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The Nome nugget., 1942-09-07
Reds Halt Germans At Stalingrad

Moscow, Sept. f (P) - Delayed-A stiffening Red Army halted the massive German army beating at the Stalingrad approaches. Soviet troops are continu- ing to decimate the en- emy's manpower & equip ment and anti-tank gum ners are pumping eXplosiv ners are pumping eXplo- siVe charges into German tanks at close range.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-07
Policy Censoring Alaska-Bound News Papers Unnecessary, UnjustifiabIe"

JUNEAU, Sept. 4 (40 - Delayed Gov. Gruen- ing said General Dewitt permitted him to quote the Western Defense Command as saying that the postal eens2rs policy of clipping news from Alaska-bound newspapers is unnecessary and unusitifable' The Governor said Dewitt asserted there is no purpose in cenSorng for Alaska any news printed in the States
 Gruenng said he considered clipping and censoring injurious to the morale of Aaskans and members of the armed forces in the Territory and that he will con tlnue b the utmost my efforts to it's abrogation
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-07
Budapest Suffers
 Air Raid of War by Unidentified Planes

Berlin, Sept. 4 (P De layed, Budapest, the Hun garian capital had its first air attack of the war when during the night a few bombs fell in and around the city. The Berlin radio announced that either Brit ish or Russian planes were believed the attackers.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-07
FDR Broadcasts Speech Today

Washington, Sept. 4 (P - Delayed - Pres. RooSe- velt will broadcast at 6::30 o.m. Pacific War Time, on Monday.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-07
Attack Jap Cruiser Off New Guinea

MacArthur's Headquar- ters, Sept. 4 (P - Delay ed - Allied bombers at tackled a Jap cruiser off the southeast coast of New Guinea. Results were un- known. There was no change in the Milne Bay sector.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-07
Jap Troops Land On Sunda Islands

Berlin, Sept. l (40 -De- layed-The radio quoted a Tokyo dispatch that Jap troops sent from Timor oc- cupied several small Sunda islands between Timor and the Dutch East Indies.
The Nome nugget., 1942-09-07

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Evening star., 1942-09-04

movement with which they are con-
tending. In spite of the war, civilian
passenger traffic is up about a third
over the same time last year. Added
to this load Is the movement of
troops, which in the past month
reached about 100000 and is expected
to increase. The increase in civilian
traffic is attributed to travel on Gov
ernment orders, which accounts for
much Of it; migrations of workers
between jobs and the inspection of
war industries. There is more money
to spend, and many people are travel
ing because they want to and be-
cause they can travel only on trains.
Labor Day week end is tradition
ally period of heavy passenger traf-
fic on the railroads. This year, unless
the public deliberately refrains from
travel, it may be the
straw that breaks the camel's back.
So would-be travellers will be wise
to Stay at home.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
CHEVY CHASE, Md.

Dear Sir:
Perhaps you can help me with my
pigeon problem, have nothing against
pigeons. but when dozen of them roost
on my house all day long, and spend the
rest Of the time in my bird feeding sta
tions, I draw the line.
Formerly the pigeons roasted upon a
neighbor's mouse. That was not so bad
But now they have, for some unknown
reason. taken to roosting upon our nice
new roof. This is too much.
Il would like to know If there is any
thing I can do to drive them away for
good. When they first started coming
here there was only a pair of them.
Then four began coming every morn
ing.
Il thought nothing of it. Poor
birds I said to myself. they are hun
CRY as any, even If they are larger
I soon saw that my pity was mis-
taken. The number increased every
week by two, so that today we have an
even dozen, most of the time and some
days it runs as high as 10 specimens.
Just how they manage it, I do not
know, but three Of them will crowd into
the feeding station, keeping all the
smaller birds out. I must say that they
are clever, to be able to introduce their
large bodies into such a small space.
Their cleverness, however, has lost all
It's appeal to me. In days gone by I
was fairly good shot with a rifle. and
l am almost tempted to take it up
against them. I had no idea when
took up bird feeding-at your suggestion
that there could be such a nuisance
in 1t as this.
II there is anything you can sug-
gest, I would welcome 1t, and thank YOU
from the bottom of my heart.
VERY truly, P. ], Mem"
The pigeon constitutes one of the real
nuisances in connection with bird feed
ing.
1t Is persistent creature, never giving
up In its effort to get food.
1t is, in almost every case, a wild
pigeon, living off the streets.
There, at best, the living is slim.
When 1t finds place where grain and
seeds are put out in profusion, it nat
urally likes it very much.
Surely no person who feeds the Wild
birds can resent, Intellectually, the COM
ing of the wild pigeons We call them
wild, to distinguish them from the bet
ter-bred strains.
When one establishes "free lunch"
1t Is impossible to object when hungry
creatures come for something to eat.
One may not like certain guests, of
course. These dislikes mostly depend
upon the point of view. II a mocking-
bird prevents other and smaller birds
from getting anything to eat, it is only
natural that one will resent the presence
OF this songster.
II grackles come, and kill an entire
nest of young cardinals. it is not to be
wondered at that the bird watcher
grows red in the face at the mention
OF grackles.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles T. Trace,reN.

