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Evening star., 1941-09-15

War Department is now engaged in
4 purge OF the lnisfitS and the in
efhcient. BY their individual per-
formance in the war games, the
future use to the Army of many OF
its officers will and should be judged.
Furthermore, the $4,000 square
miles OF maneuvering area in East
Texas and Louisiana, chosen for its
rivers. bsyous and trcacherous un-
derfooting, should provide an admir-
able proving ground to test the
durability and performance of both
motorized and mechanical equip
ment under the extreme difficulties
of simulated warfare. In like man
ner, the ordeals of the next two
weeks will disclose as in no other
way possible in peacetime, the physi-
cal stamina and morale of the men
themselves. On each of these counts,
the War Department is confident
that the men will acquit themselves
in way to remove any doubt from
the public mind,
Evening star., 1941-09-15
Country Nocturne

TO lie at ease, and hear the cricket
chirr
When dusk has dropped her mys-
teries on the Dood;:
70 Datch the faint lenDes OF the
maple stir,
And kno,0 the quiet OF the night is
good;
TO see the darkness spread slo,o
Didening arms
on house and field, Dhile tpinds
and deus cdress;;
To feel no doubts, no burdens nor
alarms,
But breathe cool fower-seented
airs that bless;
Neither to ptsh nor sigh; to hold
the scene
Is all that God could otter or man
Such Is his lot whose piston crotDs
serene
In some dim-bowered nook OF
summer rest
A moments truce in those long Uars
men wdoe,
limiting OF some lono-perishsd
Golden Age.
STANTON A. CODLReTz.
Evening star., 1941-09-15

carious that 1t would be dangerous.
indeed disastrous, to hesitate or to
turn back. In Z radio address to his
Kansas constituents last night,
therefore, Senator Capper. while still
critical of the Presidents shoot at
sight" policy, announced: II will
support the national defense pro-
gram, as ! have been doing. The
United States must be kept 4 free
and independent and powerful ma
ton at all costs. The President
having acted, the Congress of the
United States and the people of the
United States must and will support
that action. There is no other
course of action open to U.S."
In this pronouncement the able
Midwestern legislator has shown his
capacity to appraise realistically and
without partisan, sectional or per-
sonal bias the gravity Of the inn
mediate crisis confronting the Ma
tional Government and the American
people. The vital need now in the
Government and among the people
is for unity and cooperation against
a common foe, whose threat edges
ever closer to our shores. To Gre
ate disunity and dissension in mo-
ment so fraught with peril for the
present and future Of our country
serves but to magnify the dangers
that impend.
Evening star., 1941-09-15
"AlBEMARLE STREET.

Dear Sir:
Can you identify two birds for me?
They have both shown up in the garden
recently. I had not seen either one Of
them all summer long.
"The first is small bird, smaller than
an ordinary sparrow, black and white
striped, reminding me of brown creep
er, except that it isn't brown at all.
The other bird is larger, with a
striped head, and sort of striped breast.
Its back is plain brown. One thing
noticed about 1t was its walking.
II have been watching birds for a
long time, but this is the hrst time have
ever seen these, I am sure.
Sincerely, o. L. r."
The smaller of the two birds is the
black-and-white warbler.
The other must be the ovenbird.
While the warbler is regarded as a
common summer resident here, it is
often seen in migration, which is now
beginning.
Almost any neighborhood is likely to
have one of these BLACK and white
creepers," as the bird is known in some
sections Of the country.
Ornithologists, who frown lightly upon
popular names (since some birds are
called sapsuckers, for instance, when
they aren'D have good word to say for
this one.
The black-and-w white warbler really is
black and white, and it really creeps
around tree trunks and boughs.
This warbler begins its nesting in May,
of the month.
Usually 1t has another nest in June.
Migration lasts all this month, and
sometimes as late IS the middle of Oc-
tober.
Some people think this bird resembles
q zebra in its markings. It's scientific or
Latin name, includes words for moss"
and "variegated." The former refers to
its habit of searching in the moss on
trees for insects; the latter to its va
riegated coloring, its striped pattern.
its song isn't much, usually about 10
notes, put forth in twos 1t Is rather thin,
in quality, and while not unpleasant,
still cannot be said to be very much OF
a song.
The black-and-white warbler shares
with the nuthatch the ability to 70
head-down tree trunk This is some
thing which the fine little brown creeper
cannot do. That bird does not circle
horizontal limb. either.
The ovenbird also belongs to the
warbler clan.
Alice E. Ball, in her book American
Land Birds" gives a grouping of the
various warblers, in order that average
observers may tend to keep them in
mind.
According to this grouping. the ground
varblers are the ovenbird, the water
thrushes, the worm-eating warbler and
the palm warblers: the black and white
varblers, are two, the black -and white
Evening star., 1941-09-15
The Army Muneuvers

