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Evening star., 1941-03-03

joint note Of menacing character.
The meaning of the note was plain;
namely, that the powers would inter-
vene forcibly against the United
States in event of war.
However" chronicled Mr.. Thom-
son, there is one difficulty about the
note. The powers approach Britain,
asking that country to join with
them. And Britain refuses to do SO"
This action of the British govern
ment, so it is stated, carried with it
the approval of the British people.
There was no doubt where British
sympathy lay. When news of the
declaration of war arrived in London,
the city was one mass of American
flags. When the American Admiral
Dewey steamed out of Hong Kong
harbor to attack the Spanish feet
in the Philippines, British sailors
lined the rails, cheering the Ameri-
cans"
The rest is hiStory-how the British
fleet confronted the German squad
ron when Admiral Dewey moved into
Manila Bay and ended Spain's empire
in the Pacific. Thanks to the CO.
operation of the British fleet" said
Mr.. Thomson, ''it is the Americans
and not the Germans who take over
the control of the Philippines"
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Friend in Need

At a time when Americans are so
keenly conscious of the value of the
British fleet as our own first-line de-
fense. and at moment when vitriolic
charges and countercharges are ex-
changed over the wisdom or folly Of
aiding Britain, there comes a re-
minder, if one is needed, that the
bonds between the worlds two great
est English-speaking nations have
been tested more than once.
Almost forgotten today Is an in
cident that was of gravest portent to
the United States forty-two years
ago. That was in August, 1898, when
the British fleet under Admiral Chi
chester intervened at the Battle of
Manila when the German Admiral
Won Diederich's squadron threatened
to deprive Admiral Dewey and his
men of the fruits of their victory.
A British journalist, George NAL
colin Thomson, long ago gave vivid
description of the Battle of Manila in
an article. appearing in the London
Evening Standard.
Three fleets, he wrote, had assem-
bled in Manila Bay-and not by acci-
dent. They were the fleets of the
United States, Britain and Germany.
Spain, then. mistress of the Philip
pines, and the United States were at
war.
The world, penned MIR. Thomson,
watched the struggle, but not with an
unbiased eye Nations are taking
sides; synpathies are aroused; pas
sions rise" For example, he pointed
out that Austria has dynastic in
terest in Spain. The French, owners
of Spanish bonds, have an inclination
for dividend diplomacy. The Kaiser
seeks a colonial outlet for his people
in Brazil and observes with displeas-
ure that the United States, with its
arrogant Monroe Doctrine, stands in
the way. Italy follows the Germans. I"
The great powers of Europe sought
to prevent the war by presenting the
United States Governments with .
Evening star., 1941-03-03
The PetriIIo Case

The Justice Department finally has
become curious about the activities
of James Caesar Petrillo. In conse-
quence, a Federal grand jury shortly
will have an opportunity to study the
rags-to-riches career of the chunky
labor leader who began by footing
a five-cent horn in a newsboy's
band and is now paid $4,000 an
nually as head of the Chicago Fed
Grafton of Musicians and the A. F. Of
L. American Federation of Musicians.
The Governments interest in
Petrillo was stirred by his efforts
to raid the American Guild Of
Musical Artists, another A. F. of L.
affiliate, headed by Lawrence Tib-
bett, and take Jurisdiction over the
instrumentaliStS, including such emf
nent performers as HeifetZ, Iturbi
and Elman. Needless to say, this is
greatly against the wishes of the
guild members-although there has
been one notable detection in the
person of Albert Spalding.
In announcing the inquiry, the
Justice Department said that it
would go into the relationship be-
twen certain booking agency COM
panies, the broadcasting chains and
Mr.. Petrillo, and would also deter
mine the merit of charges that the
booking agencies and the head of
the Musicians Union have combined
against the guild. Allegations that
the broadcasting chains and booking
agencies have joined to monopolize
the business of arranging concert
tours and other public performances
of interpretative artists who are
members of the A. G. M. A. also are
due for attention.
The contemplated action is part
Of the Justice Department campaign,
by monopoly law prosecution, to curb
union abuses, and although the
Government must lean on slender
reed in attempting to use the Sher-
man Antitrust Act as weapon Of
reform in the light of Supreme Court
decisions in the Apex and Hutcheson
cases, the effort is worth while. The
general public hardly can be said to
have any great interest in the union
afflliation of Jose Iturbi or Mischa
Elman, but it is very vitally interested
in the part that union rivalries, such
as are involved in the present in
stance, have on the cost of bread,
or milk, or housing. Legal proceed
ings of this sort, carried far enough,
will reveal the deficiencies of exist
ing statutes and it then will be up to
Congress to step In.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Freedom in Greece

