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The Coolidge examiner., 1941-08-29
Charles f. Adams, ex-committee-

Charles f. Adams, ex-committee-
man.
Cecil Edwards, assistant .. 5.
attorney representing his chlet'
Frank Flynn, who was out OF
town, aptly described the sizable
turnout. He said: "Mr. Farley
should regard this reception as a
distinctly personal compliment, as
so many persons regard him as be-
ing through as a national poll
tical figure"
Ex-Gov. R. c. Stanford, tower
ing above the crowd on the Union
Station platform, was among the
first to greet the former national
committee chairman. Harry M.
Moore, secretary of state; d. c..
O'Neil. tax commissioner, and Ana
Frohmiller, state auditor, were
among the elective officials noted
in the gathering. E. T. Houston,
industrial commissioner; George
Todd, Phoenix postmaster; w. L.
Barnum, an old friend and farmer
Democratic national committee
man for Arizona, and numerous
county officials were present.
Among those from out of town
Sem greeting Genial Jim" was
Joe L. Johnson, mine superinten-
dent of the Inspiration Consolidat-
ed Copper Co.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-08-29

maculately garbed and perfectly
poised, he met all corners with 4
deftness acquired only through
long years of training. He alter
mated handshakes and autographs
throughout the fleeting minutes.
Finally, he found it difficult to
hold his large Panama hat as he
signed everything from small
cards to books. 1t was surrender
ed to a bystander and he gave his
entire attention to the autograph
hounds and well-wishers, parrying
questions with the adroitness of
a career diplomat.
U. S. Sen. Ernest w. Mcfarland
has been as busy interviewing
constituents on his current visit
to the state as he was during the
whirlwind campaign last year
when he defeated the veteran
Sen. Henry F. Ashurst.
Between speaking at commence
ment exercises at the Flagstaff
State college and addressing fel-
low veterans at the American
Legion state convention in Pres
colt, he covered a wide section of
the state.
The junior senator, it is ap-
parent from reading the state
newspapers, has received what
politicos term "a friendly press"
1t could be observed that the
states junior senator has earned"
it. Jude Mcfarland has been out
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-08-29

Cochise, $23S, ,44791; Coconino $751;
1885; Greenlee, $11,640.7S; Mo
have, $113,S1S. 27; Pima, $123,-
4O312; Pinal, $57,377O6; Yavapai,
$226,777.06; Yuma, $32,373.15.
"The counties that gain are
Maricopa, 1927. .46O.76; Apache.
$1S,02O, %; Gila, $25,747.56; Gra-
ham, $1O4,591.S6; Navajo, $72.-
25S.92; Santa Cruz, $4O23720.
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-08-29
fact that many wer, thinking OF
the political futore.

Several counties, through their
newspapers, are exercised over
the new 65-95 school apportion-
ment law. Among the most vigor-
Gus objectors to payments under
the measure are the Arizona Daily
Star, Tucson, and the MOhave
County Miner, Kingman.
The Star editorializes:
"* Boiled down to plain cases,
Maricopa county simply put one
over on the others.
Look at the figures. Some
counties get back in the state ap-
portionments less than they pay
to the state in school taxes, the
others get more than they pay.
The losing counties, and the
amounts by which they lose. are:
The Coolidge examiner., 1941-08-29

Scores of autograph collectors
Swarmed around Mr.. Farley as he
stood on the station platform. I'M
Evening star., 1941-06-21

increase in demands for more work.
ers. 1t is to meet this condition from
the workers standpoint that the pro-
gram is being launched.
In brief, the plan consists of two
phases. Group and individual con-
ferences will be conducted on analyZ-
ing vocational abilities, formulation
of personal training programs and
methods whereby ones abilities may
best be presented to prospective en-
ployers. In addition, a vocational
guidance study, consisting of aptitude
tests and the appraisal OF existing
and potential values, will be car
ried out. This will be followed by
special training for those who DEM
onstrate potentialities for particular
Skills they do not now possess and
for those who need improvement in
existing skills.
This is a program which holds
substantial value not only for
workers who have had difficulty in
fitting themselves for public or pri-
vate employment, but for employers
who, even in periods when millions
were out of work, have had difficulty
in finding capable personnel.
Evening star., 1941-06-21
Popular Pilots