Millions of defense minded Ameri-
cans will await with absorbing
interest the results of two weeks of
realistic war games that start today
between the Second and Third
Armies somewhere" in vast area of
East Texas and North Central LouiSi-
ana-the first of their kind ever
held by the United States in the face
of a threatened war and on a scale,
also, never before attempted by any
other military power.
These all-out maneuvers and those
that follow next month in the Caro-
linas for the First and Fourth Armies
culminate year of intensive train
ing for most of the men constituting
our field forces. For the mems own
protection in the event of hostilities,
it should hearten their countrymen
to know that the training they are
receiving far exceeds in scope, value
and thoroughness that given the
nearly 100000 American doughboys
OF twentY-three years ago, who were
sent across the Atlantic to pit, at
first, little more than their matchless
spirit and elementary soldering
against veteran German Army.
From the viewpoint of prepared
ness the maneuvers have three main
obtectives.
First, they will serve to demon
strate how we'll all Of the elements
and supporting arms of this new and
untried military machine can func-
tion in unison, as they must do for
success in carrying out the tactical
phases associated with war of rapid
movement and surprise. A great
deal of responsibility for that rests
upon the men in the ranks.
Even more important at this stage
Is the acid test that is going to be
applied to leadership in the field,
from top-ranking commanders all
the way down the line. The Army
owes 1t to the enlisted men. who can
only obey orders, to give them the
best leaders It can. Fortunately, the
Evening star., 1941-09-15
Water Rates

The lll-adVlSed ana lneQultaple
proposal of the Water Department
for 4 drastic increase in water
charges to finance deficits due largely
to capital outlays required by ex-
panding defense activities In Wash
tngton has encountered we'll deserved
and formidable opposition not only
inside the District Building but at
the Capitol as well Commissioner
John Russell Young and Chairman
Pat McCarran of the Senate District
Committee have joined with a null
titude of taxpayers in voicing objec-
ton to the surprising recommends
tions Of the department for an ap-
proximate lis per cent Jump in water
fees assessed against the average
householder.
Evidencing a commendable appre-
citation of local water problems,
Chairman McCarran has called on
the Commissioners to defer action
on the water rate question pending
a special inquiry which he has or
dered into the whole system OF
financing and operating the National
Capitals water supply The Com
nissioners today began study OF
budget estimates by the various mu-
nicipal departments, but in view OF
Commissioner Young's fortnight
denunciation of the water rate boost
suggestion and Chairman McCar-
rams request that consideration of
the proposal be delayed, the Water
Department estimates and recon-
mendations undoubtedly will be laid
aside for the time being.
Meanwhile the Commissioners will
have had the benefit of information
obtained by Chairman McCarran in
his investigation of Washington's
water supply problems. Counsel
Camalier of the Senate District Com
mittee has been directed to study
the dual control arrangement under
which the Commissioners and the
Army engineers divide responsibility
for serving the city with water,
to report on the quantity of water
supplied free to Federal and mu-
nicipal properties and to ascertain
whether there is waste of water in
the District. Such an inquiry should
be enlightening. 1t will show, with
other things, that District citizens
are paying all of the increasingly
heavy water bills of the Federal Gov
ernment in Washington. With heavy
capital expenditures necessary to
meet the mounting demands of
Federal public buildings, it is high
time that the Federal Government
assumed a reasonable and equitable
share of the financing burdens. 1t
is to be hoped that the committees
investigation will result in a lighten-
ing Of these burdens on local citizens
rather than in any such increase as
that advocated by the Water De-
partment.
Evening star., 1941-09-15
Real Stutesmunship

