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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdcetoell.

son to pretend that he knows everything.
The result is that many sly persons have
discovered that argument will cover a
great deal of ignorance.
When 1t comes TO lessening Of birds,
all we know is that there are far less
songsters in nearby Chevy Chase than
there were 10 years ago, or even five
years ago
Especially is the early morning sere-
made small in volume. by comparison.
Ten years ago, the dawn serenade
| Of the birds was literally clamorous.
They screamed, roared, yelled, hoWled
in their glee at the coming of the light.
At least, that was the way it affected
the listener who had just recently moved
from the city.
Today, at dawn, there is only a polite
chorus.
Maybe persons living in the really
deep woods have a louder chorus.
Perhaps, too, one becomes accustomed
! to it,
| But the other morning. waking ex-
tremely early, we listened particularly
for the birds to cut loose" with their
old-time vigor.
But they didn't.
The chorus was but mockery of our
memory.
There was no bird screaming this
time. No bird yelled. 1T is dawn! Wake
up, boys and girls! 1t IS dawn!
Hhe-e-e-e-e!"
No, sir. not bird roared.
What birds said anything at all said
1t in a very lady-like or gentlemanly
manner
The only conclusion is that there
aren't as many birds.
One cannot think for a moment that
birds are not birds, and that the l94l
spring birds are calling and chirping
and singing in any other way than they
| have been doing all these centuries.
The only answer is that there aren't
as many of them.
! Yet the seed in the feeding stations
goes down about as regularly as ever
/ Inc OAHU Oh SpdTTOWS eats soaked
bread with even more gusto than in
winter.
But in the tree tops there are not
as many Baltimore orioles and chicka-
dees and nuthatches.
Maybe not even as many cardinals,
! although we had nine pains during the
| cold months.
Clearing of swamp lands. no matter
| how far away, drives the birds farther
! and farther into the woods
No doubt the great forest fires have
killed countless thousands of songsters
| Modern inventions have not been kind
| to birds.
An even so apparently innocent thing
as fence post or wire will kill bird
| if it flies into it, and some species dc
so regularly. Many smaller birds found
dead in country districts, yet showing
no signs of wound on them, have killed
! themselves in this way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06
Discusses England's Failure"
In Management of War.
To the Editor of The Star.
Pierce City, Mo.

DiStuSSCs diiuAC
In Management of War.
To the Editor of The Star:
am pro- British, detesting Hitler dis
gusted with the French, praying for Ire
land. hoping that the United States will
act to adjust the affairs of distracted
world.
But am uneasy over the ineptitude of
England, From Norway to Crete, Ger
mans first; English also ran.
England hesitates to move in Syria
lest it offend France, equal delicacy re-
straining action toward Dakar. While
England hesitates Germany acts with
French help in both spheres.
At home in America, wages are in
creasing as strikes are multiplying while
sabotage becomes one of the fine arts.
In the presence of labor disturbances
our Government is palsied. Cabinet
officers have curious idea that ships
are built by speeches.
My immediate difficulty, however, is
a reluctance to enter into full partner
ship for the purpose of carrying on a
war with those who have failed in that
business.
We should recognize and admit the
fact that democracies cannot operate
war as efficiently as the dictator states.
Negotiated peace frightens some who
declare it means breathing space dur
ing which Hitler can prepare for a
greater attack in the future. We also
can prepare.
We might as we'll recognize now as a
dozen years hence that perpetual peace is
q dream. PATRICK J. DELANEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06
A BRIGHTER Outlook

