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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-16
Honenakers' Column
Edited by Miss Marianne Lee Long,
Home Demonstration Agent,
Oakland, Maryland.

Note: The following quiz worked
out by the Bureau Of Home Econom-
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culture will help YOU test yourself ON
many points included in the Nuri-
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number-1 MANAGER and are doing Il
lot to help cut in time of crisis by
keeping your family healthy and
happy.
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edge of nutrition facts? That is. do
you try to include in your meals
every day at least the following:
Milk-%4 to ! quart every day for a
growing child; quart for expectant
or nursing mother pint for every
one else Tomatoes, oranges, grape
fruit, green cabbage, raw salad
green's or more servings for
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Bethlehem ship production this year uvW represent greatest
aHr0nnd Shibbndins output by company in the history of the
country.
Speed speed and speed the objective; and
always speed with quality for errybuIt ship virtually
useless in the grim tasks of maritime war.
The first Liberty ship which recently discharged supplies
a Red Sea port built in a yard that was virtually non
existent gear ago tanker delivered 100 days from
laying of keel batleshp will be delivered IA months ahead
of schedule.
Cargo ships being built than one-half the time
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-16

required in World War Comparable speeding up
been achieved other types of ships and the schedule being
constantly stepped-up.
Expanding old yards, building ones TRIPPING employ
years time, training thousands of men, putting
every effective facility adopting preassemby and
production mehodsa these spell tonnage and tonnage
steadily amounting output of ships from Bethlehem yards
All hands doing their for Victory, working
achieve the maximum for the o. s. Navy and the o. Mari
time Commission, that the bridge of ships shall be main.
tanned and steadily enlarged.
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LOCAL NEWS


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Saturday, April 25th-VindeX All
Club. 400 p. m.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Kath-
rya p Peek, daughter Of the late Mr..
and Mrs. John w. Peck, Of near Sand
Flat, and Philip fl. FiIsinger, il, son
Of MIR. and Mrs. Philip Filsinger, Of
Deer Park, were married on Sunday,
April ;. at ,hc rcctory Of st. Peters
Catholic church in Oakland, Rev. FIR.
John c. Broderick, pastor, officiating.
The only attendants We're Mrs. Viii
liam Chisholm and Miss Ruth Filsin-
ger, the latter a sister Of the groom,
The couple will reside in Baltimore
whore the groom is employed at the
Glenn L. Martin airplane works.
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Evening star., 1942-03-02
Timely Guidance

Blackouts are disturbing to chill
dren and to aged adults. In antici-
patton of the experience of darkness
which Washington families are to
have tomorrow evening, an article
in McCall's Magazine for March is
worthy of quotation. The authors,
DR.. George D. Stoddard and Toni
Taylor, sum up their advice in the
words: Keep the atmosphere of
your home as quiet. as happy and
as constructively busy as you can.
Let no amount of worry or hurry
keep you from showing affection and
warmth to your family" 1t is to the
average mother that they are ad-
dressing themselves. but their wis
dom is equally applicable to fathers.
The war. of course. is "everybody's
war" and neither very young people
nor very old people can be exempted
from It, But that does not mean
that either group should be allowed
to lapse into hysteria. "Your child
the Mccall writer's explain. will not
be scared II your family sticks to
Evening star., 1942-03-02

q sense Of security due to the opinion
prevalent in diplomatic, military and
naval circles and In the public press
that any immediate attack by Japan
would be in the Far East" and. in
the case Of General Short, 1t was
asserted that the failure of the off,
GERS in the War Department" to
reply to certain messages from Gen
eral Short regarding precautionary
measures tended to lead General
Short to believe that what he had
done met with the requirements of
the warnings and orders received by
him."
It may be assumed that the
accused officers will make the most
of these and similar comments in
the report when they are brought to
trial before a general court-martial
at some time in the future. If prece-
dents of World War I are followed, it
is likely that the trials will be de-
ferred until after the war. In addi-
tion to the questionable propriety of
airing charges and countercharges
of this kind now, it would be difficult
If not impossible at this time to call
members Of the courts and necessary
witnesses from vital wartime tasks.
Meanwhile, retirement of these un-
fortunate officers without condona-
tion or prejudice is a logical interim
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Employment Decline

