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Evening star., 1941-06-21
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nnggIrssemald, part time, permanent. A!T.
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LADIES two. 10 manage and cook IN small
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city. references. l2-hour service. ,,5E.
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person Good driver. capable ches-fl',
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HELP MEN.
tContinued)

MANAGER, for mems wear store, experi
enced; good proposition for right man.
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Evening star., 1941-03-10

where the job is to be had. Those
who fail to get the jobs often be-
come a burden for the community
to which they have migrated. The
committee probably will recommend
some form of unified program be-
tween the States and the Federal
Government for care of persons with
no legal residence. The present
lack of uniformity in settlement laws
has resulted in great confusion and
hes brought hardship upon hundreds
of thousands of Americans who lit
orally have no legal home.
One Of the most logical ways to
insulate the country against the
difficulties which could beset it on
account of this movement is to keep
the House committee in operation.
A resolution is before the House pro-
viding for tWo-year extension of
the committees life, and its adop-
ton now might save the Nation
from much veXation later on.
Evening star., 1941-03-10

tainty. The stranger was additional
ly handicapped by unfriendly wealth.
er. His first duty was to make
drawing of "the particular lineamentS
of the ground between Rock Creek
and the Tiber" This work, there Is
reason to believe, he attempted on
horseback. In any case, he rode over
the territory indicated for the city
he was to create. Despite the rain
and fog" he caught the vision Of
"the greatness which the Cap
itale of a powerful Empire ought to
manifest" Jefferson had urged him
to hurry. Washington soon would
demand the fruits of his labors.
For the site of the meeting place
of the National Legislature Major
L'Enfant chose Jenkins Heights,
which he argued "stand as a pedestal
waiting for monument" A lower
eminence, with a broad sweeping
view southwark" toward the river,
he preferred for "the Presidents
House" which later would be sketched
by James Hoban. Having first de-
termined some principal points to
which I wished making the rest sub
ordinate" he wrote, Il next made the
distribution regular with streets at
right angle, north-South and east
west, but afterwards I opened others
on various directions, as avenues to
and from every principal places"
The first draft of his plan was ready
by June %, the second and more re-
fined in August.
Whether or not the design was en-
tirely novel does not matter very
much. Major L'Enfant had prom
iSed "a new and original" compost
ton. That he permitted himself to
be influenced by Versailles is evident.
Pennsylvania avenue is the Avenue
de Trianon brought over the Atlantic.
More important, such arteries of
travel contribute to an achievement
which, as he insisted, Is "the real
3 ollN dllA VI uIy
ties about the sale of lots in the Dis
trict of Columbia-for which he was
in no wise responSible-led to criti-
cism which in turn caused a break
between the artist and his friends.
Possibly such persons are meant
to be unfortunate 1t is one of the
riddles of human existence that the
worthiest achievement more fire.
quently than not is misunderstood,
the noblest effort unappreciated.
Major L'Enfant, quiet, harmless and
unoffending," died at the home Of
William Dudley Digges in Prince
Georges County June IA, 1925. His
estate was valued at forty-f1ve dol
lars.
Evening star., 1941-03-10
Migrant Problem Grows

The same stream of migration
which in recent months has brought
thousands Of persons to Washington
in search of national defense en-
ployment Is carrying other thou
sands to every community in the
country that is defense headquar-
ters. This outgroWth of Americas s
decision to arm present a grave
national problem that needs to be
dealt with from national point of
view. The men and women in this
migrant stream are no relation to
the Joads and other Okies made
famous by John Steinbeck. Those
were farm laborerS. These migrants
want city jobs. And for all the COM
munitieS where they seek work they
create difficulties relating to hous-
ing, education, police and fire pro-
lection and sanitation.
The special House Committee on
before the year is out the new migra-
ton will be made up Of 100000
or 100000 persons. This committee
is equipped by its past experience to
keep abreast of developments, spot
trouble zones in advance and advise
the Nation on the needed remedies.
For every defense Job available, the
committee asserts, two or three
persons are moving to the area
Evening star., 1941-03-10

ganiZation Of two great compleXes of
tremendous economic and naval power
for mutual advantage.
The contemplated union would be
similar in form to the American Union,
with a representative legislature. an ex-
ecutive and a Judiciary The rights of
minorities would be protected just as
they are under the American Constitu-
tion by the Senate, and all powers not
expressly delegated to the central gov
ernment would be reserved to the mem
Der states. Questions concerning pro-
cedure and problems arising under such
a union usually may be answered by con-
sidering the similar procedure or prob
lem in the American Union Parallel
situations usually may be found in Amer
ican history.
The verdict of their posterity abun-
dainty has justified the faith and imagi-
nation of the founding fathers of the
American Union. Let us hope that we
in our turn will have the faith and i'm
agination to build further on their
foundation and that our posterity may
glory in our achievement of the earlier
promise. FEDERALIST.
Evening star., 1941-03-10
BETHESDA, Md.