Philip Murray's vigorous denuncla-
ton of the short sighted attitude OF
leaders of the West Coast lumber
workers strike, and his character
ization of their attempt to dlScredlt
the Defense Mediation Board as
most reprehenSible, lying detama-
ton" would seem to mark a de-
cidedly encouraging turn for the
better in the national defense out
look.
It remains to be seen whether the
fortnight action of the c. l. o.
president in directing a back-to-
work appeal to the lumber workers
over the heads of their own union
leadership will result in hating the
strike. Possibly Mr.. Murray's effort
will meet the same fate that has
attended efforts of national leaders
of the A. F. of L. to terminate the
strike of machiniStS at the San
Francisco ShipyardS, but the i'm
portant fact remains that, so far as
the issues of this case are concerned,
the elected head of the c. I. o. stands
souarely behind the Mediation Board
and unequivocally voucheS for its
integrity.
This should have most Salutary
effect on all members Of organized
labor who look to Mr.. Murray for
leadership, and who have a proper
regard for the welfare of their coun-
try when its security is affected by
efforts to improve their own eco
nomic position. If this element in
labor, and it is asSuredly the great
majority, proves willing to cooperate
with the Government in settling de-
Tense labor disputes without resort
to strikes, then the minority fac
tion-those who seem perfectly will
ing If not eager to disrupt the
defense program-can be dealt with
as necessity arises.
If labor is to be expected to abide
by the recommendation of the
Mediation Board, however, it follows
that employers should do likewise,
and it is the clear duty of the
Southern coal operators to accept the
findings of the board in their dispute
with the United Mine Workers.
These findings, it is true, wipe out
the wage differential which has
existed in favor of the Southern
producers, but the public generally
will be inclined to give full credence
to the boards aSSertion-concurred
in by Walter Teagle of the Standard
OIL Company of New Jersey-that
the Southern operators still are left
IN a satisfactory competitive posi-
ton.
On their face, these recommended
tons seems to mark an important
victory for the Mine Workers. And,
that being the case, they cast a
significant light on the statesman
ship Of John L. Lewis, U. NJ w. presi-
dent, who, on April 2, declared: 1--WE
are not going to follow the new
formula that the Mediation Board
has discovered of wiring the strikers
to go back, busting their strikes and
then having them come to Wash
ington to mediate"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06
Piscutor

The UelUet ttCtlioht toll0Ued sun;
The breeze lCaS still, the eUening
fair,
And as / crossed a tUinding stream
SdW a man a-fShing there.
I thought then of that EngliShmdn,
That gentle angler-Student, 1Cho
By some such peaceful English
stream
OF GREETINGS mould afShing go.
SdU in this secluded place
Old Izadk Walton sitting there,
Temperinq street. philosophy
With tranquil rest, careSSing care.
I thought then of the England non,
And of the 1UhoIe tormented World:
Rash, busting, toiling, bleeding,
To,oard misery and ruin hurled.
There is no quiet in these times,
No peace to dream, to think, to
build.
The gentle arts are trampled dolUn.
All loneliness By chaos killed.
Pray God that turbulence be
Stemmed;
Peace, study, brotherhood return;
That gentle streams OF QutetneSS
Will foiU lUhere fires of terror burn.
Pray God that more good WaltonS
mild
Will fish the earth'S clear, pleas
ant rillS;
That po1UerS of repoSe and peace
Will guard our dreams and lC1Sh
our ills.
J. N. K.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06

Many persons have wondered why
the bird music has not been as loud at
dawn as in the past.
many birds.
Why there are not as many birds,
no one knows.
An imaginative answer is that the
songsters are getting tired OF mankind
and are flying away to the forests
Any honest bird might feel that a
species which does not know enough to
cherish the life which God has given it
for time, but which insists on wound
ing and killing every 20 years, is not fit
companion for his young.
Hence he makes away with the Missus
and the kids TO the forests and groves,
where he hopes to avoid further contact
with outrageous Man.
Maybe this explanation will not hold
water.
Perhaps it won't, but it avoids be-
lieving that man already has injured
the birds to the extent of a greatly less
ened population.
Every resident of the suburbs knows
that there are no way near as many
songsters in his trees as 10 years ago,
let us say.
Ten years is not a long time, as bird
life goes, but in that period there has
been an undoubted diminution of many
species.
Bluebirds, for one. Part of their less
ening may be attributed to great ice
and sleet storms. which cut their num-
bers almost overnight. The species has
never come back.
The thrush of English sparrows and
starlings, it is felt, has driven away
many native birds, which could not
compete with them for nesting sites.
Some bird admirers feel that although
the native birds may be driven away,
they do not by any means give up nest
ing.
They simply go to the woods, their
first homes. After all. nesting close to
man is a cultivated taste with the birds.
Before the white man came to America,
the birds nested in the woods. There
was no other place. The land was all
woods, then, with the exception OF the
great prairieS.
Scientists have been trying to explain
the lessening of bird life for many years,
with no appreciate results. Many per-
sons will even dispute the fact that there
is any lessening. This is to be expected,
in a society which agreement is not a
common thing. This is state of affairs
in which Americans have been growing
steadily worse in recent years. 1t is al
most impossible to make a statement of
opinion, of any kind, which some one
does not Immediately pop up to oppose.
Often statements of fact will be dis
puted. The truth is that life has grown
so complex that no one person can pos
sibly keep up with things. Yet modern
education, mixed with a quantity of nat
ural bluff, has made 1t seem necessary
for every educated or half-educated per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06
Poem by Unknown Writer
Quoted in Memory of Lou Gehrig.

