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Evening star., 1943-11-27
History Held Preparing
To Repeat Itself.

TO the Editor Of The Star:
In my youth heard a story that
strikes me as appropriate now:
man whose life had not been blame
less was waiting to plead for his re-
ception into heaven, when he heard
the spirit ahead of him urge that he
had been punished in advance by 20
years with nagging wife. AS st. Peter
admitted the argument, and the spirit,
the man decided to assure his own en-
trance by declaring that he had suf-
Tered two bad wives. You mean." St.
Peter asked, that. after your first ex-
perience, you married again?"
The man nodded and st. Peter barred
the gate. crying, I'VE want no fools
in here!"
In 1917-18 we were told that we fought
a war to end all war" OF course.
it did nothing of the sort and we have
only ourselves to blame. The ,armistice
proved to be merely breathing space
for the Germans. Sick of the struggle.
we jumped at peace" that enabled
the enemy to prepare for another effort
with better chance of success. While
Germany retired into her unharmed
cities and countryside, her potential
strength very little impaired, the Allies
bound their wounds, rebuilt their shat
tered homes and churches and then
forgot the whole trouble in what, for
us at least, was an era of wonderful
nonsense and bathtub gin. Millions of
lives and billions of treasure are being
sacrificed because we didn't finish
the job.
Today, history is preparing to repeat
itself. Counting on our war WEAKNESS
and on the mushy fallacy that nego-
tiated peace would end the bloody busi-
ness, we are in danger of listening to
second siren song. OF course, a ne
gotiated peace couldn't end anything.
1t would merely provide another
breathing spell for the Germans
Equally, OF course, the Germans want
just that. Who wouldn't? Every groggy
prizeflghter, hanging on to the ropes,
prays for the gong that will give him
respite in which to pull himself together
for the next round.
Our newspapers begin to be full of
letters proposing another such inter-
mission. Some of them are dictated
from Berlin and others are written by
sincere men and women who long for
peace--as do we all But In the light
of experience we may be sure that peace
can only follow a knockout. To all who
urge entering the counsel chamber be-
fore that, the guardian at the gate
should say, I'VE want no fools In here!"
CLAIMING POLLOCK.
New York City.
Evening star., 1943-11-27

passed over such a target, houses
continue to disintegrate. Meanwhile,
the unchecked flames march with
the wind through successive streets.
To picture Berlin as it is now, one
has only to imagine the city as it was
before Hitler gambled it as a pawn
OF his ambition. From Charlotten-
burg on the west to Lichtenberg on
the east was roughly twenty-five
miles, and from Karow on the north
to Teltow on the south about the
same. The entire metropolis might
be compared with Washington, If
Washington were twice or three
times its present size. Especially in
the period Immediately after the
consolidation of the German Empire
in 1871 the old capital of Prussia
grew enormously" In terms of
paved boulevards, canals, govern
ment edifices, cathedrals and other
churches, schools of every sort;
AA~oS 1AAAoS Pc1A no oIlu 1CC1CdClOIldl
centers, the community became a
model development. It was newer
than London, cleaner than Paris,
nearly as congenial as Vienna. It's
people loved it, and their affection
was shared by numbers of visitors
from abroad.
Possibly the Tor, at the west end
OF the Linden, still stands. What
may have been the fate of the old
Palace, the Library, the several GAL
leries of masterpieces of art near the
Lustgarten, the Pergamun hall, the
Royal Theater and the Opera House,
the Reichstag and all those other
sights which tourists flocked to see
Is question. It is difficult to believe
that more than a mere fraction of
their treasures have escaped the
blaze. Another city might be built,
but at its best it would be Door
substitute for the pre-Nazi Berlin
that is gone.
Evening star., 1943-11-27
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TraceDell.