Dear Sir:
Il have enjoyed and benefited by your
articles since the saga of Jack Spratt,
the Baked Bean Cat II years ago
My cat Is unfortunately an efficient
stalker. She has caught two chipmunks,
one by a hole, and the other while in
her 12-by-12-foot pen. I rescued the
latter chipmunk before it was injured
and it ran home and I hope impressed its
children with the danger of that pen.
"One summer I saw baby chipmunk
lying by its hole, so I picked it up, it
Offering no resistance. Its nostrils were
closed by a mixture of blood and mud
which I swabbed off with moiStened
cotton.
'I put it near another hole, in a cot
ton-lined box. After several hours it
had disappeared. I hope it survived, for
careful search of nearby shrubbery dis
closed no body.
"The cat had part Of a paw bitten off
while in her pen, by chow. She must
have slapped at him, and he bit her
through chicken wire.
you asked about mourning doves in
number Last summer l counted 10
feeding at one time. Our yard was not
completely cleared and they seem to rest
in some pines. They are not always
gentle and have seen them chase blue
jays.
"On the whole, all the birds squirrels
and chipmunks seem to get on we'll to-
gether.
That flock of 100 robins recorded by
the late Mr.. New had alighted in our
front yard, too.
at was quite q sight.
1--WE have a brook in front, which
seems to attract all animals and bird
life, even cast away cats.
do you know if spraying poison for
aphids would injure the birds?
Part of my laziness in spraying
justify by that doubt.
"Our song sparrows and cardinals have
been singing a lot lately Last winter
during the deep snow fooled Mr. Mock
ingbird by putting the scratch feed all
AROUND, at every SlOe OF tne mouse, ana
even though he sat high in a tree, he
couldn't watch everywhere at once.
He doesn't come here to feed often.
He lives across and up the road, coming
here to drink in the brook.
Il
"One more comment. Bluebirds live
across the road, but do not on this side.
They come over to drink occasionally
and you see them flying about but they
nest on hill across the way The love-
liest sight have ever seen was on one
Halloween when flock of 40 or so
stripped the seeds or berries from a large
dogwood outside my kitchen window.
They did the stripping in that one
day.
I'VE have seen woodcock here and
hear its single note often in the night
Also weasels have been seen here in the
last FIVE years. Sincerely, P. M. G."
1t would be fun to have a brook.
In several sections in the suburbs there
are small brooks, winding through the
communities.
Evening star., 1941-03-10
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles L. TrnceUeH.

Those who have brooks usually seem a
bit "up stage" about it.
While they do not exactly look down
upon their brookless neighbors, they give
them to understand that suburbanites,
after all, are divided naturally into two
classes, those with brooks and those
without brooks.
The brook people have little bridges,
and rock gardens running down to the
waters edge.
The brookless people often say that
yes, brook would be nice, but then
there must be mosquitoes
Persons owning a certain share in a
community brook reply that there are
mosquitoes in all suburbs. Shrubbery
causes them. And if the Jones would
cut their grass more often, that would
help, too.
A good look on water life would make
any one long for a stream of his own.
What a variety of fascinating things
there are living in brooks!
Even in winter there are such things
as stonefies, water crosses, algae, GEM
mules, caddis worms, planarians, crane
fly larvae, water pennies and dusky
salamanders.
Maybe all brooks do not have dusky
salamanders. We are not quite sure
about the dusky salamanders.
But if the books are right, and they
use many pages to prove it, there are
scores of odd creatures too numerous to
mention, in almost any old pond or even
puddle.
Summer life in pool shows the
broad-leaved arrowhead, the white water
lily, the elodea this is sometimes used
in the home aquarium, the diving
beetle, the adult backsWimmer the whirl-
ing beetle. and the caddis worm.
You can't get away from the caddis
worm.
1t may be we'll to point out that any
one, with brook or not, may have in his
yard section of water life by building
a pool =
1t won't be long till spring, and when
that fascinating season really arrives is
the best time Of the year to lay out a
lily pool, which shortly becomes a fish
pool, and an insect pool, and pool to
hold all sorts of insects. water scooters
and the like, to say nothing of caddis
flies.
The size of the pool is immaterial, un-
less you want to impress your neighbors.
A galvanized-iron washtub. sunk into
the ground. and then let stand full of
water for several weeks, emptied, and
filled again, will do very nicely as a be-
ginner. It is surprising the number of
plants and fish which may be grown
in it.
A cedar tub is better, and a well-made
concrete pool is best Of all. No one
should undertake the construction of
the latter without some investigation.
The sides and bottom should be of a
certain thickness, and the sides should
be sloped. A shallow pocket about 2
inches deep is best left all around the
edge, so that the birds may drink easily
Householders who have brooks or pools
need never think whether their song
birds have something to drink
Their bird bath" is always full.
Evening star., 1941-03-10
Major L'Enfunt

