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Evening star., 1943-06-04

sixteen billion dollars additional in
taxation. And beginning next Janu-
ary, the employe will pay a 2 per cent
contribution to old-age insurance, in
place of the current per cent.
It Is well that the cost of the things
the Government wants to do should
be Immediately reflected in the en-
ploye's pay envelope. For it offers
the first opportunity majority Of
them ever have had of weighing the
manifest desirability, in the abstract,
Of such undertakings as social secur-
ity against the cost to him as a
taxpayer. When the price of social
security or anything else is thus pre-
sented in so tangible a form to the
individual taxpayer, there will be less
inclination to chase rainbows and
greater insistence on getting down to
realities. This may be disadvanta-
geous to the politician, but a boon
to the taxpayer.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Nonpurtisun Victory

1t Is highly gratifying that the
legislation to renew the Reciprocal
Trade Agreements Act for two years
has been passed by Congress on
basis which takes this program out
of partisan politics.
Two-thirds of the Republicans in
the House voted for the extension
bill. When the legislation reached
the Senate a harder fight was in
prospect, but number of crippling
amendments-some offered by Demo-
crats-were beaten and on the final
ballot only one less than half of the
Republican members voted to sustain
the State Department on this issue.
This is marked change in the Re-
publican voting record in previous
years and may be taken as an indi-
cation that an international program
capable of standing on its own merits
will receive the support of Congress
regardless of party affiliations.
There is no doubt that conSid-
erable measure of the nonpartiSan
support for the trade agreements,
now in effect with twenty-seven
countries, may be credited to the
manner in which the program has
been directed by Secretary Hull. At
no time in the execution OF these
agreements has he attempted to ex-
ercise powers which Congress did not
give him and he has been careful to
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Considering Cost
From the Toronto Star.

From the Toronto Star.
Archbishop Owen strikes at the root
of the matter when he asks whether
"the self1shness of the human heart" will
stand in the way of the kind Of new Or
der to which Canada's men overseas
look forward on their return That is
the great danger. The new order will
involve not only the provision of employ
ment, but the provision of social secur-
ity during unemployment. sickness, dis
ability and old age. Both provisions will
cost the state money. The money will
have to be raised by taxation. Profits
will have to be raised and incomes taxed
to provide 1t. Taxation that is tolerated
in war will be resented by many in
peace. There will be, as the archbishop
points out, . reaction.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Rehearsal Time
The sun shines on a ,Uooded lakeshore

The sun shines on a ,Uooded lakeshors
knoll
Where summer sounds are tuning
up again.
Querulous DireoS, an oriole
Are Uocalising. Whitethrodts flute
their strain.
A flicker taps cadence on an oak.
NoU near, 1op far, the elusivs
oDen-bird
Is practicing crescendos. Bulltrogs
crodk.
A bluejay screams. From OF the
lake, absurd,
QudUers lone looms call. The
soothing drones
OF honeyseekers, lured by brilliant
bait
Counterpart the more n1elodic tones.
The sun-tUarn,ed one who cares to
sit and ,Dait
May hear, breeze-borne, the hillsides
medley tune
OF summer sounds, auditionin1 for
June.
ELO1sE WADE HACKETT.
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Huskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. Haskfn.

6y FfC0ef1c J. HGSkfn.
A reader can get the dnstrer to anu
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postage.
@. What Is the approximate amount Of
land required to supply enough food for
one person?-A. J.F.
A. In the United States 1t takes an
average Of two acres, or more If grazing
is included, to supply the normal diet of
one person.
Q. How large do pumpkins srow?-
L. D.
A. The Missouri Historical Review saws
that a pumpkin was raised In Saline
County which weighed 1874 pounds and
measured nine feet in circumference.
This giant grew upon a vine with seven
other pumpkins, and the total weight of
the entire eight was nearly 1900 pounds.
@. How often have quadruplets been
born?-M B. E.
A. Medical history shows that the
birth Of quadruplets has occurred 50
times, but that only two sets have sur
vived. Sextuplets have occurred six
times, but none Of them survived.
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THIS AND THAT
BY Charles E. TrdcetUeu.