the feeding station In our yard, she
never nested near 1t, but chose yard
across the street.
We do not know what the scientists
would have said about it, but we were
always convinced that several sparrows
with a good deal of white on them were
her children.
Young of the purple finch look great
deal like common sparrows, and are
often mistaken for them.
In some instances, these have been
destroyed on the assumption that they
are common sparrows. Such sad doings
should make any real friend of birds
hesitate before condemning English
sparrows. They are birds as we'll as any.
They were favorites of the great musi-
clan, Ludwig Won Beethoven, and some
of their quavers were incorporated in his
symphonies.
Great Russian writer's have been
fond Of the house sparrow. Englishmen
have found them fascinating. It is only
In our own country that they are held
In disrepute.
Every one praises the cardinal and
yet this bird likes to be in the company
Of the common sparrows. This ought
to give the professional sparrow haters
pause. If these sparrows are good
enough for the cardinal member of
the same family, they ought to be good
enough for any one.
A sure way of spotting the white
throated sparrow is to see it scratching
in leaves.
Next to the fox sparroWs and towhees,
great scratchers both, the whitethroat
Is the leader. The fox sparroWs are
larger and generally do not show up
until along about February, although
few Of them stay all year. They are
the scratchingest Of all birds, working
away like some old hen in the flower
borders.
The white-throated sparrow however,
Is no mean scratcher. He puts on a
pretty good performance, fairly making
the leaves fly.
No one yard can expect to have the
sparrow trio-English sparrow, white
throat and song sparrow-all the time
One winter the yard will have half
dozen song sparrows and the next only
two and the next none at all, and moth
ing can be done about 1t.
These birds, as the members of other
species, come and go as they chose
Often they fly away to the woods and
will be gone for several weeks. There
they eat wild berries and other natural
food.
In time the memory of steady food
at the feeding station draws them back
home
These are not fashy birds, but are
among the very finest, and should be
watched for assiduously and rejoiced
over as much as If they had the brightest
feathers. 1t may surprise some persons
to know that more bird watching with
purpose has been put on the little
song sparrow than almost any other
bird. There is a reason for this. He
Is an interesting, splendid American.
Evening star., 1943-11-27
Draft Anniversary

Just three years ago today, the
first Washington men inducted into
the Army through selective service
left for the reception center at Fort
George G. Meade. Md. There were
thirty men in that group. twenty
nine of them volunteers. Wished
GodSpeed by the national director of
selective service, the men left Wash
ington for what was then a years
training.
Since then District draft boards
have sent more than $4,000 men to
the armed forces. Another $4,000
men have volunteered The District
now sends more men to the armed
forces in a day than it did in a
month back in 1910.
In fact. almost everything about
selective service has changed in
these three years. The induction
station at the old Fifth Marine Bat
talon armory has given way to a
new station at the South Post of
Fort Myer. Men are now given from
one to three weeks to wind up their
affairs after induction instead of re-
porting Immediately for active duty.
The Navy. Marine Corps and Coast
Guard now get their men from Sc
lective service. Unchanged, how
ever. are the volunteer workers
draft board members, physicians,
advisers, appeal agents and appeal
board members-who have been la
boring without pay and with little
thanks for more than three years.
But the most difficult task Of the
Evening star., 1943-11-27

draft boards lies In the immediate
future. With less ceremony than on
that first induction day, yet with
much greater reluctance. the draft
boards will order District fathers to
report for induction. No one wants
to separate a man from his family
but the draft boards took on a Job
three years ago. and they are still
doing that Job.
Evening star., 1943-11-27
New Interpretation Of Sovereignty"
Offered by Critic of collaboration"

To the Editor Of The Star:
Recent debates on the Moscow agree
ments and on the various resolutions
concerning foreign policy submitted to
Congress all centered on the notion of
sovereignty.
This mysterious word-sovereignty-
Is. in fact fundamental problem of
international peace. What does it mean?
From the very beginning of social life,
at the dawn of history, 1t was necessary
to establish rules Of conduct, so that
men might live together In families, in
tribes. in communities. Human nature
Is such that man does not accept rules
except when they are imposed upon him
by constituted authority. The first alb
solute authority was God, and the first
lawmakers were priests who proclaimed
the will of God.
Later on, when peoples were ruled by
the divine right of absolute monarchs,
to maintain their authority and law
making power it was necessary for them
to derive their power from God. These
attributes were called sovereign" and
the persons vested with them were "the
sovereigns."
A great change came in the 18th CEN
tury when French, English and Ameri-
can thinkers, whose ideas were based
on Greek philosophy. proclaimed the
Democratic principle that Sovereignty
resides in the community" This revo-
lutionary idea led to great popular up
risings, the establishment of the Ameri-
can and French republics, and the king
reigns but does not govern" parliament
tary svstem in England.
AS the world is organized today, SOW
ereignty does not reside in the COM
munity but is exercised in an absolute
form by groups of individuals we call
nations. Today sovereignty has far too
narrow basis; it no longer has the
power it should and was meant to have.
The significant thing about the pres
ent crisis is that the nation-states even
the most powerful, even the United
States and the U. S. S. R., are no longer
strong enough, no longer powerful
enough, to fulfil the purpose for which
they were created.
This war finally has demonstrated
that not single one of the existing
nations, even the most powerful, is eco
nomically self-sufficient, and that at the
end of this war in the whole world
there will be no more than three nations
capable of creating and maintaining
armed forces in the modern sense.
Our present conception of national
sovereignty is outdated.
The inescapable economic and techni-
cal realities of our age make it impera-
tive to restate and reinterpret this
notion, and to create sovereignties based
on the community, according to the
original democratic conception. Sow
ereignty of the people must stand above
the nations, so that under 1t each nation
may be safe and equal, just as each
individual is safe and equal under the
law in a civilized state.
There is no other way out. We know
by experience that lasting peaceful COL
laboration of sovereign nations is an
impossibility contribution in itself. It
has been tried thousands of times. It
never will work.
Those who talk of surrendering the
sovereignty of the United States, OF
England or of any other democratic
country, simply do not understand the
meaning Of sovereignty"
A. democratic state cannot surrender
Evening star., 1943-11-27
BETHESDA, MD.

