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Evening star., 1942-11-20
Co-eds Reject Droftees
As MurriuqeubIe
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER.-Sixty-six per cent Of
co-eds at Denver University who
were asked, would you become en-
gagged to young man about to be
drafted?" responded 'yes," but IS
per cent Of them answered no"
when asked If they would marry
the man.
Evening star., 1942-11-20
Hungary Breed Rotion Cut

BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, Nov. 20 (P.-The bread ra-
ton in Hungary soon will be cut Is
per cent from 200 grams q ounces)
per day to $50 grams (5.29 ounces
Evening star., 1942-11-20
Get Ia the --Scrop!
Office Building Desk Scrap
Initiated for Metal, Rubber
More Fences Surrendered in Drive:
More Than 500 JuIopies in Prospect

AS salvage chiefs urged District to "get In the
scrap by ming out and mailing appearing daily
newspapers contributions to the ciy metal today ranged
from ornamental fencing to junked automobiles
But OF the most significant an idea BRAIN
child OF George D. Lane Munsey Building tenant who has ad
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Checks on November !

When Congress passed the law
making monthly allowances for the
dependents of servicemen, November
l was fixed as the date on which
payments should begin, although
actual credits for dependents would
commence with enactment of the
law. last June /.
Rising in the Senate the other day,
Senator Vandenberg casually men
toned that November l was most
easily identified as the day before
election. He said the War Depart
ment of its own volition was permit
ting soldiers in some cases to allot
portions of their monthly pay to de-
pendents; why could not the system
of monthly allowances by the Gov
ernment begin Immediately?
Senator Thomas of Utah replied
that the date of November was the
suggestion of the War Department.
The Army alone expects to mail out
more than a million checks month,
and In each case there must be ade-
quate assurance that the money will
60 to the right person, eligible under
the law to receive 1t. The War De-
partment estimated that November
/ was the earliest date that the vast
Evening star., 1942-08-10

mates whose business required that they
ignore the weather. made myself COM
Portable in slippers and dressing gown
and, with pitcher of cool water handy,
gazed out on the trees that bless upper
Sixteenth street. Suddenly there was a
flash of red In the foliage, and car
dinal lit on the topmost point of q
nearby tree.
His familiar cry went ringing out on
the quiet air. AS If in answer to a
prayer low-scudding cloud spilled over
and he was drenched. Down went his
head and his fluttering wings sprayed
the drops around him as though he were
In showerbath. Next, he raised his
beak and the drops pelted down his
parched throat.
Strengthens your belief in God, doesn't
1t? But how keep your faith in man
kind-which is spending billions trying
to exterminate itself!
What small amount it would take to
equip every apartment house roof with
a bird bath-a shower, too, if you please
safe from cats and other enemies If
we were to do this for His lesser crea-
lures, perhaps the good Lord would feel
we were more worthy of His blessings.
ROBERT FLETCHER.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
The Missing Voice

In an interesting broadcast yes
terday speakers representing the
Army, the Navy, the Government
and organized labor discussed the
war production program and the
Army-Navy awards for outstanding
production performances.
The program, apparently arranged
under Government auspices, was in
tended primarily to direct public
attention to what has been done in
the way of production of war ma
terials and to emphasize the needs
OF the future, particularly the neces-
sity of stepping up the output of raw
materials. Two labor spokesmen
discussed the contribution that or
ganized labor is making to the war
effort and expressed their apprecia-
ton OF the production awards which
are being given to plants with out
standing records.
But there was one voice missing
IN InlS BROADCAST. The production
team generally has been supposed to
consist of three members-labor,
management and Government. Yet
there was no one on the program to
speak for management, although it
can hardly be doubted that manage
ment has played, and will continue
to play, an important part in the
production effort. Possibly this
omission is not very important
matter, but the failure to include a
spokesman for industry on the pro-
gram certainly came as something
of surprise to many who heard the
broadcast. 1t would be interesting to
know why this member of the team
was not heard from.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Professor-BIitz StyIe