The pigeon constitutes a real nuisance
when 1t comes In numbers, as 1t usually
does, at least in time.
Our correspondent has detailed the
manner in which the build up is Gre
ated. At first there may be only one
bird. Then another comes, and then two
more Pair by pair they build up the
group, until in time they tend to mo-
nopolize the feeding station.
Not only are smaller birds kept from
getting anything to eat, but the expense
involved mounts up. Bird feeding need
not be expensive, If just the smaller
birds are catered to; unfortunately.
pigeons and squirrels eat great deal.
Squirrels have many likable traits.
Their good humor is unique in the
smaller animals. Many householders
really get more pleasure watching them
than they do in observing bird life.
Very little can be said for the pigeons,
as an amusement factor
They are clumsy, uninteresting and
dirty. They have such voracious appe-
tites that it is impossible to keep feed
ing station filled.
Their great detriment lies in blocking
the cardinals. titmice, chickadees and
others from the food.
Since they like corn and other grains,
care should be taken to keep this out of
mixtures fed.
II seeds, and seeds alone, are used the
pigeons are not so likely to come.
Other measures, short of drastic ones
which no true bird watcher likes to use,
are placing the feeding station amid
shrubbery, and . withdrawal Of all
food for time.
Placing the feeder in shrubbery some
times works, and sometimes it does not.
In our own case, 1t worked admirably
for several months.
The pigeons seemed afraid of the
leaves.
In time they overcame their fear, and
mobbed the station. They even went to
the ground among the leaves of day
lilies.
Withdrawal of all food while causing
the smaller and desirable birds to stay
away, is not guaranteed to keep pigeons
away.
AS stated they are among the most
persistent of living things.
They will roost on the roof for days
at a time, seemingly without any food
whatever, while they wait for the feed
Ing station to be replenished.
Persistence Is an admirable trait, but
1t loses all appeal when 1t is embodied
in a dozen or more pigeons camped upon
the ridge pole of ones home.
Perhaps pigeon appeasement doesn't
work any more than any other sort of
appeasement.
ANY one can spend an interesting
number of minutes thinking over his
life, and realizing how many persons
and things he has appeased, without
understanding exactly what he was
doing.
Maybe 1t would be a good starting
point. for national reform, to begin on
the pigeons, and get rid OF them from
all bird feeding stations.
Evening star., 1942-09-04

tory. He knows that stimulated
and exaggerated passions of oppo-
sition are perverse. Cicero in
one of his disputations warned
against hatred as 'inveterate anger"
and Baruch Spinoza, the gentle
Hebrew prophet of the seventeenth
century, argued that: Insofar as
men are tormented by anger, envy
or any passion implying hatred, they
are drawn asunder and made con-
trary one to another, and therefore
are so much the more to be feared
as they are more powerful. craftv
and cunning than the other animals"
How repugnant the arbitrary crea-
ton OF patterns Of violent antagon-
ism may be has been illustrated in
the Nazi campaigns of misrepre-
sentation and persecution. Perhaps
no more strenuous hater ever has
lived than Adolf Hitler. Hence, in
large part, the essential weakness of
his case at the bar of history. His
entire structure Of conquest, the
whole enormity of his new order"
Is built upon a negation. It's fall
was foreordained. Meanwhile. the
christian concept Of justice inspires
the United Nations in their endeavor
not merely to defeat the Axis but
quite as definitely to establish
righteousness in the world. DR..
Friedrich is in very good company
when he urges caution In the use of
a force which at best is a two-edged
sword.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Danger of Hatred

