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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-21
Turf Leaders
Plan 10 Hold
Spring Meets
Some Programs
Nay be Shifted
to Other Trocks

New York, Jan. 2l-(P)-The
two-buck bettors may have to
walk for the privilege of feeding
the Iron men," and things gen.
orally are going to be tough, but
the nations race tracks have
about decided to put on rea-
sonable facsimile of business as
usual" this spring and summer.
They've looked the whole
thing over and made up their
minds on the simple theory that
transportation and one thing and
another can't get any tougher.
Naturally, something new will
be added here and there, like
chang, IS in state legislation and
shifting of some meetings to diff
ferent tracks to make the whole
layout fit into the war scheme of
things. There's possibility, too,
a couple of the plants won't
open their doors. But, generally
speaking, the major horse Hav-
ems will be available to anyone
with the price of admission
and a way of getting to the
track.
SOME IN DOUBT
From reports. reaching the
Thoroughbred Racing Associa-
tons, Inc.-the clearing house
for the country's horse parks
as well as announcements by
the tracks themselves, it APP
pears that the only outfits on the
big apple" about which there
are still some doubts are Sara
toga, Delaware Park and the
neat garden state set-up in New
Jersey. And there's even some
hope for these three, although
Delaware has said it didn't see
how it could get TO the post un-
less the ban on automobile
transportation is lifted, or, any,
way, eased up a bit. Saratoga's
prexy, George Bull, insists he's
going ahead with plans to run at
the Spa in August.
In Arizona, which had its big
gest racing season last year,
things also are somewhat up in
the air. Breeders there, however,
are seeking legislation to over
come objections to the use of the
state fairgrounds track at Phoe-
nix.
At Rockingham, mentime, the
nterprising Lou Smith, a track
operator who thinks mighty fast
on his feet, is arranging for
horse-drawn vehicles to bring
the contributors to the New
Hampshire plant.
Maryland's governor, Herbert
OConor, already has told the
racing commission to draft bill
legalizing an increase in the 25
days of racing now permitted at
any one plant, and erasing, or
lowering, the approximately
So, 900 state license fee for race
tracks. The result of this, once it
passes the legislature, will be
that Pimlico will play host not
only to its own spring meeting,
but also to those of Havre De
Grace and BoWie-at the usual
rental rate, of course.
Something similar may be
tried in Chicago. At least one
plan is for all five tracks in the
windy city neighborhood to hold
their spring sessions at more &C
cessible Hawthorne. However,
some of the boys out that way
aren't exactly in raptures over
this idea.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-21
Clinton VoIIey Course
Closes for Durotion

DETROIT, Jan. 21-(P)-The
Clinton Valley golf club. where
Marvin Stahl of Lansing won the
Michigan p. c.. A. title last sum-
mer, is closing shop for the du-
ration. President William A.
Doyle said the club intended to
keep the course moved but that
there would be no golf unless
gasoline rationing should be
eased"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-21
Down Headpin Lane
EosIes Loop Leader
Handed FL Setback

Team No. 3, pacemaker of the
E@gles League at Mount Glenn
ems Recreation, dropped two
games to last-place No. 2 last
night. No. 6, in second place.
also finished on the short end
of a 2-l decision against No. /.
A. Corey of No. 6 was high
individual with 489 series.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-21

Ensign Harold Curly Steb-
bins, member of Pitts dream
backfield and former Panther
coach, is assigned to the Pre-
Flight School staff in Athens, Ga.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-21

Score of the Minor League
and Big IL League which
bowled at the Bowl-O-Drome
last night we're not turned in
for publication.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-21
Vest Never on Flag. Winner
in 20 Years, but He's Nth
One as Air Corps Sergeant

