Army has yet faced in continued
effort to inject younger leadership
in the combat field services.
In view of the extensive maneuvers
now in progress, it is not the inten-
ton to accomplish the removal of all
overage officers from troop units i'm
mediately. To do so might seriously
impair troop efficiency at a time
when it is most needed. Wisely,
therefore, many of the Guard and
Reserve officers will be permitted to
complete their twelve months of
training but, in general, the policy
is expected to be applied as rapidly
as possible.
News of the sitting method to be
employed came as no surprise to the
Armys large crop of overage field
officers. There had been other indi-
cations of what might be expected.
First, the War Department had re-
placed many of its high-ranking
regular officers in strategic field COM
mands by younger and more ener-
getic leaders. Then it obtained
authorization to create a "plucking
board" with a view to discharging
and retiring the incompetents or
misfits who were protected by red
tape regulations.
1t speaks well for the Army that
there has been no indication of a
disruption of officer morale as a
result of these severe, yet necessary,
measures which they fully realize
are being resorted to solely for the
good of the service in a most critical
emergency. The interested public,
having in mind its own protection,
is largely sympathetic with these
efforts.
Perhaps the American public,
reading about the comparatively
young commanders in the German
and British Armies, wonders why it
has taken our own General Staff
nearly two years to approve a SINH
lar policy. The answer given by Mr..
Patterson is simple and plausible.
During the early phases of the ex-
pansion of the Army in the existing
emergency it was necessary to utilize
all experienced officers, regardless of
age" he explained. However, the
War Department was well aware of
the fact that as soon as the new
Army got on its feet, the older officers
with field force units would have to
be replaced"
Ironically, these older officers,
having helped put the Army on its
feet, now are to be assigned to duties
away from the troops they trained.
But this is no reflection on their rec
ordS and most of them can still have
the satisfaction of rendering useful
and effective service to their country
in other ways.
Evening star., 1941-09-06
HYMN to the Pleiudes

Oh, fragile 1Ueb Of SilUer light that
burns in space,
Symbol of declining summer and
oncoming fall,
Be unto as, this night, as in times
past
A signal for safe voyaoing, peace
tul port of call.
o Seuen stars, sheer frosted net Of
pale 10hite fire,
Ascending no1D the eastern margin
of the sky,
Guide US and calm US beyond q
hdrdSSed hour,
Protect US inOiolably, the while q
season passes By.
You, harbingers of heightened cool
dutumnul nights,
Messengers OF migrant bird and
falling leaf,
Affirm for US again the order OF
familiar things;
Let us enter this netU season tDtth
renet1ed belief.
FREDERICK EBRIGHT.
Evening star., 1941-09-06
Tullinn

The ancient capital of Estonia has
been taken by the Germans after a
siege like that which left Warsaw
in ruins in 1889. A Russian garrison
held the town for many weeks, its
commandant announcing that he
would leave nothing to the Nazis
which they could use. When at last
the Soviet forces withdrew by way
of the Gulf of Finland, they probably
had kept their pledge to the limit of
their ability. Much of the city un-
doubtedly is ruined.
Yet few other places could have
had equal claim upon the charity of
great and powerful nations. Tallinn
was storybook picture. Waldemar
the Victorious, a Danish prince,
erected the castle which later was
the fortress of Russians, Poles and
Swedes successfully. Muscovites were
in control of the whole country from
ITO to 1918, but they did not erase
its native civilization. During all
these years." says the Baroness Trina
Ungern- n-Sternberg, "the Estonians
never lost their national conscious
ness. The desire for freedom was
kept alive in their poems and songs"
1t also survived in the very atmos-
phere of the metropolis.
Of Tallinn the writer just quoted
declares ''It is so different from any
thing else in the world. The
narrow, winding cobblestone streets
might have belonged to any medieval
Evening star., 1941-09-06

