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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
Playground
Motes

Top event at the seven city
Fairgrounds during the past
week was pet contest, sponsored
by the City Department Recrea-
ton. Prizes were awarded to the
best pets at every playground,
the judging taking place on
Wednesday afternoon; ra n S
Thursday forced the postpone
ment of the event at three play
grounds.
At Lincoln playground, where
story hour is held every after
noon, Eugene Smith and Harry
Allor are all set for the next
contest there, checker con-
test; they were the first two
players to sign up. under the di-
rection of Sarah Jane Kennedy,
supervisor At the Dickin-
son playground, a croquet and
horseshoe contest was held dur
ing the week, an event sharing
the spotlight with the ever-popu-
lar softball In a Dickinson
game with Wilson, Willard Gou-
lette turned the hero's role by
pitching and batting his team to
victory; his three-run homer
was instrumental in the 9-6 VIC
tory.
At Griffith, pitcher Abe Alb
bolt. duplicated Goulette's per-
Torrance as he blasted the only
homer in 1915 victory over the
Lincoln softball team A
girls ten at Griffith, where Dor
othy jenkins is supervisor, won
over the Grant girls, ia, as Oil
mar Williams, Gladys Heller
and Ruth Whisitt all hit home
runs; Group singing and
amateur hours have been popu-
lar there, as at Dickinson, where
Teddy Montgomery, Ruth Smith
Yodel, Lawrence Johns, Evelyn
Haroldson and Patricia Smith
have been particularly active in
the harmonizing.
At Grant School, where Mary
Jane Shoemaker has charge, q
chicken took most of the public
ity for the week In the pet
contest the chicken delighted the
judges by being Johnny On The
Spot and laying an egg, winning
third prize at the playground for
the owner, Eugene Fink
Clay modelling was the handi-
craft event of the week, with
Margaret. DeLaRue, handicraft
instructor making her usual
swing of the seven Fairgrounds.
On Tuesday, she was at
Wilson, where Jane Lindsey is
supervisor.
Donaldson school scored q Is
IL victory over Griffith and wal
Hoped Lincoln. 1872, in softball
games The younger chill
dren have been busy with cro-
quet and dodgeball under the
direction of Claire Siegel Il.
Lincoln schools Newcomb team
won a pair of games over Dick
inson. 21-13 and PILL during
the week Next Thursday,
the Lincoln children will paint
the figures they modelled in clay
this week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
BY ID. HAROLD OLIVER

-CongreSSmen are beginning
to note with relief that this
years primaries so. far have
been kind TO the "ins."
In the ID states which have
voted, candidates have been
chosen for nearly one-fourth of
the "a senatorial and more than
quarter of the 435 house seats
to be filled this fall Only one
senate and ten house incum-
bents have been defeat e d.
Fears of some lawmakers that
wartime elections would give
the "outs" an edge appear to
have been misplaced.
: The ratio Of one defeat out of
eight senators running for re-
nomination and ten set backs for
incumbents in l24 house races is
about average for off-year cam
paigns.
What the remaining primaries
and state conventions will show
may change this ratio some
what, but sitting members are
resting easier these days. The
ms still can get a trouncing
in November, many of them
realize. But that is far away
when measured in time of a
world at war. and battle front
developments may make up the
minds of many voter.
The elections to date have
failed to disclose any trend to
gauge the November results.
Although pre-Pearl Harbot vot-
ing records may have figured
more or less in few contests
the majority have cen decided
on local and other issues.
William j. Bulow (D-SD),
is the only senator so far to lose
out in the primaries. Four other
Democrats-Josiah w. Bailey,
North Carolina; John H. Bank
head, Alabama; Clyde L. Her
ring, Iowa, and Josh Lee. Okla
homa, have won senatorial re-
nominations, as have three Re-
publicans-Charles L .McNary,
Oregon, the Senate Minority
leader: C. Wayland Brooks, Illi-
nois, and Wallace II. White, Jr.,
Maine.
Six Democrats and four Re-
publicans have failed of renomi-
nation for the house. The six
Democrats are Leo Kocialkow-
ski, Illinois; Luther patrick, Ala
bama: William T. Schultz, Indi-
ana; Charles I. Faddis and Guy
L. Moser, Pennsylvania, and
Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma.
The four Republicans: George
A. Paddock, Illinois; Benjamin
Jarrett. Pennsylvania; Charles
r. Robertson. North Dakota,
and James c. Oliver, Maine.
Three more primaries are to
be held this month involving as
many senate seats, but one in
cumbent, Senator Lloyd Spencer
(D-Ark) is barred by. state law
from running to succeed himself
in Arkansas initial primary
July % because he holds office
by appointment. Two house
members, David D. Terry, dean
of the state delegation, and
Clyde T. Ellis, public power
advocate are among the candi-
dates for the senatorial nomina-
ton. A run-off primary is held
in that state August IL.
The Montana primary July 81
and that in Texas July Is are at
tracing more than normal atten-
ton in political circles as sena-
tors from those states have what
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
REPORTS PROVIDERS