Senator Arthur Capper, Kansas
Republican, has set an admirable
example for his isolationist col
leagues in Congress to emulate.
Although he has been . sincere and
consistent critic of President Roose-
velt's foreign policy in general, he
is convinced that "for veal or woe"
the United States has become 30
deeply involved" In the war and
that the present dtuataon y - pcs-
Evening star., 1941-09-15

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he same ends. The United States may

the same ends. The United States may
be isolated from Europe, but it is not
isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, and Is
long as American commerce enters any
part Of that ocean during . war in
progress on the Atlantic, the United
States probably somehow will become
involved In the war. Adams and Roose-
velt alike determined to protect Amer
lean commerce and send American
ships out on the seas. The difference
between the situation during the Ma
poleonic wars and this present war II
that then the United States fought both
France and England over interference
With lhipptng Now the hsht 10 limited
Evening star., 1941-09-15

O. Was there q New York City Tea
PARTY as well as the Boston Tea Partyf
*. M. B.
A.. The New York City Tea Party took
place April %, 1774, while the Boston
party was December 1e l773.
@. What is young deer called?-
B E. o.
A. The young of the Virginia deer and
their allies are called fawns, but the
young of the moose and caribou are
called calves. The female deer is called
A hind or doe, but the female moose or
caribou is called COW. Male OF both
are usually called stag, buck or bull.
@. When was Belgium made an inde-
pendent country?-A r. P.
A. Established as an Independents
state with q constitutional and heredi-
tary monarchy in 1881, Prince Leopold
of saxe-Coburg was proclaimed flrss
King Of the Belgians on June 4, 1882.
@. What is threnody7-L. P. j.
A. 1t is song or poem OF lamenta-
ton; dirge.
@. When did Germany annex Austrian
T. j. B.
A. On March 13, 1898.
@. Does ice cream have any calcium
content?-E. T. V.
A. An average serving OF Ice cream
furnishes nearly one-sixth Of the calcium
needed by an adult daily and generous
amounts Of other minerals found in milk.
@. Who was called the Man Of Sedan?
A. H. T.
A. Napoleon III was so called because
he surrendered his sword to the King OF
Prussia after the battle of Sedan on
September 2, 1870.
O. How much has the cost Of building
increased?-M. J. D.
A. According to the Department OF
Commerce, building costs have advanced
10 per cent during the past year.
@. What is a ha-ha7-T. M. H.
A. 1t is a sunken fence, hedge or wall
20 set as not to mar a landscape.
@. How many planes did Lufbery. the
ace, shoot down in the frst World War;
L. B.
A. According to the Blue Book OF Avia-
ton, Maj. Raoul Lufbery was ondcially
credited with shooting down II airplanes
during the World War.
@. What was the subject Of viii Rog-
ers' last dispatch to the newspapers?-
r. N. H.
A. His last dispatch was from Fair
banks, Alaska describing his visit to this
Matanuska Valley Colony. 1t ended with:
"You know, after all, there is lot Of
difference in pioneering for gold and
pioneering for spinach"
Evening star., 1941-09-15
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
Bu Frederic J. Hnskfn.

By Frederic J. Hdsktn.
4 reader can get thg arsUer TO s1y
question OF taet by Uriting The Eps-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Hdskin, director, Washington,
d. C. Please trcIose stamp for reply.
G. What percentage of gasoline taxes
goes to the Government?-P. L.
A. The Federal Government takes 2e%
per cent of the total gasoline taxes paid
by the American people.
@. How many people in the United
States are over 100 years of age7-
w. T. B.
A. The 1910 census returns showed
that there are about 1000 persons past
that age.
@. How many men are there in q di-
vision Of the National Guard7-E. II. s.
A. A division in the National Guard
contains about 1900 men.
@. Please give the amount of land now
controlled by Great Britain and tbs
Allies.-S. C. c.
A. The total area under British and
allied control is 24834954 square miles.
@. How many operas did Caruso singi
S. J. B.
A. His repertory included nearly so
operas.
@. How many coins of various de-
nominations are made in a year7-T.
j. H.
A. In the fiscal year recently ended
the output of the United States Mint
was as follows: 10000 900 pennies:
315,OOO000 nickels, 18l,00o,00o dimes:
$1,000 900 quarters; 100000 half dol
lars.
Evening star., 1941-09-15
Letters to the Editor
6&80efS discuss
Mr.. Lindbergh's Iowa Speech.