Before Adolf Hitler undertakes the
conquest of Greece, if that is the task
to be assigned the expeditionary
force he is assembling in the Balkans,
he would do well to take look at the
history of Turkish rule of the land
of the Hellenes.
Through five centuries the Otto
man rulers never entirely conquered
this mountainous land and the
Greeks kept alive their tradition OF
freedom; striking for complete inde-
pendence in 1921.
The Turks never were able to sub
due the Mainotes in Southern Morea
nor the mountaineers of Crete. The
mountain brigands and the pirates of
the Aegean maintained constant re-
sistance to the foreign overlords and
the Turks were able to establish a
semblance of rule In the outlying dis
tricts only by coming to terms with
the Armatoles, those Christian war
riors who fed TO the hills and carried
Evening star., 1941-03-03
SONG for March

Ny praises to these Dho bear M0rceAs
sting,
And gtUe drab world q torest0ste o.
spring:
A ddfodu DeGrtno stdrched HHttH1s
OF gold
That 90 limp In a shotDsr te1tpes-
tuous and cold,
A debutante plum tree In lace and
chiffon
Gray-cryStalled NTH frost In a sub
freezing d1Dn,
A 10illo1O 1Uith ribbons OF green IN her
hair
That a northerly gale 10tH buffet and
tear,
And maid In light toool and q
fo1Uer-t1redthed bonnet
With ratndrops and sleet and ssoac-
fakes upon til
sUDIE STUART HAGER.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Quotes Realistic" Soldier
And Warns Against "Idealists."

70 the Editor Of The Star:
Marshal Foch, whose views, had they
been followed, would have saved the
United States and Britain as well as his
own France from the debacle which has
arisen from following "ideaistic" minds,
considered war "a struggle between two
wills" The same realist defined its
(sole) purpose as ito defeat the enemy
and enforce your will upon him"
AS we founder between a desire to
overcome a will differing from our own
and a desire to let George (Rex do it,
and while we are again, for the time
being, kept out of war" it is well to
consider the views of the realistic SOL
dier and true statesman who brought
victory temporary as it was and fool
ishly thrown away as it was) to his own
country, its Allies and associate" in
1918.
Somewhere among my valued" pos
sessions is Victory" medal, issued in
commemoration of the peace without
victory" which was to conclude the war
to end war" and to make the world
SdIe IOr democracy. buI Tile HOilo lIcNCl
can be "safe for democracy" so long as
politicians with impunity disregard their
undertakings.
1t now seems that the matter Of first
moment is the winning" of another war
to which we are not Gas yeti directly
parties. In doing so, surrender no fur
ther nor unnecessarily imperil further
the free institutions established by the
founders of this country.
And when the new peace" is made,
let it be, on our own part, by men OF ade-
quate wisdom and who recognize that
wishful thinking has already caused us
incalculable damage. other crusades
(and it seems that we are already
LAUGHED upon one) have ended in dis
aster in spite of being started with the
best Of intentions. The function of our
own Government is to promote the gen
eral welfare" of the American people.
It Is not to rule the world or to indulge
in missionary ventures, no matter how
well intentioned, to other ends.
HARRISON TILGHMAN.
Easton, Md.
Evening star., 1941-03-03

