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Detroit evening times., 1942-09-13
SAYS "oLD SARGE"

No dogs AZ II he's troubled with fleas.
In my outfit, Regulation No. l reads;
ATTACK feas regularly with the SKIP
FLEA ONE-TWO treatment"
It's easy-and sure! ONE-a bath
with Sergeant's SKIP-FLEA Soap.
1t kills and cleans out heas and eggs.
TWO busting with SKIP-FLEA
Powder to kill new arrivals.
Rid your dog of feas with SKIP
FLEA. Get Soap and Powder at drug
and pet stores. Free Sergeant's Dog
Book, too.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-13

reveals Veronica Lake. "I've been seeking powder
shade that would do things for my very fair,
hard-to-match coloring Now comes Woodbury's
luscious new Color Controlled Natural shade. It's
so becomingly alive, know-at last I've met my
match" Of course, Veronica! You see, Hollywood
Evening star., 1942-06-17
BETHESDA, Md.

Dear Sir:
Il want to call attention to the un-
usual friendlineSs of the catbirds and
robins this summer.
These have always been favorites of
mine, as they are of many others, so I
always watch out for them and enjoy
their activities.
This summer both the catbirds and
robins will come up quite close to me in
the yard. In the past they have never
come so close, nor seemed so unafraid.
II can think of no special reason why
this should be So At first thought it
must just be my own observation. but
friends OF mine have confirmed my belief
that these birds are much more friendly
this year than usual.
Il think it would be interesting to
hear what you have to say on this mat
ter, and whether there are any reasons
for such behavior
with many thanks for your column,
I remain
very truly yours. T. c. ""
-
The exceptional friendliness OF cat
birds and robins, in particular, and Of
many other species, has been noticed by
many persons this year.
Just why this is nobody can say.
The solution perhaps would lead into
philosophical discussions, with maybe a
touch Of metaphysics added.
Who knows but that the birds are
sorry for us?
They may realize the mess into which
man, fellow creature in strange world,
has gotten himself, and be trying to show
their sympathy.
Here" the robin may be saying to us,
you creatures have all the food and
money for all OF you to enjoy life, and
yet you oddly prefer to spend it on blow
ing each other to bits.
1T just doesn't make sense to us
birds. We know the rigors OF winter,
and lack Of food, and cannot understand
why anything alive would not prefer to
cash in, as you say, on what you have.
You have admired the busy bee, and
lauded the provident squirrel which lays
up nuts for the cold winter.
yet "nen yelr turn comes, you put on
an economy of scarcity, and, in lands
teeming with oil, you have a lack of it.
1T is all too much for us robins.
1--WE always regarded you as very
smart, but now we will have to change
our minds.
Chickens, you have always said. do not
have enough sense to come in out of the
rain
Now man, himself, wonderful crea-
ture in feathers which he makes himself
(after stealing the material from the
Sheep does not have enough sense to
produce and use, to enjoy life and wor-
ship his Creator, Who has said to him,
Seek good, not evil, that We may live
Yes, we birds feel sorry for you.
You have harried us for centuries,
but somehow most of us have managed
to pull through. Our beautiful passenger
pigeons are nothing but legend, since
Evening star., 1942-06-17

off-street parking facilities. That Is
the type Of intelligent planning that
pays big dividends later on. Even
greater opportunities for effective
planning lie before the new Motor
Vehicle Parking Agency, which
starts to function on July /. This
agency can ill afford to lose time
in tackling such questions as the
establishment of fringe parking
areas-which can be of great value
during the present tire and gasoline
shortages in conserving fuel and
rubber Of passenger cars. Surely it
will be easier to work out methods
of permanent parking relief today
than to wait until the problem again
has reached critical stage and only
stop-gap remedies can be applied.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. 7race,UeH