Mr.. Lindbergh's Iowa Speech.
70 the Editor Of The Star:
listened to the speech Of Charles
A. Lindbergh and between the boos and
applause which punctuated his address
I was able to discern some facts.
First that it is his purpose to create
racial antipathy. That his motives are
certainly ulterior and that he is the
mouthpiece of some who are less daring
in their utterances and who are using
him as a smoke screen to hide their own
activities.
The Constitution provides. freedom OF
press and of speech, but that does not
give any individual or set Of individuals
license to foment strife at critical
periods in our history. Just IS q wild
horse requires curb, so do the wild say
inss of irresponsible persons who are
allowed by this freedom to give untram-
meled rein to propaganda.
10. WATERS.
To the Editor Of The Star:
MAy COIIlIuSh0 OAi kNAis A-AAabSA e.
latest speech7 I am curious to know
how he will try to substantiate the fan
tastic claims he makes, If he Is re-
quired to do 20.
Does he have access to the secret files
Of the Government?
He SAYS that: IF 1t were not for her
hope that she could make the United
States responsible believe that
England would have negotiated q peace
in Europe many months ago and would
be better OF for doing so."
Nothing seems TO shake his faith In
his own powers of prognostication. Only
a few weeks ago he was jeering at the
'warmongers" for daring to suspect
that Hitler might have intentions OF
attacking Russia.
Mr.. Lindbergh aSsailed the lease-lend
program for sending major part Of
American plane production abroad. How
does he know 50 much about what we
produce and how many planes We send
to which places? Has he an espionage
system Of his own?
Again, he says: THE American Army
has only Z few hundred thoroughly
modern bombers and fighters, less, in
fact, than Germany Is able to produce
in a month" How does he know what
Germany is able to produce?
If he Is hoping to scare Americans by
his defeatist talk, he certainly is using
the wrong tactics.
LAURA K. POLLOCK.
70 the Editor Of The Star:
Mr.. Lindbergh said the other night:
"Britishers and Jews are carrying on
propaganda to get the United States into
Evening star., 1941-09-15

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the tDriter, although the use OF
q pseudonynl for publication is
permissible. The Star reserUes
the night to edit all letters tUith
q ptei1 to condensation.
Evening star., 1941-09-15

Germany Is said to be conscripting
all dogs more than twenty inches
tall for military service. Dachshunds
are now the envied Of all the Mani
canine world.
Evening star., 1941-09-15

The President expresses the opin-
Ion that non-essential Government
expenditures could bs reduced. At
least IL Is q fascinating idea with
vhAeh = W. "a
Evening star., 1941-09-15

war" CWe have heard the same ideas
quite often from the German propa-
ganda machine)
Such statements would indicate that
only those whose welfare is directly men,
aced by Hitlerism would rather see the
United States go to war than have Hitler
prevail.
Evidently, all of the crimes committed
by Hitler against humanity did not i'm
press Mr.. Lindbergh, did not produce in
him the reaction of horror, indignation
and revulsion that comes to one Witness
ing crime Of the greatest magnitude.
Mr.. Lindbergh is not paying any COM
pliment to the vast majority Of the
American people when he attributes to
everybody else, except the British and
Jews, the selfshness, callousness and
blindness to the impending danger he
possesses himself IRVING A. zARET.
Approves Criticism
OF Investigation Of Movies.
To the Editor Of The Star:
dSiCC WAui 41Cil4y I4SAShiOIC' vi oh
the illogical, ridiculous actions, the pres
ent investigation Of the moving picture
industry. for making anti-Hitler Aims,
surely takes the cake. Hitler and Mus
solini must be splitting their sides!
I thought freedom of expression was
one Of the freedoms of America. But If
the movie magnates can be investigated
and denounced for producing films ex-
pressing their views, the ofncial views
Of this Government and the views of q
majority of the American people, then
there is little freedom left In America
and no common sense.
Had there been magnate willing to
produce an unpopular film depicting the
other side, no one would have prevented
him from doing so. Are we, then. to
have freedom Of expression for the
minority but not for the MAJORITY
Were there no Lindberghs willing to
60 on the air, would the radio industry
have to produce one or be investgated7
Were there no newspapers expressing
the Hitler or isolationist viewpoint, would
the newspaper industry have to create
one or be investigated
Furthermore, here We are oficially.
definitely and irrevocably committed To
help England to defeat Hitler. All OF
our energies supposedly, at least) are
being bent in that direction. We have
appropriated millions of dollars for that
purpose. We have sent and are sending
our airplanes, ships, tanks and other i'm
plements of war, and food to feed the
fighters and people Of England. Thou
sands of our young men are being trained
to cope with the menace OF Hitlerism.
Every American is feeling and viii con-
tinue to feel the burden Of taxes to
finance our huge program. We ousted the
Italian and German consuls for engag-
ing In propaganda and subversive activ-
ity. We fred on Killers submarine
when 1t tried to sink destroyer Of our
neutrality" patrol.
And then We investigate snti-Hitler
Aims. II could only happen here.
PAULINE D. TAYLOR.
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Evening star., 1941-09-15

