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Evening star., 1943-03-07
Sow Seeds Indoors for First Crop
Hotbeds Also May Be Used to Gve Plants an Early Start

pose. On top of this place the
screened, sterilized enriched soil,
smooth the surface and firm the
soil. Sow the sterilized seeds, either
broadcast or In rows; or If plant
bands are used, SOW several seeds
in each individual band. Cover the
seed by sitting Il to u inch of fine
soil over the seed, and firm. If seed
is sown thinly, there is less danger
of damping-off.
Water the container by immersing
the bottom in water and allowing
the water to be absorbed by the soil.
The plant wick method of watering
Is now used by many gardeners in
the growing of seedlings, and it has
been found very satisfactory. This
method insures steady supply of
moisture, yet guards against over
watering,
Evening star., 1943-03-07

By the Master Gardener.
plant food thoroughly with each
quart Of soil.
The seed should also be sterilized
before sowing. Treat seed with red
copper oxide dust, using a pinch the
size Of an apple seed for a packet of
seeds. Merely shake a small amount
of the chemical in jar with the lot
Of seed to be planted, until each
seed is covered with dust. If red
copper oxide dust is not available
because Of war conditions, Semesan
may be used for sterilizing seeds.
Follow directions Of the manufac-
turer.
AS stated above, be sure the grow
ing container has ample openings
for good drainage, and in addition,
place about l inch of cinders or
gravel In the bottom for this pur-
Evening star., 1943-03-07

Seeds of tomatoes, cabbage, pep
pers, cucumbers and watermelons,
as well as of other tender vegetables
and flowers, may be sown indoors or
in hotbeds early in March to secure
plants for early transplanting in
the garden.
Seeds may be Sown In standard
seed flats, in pots, or in such equip
ment as cigar boxes that have been
properly perforated for drainage.
Plant bands may be used in con-
junction with flats or cigar boxes.
If seeds are started in plant bands,
and grown one plant to band, full
size plants will be produced without
transplanting, and transferring to
the garden is facilitated. You will
have considerably less loss of plants
when setting out in the garden.
(There are also available cardboard
self watering seed starter sets, but
they are intended for termination
only, and seedlings must be trans
planted from such starters into
regular garden flats or into pots, as
soon as the first true leaves Of the
seeding appear)
Clean growing containers and
sterilized soil are very important to
prevent damping oil and other dis
eases. The fiat or other growing
container may be sterilized by I'M
mersing in boiling water for 5 min
uteS.
Screen the soil thoroughly and
eEhat BY. baking, i1l q hot
oven at 400 degrees r. for several
hours or BY treating with FORMAL
dehyde. A Atablespoon Of 80 per cent
formaldehyde is diluted with three
or four parts Of water and the mix
ture is sprinkled over an average
sized fiat N2xl8x5 inches Of soil
and thoroughly mixed in. Soil thus
treated is allowed to stand for "a
hours to allow the formaldehyde
fumes to destroy harmful organisms.
Now mix one level teaspoonful of
Evening star., 1943-03-07
Garden Club
Notices

Mrs. Eber B. Woodruff will enter
tain the Chevy Chase ID. CO Gar
den Club at luncheon at l O'Clock
on Monday, at her home, 3708 Ingo-
mar street. Mrs. Woodruff will be
assisted by Mrs. Henry r. Cover
and Mrs. Henry T. Wirgman. The
clubs president, Mrs. Lawrence
Voorhees,, will preside.
The guest speaker, DR.. G. c. Mad
digan Of the University Of Mary
land, will discuss Soils"
Mrs. Edward Sweeney, chairman
Of the Victory Garden Committee of
the American Womens Voluntary
Services, announces new course in
Victory Gardening, scheduled to
start at 8 pm. on Wednesday In the
Shepherd School Auditorium, 14th
and Kalmia Road.
Lectures will be given every We'd
nesday evening, sponsored by the
AWVS and the Civilian Mobiliza-
ton Division of the Shepherd Park
area.
The Forest Hills Garden Club will
meet at 2:30 o'clock Monday at the
home Of Mrs. Leslie B. Wright, 1920
Thirtieth street NV.
Victory Gardens" will be the
topic of discussion, with Mrs.
Smith-Hutton giving an interesting
and Informative talk on the subject.
Members are urged to be present
and bring guests.
DR.. Roy MacGruder will speak on
Feeding Your Garden" at a meet
ing of the Sligo Park Hills Garden
Club on Tuesday. The meeting will
be held at 8:15 o'clock in the eve
ming, at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Reamy, IL Sussex road.
Mrs. Stewart Armstrong and Mrs.
Frank Hranak will act as hostesses.
Members of the Washington Gar
den Club will meet at noon on Mon
day at the home of Mrs. Floyd B.
Olcott, 1928 Orchid street.
The hostess, assisted by Mrs. H. F.
Anderson and Mrs. Howard Boil
linger, will serve luncheon.
Mrs. r. McClelland Baldwin will
present the guest speaker, Mrs.
Donald McHenry, who will talk on
Birds and Gardens" A round-table
discussion will follow the clubs reg
ular business session.
Evening star., 1943-03-07
By WiIiiam II. Younamon,

