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Evening star., 1941-11-02
YuoosIuvic Donce Slotted

The Yugoslavic American Associa-
ton Of Washington is sponsoring .
dance for Yugoslav war relief Mo-
vember Is At 10 pm. at the Willard
Hotel. Proceeds, 1t has been an.
nounced by Michael Rajacich.
chairman Of arrangements, VIII b
turned over 70 the Red ores for
application In Yugoslav3a.
Evening star., 1941-11-02
Postmistress Admits
Curiosity; Fined SIS
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. Charged
with tampering with the mails, Mrs.
Vera Brewer, former Southport
postmaster, pleaded guilty and ex-
planned in Federal Court that she
opened q letter because Of curiosity
10 ~ the grade another had made
IN q postal examination.
Judge Robert G. Baltzeu f1ned her
g. for tha unauthorized peek.
Evening star., 1941-11-02
Marriage License
Applications

Under D. c. lau. couples must
apply for marriage license on
one day, ,Ddit three full days and
receive their license on the nth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
Evening star., 1941-11-02

The police department Of the
Union Of South Africa recently pur-
chased 100 American-made motor
cycles, the Commerce Department
says.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30

would help to bring about imitation
Though stating that the administra-
ton had no thought of devaluing the
dollar, he asked that the power to do
so be continued because of the pos
sibility that international monetary
developments during the next two
years might conceivably require its
use in the protection of American
interests.
The measure passed by the House
Tuesday also provides for a two
year extension of the sterilization
fund, the operations of which also
would end on June 80 unless renewed.
The sterilization fund has been
well managed and no harm can be
done by its extension. Because it is
Of such vital Importance to the
country that every possible step be
taken to avoid initiation during this
period of national emergency and
vast Government expenditures, it is
to be hoped that the Senate will fol-
low the recommendation of the Fed
eral Reserve Board by refusing to
renew the Presidents authority to
devalue the dollar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Sheep, Body, Sheep

The usual ried-but-not-al always
true cure for insomnia Is to count
sheep. The specifications call, If
possible, for the sheep to jump over
a hurdle one at time, and it is OPP
tional with the insomnia to have
every hundredth one black, to keep
the count from getting balled up.
The main trouble is that no direc-
tions are given on how to conjure up
the woolies. Some are good at it, but
others seem mentally incapable of
picturiing either sheep or hurdles and
are deprived of all possible benefit.
1t is for these unfortunates that
the city editor of the Dallas Times
Herald has invented a clockwork de-
vice, clamped on the foot of the bed,
which projects Illuminated sheep on
a dial. Sheep for sleep" is its motto
and purpose, and it brings the farm
right into the bedroom. Perhaps in
time optional accessories will be
available, for rugged individualists
who are not satisfied with sheep, but
may want to try out cows, pigs or
even blends. At present, however,
the model is equipped with sheep
alone, enough to last all night if
tightly wound. It's effectiveness re-
mains to be proved, but at least it
does prevent sheeplessness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30

those who have food to feed the
hungry. She has never made war
on generations unborn.
During the past decade, as has
been stressed by the conference dur
ing recent days, the science of
nutrition has made enormous ad-
vances. Not few of these advances
have come out of Germany. Most of
them have been achieved in Amer
lean laboratories.
1t can be said confidently that no
American scientist, likely as not
himself an exile from Germany, ever
has dreamed Of using a synthetic
vitamin in any other way than as a
boon to humanity. Now, it appears,
no German scientist ever has
dreamed of using a synthetic vitamin
in any other way than as boon to
Germany.
The evidence seems conclusive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Dollar DevuIuution Powers

In approving the bill extending
for two years the Presidents dollar
devaluation power, which will eX-
pire on June 80 unless renewed,
the House has rejected the recon-
mendations of the Federal Reserve
steps to avert imitation, the Board of
Governors and other responsible
officials of the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn in January urged that the
Presidents power to change the
gold content of the dollar be not
renewed. Their recommended tons,
embodied in a joint report to Con-
gress, were unanimous.
In view of the drastic nature Of
the power vested in the Executive,
their recommendation was a sound
one Under this authority the Presi-
dent can increase, by approximately
$4,000, 100000, the value of the Treas
ury's stock of gold, making possible
a currency expansion that would in
crease bank deposits and reserves,
which are already unprecedentedly
high. Since this authority offers
potential dangers of abuse, and since
it's termination will provide a safe
guard against the threat of initiation
and its destructive aftermath, a re-
turn to Congress of its constitutional
power over the Nations currency
seems plainly in the public interest.
Neither President Roosevelt nor
Secretary Morgenthau has pre-
sented any convincing reason for
continuing in the Executive the
power to alter the gold content of
the dollar. In his letter to Vice
President Wallace on April %, Mr..
Roosevelt declared that present
worldwide circumstances, including
the international monetary and
economic situation, are not such
as would warrant the termination"
of the power to devalue the dollar.
In his appearance before the House
Committee on Coinage, Weights and
Measures on May 8, Mr.. Morgen-
THAI declared that the admins
tration has mo present intent what
soever to devalue the gold content of
the dollar" and denied that the pos
session of this power by the President
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Daylight Saving