LUBBOCK. Tex, Jan. 81 -
When Samuel Fillmore West en-
listed in the ground forces-of the
Army Air Corps last Oct. %, few
paused to author a major league
obituary.
During Is years under the big
tent, however, Sam West, who
doesnH look his 38 summers, has
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-21

grown accustomed to oversights,
1t could have been written that
the outfielder with the longest
continuous service in the Amer
lean League had hung up his
spiked shoes for big-time playing
purposes.
II might have been added that
West was the only Junior leagu-
err ever to make more than 400
put-outs in four seasons-l931-
32-35-3o.
That he held the all-time de-
fenSive mark for outfielders on
the two clubs he served as reg
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-21

EAGLES LEAGUE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26

Although Senator Wheelers bill to
exempt fathers from military service
presumably is based on the best of
motives, it OverloOks the fact that
fathers have a greater interest in
winning this war than other men.
It may be true that for reasons of
family maintenance the single men
and the childleSS married men should
be called first for military duty. But
it is idle to pretend that the require
mentS Of the Army, the Navy and
the Marine Corps can be met from
these sources alone. Every other
country at war has had to call up its
men with children, and it cannot be
long before we shall have TO do like
wise. When that time comes the
number Of eligible fathers who will
want to avail themselves Of any kind
of legislative immunity Will be small
indeed.
They understand, better than the
single men and the childlesS men,
that this war is being fought to shape
the future of America, to preserve
place in the world where their chill
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
Hitler 'MobiIizes' Europe

Adolph Hitler's latest pronounce
ment tries to cover lot of territory,
Composed to celebrate the 23d ami
versary Of the founding of the Nazi
party, it was read in the congenial
surroundings of the Munich Hof-
brauhauS to select audience of
StalWartS, but not by the Fuehrer
himself. That task was devoted to
an underling, the excuse for Hitler's
absence being that he had to be with
his soldiers fighting on the Eastern
front.
Hitler'S harangueS always have q
basic similarity, and on this occasion
he rang the accustomed TRADES
against international capitalism and
JeWry. But alongside those familiar
bOgieS was one less hackneyed thesis.
Hitler emphasized that the current
struggle, wherein the fate Of Ger
many and Europe will be decided"
must enlist not merely the gigantic
mass Of the German people" but also
all the other peoples of the CONT
nent, even those conquered by Ger
man arms. With his usual perverse
logic, Hitler asserted that he would
not hesitate a single second to call
upon the countries which are reSpon-
Sible for the outbreak Of this war to
do their bit in the fatal struggle. We
shall not scruple about foreign lives
at a time when such hard sacrifices
are expected from our own life"
If this bit of rhetoric means any
thing it means that France, Poland
and other subjugated lands are to be
forcibly brigaded as never before in
a mobilization such as our continent
has not seen in its history Of several
thousand years" Since the able
bodied workers of those unfortunate
lands have already been drawn by
millions into involuntary servitude to
German industry and agriculture, the
next logical step would seem to be
forcible CONSUMPTION into the armed
forces Of the Third Reich to make
good the wastage of German man
power on the Eastern and other
fronts. If this be attempted on a
large scale, Germany's lack Of cannon
fodder must be indeed acute, because
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
Tax Free-the Hard Wuy

How many Americans with incomes
large enough to be taxed are in posi-
ton to refuse to pay tell the Treasury
to go jump in the lake and then
relax, sure that nothing will happen?
None" seems the logical answer, yet
that number is one too few. The
right answer Is one. an individual
hereafter known as the Man from
Maine. He is on the payroll Of that
State on rather special status His
job is to refrain from jobs. If he
works, his work" for the State
ceases. The other day, when told
that the Victory tax would be de-
Quoted from his biWeekly checks, he
politely but firmly announced that
this was not so. He ordered the
ruling rescinded, or elSe-the "or
else" being a threat to 60 out and
get job. Our error!' cried Maine,
humbly. you win: we were only
fooling. For the love of Maine, don't
work."
Fantasy? Not all. 1t really
happened. The Man from Maine,
you see, is an alleged typhoid car
rier. paid to refrain from working
and spreading geruak
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26