Aoitog.n y
District resident tries to keep his
garden we'll watered this summer the
city's water supply system will be
overworked before the seeds sprout.
No, watering Is very apt to be out of
the cstion, and the gardener will
need . depend upon the hoe and
nature to conserve and supply all
that is needed.
Without supplemental watering,
the home gardener may turn to
mulches to keep his garden growing.
Compost, leaves, grass clippings and
even paper may be found necessary
If nature should fail to supply fire.
quent and adequate showers.
Commercial fertilizers will be
available for the growing of vege-
tables. The Victory garden fertilizer,
Evening star., 1943-03-07
Hobbies and Lobbyists
News of Group Meetings and Local
Exhibitions
By Edmond Henderer.

In most hobbies the devotees do
their daily work In varied fields sell
dom having any connection with
their avocations. The amateur radio
operator must be q law unto him.
self. Apparently all "hams" either
work in the radio field or hope to
do so some day. Many Of them
were commercial operators before
obtaining their amateur licenses.
The theory, construction, operation
and maintenance Of radio must have
an almost unique appeal.
These amateur radio operators are
handicapped at present. They are
not allowed to broadcast at will as
formerly. But they have found ways
to get around this.
First, many of them have gone
into our armed forces in situations
taking advantage Of their radio
knowledge and experience. Many
members of our own Washington
Radio Club are thus giving Uncle
Sam the benefits OF their hobby.
Included on this honor roll are
Homer Mason, W3FVD, radioman
second class, U. s. NJ, stationed at
Annapolis: Murray Hall, W3HMX,
radio technician second class, u. s..
NJ, now in New Caledonia; Herbert
Vanderbeek, radioman second class,
q. S. N, on q destroyer in the Pa
cific; Eugene Palette, q. S. G. G.,
San Juan, Puerto Rico: Joseph
Haluska, W2CJI, radioman first
class, U. s. N, stationed here; James
G. Hayes. W60BK, radioman first
class. b. s. N, here: T. I. Hill.
W5FDv, yeoman third class, q. S.
n, here; Lewis p. Holland, WISDOM,
U. 8. A., Fort Myer, Va.
Many Of the fellows, are officers.
too, and frequently connected with
radio. This of1cer list includes
Carroll Kane, W31xY. lieutenant
commander, q. 8. N. R., at Pearl
Harbor: Glenn w. Ritchey, W3FSO,
lieutenant, q. s. N. R., just trans
ferred from Washington; Thomas
p. Littlepage, W3CF. lieutenant,
q. 8. N, stationed here: James H.
Nicholson, W3EEN, commander,
q. 8. N, here: John L. Reinartz,
W3IBS, commander, q. 8. N, here;
H. L. Scales, warrant omcer,
U. s. G. g., here: Hobart Walker.
W3GXI, lieutenant: q. 8. Army Air
Transport Service. And there's also
Louis N. Swingle, U. s. N, W3DLC,
out Of the q. S.; E. s. Van Deusen,
W3ECP. lieutenant colonel, u. 8. A.,
and Harold Quinn, W3GAD, who Is
now In college under one Of those
Evening star., 1943-03-07
Bv r. X. Tavnton.

There are two schools Of thought
on dog breeding in wartime. There
is the defeatist school which be-
lieves that dog foods will be too
scarce to raise sturdy puppies: that
people win have 50 little money left
after paying their taxes that they
won't have enough to buy puppies;
that the country is going to pot,
and there won't be any need for
pedigreed dogs anyhow.
The other school thinks that dog
breeding has great morale value.
It believes that with an ever ex-
panding K-9 corps more and more
dogs should be bred. regardless Of
quality. 1t thinks that with luxury
buying in almost all fields closed or
rationed and with war earnings
now greater than ever. the demand
for puppies IS bound to be super
colossal.
AS In all controversies, there Is
some truth on each side. There is
but little danger Of a dog food
shortage. It is undoubtedly true
that many well-bred, well-fed dogs
are going to have to accustom
themselves to q dietary change and,
perhaps, succession Of dietary
changes. Some brands Of kennel
foods may be eliminated. Some
forms of meat may be missing. But
there will continue to be some kinds
Of dog food. Even the Government
has taken cognizance Of the need
for dogs and the necessity for feed
ing them properly and has issued
regulations about the composition
Of dog foods which allow for 4 n
per cent protein content, 10 per
cent OF animal origin.
Taxes will undoubtedly absorb an
increasingly greater percentage Of
the Nations income. Nevertheless,
that income Is now at an unusually
high level; luxury buying is cur
tailed: luxury driving Is banned: a
good dog will soon be the only
visible sign OF . good income, and
that sign will b nnAde visible.
The expanding K-9 corps 4 call
ing for more and more dogs. While
the Army u hurry has agreed to
accept cross-bred dogs, 1t has not
agreed to accept any dog that does
not pass it, standards for intelli-
gence. temperament and stamina.
The r,l4h 70 bred enything and
everything avails y is mistake.
Evening star., 1943-03-07

