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Evening star., 1943-02-27
Basket Title Won
The Easiest Wuy
Hy ths Associated p, asa

b the Associated Pless
LARAMIE. Wyo., Feb. 27.-
Wyoming University clinched tho
Mountain Five Conference bas-
ket ball championship. yet de-
feated only two teams In league
play,
1t first won the title in the
Eastern division, which has
dwindled to two teams, by
trouncing Colorado State. Last
night 1t beat Brigham Young,
47-43, to win the Eastern-West-
ern division playoff for the
championship.
Evening star., 1943-02-27
Hos to Grow OId?'

You can look at flares of dcgwood
blooms and hear birds singing in
the April naples. You also can take
along a form sheet You can read
about Count Fleet, Occupation,
Ocean Wave and possibly some 1S
starters
Thirty miles a day" whispered.
I already can hear my old dogs
barking after two days. Did you
ever read Masefield On Growing
Old?'" I asked.
WHO has to grow old?" the colonel
Towled. What did he say about it?"
Stay with me, beauty, while the
fire is dying
Ny dogs and / are now too old for
rowing"
did you know" Col. Winn con-
tinued, that racing lovers in Eng
iand and Scotland frequently have
started three weeks ahead to see the
English Derby? And they walked
au the way, hundreds OF miles. Of
course. this wouldn't apply to any
one needed in any form of war work.
We intend to see that no Oil or
rubber will be used. But there will
be many Kentuckians who either will
walk to the track or come by wagons,
nuggies and streetcars.
Forgets About Receipts
II can tell you, honestly. that 1
I'm not thinking in terms of at
tendance or receipts. The thought
Of losing money doesn't bother me a
bit. Any one can get discouraged
and quit. But we need all the color
Evening star., 1943-02-27
Split Bowling Honors

Kay Malony OF the pace-setttna
Peggy's Hall Of Beauty, chalked up
l20 to divide honors in the Silver
Spring Ladies loop with Hazel avett
OF Clark's Flowers, who posted 3l8. 2
Evening star., 1943-02-27
Win, Lose or Draw
Col. Winn Deeries Thought Of Abandoning Sports
By GRANTLAND RICE.
Correspondent Of The Star.

COL Winn Decries Thought Of Abandoning Sports
NEW YORK Feb c7 NANA>.-You at ripe
fellow
and
But Col Matt
70 tell lis about that first Kentucky Derby 1875
Ne colonel kid of 13
You have watching Aistides win that
first Derby I said "Or
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Totals 80 5 IS Totals--1S IS
Omcials-J. Mitchell snd 1Atons "a. b..
Fa1les Finixh With T,ogS

Eagles Finish With Loss.
American University ended It's sea-
son with a 63-5l loss to Western
Maryland in q Mason-Dixon Con-
ference game in Baltimore as two
Eagles and q brace Of Terrors con-
trihuted more than 20, points each.
Bart Fugler, with 23 points. and
George Zuras, with 81, led A. o.,
while Sunern and Robinson each
scored % points for Western Mary
land. Despite the score the game
was ragged. with neither team
showing much in the way Of floor
play.
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Totals is 335 Totals 8 7Is
Score at half, 17-4, Tech. Referees
Messrs. Boyd and Buscher.
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terests for thousands OF people to
think about in odd moments. in
place OF brooding over the grimness
OF things as they happen to be.
THE Kentucky Derby is some
thing more than a 2-minute race.
1t begins building up interest weeks
al1ead-interest among hundreds of
thousands who have no chance to be
at Churchill Downs in May. Count
Fleet? Ocean Wave? Many others.
Il have been looking at Kentucky
Derbies for exactly 6s years. There
have been lot of yesterdays packed
in since 1875, when both baseball
and football were young games. 1t
would have been so easy and so
simple for us to have quit and called
everything off.
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Totals 81 o63 Totals Il q 81
Ofdcials-Messrs. Kaufman and Enright
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Totals--~-15 9 636 Totals "A q -
Seara ~ haIf Co.1d reet.vp nsfnra..
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Totals Is 8 3S
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
The Dies Committee