the value of such unwilling soldiers
is VIGOROUSLY low.
Nevertheless, such measures of des-
peration may be needed in a struggle
which Hitler admitted might last
perhaps years" During that su-
preme ordeal, he proclaimed the Nazi
party as the dynamic needed to
inspire even the home front, ito in
still strength into weak characters
and ruthleSSly to destroy saboteurs
To break terror with tenfold
terror That looks as though Hitler
feels that Germany itself needs the
iron tonic Of the Gestapo and the
Peoples Courts to provide the i'm
petuS necessary for the trials ahead.
All this fits il with the general
picture given the outside world by
neutral observers recently emerged
from the shadow of the Third Reich.
1t reveals regime furiouSly mobiliz-
ing its last reserves in a desperate
attempt to counterfeit the growing
might Of its enemies. We should not
underestimate the power of ruthless
leaders assembling their human and
material resources regardless of
ultimate consequences. The Third
Reich is not yet beaten. But Hitler
is obviously scraping the bottom of
the barrel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
Cure for Criticism

He Stornled against the Sno1U nth
eloQuence
When it defed his Initiating fence.
He said, "Suf1ciency may reach
despair:
EUen beauty may be hard to bear.
Any birch tree, broken By the ice,
KnoWs that mtlder beauty 10iH
suffice:
Any crocus, deep in dritted SnoW,
Could teach the 1Ointer things it
ought to kno1U."
Then he ,Uho took apart the changing
1UeGther-
And tried to fit the fractured bits
together
Crossed the crutng fields Of crystal
10hite
Until he sac the PentecoStal light
OF unconsuming flames that made
each tree
A purple pyre OF promise. Won
drouSly
He pondered beauty: silence by
surprise:
Too mute to talk: too glad to criticize.
HARRY ELMORE HURD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
The Army Seems
To Pass Him BY.

To the Editor OF The Star:
Shortly after Lindbergh's nonstop
fight 20 Paris thousands Of young men
became wildly enthusiastic about avia-
ton.
Shortly after Pearl Harbor thousands
OF enthusiastic young men rushed to
the recruiting stations to enlist.
know felow-middle- aged-who
felt the same urge shortly after Pearl
Harbor. He was wondering what he
could do. He was married-had a
child-was divorced, and remarked. Had
two households to maintain, and was
doing pretty good job OF it.
But he wanted to do something worth
while-something more than being a
blood donor or an AFRAID warden.
Not long after World War lat IT,
he had entered the C. M. T. c. This
was the way one too young to serve in
the last war was to prepare himself
to serve if needed in the future. So
he completed the course with that
degree of application that only young
ster can muster.
In the nearly 20 years that elapsed
before Pearl Harbor. this young fellow
had obtained job Through an adver-
tisement in The Star, incidentally and
had advanced to the presidency of
small business. His annual income for
the past five years or so had averaged
nearly $4,000. But 50 had his financial
responsibility grown. He couldn't enlist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
One Reason Given for
Tardy Tax Returns.

To the Editor of The Star:
Some comment is made on the sloWness
with which income tax returns are being
made. Do the officials realize that the
Government itself is mainly responsible
for the delay? First, Congress itself is
still playing with the tax question and,
secondly, the Government departments
have not yet released to the individual
workers statements of the amount of
recompenSe it is supposed to have paid
them during the past year, which is the
first item to be set down in the financial
statement of the report. Until they are
given this information they cannot fill
out and file their reports. Last year the
time for filing was almost up before some
Of us were informed of the amount to
be put down. This year, with several
methods of computing overtime, it is
beyond the average employee to compute
the amount he should have received,
which is not the amount he did receive.
but which is the amount which has to be
returned. In my January pay check, for
instance, there were embodied three
items calculated by different methods or
formulae and three deductions, also
varying in formulate. I Go not know at
this time whether I was paid what was
due me, for last year, nor will I ever
know, unless the Treasury goes into the
detailing of the various items which
should have been given with such a pay
check. and which might have been
time and money saver to the Govern
ment had it been done. Some employees
spent hours trying to figure out the pay
they should have received.
w. E. ALLEN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1pell.