While not generally known, Fort
Monmouth, New Jersey, is the head
quarters of one of our most remark
able military aviation units. Some
$500 flyers are attached to it, all in
one company, each a natural-born
aviator who flies instinctively. They
have never had a minutes instruc-
ton, yet have managed to solo early
in the game and carry on without
crash ever since. They are the Sig
nal Corps carrier pigeons.
They are popular with all branches
of the service. The Air Corps likes
them because at the negligible cost
of few seeds year any number of
fledgling pilots may be Matched.
They maintain their own power
plants without the use of overhaul
shops or grease monkeys. The Navy
likes flyers with feathers, because
they keep their bills shut and do not
claim that the battleship has been
made obsolete by the progress of
flight. And they are the Joy of the
earthbound Army, as they are said
to be the only military aviators on
record unable to hypnotic pretty
girls with the glamour of their wings,
and steal them away from soldiers
who prosaically keep at least one
number eleven foot on the ground.
Evening star., 1941-06-21
Challenge Accepted

The Presidents special message to
Congress on the sinking of the Robin
Moor is couched in exceptionally
strong and fortnight language. Mr..
Roosevelt, in this document, calls a
spade a spade, but he also seems
to have revealed the framework OF
what is to be the considered policy
of this Government with respect to
maintenance of its right to free
use of the seas.
Without any qualification, the
President takes the position that the
destruction of the Robin Moor by a
German submarine was in violation
of international law, and was but
one incident in a continuing policy
of "frightfulness and intimidation"
which has been adopted deliberately
by the German Reich. Furthermore,
In Mr.. Roosevelt's judgment, this
policy has as its objective not only
the immediate winning of the war,
but also the fulfllment of "the
supreme purpose of the German
Reich to seize control of the high
seas"
This policy and the means by
which its implementation is sought
are described by the President as
piracy on the sea-" and challenge
to the United States. To yield in
the face of the challenge, Mr.. RooSe-
welt believes, means that we must
submit to world domination at the
hands of the present leaders of the
German Reich. Our reply, in the
Presidents language, is that I'VE are
not yielding and we do not propose
to yield"
These words, of course, plainly
Imply active resistance on our part.
Just what form this resistance will
take remains matter of specula-
ton. The President himself may
not have formulated definite and
final plans, preferring to await the
course of events, and even if his
plans we're in final form, it is hardly
to be expected that he would divulge
the details for the information of
the Nazi high command.
Until the contrary is shown how
ever, there is basis for legitimate
speculation in the Presidents de-
scription of the sinking of the
Robin Moor as an act of piracy 1t
Is to be supposed that that language
was chosen advisedly, and under
international law we would have the
right to attack and destroy any
vessel classed as a pirate ship.
The right of the United States to
the free use of the seas has been
challenged in the past by pirates,
and they were dealt with in summary
fashion-without any formal decla-
ration Of war. 1t may we'll be that
in this respect history Is about to
repeat.
Evening star., 1941-06-21
Saws Secession of Confederacy
Differed From German 'Insurrection."