Robert Sinks, 1872 North Riv-
er, told sheriff's deputies at 9:15
p. m. yesterday that an attempt
had been made to enter his
home. The vandals cut a hole in
a rear screen door, but were I'M
able to force open the door.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
EXPLANATION

CHICAGO-Mayor Edward J..
Kelly arrived at his desk, wear
ing a butterfly bow tie and be-
low ii on his shirt front q shin
ing gold tie clasp.
Questioned about the clasp, the
Mayor looked down in surprise
and explained:
well, you see, Mrs. Kelly
usually gets my shirts ready for
me. She must have thought I
was going to wear Q four-in-
hand and put it there. But since
she works at the Service Gen.
ter. she often leaves home be-
fore l do in the morning. She
left this morning ahead Of me-"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
ODDITY

ODDITY
Worthless stocks. securities,
bonds, and mortgages are used
for wallpaper in the headache
room" Of the Union League Club,
Chicago.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17
VARIABLE

VARIABLE
So greatly does the climate
vary at different levels of the
South American Andes at the
equator that you can get tropical
fruits at one level and ice at an
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-07-17

The 1899 tuberculosis death
rate in Ohio was 43.1 per 1000
of the population.
Evening star., 1942-01-27
Recalls Sentiment Of 1917
For Present Application.
, the Editor Of The Star:

TO the Editor Of The Star:
1t was the hot summer Of 1917 when
I first came to crowded Washington on
my first job. was an enthusiastic war
worker enrolled at 500 a month, but
later 1 succeeded in getting this pushed
up to $125, since 1t was honestly impos-
sible for me to live here on 500.
One day was asked to work up some
copy for a war booklet and one of the
items I produced read as follows: go
back to the simple life. Be contented
with simple food, simple pleasure, simple
clothes. Work hard, pray hard, play hard.
Work, eat recreate and sleep. Do 1t all
courageously. We have a victory to win. !"
About two weeks later was startled
to see this item printed in red, signed
with the name Of the big boss Of our
organization, to be inserted In little
dodger into every letter. 1t was picked
up and printed in magazines and news
papers. I was very proud.
I have been writer for many years,
but think have never written anything
better than this four-line piece of ghost
ing pounded out on typewriter when
was very young and my beloved country
was at war. 1t seems to be just as ap-
plicable today as it was in 1918.
FLORA G. ORR.
Evening star., 1942-01-27
Praise for Free journalism

Perhaps the highest compliment
ever paid to the American press is
that of a Nazi officer who writes to
Hitler's "Voelkischer Beobachter"
that the principal fault of the
people of the United States is that
they believe what they see in
print"
Undoubtedly, the allegation is JUS
tilted. It has been demonstrated
again and again both before and
since the beginning of the present
world crisis that American citizens
commonly have faith in the journals
Of news and opinion by which they
are served. The fact that the Amer
ican public has been privileged to
enjoy complete liberty of phiIo-
sophical development during more
than century and half compels
accuracy and reasonableness in their
press. No publication consistently
unworthy Of the confidence of its
readers could survive very long in
the United States.
In the totalitarian countries,
however, conditions are different.
The journalists Of Germany, Italy
and Japan are permitted neither the
right nor-even the duty Of untram-
meled utterance. Freedom and re-
Evening star., 1942-01-27
Hoskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. H1skin.