yoW boys and men with guns and clubs
killed them all.
hid you set yourself bad example,
then. in the forests and clearings Of
Ohioland Indiana and Illinois?
"Wt feel sorry for you, we birds. and
so we come close to you, in your yards, to
express our sympathy for you in the only
way w know"
ThaEks, Mr.. Robin for that nice lee
ture.
But ! will do no good, we are sorry
to say.
We til you plainly, it will do no good.
Man ) killer, from the beginning.
He LIES It,
At times, in his history, 1t seems as II
ordinary everyday killing Is not enough
for him.
He must 60 on perfect rampage Of
killing.
Truly, he birds must feel sorry for us.
The otler day we watched catbird in
a yard with many people present.
There tas a great deal of noise and
walking sound, but the bird did not
mind it In the least.
He CANT within few feet OF every
body present, only one of whom paid any
attention p him.
1t is suel a bird as this. no doubt,
which may be taught to eat from the
hand.
Robins az always friendly, but it does
seem this eason as If they were out
doing their usual friendly selves.
Wood thushes are always well in
clined towah mankind. They will walk
calmly around in front OF whirring
lawn mower, hopping out of the way only
at the last moment.
This, to or mind, is even more Won
derful than he friendly action of robins
and catbirds.
The thrush is after all, fest bird
Its very rRn1e, wood thrush, shows
something Of its early habitat. Even
today the hermit thrush, living up to its
own common name, sticks closely to
wooded areas
Not so It's COUSIN, the wood thrush. 1t
has left the forests primeval for good,
and come dovn 70 spend each summer
with you and me, if we live in the sub
urbs. We hate heard no reports for a
| long time of any wood thrushes being
seen in the cit, proper. eve would ap-
| preciate hearirg of any,
An odd note in seasonal changes:
1t does not stem to these ears that the
thrushes are singing as loudly this sum-
mer as last.
But the moclingbird is going it night
and day, with .nough vigor to make up
for any shortcomings on the part of the
| thrush.
He even imitttes the thrush, although
very poorly.
Most mockin3oirds do not try to imi-
| tate the thrush and when they do it.
which is every tow and then, they do it
with sarcastictinge as if to say. "Oh, I
could do 1t betor. If wanted to, but I
do not want to. Why should -"
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Nurse Shortage

The Commissioners committee to
study the shortage Of nurses in
Washington is confronted with a
phase of the public health problem
which has attained critical proper
tions as the city's population has
expanded under the spur of the war
program. The nurse shortage was
being felt in a number of local hos
pitals even prior to development of
the war emergency and efforts were
made to expand facilities for training
women in this vital line of work.
Off1cials assert that one of the prin-
cipal handicaps in the recruiting pro-
gram has been the salaries paid
hospital nurses. The hospitals say
they cannot afford to pay higher
scale without outside aid.
Washington entered the war period
with approximately 5000 registered
nurses listed as available for service,
but that reservoir has been materially
drained as the demand for Army and
Navy nurses has increased in recent
months. Other nurses have gone
into various fields of war work,
either because of more attractive pay
or because of a belief that they could
better serve their country in an ac-
tivity directly connected with the
war program. This depletion of the
nurse supply has come at the worst
possible time-when the Nations
Capital is growing at a dizzy pace
and the need for hospital care is
proportionately on the increase.
Because the need for additional
nurses is so urgent, with several
hospitals threatened with the neces-
eity of curtailing services or actually
closing down certain wards, the COM
mittee called together by Health
Officer Rutland properly should de-
vote a major share of attention to
ways and means Of relieving the
immediate crisis. 1t has been sug-
gested, for example, that a pooling
Of nurses among hospitals might be
helpful, since the shortage is affect
ing the institutions sby varying de-
grees Another proposal is that the
training of nurses aides be speeded
up and that these aides be given
wider range of sickroom duties, in
cluding the right to administer SIM
pie medicines and perform certain
services now denied them. A re-
newal of appeals to former nurses to
re-enter the profession, at least
during the current emergency,
might prove productive. "Refresher"
courses for those who re-enlist as a
public service are available.
1t Is to be expected that the COM
mittee will not overlook considera-
ton Of long-view remedies for the
nursing shortage. Involved in the
permanent program are questions OF
possible Federal subsidies to support
a higher salary scale (Which obvi-
ously is only temporary expedient),
establishment Of professional train
Ing schools for nurses apart from the
hospitals and other proposals for
increasing the supply of qualified
nurses 1t should be remembered
that the need for more women in
health work existed here even in
pre-war days.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Timely Report

The House Military Affairs Sub
committee report giving a clean bill
of health, on the whole, to dollar-a-
year men in Government agencies
serves a useful purpose at this par
ticular time.
1t is quite possible, as this report
suggests, that a few dollar-a-year
men may have put their private in
terests ahead of their responsible
ties to the Government, but the
trouble with most of the criticism in
the past has been that no effort was
made to distinguish between those
who were rendering loyal service and
those who were not
The inevitable result Of these in
discriminate accusations was to cast
suspicion on all dollar-a-year men.
This circumstance made 1t difficult
for the Government to obtain the
services of capable men, who were
reluctant to come to Washington
knowing that they would serve as
targets for critics who preferred to
deal in generalities.
1t is to be hoped that the report OF
the House subcommittee will put an
end to this form Of petty politics.
But if that is too much to expect, it
should at least serve to bring about
a more accurate public evaluation OF
the motives of those who deal in
criticism without regard to facts.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Income Limitation