The average college professor is
thought of as an elderly, amiable,
slightly absent minded gentleman
with a devotion to the cause of
learning which keeps him aloof from
the practical world. Of a different
type, however, must be the professor
Of new course just started at Har-
ward University, with an enrolment
of 200 students-a course in guerrilla
warfare.
No one need be surprised. All along
it has been understood that the pur-
pose of college Is to fit its graduates
to get ahead in the world and now
that the way to success lies in brute
force, the colleges must conform
Let others besides Harvard fall in
line. BY all means take the vacant
classroom, formerly presided over by
the dean of the course on interna-
tional law, and turn it over to Pro-
fessor Mulligan, D. B. K-doctor of
brass knuckles-that he may use it
to expound the only law recognized
in Europe or Asia. Call in Dynamite
Dan McGurk, make him assistant
professor of explosives, and let him
lecture on the habits and possibilities
Of the Chicago pineapple. Give
courses in train wrecking and the
proper use of the blackjack and the
stiletto.
One other detail should not be
overlooked After the war is over
these graduates, while we'll suited for
life in Germany or Japan, will hardly
fit into the American scheme of eX-
istence. Provision should be made
that before they try, they be required
to take a postgraduate refresher
course in the more conventional arts.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
The Navy Attacks

Although the attack which Amer
lean and Australian forces have
launched against the Tulagi harbor
area of the Solomon Islands is in it's
fourth day, the information available
is insufficient to warrant any conclu-
sions as to whether this Is what the
Navy calls an offensive defensive
operation or the beginning of a
major Allied offensive.
In either event, however, it is a de-
velopment which suggests that the
American naval position in the Pa
ciflc has been notably improved in
recent months. With the exception
of the relatively unimportant raid on
the Gilbert and Marshall Islands,
this Is the first time that we have
been able to assume the offensive
against the japanese. Heretofore,
because of losses suffered at Pearl
Harbor and the generally superior
preparations of the enemy we have
been obliged to remain strictly on the
defensive. 1t is true that in the bat
ties of Midway and the Coral Sea,
and possibly in the engagement in
Macassar Strait, the enemy forces
were defeated. But the fact remains
that we were on the defensive, COM
PEELED to give battle under conditions
dictated by the Japanese, and un-
able in any or all of these clashes to
wrest the initiative from the enemy
This picture changes, however,
with the announcement of the Tulagi
offensive. Despite considerable
enemy resistance" and the ability of
the japanese to bring their land
based aviation into play, Admiral
Nimitz has said that the operation Is
progressing favorably. 1t would be
unwise to read too much into this
comment, for its meaning is limited
by the extent of the Navy's objective,
which is as yet unknown. Logically
1t would seem that the attack would
not have been made unless it was in
tended to occupy at least Tulagi with
strong forces, and there is nothing in
the reports which have been received
to this time to indicate that such an
occupation is within the reach of the
attacking forces.
The fact remains, however, that we
have at last been able to carry the
fight to the enemy. Even though we
should have to content ourselves for
the present with something less than
a clear cut victory in the Solomons.
the attack is evidence that we are
strong enough to go onto the Often
sive, and this alone gives ground for
substantial satisfaction.
Evening star., 1942-08-10

arrows were shot into the log cabins
OF pioneer Americans by the Red
Indians who vainly strove to halt
what latterly is called "the expan-
sion of Europe"
It seems that not even the hope
for durable peace is new. The At
lantic Charter, if it be studied with
care, will be found to be derived from
aspirations of social idealism enter
tanned by such great teachers of an
cient times as Confucius and Plato
and the Preacher of the Sermon on
the Mount.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Discusses Dangers of Lawlessness
As a Destructive Force.

As Destructive Force.
To the Editor of The Star:
Lawlessness is force OF destruction,
of ignorance, of failure. Nothing good
was ever accomplished through its use.
The Negro, particularly, must realize
these incontrovertible facts of our ex-
istence. On the shoulders of each of us
lies the responsibility for the group. For
instance, the lawlessness exhibited re-
Gently at the Griffith Stadium will bring,
whether some of us see it or not, no ulti-
mate good, no benefit to the race, though
individuals may seem to have achieved
their immediate desires. AS a pebble
dropped in the sea, which causes ripples
extending farther and farther on It's sur
face, this lawless act will bring, accord
ing to law, inevitable results to the group.
Every cause has its effect. Why not
try to think and act constructively? Why
not use the Interchangeable laws of life
to bring about good results? Cities are
mot built in a day"-and the earth's
revolution is so slow it does not seem to
be fact, yet accomplishment is at
last achieved.
My friends, laWlessness is destruction.
Construction alone will help us.
VIOLA c. JACKSON.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
"TAKOMA PARK, Md.