The question of renewing the life
of the Dies Committee, which was
terminated with the conclusion of
the Seventy seventh Congress, is one
of the controversial matters that
will have to be settled by he House,
now that the new Congress is in
session.
AS in the past, there is consider
able opposition to the Dies group,
and there have been predictions
that the House will be less willing
than on former occasions to provide
funds for continuance of the COM
mittee's work. Unquestionably, the
committee has made mistakes and
it would seem that room remains for
improvement in some of the pro-
cedureS that it has followed. At the
same time, however, the committee
has rendered useful service, which
vas not being rendered by any other
agency, and it has labored under the
handicap of the open or covert oppo-
sition of good many influential
individuals in Congress and in the
administration. There may be some
doubt as to whether the ground
which is properly within the scope
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TraceUeH.

window feeding station do not crash
into the glass more often than they do.
In eight years of watching, we have
never seen this happen but twice.
Each time cardinal swung squarely
into what would have been the naked
pane-if the screen hadn't been there.
Fortunately for the glass, the screen
caught the bird
1t struck, in each case, with tremen-
dous thump, surely enough to have gone
through the glass if the full impact had
been against the pane.
Glass has great tensile strength, but
skaters easily at blow, as most people
know. Even the shatter-proof glass, So
called, used in automobiles, will break,
although the fragments will not fly.
1t is a good thing to erect feeding
tray on stake at window, if this can
be arranged
This may be put back foot or so,
and thus keeps the sill and pane clean
Any one interested in bird life should
not find the very little cleaning which
will have to be done any great chore.
Any one fresh from a hospital, of
course, ought to have the work done by
some one else. as also the supplying of
the feeding tray with fresh seeds and
grains.
This is best done by the same person
daily, and usually in the evening, at dusk,
SO that the cardinals will have a fresh
supply.
This is their favorite time in the
suburbs, and probably so downtown Very
early morning and just before dark are
their preferred times.
The birds make excellent convalescent
material.
Happily, even the English sparrows do
very nicely.
There is no bird sight of a greater
health tone than gang of sparrows,
hustling and jostling each other for
place on the rim of window feeder
AS many as possible will crowd in, all
eating as fast as they can
Even a startling is good to look at, If
fairly viewed
wv AiiCW VI OilC ptloOll COllFdleSCulS
at local hospital who spent much of
the time watching lone starting on
roof across the street.
There was long flower box there, and
this old bird searched the earth min
utely for something to eat. Evidently he
found it, because he was there for hours
at time.
And the convalescent worked up quite
an admiration for the old startling, and
came to look forward to his visits.
Many a person has gained a lifelong
admiration for birds while i'll, provided
there is feeding station where it can
be seen easily, without head bending or
twisting.
Sometimes such an installation re-
quires much thought, but it is worth
1t, since the rude health of the feath-
cred folk is always wholesome tonic
to the patient.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
Boy and Snow

There 1OaS the boy siluer NTH snou,
And running Swiftly do1pn the
11ind;
He Dho a single hour ago,
Had been School-held and disci-
plined.
No,o did the ,Dild blood surge in him,
As quick and careless Uent his
track.
School and its narroW rails grew
dim,
Nor did the small lean boy look
back
For he 10dS as Wild as any hare,
Though for his field he had the
street.
No one could hope to reach him
nhere
Winter lent freedom to his feet.
For it 1uas sno,U Dhich loosed him
now,
Sending his mind and his small
form
Past the fecked trunk, under the
Dough,
into ne,o Dorld made OF storm.
LANCE DELANEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08

