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Evening star., 1943-09-21

service is more to be desired than profits
or personal gain.
The plan, like all good things which
evolve, must have its beginning in little
seeds sown in fertile soil All forms Of
instruction, textbooks, lectures and pic
lures would be geared to this end This
change would require an entirely new
emphasis. 1t would place a soft pedal
on the merits of great wealth, and give
accent to the merits of men and women
who, through dogged tenacity and high
patriotism, achieved lofty goal and
left something Of benefit to their coun-
trymen. Under this new policy, within
a decade or so, the mental outlook of
young America could be changed.
And then what? A constitutional
amendment should be prepared, and
favorable public opinion created, so that
It's passage need not be delayed. The
amendment might read something like
this:
BE 1t ordained by the Congress Of
the United States of America that, pur-
suant to the purpose of this amendment,
no person may become either a State or
Federal Office holder until he has first
taken specially prepared course and
passed an examination which will thor
oughly satisfy his examiners that he
understands the fundamentals of public
service and that his motives in running
for Office are entirely worthy"
The special course could be composite
of the best in civics, political economy,
economics sociology and State, Federal
and international law. In a brief oral
examination questions might be so di-
rected as to disclose any ulterior motive,
II any, in a mans desire to hold office.
Passing such an examination, a GER
tif1cate will be issued declaring he is
competent to hold office This certificate
would become cherished possession,
enabling him, as 1t should do, to hold
any office, from that of alderman in
small village to that of any high Fed
eral post, If duly elected and not dis
qualified for some other reason. This
certificate could be recalled by a COM
petent court for breach of morals or
ethics while in Office. Should he aspire
to office again it will, therefore, be nee
essary to 60 through the whole procedure
once more
Carefully worked out, system such
as this would liquidate many profess
sional politician, and might bring to the
fore some genuine patriots. There would
be nothing discriminatory in this plan
1t would be open to all citizens not other
wise disqualified, and is, therefore, en-
tirely constitutional.
w. D. PENNYPACKER.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
BETHESDA, Nd.

Dear Sir:
Perhaps you can identify bird for
me. saw it the other day, just a
glimpse and I am sure I never saw
its kind before.
TT was small, and was gray and black,
with some black around its head or
throat, I wasn't sure. 1t reminded me
of chickadee, but definitely wasn't q
chickadee.
1T was in tree, about 20 feet from
the ground. 1t was very erratic in its
movements.
"It had sweet song, I thought I
could recall it, but find that I cannot,
now that it is gone.
Very truly yours, T. Co."
Our correspondents description more
or less fits the black-throated blue
warbler.
This is rare one, but rather COM
mon in migration hereabouts
1t belongs to the great warbler family,
whose southwark migration began this
month and will end early in October.
1t is about S inches long, with plain
gray-blue above, with the under parts
black and white.
The chin, throat and each side OF
chest is black.
The black comes up well around the
eyes.
The female is plain olive bird, with
bit of yellow underneath
About the only real identification is q
white spot at the base of the wing
This also appears in the male, but is
usually lost in the larger coloration.
The call is not particularly musical
but the song is rather pretty, in mild
sort of way.
Some people call this one the blue
fiycatcher
In certain sections of the country, II
is called the black-throat
While it is definitely forest bird, In
migration it may be seen almost any
where. Migrating warblers like to perch
In bushes of all sorts.
You see the warblers when you see
them, that Is ALL
They are looking for insects. This
is what accounts for the twisting motion
which they make in shrubbery.
Thirty-five birds called warblers come
through Washington and vicinity during
migration time.
More of them will be seen in the
fall than in the spring.
1t seems as If they fly more lesiurely
at this season of the year.
They do not go In hocks, but some
times few Of them, not more than six
will be found together.
1t is best to look for them one by one
however
The plain greenish female may be
around, but the watcher will have to
Evening star., 1943-09-21
The Greatest Navy