One OF the great moral issues of
the war has been discussed by DR..
G. ]. Friedrich of Harvard University
in terms which merit the attention
Of the general public. There is
much CONSERVATION in some quar-
ters," he says, because the American
people refuse to hate. BY the
advocates of hate it is usually alleged
that people won't fight unless they
hate. But Britain has fought dog
gedly and yet hatred there is not
widespread. The fanatic hates
because he looks upon his enemy as
subhuman. That's why civil wars
have been so bloody. And the
drifter hates because he has been
disturbed In his sloth and wants to
get back to it as quickly as possible.
But the man who Is civilized, firm in
his purpose, yet without self glorifi-
cation-the man who knows he Is
doing a job-does not hate.
The reason the British do not hate
is that they are deeply certain of
their cause. The most important
reason for keeping all hate propa-
ganda in check Is its foreseeable
disastrous effect upon the postwar
settlement. For whatever may be
its effect upon fighting the enemy
now, anti-social feelings, once
aroused cannot be very easily calmed.
- Once the enemy on the battle
field Is destroyed, such feelings seek
substitutes upon whom to visit their
aroused wrath"
Of course, it is not suggested that
anybody should be tolerant of the
Nazi doctrines of aggression nor Of
the treachery of the military clique
OF Japan. 1t is as natural for free
men to loathe and despise such
criminal theories and procedures as
1t is for them to breathe. There
simply is no sense in trying to preach
patience to the victims of barbarians.
Not to hate them would be a weak
ness. What DR.. Friedrich objects to
is the deliberate teaching of hatred as
compulsive instrument In the
vaging Of the struggle for VIC
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Not Letting Them Down

we Will not let you down." the
President promised the youth of the
land now in the armed forces. He
was speaking to the delegates at
tending the International Student
Assembly and speaking of the time
when the soldiers come home again
to face the problems OF the peace.
Certainly, youth has not let us
down. AS generation they were
regarded, a few months ago, with
suspicious skepticism by their elders.
They were accused of being soft"
of having no heart for the tough
assignments of the war. They were
the products Of an age which had
dreamed so much Of the glories of
peace that they could not awake to
the ugly realities of war. Then they
went to the training camps, and to
the front lines and into a type of
warfare that their elders never
knew. And they are acquitting them
selves everywhere as young Amer
leans always have. Our "playboys"
in the Southwest Pacific, as the Pres
ident suggested, have shattered any
illusions the Japs may have had
regarding their decadence, Spoiled
by jazz music and Hollywood pic
lures"
When they return, the President
promised them, I'VE do not propose
to involve you, as last time, in
domestic economic mess OF our own
making" We are fighting now for
world In which men, women and
children cam live In freedom and in
equity and, above all, without fear of
the horrors of war"
But before they come home, the
President we'll might have said, we
shall clear up some of the domestic
messes of our own making which
must disturb them now, as fighting
men at the front. We must prove
to them, who are fighting the war,
that we are as conscious as they are
Of the sort OF battle they are fighting.
We must stop fighting among our
selves over the nature Of the small
sacrifices we shall make to keep them
equipped and ready. They are giving
their lives, while we are asked only
to give up some of the superficialities
of life that only we, of all the people
In the world, have learned to enjoy.
Our young people are all right.
They have shown that and they are
showing it every day. Let us not let
them down, when the war is over. But
more important to them, let us not
let them down while the war is
being fought. Let us plan, of course,
for the time they come home again.
But let us act now to give them the
leadership, the training, the tough
conditioning of mind and body, the
equipment in planes and guns and
ships, to assure them that they will
come home again. The time not to
let them down Is now.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
StuY at Home