0NlucH
phate Commonly sold as superphos-
phate), probably IS to so pounds per
1000 square feet of surface. Even
where manure-animal or poultry
is used, the phosphate is necessary
to give balance to the plant food
supplies.
If the soil Is deficient in humus it
will need more culture than where it
has been properly supplied. Every
effort will need to be made to keep
the soil well titled so that the roots
may obtain air, the rainfall may
penetrate and to keep down the
weeds.
Lacking adequate supplies of hu-
mus, the soil may need more supple
mental watering. although this will
be questionable practice. If every
Evening star., 1943-03-07

arrangements whereby he will be
commissioned In the Navy on grad
uation.
That's a long list and shows that
the hams are doing their share.
And most Of the remaining mem
bers are working at a job where
their radio knowledge is Of value,
II not q necessity.
In addition to these ways of keep
ing their hands in" many of the
amateurs are interested in the es-
tablishment of the WERS (War
Emergency Radio Service). This
service Is already in operation in
Prince Georges County. 8. It's call
letters are WYNN. In common
with all stations in the WERS, they
operate on the 2.5 meter band, which
has q limited range. The idea Is
to have many small stations scat
tered over the country, with inde-
pendent power sources, 50 that they
can remain on the air in any catas-
trophe.
The Prince Georges network has Is
stations now In operation, including
three mobile transrnitters. They
are allowed two test periods Of two
hours each per week. During this
time they are permitted to send any
OCD messages needed. OF course,
In case Of q blackout or air raid
(real or test) they 60 on the air
Immediately wherever operators are
available for them. They. have
been heard as far as Baltimore, al
though not intended for long-dis-
tance transmission.
So here Is real chance for those
interested In radio to get on tho
air and do their duty at the same
time. The Washington, Mont
gomery and Arlington County net
works are being formed now, and
Prince Georges could use additional
help. II interested, call Miss Eliza
beth zandonini, Emerson 7400 or
Karl Stello, Warfield 9317.
MEETINGS THIS WEEK.
TUESDAY - Washington Ship
Model Society, home Of william e.
Lee, 106 West Walnut street. Alex
andria, Va, 8 pm. Take Alexandria
local bus from Washington.
THURSDAY-District of Colum-
bia Electric Railroaders' Association,
home Of Charles J.. Murphy, 1922
White place Sc, 8 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Radio
Club, room 312, YMCA, Eighteenth
and G streets NV, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1943-03-07

Air1nan aDays interesting collectors,
those fon In maritime haze added historical significance The
envelope here reproduced received by
r. Daniel OF Wood Acres Nd from Miss Anne Merriam, dduoh-
ter OF Mr. and Mrs Weles Merta mot Kensington Nd,
member OF the stat OF the Embassy OF the United
Santiago Chile 1t is anked Nth S-pesos green stamp
shouting plane In flight the Star STAT Photo
Evening star., 1943-03-07

rival, the Ohio Farmers Insurance
Co. cover.
DR.. Don Preston Peters of Lynch
burg, Va. physician, surgeon and
truly great philatelist, died jan
uary 20, aged IS. He was the son
Of q Confederate soldier and spe-
Evening star., 1943-03-07

The annual licensed show Of the
Baltimore County Kennel Club Is
scheduled for April IS, Easter sum
day. at Timonium, Md.
Evening star., 1943-03-07

The sixth Of the Pan-American
Union Philatelic Who's Who Series
an 18-page illustrated pamphlet,
Who's Who on the Postage Stamps
OF Costa Rica," by Albert r. Kunse,
assisted by DR.. Octavio Beecher, has
been published, Is cents q copy.
Evening star., 1943-03-07

The postal authorities Of tho
Union Of South Africa again have
let 1t be known that they do not
wish to be bothered by stamp col-
lectoFs.
Evening star., 1943-03-07

