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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25
Few Owners

"In New York City, which
Is losing population or barely
holding it's own, the Princeton
survey discIoses that only IL
cr cent Of the people are
home owners. However, 46.l
per cent of the renters would
like to own their own homes.
In Philadelphia, another city
either losing population or
growing very slowly, with lit
tie prospect Of rapid postwar
growth, 45.S per cent own
their own homes. But In this
city not many people wish to
cucumber themselves with
home ownership. Only 2S.6
per cent of those who rent
Philadelphia homes desire 10
become owners.
"The conclusions 10 be
drawn from these studies are
immediate and direct. The
desire for home ownership Is
strongest in the cities which
are thriving and which give
the greatest promise Of con-
tmued growth after the war.
This desire weakens In cities
whose postwar development Is
doubtful and fades out en-
tirely In cities which are ex-
pected to decline in popula-
ton after the war. Few people
want to invest In home owner
ship in a city which Is going
down hill,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25
Plan Dinner Meeting

Full details will be announced
this week Of a dinner meeting TO
be held by the Detroit Real Estate
Board in the Statler May q at
which Victor Reuther. Detroit
labor leader, and James c. Downs
of Chicago will be the chief
speakers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25

home owners, hut 56.9 per
cent of the renters would
rather be owners.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25
Elsea Sales Report

The Elsea Realty and Invest
ment co. announces 20 sales for
the first half of April, 1943, incInd-
ing rs singles. six fats and one
store totaling S92 $50.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25
Variety in Finishines

II costs no more 10 have variety
ia the finishing OF rooms than IL
does 10 have them all alike Vari-
ations add 10 the interest IN the
home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-25
Classified Index

The index to The Detroit
Times Classified Advertising
Section appears on Page 4.
Use Times Want Ads for Best
Results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
She, Too, Will Shine

Whose name ,giH shine upon future
page?
viii it be he ioho gaze himself to
die
For freedoms sake viii it be
artist, sage
Or he pho fashioned pinos that
ships might fly;
viii it be he whose intellect has
tDrung
From air, the rotce OF men, or
theirs tDho pressed
With burning feet, the esert-sand,
tdr-fung
Against the sun, to build golden
West?
These haze their space, and fotctng
pens t1tll ,0rite
OF men tUho toll, nor reap what
they haze so,on;;
OF men In mines NTH scarce ran
OF light,
And unremembered men pho die
alone.
But God ,oiu torite Tn letters b,toht
as fame,
Beside each one, loDtno mother,
ndmei
INEz CLARK THoRsoN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
The Medical Case

A unanimous decision of the Su-
preme Court has brought a successful
conclusion to the long fight of the
Government to prevent interference
by organized medicine with the OPP
Grafton of Group Health Association,
Inc. the medical cooperative
launched here six years ago by Fed
eral employees to provide medical
care and disqualification for mem
bers in return for monthly dues.
The prosecution, based on the
allegation that physicians affiliated
with the American Medical Associa-
ton and allied organizations were
forbidden to have any connection
with Group Health, and that hospital
facilities were denied to it's members,
was instituted by the Justice Depart
ment under the Sherman Antitrust
Act, which forbids restraints of trade.
Originally, there were four corporate
and twenty individual defendants,
but only the American Medical AS
ISOLATION and District Medical So
ciety ultimately were convicted in
District Court. Fines of $4,000 and
1880, respectively, were upheld on
appeal to the United States Court Of
Appeals, and the decision now is
affirmed by the Supreme Court.
The case was precedent-making in
Sherman Act prosecutions, and the
principal challenge of the defense
rested on the contention that the
practice of medicine is profession,
not a trade, and that physicians,
consequently, were exempt from
prosecution under the act. Justice
Roberts, who wrote the courts opin-
ion, said it was not necessary to pass
on this particular point. Group
Health, he said, 'is engaged in bust
ness or trade" The offenses charged
against the two medical defendants
constituted interference with this
trade, the court added, and the units
therefore were amenable to prosecu-
ton, whatever their status. The
court concluded that this was true
whether the conspiracy charged to
the defendants was aimed at re-
straining or destroying competition,
or had as its purpose a restraint OF
the free availability of medical or
hospital services in the market"
That the decision solidly en-
trenches Group Health here is hardly
to be disputed. It's effect elsewhere,
should similar cases arise, Is not so
clear, for while the Sherman Act
applies directly to restraints wholly
within the District, the element OF
interstate commerce must be present
for prosecution to be instituted IN
the States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19