To the Editor OF The Star:
The following poem, read by the Rev
DR.. Frederick Brown Harris at Foundry
Church several years ago, applies to Lou
Gehrig, and I believe that his friends
would like to see it reprinted at this
time:
THE Doctor knows what his trained
eyes see,
And he says it's the end of the ninth
for me.
One more swing, while the clouds hang
dark,
And then I must leave this noisy park
Twas a glorious game from the opening
bell
Good plays, bad plays and thrills pell
NELL;
But the speed of it burned my life away,
Yet I thank great God that He let me
play"
I regret that / do not-know the name
Of the author.
MRS. LOUIS A. MOVER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06

knowers of mankind and humanity (at
It's worstD. Few would get up at and
call 1t 6 and like it.
However. I have come to the conclu-
sion that If daylight saving time makes
most people happy and contented, well
then it is up to us, the dissenting minor
ity, to comply as graciously as possible.
MRS. GILBERT CHASE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06
Huskin's Answers
To Readers Questions
BIZ Frederic J. HdSktn

A reader can get the ans1Der to any
question OF fact By lrrittng The EUe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. HdSkin, director, Washington,
D. c. Please inclose stamp for reply.
@. Please give the per capita amount
OF life insurance owned by residents Of
the District of Columbia.-E. S. H.
A. The estimated amount of life insur-
ance in force in the District of Colum-
bia at the end of 1910 was S67O,8 900
or $l0l2 per capita.
@. What are English Bren guns-D.
V. w.
A. The British Bren gun is 1903 cahber
and fires the common type of small
arms cartridge The main purpose Of
this weapon is to provide a light auto
matte weapon which can deliver large
quantity of fire against enemy personnel.
@. How large is the town Of Marine
land, Flap. c. Z.
A. In 1910, IS voters incorporated INTO
the Town of Marineland, the smallest
incorporated municipality in the State
Of Florida.
@. What is the longest river in Eu-
rope?-C. j. B.
A. The Volga, which is 223O miles in
length, is the longest European river.
@. Did Ottmar Mergenthaler inventor
of the linotype. ever work for the Gov
ernmenR-M D. A
A. In 1872 he entered the employ Of
the Government at Washington. D. c,
where he kept in order clocks and cleo
trio bells throughout the various Gov
eminent buildings.
@ What States have the greatest and
the least density of population?-R. M. P.
A. Rhode Island led all other States
in population density in 1910, with
population of 6742 per square mile Of
land area. Nevada was lowest with only
10 person per square mile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06
HitIer's Lullaby

