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Evening star., 1941-08-30

word when material" Is better?
Better-trained readers in pronun-
ciation of English than clutter with
pedantry.
Answer: Sorry, but the French
word "materiel" has been in wide
use in America for generations,
especially in the armed forces. The
dictionaries no longer list it as a
foreign word. Also, permit me to
point out that the so-called Eng
lish" language was borrowed in its
entirety from other languages. Un-
til the Angles and Saxons invaded
Britain in the fifth century, there
was no such thing as an English"
language. The primitive British
spoke Celtic.
From Newark: Where do we get
the word comet?
Answer: 1t is from the Greek
Roman" meaning to wear long hair.
From Missouja. I say that deaf"
doesn't rhyme with chief. Right?-
j. o.
Answer: Right as rain. The cor
rect pronunciation is Def, to
rhyme with chef, clef.
Evening star., 1941-08-30
|SELF-HELP

word
opposite
removed It, have Leered
correctly he waits
Answer to LETTEROUT
GRAFTER-GARRET (under the roof.
OR) REIINES-
(selfshnes)
TANDEM-MATED life together.
TANCRED-RANTED actor did,
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loony Logic

A good trick if you can do 1t. A
reader in Los Angeles spots this
lovely L. L. in a local paper: She
Evening star., 1941-08-30

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Evening star., 1941-04-14
Struteqic Greenland

Establishment of air bases in
Greenland might tend to solve two
most serious problems in connection
with lend-lease aid to Britain
breaking of the Nazi sea blockade
Of the strategic Great Circle route
and the transportation of short
range pursuit airplanes from Amer
lean factories to England.
Although bombardment and pa
troll aircraft of a number of types
are being flown across the Atlantic,
the over-water route is too long for
the smaller warplanes. They are
going as inert, helpless cargo on
ships which are endangered by the
Nazi air, sea and undersea blockade.
Use of air bases in Greenland and
Iceland, already occupied by the
British Royal Air Force, would make
possible flying pursuit airplanes to
England. A route has been charted
which would not require an over
water Jump of more than 525 miles
at any point.
Flying of pursuit aircraft would
at one step convert them from
Evening star., 1941-04-14
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. TrdcetDell.

The moment they convince themselves
that the food is not forthcoming, they
leave at once and go elsewhere. Most
persons who feed birds daily have had
this experience. The birds depart in
short order, once the habit is broken,
even in the heart of winter.
In spring and summer, while still fire.
quenting feeding stations, the birds
speno most of their time seeking natural
foods, and attending to the natural du-
ties of the season.
They do not eat one-tenth as much
(although pigeons and squirrels may &C
count for as much as ever.
1t is a good plan to remove all ex-
cept one feeding station from the yard
during spring and summer.
But 1t is equally good plan to keep
that one station in operation.
There will always be seed-eating birds
to patronize it.
If bit Of ground beef is put out, it
will draw the cardinals and their
fledglings.
Sunf1ower seed ensures the presence
of cardinals. Certainly spring and sum-
mer feeding would be worth it If for no
other reason.
1t is one Of the prime sights of bird
land, this OF the cardinals. Anything
which will draw them, and keep them
coming, is very much worthwhile.
One Of the best reasons for keeping
up feeding however, is simply that one
likes to.
If bird feeding is fun in fall and win
ter, it is fun in the warm months.
1t means that one will have more
birds, and that is what one is after.
Gardeners, as class, have more wor-
ries, perhaps. than any other group of
people. They are forever fussing and
fuming about something or other. What
is the matter with the grass? Why
haven't the tulips come up? What on
earth is that new insect? What shall be
done for those scales on the lilacs? Gar
deners are a discontented group, always
admiring their own and criticizing
others, either openly or in round about
fashion.
If you listen to your neighbors. in
matters pertaining to the garden, you
will have a sorry estimation of your
own abilities.
Pay no attention to them!
If you want to plant the gladiolus,
! plant it, despite their warnings that 1t
will not grow in your soil.
| If you want to feed the birds in the
| hot months, do it. The birds won't
mind! Neither will they be spoiled" or
cease to hunt out the worms, bugs, in
Sects, etc.
You will have many a garden picture
others do not have.
And when winter comes, you will have
birds already eating in your garden, act
ing as decoys to other birds.
There is everything to be said for sum-
mer feeding and very little against it,
More and more bird lovers are beginning
to adopt the plan as they see its good
points, and realize that parent birds
really need help in feeding the hungry
mouths of the nesting season.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
BELGRADE