invasion OF foreign country. So, by met
aphor, one who takes the part of such
as these in obstructing legislation. What
is unlawful? Any action illegal or illicit,
contrary to or violating law. But such
action will not be criminal if 1t is not
against public law If it merely contra
venes private rights or is contrary to
equity.
In the House OF Representatives there
Is no form of law. no rule under which
extensive speeches can be delivered to
delay legislation in the hope OF prevent
ing vote on it. But in the Senate.
debate is unlimited and members need
not speak to the question. So one mem
Der may delay vote and then sur
render the floor to another of the same
purpose and so on through succession.
Failure can come only from physical
unfitneSs or lack of combined deter
mination. Under the form of such rules,
ostensibly made to insure free debate,
Senators have violated equity success
fully, prevented free debate by filibuster-
ing. They have kept bill from coming
to vote, often in times Of grave ma
tional danger.
Quite recently small groups have
blocked bills to make our stupendous sill
yer stocks available for industrial war
use, and to abolish payment of the poll
tax as qualification for voting In Fed
eral elections; further back, to arm our
merchant Shinc ijJct hafp
the First World War; still further, to
protect officials connected with suspen-
sion of habeas corpus rights during the
Civil War. In each case it was certain
that public opinion favored the bill.
Such fll1busters usually are made effec-
tive by the imminent expiration of q
congressional session or because the ma
jor1ty surrenders in order not to delay
urgent legislation.
Well, what of it? A poll has shown
public opinion to favor an international
association to rebuild war-shattered
world when peace comes. 1t is shared
by most worthwhile newspapers. With
very few individual exceptions it is DEM
ocratic party policy. The Republican
party is committed to world collabora-
ton by its national committee and by
many of its prominent members. par
tlcularly Mr.. Willkie and Gov. Stassen.
But this may not be Republican later
on. Committee Chairman Spangler has
been more than cautious in his approval
The party seemed during the last war
to feel the same way, but afterward a
small group of isolationists succeeded in
preventing OUR adherence to the League
of Nations. That abstention, 1t Is ar
gued. caused its failure and, perhaps,
made possible the present war.
Some of the "willful" men of a genera
ton ago are now in the Senate. A good
many OF them have hlibustered in the
past They again may defeat public
opinion and the House and Senate
majorities.
Yet Senate majority of quorum
can revise its rules to prevent nlibuster-
ing. WESTMORELAND.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19

distrust in many and unwillingness
to give up their properties, though
for time only, into the hands of
public trustees, till they might be
dispensed to them again, with more
advantage to themselves than other
wise was possible to be effected"
Practical difficulties of the variety
indicated by this quotation are con-
coded by Sir Charles, but he asks:
How much shall we lose if we let the
chance slip?" Much of London neces-
sarily must be reconstructed. The
same observation applies to dozens of
other towns. 1t is reasonable that
the opportunities for taking advan-
tage of Wren'S example should be
accepted. The benefit to England is
manifest. Meanwhile, it becomes
increasingly clear that America too
must have rebuilding program after
the war, No city of the United States
has been blasted from the sky. but
many centerS of industry and habita-
ton need creative reformation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. TracelDell.