A reader cdn get the ans,Der to any
question OF fact by tortting The Eue-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington,
D. c. Please incLose stamp for reply.
@. BY whom was the capital of Turkey
moved from Constantinople to Ankara?
r. r. S.
A. The late Kemal Ataturk moved the
government to Ankara, 1t Is said, to
escape European politics. Ankara was
declared the capital of Turkey by a
decision of the~Great National Assembly
on october 13, 1923.
@. Please give me the source of the
quotation, Il will fight 1t out on this
line if it takes all SUMMER. H. H.
A. The phrase Fight it out on this
line If 1t takes all summer" occurs in
a letter Of May II. 1864, from Gen. Grant
to Gen. Halleck, written at Spotsylvania
Court House after the battles of the
Wilderness. The statement expressed
Grants determination to continue his
plan Of advance on Richmond in spite
OF heavy losses.
Evening star., 1942-01-27

The storm has passed, and parallel
ogr1mS
OF rain no longer cut their narrow
lines
Across the fields. This clustered bud
OF lambs
Beneath the shelter of the hillside
pines
SloDly untolds like q chrysanthemum
At daDn. These many tasseled
heads OF rye,
That haze been staring dotDntodrd
bent and numb,
Look up,Dard once again and see tho
sky.
That ddrkened cloud descending to
the east
Is like map OF mountains and pla-
teaus,
Whose grim uolcanic rumblinos all
haue ceased.
And higher 1Dhere its trinoes no,o
disclose
White beaches and fantastic shores
instead,
There like an outbound vessel for
Cdthdy,
The sun appears and beckons over-
head
Ten floating islands tn q placid bay.
TEMPLE HOLLCROFT.
Evening star., 1942-01-27
Wartime investigations

Senator Chan Quincy, Republican,
OF South Dakota has advanced sug-
gestion which may not be popular
with some Of his colleagues. but
which nevertheless has a great deal
to recommend it.
Declaring that $50 persons in one
War Department division recently
were obliged to spend all Of their
time assembling information for a
congressional committee while neg
lecting vital regular work, Senator
Quincy contended that under exist
ing war conditions there is no point
in wasting time of busy officers and
officials before committees up here"
This is statement which has the
merit Of directing attention to
state Of affairs that easily may cause
serious abuses in time Of war. It may
be doubted whether Congress would
or should abandon all military in
vestigations for the duration of the
war. Obviously, there must be some
investigation If Congress is to legis-
late intelligently, but it is equally
evident that more harm than good
would result If congressional in
quiries should be carried to a point
where they interfere with proper
functioning in the military establish
ments.
This is a matter which urgently
calls for the application Of rule of
reason, to the end that Congress may,
secure such information as is really
essential to proper legislation, while
resisting the temptation to seek per-
sonal notoriety through investiga-
tions that have little if any relation
to legitimate legislative functions.
If Senator Gurney's observations
bring improvements in this respect
he will have made a not inconsider-
able contribution to the Nations war
effort.
Evening star., 1942-01-27

sponsibility alike are denied them.
They are the slaves Of dictators who
furnish the patterns to which, with
out the slightest deviation, they
must conform. A dogma of compul-
sion governs them. Naturally enough,
it follows that the price they pay for
their subserviency is that of being
understood for what they are. They
are disbelieved even when by acci-
dental chance they happen to be
truthful!
The proper answer, then, to be
returned to the critic writing in the
"VoelkiScher Beobachter" is that 1t
appears to be the sorry fate Of the
peoples Of the Axis nations that they
cannot believe what they see in
print"
Evening star., 1942-01-27
Guurdsmen Bon