The Germans made use of Easter
to seize the thirteenth capital to
fall to the Reich since 1886. Belgrade,
seat of the government of Yugo-
slavia, was occupied by Nazi troops
yesterday morning. "A radio COM
mentator, speaking in Berlin, re-
membered that it was the Austrian
bombardment of that city which
started the first World War, July 20,
1914. The Kaiser's armies, he ex-
planned, controlled the neighborhood
for three years following October
10, 1915. Allied forces, advancing
from Salonika, compelled retreat,
October 81, 1918-a day which, the
official spokesman for Hitler prom
ised, will never be repeated"
Meanwhile, there is little, if any,
question about the ruined condition
of the open town" which, until a
week ago, was the peaceful dwelling
place of approximately half mil
lion people of at least half a dozen
different racial and national stocks.
Belgrade, it seems, was not defended
against German attacks from the air.
High above the confluence of
the Danube and the Sava Rivers
still stands the empty citadel which
once was white enough and strong
enough to give a name-Beograd-
to the community it was designed to
defend. The epoch to which it be-
longed has passed. So also perhaps
has ended the era with which were
identified the cathedral and the uni
versity, the national library and the
national theater, the new parlia-
ment house, the theological semi
nary and the commercial academy,
the old Turkish kiosk, the royal
palace, the botanical garden, the
exposition grounds and buildings,
the museums Of Prince Paul and
King Alexander, the ZOO, tho Monu-
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Roce Against Time

In eighteen days the British have
lost most of the fruits of General
Wavell's brilliant two-month often
sive against the Italians in North
Africa, and there Is no indication as
yet that a defensive force has been
assembled which is capable of
stopping the eastward thrust of the
German-Italian motorized columns.
Thus, once again there looms grave
threat to Egypt and the Suez life
line.
1t is not known whether this major
reverse has come about as the result
of an excessive diversion of British
man power and mechanical equip
ment to the Balkan front, or whether
Hitler, in spite of British naval domi-
nance in the Mediterranean, has
been able to send unexpectedly heavy
reinforcementS to bolster the shat
tered Italian armies. In all prob
ability, the virtual rout of the Brit
ish is the product of a combination
of these factors, although the daring
German dash to Bardia, by-passing
the British garrison at Tobruk,
strongly suggests that the British
mechanical forces in that area are
so weak that the armored enemy
units are free to operate at will in
the open country without fear of
being cut off from their supporting
armies.
Unless the British should abandon
their position in Greece to meet the
threat to Suez-and there is no
present indication of such intent
the new defense of Egypt promises
to become a double feature race
against time.
OF obvious Importance in this re-
Spect is the effort to wind up the
campaign against the Italians in
East Africa so that the veteran troops
there can be sent north to support
the beaten units of General WavellS
army. If substantial number of
these troops, with proper equipment,
can be sent to Egypt quickly enough,
the probabilities are that the Brit
ish will be able to hold any force that
the axis now has in Cyrenaica.
1t must be remembered, however,
that If the Germans have been able
to send men, equipment and supplies
to North Africa in the past, they
probably can send more in the
future. And 1t Is in this respect that
President Roosevelt's decision to open
the Red Sea to shipments of Ameri-
can war supplies enters this race
against time. 1t is by no means
improbable that Britain's ultimate
ability to defend the Suez will be
determined by the speed with which
supplies from the United States can
be sent to that area, and this merely
serves to underline repeated warm
ings by American officials as to the
critical importance Of the next 100
days.
Evening star., 1941-04-14