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 dispstehes
herein also are reserved.
Evening star., 1941-09-15

70 the Editor Of The Star:
Mr.. Lindbergh said the other night:
"Britishers and Jews are carrying on
propaganda to get the United States into
Evening star., 1941-09-15
Member of the Associated Press.

Entered as seeond-class matter post once.
Washington, D. e.
Evening star., 1941-09-15

@. How many men are there in q di-
vision OF the National Guard7--E. II. s.
A. A division in the National Guard
contains about 1000 men.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Fishing Prospects
At Nearby Points

Ocean City, Md.-Blue marlin
and white marlin, as well as
school tuna, for the offshore fish
erman. Reservations are hard
to get over week ends.
Cape Charles, Va.-Good bot
tom fishing for trout, hardheads
and kingfish. Few channel bass
being caught and an occasional
cobia.
Oregon Inlet, N. C.-Dolphin
of1shore. Small blues in the inlet.
Hatteras, N. C-Marlin, dol
phin, bonito and albacore. Small
blues and tarpon in the inlet.
Southport, N. C.-Dolphin, al
bacore, sailish. barracuda. am
berjack and king mackerel Off
shore. Trout on reefs. Tarpon
inshore.
Piney Point, Md.-Trout weigh
Ing up to 4 pounds trolling. Large
stripers at Tall Timbers, a few
small blues Qess than a pound
and spot.
Point Lookout, Md.-Trout.
hardheads and spot. Cobia still
around the buoys on the Middles.
Large trout trolling.
Shadyside, Md.-Hardheads in
deep water, spot on edge of chan
mel on this side and at Kent
Island. A few small trout. Big
stripers at Matapeake.
Deale Herring Bay, Md.-Big
hardheads at Poplar Island in
deep water. Spot and trout in
the channel and on edge of Hol-
land Point Bar.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
0utboarders Warned
Against Non-Stock
Paris in Engines
Srecial Dispatch to The Star.

81 ecldl dispatch 10 Inc Star.
CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-The Ma
tional Outboard Racing Commis.
sion has issued a warning to all
outboard motorboat racing drivers
against the use of non-stock parts
in their engines and will subject all
winners to rigid inspections at the
divisional and national outboard
championships during the next
three weeks.
1T has been brought to the at
tention of the National Outboard
Racing Commission that some
drivers have been using crank-case
seals in their racing engines James
w. Mulroy of Chicago, secretary Of
the commission, announced. Under
the official rules now in effect such
seals are clearly non-stock and the
use of them will bring about dis
qualification whenever found.
Rules that have been adopted
for 1941 cannot be changed now
and the inspectors will look for all
engine notifications or changes that
are not in accord with the rules
and specification sheets"
Secretary Mulroy indicated that
a rules meeting will be held in the
fall or early next winter to con-
slider any changes that a majority
of the drivers may recommend.
The warning against the use Of
non-stock parts came on the eve
of the National Outboard Associa-
tion's annual titular regatta series
that will lead to the crowning of
both amateur and professional ma
tiOnal champions at Austin, Tex,
September 13 to 15.
Divisional championships in the
East, South, Middle West. South
west and on the Pacific Coast serve
as qualifying regattas for the ma
tionals on Lake Austin.