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Evening star., 1941-01-10
Name
Haunted Orchard

I know an orchard where old apple
trees
Bask on a sunny, gently sloping hill
Beneath blue sky bending cloudless,
still;
I know the, soft touch of scented
breeze
AS underneath the laden boughs I pass.
In childhood days knew this pattern
well
Gnarled trees, gray granite boulders,
and the smell
Of windfalls redly cleaning in the grass.
I linger, dreaming, on hchened stone,
The past and present mingled in my
mind
hear quick footsteps racing to and
fro,
And whispered laughter; now no more
alone,
Here in this haunted orchard I can find
The happy little ghosts Of long ago.
HELEN CONNOLLY.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
THIS AND THAT
Bu Charles Z. Trdce1Dell.

as one of the great bird feats, probably
unsurpassed in all time.
Mockingbirds often are regarded as
sheer nuisances at feeding stations here
about in the cold months.
This is because they tend to pick or
other birds, driving them away from food
which in many instances they do not
wish to eat themselves.
Not all local Knockers belong in this
category, and that Is where a mild
dispute arises. Homeowners with one of
these pestiferous mockingbirds in the
garden do not understand how any one
else can have mild acting mocker.
Those with a pleasant tempered mock
ingbird simply do not comprehend any
one else when mention is made of a bad
actor.
1t has been found that tact, in estab-
fishing bird feeding stations, will go a
long way toward mitigating the harsh
ness of an evil-tempered bird.
Mockers like breadstuffs of all kinds,
y
fond of raisins If a small feeding
station is established to hold such
articles of diet, it will draw any mock
ingbirds which may be in the neigh
borhood. If this is placed on one side
of the yard, or on the other side of the
house, it will draw the mockingbird away
from the regular feeding station which
has been stocked with seed and grain
for the smaller birds.
In some instances the local mocking-
bird may be mild enough before the
weather gets severe, but may become
hostile toward other songsters when the
days grow bitter.
The mockingbird, as most suburban
dwellers know, is the fairly large gray
bird which shows a great deal of white
in its wings when it flies.
The white is not seen when the bird
is at rest.
This is bird which, at nesting time,
suddenly skins across the yard to make
bomb dive" at dog or cat.
The male bird guards the chosen site
day and night.
At this time it is very demon in
feathers, not even hesitating to dive
forward at human beings who approach
the nest.
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So far this winter a lone mockingbird
has contented himself with remaining
in the front yard to eat the berries of the
barberry bushes.
He has never once visited the rear
garden where scores of birds are feeding
at four feeding stations.
This visit probably will be put of
until February or March.
Or this specimen may be one of the
mild tempered ones
Our belief is that only the male birds
remain here in winter.
If this is so the females must &c
South. Certainly this is true of the
towhee, that remarkably pleasant and
colorful fellow, welcome winter guest
in any garden. But no one hereabout
has ever seen a female towhee in winter
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Brituin's Food Worries