A reader wants to know II 1t is all
right to feed the birds in his yard dur
ing spring and summer.
A neighbor has told him, he says, that
the birds will not eat insects and worms
in his garden If food is put out for
them, too.
Some persons who feed the songsters
all fall and winter refuse to run their
feeding stations once warm weather
arrives.
ut will spoil the BIRDS" they say.
Such an attitude is not very comph-
mentary to bird life, nor does it rest on
observation.
Continuance of bird feeding in spring
and summer not only will not change
the habits of birds, but it will lure more
to the individual garden, and thus en-
sure more insects being eaten.
The fact is that birds love succulent
food, after winter of eating dry seed
and grain, and bread crumbs, the seeds
of withered ANIMALS, and berries from
shrubs and trees.
You couldn't keep the birds from eat
ing worms and insects which show
themselves with the coming of warmer
weather.
No matter how much seed and grain
are put out for them from now on they
will first search for the natural food Of
the season.
~
1t is impossible to change the habits
of the centuries
For thousands of years the feathered
folk have hunted their own food.
Let no human being, suddenly en-
gagged in feeding them, imagine for an
instant that few months or years can
overthrow the habits of the ages.
Birds know what they like, and what
is good for them, and will seek it out,
despite the presence of other foods. 1t
is not the seed-eating birds, after all,
the garden, but the insectivorous birds;
the latter will eat suet, and some other
foods, when they cannot get their favor
ite foods, but will turn back to them the
moment they can.
The idea that birds can be spoiled, "
in the human sense, is based on the
mistaken idea that they share with us
all our human traits.
Most humans, it must be admitted, if
fed by others, soon become spoiled 81
that is, they tend to expect to be fed,
and therefore refuse to work for their
own food or even to rustic it up for
themselves. One does not have to look
far for striking evidence of this.
Birds, not having human intelligence,
know nothing of being provided with
food by others. They simply accept
what they find. At times they may even
seem to protest its lack, but that is
natural, after all; although they do not
share our type of intelligence, they do
appreciate a good thing when they find
it.
Some of the scolding which they offer,
when food is not put out, is not so much
complaint as sheer bird wonder at the
lack of something they had come to
expect.
Evening star., 1941-04-14

ment Of Gratitude to France and
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
on the hill of Avala.
These were the most interesting
features of the metropolis in which
Yugoslavia, a newly organized state,
was finding focal center. Men and
women of varying origins, cultures,
faiths and hopes had been learning
how to form a tolerant society to
the stability and prosperity of which
each would contribute something.
The swastika now blots out the lib
eral experiment. Belgrade is DESC
late. 1t is understood that three
thousand civilians were killed in the
bombardment. Whole streets are
reported to have been burned. The
residence of the American Minister
allegedly was destroyed. With it
went no one knows how many
humber homes.
But disaster is nothing novel in
blIC ChPOlAIilCC Va Viz 1CoANCllOo VA
Belgrade. Their history traces back
to the dawn of civilization, when the
Roman legions set up a camp at
Singidunum. Byzantines, Bulgarians,
Hungarians and Turks again and
again claimed and took the city only
to yield it to more violent demand.
The net result is that such occupa-
ton as that effected on the Day of
Resurrection, 1941, is merely an in
consequential incident when judged
from the vantage point of time with
out limit. Hitler's battalions are only
the momentary conquerors of a place
where change is so constant as to be
institutional, yet where immutability
is a convincing reality.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Juvenile Jumboree

Every now and then school chill
dren are taught the true inwardness
of politics by being made honorary
mayors, members of the city council,
and the like for a day. Thus they
learn early what it is all about, and
embryo politicians get Jump on the
game, while those merely destined to
become taxpayers get something of
break, too, by learning at tender
age what they will be up against
later, and possibly how to combat it.
That is the theory, but usually the
children fail to make the most of
their golden opportunity. They have
been disfranchised all their lives,
and they merely go around in a daze,
vaguely thankful for day off from
school. But the children of Prairie
du Chen, Wisconsin, must be bright
er than the average. During their
brief tenure of Office they represented
their constituents in loyal fashion by
fining the mathematics teacher in
Police Court for a traffic violation,
and earned the undying thanks Of
their elders, or at least their delin-
quent elders, by quarantining the
county treasurer for having the
mumps.
1t must have been with a sigh OF
relief that the civic fathers took over
next day, and 1t is rumored that
they will not repeat the lesson in
government. Those youngsters may
be precocious enough, If given an
other crack at it, to call special
session Of the legislature and jam
through q bill abolishing school en-
tirely.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Like SpotIess Lilies
90 early, early to the tomb