OF the committees function has not
been rather thoroughly covered, but
the members Of the House are per-
fectly capable of determining this
for themselves, and they may be
expected to do SO on the basis of an
appraisal of the record which the
committee has made and with which
they are familiar.
Should the decision be to renew
the committee, there is one sugges-
ton which might be offered, how
ever. In dissenting from Mr.. Dies
recent majority report, Representa-
tive Voorhis, one of the members of
the group, deplored what he de-
scribed as the excessive tendency of
"so-called left-wingers" to shout
Fascist" at every conservative who
holds an important position, and
for right-Wingers to shout Com
munist" at liberals and progressives.
The suggestion implicit in this obser-
walton could be adopted with profit,
not only by the Dies Committee but
by all others who have been parties
to the controversy which its investi-
cations have stirred up. 1t is one
thing to turn the spotlight of pub
licity on the real Fascists and Com
munists in this country, but it is
quite another to create needless
division by indiscriminate use of
these appellations. This is the sort
of thing in which restraint is its
own reward
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
VERMONT AVENUE.

Dear Sir:
What would like to know is this:
is it possible to have a window sill
feeder without having to clean the win
dows every day?
Il am on the first floor facing south
an apartment building. 1t is some
what terrsced, so that am really story
and half from the ground
Il have grand shrubbery under my
windows, but I always hear the cardi-
nails high in the trees. I am across the
street from st. Johns College, etc.
Just tell me If I can have window
tray without muss and fuss. This is my
first day home from Episcopal Hospital
and the birds really stick around the
old house. Sincerely, C. O."
This is one of the intimate phases of
bird feeding which demands a prac-
teal solution.
Fortunately for this combined indoor
outdoor sport, few species except the
starlings and pigeons are really dirty.
little soap and water, now and then,
brush will undo quickly the little harm
they do.
If the feeding station is at least II
inches wide, the birds stick to it pretty
closely.
If larger birds attempt to get in, they
may be kept out by covering the sta
ton with chicken wire, sometimes called
poultry netting.
Smaller species, even the cardinals,
can enter freely.
II the feeding station Is a simple fiat
tray, 1t will be necessary to erect four
posts, one at each corner, to hold the
wire.
A better plan is to put roof OH the
posts. and then cover the whole with
wire.
Since birds are really food motors, it
Is impossible to expect them to be strict
ly antiseptic, in the human sense.
They eat great DEAL and digest it
quickly. This is all necessary to main
tain the high heat which keeps them
warm in snow and ice. The tempera-
ture of birds ranges from 1Ol to LOG
degrees, in some cases.
We are here dealing with one of ma
. lures great triumphs. We should not
expect. therefore, to find that nature has
given much consideration to mankind's
idea as to what is fit and proper.
Cats wash themselves with their own
saliva, proceeding which seems proper
enough. for cat, but which would
strike human beings, if they saw one of
their own kind do it, as strictly unwhole-
some and disgusting
X y
One sure way of protecting windows is
to put up an outside screen
The sort which covers the entire WIN
dow, and swings on fastenings at the
top is the best sort
We have often wondered that birds at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08