The British people seem to be
experiencing something of a food
shortage, especially in meat. The
Food Minister, Lord Woolton, calls it
Temporary" but within forty-eight
hours the meat ration has been cut
twice, first to the equivalent of
thirty-two cents per person a week,
and then to tWenty-three cents per
head. That is sharp drop from the
forty-SeVen cents per capita rate
which prevailed up to mid-December.
John Bull is proverbially a big
meat eater, so these drastic cuts in
his diet have caused quite bit of
grumbling. This understandable
"grousing" has been intensified by
the fact that, although households
generally are rationed. any one with
the price is able to go to hotels or
restaurants and there order Sump-
tuous meals for which food cards are
not required. This situation recently
has been brought to public attention
by articles in the press relating in
detail expensive repasts consumed
by the writer's, which must have
made their readers mouths water,
but which probably left a bitter
aftertaSte. The effect of these dis
closures will probably be a general
tightening up of the rationing SyS-
tenn and at least a partial abolition
of the double dietary standard.
Though it is pointed out that what
one London newspaper calls luxury
feeding" consumes only seven and
one-half per cent of the total meat
supplies, the psychological effect
upon public opinion is factor which
cannot be ignored Should the ne
cessity for strict food rationing
continue, Britain doubtless will have
to adopt and practice thoroughly the
motto of wartime Germany: This
time we all eat out of the same diSh!"
From the very start of the war, the
German government imposed dras-
tic food rationing system combined
with a price schedule which could
not be altered except by official
decree. This system applied to all
classes, could not easily be evaded,
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Advocates Full Support"
For Embattled England.
Wichita, Kans.
70 the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Who are the so-called America First
Committee" and what are their motives?
In reality, this group honestly could call
itself "the America Last Committee
To state the actual causes and aims of
this war is indeed difficult. However, the
civilized world sees in Hitler force con-
trary to the normal and happy demo-
cratic way of life, a force dynamically
opposed to liberty and to the lawful pur-
suit of happiness.
Any one in accord or supporting Hitler
either directly or indirectly aids him in
his quest for world domination.
If the Hitler way of life suits the
America First Committee and its sup
porters, then they must either be igno-
rant of his policies, plans and ambitions
or they must be fools.
In Englands grave hour recommend
again our full support for Great Britain.
DR.. A. A. SHAPER.
Louisville, KY.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Says Senator Wheeler's Speech
Forecasts War Rather Than Peace,

To the Editor of The Star:
1t is dismaying to read the European
peace program set forth by Senator Bur-
ton K. Wheeler. He argues that the
way to permanent peace is to remove
the cause of war-and promptly pro-
ceeds to outline a plan of peace for
Europe identical with its former state,
which was vulnerable, nay, conducive to
war. 1t is heart-rending to consider that
perhaps all the bloodshed and agony
nov being suffered over there may be
in vain. And it will be in vain if all
men having to do with the eventual
peace are as shortsighted and reaction
airy as Mr.. Wheeler.
What causes war? Sovereignty of ma
tions. basically, is the cause.-the un-
governed right of nation to pursue
Whatever course it chooses regardless of
the consequences to other nations and
their peoples. Can it be possible that
Mr. Wheeler lived during the last war,
saw Its cause, its outcome, its peace, and
the failure of that peace, and still has
learned nothing from the obvious lesson
",
is man of high moral standards and
social conscience and it is laudable
that he advocates peace; but is it not a
pity IF a man of social ideals allows
his social intelligence to stagnate? Mr..
Wheeler apparently has forgotten Moth
ing, learned nothing. changed no old
views, gained no new views. What he
advocates is. in effect, not peace, but
more war!
Let us hope that the men who make
Europe's peace will be men of vision,
not blindness; of progress, not retro
gresslon. Let us pray that Europes
peace may be the worlds peace, last
ing and permanent, based on a workable
system of democracy wherein nations
are bound together instead of standing
singly. 1t is clear that the old system
breeds wars and should be discarded.
Lanham, Md. PEGGY SPEER.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Mockingbirds are unusually fat this

Mockingbirds are unusually fat this
winter.
Have you noticed it?
If you enjoy watching the birds which
winter here, you probably have; not in
many years have the Knockers been so
plump and in such good feather.
Just why this is so is difficult to say.
Undoubtedly good feeding conditions
last summer had something to do with it.
1t is probable that only the fittest
mockingbirds remain with us through
the cold months.
Not all the Knockers stay here, by any
means.
Many of them 60 South for the winter,
as any sensible creature would which
could, or which could afford 1t.
Fortunately for the birds, there Is no
cost involved except that of flying
strength, and this helps keep them in
good fettle, provided they can get
enough to eat along the route.
In the fall when the birds migrate,
there still are millions of weed seeds
and insects along the flyways, to say
nothing of berries just ripening on the
berried shrubs.
The great mountain ranges they must
fly over afford an inexhaustible supply
of food.
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Just how much a bird eats when it Is
migrating is a difficult thing to say.
The chances are that they do not eat
as much as normal.
Some of the smallest birds, including
the hummingbirds, are able to fly across
great bodies of water without stopping.
While they are on such flights, of
course, they do not have bit to eat.
Birds which are normally migrators,
but which in some cases remain here
about for the winter, include the towhee
and the mockingbird, as we'll as certain
sparrows.
Persons newly interested in bird watch
ing and feeding, especially in the winter,
sometimes become confused over the
presence Of such birds as the cardinals
and the blue jays.
The former sometimes migrate but
scores of them stay here all winter long,
and so have come to be regarded as
permanent residents.
The jay also is permanent resident.
We have with these songsters no such
phenomenon as among the robins, when
all the birds come to us in the spring
and leave in the autumn, to come back
again next spring, in the never-ending
round of nature.
New watchers often believe they are
seeing something phenomenal to see a
cardinal in the snow, or a blue jay
but these bright birds are just as much
a part of the local winter scene as the
English sparroWs.
The startling is migratory bird, too
but so many of them winter here that
sometimes we forget this. Yet their
establishment of migration routes in a
new world is regarded by ornithologists
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Suggests Revival of Shipyard
At Newburgh, N. Y.
To the Editor of ;