II 90 early, early to the tomb
On Easter morning, long before the
sun
Comes bursting like a fo,Oer from
the gloom,
Shall I behold the netDly risen One?
Will He come forth NTH tOtsdom in
His eyes,
Eyes that haue fathomed death?
VIII He not speak
Dispel my queSttonings NTH clear
replies
And tuipe the troubled teardrops
from my cheek?
I cannot seek the tomb. The ,Ody is
grim,
Across a 1Dorld OF agony and strife,
But Easter bells tpiH summon unto
Him
Bruised souls that hunger for
transcendent life,
Souls that 1Oould thrust the hedUy
stone dWGy
And rise like spotless Altes from the
clay.
NEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1941-04-14

preached doctrine that has at last
borne fruit-the false doctrine of the
futility of war.
And now they cry: Apathy"
But who was apathetic in the years
when Germany openly and in violation
of the treaty of Versailles was building
the war machine that currently is
wrecking the world? Who was declaring
in the teeth of history that it was not
the invader but the munition manufac-
turer whom we had to fear? Who
crippled the military arm of this country
so that now We are virtually helplessp
We have not far to seek to find the
peddlers of apathy who sold democracy
down the river of delusion. They have
inscribed their names on the wall.
H B,
Evening star., 1941-04-14

helpless prey Of Nazi air and sea
blockaders to deadly menaces to
those blockaders. At the same time,
it would greatly relieve the burden
on surface shipping, since aircraft
require shipping space out OF all
proportion to their weight.
If the conveying of surface ship
ping safely to England is the key to
British security, as some authorities
feel, then development of the So
called land bridge" route may prove
a powerful lever in turning that key.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Urges Recognition Of Duty
To Give Ourselves. for Freedom.

To the Editor of The Star:
With the strike situation as it is and
has been, feel certain that many other
people also must be getting tired of all
the loud bleating we have been hearing
about our magnanimity on behalf of
freedom in becoming the arsenal of
democracy and our furnishing of tools
for others to defend it with.
If democracy's life had depended on
the tools we have so far produced for
its defense, it indeed would have already
been dead and buried.
We repeatedly have criticized smaller
nations in the vanguard of freedoms
defense because they failed to put up
united front against the enemy. Most
of us, believe, clearly see that each
conquered nation of Europe was the
stepping-stone for attack on the next
Nevertheless, we unashamedly continue
to do the thing we have blamed others
for doing and have not yet stopped wrig-
Cling and squirming in our efforts to
avoid accepting our duty in the present
conflict.
We have gone further in our efforts
to avoid our responsibilities than has
any other nation, by hastily and VOL
unfairly relinquishing our rights at sea,
hoping thereby to run away from the
consequences of Hitler's attack and aid
ing his aggressions directly by so doing
We have had far less excuse for our con-
duct than the nations we 50 freely have
criticized, because whereas they each
are smaller than the enemy we are much
bigger than he is.
We should remember that whereas we
seem to see the situation only as an
opportunity to strike for the. extraction
OF still higher wages, other men else
where are working 10 and II hours
day under constant threat of air raids
They and their families are in constant
danger Of losing everything they possess.
Time waits for no man and we already
have procrastinated too long. We shall
not be doing our full duty until we
give to the fight for freedom ourselves
as well as our munitions. Then we
shall begin to be worthy of our fore
fathers whose fight for freedom stopped
at nothing. ERNEST e. OSWALD.
Arlington, Va.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
of Rumania.
Complains About Motorists
Who Flout Traffic Regulation.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Stop the red light runners!
There certainly is something wrong
with enforcement when motorists are
allowed to run the red lights in such
numbers and with impunity as they
are today. One who drives to and from
his Office, morning and evening, counts
dozens of drivers who deliberately and
openly violate the law in this respect,
supported by the knowledge that dozens
of drivers are continually getting by"
with this sort of thing. Their attitude
toward any one who signals to them on
these occasions is one of impudence. In
other words, there is constantly In
creasing disregard and disrespect for law,
and one is impressed by the realization
that this growing tendency is not being
checked to any noticeable degree.
WA L ADAMS.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Quotes Optimistic Ballad
BY Forgotten Bard.