secretary lcKeS suggestion tnaC
the Nation in general adopt daylight
saving time as an emergency con-
Servation measure has the support
of logic and experience. With a
shortage of power foreseen by
Federal Power Commission and other
Federal officials, drastic steps may
have to be taken to curtail nom
essential uses of electricity. 1t has
been estimated that America saved
huge quantities of power during the
first World War by instituting
Nationwide system of daylight say
ing, in addition to providing workers
with more time for healthful recrea-
ton after office hours. The savings
undoubtedly would be greater in this
era of wider use of electricity.
Congress established daylight saw
ing time on March 19, 1918. Under
the law clocks were set ahead one
hour on the last Sunday in March
and set back again one hour on
the last Sunday in October. This
law had the twofold effect of con-
serving power and of increasing food
supplies by enabling home owners
to spend more time in their gardens.
The law was repealed August 20,
1919, Chiefly as a result of agitation
fror1 the farm belt. Farmers con-
landed they rose early enough as it
was, and that to get up an hour
earlier than standard time meant
rising while it was yet too dark to
begin their chores. The change was
favorably received by the general
public, however, and New York City
liked the plan so we'll that it retained
daylight saving by municipal ordi-
nance. Daylight saving now is in
force in all or sections of sixteen
States: New York, New Jersey, Rhode
Island, Massachusetts,, New Hamp-
shire, Maine, Connecticut, Vermont,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Della
ware, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan
and Tennessee. This haphazard
application of the plan has proved
to be confusing for travellers and
interstate business interests. Uni
versal adherence to daylight saving
would eliminate the existing diff
cultieS.
There are several bills pending at
the Capitol on this subject, most of
them following closely the language
of the 1918 bill No hearings have
been held on them, however, and
no action seems to be Immediately
contemplated. 1t is reported that
the Office of Production Manage
ment has been giving some thought
to daylight saving as a defense ex-
pedient A request from adminiStra-
ton sources probably would spur
congressional action. If the pros
poets of a power shortage are as seri-
Gus as some Government officials
have indicated, there should be no
further delay in executive and leg
islative circles in taking what steps
are necessary to save electricity by
making the most of Natures own
free light
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
FEEDING the Enemy

During the World War, as today,
the United States was the worlds
greatest food producer. After the
war this country recognized a moral
obligation to feed the distressed pop
ulations of Europe-including Ger
many.
Many of the men who now are
raining death on Britain, who have
enslaved the people of Poland and
most of France, were kept alive as
babies by American food.
These same men, or the govern
ment which they represent, disclaim
any responsibility whatsoever to feed
its conquered populations and an
nounce that they have first claim to
any supplies available, regardless of
their source.
This was revealed by Assistant
Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle, jr.,
before the National Nutrition Con-
ference for Defense. The State De-
partment knows that Poles, French
and Yugoslavs are hungry, that the
effects of this hunger will be felt for
at least a generation. It's hands are
tied. Any food shipments to these
countries, on the word of the con-
ouerors themselves, are liable to
seizure to feed Germany.
America still has abundant food
supplies. She has never discrimi-
mated between friend and foe when
It came to the moral obligation of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
lie was a brave catbird, all right.