II can truthfully say that get rs much
pleasure from the birds as from any other
thing in life," writes the owner Of q place
at Forest Glen, Md.
"Our place is large, and is always
wild especially in the corners As We
never have been able to really get to
everything. and suppose 1t is just as
well, for perhaps we would not have 80
many birds If everything were cleaned
up"
Let the corners, at least go wild
That is a good tip for all persons in
terested In bird life, especially in attract
ing them to their own grounds.
Keeping lawn neat is one thing, but
manicuring place so that not blade
of grass or branch OF shrub Is out OF
place is another.
The birds do not like such fussiness.
They prefer wild corners. overgrown
with vines. where they like to nest.
They would like to find berry bushes
In the corners, too.
Many a small home grounds has
corners behind garages, for instance
that are good for nothing except trash
which too often is kept in them.
Blackberry bushes, and all others with
"stickers." will attract scores OF species
OF wild birds
as the catbrier. Smilax glauca. These
include the mockingbird, catbird, brown
thrasher. robin, hermit thrush and
cardinal
The hermit thrush, of course, will
seldom if ever come to the city or suburbs
He is not called hermit for nothing. But
he has shown a preference for the cat
brier If it Is in the woods.
The tidy yard is good city and
suburban ideal. -
Too much stress can be put upon it,
however.
Like most ideals 1t is best If pervaded
with commonsense. The neat yard has
everything to commend 1t except the
plain fact that the birds do not like it
as we'll
1t Is impossible, of course, to say that
just so many birds visit painfully man.
icured yard, and so many more the wild
place.
But 1t is evident to most observers that
the birds rather prefer the overgrown
yard, and so their human friends in time
come to plan their gardens with the
birds in mind
Keeping the birds in mind means that
not only will the gardener provide for
them, when they come, but that he will
try to attract them, too.
The best way to do this is not single
but double. First, plant such things a,
birds like. And second, see to it that
neatness is not overdone, but that a GER
tain amount Of wildness prevails.
There is no reason for permitting too
much overgrown shrubbery. or planting
blackberry bushes where they are not
desirable.
Vines should be kept in bounds, even
If there is nothing birds like better
Vines Of various types offer both food
and nesting sites for many species. Even
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climbing roses attract cardinals and cat
birds and song sparrows.
~
The Victory gardener, in his ambitious
plans for having plenty of fresh vege-
tables to eat and to can, should not over
look the birds.
Some Of the songsters will eat q few
Of his peas.
Well, let them. The amount con-
sumed will not be enough to I'LL one
quart jar, in all likelihood.
Vegetable gardens will attract both
wild rabbits and wildbirds.
Surely this should be inducement
enough to cause all friends of animals to
plant vegetables, If they do not have too
much shade.
vegetables are quick growers, and need
at least six hours Of sunshine a day.
They grow so fast, comparatively
speaking, that they cannot compete with
tree roots. So if the vegetable patch
must be too close to trees, think twice
before starting it.
The birds like the lush growth of
properly growing vegetables, just as they
respond to all green things, including
trees. shrubs and vines
The ambitious vegetable gardener will
discover before the season is over that he
has increased his crop OF food, birds and
Insects. The f1rst two will bo welcome.
the third not so much so, but In spraying
and dusting to control the insects, let
him keep In mind that most of the SPRAYS
and dusts are very poisonous and that
birds, eating insects which have partaken
OF poisons, will die, too Already reports
have come in of songbirds being killed
this way.
The home gardener II at the same
time he Is bird friend-and all garden
ers should be, because the birds are their
allies-will see to 1t that he uses non
poisonous sprays and dusts, insofar as
he can.
Wild places behind garages, and In
fence corners, and wherever else some
dlmculty may be experienced in cleaning
up may be places OF beauty, provided
they are not let go so long they are
messy"
In such places the birds nest freely,
because they know from centuries Of ex-
perience that their foes are not 50 likely
to f1nd them there
Even dead trees are favorites of wood
peckers and others. Often it Is not de-
slrable, from the standpoint Of bird life,
to take down a dead tree. It may be
better to leave it alone for awhile.
In the same way, old shrubs and vines
and plants which have served too long
still may have some life left in them
yet for the birds. which find in them a
reminder of the days when all America
was wild and overgrown, and snakes ran
all over the place, and no one had ever
heard OF barberry hedges or neat peren-
NAL borders. In those days the gladiolus
was the flag lily" and the peony was
called "payonie." Bluebirds were as COM
mon as robins, and old vines and berry
bushes were everywhere. Surely there
must have been some connection between
the two. If you name your place Wild
Corners, the birds will like it,
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readily may see that such experiments
always have proved to be dismal failures,