Dear Sir:
During the rain last Saturday we had
an interesting experience.
My friend was on the terrace attend
ing her plants when she saw young
bird. fully feathered, with little brown
rings on his breast
She whistled to 1t and it followed her
up on the porch. One of us had left
an umbrella there to dry-open. He
perched himself upon it.
when I saw him, brought first some
fresh cutoff corn. He wouldn't peck at
it but when I held it above his head, his
mouth came wide open. He soon de-
voured quantity of chopped meat,
some being eaten while he was perched
on my finger.
mo child could have been more eager
for his dinner.
About three hours later, while my
himself on her head She brought him
to the door and again fed him meat.
"One piece was too large for him to
swallow and he let me take it out OF his
mouth.
Since then we have seen nothing more
of him. had hoped we might have him
for pet.
Between the antics Of the squirrels
my cat and the birds, we find much en-
tertainment.
yours sincerely, M. P. j."
The friendly young wood thrush men,
toned above had been brought up by
hand by some one in the neighborhood
Such friendly birds in almost all such
cases, have been picked up by kind hands
after they have fallen out of the nests.
In most instances, young birds found
on the ground have hoped many feet,
sometimes amazing distances, from the
places where they landed.
1t is usually impossible for the finder
to discover the nest site. The only thing
to do is to put the bird up in tree, and
hope its parents will find it, or to take
it home and try to bring it up.
In most cases, parent birds are unable
to get the f1edgling back into the nest
Parents of some species do not seem to
be able to recognize their own out of
the nest. Blue jays are among the
number which do recognize their own
They will follow the lost baby around
the neighborhood bringing it food. One
of the tragedies of bird life is that the
older birds have no way of getting the
young back into the nest, once it has
fallen out.
All persons interested In bird life
should be on particular watch during
the late summer for birds which have
been fed and taken care OF by bird
lovers.
The number of these, in a great city
and its suburbs, must be rather large,
and certainly great deal larger now
than few years ago.
Robins are the greatest fallers-out-o of =
nests. Next come blue jays. But other
species fall out, too, or get blown out in
storms. Some young birds are adven-
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Sees India a Chaos
Lacking Basis of Union.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Philip Lightfoot Wormely w COM
pares the circumstances under which
dependence with those by which some
sections Of India hope to achieve theirs;
and apparently finds them identical.
Surely, however, the circumstances
are so different as to make any COM
parison utterly inappropriate.
The American Colonies consisted Of
two million people, all of English blood
and English-speaking, of a relatively
high degree of civilization, homogeneous
in race, character and outlook.
In India there are 4OO,00O,0 900 people, 80
per cent of whom are illiterate peasants
living on few cents day; over 200 to-
tally distinct languages; more than 500
independent native" states with vastly
differing constitutions; an amazing di-
versity Of races and religions; over 1000
"castes" ranging from the people who
are born to be little lower than the
gods" to those born "untouchable," and
most serious, perhaps, of all, 200 million
Hindus who are bitterly hostile to 90
million Mohammedans These elements
cannot agree among themselves as to
what sort of independence they want
The American Colonies had within
them the ready making of nation The
Indians seem to have the making of
many nations and, therefore, of civil
strife. In none of the Indian languages
is there even a word for india
ANGLO O-AMERICAN,
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Reports Growing British Interest
In America Shown at School.

Y
To the Editor of The Star:
AS your readers perhaps are aware,
there has been during the war a vast
increase in the interest taken in England
in American life, civilization and insti-
tutions. In particular, American history
is now widely being taught in English
schools and universities.
I have just now received information
of an interesting experiment at one Of
Englands leading schools Bradfield
College. 1t has been custom there for
many years past for the senior pupils to
give performance in an open-air am
phitheater of classical Greek play in
the original
This year for the first time the record
has been interrupted. Instead of the
Greek play, the program consisted en-
tirely of selections from American ltera-
ture. These included excerpts from the
Declaration of Independence, the works
of Longfellow, Mark Twain, William
Prescott, Joel Chandler Harris, Eugene
ONeill, Edgar Allan Poe, James Whit
comb Riley Walt Whitman, Stephen
Vincent Benet and Abraham Lincoln's
Gettysburg address.
ERIC UNDERWOOD.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
GETTING at the Facts

