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Evening star., 1942-03-11
Ry HELEN LOMBARD.

Military strategy is daily grow
ing simpler as the enemy moves into
country after country and defines
the problems. But diplomacy con-
tinueS to be as wonderful as magic
the only difference being that no
peaceful, pink-eyed rabbit is ever
pulled out of the diplomatic hat.
The appearance of an attache
from the Vichy Legation in Canada
caused somewhat of a sensation the
other day in Washington. Amer
leans had placidly assumed that
when London broke off diplomatic
relations with France, Ottawa had
followed suit.
There is, however, full staff of
Vichy-French diplomats stationed
in Canada today. Marshal Petain s
representatives maintain normal
| and courteous relations with the Ca
madam government and very close
relations with prominent French Ca
nadians.
Approved by Churchill.
Intelligence officers in Washing
ton believe that much of the pas
sive resistance to the war effort
among the French Canadians Can
ada has not yet instituted cOmpul-
sorry military training' is traceable
to the Vichy staff and to the agents
under its direction.
The maintenance of Vichy diplo-
matte mission in Canada is no act
of defiance on the part of the Otta-
wa administration The legation was
kept open with the blessings OF
Winston Churchill. who arrived al
an understanding with Prime Min
Evening star., 1942-03-11
Suburban
Social
Notes
Mrs. Carl Robinson
Guest of Honor
AT Luncheon

Mrs. Carl Webster Robinson of
Greenwich Forest. who is to leave
soon for her new home in Richmond,
was the guest of honor at lunch
con given yesterday by Mrs Alex
ander M Pringle at her home on
Chain Bridge road. Among the out
of-toWn guests who came to Wash
jngton for the luncheon were Mrs.
Leslie Pillman of Baltimore and
Mrs Lewis Reams of Richmond. who
is spending a few days with Mrs
Frank Bentley.
Col. Henning Linden. u s. A., and
Mrs. Linden are staying at Falkland
Manor in Silver Spring.
Mrs. Charles F. Deffnbaugh en-
tertained at a small party Monday
afternoon at her home in Silver
Spring for her son. Charles, ir.. who
celebrated his 9th birthday ami
verSarY.
Mrs. William Briggs of New York
City is spending several days with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
l.. McKeever, at Silver Spring.
Mrs. Horace r. Hampton of Edge
moor entertained a few friends re-
Gently for luncheon and an after
noon of bridge.
Mrs. William N Wood was hostess
to A small number of guests Monday
in honor of Mrs. T Hardy Todd a
former resident of ~Edgemoor. Mr.
and Mrs. Todd are now living on
their farm near Charlottesville
They spent Sunday and Monday
with Mr and Mrs. Wood in Chevy
Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1942-03-11
Arts Club Plans
Square Dance Fete

A square dance party will be given
by the Arts Club of Washington
from to II pm. Saturday. with a
demonstration of OLD and new dane
ing featured during the intermisSion.
Mrs. Nena May Brown and Rich
ard Anderson will present the mod
ern ballroom dances while Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Pincer will entertain
with several intricate square dances
Mr. and Mrs. Pincer have been
directing the square dances at the
club which have been sponsored
under the leadership of Mrs. Bever-
ley Robinson.
Members of the Auxiliary Com
mittee will be hosts at the party to
which spectators as we'll as partici-
pants are being invited.
Colored moving pictures entitled
The Glory of Our National Parks
will be presented by John v. Hansen
at the club tomorrow evening Mrs.
George H. Girty and DR.. Roy L. Sex
ton will be hosts.
On your mark Get set. Go buy
Defense stamps and bonds.
Evening star., 1942-03-11
Z BoItimoreuns Seek
Congressional Scot

BY the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, March 1.-Two
Baltimoreans have filed certificates
Of candidacy for the Democratic
congressional nomination from the
fourth district. Secretary of State
Thomas +. Jones reported today.
They are w. Frank just, who is
in the rug cleaning business. and
Joseph M Wyatt, 36-year-old at
tOrney, who is associate magistrate
OF the Baltimore Traffic Court.
Both seek the congressional seat
now occupied by Representative
Meyers, Democrat. who has not vet
announced whether he will be a
candidate for reelection.
Evening star., 1942-03-11
Seattle Voters Dust
Mayor Supported by
Labor Leader Beck
Judge Devin Defects
MiIIikin by Surprising
Margin of ; to2
Py the Associated Press.