Danish or German town, yet in some
subtle way they bore Russian mark
of the East. Above the old-fashioned
horse drawn cabs within the city
walls, the houses look as If they
leaned toward each other for sup
port, so closely are they huddled
together, and the overhanging bal
comics add an Italian Romeo and
Juliet touch. And yet, strangely
enough, automobiles, streetcarS, and
modern buildings do not seem out of
place in this city of contrasts"
The Estonians, seeking independ-
ence generation after generation.
nevertheless were a receptive and a
tolerant people. One glance at the
skyline of Tallinn Sufficed to prove
the capacity of the residents thereof
to appreciate architecture of every
sort. The town hall, for instance,
was topped by minaret after a
Persian model. Five gilded cupolas
crowned the red-brick Russian
cathedral on Castle Hill. The church
of st. Nicholas had a slender Spire
of powder gray, and the still more
definitely pointed steeple of st.
Olaf's was tall enough to be visible
from Helsinki on a clear summer
afternoon.
To what tragic extent Tallinn has
paid for being an innocent bystander
in the present universal conflict is
matter of speculation. But even
if the city has been left in ashes the
spirit of the Eesti folk will not be
crushed. When now they sing MY
fatherland, my fortune and joy, how
beautiful thou art" the song will
have more poignant meaning to the
singers-and to the democratic world
at large,
Evening star., 1941-09-06
Files Another Protest
Against Moving Jacks,n's Statue.

Against Moving Jackstns Statue.
To the Editor of The Star:
There are, it seems to me, two all
sufficient reasons why the statue Of
Andrew Jackson should not be removed
from Lafayette Square, where it has
rested since 1853.
No. /. In one of the most perilous
moments in our national history, when
the morale of our people was at its low
est ebb, he saved their self-respect by
whipping the British at the Battle of
New Orleans.
No. 2. He saved the Union from
disintegration, and gave the national
spirit confidence and an authority that
enabled it to weather the most terrible,
as it was the most unnecessary, brothers
war the world has ever seen.
Few informed persons, dare say, will
contest the first point make. The in
f1uence of the victory of New Orleans
cannot be measured in terms of human
values.
A grateful people have erected in this
city an imposing memorial to another
great President for his services in saving
the Union. That he did accomplish
that end is a matter of controversy.
No less an authority than DR.. James
Brown Scott, whose name among scholars
in history arrests attention in any
group, told me, not so long ago, that
Andrew Jackson saved the Union.
A bit of history will illuminate this
thesis. In October, 1862, Secretary
Chase, speaking for the President, in
an address at Cincinnati said that which,
ever side gained and held Tennessee
would win the war. Jefferson Davis,
President of the Confederacy, in
speech at Atlanta, replying to Chase.
said the great finance minister had
faithfully stated the strategy of the
war. This accounts for the early bat
ties in Kentucky and for the bloody
battles in the Volunteer State--Fort
Donelson, Fort Henry, Shiloh, Murfrees-
boro, Memphis, Tullahoma, Knoxville,
Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Lookout
Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Franklin
and Nashville.
In the midst of that inferno stood
TennesSean whose influence dominated
the State and made 1t possible for the
armies of Buell., Rosecrans, Grant, Sher-
man and Thomas to win Tennessee and
hold it for the Union. His name was
Andrew johnson. He was Military Gov
ernor of the State. And in him was
reincarnated the spirit of Andrew Jack
son, at whose feet he had learned that
devotion to the Union which kept it
from falling apart.
In the extremely perilous days OF 1868,
johnson, at the urging of President
Lincoln, stumped Ohio and Indiana and
broke up the movement there and in
Illinois for another secession to set up
Northwest Confederacy; and in the
same year he spoke in New Jersey and
throughout New aYork to the Canadian
border and broke down the growing
appeasement movement which was shak-
ing the confidence of those mercantile
States in the ability of the Lincoln ad-
ministration to bring the war to sue
cessful oonciuaon. Here again he was
Evening star., 1941-09-06

cumstances, it is small wonder that
it was rejected.
The incident is one which has re-
fected no credit on the Roosevelt ad-
ministration. For the President to
revive it at any time would be unwise;
to do so at this particular time can
be regarded only as an exceedingly
unfortunate blunder.