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Evening star., 1943-07-11
Road Contracts Awarded
For Fairfax-ArIinqton

Award of two contracts for the
construction of roads and sidewalks
in Fairfax and Arlington Counties
has been announced by the State
Highway Department, the Asso-
ciated Press reported from Rich
mond.
The Luck Construction Co. of
Richmond was given a contract for
building 3 miles of roadway In
Fairfax County to connect with the
military access roads near Fort Bel
voir. The bid was $131, ,65047.
Guy H. Lewis g. Son of Lynchburg,
with bid Of $8,731.80, received a
contract for constructing about az
miles Of sidewalk in Arlington
County. The project will extend
along the north side OF Columbia
pike from the Navy Building at Co
lumbia pike. and Arlington Ridge
road to South Monroe street.
Evening star., 1943-07-11
.McCuthrun Reelected
At Washington Grove

Irving r. McCathran was re-
elected Mayor of Washington Grove
Md, last night at a town meeting
Councilmen elected for three
year terms include Charles M
Keefer, reelected, and William T.
Teepe, who will succeed Wallace
Muir. Election judges were Walter
Stilman, E. N. Aiken and H. B.
Hunt.
Residents set the 1943-44 tax rate
at 10 cents per, 500 property valu-
alton, 10 cents on each foot front,
$11 on each dwelling and Sill for
each dwelling unit.
Members of the Council, whose
terms do not expire this year, in
clude Robert S. Billhimer, David
F. Bradley, Francis l.. L.. Hitler
and Alfred Christie.
Evening star., 1943-07-11
Railroad President
10 Head Maryland
Postwar Study Group
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, July 10.--Roy B.
White, president of the Baltimore
81 Ohio Railroad and former presi-
dent Of the Western Union Tele.
graph Co., has been appointed CHAIR
man Of the Maryland Commission
on Postwar Reconstruction and De-
velopment.
Gov. O'Connor, In making the an
nouncement of dr. Whites appoint
ment, said the names of the other
members Of the commission would
be announced soon.
Establishment of the commission
was authorized by the 1943 Legis-
lature, and the Assembly made
available 100000 for postwar re-
construction. the amount to be sup.
plemented by other funds from time
to time.
Gov. O'Conor asserted that, under
the broad authority granted by the
act creating the commission, the
State group would have wide scope
for its activities and would have a
splendid opportunity to bring about
benefits of lasting worth.
while established generally to
order and direct the preparation and
plans Of specifications for public
works and projects and to prepare
plans for the Unemployment and re-
adjustment of servicemen and wom-
en- on their release from the armed
forces" Gov. O'Conor continued,
"the commission is giving further
specific directions and powers that
will enable it to figure prominently
in every phase of the States prep
arations for orderly rearrangement
Of industry and jobs after the war
boom and the expected postwar up
swing has passed"
The commission has been directed
to undertake surveys and studies
regarding the planning of highways,
parkways, public housing and air.
way terminals, and also cooperate
with Federal and local agencies to
avoid duplication of effort and to
coordinate thir work.
Evening star., 1943-07-11
BY MRS. ]. REED BRADLEY.

BY MkS. J. REED BRADLEY.
When Mr.. and Mrs. William H.
Larman set up housekeeping SO years
ago In Georgetown, they ordered
The Star sent to their home and
have been subscribers continuously
since.
The Larmans celebrated their
wedding anniversary Tuesday with
family dinner at their home on Old
Georgetown road, Bethesda.
Although Mr.. Larman has passed
his 93rd birthday, he still reads
without glasses. After dinner he sat
down to read The Star to his wife
Johanna, whose eyesight is falling
She Is 88.
To Mr.. Larman, the world isn't
getting any better and the Gov
ernment is spending terrible
amour, of money. Now papa, don't
take it so hard, Mrs Larman rem
onStrates: Times have changed,
you know. and the government does
the best it can"
Mr.. Larman admits he Is getting
bit old This spring he sold his
19-year-old Chevrolet car which he
described as lust as good as new"
He got $40 for it. Until the last
year, he and his wife took little
Evening star., 1943-07-11
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
BALTIMORE, July 10.-A long,
dry summer was in prospect today
for Baltimore beer drinkers.
A scarcity of corn. an important
element in most brews compounded
by local brewers. threatened to
translate itself within the next few
weeks into a shortage of beer,
brewers and grain brokers lamented
Some brewers said a curtailment
of their outputs within two or three
weeks was inescapable unless new
supplies became available-and no
new supplies were in sight.
Eugene H. Beer, jr, grain broker
supplying most of the normal local
demand of 10 carloads of corn
weekly for breweries, said that corn
just can't be bought.
All the Baltimore brewers have
Evening star., 1943-07-11
Charles Morgan Retires;
u. ). Worker Since 1903