Elsewhere in today-s Star will be
found an exclusive interview with
ReichSchancellor Hitler by Americas
former Ambassador to Belgium, John
Cudahy. The article is interesting not
only because it is the first interview
which Hitler has granted an Ameri-
can correspondent in many months,
but because it reveals that Herr
! Hitler is still playing his favorite
lullaby song. He disavows any in
tention of attacking the United
States. Invade the Western Henri
sphere? Why, he assures Mr.. Cudahy,
the idea is farthest from his mind;
it is as fantastic as an invasion of
the moon" Anyway. he asserts, such
an invasion would be militarily i'm
practicable. At heart, he is just a
man of peace; his sole thought is
for the peace, prosperity and hap
pineSs" Of Europe.
This is the same Herr Hitler, who,
in 1884, characterized as absurd"
the suggestion that Germany had
designs on Austria; who not long
before he seized Czecho-Slovakia and
Memel, gave his word to Neville
Chamberlain that he had no more
territorial aspirations in Europe;
who, before he crushed Poland,
pledged his respect" for Polish
rights; who, even as his panzer divi-
SlonS were already on the move
toward the Lowlands, permitted his
propaganda agents Indignantly to
deny newspaper reports Of an i'm
pending invasion of Holland, who
in nearly every instance preceded
his Sub1ugatlon of Europe'S enslaved
peoples by protestations of friend
ship. Despite this record Of faith
lessness and treachery, Hitler would
have us accept his word that he
entertains not the slightest thought
OF conquest with respect to the West
ern Hemisphere.
Americans will no more swallow
Hltler's assurances as to his inno-
cence OF aggressive designs toward
the New World than they will his
derisive comments on the feasibility
Of an actual invasion of this hemi-
sphere. They prefer to accept the
Judgment Of their own Government
and its military and naval experts
on a matter so vital to the security
OF their institutions, their homes and
their very lives Such qualified OBJ
servers as General George C. Mar
shall, Army chief of staff, and
Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of
naval operations, have made it plain
that they do not share Hitler's view
that the idea of Nazi threat to this
country Is fantastic" or "imagi-
nary" To President Roosevelt, COM
mander in chief of the Army and
Navy, the threat is real-outlined
for all to see in "the Nazi book of
world conquest" AS the President
warned in his recent fireside talk,
"Quislings would be found to subvert
the governments Of our republics and
the Nazis would back their fifth
columns with invasion, if neces-
sary - They plan to treat the
Latin American nations as they are
now treating the Balkans. They
plan then to strangle the United
States Of America and the Dominion
of Canada"
In view of all that has gone before,
Hitler's latest disclaimers of evil
intent and professions of noble pur-
pose are likely to be taken for what
they are worth-which is precisely
nothing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06

There is no recorded instance of
Daniel Boone or Robert Rodgers sud-
denly stopping important business in
hand to make grinning comparisons
of lengths of plug-cut.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06

Germany is trying to avoid British
warships; Britain is trying to dodge
German planes and tanks, and the
good old U. S. A. is doing it's rather
poor best to avoid strikes. Looks al
most like the beginning of another
eternal triangle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06

1t is curious how outraged Uncle
Samuel becomes at Japan's attitude
and performances, and, at the same
time, how many million barrels of
motor fuel and lubricating oil he sells
annually to the Nipponese.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06

Pictures of the battleship Bis
marck are likely to become rarities,
like the autographs of Button Gwin-
nett, and for the same reason-short
tenure Of life of the originals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06

@. Where was the New York Giants
baseball park before the Polo Grounds
were built?-A. c. &.
A. Before the New York Giants had
the present Polo Grounds, they PLAYED
on the old Polo Grounds at Fifth ave
nue. and 10th street. This is now the
northern extremity of Central Park.
@. What causes an atterglow?-J. c. B.
A. Afterglow is a broad high arch Of
radiance or glow seen occasionally in the
Western sky above the highest clouds
in deepening twilight, or reflected from
the high snowfields in mountain regions
after sunset. The afterglow is caused
by very fine particles of suspended dust
in the high atmosphere exercising a
scattering effect upon the component5
Of white light.
@. How many newspaper chains are
there in the United States and Cam
ada?-C. L. S.
A. The 1941 Editor and Publisher
Year Book lists So principal newspaper
chains of the United States and Canada.
@. Is it possible to teach a crow 70
talk by splitting its tongue?-R. P. c.
A. Crows can sometimes be taught to
talk. Contrary to popular opinion, the
tongue need not be slit. Sitting the
tongue is unnecessary cruelty Birds
produce vocal sounds within the body
from the syrinX.
@. Please give the temperature Of
Guantanamo. Cuba.-F. J. L.
A. The mean average temperature at
Guantanamo is IS degrees, ranging from
low of about so degrees to a high Of
about 100 degrees. Rain is plentiful in
the months of May and October. There
have been scatterings of rain all during
the year for the past three years.
@. Where is Hat Island?-W. E. NJ
A. 1t is a small island about one
fourth mile of the western end of Swan
Island, Me.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-06
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Evening star., 1941-11-27
Chicuoo Livestock