He was brave catbird, all right.
Down he came on the top of the lat
tice, while two large cats reposed on the
porch.
He was not more than feet from
them, when he lit on the top crossbar.
On the porch railing, 3 feet below him
was a green saucer.
In the saucer lay some raisins.
They were what the bird was after.
He gave two or three of his Characters
tic mewing cries, those cries which the
friend of birds in time comes to regard
as highly pleasing.
The cats did not look up.
Satisfied with his approach, the beau
tiful gray and black bird flew down to
the next crossbar.
There he looked around, but especially
| down at the two cats, while he gave
again his triumphant mewing note.
This time Quincy, the yellow cat
| f1icked his ears but did not look up, and
| Tigey, gray and black striped on white,
merely lifted an eye.
Neither cat paid any attention to the
catbird, which now flew down to the
next crosSbar.
Would he keep on?
* ~
In a second, gathering up his courage
| the bird hoped squarely down beside
the green saucer, with its raisins.
Here again the bird miaowed, with
note which real cat might have
envied.
This time neither cat showed the
slightest interest at all.
Quincy was too fat to catch birds, and
Tigey simply was not interested in them
Not all house cats, by any means, are
bird catchers 1t is estimated that about
one cat out of every ten is born bird
catcher.
The catbird was now about three feet
from the cats, which still paid him no
attention whatever.
He curved his neck, looked at the
/ sleeping cats. then reached for raisin.
1t is extremely interesting to watch q
bird handle raisins.
Inc Dill Is open, VI COuISt, WIFI Tie
raisin held at the point. Then the bird
raises its head releasing the raisin. By
a quick movement, the fruit is rolled
| back, as on a track.
1t makes the passage by three or four
of these jumps, finally disappearing down
the throat of the bird.
1t almost gives the impression that 1t
is being pulled along by an invisible
wire.
After the bird had eaten three raisins
| it seized another, gave a quick down
glance at the cats-and few between
the bars of the lattice and so away to
its nest
There, probably, it told its mate of
its thrilling encounter with two great
cats.
If we might listen in on its conversa-
ton, We might hear something along
this order:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Discusses Failure to Increase
Basic Material Production.
tn the Editor of The Star.

According to press reports. the Priori
ties Division of the Office of Production
Management is preparing to issue
priority orders covering many raw ma
terials and is talking about the need for
sacrifice upon the part of those who will
be deprived of the goods which the
non-defense industries could make with
those materials.
Such statements lead one to ask if
a reasonable effort has been made to
expand the output of these goods which
are being covered by priority orders or
whether the priority orders are being
used as a means of removing the neceS-
sity of expanding these industries. There
Is no question but that the people Of this
country will willingly 60 without goods
which are needed in the defense program
but the question arises whether when
have still millions of unemployed willing
and eager to work We should start
throwing men out of employment. by
cutting down on the materials which
they could use in non-defense produce
ton before a reasonable effort has been
made to provide for both the defense and
the non-defense industries. If the time
comes when there is an actual short
age of labor and that time is far, there
will be an excuse for cutting down on the
non-defense industries.
If we, need materials for the defense
industries and haven't the productive
facilities to produce them we must use
priorities to take them from the nom
defense industries. But we must not
spare those who are to blame for the
need of priorities today We should
ask in no uncertain terms why produc-
ton has not been expanded so that we
can have both, at least, until our labor
supply has been put to work. There can
be no excuse for priorities and idle men
at the same time unless every effort is
being made to increase the productive
facilities in these lines We Should ask
if it has not been the psychology of the
industrialists and their fear of excess
capacity and their fear of the war
ending in speedy Nazi victory that
was behind their talk of needing no ex-
pansion in these industries. Whatever
we do we must not be content to allow
priorities and no expansion of the
productive facilities. We must not let
the fear of the industrialists in a early
Nazi victory destroy the possibility of
having both guns and butter" during
our defense program. We have been
told that the things which have been
delaying defense have been strikes and
shortages of machine tools. But now the
real truth is out. 1t is the failure to
expand the basic material production.
The sad truth is that those really
responsible for that condition are the
ones who are at the very heart of our
defense program
CLARENCE ARMSTRONG,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Complains About Views
OF ISolatiOniStS.

To the Editor of The Star:
I have read and reread an article in
your paper of May "a, and it has irri-
tated me to such an extent that I
cannot let it go unanswered. I refer to
"War Will Doom U. S. Democracy, Lind
bergh and Wheeler Assert"
1 wonder If Mr.. Lindbergh and Sem
ator Wheeler realize that when they
predicted that United States partici-
patton in the European war would mean
the end of American democracy that
they really were saying that the United
States as Nation Is finished. To my
way of reasoning that is actually what
their words imply, because any one with
an ounce of common sense can see that
eventually we will be in the war, and
that ii Hitler is not stopped in Europe
he will not let the ocean stand between
him and the promise he made his people
that Germany must and will rule the
world and all other peoples will be en-
shaved to the German race.
Piscataway. Nd. F. H. BOYLE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1Dell.