In view Of the continued employ
ment gains that have hitherto
accompanied the expansion in our
war effort, the announcement by
Secretary Perkins that civil non
agricultural employment decreased
by about 1,235 900 between December
IS and January Is will doubtless oc-
casion some surprise. Seasonal de-
clines in trade, construction and
manufacturing were largely respon-
sible for the employment slump
during the month, according to De-
partment Of Labor experts. Reflect
ing the usual reduction in temporary
personnel recruited for the Christmas
season, employment in wholesale and
retail trade, for example, declined
by about 100000 workers.
Though the January decrease
followed the expected seasonal pat
tern, the war injected into the equa-
tion a new factor, the conversion OF
consumers durable goods industries
to munitions production. Employ
ment in automobile plants dropped
$4,000 during the month, and there
was a falling off in employment in
several consumer goods industries.
Due to a shortage of raw materials,
many non-durable goods industries
also reported employment losses.
Non-agricultural employment in
January, estimated at SO, $50 900, was
approximately 2,70o,OOo greater than
a year ago. however. With conversion
of automobile and other plants TO war
production, there is every reason to
believe that the unemployment curve
again will move upward. reaching
new all-time highs before many
months. The production goals set by
the President will demand millions
of additional workers and should
provide places for a majority of those
who lose their jobs in the shift of the
country to total war economy.
That industrial workers, during the
past year, have shared in the ex-
pansion of national income is plainly
evidenced by the Department of
Labor figures. Factory employment
has risen 147 per cent since January,
1s41, while payrolls have advanced
425 per cent. "The considerably
greater increases in payrolls reflects
expansion in working hours, overtime
payments and wage-rate increases,
Secretary Perkins explained.
This officially recorded rise in the
purchasing power of factory workers
should have an important bearing
on the determination of pending de-
mands for further wage increases.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
March Winds
Noto Is the young March toind

NotD Is the young March Dtnd
Like q restless boy
Who puts tDhtstle to his lips
And blotcs for Joy.
The migrant bird DiH turn
From torrtd zone and Dtrg
To,Dard lands phere, under melting
ice,
Pale Diolets spring.
Neglected ouerlonG,
Each city garden plot
Reveals the starry dafodA.
Gold as an apricot.
Old folk ,oiH shiuer, draw
Closer their toind-bIoton coats,
Not see the fane-lit grass, nor hear
The birds briet notes.
I shall be oIddi knote
The pind's old shibboleth r.
Spring must repeat ere passing on
70 life from death.
JOHN RICHARD MOREAND.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Legislative Riders

II carried into effect, the threat by
the Senate farm bloc to enforce it's
parity price demands by attaching
a rider to the pending $32, 900 900 900
war appropriation bill could only be
regarded as a political maneuver of
the most reprehensible sort.
The farm bloc wants to prohibit
the sale of Governmental stocks
OF major farm crops at less than
parity prices. Legislation to give
effect to this shortsighted and
selfish desire already has passed the
Senate. But this legislation, stand
ing alone, faces rough going in the
House and an almost certain presi-
Dental veto. Therefore, to circum-
vent these possibilities of defeat,
the farm bloc proposes to embody
the same legislation in a rider to
the appropriation bill, which can
hardly be defeated in the House or
vetoed by the President.
Obviously, maneuver of this sort
would amount to nothing more than
a notification of legitimate demo-
cratic procedure. To put it bluntly,
it is a form of legislative blackmail
by which, in effect, legislation essen
tial to the security of the Nation is
held as hostage to compel the Presi-
dent and the other branch Of Con-
gress to accept a demand which
could not become law through any
normal process. This has been done
before, to be sure, but the practice
is bad enough even in peacetime, and
is thoroughly inexcusable in time
of war.
In the light Of these circumstances,
the President was thoroughly justi-
fled in his denunciation Of this irreg-
ular effort to put the selfish interests
of a minority group ahead of the
welfare of the country as whole.
1t is to be hoped that public opinion
will be alert enough and sufficiently
aroused to compel the farm bloc to
retreat from q position which Is
thoroughly unworthy of democratic
Congress.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
TriuI by Court-MurtioI