Unless there is some emergency
which requires it, do not plan to
travel on the railroads this Labor
Day week end. Stay at home. You
will be more comfortable and the
railroads may be able to handle
peak load without the breakdowns
and congestion which, some of the
railroad people believe, would force
transportation rationing system i'm
mediately.
Any one who has had occasion to
travel on the railroads recently
knows the tremendous passenger
Evening star., 1942-09-04

@. Did Robert ]. Ingerson, the IA
nous agnostic, make any statement
about his religious views on his DEATH
bed?-F. A. B.
A. Robert J. Ingersoll made no recan-
tation of his beliefs on the subject OF
religion. A few days before his death
he wrote In a letter, II still deny the
existence of the supernatural, and I
still say that real religion Is usefulness"
@. When was the Fuel Administra-
ton created during the First World WARP
A. T. F.
A. This was established shortly after
the Food and Fuel Control Act was
passed by Congress in August, 1917. DR..
Harry A. Garfield was appointed fuel
administrator on August "a, 1917.
Q. Does Nell Gwyn have any de-
scendantg?-H. L.
A. The Genealogy Magazine Of jan
uary 1901 listed 311 living persons who
were descended from this famous actress
and mistress of Charles II.
@. Please give the date Of the sink
ing Of the Canadian schooner I'm Alone?
M. A. M.
A. This boat was sunk by the United
States Coast Guard on March a, 1923.
Q. What boxer was known as the
Clown Prince?-O. p.
A. This nickname was frequently ap.
piled to Max Baer.
@. When did the United States Gov
ernment first establish hfe-saving sta
tions on our coasts?-K. A.
A. The Thirty-first Congress d849-
1851 appropriated money to establish
such a station on the New Jersey coast
between Sandy Hook and Toms River.
So many lives were saved that the sys-
tenn was extended to all our sea and
lake coasts.
@. Who was John, the Loving One?--
C. o. S.
A. This was the name applied to
John, Baron de VAUDEVILLE, Moravian
bishop, by the natives of Greenland after
his visit there shortly after the middle
of the 18th century.
@. How did vaudeville originate7-
F.
A. Vaudeville originated with the
opening of small museum by Benjamin
Franklin Keith in 1883 In Boston, Mass.
One OF the chief attractions was q
midget, Baby Alice.
@. Does the addition Of chicory spoil
the flavor Of coffee?-C. j.
A. Half an ounce or less of chicory
added to pound of coffee is said to
improve the flavor.
@. What percentage of homes in the
United States are heated by oil?-J. ]. r,
A. Fuel oil and other petroleum prod
ucts form the principal heating fuel Of
one-tenth of the homes in the United
States.
q. Were women employed In factories
in the United States to any great extent
during the First World war?-G. Mr..
A. The employment of women during
the First World War rose from negligible
before the war to about 20
per cent Of the workers In manufacture.
ing industries at the time Of the arni.
stice.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Mornino

Morning is laughter ana shouers OF
petals
Rosy and golden across the pale
sky;
Flecks OF mist mounting to hide the
star candles,
And crystal-clear dep on the rose.
Up on high
Delicate fingers OF light part the
cloud Drift
Before the sun comes through the
door OF the east.
Morning Is color and cheer ,phere
the darkness
Pales to obltuton at the day feast.
Ouer the meadows and oper the
Woodlands,
Composing oceans on spttt feet
OF light
Sped to the silper and cold notes
OF bird song,
Morning has opercone SHADOWS Of
night.
NARY WILLIS SNEIBURNK.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
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To Questions
By Frederic J. Hdskin.