To the Editor of The Star:
Germany possesses none OF the law
full right that was claimed by the Con-
federate States whose secession from the
United States was defeated in an unde-
clared war. From the beginning to the
end of that conflict, the American Gov
ernment never recognized the existence
of the Confederacy, the laWfulness of
the Confederacy's war, or the right of
the Confederacy as such to surrender.
BY an inadvertent act, the blockading
of the Confederate ports, the Federal
Government in international law justi-
fed recognition of the Confederacy by
foreign governments. However, the
United States regarded the Confederacys
war only as a lawleSs insurrection.
AS nearly as may be in the interna-
tional community, the German states
secession and war are analogous to the
Confederate States secession, differen-
tiated however by the vital fact that the
violence of Germany is professedly Of
fensive with the purpose of subjugatlng
Europe and, later, dominating the earth.
In the war precipitated by the Confeder-
ate States no aggression was meditated,
no conquest desired, and the conduct OF
the war in consonance with the rules of
law could not be impeached.
Three centuries ago Europe stood at
the crossroads of Western civilization.
Evening star., 1941-06-21
Blames New Deal for Power
Now Enjoyed by Radical Unions.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star
I have been interested in the campaign
against so-called subversive elements in
the many strikes in our defense program,
and am surprised that there is an in
clination to place all blame upon alien
interests, when consideration of the facts
will convince one that these so-called
subversive leaders are the products Of
our official attitude toward organized
labor during the past few years and that
these leaders secured their control of the
labor movement with the active CO.
operation of our Government officials
and not by the backing of any foreign
government.
I have no patience with these useless
strikes, just as in the past had no pa
tience with the laWless, bolshevistic, sit
down" strikes, when the laWleSs elements
of labor took control of plants and did
millions of dollars in malicious damage
without any opposition from our officials
of that time who are the same officials
who now pretend to disapprove of strikes.
This official aquiescence to these bolshe-
vistic acts was the signal for the extreme
elements in labor to take charge, which
they proceeded to do. There were and
are conservative and lawful elements in
labor, but these elements had little
chance of securing or retaining power,
when the laWless bolshevistic elements
seemed to have the ear of our officials
and when these elements had the ap-
proval of our officials in securing powers
over industry that the sane elements of
labor would not advocate.
The leaders of the present strikes are
the leaders who then had the approval OF
our President, of our Secretary of Labor,
and of our New Deal officials who con-
trolled labor legislation, so these leaders
do not owe loyalty to any alien interest,
but to the present high officials OF our
Government.
The records do not show that our ad-
ministration is strong on curbing labor,
so 1 believe that all this talk of sub
versive elements is merely to grab power.
You know one cannot trust the New
Dealers. w. A b.
Culpeper, Va.
Evening star., 1941-06-21
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1DeU.

1t is certainly not a song, and
scarcely deserves to be called call.
1t is, rather, cry, naSal sound so
characteristic that once you have
learned it you never will mistake it for
the cry of any other bird.
1t greatly resembles the sound made
in the singing of the recent popular
song, THE Little Red Fox" when the
fox is supposed to say, ma, Ma, You
Can't Catch Me-"
The sound, in the song, is the we'll
known human exclamation of derision.
Well, the nuthatch has it down to
perfection.
AS far as we could hear, the baby
nuthatches weren't making this noise.
It, evidently, is the sound of full
grown nuthatCheS, not newcomers to
the world of trees.
Bat the babies were making noises,
all right, the usual querulous sounds
made by f1edglings the world over, and
saying as plainly as words could, Feed
me. I'm hungry"
The older nuthatches, seeing the
babies could fly and handle themselves
a-Wing, decided that the time had come
to put them on their own.
So they flew with them. real gather
ing, to the bird feeding station still
kept at the top of stake in the
rhododendrons.
This is a natural bird feeding place.
They all feel at home here.
1t is occupied all day, and the various
species eat about as much sunfoWer
seed, and smaller seeds, as they do in
winter.
The older birds flew directly to the
ledges, where they perched, enticing the
young ones down.
The f1edglings perched on the ridge
pole of the little house.
They tried to walk down, but slid
down. instead.
Lacquer is a new experience in bird
land.
When they slid into the air their
wings came into use at once.
They flew into the evergreens with
cries of alarm.
The parents enticed them to the
railing alongside the food
The birds held open their mouths.
But the parents pushed at the young,
and made their slight kissing, then flew
aWav.
The young looked helpless, at first,
but soon cne, bolder than the rest,
dipped into the seed.
The remainder followed
This was life's second great lesson
for them. The first had been to fear
all things which move
The second, in birdland, is to eat by
and for ones self.
Government of the people, for the
people and by the people, among the
birds, is applied to food.
Evening star., 1941-06-21
Visions Social Use
OF Money Spent in Wars.
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor OF The Star.
news item reveals that the war will
cost Europe some fifty billions in the
next twelve months, while our contribu-
ton for defense purposes and aid to
Britain will exceed sixteen billions. In
other words. these incalculable sums,
which virtually defy computation, are to
be used simply to slay men, women and
children or to prepare us for possible
onslaughts from foreign sources.
1t seems safe to say if the stupendous
amounts expended in the two World
Wars, both Waged to make the earth safe
for its inhabitants, had been utilized for
constructive purposes, poverty, and all
that accompanies it, virtually would have
been banished, crime reduced to mini
mum and social utopia established.
We are inclined to agree with Bernard
Shaw, who once pointed out that our
world might be the lunatic asylum for
the other worlds comprising the solar
system.
EDMUND K. GOLDSBOROUGH.
Evening star., 1941-06-21
Calls For Common Sense"
About Crime Wave.