To The Editor OF The Star:
In a very old book CRadical Recon-
struction," 1850 found the following
poem by one Gerald Massey, and I
stopped and wopdered how it would
sound to the readers of The Star in this
world gone mad:
THE KINGDOM COMING.
The gnarliest hath tender chords,
To waken at the name of Brother
And the time comes when scorpioned
words
We shall not speak to sting each other.
There's a divinity within
That makes men great whene'er they
will it;
God works with all who dare to win,
And the hour cometh to reveal 1t.
'Tis coming up the steep of Time,
And this old world is growing brighter!
We may not see It's dawn sublime,
Yet high with hope our hearts throb
lighter. ..
"Tis coming now, the glorious time,
Foretold by seers, and sung in story,
For which, when thinking was crime,
Souls leapt to Heaven from scaffolds
CORY!
They passed-yet see the work they
wrought!
See now the hopes of ages blossom!
The fruits of their live lightning thought
Appears to deck the wide worlds bosom!
r. L. MARTIN.
EDITORS NOTE: Gerald Massey
(1828-1907) was a popular English
writer in the days when the Christian
Socialist movement was flourishing in
Britain. AS child, he had labored
in silk factory and as an apprentice
in the trade of straw-plaiting. A
biographer says: He struggled man
fully against the distress and de-
privations of his early years and
educated himself in his spare time"
At % he published his first volume of
verses, voices Of Freedom" Sub
sequently he devoted his talents to
the writing of Ancient Egypt: The
Light of the World" issued shortly
before his death. His friends includ-
ed Charles Kingsley and his idealism
was Of the school to which that kind
ly dreamer belonged.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Corrects Error In Article
On Catholic Social Service School

To The Editor Of The Star:
The Sunday morning edition-April
6-of your paper carried an article en-
titled Catholic Social Service School
Looks Toward Postwar Peace"
In the first sentence Of this article
there is a statement to the effect that
the national Catholic school of social
service is the only graduate school Of
social work in the District of Columbia.
This statement is erroneous. Both the
school of social work at the Catholic
University of America and the school
at Howard University are on a graduate
level and are members of the American
Association of Schools of Social Work.
(Rev0 THOMAS E. MITCHELL,
s. T D. Dean,
Evening star., 1941-04-14
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. Husktn.

A reader can get the dnslDer to any
question OF fact by tDrtttng The EUe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. HaSkin, director, Washington,
D. c. Please trcLoSe stamp for reply.
@. What proportion of the population
attends school?-E. P.
A. One-fourth of the lIation's popula-
ton, or 100000 students, are regularly
enrolled in public schools and colleges.
O. Please give some unusual facts
about Iceland.-C. T.
A. Iceland is treeleSs and has no rail-
roads. 1t is represented by the Oldest
parliamentary assembly in the world.
There is no unemployment, no deficit,
no army, no navy and no Notifications.
@. What is the meaning of the word
fagitious?-C. L. T.
A. 1t is an adjective meaning wicked,
heinous, shameful.
@. Who were selected as the 10 out
standing women of 1940?-J. j.
A. The following outstanding women
Of America were selected by the editor
Of American Women: Lila Bell Acheson,
editor of Readers Digest; Katherine
Burr Blodgett, research worker; Mrs
Elias Compton, only woman to receive
honorary LII. D. for motherhood; Bette
Davis, actress; Anne Hummert, adver-
tising and radio executive; Elsa Max
well, champion party giver; Anne OHare
Mccormick, foreign correspondent; Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, who has found time
to help the neighbors"; Nora Vain,
author, and Margaret Webster, actress,
producer and director.
Evening star., 1941-04-14
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the tDriter, although the use OF
a pseudonynl for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters NTH
q piep to condensation.
Evening star., 1941-04-14

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