Py tht Associated Press.
SEATTLE. March IL Seattle's
voters hailed a new Mayor designate
today after turning out of Office the
incumbent who had the active sup
port of Dave Beck. West Coast
leader of the A. F. L. Transfers
Union, in a bitterly cam
paign.
Police Judge William F. Devin ran
up a surprising 3-to-2 margin over
Mayor Earl Mlllikin in yesterdays
voting The totals were; Judge
Devin. So .892 Mayor Millikin. 43.541
Judge Devin was a city judicial
appointee of Gov Arthur B. Langlie
Republican. while the latter was
Mayor. Mayor Millikin. former
Democratic county auditor. was
elected a year ago TO fill the uneX-
pired term of Mr.. Langlie. The
city. election was nonpartisan.
Beck Works for Millikin.
What started out as a tame affair
became a fever ridden battle in the
campaigns final week as Beck twice
took 10 the radio to support Mayor
Millikin and to denounce Judge
Devin as A foe Of labor and IAN in
competent and prejudiced police
judge"
He declared that labor cannot
turn out the production expected
of it, and upon which the outcome
Of the war depends. if it is under
constant attack by hostile admin-
istration."
Judge Devin retorted that he was
not a foe Of labor but only of Beck
and his Teamster Union aides. who
he charged "willfullv exercised con-
troll over the Mayors Office
Mayor Called "Puppet."
He said Beck's open support left
Mayor Millikin publicly exposed"
as the puppet Of Beck
Mayor Millikin, a former high
school teacher. in his early SOS.
even refused TO shake hands with
Judge Devin when a chairman pro-
posed it at the speakers table dur
ing a political club luncheon. He
denied that Beck had attempted to
influence his office in any manner
At his home as the Devin margin
of victory piled up Beck COM
mented: Whatever the majority
decides is fine with the teamsters.
This isn't the first election we have
lost
Evening star., 1942-03-11
Women Plan Fete

The Mount Rainier Junior WOm-
ems Club will hold a benefit card
party at pm, Friday, in Star Hall
Thirty fourth street and Rhode
Island avenue. Miss Mary Bates
president, is in charge of arrange
ments.
Evening star., 1942-03-11
Benefit Planned

A card party TO raise funds for
equipping a first aid station in
Riverdale will be sponsored by the
Womans Club of Riverdale at 8
pm. Saturday at the Riverdale
School Mrs. w. P. Starr is chair
man of the committee.
Evening star., 1942-03-11
King Gustof Suffers
Rise in Temperature

Ry the Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, March H. King
GuStaf V suffered a slight rise in
temperature and showed signs Of
fatigue this morning, his physicians
repOrted in q bulletin.
Evening star., 1942-04-08

center, the holy city, of Burma.
Murray'S Handbook stipulates: "The
whole neighborhood = = is rich with
splendid fanes" and mentions as ex-
amples: The $50 pagodas, recording
the holy books of Buddhism; the
Glass Monastery, magnificently dec
Grated with inlaid glass; the Queens
Golden Monastery. built of teak COW
cred with gold; the Thathanabaing
OF the Buddhist archbishop, and the
Arrakan Pagoda, with a brass image
of Gautama twelve feet high, about
which "all day long . worship
pers chant praises" Christian
churches, Moslem temples and Jew
ish synagogues also raised their tow
ers and minarets against the sky in
profusion. But "the virtues of love
and benevoience" have been mani
tested in the destruction of the en-
tire community. The Burmese who
have survived the disaster now have
ample reason for comparing Japa-
nese pretenses of altruism with Jap
anese performances of barbarism.
Evening star., 1942-04-08
Decoration in Reverse