lue NdVyS pTOQuCUlOn report DrlS-
ties with amazing statistics of ac-
complishment that would have been
dismissed few years ago as too
fanciful to believe. 1t is challeng-
ing variation on the theme, We've
just begun to fight" that must have
profound effect In Toxic and Ber-
lin. 1t was not so many months ago
that the Japanese radio was taunt-
ing us in its references to our "tin
Navy" all but obliterated from the
seas by each successive broadcast.
At the end of three years, "the
United States has the mightiest sur
face feet in world history" Against
the LOTS vessels of three years ago
the Navy now has 14O72. Their
combined tonnage is almost 100000
tons against 1,875,o0O for the fleet of
mid-1940. In spite of the losses of
484,521 tons of vessels in battle, by
conversion to noncombat uses, or in
ships turned over to our allies, the
tonnage of our warships today ex-
ceedS the comparable tonnage in
1910 by 10 per cent.
But as stupendous as has been the
record of construction of surface
vessels, airplane figures are even
more remarkable. On July /, 1910,
the Navy had 1,744 planes, and was
receiving new ones at the rate of
about Is month. The Navy's air
arm of 1910 has been erased more
than five times over" in losses or
retirement of obsolete planes, yet its
present strength Is 1929 planes.
Compared with the Is received in
June, 1910, it received 1000 for the
same month this year.
These totals are convincing sup
port for the Navys claim of world
supremacy, in surface ships and air
power. But some of the many fig
ures on current production rates are
even more extraordinary. The num-
Der of vessels completed in the single
month of June approximates the
number completed in the first
eighteen months of the defense pro-
gram. Nor are we done. Against a
total of 847,197 tons built in 1912,
1901, 1888 tons were completed in the
first six months of 1943 on sched-
uled program that is still on rising
curve, although the leveling-off
time is now in sight.
1t would have required six months.
at the 1910 rate of production, to
replace the Navy planes lost in the
Battle Of Midway. BY June of 1942,
when the battle was fought, these
losses were made up in two weeks.
But todays production would restore
them in four days.
The report touches on the chang
Ing aspects of global strategy which,
in surface vessels, saw the priorities
in need change from new battleships
OF the North Carolina class, just be-
fore Pearl Harbor, to landing craft
and, later on, destroyer escort yes
sels to combat the submarine. But
airpower has become the spearhead
Of the Nays offense, and Navy air
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Soldiers of the Press

This war has changed many old
conceptions of warfare. One of the
greatest changes has been in the
methods of war correspondents in
getting their news. They no longer
sit, appropriately and rather gor-
geously outfitted, at headquarters,
rewriting communicates, interviewing
staff officers and taking an occa-
sional supervised tour of the front.
They are right up there on the front
line themselves, sometimes ahead OF
it. 1t was group of correspondents
in borrowed jeep who made first
contact between the British Eighth
and the American Fifth Armies in
Italy, after riding hundred miles
across no mans land. Their exploit,
if not typical, was at least illustra-
tive of a new freedom won by these
soldiers of the press" which reflects
credit on their own gallantry and
on the imagination of the military
authorities who have made that
freedom possible.
Major General Alexander A. VAN
degrift, back from Guadalcanal,
quoted marine sergeant as saying,
Il may get it some time, but I'll
be damned if I'll 60 out and reach
Tor it like some of these newspaper
reporters and photographers" They
do reach for 1.-THE news. Their
hazards are not merely enemy
bombs and bullets. There are never
ending battles with censors, of whom
there are more than flfty-seven va
rieties. Sometimes wandering for
days like homeless nomadS in the
confusion of an advancing army
the correspondents eat what and
where they can, dig their own fox
holes, thumb their rides from any
body who will take them. They are
always uncertain, and rather pes
simistic, over whether story OBJ
tanned under great difficulty will
ever reach its destination, thousands
of miles away And they philo-
sophically resign themselves to leav-
ing untold (for military reasons)
better stories than they are per-
mitted to write.
Early in this war, when the Army
and Navy and everybody else in Gov
ernment were feverishly setting up
public relations systems, there was
talk of organizing a corps of combat
correspondents under the Army,
members of which would be as
signed, like soldiers, to various units
Whoever was responsible for killing
this scheme deserves everlasting
gratitude from the press and from
the people. We owe the fine accounts
of our battles and battle scenes to
reporters whose undivided allegiance
is to their readers back home, served
by a free and uncontrolled press.
Their contributions to the day-by-
day history of the war are adding, as
we'll, to new chapter in journalism,
of which their lce-bound and en-
vious colleagues here at home are
justly proud.
Evening star., 1943-09-21

craft production is still the fastest
expanding segment" of the whole
airpower program. mo other portion
of the great aircraft program has
moved ahead so swiftly"
The Navy makes mention only of
the production marvel that has made
possible such records, never before
equaled or even approached by any
other power. The report is tribute
to American labor which made this
record possible. The quality of the
men who fight the ships and fly the
planes has been tested in battle.
Nothing on earth can stop that COM
bination.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Never Quite Alone

There is company at night .,
When distant farmhouse Hight
CleaUes the darkness like a knife
With its evidence of life.
When 1De ,Oaken from our sleep
In the bailey, broad and deep,
We behold the ,oeathered gray .
OF the house against the day.
Through the gold transparency
OF the rising sun pe see
Curling ,ooodsmoke gtDing proof
OF life beneath the distant root.
And though our unkno,un neiohbor!
are
Distant like the morning star,
We are neUer quite alone
Upon Our acres, fenced Nth stone. (.
HARRY ELMORE HURD.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trnce,pell.