readily may see that such experiments
always have proved to be dismal failures.
The worldwide recurring depressions
which followed the last war have made
the people much more conscious of their
plight. They are beginning to feel their
real strength and a massive wave of
self-assertion is under way which cannot
be stopped, but which can be directed
into the channels of liberty instead OF
the channels of regimentation.
The future OF free men everywhere
rests upon the course that future taxa
tion will follow. To take from men, in
the form Of taxation, that which right
fully Is theirs Is to rob them of the fruits
OF their labor. BY thus depriving the
people of good part of their purchasing
power by taxing all initiative, we are
inviting the depressions and encouraging
impoverished people to follow any power
mad leader who promises relief.
Human nature and the cause of human
suffering are two things that never
change. Tyrants come and tyrants go,
but so long as the causes that bring
dictators into being exist, then we shall
continue to soak with our blood the soil
which God provided for human hap
piness.
The problems which confront us today
become less confusing and less COM
plex when we view them in the light
of fundamental truths. The world Is
only as complicated as we wish to
make it.
Dictators cannot end poverty and the
fear of poverty with an iron fist. How
ever weli-intentioned some of them at
the outset may be, they never can
abolish economic exploitation.
The monopoly of the earth and of
its resources which creates the poverty
that elevates these dictators can be
abolished If we will collect the full
annual rental upon the value OF all
land and abolish all other forms of tax
alton. This collection will defray the
cost of government upkeep and will put
an end to the outrageous and legalized
robbery OF the multitudes whose pres
ence contributes solely to the value of
Vic ldllO. VlCklOuV CllC pCOHlC WHO llfC
on 1t, the land has no value. Therefore
all the people have a moral and legal
right to the benefits which accrue from
Gods earth.
Another thing absolutely necessary for
the well-being of mankind and for
international amity is complete free
trade. We must abolish all tariffs be-
cause they aid the owners of the earth
to keep the price of commodities for the
consumer at monopoly level and re-
strict industry from natural Develop
ment. Frederick c. Crawford presi-
dent of the National Association OF
Manufacturers, stated this more clearly
when he said, I'VE are fighting as a
world nation. After the war we must
trade as one. Diplomatic peace and
economic warfare cannot live side by
side. Our own industrial genius has
forced us out into the world Whether
We like it or not, we are part Of q
world economy" D. A.
Evening star., 1943-06-04

Common Household Pests-1f 1t Is
moths that are bothering you, or ants,
or carpet beetles, or in fact any of the
usual household pests, then you need
copy Of this booklet right away.
The advice of scientists is to learn
what to do. and to do it promptly
and thoroughly. Common Household
Pests gives just the facts you need.
Besides those pests already men
toned. 1T includes flies, cockroaches.
bedbugs, mosquitoes. fleas, cent?
pedes, silverf1sh, termites, crickets.
wasps and rats and mice Don't let
troublesome pests spoil your summer.
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wrapped in this clipping and mail to
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Unhappy Medium

LII 1eIuld1ly, UIle lana OF extremes,
there is no happy medium-or to
put it in more roundabout but
clearer form, every medium in the
Reich is unhappy. The reason is not
far to seek. Hitler's latest clair
voyant-in- chief has been decorated
with the Order of the Dog House,
first class, and is no more. The office
is vacant, and strenuous attempts are
being made to fill it, AS a step the
Department of Occultism has been
established, with headquarters at
Munich, and all crystal gazers, for
tune tellers, palm readers and the
like must register, ito distinguish
dangerous forms Of occultism from
those which may be useful" in the
great paper hangers own words. Yet
to the forecaster, it is a distinction
without a difference, his lot is
dangerous in any event. In sooth,
the German soothsayer leads a hard
life but a short one. He is as ex-
pendable as match and meets ap-
proximately the same fate.
The clairvoyant honored by COM
mand appearance before Der Fuehrer
can tell him that his next plan will
work, and thereby live a few weeks
longer until it fails; or he can predict
that it will flop, and die sooner. In
a. L
his chosen career-he knows what
will happen to himself. The day is
not far distant, however, when every
one in Germany will be able to tell
what is coming, and without the
nuisance of consulting a crystal ball.
Evening star., 1943-06-04