When a scientist investigates. and
discovers the remains of a hundred in
sects, all of them inimical to man and
his crops, in the stomach of one bird. we
may feel that the help the birds give is
very real, after all.
1t is easy to dispute anything.
1t seems at times that no one can make
a statement but that somebody else OF
equal authority must pop up to take just
the opposite view.
After one has watched this for 40 or so
years. one becomes inclined to give more
weight to positive statements than to
even more positive statements against
the first statements.
There is certain priority, as it were,
which puts the burden of proof on the
second skaters.
There can be little question, We believe,
but that the birds DO, all in all, real
service to mankind by the weed seeds
and inimical insects and their forms
which they eat,
Georgetown is a heavily freed COM
munity.
This means that birds will come to it
naturally.
Heavy traffic may drive some of them
away, but not as many as some persons
think
There Is however. a constant move
ment in closely built-up communities
which we believe deters some species
from coming, or remaining if they do fly
in.
For this reason Georgetown will not
have as many species Of birds as may
be found in the nearby Maryland and
Virginia suburban communities.
One will have to look closer, in George
town, but if the watcher is really inter-
ested, in time he will find many birds
which most residents, perhaps, never
realized were present.
Even bluebirds have been known to fly
in and remain few days. These come
from the "bluebird belt" which runs
eastward through the community Of
Wesley Heights.
CLONES llne posts, city lnSUCutlOn, Dy
the way, are fine bird attractors.
We can recall seeing bluebirds, the real
thing, on such posts in Georgetown near
Western High School.
If small feeding station is attached
to such post, and kept filled with SUM-
flower seed, or good mixture, many
species will be attracted which otherwise
would fly on through.
The presence OF the Potomac to the
south of Georgetown seems to add little
to the bird life which flies up in the
town"
Most of the rarer species fly in from
Virginia across the river, in the early
spring. and from Maryland communities
to the Northwest, later in the year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
Contrasts Treatment
BY Two Ration Boards.
% the Editor Of The Star:

10 the Edltor OF Ihe star.
I have recently returned to Washing
ton after few years residence in South
Carolina. Since my return I have heard
a great deal of talk about the so called
Negro problem. Today, however, I went
to get my ration book at the Magruder
School at Seventeenth and M streets
There I received the most courteous and
efficient treatment from the colOred
teachers 1t was in great contrast to the
impudent and disagreeable attitude of
the white clerks at the rationing board
at 1740 Massachusetts avenue. In my
opinion, the teachers at the Magruder
School deserve great deal of credit for
the very efficient and courteous manner
In which they are handling rationing for
both white and colored people. N.N.L.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
Letters to the Editor
"Unfairness" in Point Rationing
Draws Criticism.

"UnfairneSS" in Point Rat1onlng
Draws Criticism.
To the Editor of The Star:
Ordinarily am not addicted to writing
letters of criticism, but the recent point
rationing program has reached the
height of bureaucratic laundering. The
method itself, while complicated, is,
believe, the fairest and best way OF
distributing wartime food in a just
manner for all, provided it is properly
administered. On the day after all
canned goods were frozen the first
blunder occurred.
very fragrant example of the fair
ness" of the point system as administered
by the OPA experts is printed in local
papers of one woman declaring 1919
cans of food on the first day of register
ing Enough to wipe out all the points
of her first book and, allowing eight
points to a can, it was estimated it would
take more than eight years to charge
off the entire stock In other words
this woman has in stock food which is
needed to feed the people of this Nation
now. If she were to buy it under the
points as the OPA has set up as fair
to those who didn't stock up, it would
take this woman "a years to accumulate
the food to which she is rightfully en-
titled. Will the OPA do anything about
cases like this? My guess is no.
In times of war when this Nation Is
trying to feed the rest Of the world, or
at least the major part Of it, people who
have such huge stocks Of strategic foods
should be made to resell all but the
allowance for one book to the grocer at
the current retail market price. Will the
OPA do this? My guess is no.
This is the first program under the
leadership of the new administrator,
Prentiss M. Brown, and If it is any In
dication of the fairness" the people of
this country can look forward to, then
my advice to the elected heads Of
this country is that they rush Leon
Henderson back from his vacation in
South America by the fastest possible
means. One thing that Mr.. Henderson
did do and that was attempt to treat
everybody equal. DISGUISED.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26