Already this war has produced q
number of heroes, as evidenced by
medals of honor passed out periodi-
cally, but now comes decoration of
a slightly different nature - the
"Order of Prang."
"Prang" is the Eagle Squadron
word for crash, the word presum-
ably being an attempt to simulate
the sound of a plane cracking up.
At any rate, the unfortunate pilot
who damages a plane in training
gets the "Order of Prang," a large
wooden cross shaped like the German
iron cross, presented at full-dress pa
rade, accompanied by jeers instead
of the usual cheers. The recipient
must wear it for a week. 1t is said
that after wearing prang medal
for the required time, the pilot hero
makes up his mind that in the future
he will land his plane as gently as a
snowflake falling on a feather bed.
The suggestion is offered, for what
1t may be worth, that something like
the prang medal be issued to civilian
motorists At fault in collisions.
Evening star., 1942-04-08
THIS AND THAT
Ru Charles Z. Trdce1oel.

Our personal belief is that they do not.
This is based on never seeing any par
ticular squirrel activity later in the places
where the peanuts were buried.
Probably much of the buried food is
allowed to go to waste
This would show that while the idea
Is good, the carrying Of 1t into effect is
no better in the animal kingdom than
In our own.
The best laid plans Of mice and men
and the poet might have added squir-
rels-often do go wrong.
Starlings are attracted largely by
bread in some form or other.
If breadstuf1s are left out of the food
put out for the birds, the starlings
usually will stay away.
Since bread, however, is easily Sc
cured, and most households have some
stale leftovers, it Is often thrown out for
the birds, especially in snowy weather,
by persons who have not yet progressed
to the stage Of buying special seeds and
grains for the songsters.
We believe that great many people
begin to snort the minute they see a
startling. whereas If they would wait and
watch they would find that these are
really very interesting birds.
They not only destroy Japanese beetles
and other inimical insects, but they have
musical voices, especially in the spring.
time. They provide a world of amuse-
ment for the observer who is willing to
really look at what he sees
Starlings do little If any danger
around residence communities They
only fly down into yards, where their big
bills take up many grubs, cutworms and
the like. In this they are doing a real
service to home gardens
+ 4
The question of the cat and bird feed
ing has not been given the attention it
deserves.
Here again a little patience will do
wonders.
Many persons who admire one form
Of life also like another. Those who love
the birds may like the house cat They
will find that they do not have to give
up one, If they will be patient and try
to use their own brains to solve the
| problem.
We knew one man who had IA aqua
RUINS In his home
He also had four cats.
These IA tanks. containing $50 trop-
ical fish, attracted the cats. but in time,
with careful persuasion. they came TO
leave them strictly alone.
Outside in the yard the problem may
be handled In the same way. Doses OF
cold water, literally applied, will cool the
ardor OF most cats for bird watching.
At first it may appear hopeless, but
in time the animal comes to understand
that he must leave the birds alone. Here
again it is a case of where there's a will
] there is usually way.
Evening star., 1942-04-08
War Bonds and Stamps

The Treasury Department has
made sensible move in deciding to
substitute war" for defense" in the
official designation for its emergency
savings bonds and stamps. The new
name is more in keeping with the
new attitude of the American people
toward the war, an attitude of grim
determination to carry the battle to
the enemy at all costs.
The change in psychology dates
cember the prevailing concept of
Americas role in World War II was
one of all-out defense. coupled with
a realistic policy of aid to victims of
aggression. In the tragic months
since the outbreak of total war in
the Pacific, however, it has become
increasingly apparent that mere de-
tense against treacherous enemies is
not enough, that to win this gravest
of all wars will require vastly more
than a capacity to absorb the blows
strategy has given way to a doctrine
OF offense-a doctrine which will be
translated into action as our
strength increases.
Thus, it has come about that the
money being contributed by the pur-
chasers Of savings bonds and stamps
Is financing new program in which
outmoded Maginot Line theories of
waging war have been discarded in
favor of counteroffensive policies.
Rejecting this metamorphosis in
public thinking, many buyers of
bonds and stamps have urged the
Treasury to give these securities a
name more suggestive OF their real
Evening star., 1942-04-08
This Is True Adventure