To the Editor of The Star
1 hold no brief for the Washington
police, nor do care to join the hue and
cry against them.
Away back in the dim and misty past
a terrific wave of crimes occurred in that
district known in London as White
chapel. I think I am within the scope
of truth when I say that at least fifty
women were killed in a period of three
or six months. The operatives OF Scot
land Yard focused their abilities to ap-
prehend the criminal whom the London
papers named "Jack The Ripper"-but
they failed to solve the mystery of the
murders.
If Scotland Yard could not ferret out
the perpetrator of the Whitechapel muir
ders. why should we be unreasonably
critical of the Washington police?
This hysteria against the Washington
police is not destined to achieve any
tangible result. Let us get down to
common sense, increase the number OF
police and enact vagrancy law equip
ped with real teeth.
DANIEL MURPHY.
Evening star., 1941-06-21

White breasted nuthatches are hav-
ing a grand time in the garden this
summer.
One pair has raised five young, and
is now teaching the youngsters how
to eat by themselves.
The parent birds will run at the
babies, making sort of kissing noise.
This indicates very plainly, evidently
at least to young nuthatch-that it
must feed itself.
1t is nothing for a nuthatch to have
from six to eight young at each nesting.
but usually the nesting takes place in
the woods, where the birds are more
likely TO find an old abandoned downy
woodpecker's hole.
4
Every time we look out the window,
We see from four to six nuthatches.
Their 'yank-yank" cry is heard at all
times of the day.
The nuthatch is one of the steady
residents in this vicinity.
1t makes itself at home in almost
any local garden which keeps out
supply of sunfloWer seed of which it
is very fond.
The bird eats soft nuts, such as chest
nuts, and also acorns, but scarcely can
handle hard-shelled ones.
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1t is believed that the way 1t eats
nut or large seed led to its odd name.
1t doesn't hatch nuts, as it's name
might seem to indicate, at first glance.
1t hacks, or matches, them, in the
sense of using its bill as a sort of
hatchet.
This takes us back to the French
word hatcher" to chop, to hack.
The bird inserts the food in a crevice
of tree trunk or large bough, and
then hacks or matches away with its
bill. This bill is really not as strong
as it looks. The bird knows perfectly
well what it can tackle, and what it
cannot handle.
Perhaps half of its food consists of
insects
These it gathers on the bark, from
creVtCes, and it is in this all-day pursuit
tlld" ~ O4opldyS 1lS dUlIIly W run OU"H
a trunk head-doWn.
This is why he is sometimes called the
devil down head" although such
name as devil seems far too strong for
such fine little fellow.
The chickadee, with which the
nuthatch is very friendly, also seems
to stand upside down on a tree, but
it is not often that it actually walks
down in that peculiar fashion.
In fact, We have never seen
chickadee walk head-doWn.
1t is impossible to see a nuthatch on
a tree, however, without seeing it in
dulge in this peculiar way of walking.
1t is impossible, also, to go very long
without hearing the odd cry of this
bird.
Evening star., 1941-06-21
New Immigrant Bon