The simultaneous announcements
by the Navy and War Departments
that Rear Admiral Husband E. Kim
mel and Major General Walter c.
Short will be court-martialed on
charges of dereliction of duty puts
an end to speculation. in and out
of the services, as to whether these
high officers would or should be tried
for what happened last December 7
at Pearl Harbor. There can be no
doubt that Admiral Kimmel and
General Short are entitled to an
opportunity to answer the grave
charges made against them by
the Roberts Commission - charges
that they failed to take seriously the
warnings from Washington that
hostilities with Japan seemed immi-
nent, that they neglected to consult
with each other about these warnings
and that they failed to make the
naval and military dispositions
which might have foiled the Japa-
nese attack.
Trial by court-martial is the ira
ditional American way of weighing
the guilt or innocence of officers or
enlisted men charged with violating
the military code embodied in the
Articles of War. Neglect of duty is
one of the more serious breaches Of
military law, especially when high
commissioned officers are involved.
In time of peace the offense is pun
ishable by such severe penalties as
imprisonment at hard labor and dis
honorable discharge; in time OF war
a sentry who falls asleep at his post
may be sentenced to be shot. The
derelictions with which Admiral
Kimmel and General Short were
charged in the Roberts report took
place while America still was at
peace with Japan, yet at such a
critical hour in the relations between
the two countries that vigilance of
the most positive sort was demanded.
But, with its condemnation of the
two officers, the Roberts report car
ried an implication that they alone
were not wholly to be blamed for
the apathy which prevailed at Pearl
Harbor prior to December Z. The
derelictions alleged against them, the
report stated, resulted largely from
Evening star., 1942-03-02

gether' more now than ever before.
Spend as much time in family games
as you can. Read. work. play and
laugh together. so your, children
realize that the family unit spells
security. Family recreation will keep
your nerves steady, also. 80 Keep
your youngsters busy at their ac-
customed interests. School, play and
work should go on in as nearly a
normal way as you can manage. If
possible. enter into your child's in
terests more than ever; intensity,
whenever you can, his own hobbies
and encourage new ones"
Grandfathers and grandmothers,
naturally, can aid in every such
effort to maintain home morale. A
private letter from an elderly woman
in England, recently received by a
resident Of the District of Columbia,
contains the declaration: Hitler
has given me degree Of happiness
he never intended. Once more I
have work to do in the world, and I
take marvellous Joy in doing it."
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Defense Personnel

The Tydings committee survey Of
the Government establishment prom
ises to throw light on a situation
which needs illumination. Up
ward Of 10000 employees have been
brought in here in the twenty-on
months since the Nation started to
rearm, with Virtually every one Of
the executive agencies undergoing
expansion-presumably in the name
of defense. If there is justification
for such an astounding growth, the
QUESTIONABLE Senator Tydings Is
sending out should develop that fact
If the reverse is true, that also should
become evident. The classification
the Budget Bureau has just made to
show the relation of each unit to the
war effort demonstrates conclusively
that the connection in many in
stances is extremely remote.
The study Is being undertaken at
an opportune time, for none of the
regular appropriation bills for the
next fiscal year has passed the Sen
ate as yet. and where it may be de-
termined that present functions are
non-esSential and can be eliminated,
corresponding reduction will be in
order in the funds proposed for 1943.
This will contribute materially to-
ward the principal objective of the
survey-that is, the diversion of
surplus personnel to war work-and
will complement the move the Budget
Bureau is making in the same direc-
tion by attempting to set up a reserve
from current appropriations. Nor
should the committee overlook the
possibility that Implications have
crept into the war program and can
be cut out with profit to all con-
cerned. Reports on defense activi-
ties from the various agencies
incorporated in the new edition of
the Government Manual issued by
the Office of Government Reports
indicates strongly that there are
overlapping ef1orts-in the field Of
economic studies, for example-and
there is no reason why these should
be perpetuated.
The opportunities for holding
down on personnel by filling no va
cancies other than indispensable
jobs could be studied by the COM
n1ittee also. Such q restriction was
applied over long period in the
economy days Of 1928. 1t is to be
hoped also that either the Tydings or
Byrd committees will seek an expla-
nation of the need for the $4,000
employees Budget Director Smith has
said will be brought here this year.
No reason ever has been made public
for this prospective influx, and it
unquestionably has enough impor-
tant implications to warrant the
closest scrutiny in Congress in a
study designed to ease congestion.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trdcepeu.