for $50 per month, but he could make
a substantial sacrifice.
In early 1910 he had been asked if
he would consider an appointment as
a major in the Army but passed 1t off
lightly. We were not at war.
But after Pearl Harbor! The Army
Specialist Corps was the answer. He
would probably have to take pay cut
of so per cent but that should be ex-
pected in an emergency. The Army
Specialist Corps died, almost before it
was born.
A commission in the Army Reserve
Corps. &. Maybe that was the thing to
do. This chap lacked a college degree,
but good record of delivering the goods
in private enterprise. plus the C. NJ. T. C.
training, would fill the bill.
Applications were f1led-a few inter-
views were arranged, but nothing hap
pened
I wonder if the best officer material
was available in those who actually
bettered their financial circumstances
by filing application at the sound of
the first gunf1re?
I wonder if it isn't just possible that
some of those who we're not in a posi-
ton to rush off at the first sound of
the gong haven't got something on
the ball-something that should be
diverted to the war effort-pronto?
Our hero is still plugging along at his
private JOB; still earning double the
salary that commission would offer,
and not in much danger of being drafted.
But with all the manpoWer shortage,
his voluntary steps have been kicked
around. JOB SEEKER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-26
GEORGETOWN.

Dear Sir:
Il have Just moved to this community.
and wonder if you can tell me what birds
I may expect over here?
Where I am is near the woods, and
not so terribly far from the river.
Il had hoped to see great many
varieties, having put out bread, but so
far have not had much besides starlings
in large quantities.
Where are all these birds you write
about? Or am I too far downtown? l
am admirably located for getting around
even in these times but miss the birds
I used to have up North.
Cordially, M. J. B."
Planting is the secret OF bird lure.
We know a Georgetown resident who
had a mulberry tree come up in the
corner of the yard
After it grew up, they began to have
birds
Now they have a few wood thrushes.
after the last Of April. mockingbirds,
cardinals and an occasional jay.
In the summer they have many hum
mingbirds.
They, too, have English sparrows and
some starlings.
They keep down the number of star
lings by never feeding bread, except
when snow or sleet covers the ground.
AS many as 20 different species OF
birds will come to many downtown gar
dens, where people cater to them.
In the suburban communities, it Is no
unusual thing to count from SO to so
different species over a period Of a year
or more
Even in the suburbs. as communities
grow, the number Of birds seen, and the
number of species, tends to grow less.
This Is due to a variety Of reasons.
with certain causes unknown.
1t has not been possible to establish
surely the reasons why bird life is de-
creasing.
Every one interested has a favorite
theory. Often this theory is merely an
attempt to take back-handed slap at
some other form of life.
No doubt the best way is to forget the
reasons, or pseudo-reasons, and to try
to take care of the birds we have by being
kind to them.
In this way every one has the oppor
tunity to help conserve one Of Ameri-
cas- best natural resources.
Birds do a great deal to help farmers
and truck farmers grow their crops,
although even this has been disputed,
since this is an era Of disputation.
But when We hear that 1000 weed
seeds were found in the stomach of one
small bird scarcely an ounce in weight,
we are willing to believe that hundreds
of thousands of birds do great deal Of
good.
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dren can grow up as free men and
free women. And when it becomes
necessary to break up their homes
temporarily to insure this kind of
victory the great majority of fathers
will be found ready and willing to go.
For them, the prospect of immunity
has no appeal. Their every instinct
will indorse the thought expressed by
Representative Bolton of Ohio, moth
er Of two sons in the armed forces,
who told her colleagues yesterday
that the war must be won and moth
ing else counts"