Charles Morgan of Chevy Chase
Md, has retired after 40 years con-
tinuous Government service. For 81
years he has been associated with
the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Navy Department. He was engineer
in charge of the road and sanitary
group of the design division.
During the last war Mr.. Morgan
was chief craftsman for the bureau,
holding that position until 1924,
when he was moved into the sani-
tary group.
On his retirement fellow employees
presented him a wrist watch and a
parchment commemorating his work
and setting forth their esteem for
him.
Evening star., 1943-07-11
Shopping Center Plans
Indorsed by Army
And Navy Executives

Capt. r. B. Simons, commanding
oficer of the Naval Torpedo Sta
ton at Alexandria, and Brig. Gen.
E. H. Marks, commanding officer
Of Fort Belvoir. have given their
Endorsements to petitions of resi-
dents of Cameron Valley and Chin
quapin Village for shopping centers
in the two defense housing areas.
The Federal Public Housing Au-
thority recently notified the Alex
andria City Council of plans to es-
tablish such centers, but the coun-
Gil refused to rezone the property
for commercial use. The council
notified FPHA that it would fight
attempts to establish shopping CEN
ters In the developments.
Claim Loss Of Personnel.
In support Of the petitions, which
will be presented to the Council
Tuesday night, both commanding
ofncers asserted that they are losing
personnel, particularly women, be-
cause of the dificulties OF shopping
after working hours.
The council also will consider on
Tuesday a petition for rezoning the
Chauncey and Ducan tracts OF Duke
street, extended, to permit an apart
ment development. A large group of
residents OF the vicinity is expected
to attend the meeting to voice pro-
test.
Several other petitions for recon-
ing in the northwestern section of
the city have been denied recently
because OF the protests OF property
owners, and feeling is strong against
any further apartment projects in
the residential part of the city.
A Taxicab Problem.
1t was only after bitter fight that
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
was granted permission for the con-
struction of Parkfairfax, and several
civic organizations in the west end
of the city fear that "ghost towns"
will develop after the war If the
new apartment developments are
permitted.
The council also expects to settle
the taxicab stand problem at its
Tuesday meeting when representa-
tives Of the Yellow Taxi Co. will ask
for permission to maintain a stand
on North St. Asaph street.
The taxicabs were recently denied
the use Of their stand on North
Washington street by action Of the
council, and since July /. the cabs
parked at that corner have been
forced to pay tribute to parking
meters.
Officials Of the company have
stated that this arrangement was
only temporary, and that a loca-
ton for a new stand would be found
and council petitioned for permis-
sion to use 1t.
Evening star., 1943-07-11
X K
NAotHo~R41WiM
WAR BONDS
Better Thun Mark vi

Municipalities, organizations and
other units of American life now are
conducting drives to buy equipment
for our fighting soldiers through the
purchase of War bonds.
One piece is the Cotton heavy tank
which was pitted against Hitler's
best, the Mark vi in Africa. It's
cost is $120,o00 and from its per-
formance it has been worth every
penny.
Evening star., 1943-07-11

SON OF PRESIDENT OF ECUADOR REGISTERS AT UNIvER-
SITY OF Carlos Arroyo del Rio 49,
OF the President Of Ecuador discusses with
man Pyle OF the college OF public and business administration
University OF Maryland before registering student
university. civil atache at the Ecuadoran Embassy he
studied at Central University Quito capital of Ecuador He
plans to take in foreign trade economic resources and
economic development He will live the with his
mother who accompanied him to the university
Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1943-07-11
Record Dairy Output

In the first four months Of 1943
the dairy industry set a new record
for production, averaging 1,770,000
pounds a day more than the rec
ord-breaking production in the cor
responding period of 1912.
Evening star., 1943-07-11

4 Every time you lick ., War savings.
stamp you help lick the Axis.
Evening star., 1943-07-11

With the whole of Europe a maze
OF pillboxes, our boys will need
many, many tanks to clear a path
to. Unter den Linden, and we'll need
many War bond buyers to pay for
them. Figure it out yourself"
Evening star., 1943-11-02
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1DeH.
Evidently she does not.