This Is the basic foodstuff for most of
them, and one which they like the best.
To feed 1t exclusively. however. would
be rather expensive, so 1t Is best mixed
in with cheaper seeds and the grains.
Chick-feed. so called, is a good pri-
mary mixture. A better is what is COM
monty called wild bird seed"
To these may be added handful Of
sunfiower seed. 1t is best to look around
seed is sold cheapest.
With plenty Of food in the cold, the
birds are able to stand any temperature
with equanim.ty.
They are in reality little heat motors,
their normal temperature usually few
degrees higher than ours, their economy
geared to burning carbonaceous foods in
winter.
If well supplied, they can eat almost
constantly all day long. Even when
they do not get much food, they get along
very well, everything considered.
They do not often warm themselves
oO aiIiOuSii tllAo may VIC sCCh
occasionally. A sheltered spot out of
the wind is even better for them. and
often they may be seen in such place,
even while feeding is going on.
While birds do not mind rain, they
like to get out of 1t now and then; on
the rainiest days long rows Of sparrows
will be seen under the caves of roofs.
Soaking pieces Of bread in fat, either
by frying them or simply covering them,
will give certain species more Of the food
they require.
The mockingbird, favorite of many
watchers, likes his bread so treated.
The sparrows and the starlings have
no preference, but like bread in any form,
at any time.
Indeed, If you want to keep starlings
away from your place, refrain from put
ting out bread of any kind
This is a sure-fire attractor for them.
Hence, If 1t is not put out, they are likely
to stay away.
English sparrows and starlings can
only De 0lSnKed by the real TREND OF
birds when they get to such numbers
that they tend become a nuisance.
Both are capable species. The star
ling. in particular, as our correspondent
notes, will win the admiration of any
honest looker-that is, one who sees for
himself.
Some one cautioned Remington, be-
fore he began painting Indians, that
every artist who went to the West
painted them.
"I." said Remington. with subtle en-
phasis, have never painted Indians"
If We look at sparrows and starlings
In the same light. we will find that they
have much to offer us. and maybe we
have something to give them.
Evening star., 1942-03-02

@. Where is Cape Forward7-s. P. r.
A. Cape Forward, in Chile, marks the
southernmost tip Of the South American
mainland.
@. Did Cardinal Wolsey really say the
famous words of farewell that Shakes
peare includes in his play. Henry
VIII?"-C. D. c.
A. He did not. Wolsey's farewell Is
shakespeares invention.
@. How does the bat carry It's young'
L. L.
A. The young bats cling to their
mothers as they iy.
@. To which movie stars was the le4i
award Of the American Institute OF Voice
Teachers given7-J. N. A.
A. Loretta Young and Clark Gable
have received the 1e4I award, as result
of a Nationwide vote.
@. Where is the Khyber Pass7-N.
A. I.
A. II connects India with Afghanistan
and is probably the most important
strategic pass in the world. The Khyber
Pass route, one Of the chief trade routes
to India, extends from Kabul to Pesha-
war, a distance Of 2lo miles.
Q. Has our word infantry" any con-
nection with the Latin 'infans," which
means child?-C. H.
A. Our word infantry Is derived from
the Latin 'infans, infantis," q child.
Originally it was apparently applied to
the page of knight Later it designated
the body Of foot soldiers.
O. In q recent article I saw reference
to Peale Island in the South Pacific.
What is its exact location?-L. B. A.
A. Peale Island Is the northernmost
one of the group Of three commonly
known as Wake Island This group is
roughly, of horseshoe shape Of which the
larger base portion is Wake Island
proper, with Peale and Wilkes Islands
forming the arms of the horseshoe. The
names are intended to honor the mem
ory of Admiral Charles Wilkes, in charge
of the United States exploring expedi-
ton and Of Titan r. Peale, who was
the naturalist on the expedition.
@. When was the first aerial photo
graph made in this county7-N. H. s.
A. The first aerial photograph was q
view of Boston taken from a captive bal
loon by J, W. Black on october Is, 1850.
@. Is chicle useful for anything be-
sides chewing gum7-M. II. M.
A. 1t is used In the manufacture OF
surgical tapes and dental supplies,
though Its most important commercial
use by far is as an adhesive base in chew
ing gum. Chicle is obtained only from
Guatemala, British Honduras and
Mexico.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
JEFFERSON STREET.