World snow buntings may be seen every
where in Central Europe, and even in
Northern Africa, now so much in the
news.
No matter how strange the place
names of lands around the globe seem
to Americans, the birds have been &C
quainted with those places for centuries.
In our own country the snow bunting
occasionally is found as far south as
Florida.
Ornithologists do not know how these
birds manage to find enough seed to keep
them hale and hearty, but admit that
they do.
Upon examination the stomach of one
Snowflake" was found to have at least
thousand pig weed seeds in it. Here is
a good example of despised weed fur
nishing good food for birds, Certainly
no land owner with many weeds should
feel that he should extirpate all of them
ruthlessly. They may be serving very
helpful purpose in feeding some of the
best of our wildbirds.
The snow bunting is another species
which flies in unison, all the members
OF flock wheeling and turning and
dipping as if by command This is
specially of most birds which fly in
f1ocks. Probably they came by the ability
because of the prime necessity of acting
as one in the discovery of food.
*& ~
This bunting is larger than most SPAR
rows, being seven inches long When
the wings are spread, they total more
than foot.
This bird belongs to branch of the
finch family. 1t builds it's nest on the
ground, constructing it out of moss,
which is somewhat plentiful in the Far
North
John Burroughs, in Far and Near"
says of the snow bunting:
THE only one of our winter birds that
really seems part of the winter, that
seems to be born of the whirling snow
and to be happiest when storms drive
| thickest and coolest, is the snow bunting
the real snow bird, with plumage copied
from the fields where the drifts hide all
but the tops of the tallest weeds. large
spaces of pure white touched here and
there with black and gray and brown.
Its twittering call and chirrup coming
out of the white obscurity is the sweetest
and happiest of all winter bird sounds
1t is like the laughter of children. The
fox hunter hears it on the snowy hills,
the farmer hears it when he goes to
fodder his cattle from the distant stack,
the country schoolboy hears it as he
breaks his way through the drifts toward
the school. 1t is ever a voice of good
cheer and contentment."
Peanut butter Is a good food-espe-
cially for squirrels-but must not be fed
too literally. A teaspoonful or less at a
time is enough
Fats from salt meats, If eaten by birds,
will not harm them.
Their instincts take care of them
pretty well.
Since snow buntings are ground feed
ers, the best place to put small seeds
would be directly on the earth. where
the birds would feel more at home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
Rebuilding British Cities

Victory and peace still are far from
won. but British architects and en-
gineers already are at work on plans
for the reconstruction OF London and
other injured cities. Reports of the
activities of committee Of members
of the Royal Academy, appointed to
deal with the problems involved,
have been printed in the American
press. Much more tangible, however,
is a brief essay on the whole inclu-
sive subject by Sir Charles Bressey,
now being circulated in the United
States
In 1887, the author Of the present
discussion reminds his readers, a So
called highway development survey
of the metropolis was published. The
Improvement of communications
throughout an area of 1900 square
miles with a population Of ten mil
lion people was contemplated in the
sketch. Costs of the changes were
estimated at between 10000, 900 and
100000 pounds. Sir Charles re-
marks: THE outbreak of the war put
a stop to the negotiations between
the government and the local author
tiles of London for the initiation Of
selected items from this comprehen-
sive program"
Nazi bombers having almost liter
ally cleared the ground for "the re-
development of London on the basis
OF the proposals" of the surveys
sponsors, the academy committee
recently has exhibited at Burlington
House a series OF drawings which
Sir Charles frankly says were in
tended to quicken the civic con-
science, and challenge the spirit Of
complacent mediocrity which has so
often dominated the councils of
Cockneydom." The effort, he further
explains, lis a deliberate attempt to
give an ocular demonstration" of IAN
orderly alternative" to the policy
Of laisser-faire."
Sir Christopher Wren was the
creator of a drastic plan for re-
building the city" after the great
fire Of 1865, but he was thwarted by
"the obstinate averseness of great
part OF the citizens to alter their old
properties and to recede from build
ing their houses again on their old
ground and foundations, as also the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
Name of Outstanding Personality"
Proposed for Peace Commission.
To the Editor of The Sta