Evidently she does not.
Both juncos and starlings, as unlike
as they are, suffer from cold feet
Good food helps both species go
through the winter. AS long as a bird
can keep all of him, from tip of tail to
end OF claws, filled with warm blood, he
can survive almost any night.
1t is the enforced roosting of night
which makes them susceptible to frost
bite. While they are flying about, seek
ing food, they have no such trouble.
The startling is wiser than the junco.
He uses his brains, and provides himself
with comparatively heated toe surface
by perching at night on the ledges and
cornices of buildings which have heat in
them.
From the human viewpoint, this makes
the starting something of a nuisance,
but from the standpoint of the startling
no doubt it is just plain common sense.
Starlings have unusually tender feet.
Reports have come in of their claws
being frozen to metal roofs Most of
these birds are wise enough through
ChPCAlClSC W oECh SUOIlC VI Ul1Ch ltUScS
for resting places.
Persons who like the snowbird some
| times fail to enthuse over the English
| sparrows.
The junco is sparrow, too. He shows
this by his willingness to remain with
the common sparrows in feeding.
In various sections of the United States
the junco is called the black snowbird
the white bill, the black chipping bird,
the blue snoWbird and the Eastern
junco.
"Junco" is a highbrow word which
| has come to the fore during the past so
! years.
There seems to be something about it
which makes an appeal, but it will never
| supersede that of 'snowbird>"
| He is a good-sized species, about 6
| inches long. The bill is small, bat dis
| tinct, and the wings are rounded, show
ing some white when the bird flies.
The female is marked as the male, but
the dark or slate is lighter. When the
two are together it is always easy to
pick out the male.
The nest is not often seen, mostly be-
cause searchers do not look for it in the
right place. They look up. the tradi-
tional way to lock for bird nests, when
/ they should look down, for the junco
/ builds its nest on the ground.
The eggs are four or five, white, with
! brown dots
The snoWbird is one of our best insect
and weed seed eaters
His diet has been found to be COM
posed about so per cent of weed seeds,
and the rest of harmful insects. He is
particularly fond of the various cater
pillars.
This is one bird which instantly at
tracts the attention of children. 1t is,
therefore. one of the best with which to
begin their life interest in birds.
Evening star., 1943-11-02
MCKINLEY STREET.

Dear Sir:
Winter must be at hand, because the
snowbirds have returned to my garden.
saw some of them yesterday, eating in
the grass. I do not know what they were
finding, but whatever it was it was much
to their fancy, because they were there
long time.
Several years ago had bird feed
ing station at this exact place in the
yard, and at that time the snowbirds
visited it. Do you suppose these could
have been the same birds?
These birds showed up during the
long rain. In the past they always came
Just before snow. I have always re-
garded these little birds as not only in
fallible weather prophets, but also among
the most beautiful of all.
Sincerely, M. L. G."
X X X X
If the juncos, or SnoWbirdS, flew down
to the exact spot where feeding station
once had been, there is no doubt that
they were the same birds.
Undoubtedly birds have good memories.
Just how their brains work we do not
know Certainly their ways of intelli-
gence cannot be the same as ours.
Memory, however, Is memory, whether
it is motvated by pure brainwork. odor.
sight or whatnot.
1t may be that birds keep sort Of
map in their minds.
The famous phrase, "a bird s-eye view, "
is not just words but fact.
The birds way of looking at the world
and life is entirely different from our
own.
Even when man is in an airplane he
retains his earth-way of regarding
things.
The sailor on his ship thinks of every
thing from the landlubbers standpoint,
despite himself.
We are earth creatures, and cannot
get away from it.
The terrible Germans recognize this,
in their slogans. To them the bonds
which hold all Germans together, at
least in theory, are based on the ties
of blood.
Blood and earth go together, evidently.
Juncos are great travellers
They 60 all the way from Point Barrow
in Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico.
There are several species. but the slate
colored snowbird is the only one seen
! hereabouts.
1t is typical, with its clean white
stomach and gray hat and coat.
| Tho y0llpp are streako6 reSepobljrU q
| common sparrow.
The line between the dark and white
| feathers is unusually distinct and clean
cut.
These little birds, despite their name
seem to suffer a great deal from frost
| bite.
| One would think off hand. that nature
would take care of all the birds, in this
| regard.
Evening star., 1943-11-02
Fourth Coal Strike