Dear Sir:
II get lot of fun out of feeding the
birds in my small back yard. I give
them apples, raisins, meat, fat, or some
times cooked cereal or leftover pancakes.
These cold mornings dip bread into
bacon or sausage fat, and they surely do
90 for that. I put out pan of fresh
water, too, which they seem to appre-
ciate.
THE starlings are certainly hardy
birds, and interesting, too. There is one
mockingbird which comes when the
others are not around. 1t always takes
q good drink and then pecks on q piece
Of apple If there is any.
II have wondered If 1t has lost its
mate.
ITS . wonder that the birds don't
freeze some Of these cold nights. I notice
them sometimes warming themselves
over the chimneys and skylights.
Sincerely, E. w. B."
This correspondent inclosed the fol-
lowing:
THE CITY BIRDS.
The sparrows and the starlings
Come daily to our yard,
Some think their life is easy
But, really, it's quite hard;
In sultry days of summer
When humans stay inside,
The birds still have to hunt for food,
They travel far and wide,
Their little wings get tired and hot.
Their throats ape parched with thirst,
A bit Of bread, q cooling drink,
Is what they cherish first;
They have no dandy grocery stores
Or cafeterias handy,
No canned or packaged goods 50 neat,
No cookies, cake or candy;
No grain or berries growing here,
To meet their daily needs,
They're lucky If they find a worm
Among the backyard weeds:
Our feathered friends can ny away
From earth's dull cares and noise.
But parking on wire or ledge
Requires lot Of poise.
Only those who have tried parking on
q wire or ledge will understand Just how
much poise 1t really requires!
The birds do it easily, though.
They have equal ability when 1t comes
to eating, as our correspondent points
out
Any sort Of bread. any type Of fat, is
good for them, especially in winter.
Grains and seeds of many kinds are
At food for most Of the songsters which
winter here.
From the cardinal, with his coat of
red, to the cheerful chickadee In his
seed.
Evening star., 1942-03-02
Asks About Right to Strike
At Expense Of Fighting Boys"

TO the Editor Of The Star.
1t seems that strikes as usual are all
right with labor unions and Government
oficials, even though our country is In
peril. 1t surely is not right that our
boys In their life-and- death struggle
should be denied weapons, planes, ETC.,
to protect themselves. Why are defense
workers allowed to strike any more than
our fighting boys? Many of them are
exempt from military service just be-
cause they are needed in defense work.
MRS. ELIZABETH WILSON.
Portage, Ohio.
Evening star., 1942-03-02

We need powder and lead, guns. planes
and still more planes? Can't somebody
stop this senseless conglomoration of
get down to business as Americans always
have?
What we need now in this Government
is fighting men, businessmen not orators.
Show us some real fighting like Gen.
Macarthur. sensible planning and less
wasteful spending and We will carry
on We are tired of speeches and hot
air. that passes for the same.
DISGUISED TAXPAYER.