The proposed investigation of the
District Alley Dwelling Authority by
a subcommittee of the Senate Dis
b. trict Committee is in some respects
=. unique. The inquiry was not brought
s,about by any criticism of the Author
ity or its work. but follows request
by It's executive officer, John 1hlder,
ofwho wants others to determine
whether his idea of sound and eco
nonical operations is proper policy,
or whether the changes ordered by
Congress this year are to be made
permanent
The question arose when the Sem
:, ate Appropriation Committee direct
$ ed that the revolving fund of the
Authority, made up of revenues from
rents and unexpended balances, be
returned to the Treasury in the
current fiscal year and that the
Authority operate It's properties on
fiat appropriation Of $4,000 year.
This constituted an abrupt change
=, of policy, for in the seven years of its
existence the Authority has utilized
: Its revolving fund to demonstrate
; that the slum reclamation and low
rent housing program can be made
vself-sustaining through long-range
~ program of repairs and upkeep OF
rental properties and maintenance
of a system of economic rents with
out additional cost to the taxpayer.
The change made by the Appro-
priations Committees this year in
some respects alters the original con-
+, ception of the Alley Dwelling Au-
thority as an independent agency
set up to undertake slum reclama-
ton on self -liquidating basis. In
stead, it is to turn all receipts into
the Treasury each year and seek
from Congress lump sum for an
nual operations. Mr.. Ihlder believes.
the change was made through a
lack OF understanding Of the success
and real economy in the original
policy. The inquiry should reveal
whether that is the case. If it is, a
serious mistake can be corrected and
one Of the countrys most interesting
r experiments in slum reclamation
permitted to proceed as originally
planned.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
AUGUST Fires

No,o August Nth hts smoulderino
fires,
His raptures and his fierce desires,
Moues do,On the garden Dalk to 90
Straight ,Dhere the tiger lilies qrow,
He calls them BY their tiger names,
He marks their black spots and their
flames,
He moDes along the garden beds
Where marigolds lift fiery heads,
He stirs the golden embers Dhere
The bright nastnrtiums light the air,
He touches the gold cosmos wheels,
Hot NTH the heapy sun, he steals
Across the la,Dn, and sudden heat
Scorches the grass beneath hts feet.
GRACE NOLL CROWELL.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Ancient Weapons

=. Modern war is the science Of
throwing things. It's mechanical
- principles are as old as the human
species. Nothing fundamentally
new in the business OF killing people
&c and destroying property has been in
vented in ten thousand years.
=, ,,Archeologists are agreed that men
:. discovered the trick Of projecting
..their own hands to a desired dis
tance in the earliest period OF their
~zsexperience-that era before the
Stone Age in which tools and weap-
IONS were fashioned to order.
Who first had the instinct to un-
fderstand that facilities Of offense
and defense lay all about him was
the authentic founder of the tech
nique of conflict. Stones and pieces
e1of wood shaped by nature were avail
able to primitive savages in vast
quantities. When one individual sud-
# denly conceived the possibilities of
advantage accruing from hurting
rock or a sharpened timber the art
..pf war was invented. It's refine
ments are infinite in number, but
none Of them accurately can be de-
sscribed as an unprecedented devel
y-opment.
may inspect at their leisure the
Evolution of the sword-a striking
and cutting instrument to be held
and OF the spear and the arrow
missiles for thrusting and throwing
not necessarily intended to be re-
-trieved, They likewise may view in
chronological arrangement the nu-
l merous prototypes of the pistols
rifles, machine guns and portable
cannon now in use. Only few min
nutes of examination of the relics dis
,played will be needed to instruct the
average inquirer in the rudiments of
military dynamics involved Bombs
!; dropped from above the clouds are
nothing more than explosive pellets
tremendously enlarged. Not even the
making of shells and the filling of
!. them with cataclysmic disruptives
lean be regarded as novel, Something
of the sort was common in China in
remote antiquity.
e Modern artillery can be traced
back TO machines constructed to pro-
4 pei huge rocks into beleaguered cities
>and to other mechanical devices to
abatter down the walls of the same
The twentieth century tank is an
-Adaptation of the war chariots of
india and Persia. Flame throwers
&Were employed by the Crusaders in
the Holy Land. The inflammable
'~calling cards" currently being en-
ployed by the RAF in raids upon Ger
many were forecast by the Jumps OF
blazing pitch thrown into fortified
towns in the Middle Ages. Burning
Evening star., 1942-08-10
THIS AND THAT
Bv Charles Z. TrdceDeH.