10 the Edltor OF Inc StaF.
have just heard another of those
brilliant Sunday afternoon discourses by
the Right Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
of the Catholic University of America.
have heard him on many occasions,
notwithstanding I am not of his faith.
He is, believe, one of the great scholars
of America, a truly outstanding per-
sonality.
Sitting here thinking, after having
heard him again today, was wondering
why it would not be most prudent
thing to do, during the postwar period,
to have Msgr. Sheen as a member Of the
commission of outstanding men to shape
a just and enduring peace. Surely, the
commission should rate at least one man
of God
WILLIAM ROBERT FUOSS.
Tyrone, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19

those covered in the survey at one
plant live within walking distance of
their work. But SO per cent of them
said they depended on automobile
transportation. At an Indiana plant,
the report said, more than half of the
workers go home to lunch, most of
them by automobile. Some 80 per
cent of the workers at this plant
could ride bus line to within four
blocks of the plant without great
inconvenience" yet only 3 per cent
travel by bus.
Another unsatisfactory condition
brought to light by the report is the
failure of the workers to make full
use Of group riding Statistics we're
not collected on this point, but the
report said that many cars were
observed arriving at plants with
empty seats and it was evident that
group riding was not practiced to
the full extent possible"
Under existing conditions there is
not much excuse for abuses of this
sort. 1t is necessary that war workers
have means of getting to work, and
it is fact that public transportation
facilities are so inadequate that many
plants would have to shut down if
their employees were to be deprived
of automobiles. Hence, there can be
no argument as to the need for giving
war workers priority on tires and
gasoline for necessary driving. But
it does not follow that they should
be given tires and gasoline at the
expense of the other motorists in
the country for driving that is both
unnecessary and waSteful. 1t is to
be hoped that the transportation
authorities will make a greater effort
to bring the relationship between
these groups into more equitable
balance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
Automobile Abuse

A survey just completed by the
Public Roads Administration indi-
Gates widespread abuse of automo-
bile driving among war workers.
This, coming at a time when re-
straintS are being increasingly ap-
piled to most civilian drivers, is apt
to have unfortunate repercussions.
The PRA survey covered 100000
war workers at ninety-four plants
in ten States. some of them in the
area in which all pleasure driving
has been prohibited. Yet many of
these workers are being permitted
to use their cars under conditions
which involve needless waste of tires
and gasoline.
For example, SO per cent OF ali
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
"INDIANHEAD, Md.

Dear Sir.
I'VE would like your help in Identify
ing bird which has been visitor to
our yard since about the first of Deem
Der. He is about the size of an English
sparrow with a slenderer and more
graceful body and rather unusual mark
ings. The crown of his head, whole tail,
and a spot on each lower side of the
body are pure white, while his breast is
soft gray, and his back q brown SINH
lar to that of the fox sparrow, although
not so plainly marked. His habits. as
far as We have been able to observe, are
like those of the English sparrow except
that he is a bit more active. We have
noticed him feeding about once a week
with the cardinals, juncos, sparrows, red
bellied woodpecker and other birds from
bench or on the ground about 80
feet from the house where we spread
suet, bread crumbs and sunflower and
mellon seeds.
Regularly We furnish peanut butter
on bread and cracked nuts to the chick
ADDE'S, titmice and Carolina wrens on a
covered feeder suspended from a wire
just outside the window. few winters
ago we found a dead Carolina wren near
the house after unusually cold weather,
but have since had the satisfaction of
seeing a pair of them, hale and healthy,
appear every day for the food which
we hope helps to keep them alive.
Are commercial peanut butter or fats
drawn from salty meat such as bacon or
roast harmful to birds?
I'VE enjoy your column which we read
daily and would appreciate your telling
us who our visitor is.
Very truly yours, l.. S. O'C..,
Unless our correspondents bird Is a
semi-albino sparrow of some sort, it
probably is a snow bunting, or SNOW
flake" as it is sometimes called.
The snow bunting is an accidental
visitor from the North in this locality.
which, for bird purposes. includes Indian
head.
Authentic records Of these birds show
that one was observed below Alexandra.
Va, on February IL, 1927 and two were
seen at Hams Point on November 90
1928
Several times during the past eight
years this column has had snow buntings
reported to it from suburban sections
around Washington.
Small flocks of them are occasionally
seen in February.
The odd thing about this bunting is
that in winter its garb has more brown
in it, with brown on the head and sides
and back, whereas in summer it tends to
have an all-white head and very dark
brown, almost black, on the back and
wings.
Any stray which happened to find a
feeding station might be delighted to
remain until the call of the North goes
through its veins again.
This is, above all, Northern species
being in fact true polar bird, so any
one who sees it hereabouts may feel
that he is highly fortunate.
1t Is said that In winter, In the Old
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
Hoskin 5 An.v,e-.
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. Haskin