40 tnc 5uilol OF Inc star.
Reopening of the Nevburgh, N. Y,
shipyard for the building of some of the
200 cargo ships proposed by President
Roosevelt January would give the
working people of the central Hudson
Valley great opportunity for large
scale Unemployment. 1t is my sincere
hope that the President and Congress
will list the Newburgh yard when pre-
senting the new shipbuilding program.
If there is anything so badly needed in
the central Hudson Valley area, it is
more employment for the people of that
section
The Newburgh shipyard operated four
ways for the Emergency Fleet Corp.
during the World War and this project
alone resulted in the starting of another
wholesome project, the Desmond housing
development at West Newburgh, which
today still is a monument to those who
had vision Of it.
FREDERIC GERHARDT FROST,
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Spokesman for Pilots
Sends Thanks for Article.

To the Editor of The Start
Please allow me to express my ap-
probation of the splendid article rela-
tive to the members of the American
Pilots Association published in your
issue of Sunday, December 20. Such
recognition, and implied approval, by
a paper of the standing enjoyed by
The Star cannot fail to be source of
profound satisfaction to the pilots, nor
can it fail to inspire them with fresh
zeal and determination to cling to the
best tradition of the past and present
while seeking ever to render service of
a higher order in the future.
VIM. E. HALLIDAY,
North Atlantic Regional Represent
ative, American Pilots Association.
New York
Evening star., 1941-01-10

friendliness and with deepest earnest
ness to reveal to the American people
why there is no demand for sending an
expeditionary force outside our borders" ."
Every American is most vitally con-
cerned in the most important issue
that the people of the two Americas
have ever faced-to stop Hitler in Eu-
rope. We stopped the Kaiser over there
in 1918. Hitler is a greater menace to
this country than ten kaisers.
WILLIAM H. HARGROVE.
Pierce City, Mo.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Household Accounts
And BUDGETS

The surest way to beat the high cost
of living is to keep budget. The new
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET BOOK for
l941, available through our information
bureau, will simplify your task and give a
new zest to your daily thrift routine.
Expert guidance on the division Of in
come among rent, food, clothing and
savings; model budgets for every income
group; hints on spending, saving insur-
ance. A ruled accounting page for every
month; printed on special paper to pre-
serve either ink or pencil records. To
secure your copy inclose 10 cents in coin,
wrapped in this clipping. and mail to
The Star Information Bureau.
Name
--------------------
Street
City
State
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Says Personal Messages
At Christmas Are Stronger"

To the Editor Of The Star:
The letter signed Virginia Hart" on
personalized Christmas greetings, inter-
ests me.
An added word or two makes the
printed greeting so much stronger.
I checked over my cards and the spe-
cial message ones looked so good. One
said, And we mean it."
I use small Christmas notepaper and
write many of my greetings. I like it and
feel that it is wholly personal.
I also wonder if any one remembers to
save their wrappings and give them
where they can be used. collect them
from my friends and send them to
little mountain school.
Things that seem useless to us mean
so much to many who have little.
MRS. M. L. WALKER.
Evening star., 1941-01-10

AS a result of recent events in Al
bania and Egypt, it might be good
idea to scrap the present Fascist
national anthem and substitute for
it a more appropriate strain-"The
Prisoners Song"
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Psychiutry and War

In twenty years neuropSychiatric
victims of the last war have cost the
taxpayers of the United States at
least half a billion dollars.
1t is customary, and quite proper,
to consider them with sympathy.
They are among the most pitiable Of
the wars wreckage. Nobody has
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Asks President to
Clarity Position.