This Government has moved to
clear up an anomalous condition by
the order refusing admission as i'm
migrants to refugees from Germany
and the conquered countries who
leave kin behind when seeking sane
tuary here.
While the United States for
months has been making every effort
to stamp out subverSive elements, it
develops that one source of danger
has been overlooked entirely. The
State Department now has come
into possession of information held
to demonstrate conclusively that the
Nazi government, trading on the
fears of those refugees with ties in
their homeland, has forced them to
become espionage agents in America
through threats or actual torture of
close relatives.
This sort of terrorism hardly could
have been anticipated, but once Off
cials were convinced of its existence
only one course was open, even
though hardship perhaps will be
worked in certain cases. Some re-
strictions previously have been i'm
posed on the movement of aliens
under the emergency powers welded
by the President, but this is the first
time action of such sweeping nature
has been taken. Indications are
that it is the forerunner of more
rigid control of immigration, reports
being current that even greater at
tention is to be paid to the back
ground of prospective residents, with
a careful character investigation re-
placing the rather haphazard" in
uuiry that Attorney General Jackson
told Congress now prevails in coun-
tries of origin.
President Roosevelt's order to Gus
toms and immigration authorities to
prevent German nationals leaving
the United States pending further
instructions" likewise can be con-
sidered the first step toward closer
supervision of Axis emigration, par
ticularly into the Latin countries
where the trouble-making propen-
stiles of this class can be reflected
In anti-American activities.
While the immediate objective OF
Evening star., 1941-06-21
Asks Questions About
Criminals Uncaught.

To the Editor of The Star:
1t really is a shame and fairly makes
me boil to think that friend of a Con-
gresham has to be killed before any
thing is done to stop this wave of crime
in Washington. How many other persons
have been beaten, strangled brutally
killed? They were written up in the
papers and then nicely forgotten about.
Why?
Our police force is very good at giving
tickets for over-parked cars, or carrying
away cars that are parked in the wrong
place dhat is with the exception OF the
cars with diplomatic license plates. But
how many hit and run drivers do they
catch? How many reckless drunken
drivers do they catch? How many
thieves and robbers do they catch?
MRS. MARTHA DUBOIS.
Evening star., 1941-06-21
Vocational Aid

One of the most progressive steps
toward solving the employment prob
lem of the individual is being under
taken this week under auspices of the
District Work Projects Administra-
ton. 1t consists of "job clinic" and
vocational guidance program, with
DR.. Mitchell Dreese, professor of Edu-
cational Psychology of George Wash
ington University, as staff consult
ant.
Improvement in employment which
has marked the current emergency
has emphasized even more graph
ically than did the depths of the
depression the competitive nature OF
job in a changing world.
The need for particular training in
lines for which the individual is eSpe-
cially equipped grows greater with the
Evening star., 1941-06-21
August Afternoon

There's nothing on earth more fun
than this
A bicycles rush dotOn a htll-the hiss
OF its tires on a lonely roads soft
sand,
The cool of the mind on your head,
your hand,
The heat of the sun in q summer sky
And the sudden shade as tree goes
by.
All of the fowerS merge and make
A carpet of yellotD and 10hite-d lake
Waue upon UaUe OF green, OF blue,
With barns IAN accent in scarlet
hue)
Flashing past. Then you're gone
again
And only diStantly clucking hen
Or a dog Dho bdrked at the farm
before last
Hints that any one kneD you passed.
VIRGINIA SCOTT MINER.
Evening star., 1941-06-21

this restriction is to prevent attempts
at evasion of the order freezing"
European holdings in this country,
it will have the broader effect, for
the time being, of keeping unde-
Sirables under surveillance. Pending
legislation would give the President
greater degree of latitude in deal
ing with the departure of both
citizens and aliens from this country,
and the demonstrated need for the
employment of all possible safe
guards against subversive influences
in neighboring countries as well as
at home recommends passage.
Evening star., 1941-06-21
Favors Dropping Plan
For Union" With Great Britain.

To the Editor of The Star:
We hear a good deal nowadays about
union with Great Britain, but the
writer's personal view is that friends
of Great Britain should drop such
proposals now, lest they hurt our help
to Great Britain in her struggle with
Nazi-ism.
The vast majority of the American
people would oppose union with any
European country.
1t is possible that Canada in the near
future may ask to be annexed to the
United States. That would be a great
benefit to Canada and would not dis
rupt our own national pride.
Los Angeles. E. H. GEOGHEGAN.