The Star yesterday took cognizance
Of the one hundred and fiftieth an
niversary Of the arrival of Major
Pierre Charles LEnfant on the north
bank Of the Potomac. A French
architect, engineer and soldier who
had to come to America In advance
of Lafayette and been wounded in
one of the battles of the War for In
dependence, he had been chosen by
George Washington and Thomas JEFF
ferson, perhaps at the suggestion of
Alexander Hamilton, to design the
Federal Capital of the United States.
Probably no other individual then
available was so we'll qualified for the
work. Even now casual reader may
catch glimpSes of his authentic
genius through the still imperfect
fabric of the story of his life.
Major LEnfant, seemingly TN
heralded, appeared in Georgetown
late in the afternoon or early in the
evening Of March 9, 1791. The Mayor,
to whom he had been directed for
assistance, knew nothing of his
identity or his business" Something
of mystery characterized his assign
ment, as it was regarded by residents
of the neighborhood to which he had
been sent. Researches recently con-
Quoted have disclosed that the
first President himself was involved
in the secret" At the moment,
however, little was known with GER
Evening star., 1941-03-10
Siqns Of Sprino

Today I realized that spring had
come
Not By the buds stretching their
finger tips
From branches recently made numb
By iOtnter'S blast Which pitjleSSly
rips
The leaUeS from every limb, not from
the song
OF oriole or robin from the South,
Whose hymn of eTuItatton, SWeet
and strong,
Issues triumphant from each tiny
mouth.
Nor from, the subtle fragrance in the
dtr,
Which makes mankind reluctant
to remain
Indoors tUhen natures pageant every
tDhere
Beckons from sunny field and
shady lane.
I krte1o that spring had come, for IN
our street
Kites scared and marbles Dhtrled
around my teeti
KITTY PARSONS.
Evening star., 1941-03-10
Supports Proposal
For Anglo American Union.
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor of The Star:
The Bulgarian episode in another OBJ
ject lesson in Hitlerian technique. The
principle of one step at time has prob
ably never been applied with such ex-
tensive results before. We now are in
formed that Hitler has promised" to
respect the Turkish borders and is only
interested in protecting the peace of the
Balkans. May we in this country never
be in such a position that we must be
seriously concerned with Hitler's prom
tses"! Such promises have proved to
be only forecasts of Nazi military activ-
ity. No one in his right senses can be-
lieve that Turkish independence will be
respected any longer than ways and
means can be found to placate Stain
and assure successful penetration of
Turkey.
1t was in situation paralleling that
Of disunited Europe that Benjamin
Franklin uttered an aphorism whose
truth recent history strikingly has af-
f1rmed. To the representatives of a dis
united America he said, Gentlemen, we
must hang together, or assuredly we
shall all hang separately" 1t was too
much to expect the Balkans to unite
voluntarily to resist aggression, even in
the face of separate hanging" But is it
too much to expect Anglo American
unity before the piecemeal conquest
reaches us? Clarence Streit's proposal
for British-American union is a direct
answer to the divide e-and-rule' philos-
ophy of the Nazi regime. 1t is much
more than this, however; it is proposal
for q practical, democratic political or
Evening star., 1941-03-10

and development, and that the degree of
congestion depends both on the use and
the degree of intensive development per-
mitted. The Wall Street district or the
Rockefeller developments in New York
City are very intensive, but might be
allowable and unobjectionable if there
were associated as part of these areas
an adjacent area of practically vacant
blocks which would take care of the sit
uation created by these intensive de-
velopments even to the point of supply
Ing free parking. In other words, the
highly developed area would be required
to assume the burden of supplying the
relief for the burden it has imposed on
the city. To lesser degree, the rule
should apply to the lesser problems in
smaller cities.
Clearing the streets of parked cars is
a problem of major importance in every
city, but no city can even make a be-
ginning with the solution unless it starts
with a provision that on and after a
certain future date all day or night park
Ing on the streets shall be absolutely
prevented. This sounds drastic, but OBJ
viously until a city shows its definite in
tention to do something of this kind, it
is practically useless to discuss remedies,
for it has been amply proved over and
over again that people will not go to
parking lots, much less pay for parking
privileges, 30 long as they can secure
free parking at the expense of the gen.
eral public. We have arrived at just
that point in Washington and a decision
must be made.
FREDERIC A. DELANO,
Chairman National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
Evening star., 1941-03-10
Germuny's Balkan Policy