The order requiring State home
guard units to discharge all members
employed by the Federal Govern
ment is proving a serious blow to the
excellent companies that have been
formed in nearby Maryland and Vir-
ginia. The unexpected edict, coming
at time when the guardsmen are of
vital Importance to their States, has
causeds nearby companies to lose
from 25 to so per cent Of their per-
sonneI.
The order is said to have been in
tended to avoid disruption of Federal
offices. Some branches of the Fed
eral Government, particularly the
postal service, were reported to have
been seriously affected by having
many of their men called to home
guard duties. In one Maryland COM
munity it was said that seven postal
workers, including the postmaster,
were members of the State Guard.
The War Department also said that
many guardsmen had asked to be
relieved Of active duty because OF
their Federal employment.
Whatever the justification for the
order, the effect on the guard COM
panies has been comparable to the
effect Of the original Hatch Act on
the governing bodies of nearby towns.
All communities in the Washington
area are composed largely of Federal
workers. Frequently they are the
most able, the most experienced and
the most active in civic enterprises.
Just as the Hatch Act, before it was
amended, affected many veteran mu-
nicipal of1ceholders, so the new ban
Gusts numerous key men in the ranks
Of the guard companies.
The State Guard in Maryland and
the Virginia Protective Force across
the Potomac were formed to serve in
emergencies after the National
Guard was ordered into Federal
service. The Federal ban has 30
shattered their ranks that companies
Evening star., 1942-01-27

Why are there fewer birds at feeding
stations on Sundays?
This question was asked Of this column
the other day. and we didn't get around
to answering it, owing to other matters,
but 1t Is an interesting theme.
Many homeowners who like to feed
the wild birds know that 1t Is true.
Somehow, there never seem to be as
many songsters at the seed and grain
stations on Sundays as on weekdays
Some observers swear, too, that there
are no bluejays. Most content them
selves with declaring that 1t is not the
absence Of any one species which wor-
ries them, but 4 diminution In numbers
Of all species.
The only logical answer can be that
more persons put out something for the
birds to eat on Sunday.
This tends to draw them away from
the gardens where they find food regu-
larly the week around.
1t is probable that persons who Just
think of the birds on Sunday do not
have stocks Of seed and grain.
They simply use such foodstuns as
they have handy.
This means that the birds in a given
neighborhood will get a treat" as it
were. something different from the reg
ular bill OF fare.
There can be little doubt that birds, as
well as men, like a novelty.
Especially is this true when it comes
to something to eat.
While the wild birds at suburban and
city feeding stations eat with gusto the
food put out for them, they, too, are
always looking for something new"
Yet those persons who have tried
putting out cottage cheese, for instance,
at well-stocked and well-attended feed
ing station, are likely to fnd that the
white stuff merely frightens the birds.
Why is this?
No doubt II the cottage cheese Is
placed in a yard where no feeding has
been carried on, 1t would only attract
the birds, not scare them.
The answer seems to be that novelty
is not relished at the old stand. There
it serves as something new" which
disturbs the thinking processes Of the
birds. Call these reactions" If you will
1t makes no difference. the reactions
seem to be the result OF thought. The
thought might run along this line
That here, where good food was secured
safely, something new has appeared
and this something new" is q matter
for great suspicion in such q place. This
is natures conservatism, the foil to
natures daring and determination to
experiment.
4 4
The psychology Of the human element
in the scene has something to do with
It, we believe.
Most persons have more time to OBJ
serve the birds on Sundays than on
other days.
Evening star., 1942-01-27
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. Trdce1ceH.