1t is hardly surprising that Chair
man Doughton Of the House Ways
and Means Committee has an
nounced that his group is not in
clined to take the responsibility Of
considering the administration
proposal for imposition Of a SIS, 900
ceiling on individual incomes.
The proposal. as submitted to the
committee by the Treasury, was not
advanced primarily as revenue
measure, although it was estimated
that it would raise about $184 900 900
from II 900 taxpayers. On the con-
trary, it was set forth, frankly, as
measure of social reform. "Funda-
mentally" the Treasury statement
said, "the purpose Of this proposed
tax is to promote the war effort .
by assuring the masses of people
that there is to be relative equality
of privilege in fighting the war" In
other words, this means that the
proposed legislation is designed pri-
marily for a political effect rather
than as a revenue measure, and as
such it has no place before the Ways
and Means Committee.
1t is also interesting to note that
the Treasury's version of the plan is
a considerable modification Of that
which was originally proposed by the
President. At the outset the pro-
poSal was simply to chop of incomes
at $4,000 after payment of taxes.
Recognizing that this was unwork-
able, the Treasury has suggested
various notifications, including
one-year allowance for past income
taxes and IS per cent deduction for
debt. Even with these notifications,
however, it is far from clear just
how the war is going to be won by
making political instrument out
of what is supposed to be a revenue
bill.
The Treasury, it is true, has put
this plan forward only as wartime
measure. But II 1t would have any
merit during the war, which is doubt
full to say the least, why would 1t not
also be meritorious after the war?
Equality of privilege, whatever that
may mean, would seem to be just as
desirable in time of peace as in war,
and there is more than a little reason
to believe that the arguments which
the Treasury is making for adoption
of the measure now would be renewed
in behalf Of It's retention after the
war is over.
But this Is hardly the time 10 Be
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Looking Ahead

The Traffic Advisory Council is to
be commended for the stand it has
taken against lengthening the CITY,
wide parking limit from eighteen to
seventy-two hours. Certainly this is
no time to be proposing any liberal
ization of parking restrictions in
Washington, for it is evident that
gasoline and tire rationing is tending
to relieve parking congestion for the
duration of the war emergency. To
let the bars down on parking dur
ing this abnormal period would be
to impose on the city temporary"
parking regulations which might
prove difficult to dispense with when
normal traffic conditions return
after the war.
Instead of relaxing with regard to
parking restrictions, Washington
should redouble it's efforts to lay
the groundwork for a permanent
solution of this difficult problem
The time will come when automobile
assembly lines again will be turning
out cars on mass production sched-
ules, when city streets are clut-
tered with passenger automobiles in
unprecedented numbers and when
the parking problem will be more
acute than it has ever been in the
past-unless remedial measures have
been taken during the wartime
breathing spell"
That is why far-sighted program
OF permanent relief proposals should
be carried forward without letup
right now. The District Zoning COM
mission has shown a realistic appre-
citation of the long-range problem
by taking steps TO insure that all
future residential buildings will have
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Anniversary of Compiegne

Two years have passed since Mar
Shal Petain appealed to Adolf Hitler
for an armistice. 1t was on June II,
1910. that the aged successor of Paul
Reynaud announced that he had
asked "our opponent If he is ready
to sign with us, as between soldiers,
after the fight, and in honor, means
to put an end to hostilities." The
Germans at the moment were re-
ported to have cut of the Maginot
Line, occupied Verdun, Dion, Metz
and other key cities and completely
dislocated the military transporta-
ton system upon which France de-
pended for the movement of troops
and the maintenance of effective
operations.
Negotiations for peace were staged
in the railway car in Compiegne
Forest where representatives of the
new German republic had consented
to articles of capitulation on Novem-
Der II, 1918. Der Fuehrer himself at
tended the ceremony of submission.
His demands, he insisted, cast mo
aspersionS against an enemy so
brave" When they had been &C
cepted by General Charles Huntziger
and Rear Admiral Maurice A. LIE Luc,
Petain broadcast to the world his
acceptance of them. In brief, the
significance of the agreement was
that France became a captive ma
ton. Much of her soil was yielded
to the foe, the ma. ority of her people
were surrendered to Nazi rule. a long
agony which still continues then
began.
But the two years of misery under
German domination conceivably
might have been still worse than in
fact they were. To the credit of the
French population, it must be re-
membered that resistance to the
invader has not ceased. No day has
closed without some incident to
show that the spirit of opposition
remains alive. Numberless execu-
tions have failed to halt acts of sabo-
tage which the Nazis freely admit are
interfering with their exploitation Of
the country. Hitler is hated now
with a passion far in excess Of that
with which he was favored at the
start of the war.
Meanwhile, Petain is entitled to
credit for preserving the rags and
tatters of national integrity. He
never has bowed completely, and the
government OF the United States
recognizes his endeavor to save the
remnants Of independence. The sur
viving ships Of the French fleet are
not flying the swastika flag, French
collaboration" repeatedly has been
demanded by the Nazis largely in
vain. There can be little II any ques-
ton about the Joy with which the
people of France, unconquered, will
welcome the development OF the
second front" which has been
promised
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Letters to the Editor
Discusses Commissioners Lack Of Powers
To Deal With Housing Problems.