The National Stamp Mart has
moved to room BIS, Maryland Build
ing. l410 n street NV, where Harry
F. Dunkhorst and William A. Verhas
will be glad to welcome new friends
as well as old.
Evening star., 1943-03-07

& Greece is brinsing out half .
ldezens new stamps about which de-
tails Is yet are unknown In Amer.
lea.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
Labor Status
,PerilS Liberty

subject, of course, to the urging
of the treasury's social and POI
litical purposes which always
are injected into the programs.
There may be no alternative
to labor CONSUMPTION, but the
fact remains that the people
have not been allowed to Judge
for themselves whether there is
or not.
They are asked to believe IL is
necessary while the Supreme
Court and the national govern
ment still uphold the Woodwork
and fake-work systems and to
accept CONSUMPTION from a Con-
gress which lacks the courage
and honesty to obliterate these
union privileges:
CONGRESS just nags the SUBJ
~ ject, with small bills slightly
hedging the powers of the
unions here and there, although
the close future threatens not
only the eight or nine million
willing and captive union men,
bers but all Americans.
How does it threaten them?
The middle class can be
broken by taxation. losing
homes, savings and investments,
scattered and, disorganized.
And. after few years a total
population accustomed to dis
cipline and dependency. enforced
by favor and threat Of combat
service under one plan, and fine
or Imprisonment under the
other. will be no fit defenders OF
the civilian freedom that the
fighting men left in their cares.
Copyright by United Features synd.. Ina
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
Griff's SnOUs Recalled
43 Baseball Camps
Must Pour On Heat
BY ARTHUR BUGS BAER

Baseball training North going work like
bookworm in a almanac.
went through with Clark Griffith when Clark thought
Charlottesville Va. the sunny South.
Any day doesn't up there they give you rain
check
The in a cup in the Blue Ridge. 1t gets its
weather looser than baggy pants.
We had to shovel a path around the Mike Martin
trainer invented arnca that wouldn't freeze and
got rich of George Mcbride alone.
Mike also built fire at home plate for the players and
newspaper writers to themselves.
you that Clark wasn't playing any favortes
he owned the most valuable player in baseball at the time
He a pitcher, and his Walter Johnson.
him pitch nine-inning game in a snowstorm.
Either Grfh is nuts. think the plural
One midnight Gr sent Dutch Schaefer to the station
rock named Joe Gedeon coming in from California
tagged along.
The train in along with blizzard. But Gedeon.
After had whooped and called for FIVE minutes window
up redheaded frecked mugg stuck out and yelled
81 amt getting OF for nobody in n blizzard"
Gedeon rode that train into New York Griffith let him
get away with It, That Gedeons first crack at the big
time and his first look at
AS it turned the longer showed the better chance
stay big baseball The pitchers always
washed him up around June
"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

SURELY the oldest man who
~ regularly does a days hard
work must be John Shine OF
Milwaukee. who is going strong
at the age Of 102.
"Bing Crosby. who wears the
lOudest ties and shirts In Holly
wood, II color blind" says a
contemporary.
II it is true Mr.. Crosby IL
color blind he hasn't far to 60
to be cured
A Pasadena. Cal, doctor Ia
reported to be doing wonders in
the matter Of curing color blind
ness.
Tho wish to appear clever
often prevents one from being
so," stated La Rouchefoucauld.
That observation would make
a good wall motto for Manhat-
tan's Stork Club.
Many clever people frequent
Mr.. Billingsley's beautiful bistro,
but ii is no mermaid tavern.
Calling attention to Monsieur
La Rouchefoucauld's observation
would be a kindly act because
many nice people in their in
tense desire to be thought clever
only succeed in making bores OF
themselves.
Copyright. 1919. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
The On|ooker
-McLemOre-ing for Henry

COME days ago l hauled off
~ and assembled an elegant
batch OF words-which proved
To my satisfaction, al least. that
fathers make the best mothers.
would like 10 be able 10 say
that the population arose as one
man and cheered themselves
hoarse-but the reaction has
been somewhat less than that.
But nothing Of the kind has
happened.
Could il be that am ahead
OF my time!
Could be.
Well, that isn't going to stop
me.
When a writer sees something
that ought TO be corrected. he's
not 10 ask the why or the what.
LIE SHOULD stop for nothing.
H except possibly 10 assure
himself that somebody is going
buy the piece when written.
" So here / am-big as life,
pounding the old pulpit again.
This time l have decided TO
destroy. once and for all. that
maudlin myth that women know
what 10 do about making the
little home more homelike. un-
less by "homelike" you mean
hike the kind OF homes they al
ways have been making home
like"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