@. Is 1t true that the Germans used
bees In battle during the First World
War;. H.
A. This was suspected until 1t was
found that swarms Of bees were stirred
into action by machine gun FIRE and that
both German and British soldiers were
attacked. The wild African honey bee
is serious menace and there are re-
corded cases of soldiers suffering more
than hundred stings
@. What is the United Church In
America?- A. R.
A. This is the title suggested for the
combined membership Of the Congrega-
tional and the Evangelical Reformed
Churches. If this movement should be
consummated the recognized -sS,-aments
would be baptism and the Lords Supper.
Q. Who referred to Winston Churchill
as the greatest master of the English
language?-E. L. H.
A. The late Alexander Woollcott, who
said OF him: Churchill is the greatest
master Of the English language since the
men who wrote the King James version
of the Bible"
@. What is the population m Can.
ADAM. T. H.
A. In 1941 it was II, ,41s, ,a16. Canada's
entire population Is considerably less
than the number OF people In New York
State alone
Q. Is Alfred Noyes, English poet, a
Catholic?-S. WE.
A. Mr.. Noyes was converted to tho
Roman Catholic Church about 1925.
@. What great scientist was 50 absent
minded that he boiled his watch instead
Of an egg?-T. E. E.
A. Sir Isaac Newton. A story is related
that he prepared to boil an egg for three
minutes by placing his watch In the
boiling water and holding the egg In his
hand.
@. Where was the first bridge built
across the Mississippi River?-P. D.
A. The first railroad bridge was built
at Davenport, Iowa. over the protest Of
steamboat men who regarded 1t as
nuisance to navigation. Abraham Lin
coin was the lawyer who argued the
case for the railroad men,
| @. What is the origin of the German
population of the Volga German Au-
tonomous Republic in Russia7-D. L.
A. Catherine the Great colonized this
region with German settlers about 1854.
| They came originally from Bavaria,
Alsace-Lorraine and Switzerland.
@. When will the first Of the stamps
I dedicated to the countries overrun by the
Axis be released?-C. F. F.
A. The first of this series, scent
stamp bearing a reproduction in colors
of the Polish flag, will Re placed on sale
on June % in Washington and Chicago.
@. What is the greatest altitude at
which a photograph of the earth has
been taken?-C. d.
A. The highest vertical photograph
made by man was taken during the
stratosphere flight on November II, 1885,
at a height Of more than Is miles above
the ground. The picture covers about
los square miles of territory in south
central South Dakota.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
No Sideshow Wanted

OuA pSAANy VI AioAlOllllB OdpdllCSS
aliens and American citizens of Japa-
nese ancestry was doubtless impro-
vised under the pressure of an emer-
gency and may contain defects need
ing remedy. But it is unfortunate
that the method chosen to examine
this policy now is more apt to spread
suspicion and distrust, catering to
dangerous forms of prejudice, than
to make any careful search for rene
diable weaknesses. This method is a
repetition OF the practice of making
charges in advance of congressional
hearing and then holding the hear
ing to bear out the charges. In this
case the Dies Committee investigator
has said that the War Relocation
Authority is releasing Japanese spies
and saboteurs willy -nilly," with re-
sulting dangers to national security.
There are approximately 10000
Japanese aliens or citizens OF Japa-
nese ancestry now in this country
About 10000 of these were affected
by the decision of military authori-
ties to evacuate such persons from
zones on the West Coast. About 10000
others, some of whom were living in
the zones and voluntarily removed
themselves before the evacuation and
others who are living in various
places throughout the country, were
unaffected. Those who were evacu-
ated were removed to the several re-
location centers, under the War Re-
location Authority, and held there
pending examination and relocation.
These in the relocation centers fall
into one of several categories-the
aliens, the citizens who have spent
all their lives in this country and the
"Kebei," citizens who have visited
Japan and in some cases spent years
there going to school, The Relocation
Authority contends that before any
individual is released. an investiga-
tion is made to determine whether or
not there is anything in his record
which would make it undesirable for
him to live outside of a relocation
center The Authority, at least, is
convinced that only loyal citizens
have been relocated under this pro-
cedure.
Perhaps the investigation of these
persons is not as thorough as it
should be. Perhaps there has not
been enough care in separating those
in these camps whose loyalty is sus-
pected from those who have good
records and character. Perhaps there
are other weaknesses in the system
which need correcting. But for the
simple reason, If for no other, that
there are thousands of Americans
now held prisoner in Japan, subject
to lll-trea tment under the guise of
reprisals, 1t is highly important that
our own policy toward the japanese
Or citizens of Japanese extraction
how in custody be based on civil
llzed concepts of justice and that
nothing be done to inflame racial
prejudices. The atmosphere of a Dies
Committee hearing has never been
conducive to unprejudiced weighing
OF the facts or the evidence.
Evening star., 1943-06-04
Buck-to-Work Order