The hills of morning lend their quiet
strength
TO mans existence here. Rising
aboDe
The neither Uinds that blow per-
plerity.
Out of the Sombre residue OF night
They bring nep promise for the day
of man.
haze stood, silent, at their loueH-
ness,
/ hare stood wondering II faith could
lift
The heaUiness that bound my feet.
Some hours
climb, 1Dith ease, the steepest can
yon ledge,
And other hours the hills OF morning
seem
TO rise so high above me, that my
steps
Fall back into q maze of doubt. This,
then,
Is true adventure; he ,1ho would
enjoy
The Dalley riches or the distant
green
Must ,odlk, at first, along the shudo,Dy
slopes,
Then rise, step after step, into the
light.
BLANCHE STEWART
Evening star., 1942-04-08
Superior Morality

Writing in the Kaizo for April,
1888, Tatsuo, former japanese first
secretary here, attempted to explain
his concept of the difference between
the methods of procedure followed
by his country and those of
other nations. "Japans foreign pol
ICY" he wrote, lis founded on moral
principles" not on considerations of
practical expediency or utilitarian-
ism. 1t was his unqualified afflrma-
ton that: Japan is at pains to
settle all pending questions by
having recourse to the virtues of
love and benevolence.
At that time, just four short years
ago, the raid upon Hawaii. the pres
ent invasion of Burma and the
absorption" of French Indo- China,
Thailand, the Philippines, the Malay
States and the Dutch East Indies
was in contemplation.
Certainly, Japanese agents were at
work throughout British India far
in advance of December 7, 1941. Nip
poneSe fifth columnists" circulated
among the Burmese with solemn
promises of independence and a
mutual prosperity" to ensue from
the expulsion of the ethically in
ferior English. The Suave and pol
ished "elder statesman" Premier U
Saw, was among the important per-
sons" reached by the representatives
of the military clique at Toxic. He
was arrested in January, probably at
Cairo, for "conSpiring."
The Japanese warlords, meanwhile,
continued to develop their plans for
the demonstration of moral princi-
pies" in Burma as elsewhere. On
February 10, their air forces began
a systematic bombardment of Man.
dalay, which eliminated in a straf-
ing which lasted three hours on
April 3. Alfred Wagg, in special
cable to The Star, gave an eyewitness
account of the devastation. THE
raids" he said, began at II o'clock
in the morning and I left at 7
pm, through terrific wreckage and
streets blocked with wires, debris,
bodies. ."
One circumstance mentioned by
MIR. Wagg, however, is more signifi-
cant than all the rest. Toward the
end of his dispatch he declared: II
saw idols crumbled amid charred and
burning ruins" Mandalay, now
wrecked by the Japanese exponents
of "the new order" was the religious
Evening star., 1942-04-08
FULTON STREET.

Dear Sir.
Your articles have been q great source
of interest to me for the past two and q
half years. Before moved to this house
I had only the experience Of . window
feeder, and there became well acquainted
with a pair Of cardinals, titmice, spar
rows and starllngs.
Nov I have several feeders In my
yard and my family has increased with
the blue jays, nuthatches. flnches robins
and squirrels. 1t seems that I have
brought the wrath Of my neighbors down
on my head because I have attracted
starlings. This does not please me par
ticularly, either. nor do stray pigeons, but
they will come
"One morning I saw something very
amusing and l think unusual. A cardi-
nal was very busy trying to open q
peanut. Finally. he seized it by the little
tail and carried 1t over near flower bed.
Along came a blue Jay, and after dis
cussion, took it away from the cardinal,
but instead Of flying away. to my sur
prise he pushed it into a clump of grass.
He had no more than flown OF before
the cardinal hoped over and pulled
the peanut from its hiding place.
while he was again struggling to
open it. the blue Jay returned and re-
peated his performance. This game kept
up for at least Is minutes, until finally
the blue Jay decided he'd had enough
and few away with his prize. and the
disappointed cardinal gave up the strug-
gle to become a peanut eater.
Il have always been a cat lover, but
now that my interest is in birds, both in
the house and outside, I have reluctantly
given pussy the gate.
ANY one who doesn't find birds q
great pleasure and diversion has no idea
what he Is missing.
Sincerely, L. w, s."
Blue jays mostly park peanuts and the
like in the crotch of tree limbs, but
sometimes they hide them in flower
borders.
This treasure trove habit OF the jays Is
one of their best deeds.
In this way they place food at stra-
tegic points where other birds can find
it. SunHower seed, a favorite OF most
seed eaters, is hidden literally by the jays.
Squirrels. too, like peanuts and sun
flower seed, hence they often find what
the jays store away. Nuthatches and
brown creepers peck out seeds which
have been placed in crevices Of bark.
Both jays and squirrels like to bury
peanuts, the former in leaves, and the
latter In the ground.
=
If supply of peanuts is placed in a
feeding station, the squirrels will spend
all morning storing them away
We have often wondered II they ever
fnd them again.
Evening star., 1942-04-08
Labor Progress