Faced with the fourth national
coal strike in . period of six months,
the President, fully conscious of the
imperative need of restoring the
mines to production, has offered one
more concession to John L. Lewis.
For years the battle cry Of the
miners has been, mo contract, no
work" So the President has taken
the unusual step of Offering them
a contract. Secretary Ickes, who has
once again assumed control of the
mines, has been authorized by the
President to enter into a contract
with the miners along the lines of
the proposals recently put forward
by the War Labor Board.
This is an extraordinary thing for
the Government to do, and it is to be
presumed that the President made
the offer only because of the Ma
tion's critical need of coal. 1t is a
step that can be justified on no
other ground. for it puts the Gov
ernment in the undesirable position
OF making conciliatory overtures to
strikers That is in direct conflict
with the War Labor Boards sound
policy of refusing to take any action
in labor dispute while a strike is in
progress. Furthermore, if any con-
tract negotiated by Mr.. Ickes should
be applied throughout the coal in
ouStry-and that must be contem-
plated-the Government, in effect,
would be imposing it's version of a
proper settlement of a legal claim
(fOr travel time under the Wage
Hour Act) on all of the coal opera
tors. 1t has been indicated that
a majority of the operators are
opposed to the terms which the WLB
has said it would approve, but which
it has not ordered. Are they to be
compelled to accept the contract
that Mr.. Ickes may negotiate with
the miners? Presumably so, unless
there is to be another strike when
the mines are restored to private
operation, as must be done under
the Connally-Smith Act.
Finally, there remains the question
whether Mr.. Lewis and his policy
committee will be moved by this
latest concession to let the Nation
have the coal that it needs to fight
the war. They should let us have
their decision late today or tomor-
row Meanwhile, it seems that the
most powerful country in the world
in the midst of the greatest war in
history, has no alternative but to
curb its indignation and await the
verdict of Mr.. Lewis.
Evening star., 1943-11-02
IMPERTINAX.
World Police Wanted
To Enforce Treaties.

To the Editor OF The Star:
When our original 13 clashing Colonies
and later our 48 States-united their
forces for cooperation was it "surren-
der OF freedom or most prudent
investment. profitable exchange of
short-sighted sovereignty" for collective
security?
1t would be wise and prudent for all
hberty-loving nations to outlaw war by
using our own successful Federal union
as practical and proved working
model, investing their petty "sover-
eighties" (Which have caused two world
wars in generation) in world union.
world congress, world court and world
police The larger and more powerful
we make such police force, the less
need will We have ever to use it. as its
existence will discourage and prevent all
aggressions before they occur Our past
international anarchy-our pacts, trea-
ties and international laws-have be-
come mere scraps of paper" and failed
miserably and tragically to prevent
world wars, precisely because we had
no world police power to enforce them.
DAVID SWING FELTER,
San Francisco.
Evening star., 1943-11-02
Differs With Theory
OF Critic of Milk.
To the Editor OF The Star:

think you should reward H. B Brad
ford for writing the most extraordinary
letter to your columns. His ideas of
human diet are quiet out of keeping
with advanced dietetics, and his denun-
citation of milk as a food for adults is
about the most preposterous tenet I
have heard in long time.
Mr.. Bradford evidently does not real
ize that the science of dietetics has kept
pace with the science of medicine and
all the other phases of keeping fit and
healthy. Milk still is considered the
most nearly perfect food whether for
infants or adults. True, it is more essen
tial to the welfare of babies than to
adults, but for many grownups, too, it
forms veritable backbone of diet. 1t
is great source of calcium, the bone
builder, and as such is exceptionally good
for mothers both before and after the
babies come, although Mr.. Bradford, be-
cause of Indian precedent, would re-
strict its usage for babies only.
BY bringing Gargantua into it, the
inference seems to be that we are as
much of the dietetic track in our eating
habits as he Is in his enforced state Of
captivity. What would Mr.. Bradford
have us do, put milk and all the data
Evening star., 1943-11-02
While Junk Goes Free
From the Philadelphia Enquirer.