Some $50 1000 striking coal miners
are faced today with firm order
from the president and Commander
in Chief" to return to work on Mon
day. Thus the strikers, who have
left the mines for the second time
within month, have three days to
decide what their course shall be. 1t
Is to be hoped that their sense OF
obligation to their country will pre-
vail over their real or fancied indi-
vidual grievances and that they will
be back at work when the deadline
arrives.
r On its face, the Presidents mes
sage of last evening Is less vigorous,
less emphatic, than his statement at
the time of the first strike early last
month. Yet there are two aspects of
this latest statement which are sig
nificant. First, it is not an appeal
Mr.. Roosevelt's words were, II order
and direct the miners to 60 back to
work. That is plain and simple Ian
guage, specific command which
the miners cannot disobey without
inviting serious consequences. Sec
ondly, the order unqualif1edly sup
ports the War Labor Board in it's
refusal to permit further wage nego-
tiations while the strike continues.
This is a blunt notice to John l..
Lewis that he and his miners will not
be permitted to defy the WLB; that
the miners must pursue the same
orderly process OF adjusting griev-
ances that has been prescribed for
all other labor unions and for all
employers. II the President sticks to
this position somebody will have to
give way, and that somebody will be
Mr.. Lewis. There is no telling how
much harm may be done to the war
program before the break comes, but
If Mr.. Lewis has the keenness of
perception with which he is credited,
he will understand that the Govern
ment does not intend to do business
with him while he continues to use
this outrageous strike as means of
coercion.
The President has not indicated
what he proposes to do If the strike
continues into next week and it is
possible that he has not made up his
mind on this point. The problem
which faces him is not an easy one,
for he has to concern himself pri-
rf1arily with getting the coal mined,
not with Furnishing the miners. Yet
nothing is more certain than that the
miners will be punished If they per-
sist in their reckless course. Even
now the handwriting on the wall is
plain.
Two State Governors-in Alabama
and TennesSee-have ordered the
cancellation of draft deferments of
striking miners of military age. A
draft board in Tennessee has served
notice that 1t will refuse to induct
any more men into the Army until
Nii1o SuA ihC 10 blOhCIl dllu GIlc NUf-
ernor supports their position These
people are closer to the strike than
any one in Washington and their
reactions may be takeh as indicative
of what will happen if the strike
continues. The people of the United
States are not going to sit idly by
while shortage of coal shuts down
our war plants and abandons the
hundreds of thousands of American
boys who are overseas fighting for
their country, which includes the
coal miners. The miners, or the vast
majority of them, must understand
that these things are true And, that
being the case, they must realize that
they cannot go on with this strike,
which hits at the heart of the Nation.
Evening star., 1943-06-04

avoid needless injury to groups
having special interests in particular
agreements without sacrificing the
larger objective of promoting the in
terests of the country as a whole.
This is an example of sound admin
istrative policy which might be fol-
lowed with profit by others in official
Washington.
Evening star., 1943-06-04

Our ancestors, both male and fe-
male, before the days of rubber held
up their long hose with knitted
worsted round garters. They prob
ably were little binding on the leg
veins and arteries, and it looks as if
the ladies, anyhow, would soon find
out.
Evening star., 1943-06-04

ITALY has no imperialistic ambi-
tions" declared Premier Mussolini re-
Gently. Another way Of phrasing this
could have been, Lost; one first
class set Of imperialistic ambitions"