ToR not Of genius bdfjlsd-
Genius is master of man;
Genius docs lChdt IL must
Ard talent does whdt 10 con-.
Owen Meredith.
CGeniuS is an infinite capa-
city for taking pains" said Jane
Alice Hopkins.
(She was wrong. Taking
pains" Is just sign OF a strong
character.
"a good example OF a genius
Is Oliver Goldsmith.
The hated 10 write and all his
life struggled against so doing.
tYet something within him
drove him To do some writing
and so he became famous.
Meredith was exactly right:
Genius does what it must. -
EVD)
NOBLE SISSLE. II is % years
~ since Noble and his partner
Blake wrote I'm Just Wild
About Harry" for Shuttle
Along"
Edna SHELTON. ex wife of
RED" Shelton.
Edna continues 10 write her
husbands comedy material.
Undoubtedly the charming
Mrs. Shelton will marry again.
Her new husband will have TO
possess tolerant nature.
How would you like TO have
your wife spending her days
talking over gags with her
former husband?
Joe Howard. Sixty years an
entertainer.
Joe made his first hit saying
"A boys best friend is his
mother"
THERE are seven fat women
Il TO every fat man in the
United States.
Such is the claim of a shape
statistician. This claim needs
clarifying.
1t possibly should read:
There arc seven women who
think they are fat to every one
man who thinks he Is fat"
When a woman begins to suf-
fer from what is known in femi-
nine circles as "stenographer's
spread" or. bridge players
bulge" she considers herself fat
and begins TO think about diet
ing
On the other hand. many a
man who has a so-called cor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
Fair Enough

THE labor question, which
may have become a great
bore to many of us in the last
few days, is no longer prob
lem of mere unionism or non
unionism, of protected craft and
racketeering and seditions sabo-
tage by the Communists.
We are coming TO conscrip-
ton of labor by means of a
law which had no such intention
and apparently to mass bank
ruptcy through taxation and the
ultimate dependency of the nom
combatant civilian population on
the state.
Never mind, for the moment.
whether civilians conScripted for
war work in factories and on
the farms shall be compelled TO
join unions and pay taxes to-
these irresponsible and. in many
cases, horribly corrupt or dis
loyal improvements.
COME will have to and some
~ won't.
At the moment il appears that
those men who refuse TO join in
closed shop plants and who are
otherwise subject to the mill
tary draft will be taken for COM
bat as punishment for their re-
fusal. contrary to the intent of
the Selective Service Act and
without authority from Con-
gresS.
But those who may be
drafted for war work are not
covered by any moratorium on
any of their responsibilities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20
BY WestbrOOk PegIer

COMBAT men have the pro-
~ lection of a moderate mora
torium.
II they have savings war
bonds or other good assets, they
must shower down on the in
come tax due rates unless they
be overseas and too busy fight
ing Germans and japanese.
Or, if the conversion of as
sets into money. for the tax
would inflict hardship. meaning
a degree OF loss to be deter
mined by the treasury, they
may postpone payment. without
interest. until six months after
the war.
Congress. OF course, may
adopt some law forgiving. abat-
ing or postponing, without in
terest, the federal tax liability
Of such labor conscripts. but
there has been no suggestion of
that up TO now.
The treasury has thus far re-
sisted the kuml Pldn 10 set the
clock forward one year as TO all
income taxation.
IN FACT so resolute is the
Il treasury that in some cases
individuals may be wiped out
this year by combined tax
liabilities for two years payable
in one which will exceed their
total 1913 income.
These. of course. would be
mostly tories with live incomes
earned currently.
If anything is to be done about
a tax moratorium for conscript
workers. il must be done by
Congress, not the treasury, but
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-20

This includes Robert Sher-
wood and Edgar Mowrer.
Donovan they say. hopes the
White House turns over all the
owl foreign service 10 him.
Ed Gardner knows place
where the steaks are so tough
you pay the check with your
number " ration coupon.
Add amusing names 10 the
list Including Ensign Pence and
Ensign jensen: Naval 1t. On
dek.
He's formerly of Batten, Bar
ton. Durstine A. Osborn.
Rib Of a passerby in the
Statler:
You're getting OF easy-just
being investigated. They hanged
Nathan Hale"
CAPITAL Novelette,: Desertion
~ of housemaids 10 defense
plants has left those who still
work at it enjoying a golden
harvest.
Their wages are higher, and
they are just about able to pick
their jobs.
Besides, they name the condi-
tons they'll work under.
Many OF which approach the
fantastic.
Frixsnple: One woman re-
ported that she was able 10 get
a cook only by promising that