on a guerrilla struggle against the
Turkish invaders. These warriors
were strong and independent men,
constant thorn in the side of the
Ottoman rulers. They preserved, in
the face of Turkish sovereignty, de
facto Greek rule for their people and
were an important factor in the
struggle for independence which be-
gan 100 years ago.
Although Greek independence was
clinched by the intervention of Brit
ain, France and Russia in 1927, the
first blow was struck by the guer-
rillas, the brigands, the rough and
barbaric ancestors of the soldiers
who have driven the Italians back
into Albania. They rallied to the call
of Archbishop Germanos in 1921 and
the force he led to Patras was "a
peasant army, bearing as weapons
only scythes, clubs and sings, but
this force began a struggle which,
because it was fought so largely by
civilians, was filled with hideous
atrocities on both sides. It was a
war of mutual determination.
Today, after a century of inde-
pendence, the Greeks have found a
unity which they lacked when they
were fighting for freedom. They still
have their mountains-in which the
mechanical forces of the Italians
have foundered-andt they still know
how to fight as guerrillas. These are
factors that spell trouble for any one
who tries to conquer them. Nor is
the outlook bright for German hopes
of integrating Greece-along with
Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia-
with Nazi political and economic rule.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
CHEVY CHASE, Md.

"Dear Sir:
with SO much of the news of the day
filled with sadness and horror, it is a
pleasure to turn to your column of pleas
ant and happy things, and I never fail
to do so.
MY birds give me great deal of en-
joyment, as am virtually shut-in.
II have a fine glass-covered feeding
tray at my dining room window and have
had many different kinds of visitors.
Just at present, besides the titmice,
chickadees, cardinals, mockingbirds and
blue jays, have new ones who have
come within the past two weeks.
II have hunted through all my bird
books and the nearest I can find is in
the National Geographic Society's The
Book of Birds page l9l, Vol. 2, the bay
breasted warbler
'"The pair are about the size of SPAR
rows, have dark garnet or maroon heads,
and streak of the same color extends
down the back to the tail
"The wings are beautifully striped and
nearly meet over the back, making very
pretty pattern.
''The color shows, too, little on the
under parts. They are very tame and
let me stand quite close to the window
while they feed. They prefer the sun
flower seed, and eat in the same manner
as the cardinals, except that both eat at
the same time.
my lunch counter contains at all
times mixed wild bird seeds, raisins, pea
nuts, sunflower seed, bread crumbs mot
very popular, suet and water.
at is fun to see the choice of each
species. The chickadees like the sun
flower seed, the titmice grab a peanut
and fly to nearby pine tree to eat it,
usually, but sometimes they hammer ii
on the edge of the feeding tray and eat
it right there.
THE Knockers and jays like the raisins
My cardinals stay for quite long periods
eating sunhower seeds, she first and
then he, and they come at earliest morn
ing before it is quite daylight and again
from midafternoon until dusk.
They, too, are very tame and talk
to them while they are eating. There is
only one pair of cardinals, but many tit
mice and chickadees. 1t seems queer
that have had no sparrows of any kind
for long time.
It have had several transients this
winter, whose names do not know and
the bird books are not very helpful. I
have lots of snowbirds, but they prefer to
eat from the ground
During the summer there were many
different kinds and they were such a joy
please accept my grateful thanks for
your always interesting and instructive
column. "Most sincerely, W. M. P"
We think our correspondents bird
must be the purple finch.
Few of the pictures of this fine crea-
ture do it justice.
The bay-breaSted warbler, though
tolerably common in migration, is one OF
the last warblers to arrive in spring.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Money Crop

Around this time of the year, with
taxes in the offing, husbands are apt
to frown severely upon excess spend
ing in the home. do you think
money grows on trees?" they ask, as
II to settle the matter in the negative.
But are they sure? Doctor Lund-
berg, mining and metallurgical expert,
says in effect that money does grow
on some trees and also on lesser
plants which, while not yet educated
up to the point where they actually
produce negotiable green leaves or
dime-bearing seed pods, are on the
right trail. They hoard gold by ex-
tracing it from the ground and
concentrating 1t in their tissues, in
contrast to the Government, which
extracts it from citizens and then
boards 1t In the ground.
The best plant for the ambitious
gold farmer, according to Doctor
Lundberg, is weed which may
assay as much as four and a half
ounces to the ton, or $157.50 at
current rates. This weed is the
common horsetail. To assist in rec
ognizing it, brief description will
be given; the encyclopedia says the
horsetail is both vascular and cryp-
togamous. However, long before the
doctors discovery it has been known
that money may be grown II planted
on O horses nose, but extreme care
must be used in selecting the right
nose or the planter may never get
his seeds back.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Argues That Minority Senators
Have No Right to Obstruct Majority