To the Editor of The Star:
In his fireside talk Sunday night
President Roosevelt got nowhere. He
called for no direct action against "the
gang of outlaws" 1t is true that he de.
clared his absolute disagreement with
the Nals, the fifth column and "Ameri-
can appeasers" with regard to our aid to
Britain, but in no hostile spirit, the
writer. who has always supported Mr..
Roosevelt politically, calls on him to
clarity his position. We urge him IN true
Evening star., 1941-01-10

Certain British authorities call
the bombings of London "a blessing
in disguise" To many the disguise
will seem almost impenetrable.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Comments on Applauding
Opposition Speaker.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The writer does not know whether 1t
is the custom of one of the great po-
htical parties to applaud or not to ap-
plaud a speaker of the other party in
a speech before the House. This Is the
first time I ever heard of any audience
being criticized by Presidents wife for
not applauding.
ONCE A DEMOCRAT.
Evening star., 1941-01-10

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled TO
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited TO II or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication OF special dispatches
herein also are reserved.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 10riter, although the use OF
a pSeudonym for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters nth
q Uie1O to condensation.
Evening star., 1941-01-10

The slogan for both Greeks and
British these days seems to be west
ward, Ho!"
Evening star., 1941-01-10
Member of the Associated Press.

Entered as second-class matter post office,
Washington, D. c.
Evening star., 1941-01-10
The Evening Star Newspaper Company.

WASHIN GTON, D.. C.
FRIDAY 10, 1941
Evening star., 1941-01-10

@. What was the first automobile to
cross the continent?-A. K.
A. On August 81, 1903, Packard auto
mobile, later called Old Pacific, COM
pleted a 52-day trip from San Fran
cisco to New York
Evening star., 1941-01-10

O. How many of the Bach family were
musicians?-T. H. E.
A. There were eight generations Of
musicians in the family, 29 being emf.
nent at one time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
Sleet Storm Disrupts
Traffic

The sleet storm that spread coat
ing of ice over everything on We'd
nesday night of last week disrupt
ed traffic over our highways, put
wire service out Of commission,
slowed up business and completely
olsorganized the daily routine.
Numerous traffic accidents were
reported and many pedestrian had
a tumble. The best means Of travel
seemed to be on skates, and num-
erous young people could be seen
gliding gracefully and easily along
our streets, while the ordinary lay
man was mincing cautiously and
awkwardly along.
Rising temperatures, fog and rain
cut the icy coating away and condi-
lions got back to normal on Friday.
Travel conditions were SO pre-
carious on Thursday that the school
busses were ordered not to attempt
to make their trips, and as but few
pupils and teachers could reach our
schools here, no attempt was made
to hold sessions and those who did
reach school were dismissed for the
day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
Lashed AT Elkton Jail
For Wife Beating
Punishment Was First Cecil
County Public Whipping
In Forty-Six Years

A 42-year-old carpenter, convict
ed Of wife beating, standing with
barred back in a chilly prison yard,
at Elkton, on Saturday received ten
, lashes from a cat-o'-nine-tails in
Cecil County's first public whipping
in forty-six years.
The lashes, with straight-arm
blows, were delivered by Sheriff
David ]. Randolph on Glen Doyle, as
part of sixty-day court sentence for
beating his wife, Marie, and daugh-
ter, Pearl, 8.
Doyle flinched under the blows,
but made no cutlery. Welts were
raised on his back, and he was exam
ined afterward by two physicians.
Randolph said he had borrowed
the whip from the New Castle (Del.)
county workhouse, and that whip
ping post had been set up in the
north corner of the jail yard.
Doyle walked into the yard wear
ing leather jacket, and escorted
by Deputy Sheriff Ralph Robinson.
He peeled on the jacket, and was
tied to the whipping post.
Robinson counted the blows as
the whip rose and fell. The flashing,
witnessed by about forty persons,
took only two minutes. Doyle was
then escorted back into the jail.
Doyle was sentenced December 16
by Chief Judge Stephen Collins. The
flashing was scheduled a few days
previously, but was postponed, Sher-
if Randolph said, because Of bad
weather.
Doyle's sentence followed closely
behind the sentencing on November
20 of Daniel Sealock, 80, of Brad
bury Heights, Prince Georges coun-
ty, to six lashes and ten days inn
prisonment on wife-beating charge.
Sealock appealed the sentence and
hearing will be held in April.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
Cecil County Rod And
Gun Club