CHICAGO. Nov - tP, United States
Department of AgricultureD .--Salable hogs,
10000: total, $4,000 general trade steady
TO 10 higher than Wednesdays average:
top 1918. bulk good and choice Is0-300
pounds, 990-l0.l0 most l60-S0-p pound
lights, o15-I0.0n. few strictly choice
1910: good 100000 pound sows largely
8 4o-G5. with some light weights, 915-s5
Saiable sheep, 600. total, ll,5u0; late
Wednesday: Fat lambs and yearllngs. 25-
IS lower; few choice natives. II 80 and
10. bulk good and choice natives and
fed Westerns, 1850: best yearling, q so:
few feeding and shorn lambs lu. SOL .0G ;
today'S trade. fat lamb market not eStab-
lished. early BIDS al % for best kinds.
around 25 lower; asking fully steady or
J. 81 and better for strictly choice fat
natives and fed Westerns; nothing done
on yearllngs or sheep
Salable cattle. 5000: calves 900; gen.
orally steady trade on commercial steers
and yeaTlings. killing quality medium to
good. mostly good, with sprinkllng medium
grade and slaughter lot choice offerings;
largely Ou-l2..1 steer and yearllnR mar
ket. with prime mixed offerings to l3 90;
best Sear!lng% IN load lots l.t.6), however.
and little above - 90 either IN steers or
helfers; fed heifer run very small: mostly
l0.5O-l2.U0. with scattered lots 20 - rs
cows weak, with supplies fairly liberal:
bulls scarce. firm: weighty sausage offer
lngs TO e.25. vealerS dull: fewer choice
offerings maklnS 90 mostly ! Uo-l:, 80;
stock cattle scarce. firm. weightiest fed
steers here comprised good TO choice 1.6lt-
pound offerings al II 90, and choice 1850
pounds at 1I.s5.
Evening star., 1941-11-27
Washington Produce

BUTTER-93 score. tubs, 37'4; pound
score. tubs. 36i4: l-pound prints. 369a
t.-pound prints, 35it, 81 score. tubs. 33it;
l-pound prints, 35'4; i4-pound prints
3Sia. a0 score. tubs. 3494 l-oound prints.
35i4: i.-pound prints 3594: 80 score. tubs;
34'.; l-pound prints. 34'a .-pound
prints, 35i4; SIS score. tubs. :}3at: ipound
prints. 34l. l4-pound prints, 34'4
LIVESTOCK-Calyes, II; spring lambs
il.
From Agricultural Marketing Service:
ECGS-Market steady Prices paid for
FEDERAL State graded eggs received from
grading stations November ~. Whites
o S. extras large 46-41: mostly 46:
q. S. extras. mediums, 3h-39 mostly 81;
q S. standards. large. 42545, mostly -;
y: s standards, mediums, 81: U. S. trades.
mostly -; U :. extras. mediums. 38-3ss.
mostlv 43. U S. standards, mediums, 36-
a.: U S trades. "a Nearby uneraded
eeFs, current receipts, whites. mostly 80
50. some of better quality. heavier welghtS.
10 10 3S mixed colors mostly 3O-3l. Re-
ceipts Government Graded eggs, 200 cases.
LIVE POULTRY-Market eteady- Fowl.
colored, pounds and Up, 1919; Leg
u. Roosters, 1914 Chickens, Virglnla
No. IS, II: Delaware and Maryland, Rocks
and crosses, brollers and fryers. all sizes,
IS. No. IS. - CapOns, 5-6 pounds, 25;
: pounds and up, IS. Turkey Young
toms, rs pounds and up. 22-"3 young
hens, 10 pounds and I'D. 25-26: No IS
and underslzes, s. Gulneas. young. all
sizes. e5: old 10.
Evening star., 1941-11-27

which they hold In different COM
panies without paying tax. There
is no cash realization Of profit in
such a transaction, and still the law
provides that each must compute his
gain or loss at that time at the
current value in accordance with
his particular basis"
The l. B. A. proposed these
changes in the tax structure:
"Segregate capital gains and
losses, regardless Of the time for
which the asset has been held.
IF capital net gain results, tax
the first $1,000 of such gain at S per
cent the next $4,000 at 10 per cent
and the balance over $4,000 at IS
per cent
If a capital net loss results, do
not allow such loss against ordinary
income, but permit the loss to be
carried forward for two years to ap-
ply against any capital gains which
occur in such subsequent years.
Define one who engages in specu-
lation so as to take in the day-by-
day trader. In other words, II a
person makes his living by stock
transactions, for example. he should
pay the same tax on his income as
is paid by a man with the same
income from a salary"