Thus they watch more carefully and
tend to think that the attendance at the
feeding tray is not up to snuff. as the
saying has 1t.
All the time there are Just as many
birds, but the watcher has been expect
ing something huge, therefore the real
turnout strikes him as somewhat
disappointing.
1t must be kept in mind that many
Of the birds at feeding stations where
numbers appear are common sparrows.
This is not always realized.
30 many persons have become used
to the slur campaign against the Eng
lish sparrow that it never once enters
their heads that the songsters which
have appeared in numbers and which
have 50 delighted them could be just
common sparrows. But 1t is true. These
birds are the great background or chorus
Of birds at many feeding stations. 1t
would perhaps be fine If nothing but the
choicer birds would come, but 1t is un-
doubtedly true that the English sparrows
and even the starlings find their way
even to the most secluded suburban and
country places.
And there is no reason why the true
bird friend should not welcome them,
within reason. They, too, ere hungry,
and they have no place else to 90 for
food.
The sparrows, with their choral sing
ing, and their constant flights, offer
really interesting pictures, which the
cardinals and jays and titmice and
chickadees and others accent.
H%k
Now sparrows are very clannish.
And adventuresome
The city still calls them, although they
can find very little to eat there.
Our belief is that these bands often
fly back to the city just to look around.
Why they might select Sunday for this
trip Is unknown, unless we feel that
birds, as we'll as humans, find this
good day.
There is no reason why they shouldn't
select Sunday.
Friday, we believe, Is the blue jays
favorite travel day.
There is legend to the effect that the
jays go to visit the devil on this day.
but that story is undoubtedly the work
OF persons who profess to dislike jays.
Certainly nothing is more sure than
that certain birds like to fly around a
bit, and when they find themselves lured
away from regular feeding place by
new foods at new places. they simply
cannot resist the call.
Who could blame them? The lure Of
new eating places Is very well known to
most persons. Hope springs eternal In
the human breast, it is said, and this
saying may apply to birds as well II
any readers have any comments on this
matter, we should like to receive them,
because We think it Is a very interesting
subject.
Evening star., 1942-01-27
BIuckout Interest

Inc treasury Department. Qe-
mand for interest on the $1,0O0,O0
which has been advanced to the Dis
trict under the local blackout law
is indicative of an astonishing mis-
conception of the use to be made
of the money.
As in so many other instances, the
Federal authorities seem in this case
to overlook or ignore the fact that
the District, in addition to It's status
as municipality, is also the seat of
National Government. If Washing
ton were simply another city it would
not expect an interest-free loan, nor
would it have been necessary to make
the loan in the first place. In an
other city, the need would have been
less and the funds would have been
secured from municipal revenues or
by Federal grant, but the District,
being the National Capital, is faced
with an abnormal need for funds of
this character, yet it can neither
raise them through taxation on its
own initiative nor borrow without
express authorization of Congress.
Thus far it has been denied par
ticipation in civilian defense funds
already made available by Congress
for use in the States
1t was in these circumstances that
the application for legislation au-
thorizing the loan was made, and it
is significant that Congress, contrary
to the usual custom, passed a bill
which neither called for the payment
of interest nor specified any form of
repayment.
Congress, 1t would seem, viewed the
transaction as an advance, not as a
loan in the ordinary sense. Ger
tainly, that is the view of District
authorities, and there is ample prece-
dent for it. Under the Capper-
Cramton Act, for example, numerous
interest-free advances have been
made. And furthermore, the Federal
Government pays no interest on Dis
trict funds on deposit in the Treas
ury, nor does 1t share the interest
burden on such local undertakings
as the new Municipal Center Build
ing, which has been taken over in
part for Army use.
When the Treasury demands in
terest on an advance to the District
of funds which are intended to en-
able local authorities to cope with a
problem that is the direct result of
a national emergency, and when the
Federal Government is to be the
principal beneficiary of a satisfactory
solution Of the problem, one can only
conclude that no proper considera-
tion has been given to the peculiar
relationship that exists between the
Federal City and the Federal Gov
eminent. 1t Is to be hoped that the
Treasury Department, in the light OF
the manifest intention OF Congress
and the circumstances surrounding
the whole transaction, will reconsider
and abandon it's unwarranted inter-
est demand.
Evening star., 1942-01-27

once up to their maximum strength
have been reduced below the legal
minimum. Practically all have had to
resume recruiting. 1t Is hoped there
will be little trouble, however, in get
ting enough men quickly to bring the
units back to their former status.
The emergency is such that there
should be no dearth Of able-bodied
men willing to offer their services.