Argues That Minority Senators
Have No Right to Obstruct Majority.
To the Editor of The Star:
The foes of the lease-lend bill remind
me of some small boys have seen play
ing baseball. When the boys lost the
game, they always said the other side
cheated or the umpire was unfair. The
isolationists, admitting themselves
beaten, have as their alibis British
propaganda" international bankers"
munitions makers" etc.
OF course, there has been propaganda,
but has 1t been all on one side? The
German propaganda machine generally
Is considered to be far superior to that
Of the British, especially in Europe. Why,
then, has it failed in America? Isn't the
answer simple? 1t is hard to change a
mans mind after it once is convinced.
Hitler's words and actions have been the
best British propaganda in the United
States, and therefore an overwhelming
majority of Americans just do not want
Hitler to win. Why don't the isolationists
face this simple fact?
And why wall about the destruction Of
our liberties If few men can flibuster
and defeat the wishes of the majority7
OF eouFss, the majority b not always
Evening star., 1941-03-03
He Does Not Approve
Current Play.

To the Editor of The Star:
I seldom attend the theater, but on
the advice of friends I went to see THE
Man Who Came to Dinner" felt
nauseated from the start. Never have
I heard such language anywhere except
in the slums In fact, the word "dirt"
was employed throughout the play. The
'humor," which obviously appealed
greatly to most of the audience, centered
about human weaknesses. Especially re-
pulsive was the scene with choir boys
droning the Christmas carol Holy
Night" a hymn having sacred meaning
for many people. The whole drive of
this comedy seemed to be the destruction
of faith in the decencies of life, faith in
mankind and in God. This is the essence
of Bolshevist technique, though they at
least have a faith of their own.
At a time when civilization is crum-
bling under the attacks of war and social
revolution, where are the influences at
work to build up manhood and charac-
ter? Are they to be found in the thea
ter? What is the good of play like THE
Man Who Came to Dinner?
A. QUo1. BON.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. Trdce,oeH.

1t is said that Arlington National
Cemetery is an especially good place to
look for this species.
Migration dates of this warbler are
usually given as from May to June S,
and from August IS to November 6.
1t is a rather somber looking bird,
whereas the purple finch is gay colored,
especially in the sunshine It's wings
touch at the back, although they do not
cross over it. The wings Of the warbler
do not even touch.
The rose breasted grosbeak is a beau
tiful bird, with quite dark wings in con-
trast with the rosy breast. A few of
these beauties are seen around here in
the winter
The purple finch is one of our favorites,
and we have noted many times (although
not for two years. that it is a much
more brilliant and beautiful species close
at hand than out in the yard.
They usually arrive hereabcuts in Feb
ruary, remaining few days or weeks,
and then flying on north.
Often the observer who sees them for
the first time close by the window is un-
able to believe that they are the same
bird he has seen out in the yard.
They seem so much more brilliant and
colorful when close at hand. This is not
strange, of course, because out in the
grass they are toned down by the dried
leaves of annual plants and the dull
foliage of evergreens.
When seen close at hand, the purple
finch fairly glows with the winelike COL
oring peculiar to it, which made some
one long ago call it purple. Now purple
is many things to many people, and this
finch scarcely comes within the modern
popular idea of purple. but rather of
wine or pokeberry coloring.
1t is an odd thing, perhaps, that the
term "wine-colored" calls up some idea
of color to persons who never drank
wine in their lives, but it is such COM
mon term in the literature of the world
that most of US think we know what it
means.
Colors of flowers and birds depend so
mucn upon uolVlQudl luedS OF ODseTFeIs
that some definite guide is necessary.
Great pains have been taken by in
vestigators in both ornithology and
Horticulture to work out precise color
charts. Even then it is necessary that
the worker have good eye for color.
So wide is the color variation in
gladioluses, for instance, that elaborate
charts have been made up for these
flowers.
If you really want to talk intelligently
about glodiolus colors, you have to know
something about this chart and how to
use it.
Otherwise you are putting your idea Of
shade or tint against some other per-
sons idea, and the chances of the two
of you hitting the same thing is quite
remote.
Bird colors look quite differently in
the sun than in the shade. Sometimes
an old starting, seen in the sunshine,
comes alive with beautiful jewel-like COL
orings you never thought he possessed
before.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Prefers Dictatorship
To Lease-Lend Bill Delay.
A. QUo1. BON.
To The Editor of The Star