Prom the Philadelphia Enquirer
Increase in postage rates, recon-
mended by the House Ways and Means
Committee. has elected the objection
that the Post Office Departments tunc-
ton is not to raise revenue, but to
render service. 1t ought to pay its own
way, and for any classes of service that
involve losses rates should be increased.
Opinion is divided on whether the
Post Office Department should be a
source of profit to the Government.
but the Congressional Economy Com
mittee's contention that it should not
have to carry SO much official mail free
of charge will have wide support.
It's shocking to learn that the postage
free matter handled last year would
have yielded 100000 If paid for at
regular rates, as contrasted with only
100000 worth in 1890.
Evening star., 1943-11-02
MIR. HOover's Views and Editorial
Approved by Critic of Mr.. Willkie.

To the Editor OF The Star:
Could not some one sit down with
Wendell Willkie for a quiet hour and
impress on him the age-old wisdom so
sanely and succintly synthesized in the
editorial "Nationalism and Peace?
Surely all will agree with Mr.. Hoover
and his views They are the very ones
that must be today in the minds of our
President and Secretary of State. So, it
would seem these three are in complete
accord.
What we are all fighting for is a world
order based on just principles. Obedience
to international law is not incompatible
with national sovereignty! The Presi-
dents and the Secretary of States per-
sonal background experience and asso-
Citations, extending over lifetime. fit
these two men in singular way to carry
out this onerous task. Mr.. Willkie has
shown no aptitude by his utterances
for this particular job. The throwing
about of meaningless billingsgate placed
in his mouth by the social-welfare
radicals is most likely taken by those
solidly behind the President as mean
ingless and unworthy
IMPER TINAY
Evening star., 1943-11-02

ography; but the result was mag
niflcently constructive. Thousands
OF reverent spectators crowded to
witness the spectacle. Possibly moth
ing else within the memory of senior
Americans is more compelling than
the instant when the statue of the
Virgin moved. For that experience
a multitude of people are enduringly
grateful to Reinhardt. A still vaster
public shares in the fruitage of his
genius without knowing their obliga-
ton to him.
Evening star., 1943-11-02
Max Reinhurdt

Only persons forty years Of age
or more are qualified to understand
the influence of Max Reinhardt,
dead at seventy. Their juniors have
been born and bred in a world which
was so largely of his making that
they cannot comprehend how great
was his share in it. Not merely in
the field of the drama was his inf1u-
ence felt. The kind of houses mod
ern men and women live in, the
clothing they wear, the books they
read and the pictures they see are
what they are in part because he
was what he was.
Reinhardt was first of all a Jew
a member Of the Judaic race in
whom the majestic traditions of
the Temple were as the blood
in his veins. Some tremendous
mystic force out of the vanished
Orient gave him the power to visual
ize things in masses. He came into
European culture from outside, was
born at the gate" of Vienna-at
Raden, specifically-and made his
way west through Salzburg and Ber-
lin. His formal training he got at
the Untergymnasium, not at the
university of the Austrian metrop-
oils. AS boy he was a clerk in a
bank. His teachers in acting were
Emil Burde and Otto Brahm, but
they could not shape him to nat
uralism. In 1903 he launched the
neo-romantic movement. His pro-
ductions of Shakespeare, Moliere,
Goethe, Strindberg, Ibsen and Shaw
were altogether at variance with
academic presentations. Still more
notably symptomatic of his revolt"
were the operas and musical come
dies which he directed BY 1909 he
was the acknowledged master of the
new" stage everywhere.
Yet at that date his finest achieve
mentS still were undreamed. In ap-
praising Reinhardt's work it is i'm
perative to recall that he ap-
preached his final triumphs grad
ually, step by step. His Midsummer
Nights Dream" was not a fixed and
rigid conception. He made as many
as fifteen different experiments with
the same text. There were moments
when he glorified simplicity-until it
was no longer simple. At the oppo-
site extreme of his artistry, he re-
duced cosmic confusions to single
affirmations so convincing that a
child could grasp them. His King
Lear" was a case in point. Six
knights in silver armor standing
quietly against huge gray backdrop
gave the perfect illusion of mighty
castle vigilantly guarded through
the hours of the night.
1t was Reinhardt more than any
other individual who rediscovered
the essential "theater" of the Gothic
cathedral. The average church.
going Christian perhaps had forgot
ten the pageantry of his religion
until he saw THE Miracle" in 1924
To gain his purpose, its sponsor had
to build" an equivalent of Notre
Dame in Paris. He erred in some
important particulars and there was
sharp criticism of the liberties he
took with I tpeology. ritual and ICON