look very carefully to spot her, and
then may be sure only If he sees her
near the male.
The nest is said to be beauty, rather
on the neat side, with thick walls of
bark, roots and grasses
The outside decorations of the nest Is
held to be about the finest Of any bird,
ornamented with small bits OF wood
seemingly selected for their decorative
value.
According to those who have seen a
blue warbler's nest, it looks as If it were
covered with tiny shingles.
Not many will see this nest. It is
placed low, and usually in fork Of
tree or shrub.
When disturbed, the female flies out,
and resorts to the usual bird strataeem
OF acting as If wing were hurt, to dis
tract the maurauder from the nest.
\
Young males during their first fall
and winter are similar in color to the
adult males, except that the white of
the underparts is tinged with yellow
and the bluish-gray Of the upper parts
have olive in them.
These changes, it will be realized, make
the youngsters very hard to identity.
This is true of most of the warblers
If bird cannot be put down definitely
as certain warbler, 1t probably is a
youngster, and heaven knows what 1t Is.
Migrating warblers will not be seen
in neighborhoods where there are not
plenty of trees and much overgrown
shrubbery.
At times the homeowner may feel that
he should cut his shrubs down, but let
him remember that the birds like them
that way.
The more overgroWn garden Is, the
better the birds like 1t, and the surer
they are to visit it.
This fact must be kept in mind by
A clean, open yard is very good, from
many standpoints, but the birds prefer
1t overgrown.
If there are plenty of blackberry and
| raspberry bushes, so much the better
No doubt there are at least two corners
| IN every garden where some Of these
bushes can be grown.
Their "stickers' are very sharp, and
must be remembered when working
around them, but the thorns do not
worry the birds in the least Their feet
and feathers are able to resist them
nicely. No bird is ever harmed by thorns,
and the berries are very helpful.
No one should feel hurt because he
cannot identify the various warblers.
They are extremely difficult to see, in
the first place, and very hard to put
the correct label, to, afterward. There
Is no harm in trying, however, and the
exercise In ingenuity is as instructive as
| game of chess.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Visitor From Chile

The Chilean Foreign Minister,
Joaquin Fernandez, who has been
guest here since last Friday, stands
in the front rank of those who have
worked indefatigably to infuse inter-
American cooperation with the
meaning and substance that have
contributed so much to the safe
guarding of the political and social
institutions of the Western Hemi-
sphere in the dark days of the past
decade.
Senor Fernandez was called to
occupy the office of Minister of For
eign Affairs by President Rios in
October, 1912, after a distinguished
diplomatic career in Europe and in
Latin America. 1t was some three
months later that he signed the de-
cree under which Chile severed dip
lomatic relations with the Axis
powers and formally took It's stand
with the United Nations.
Long a good friend of the United
States and of the cause of freedom,
Senior Fernandez has summarized
the attitude of his government in
these words: TT is not through
vanity, but through justifiable pride,
that I claim Chile to be nation con-
scjous of its obligations, a political
entity having a democratic machin-
cry capable of deciding when and
how to play it's proper role in it's
relations with other nations. So,
through conviction and loyalty, and
in keeping with it's continuous tradi-
tion, Chile has Joined the United
Nations, has identified herself with
them, and is collaborating and will
continue increasingly to collaborate
in order to bring about the triumph
Of the four fundamental freedoms
that all of the American republics
long to see re-established."
These are sentiments which, nat
urally, meet with a favorable recep-
ton in Washington. 1t has been a
pleasure to have Senor Fernandez as
a guest, and it is to be hoped that,
before so very long, it will be pos
sible to carry out earlier plans for a
visit to this country by President
Rios.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Letters to the Editor
Enlarges on Propose
For Basic English.