the war there were at least Is inStitu-
lions in Germany at which one could
learn African languages; in America
there was not a single one At the
present moment, however, the picture
probably is not so black as Mr.. Stoneman
paints it. The education branch, Special
Services. of the United States Army now
has a highly intelligent and carefully
planned language program. It's major
defect Is that it was not started two
or three years ago. 1t should have the
strongest support from those who make
Army policy.
Moreover. private organization. the
American Council of Learned Societies,
seeing two years ago that the Govern
ment was unlikely to do anything about
the obvious need for developing Ameri-
cans competent in the languages useful
in the war, set afoot its own intensive
language program, under which not only
are grammars and the other parapher-
MALTA of learning languages hitherto I'M
taught and unstudied in America being
produced but Sc courses in rs unusual
languages have been given in 20 uni
versitles to upwards of 1000 students.
Many of these students already are in
the combat and civil services, though no
systematic method of placing them has
been worked out as yet Under these
auspices an intensive course in Moroccan
Arabic has been running at the Uni
verSity of Pennsylvania since last June.
The eight students are now completing
the first stage of their study. They have
a good working knowledge of Moroccan
Arabic. They are eligible to selective
service and presumably will be in the
Army before long. We nope that the
Army will use them where their talents
will be valuable. The instructor in this
course, the only man in the United
States teaching. Moroccan Arabic, also
Is about to be drafted. We hope that
the Army will use him where his ability
will do the most good.
But for these reservations Mr.. Stone
mans assertions are correct. On the
language side we we're, and still are.
seriously unprepared to fight a elobal
war. Why should We not have
Government supported national school
OF modern Oriental languages and civil
izations in Washington? Every other
major nation has such an institution in
Its capital city; certainly none of them
has greater stake in the spherical
world OF the second half of the goth
century than has the United States of
America.
MORTIMER GRAVES,
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turally Independent, was his principal
social innovation. It was financed by
Edward Hardness, and DR.. Lowell
lived to see it in fruitful operation.
His contribution to a changing
philosophic point of view likewise
merits mention. Dr. Lowell's par
ticular interest as scholar was in
the direction of a better comprehen-
sion of the science of government,
more creative appreciation of the
basic principles of organized COM
munal association. His book on the
British system of parliamentary de-
mocracy is classic He also pro-
duced several important volumes on
the forces which influence public
opinion. Perhaps the whole purpose
and effect of his long and useful
career may be summarized in these
inspiring words, quoted from one of
his reports to the Harvard Corpora
ton: Education has proved and
probably no one would now deny,
that knowledge can advance, or at
least can advance most rapidly, only
by means of an unfettered search for
truth on the part of those who devote
their lives to seeking it in their re-
spective fields, and by complete free
dom in imparting to their pupils the
truth that they have found. This
has become an axiom in higher edu-
cation, in spite of the fact that a
searcher may discover error instead
of truth, and be misled, and mislead
others thereby. We believe that if
enough light is let in, the real rela-
tons Of things will soon be seen, and
they can be seen in no other way"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
Waste of Manpower

AS the war continues to reveal our
weaknesses as a Nation, along with
our strength, it is natural that new
emphasis is being directed to the
fearful loss of manpoWer resources
from preventable accidents. We'd
nesday nights discussion of this
topic on the National Radio Forum,
timed to coincide with the begin
ming Of a national campaign against
preventable accidents under direc-
ton of the National Safety Councils
War Production Fund to Conserve
ManpoWer, gave point to some sta
tistics forcefully presenting the ma
ture of the accident hazard
Between the attack on Pearl
Harbor and December /, 1912, for
instance, 46,30O workers have been
killed in accidents, 1880 of them
while at work and 27,500 of them
away from work. This loss of life
on the home front may be compared
with yesterdays new summary, by
the Office of War Information, of
total. casualties to date on the war
fronts-8,531 killed out of 61,126
killed, wounded, taken prisoner, in
termed or missing. In the same
period, there have been 10000
accidents involving lost time, 10000
of these resulting in permanent dis
abilities. Accidents represented a
loss of production comparable to a
stoppage of work by 45000O,000 men
for a day. Next week" Surgeon
General Thomas Parran said, work
ers in the United States will lose
seven and a half million days from
the job" from accidents or illness,
nine out of every ten from common
ailments and the tenth from some
preventable accident.
There is vast opportunity here
for constructive work in bringing
home to our people the Importance
of being careful, and Of keeping well
Aside from the prevention of tragic
and needless loss of life and perma-
nent injury, even a reasonable
amount of attention to the preven-
ton of carelessneSs would add
enormously to our war production
facilities. The President has taken
personal interest in the campaign
now underway, to be centered in
regional committees established in
industrial cities throughout the
country. Correct emphasis has been
placed on the necessity Of local lead
ership and pooling of responsibility
in accident prevention between labor
and management groups. We arc
doing so many marvellous things in
industry these days that there is hope
for new progress in an old and
neglected field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
A Suggestion for Reporters
On Conducting Interviews.