| turous beyond their brothers and sisters.
Maybe Tennyson had this In mind when
he wrote his famous poem about the
'birdy" II, it's nest at break OF day"
He advised 1t to wait little longer until
| its little wings were stronger" then 1t,
| too, could fly away.
Taking to the trees is the high point
in the life of every young bird which
has received kindness from some human
being.
Such persons must not be taken aback
when the young birds, as If ungrateful for
the care which saved their lives, insist on
spreading their wings.
Flying is to bird what breathing-or,
talking-is to most Americans.
The bird must fly, or die, and we must
talk or go crazy
Shooting off the mouth is relief
to Americans, flying to birds of all
species.
If you see friendly bird, therefore
watch out for 1t, and protect it from
dogs and cats and even other human
beings.
It has received nothing but kindness
from the most famous of all two-legged
creatures.
1t little understands that today mil
lions of these same two-legged animals
are busily engaged in harming, manning
and killing each other.
1t has received an early education,
during its formative weeks, which may
lead to its destruction
X *4&
Any bird which marches UP to you, and
seems not to be afraid, may be suspected
of having received this kind of strange
education.
Strange, that is, for bird and an
education which may, in bird life, be a
handicap.
1t will be good idea to offer food to
such bird, because 1t may not yet have
learned how to seek its own from nature.
Small bits of bread and milk, or ham
burger or the like, or small worms dug
out of the ground, or almost any stray
insect, or raisins, or the yolk of hard
boiled egg
These are some of the foods which may
be tried
A shallow pan of drinking and bathing
water will not be bad.
The main objective is that such friend
ly birds shall not suffer from their lack
of fear. Especial care should be taken
to protect them from cats and dogs.
Some persons do not imagine that dogs
catch birds, but they will, especially If
the songsters are unafraid
So If a bird walks up to you and says
"hello," remember that 1t is bird which
has been taught to think well Of hui
manity
AS class, the animals and birds do not
| like u.s.
They have reason to fear us.
1t Is WELL then. that now and again q
bird arrives which perches on a finger,
or even on the top Of ones head, In the
most natural way in the world. It is a
bird which trusts humanity, and let us
| hope that it will never have cause to
regret it.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Denies Statement That Broadcast
To Poland Would Be Uncontrolled.

10 IOldHu VOuiu De OHcOntrOlleo.
To the Editor of The Star:
My attention has been drawn to an
article entitled Psychological Warfare
Plan Held Failing Of It's Purpose" by
Blair Bolles, printed in The Sunday Star
for August 2.
This article, in which is discussed the
merits of short-wave broadcasting to
the various countries from American
shortwave stations, concerns problems
of an internal character, and as such,
I may not discuss them. I feel, how
ever, that I should draw your attention
to one sentence which might lead to
misunderstanding and in which the Pol
ish Embassy is explicitly named.
Mr.. Bolles writes: THE Polish En-
bassy last week arranged with the Gen.
eral Electric Co. to beam regular pro-
gram to Poland over which the Foreign
Information Service would have no
control
I should like to make it clear that
the Polish Embassy very gratefully &C
cepted the kind offer of the General
Electric Co. station, WGEO In Schenec-
tady, to beam daily broadcasts of Amer
lean news to Poland. There was never
any stipulation made on the part of the
Polish Embassy that the Foreign Infor-
nation Service should have no control
over the news broadcast from Schenec-
tady.
Knowing how anxious you are to be
accurate in your statements, feel sure
that you will accept my explanation in
the spirit in which I, take the liberty of
giving 1t to you-namely. as prompted
by the desire to avoid any misunder-
standing on this subject.
J. CIECHANOWSKI,
Ambassador of Poland.