The Cecil County Rod and Gun
Club held very interesting meeting
on Friday evening, Jan. 10, in the
Trinity Parish House, Elkton, when
discussions were carried on concern
ing the past activities of the club and
plans made for further service to
advance the interest OF the sports
men in this county.
Afttr the Nominating Committee
had made it's report the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year:
Horace Lilley, president; VIM.
Ray Baldwin, vice-president; Sec
retary-treasurer Clifford Pyle; AS
sistant OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Harry
Balling: Board of Directors, Theo-
dore Brown, Rising Sun, Major Will
liam Phillips, Cecilton, Chas. Mase-
more, Elkton William Broadwater,
Chesapeake City and Oliver Lam
bert. of Port Deposit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
Welded Fifty Years

On Sunday, January 10, the f1ft-
ieth wedding anniversary of Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew p. Angle, of Provi-
dence, Cecil county, was observed.
They were married In the Cherry
Hill, Md, Methodist parsonage by
the Rev. T. B. Hunter. They have
ten children; Twenty-Five grand
children and two great grand-child-
rem.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles e. Carly, of
Chesapeake City celebrated their
golden wedding Thursday evening,
Jan. 9, when their friends gave them
a surprise party. The affair was held
in the lodge room of the Councils of
which Mr.. and Mrs. Carly are men,
bers. The room was decorated in
gold paper, candles and potted
plants; lights were extinguished and
the candles lighted.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-24
Auto Funds For The
Roads Board
$64O, 900 Slated For New Ma
chimes And $9l7,70O
For Supplies

The State Roads Commission ex-
poets to spend $1,557,7O0 on the pur-
chase and operation of motor We
hicles in the next biennium, a study
of figures in Governor O'Conor's new
budget discloses.
OF this sum, $64O,OO0 is listed for
the purchase of new vehicles and
$917,70O is for gasoline, tires, spare
parts and other supplies and mater
ials used in the operation and main
tenance of the commissions motor
vehicle feet.
The $1,557,700, which does not in
clude any of the funds set up in the
budget for the construction or oper-
alton of State garages, or any pay
ments for personnel, represents more
than ten per cent Of the commissions
maintenance and reconstruction
funds for the next biennium.
According to information obtained
from William A. Codd, chief auditor,
the commission owns about $50 pas
senger cars and approximately 1900
'automotive units" The latter cate
CORY includes trucks, tractors and
other power-driven machinery and a
few stationary engines, Mr.. Codd
said.
Experience has shown that about
one-fourth of the motor-vehicle feet
has to be turned in and replaced each
year.
Whereas $4,000 is allowed for
the purchase of new motor vehicles
in each of the next two years, ac-
tually only 1907, 900 was spent last
year, out of an appropriation of
$S25,OO0
Most employees of the State Roads
Commission who drive about the
State on business use State-owned
cars. These cars are included in the
figure Of 100 cited by Mr.. Codd.
Sometimes, however, members Of
the supervisory force use their own
automobiles, and for this they are
allowed to claim expense money at
the rate Of cents a mile.
Materials are budgeted at $780,
400 for 1941-42 ssaG9 $I20,aaa0 for
1942-43.
According to Mr.. Colds figures,
the operating cost on all State MAIN
tenance equipment in the six engin-
eering districts averaged in 1910
about so cents per operating hour.