Statements by German Spokesmen
in Berlin and Sofia to newspapermen
tend to show that the Reich's policy
in the Balkans remains basically
unchanged. Despite vast troop con-
centrations in Eastern Europe and
the armed occupation Of Bulgaria,
Germany still hopes to gain her ends
without fighting. Those troop move
ments are as yet merely one phase
of the Reich's diplomatic offensive,
the other phase being economic
pressure upon the Balkan states.
Together they constitute form of
pressure politics which has thus far
been singularly effective. First Ru-
mania and then Bulgaria have been
brought into line by this diplomatic
blitzkrieg without firing a shot, and
the indications are that Yugoslavia
will 60 the same way. The full force
of German pressure politics now is
being applied to Greece and Turkey.
Until it has failed, military action
presumably will be kept in reserve
The fundamental reason why Ger
many prefers diplomacy to force in
this region is that the Balkans
constitute one of the Reich's main
sources of foodstuffs and raw mate
rials. arge-scale warfare in the
Balkans would disrupt Germany'S
delicately balanced economic system,
besides tying up troops and war
materials which may be needed
aggressively Germany may act in the
Balkans, these actions are what mill
tary strategists term an Offensive
defensive" At bottom the Reich is
on the defensive there, since 1t de-
sireS Balkan peace-of course, on it's
own terms.
However, for those same reasons,
Britain Is conducting Strategical
offensive in the Balkans and else
where in the Near East. The Brit
iSh objective is to upset German
economy, divert German military
strength from Western Europe and
establish Balkan warfront threat
ening Germany'S back door, as was
done in the last war. 1taly's blunder
in attacking Greece gave Britain an
opening which she has done her best
to exploit, but Germany's strenuous
diplomatic counteroffenSive has thus
far prevented Britain from attaining
her larger aim.
Yet this diplomatic battle is not
over. In YugoSlavia, British diplo-
macy is fighting what looks like
rear-guard action, but it may pre-
vent that country from falling en-
tirely into the axis grip. Greece still
proclaims her solidarity with Britain,
while Turkey continues to lean
strongly toward the British side. It
should be remembered that both
these countries have strong economic
ties with the British Empire and are
thus far less amenable to German
economic pressure than are the other
Balkan states, whose economic life
is mainly dependent upon the Reich.
Both Britain and Germany seem
to be reluctant to resort to open war
fare until the diplomatic game has
been played out. Despite mutual
threats, British bombers are not
winging northward and German
tanks do not waddle southwark into
either Greek or Turkish Thrace.
Each eyes the other warily, conscious
Of the stakes and of the penalties
attendant upon false or premature
move. This tense pause may con-
tinue or may end overnight. But,
for the moment, diplomacy still has
the right Of way.
Evening star., 1941-03-10
Thinks Senator Wheeler's Views
On West Indies Bases Are "AbSurd."

To the Editor of The Star:
1t has been recognized by all military
authorities that the bases we have Sc
cured in the British West Indian Islands
have immeasurably strengthened the
security OF the Panama Canal and,
therefore, the security of the United
States.
1t is universally admitted that should
these islands be taken by the Nazis. as
they easily could and certainly would be
If England were defeated. they would
constitute the gravest rzsTiace to the
safety OF the United States. This
menace was greatly minimized, if not
removed. by the bases leased to us by
England.
Yet Senator Wheeler in his radio
speech on March 3 asserted that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has exchanged the so
destroyers for the right to defend the
British islands" In other words. the
Senator. in the face of all proof to the
contrary, says that these bases are of
no military value to the United States.
Since such patiently absurd assertions
can have no other purpose than to
discredit cur President, the inevitable
conclusion to be deduced from this is
that the case of the isolationistS must
rest on flimsy foundations indeed.
JAMES FISHER.
Evening star., 1941-03-10
Wonders Why Women's Hats
Are Criticized by Public Official.

To the Editor of The Star:
I should think, in these days of
anxiety and turmoil, the head of the
Labor Department would have plenty to
occupy her mind without trying to take
the joy out of the life of women who
choose to wear hats which may or may
not appear to be eccentric.
Are we approaching the zenith Of prog
ress or are we retrogressing2
WONDER.
Evening star., 1941-03-10
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