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ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric j. Hdsktn, director, Washington,
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postage.
@. When were parachute troops frst
used to attack the rear of any army
B. A, r.
A. The Germans used parachute
troops, aided by fifth columnists to
seize the bridges over the Meuse and
Rhine Rivers and attack the Dutch
armies from the rear on May 10, 1910.
@. In what countries was head-hunt-
ing practiced?--S. K.
A. Head hunting is worldwide. 1t
is associated with tribes still living In
the stone ages and may 60 back to
palaeolithic times. In America the
scalp rather than the head was taken.
@. Are camels considered valuable
In Africa9-E. D.
A. Ordinary camels used for trans
port are cheap but hish-bred dromedaries
or riding camels may be worth thou
sands of dollars. ....
@. Please give the source Of the ex-
preston, Hell is paved with good inten-
tions. H NJ D.
A. This Is from Boswell's Life Of DR..
Johnson
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Advocates Tunnels for
Air Raid Shelters.
To the Editor of The Sta

To the Editor Of The Star:
Last Tuesday mornings AFRAID drill
found great many people standing at
doorways Of downtown stores because
the latter had not opened yet. This
situation has indicated to all of us the
need of afraid shelters. especially in
the business section.
II 1t is the intention of the Commits
sioners to provide shelters of some kind,
1t may be of great advantage to place
them underground at certain street
sections where they would also solve the
problem OF acute pedestrian traffic con-
gestion, especially across wide streets.
l. D. RICE.
Evening star., 1942-09-04

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Evening star., 1942-09-04

Carol, in Mexico, is said to be eager
to enter the United States as a first
step toward regaining, for the third
time, his throne. He must smell an
Allied victory and be thinking that,
by that time, the COW will be ready
to be MIXED once again.
Evening star., 1942-09-04

"Gandhi Has Devoted His Life to
Improving India Conditions" ran a
recent headline. If so. his career
reminds one of farmland who,
having carefully MIXED the COW,
thereupon kicks over the pAN.
Evening star., 1942-09-04
Letters to the Editor

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permissible. The Star reserpes
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a Diet1 to condensation,
Evening star., 1942-09-04
credit accumulated under the act


Each year the people through con-
gressional appropriations pay compound
interest on the sum (fgures) on the
credit account, and as this sum increases
tne interest increases. Therefore. If
$500 100000 is added to this credit ac-
count, the people will (but they are not
TOLD SO today pay per cent interest
tax on the total. If this does come to
be, the tax for interest on money COL
lected and spent will be greater than
Sl350Oo,000 next year, and this is a tax
Tor interest alone
Is this not still democratic country,
JOSEPH P. B. WEIR.
Deplores Results Of ....
Ceiling Prices.
To the Editor Of The Star:
1 have gotten to the point where I
really worry when read that the Gov
ernment Is planning to do something to
nelp the consuming masses, for invari-
ably a greater burden is added to all
but the few.
Take for instance the ceiling on food
prices about which we were hopeful.
After all the banyhoo about control of
prices, the exemptions from such control
outWeighed the articles controlled. sea
food, poultry, eggs, butter, vegetables,
fruits, etc, being few. Immediately
grocers added to the exempted food
prices every penny they had to take off
OF the controlled food prices. March
prices ceased to figure on many canned
goods because as stock in stores became
exhausted 1t was replaced by the goods
bearing entirely new labels. As such
labels were. not listed on March stock
tney were not controlled by March
prices, even though they may have been
put out by the same company. In the
meantime the OPA raised the price level
on newly canned and frozen vegetables
ana dried fruit. The Government ad-
mits that cost of living has advanced.
Yet we are urged to eat nourishing food
and stay we'll, at least for the duration
Of the war.
Once more our hopes were raised bv
reaolng that the President was con-
Vlnced that ceiling must be put on
wages and farm products to stop the
splraling OF living costs, but the latest
report indicates he wants this regulation
flexible so that wages may be raised If
the cost of living goes up, which is the
same old vicious circle" we have had
all the time. The labor unions again
are the only ones to benefit. The thou
sands of scattered workers not in unions
and the old and disabled trying to live
on small insurance and retirement an
nuities have to pay just the same for
their food as members OF labor unions
do, but without the power to go on strike
for more money to meet advanced food
prices.
It's time for more and better speeches
about the forgotten man" and freedom
from want" which no doubt will be
forthcoming as political campaigns
progress. but which help not at all In
purchasing "nourishing food" In the In
terest Of health. The ceiling on food
prices was just q little private Joke On
tne eons0neRA ". r. A.