To the EdlJOr OF Inc otaI-
Is this a democratic Government in
Washington, or is it an oigarchy of
Senators? These self-appointed Saviors
of the country shout about the dangers
of dictatorship, but if the Senate ma
jority is going to let the minority rule
the voters may prefer dictatorship. 1t,
at least, is efficient!
What mental disease causes Senator
to believe it his sacred duty to save the
country from the President who has been
elected three times by an overwhelming
majority of the qualified voters?
Week in and week out, H. r. 1776 is
being subjected to petty politics of the
most ignoble character. Hitler has not
asked his friends in America to stop our
preparedness or our help to Great Brit
ain; he has asked only for delay. and he
is getting It'll DISGUISED VOTER.
Evening star., 1941-03-03
Argues for Aid to Britain
To Protect America.
To the Editor of The Star:

40 tue EQlboI VI 4uc CtdIs
We are told by writers and speakers
that England should give us Canada or
the British West Indies in return for
our aid.
What England has to give-and is Civ
ing-is freedom. If any one can put a
price on freedom, it would be interesting
to know what it is We enjoy our freedom
and our easy privileges because England
has long guarded-still guards-us in the
Atlantic.
The honest, intelligent people OF
America know what they can expect
from a triumphant Germany. To ask:
Why should we give of our substance
when we are not party to the wars,
hates, rivalries of Europe-when the
current war was not of our making?-
is like asking: Why send doctors, nurses,
medicine to the slums when an epidemic
of typhoid RACES? READER.
Evening star., 1941-03-03

@. How are the elephants captured
that are trained in the government camp
In the Belgian Congo2-T. W. T.
A. The method of capturing the AMI
mails is to stampede herd Of elephants
and to lasso and rope the one selected.
The captive is then placed between two
older trained elephants, called ~mont-
tors" and led back TO camp. Many
months are spent in "gentling" the ele-
plants, after which they are taught 10
bear burdens, to plow, to pull stumps
and TO pick up and carry timber.
@. What are the best grapes for max
ing raisins?-W. I.
A. Only three varieties Of grapes VIII
make good raisins-the Thompson tthe
grape grown without seeds, the Muscat
and the Sultana.
@. How large does community have
to be before It is classified as urban9-
M. R. F.
A. The Bureau of the Census elassifes
communities having $500 or more people
as urban. Fifty-six per cent Of the
American people live in such communi-
ties.
@. Who invented the harmonica7-R.
T. L.
A. The instrument was invented BY
Benjamin Franklin in 1852.
@. What is the origin of the saying
that YOU can lead horse to water but
YOU can't make him drink?-J. r. F.
A. "a man may well bring a horse 10
the water, but he cannot make him
drinke without he will" Is from John
Heywood's Proverbes."
@. Why do we refer to our Ambassador
to the Court Of st. James's?-F. s.
A. The Court of st. James's is the usual
designation of the British Court, so
called from the old Palace of st. James's,
long used for royal receptions, levees
and drawing rooms. The spelling
"James's" is official, although the final
IS" is often dropped.
@. When did Maine enter the Union7
R w.
A Maine WAS duIIIlGIeu 20 GAlc OAllOA1
on March Is, 1920.
@. Please give some information shout
the Eternal Light Peace Memorial m
Pennsylvania.-H. o. 8.
A. The Eternal Light Peace Memorial
IN the Gettysburg National Military
Park was erected by appropriations from
the States of Pennsylvania, Illinois, In
diana, Wisconsin, New York, Tennessee
and Virginia, and presented to the Fed
eral Government. Pennsylvania decided
to the Government the land upon which
it stands. The shaft of the memorial,
of Alabama limestone, towers 40 feet
above the platform. An ever-burning
flame, fed by natural gas, surmounts the
shaft.