Yes, my dear, this raisin nearly cost
me my life.
IT was flying along, when I saw this
bowl of delicious raisins.
Dare I risk it?
II saw the great cruel cats were very
close, but those raisins looked good, and,
besides, I wanted to bring you one.
Down I flew.
1.-The big cats reared up, and spit in
my face.
II gave triumphant NEW or two. The
animals seemed taken aback.
Il mewed again, and flew right down
in the cats face.
Both cats now were a-rearing on their
hind legs, and splitting fire.
Their fur stood on end, and their
eyes glared, but all this didn't stop me.
Il went directly to the raisin bowl,
and just to show those cats what
thought of them, I calmly ate two or
three-raisins, mean, not cats.
by this time the cats were leaping
in my direction.
THE yellow one lunged so close
could feel his hot breath on my feathers.
THE one they call Tigey Missed and
screamed in his rage to get at me.
But every time they came close, I
moved over bit, and screamed back
at them.
We'll, finally I got tired of it, and
grabbed this fine raisin for you, and
away few.
Behind me the cats sent up screams
of rage, and tore down the back steps
after me, as fast as they could go.
But I was too fast for them. And
so here is your raisin. I tell you, it
almost cost me my life"
We do not feel that this speech is in
any way nature taking, because the cat
bird looked to be quite capable of it.
There is little doubt that any bird, at
least if its psychology resembled that
of man, would make a somewhat similar
speech.
You hear them on the radio every
day
Birds must naturally regard all cats
as equally dangerous.
They have no way of knowing that
some are lazy, some Indifferent, some too
sleepy to care.
Il
The catbird is one of the most in
teresting of the raisin eaters.
He is a splendid fellow, well worth
more than the average attention he gets
The experienced bird observer will pay
particular attention to him not only
because of his beauty and unusual ways,
but also because of his song
Often the vocal outpouring attributed
to mockingbirds is really the work Of
the catbird.
He will sit for hours in a tree, send
ing down veritable cascade of notes,
in which may be noted the limitations
of many other birds.
The next time you hear what you
think is mockingbird, look we'll to see
if it isn't that capable singer, that real
musician, the catbird.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Postwar Europe

Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's
statement in the House of Commons
yesterday was noteworthy as his first
definite utterance on BritainS war
discussion has been going on in
England during recent months con-
corning the postwar world, and in
creaSing pressure has been brought
to bear on the British government
to indicate its postwar policies after
a victory over the Axis had been
won. This speech is designed to
give the public at least a generalized
answer.
The most interesting parts of the
address were those concerning the
European continent. Mr.. Eden en-
viSaged system of free economic
cooperation" based upon "a last
ing settlement and internal peace
of the continent as a whole" This
is in line with advanced English
thinking that much greater empha-
sis must be placed upon the economic
aspects of the coming peace settle
ment than was the case after the
Great War.
The Versailles treaties, in attempt
ing to reconstruct Europe along
sound lines of nationality, tended
to overlook the economic difficulties
which many of the territorial set
Elements involved The process was
seen at its worst in Central Europe.
There natural economic bloc, the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, was split
into a number of small or middle
sized states. The new frontiers,
while satisfying nationalist aSpira-
tons, were often drawn in fragrant
disregard of economic realities.
Those jealous succession" states
made matters worse by erecting high
tariff walls along the frontiers
which strangled foreign trade and
condemned the whole region to
deepening economic stagnation. And
other parts of Europe suffered from
the same ills in lesser degree.
AS a matter of fact, the whole Of
Europe, divided into so many small
protected markets was becoming an
anomaly in an age of mass produc-
ton and superpower. But all at
tempts at enlightened remedies
failed. Now the German conquest
of the continent is doing, brutally
and for purely selfish ends, what the
economic reformers failed to accom-
plish. The continent is being inte-
grated, though in destructive fash
ion. 1t is fairly obvious that, though
the oppressed and enSlaVed nation
alities may be restored politically,
the old economic Setup cannot, and
should not, be wholly revived.
This, Mr.. Eden himself acknowl-
edges by clear implication when he
says: mo escape can be found from
Europe, except by creating and pre-
serving economic health in every
country" To be sure, he intimates
that economic considerations must
be subordinated to political safe
guards in the case of Germany, so
that she may not again shatter Euro
pean peace. Yet, within those re-
strictions, Germany must play a
part" in this reconstructed Europe
of tomorrow.
1t is hopeful portent that. at this
anxious hour, Britain's Foreign
Minister should speak thus can
didly concerning the policies which
should guide the next settlement of
the troubled continent. If Britain
wins the war and if the future peace
conference is conducted in this spirit
and along these general lines, the
worst mistakes of Versailles may be
averted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Insists That Rents Asked
Are Not Unreasonable.

To the Editor of The Star:
To correct an error is only giving the
public an understanding of conditions as
they exist-which every honorable person
feels inclined to do.
Washington is said to be the most ex-
pensive place to live in the United
States. Everything is abnormally high
here.
Having lived here q years, feel am
competent to judge.
Room for rent cards bristle in windows
in the most desirable sections of the city
One such section is that in which I live
and to my personal knowledge the rents
asked for these rooms, many of them
are not out of proportion to the rent
paid for the house or apartment. j. D.