A reader can get the dnsiDer to any
question OF tact by writtng The Eue-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. HdSkin, director. Washington,
d. c. Please inclose stamp for return
postage.
O. What is the rate OF divorce in the
United StateS?-F. P. f.
A. In 1910, the year of the latest
figures, divorces numbered 264 900. which
averaged two year for each 1000 popu-
lation, the highest figure on record
@. Please list some Of the religious
denominations that we're founded in this
country-C. H. N
A. Such a list would include: The
Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day
Saints Mormon, founded by Joseph
Smith in 1890; the Seventh-Day Adven-
fist Church, organized in Washington, ".
H, in 1874; the Disciples of Christ; the
Christian Science, founded by Mary
Baker Eddy. at Boston in 1879; the Uni
versalist Church developed in l770-l785.
and the Church of the United Brethren
in Christ formed in 1900.
Q. What was the name of the man
who gave dinner in honor of his dead
wiveS?-E. L. H.
A. Robert A. Bright gave memorial
dinner for his two deceased wives, MAY
II, 1894. at the Hotel Commodore, New
York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19
Complains About Unwillingness
OF Civilian Public to Face Facts,
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Does the civilian population of these
United States realize that We are at war,
serious war, one that is liable to get
worse before it gets better-if it does
get better-and that our boys are dying
for us all over the earth and in the
seven seas, and that the lives and liber-
ties Of us all are at stalker If it does, it
has remarkable way Of showing it.
What are we really concerned about?
Well, we don't like the rationing system
nor the ban on pleasure driving. We are
somewhat afraid that this latter restric-
ton may affect the racing program. We
don't like the monopoly on canned radio
music that we have just learned about
something to be said on both sides of
this question. 1t also appears that
some 1900 miners of coal deem this a
good time (while the East is freezing
and Army, Navy and industrial produc-
ton need all the coal they can get) to
go on strike.
In Heavens name, what is the answer
to all this? Either the situation is not
serious, or we, the civilian population,
are just plain fools.
The boys in the foxholes of the Solo
mons and the mudholes of Algeria know
that there is a war on, and, if we don't
believe it, they would like to trade places
with us while.
Perhaps part of the answer is some
thing like this:
A great transport, a carrier, battle
ship, goes down. 1t carries thousands of
our brave boys with it. Parents, next of
kin confdentially are advised as soon as
possible, but the general public learns
only Of the great loss in men and ships
some weeks later and then, usually, with
special emphasis on individual heroism,
which, of course, makes good headline
and newsreel copy. Little is said, how
ever, of the considerable loss sustained,
of men and ships. Radio broadcasts
also touch lightly on any serious mill
tary losses. So the man on the street"
who hasn't much time for details, de-
cides the war is getting along pretty
we'll without him.
What are we trying to do? Why kid
ourselves on the facts?
WILBUR H. CLOSE.
Danger Of Senate Filibustering
Discussed In Relation to Peace,
To the Editor of The Star:
What is a filibuster7 A freebooter;
one engaged In an unlawful military
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-19

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