From several directions came en-
couraging news from the wartime
industrial front yesterday. In Pitts
burgh there was a dramatic demon
stration of labor unity as chiefs OF
the rival Congress of Industrial
Organizations and American Fedora
ton of Labor appeared on the same
platform and pledged that their
organizations will forget old differ
ences and work together for maxi
mum production of the materiel
needed to defeat Americas enemies.
This was the first time since the 1886
split in the ranks of labor that heads
Of the two great union groups had
met and spoken in this manner.
About the same time, in Detroit, the
powerful C. l. o. United Automobile
Workers Union, whose half million
workers are engaged principally in
manufacture Of planes and mechan-
led equipment for the Army, voted
almost unanimously to forgo, for
duration of the war, premium pay for
week end and holiday work, except
when overtime work constitutes
sixth or seventh consecutive day.
And at the White House, President
Roosevelt expressed confidence that
labor does not need an incentive
bonus to do all that the emergency
requires.
William Green. president Of the
A.. F. of L., and Philip Murray, C. I. o.
head, joined in solemn promise that
union men will stay on the produc-
ton line and give their best toward
the winning Of the war. Mr.. Green
declared-and it undoubtedly is
true-that voluntary agreement by
labor not to strike in time Of war
is far more effective than compulsory
legislation could be- II it should
become necessary to use compulSion
to obtain proper compliance of labor
with the demands Of war production,
our enemies we'll might derive salts
faction from the knowledge. The
patriotic American workingman
would not deliberately afford Hitler
and TOTO any such measure Of
satisfaction.
The action of the U. A. w. in waiv-
Ing double time and time-and-a-half
pay for work on Sundays, holidays
and Saturdays reflects an apprecia-
ton by the union of the fact that
premium pay of this sort constitutes
an unwarranted penalty for seven
days-a-week operation of war plants,
The union did not go so far as to
relinquish any of its rights under the
forty-hour work week, however.
Thus, it will insist upon extra pay
for the sixth and seventh consecutive
days Of which, as distinct from
Sunday work and holiday work, is
actual overtime. In this connection
Mr.. Roosevelt indicated his approval
OF a forty-eight hour work week for
war purposes, although he did not
discuss pay aspects Of the six-day
week In effect, he went on record
against working any man longer
than six days in any one week, on
the practical ground that experience
has shown that no increase in pro-
duction is obtained from longer
stretches of duty. Certainly nothing
is to be gained by working men be-
yond the point where their efficiency
Is imperiled.
Evening star., 1942-04-08

the press of the world referred to that
Russian invasion as the stream roller"
which was going to Berlin. That was az
false a conclusion as the dismal as
sumption that the war was lost when
they, the Russians, retired in 1915.
Russia's role in that war, as maybe 1t is in
this, was to wear down and exhaust the
enemy year after year until general
Allied offensive on all fronts becomes
feasible.
1t is thought that the Russians have at
least three to five million reserves either
trained or partially trained. When q
German drive is exhausted and comes to
a standstill they will make q real Often
sive. As long as there Is an army In
being, man power and munitions and the
will to conquer on the part Of . nation
and an army, the movements back and
forth In the desolate wastes Of Russia
are no more significant than the ebb
and flow OF the tide which. - b well
known. comes and goes twice every "A
hours.