To the Editor of The Star
After reading the interview of Mrs.
Clare Booth Luce by Miriam Gutenberg
that appeared in The Star Tuesday.
January 5, was thoroughly convinced
that do not blame celebrities for try.
ing to avoid press conferences and re-
porters, particularly if the reporters
speak in the manner in which Miriam
Gutenberg quoted. 1t seems to me that
most of their questions were silly and
futile, and their remarks very uncalled
for de-, Il checked. The train was only
20 minutes late" This was remark of
a reporter after Mrs. Luce explained
that the train was two hours late.
Perhaps reporters are supposed to act
in this manner and perhaps that is why
they get where they do, but it only seems
natural that they could get further and
get more conferences with important
people if they acted in more lady-lik
and gentleman-like fashion
Mrs. Luce was certainly justified in
saying that she would not have any more
press conferences.
A HIGH SCHOOL EDITOR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
President Lowell!

Few men were qualified to succeed
Charles W. Eliot as head of a great
American institution: of learning.
The tWenty-fourth president of
Harvard University had prepared for
the position under the most friendly
of conditions, and he entered upon
it's duties with every reason to believe
himself equal to the task DR.. Abbott
Lawrence Lowell, however, was per-
son whose capacities improved in the
ratio of the development of his OPP
portunities. At the time of his retire
ment in 1882 he had won acknoWl-
edgement of pre- eminence among
educational administrators. It is not
too much to claim for him that he
remade the Nations oldest and most
widely famous academy.
Under DR.. Lowell's management
Harvard more than doubled its en-
rollment. The endowment rose from
$22 100000 in 1869 to S123, 100000
when his active solicitation of funds
terminated. No other individual ever
was so fortunate in finding money for
the university's expansion. The
Baker gift for the business school
and the Widener offering of vast
new library were great achievements.
Construction never stopped at Cam
bridge while DR.. Lowell remained in
Office. He was an enthusiastic builder,
keenly alive to the joy of watching
the progress of noble design.
But it is not merely for physical
monuments that Dr. Lowell's memory
will be held in grateful esteem. He
deserved recognition as a reformer
of outmoded cultural procedures.
None of his contemporaries was more
alert to the imperative demand for
specialization. Without hurt to the
traditional concept of general in
struction, he brought about changes
in curriculum arrangements whereby
each student concentrated to
reasonable degree upon a single prac-
tical course. The So-called "house
plan" for the division of the College
into seven different units, each struc-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
Complains About Complaints
OF Conservative" Columnists.
MORTIMER GRAVES.


To the Editor of The Star:
There is nothing more .irksome than
to read the constant carping and COM
planning Of columnists such as David
Lawrence and Frank R. Kent. These
men are conservatives, not unbiased OBJ
servers. They seem to believe that
criticism Of the New Deal and opposition
to the President are the chief duties Of
the new Congress. They have criticized
OPA, badgered the NLRB and WLB and
bullied the WPB. Yet they have made
not a single concrete proposal Of any
significance as to how we can improve
our conduct Of the war. JACK PRESS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 1Driter, although the use of
a pseudonynl for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters Nth
q Uie1U to condensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08

Residents of the swanky Mob Hill
section of San Francisco are now
permitted, and urged, to keep chick
ems as a war measure. It is not
thought, however. that their former
pastime of raising lorgnettes will
help them much in raising Leghorns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08
Calls for Establishment Of
National School of Oriental Cultures

ANoNAVhai OSAUVA VI OAACHSAl
To the Editor of The Star:
William H. Stoneman's news report in
The Star of December 80, North African
Arabs Reported Being Won by Nazi
Propaganda" calls attention to the fact
that our armed forces are being sent
into hitherto remote areas without any
knowledge of the languages and civiliza-
tons of the natives with whom they
will come into contact There is no ex-
cuse for this state of affairs 1t arises
from two prevalent superstitions, first
that the Oriental languages are so diff
cult as to defy learning except at the
expense of years of study; and second,
that Americans cannot learn languages,
anyway. Both are nonsense. No Ian
guage can be intrinsically very difficult;
If 1t were, no large group of people
would speak it. And some of the great
est linguists in the world happen to be
Americans.
Mr.. Stoneman is correct in asserting
that our Axis enemies have none OF
these inhibitions. For instance. before
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-08

The Nazis still insist that their line
of communications in Russia is
open-but just now the line seems
to be dizzy.