Discusses Commissioners Lack Of Powers
To Deal With Housing Problems.
To the Editor of The Star:
In your story of June Is on the dis
cussion Of a housing code enabling act
between District officials and the WASH
ington Housing Association. you say, the
housing representatives agreed to accept
the contention OF Corporation Counsel
Keech and Assistant Engineer, Col.
Beverly C. Snow, that the law OF 1892
was broad enough and that the language
Of their bill might operate to restrict
some steps deemed necessary This is
not correct.
The Housing Association representa-
tives stated at the beginning and end
OF the conference that the formation of
good basic housing code was a pre-
basic act of 1892 was adequate and
(2) convincing Congress that more in
spectors are necessary.
The District of Columbia officials ad-
mitted that their present powers are in
adequate in three outstanding situations:
/. Closing insanitary dwellings by the
Health Department until the violations
are corrected. At present new tenants
move in the day after the insanitary
premises are ordered vacated.
2. Jail sentences for persistent vio-
lators.
3. Revising the cumbersome and in
effective regulation for the condemnatio
of unsafe and irsanitary buildings, under
which very little has been done for the
past 16 years.
These are only three points which oc-
CURED to the meeting at that time.
There are doubtless many more. The
only way to make sure that the Com
missioners have adequate legal powers
is to draft a housing code and then see
If there is sufficient power to enforce it.
The main point of difference between
the District officials and the representa-
tives of the Housing Association seems
. to be due to a confusion of approach to
the problem. The Housing Association
believes that there are now too many
laws enacted by Congress which could
have been provided by the Commissioners
under the police powers given to them
by Congress In the basic act of 1892
Because the Commissioners in the past
so years have not always believed in their
own administrative authority, they have
asked Congress to help them. The result
has been to freeze into law matters which
require such regulations as can be made
or altered to fit changing conditions.
MRS. HELEN DUEY HOFFMAN,
Executive Director, Washington
Housing Association.
Evening star., 1942-06-17

saddling the country with expert
mental legislation, and to the extent
that this proposal may be regarded
as a first open attempt to use the
war emergency as a vehicle for un-
loading new and fancier ideas under
the guise Of social reform" it makes
a distinctly unfavorable impression.
Our prospects of getting on with the
war would be better If the Treasury,
instead OF dabbling in political enter
prises, were to confine itself to the
serious and important business Of
proposing measures designed pri-
marily to raise revenue.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Differs With Writer on Start
OF Present Russo Finnish War.
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor Of The Star:
In the interesting article by Bertram
Benedict published in the columns of
The Star on June Is there is a passage
which does not correspond to the events
as they happened year ago.
Mr.. Benedict writes: After Germany
invaded Russia in June, 1941, German
forces drove the Russian armies out of
the Baltic states, which now are under
full German occupation. Soon there
after Finland opened war on Russia"
The Department of State press release
No. $50 of December 18, 1941, giving the
chronology Of certain politico-territorial
events since March, 1885," contains the
following relation about the reopening
Of hostilities between the Soviet Union
and Finland June AZ. Germany invades
the Soviet Union: the latter raids Fin
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Aim

1t is strange that t,Do apple trees
should aim
Their groWth in the center OF
field ,OhoSe claim
To crops none can deny; ploughtime,
Halt up the slope Dhere the horse
must climb,
There are the trees all loaned NTH
bloom,
And the strdininq mare finds nostrtl
Quantity in Bhite ,Dhtle turning past;
Come harvesting, the uerp last
Potatoes in the middle rop
Are gathered ,Dhere the apples groU,
Perhaps the orchardist meant 1t
to be,
So the ploughman and harvester
could see
More than the earth beneath their
tread
Take note OF sky through boughs
overhead.
JESSIE NJ DOWLIN.
Evening star., 1942-06-17
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. HdSktn

A reader can get the ansDer to any
question OF fact By Drittng The Ere-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director. Washington,
D. c. Please tncloss stamp for return
postage.
@. What is used to propel torpedo7-
T. w. s.
A. Behind the warhead OF q torpedo
is compartment holding compressed
air, which is the main driving force.
@. How many cities have adopted ths
city manager plan?-H. j.
A. IN l94l l9 more cities adopted the
city manager plan, bringing the total
up to 52l.
@. What Is the name OF the bridge on
which men spend their entire lives
painting7-J. N.
A. The railway bridge over the Firth
OF Forth in Scotland. The task requires
three years and the work of painting is
continuous. Fifty tons of iron paint are
used.