LhA0I 6CS OA AOPVSe
For Basic English.
To the Editor Of The Star:
Prime Minister Churchill has given
magnificent impetus to consideration
of the all-important question Of the
need for a worldwide auxiliary Ian
guage. He apparently regarded 1t as so
important that more than 20 per cent
of the text of his address at Harvard
University on September s dealt with
this idea. He directed special attention
to basic English as an acceptable medium
and complimented Harvard for its con-
tributions to this project.
The friendship Of Mr.. Churchill and
Mr.. Roosevelt has undoubtedly bred a
mutual sustained interest on their part
in basic English. 1t Is not surprising
that both men, thinking In terms Of
Anglo American unity, should be heavily
influenced by the English" content of
the proposed plan. Thus the weight of
these powerful personalities has been
thrown into the scales Of popular judg-
ment concerning what may become one
of the outstanding features of postwar
planning.
There is certain to be a strong re-
action to Mr.. Churchill's present ad-
vocacy of basic English. An interna-
tional language is not peculiarly the
property and problem of the English
speaking races. Imperialism can exist
in the field of language as we'll as in
other matters.
It is safe to assume that the living
mother tongue of no great nation will
ever be formally adopted as the COM
mon language of the earth. Nor Is it
likely that any "pidgin" arrangement Of
such language will ever be adequate to
meet complicated intellectual needs.
The final solution most likely will be
based on the systematic utilization of
about $4,000 words common to English
and the neo-Latin languages such as
French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish,
and to Russia, China and the enemy
nations. Germany and Japan, with whom
peace will be eventually established.
One of the least known, but most
scientific, highly developed projects of
this character Is Latino sine flexione
Latin without inf1ections) or Interim
qua, which makes use Of Latin words
possessing given derivatives in English
and which adopts words we'll known in
the leading languages of the world, in
Guiding a few classical Latin necessary
words which do not have international
equivalents. Those favoring this system
have complete material assembled, in
cluding English-Interlingu and Inter-
lingua- English vocabularies, more eX-
tensive in scope and content than any
yet planned so far as known and capable
of indefinite expansion. This material
now available for consideration also in
cludes a key and primer.
The whole subject should be dealt
with by an international commission
representing all the nations, empowered
to consider all competing plans, the
fundamental specification for which must
be that the international auxiliary Ian
guage finally adopted shall meet the
most complicated intellectual and SCI
entiflc needs Of all the peoples Of the
earth. We are indeed indebted to Mr..
Churchill for pushing this important
question into the limelight and which
increasingly thrusts itself upon the world
for attention. VICTOR L. LOWE.
Evening star., 1943-09-21

touched by what we like to regard
as the attributes of saintliness,
enabled her to carry forward the
work as few others could have done.
The good men and women who were
associated with her in the mainte-
nance of Central Union Mission will
miss her. Many tired and friendless
man, and in these war days many a
soldier or sailor looking for a place
to sleep and cheerful welcome, have
lost friend.
Evening star., 1943-09-21

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the writer, although the use OF
a pseudonyn1 for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters Nth
a Uie1D to condensation.
Evening star., 1943-09-21

Records kept out at Jefferson Bar
racks, Missouri, seem to indicate
that our Army had WACS (they were
not called that then, of course) as
far back as 18l3s Probably to Molly
Pitcher goes the honor Of being the
very first one of all.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Marvellous Machines

From the Topeka Capital
Next time you see an Army jeep, give 1t
the mental tribute it deserves. It's one
Of the toughest most useful, most versa
tile contraptions ever put together to run
on four wheels-and 1t doesn't even
need the wheels at times.
Evening star., 1943-09-21

The first actor ever to be knighted
was the British Sir Henry Irving in
1895. II Shakespeare we're living to-
day he undoubtedly would be made
q duke.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Protests Use Of Teachers
As Ration Clerks.


To the Editor Of The Star:
1 am one Of many distressed parents
who learn that our teachers again are
to be drafted to the service OF issuing
ration books.
What pity to pay these highly trained
professional workers to be clerks! At
the threshold of new school year,
schools are to be closed, children turned
away from their newly acquired studies.
STAR READER.
Evening star., 1943-09-21
Plan Advanced to Liquidate
professional Politician"

TO the Editor OF The Star:
Here Is a suggestion for long-ran
plan to liquidate the professional poll
tician or the political CRATER and sub
stitute In his place men and women
trained to understand that high public
Evening star., 1943-08-25
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WATERS, ., for dining room WORK
Apply hostess, Ebbitt Hotel, 10th and Il
SITS. NV.
Rogers, 900 Wilson blvd
YOUNG MAN handy with tools, industri-
GUS VINO would like to learn a steady
soccupatlon IN storage company: high school
eoucation preferred, but not required.
SALESMEN. MEMS FURNISHING STORE
En- EAPERIENCE NOT ESSENTIAL SPLEN-
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ny INITIAL STORES, CORNER 9th AND E
Evening star., 1943-08-25
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UNUSUAL, WOMAN

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Part time afternoons or full time after
Moons and evenings: salary. 75c hr. part
time, $50 to $50 week for full time: per-
manent employment essential industry;
Telephone DI 1900 or apply at personnel
dept, 2201 NJ St NV.
ELEVATOR OPERATORS,
Colored attractive personalities, well
groomed, size II or ID: permanent posi-
tion, immediate opening. Apply in per-
son to superintendent of service, Hotel
Roosevelt 18th and SITS NV
Evening star., 1943-08-25
VETERAN, WORLD WAR II,

Desires position as sales engineer, business
rep. or any type of active work: 20 years
Old college education, years experience
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SITUATIONS MEN & WOMEN.
SITUATIONS WOMEN.

COUPLE, first-class cook. butler-house
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SHIPPING ROOM

Gas Station Attendant.
SALARY and commission. Apply $500