Dear Slr:
I'm your excellent tributes to the To-
cal birds space has been given every
now and then to the white -throated
sparrow. This is well deserved. The
whitethroat is one of our best birds. 1t
comes in the fall and stays all winter,
flying away late in the spring.
while 1t is with us its plaintive song
cheers us out of all proportion to its
melodic content. The peculiar quaver-
ing notes remind us Of something pre-
cious in life. have never been able to
determine exactly what, but know 1t
is very precious.
1T is always pleasure for me to see
the whitethroat sparrow scratching
around in the leaves. have feeding
station, and two of these birds come to
it. They are always very welcome. 1t is
a sad thought that many observers do
for English sparrows.
very truly yours, T. H."
Our correspondent has picked out one
of our best birds.
This is a fine sparrow, slightly larger
than the common sparrow, with white
on the throat, unmarked by the spots
and stripes of the song sparrow.
His stripes on his head are broader
and brighter than those of the song
sparrow. His chest and stomach are
pure gray.
He is redder brown on his back.
After the observer has got his mark
ings in mind he will never mistake him
for any other bird, even one of his
relatives.
He is fine, very fine, and his song
seems to accent both his appearance
and actions.
Washington and environs are fortu-
nate in having many fine members OF
the sparrow family
In addition to those mentioned we
have tree sparrows, field sparrows, vesper
total of 10 identified.
OF these the English sparrows are the
most numerous.
After them probably come the song
sparrows, with the white -throated SPAR
row and the white-crowned sparrow fol-
lowing.
The latter is a fine bird but not seen
very often in the average small yard.
1t has great deal more white on the
head than most sparrows.
~
Care must be taken, in looking at the
sparroWs, to be sure one is not seeing
merely an English sparrow.
Some of these have a great deal of
white on them.
These are spots, or freaks, the white
occupying part of the wings or the tail,
or sometimes both.
Readers of this column will remember
Whitley, the semiwhite English sparrow,
which graced our yard for about five
years.
She was very good specimen of an
oddity of nature
Though she spent most of her time at
Evening star., 1943-11-27
Absurd and Harmful

AAS oSocAilolly VI lWdJOr EDWARD
j. Kelly, superintendent of police,
with respect to the legislation intro
duced by Representative Hobbs to
offset the harmful effects of the Su-
preme Courts McNabb decision illus
trates some of the practical Difficult
ties with which law enforcement
officers have been confronted as a.
result of this ruling.
Major Kelly said that the ability
OF the police to cope with the crimi-
nal element has been impaired by
the McNabb decision because they
are no longer able to make proper
investigations of crimes. In the Dis
trict, the obstacles raised by the Su-
preme Courts ruling have been
aggravated by the subsequent pro-
nouncements of the local Court of
Appeals in the Mitchell case. which
is even more severely restrictive than
the McNabb decision.
Describing this state of the law as
"one of the greatest handicaps" ever
imposed on law enforcement officers,
Major Kelly said it has crippled
criminal Investigations because no
lice now must arraign a suspect i'm
mediately after arresting him, even
though it has not been possible to
complete the investigation. Fur
thermore, after the arraignment, the
police lose control of the prisoner.
Hence, as a practical result, they
are denied opportunity to develop
evidence through what has hereto
fore been regarded as perfectly
lawful process of Interrogation.
1t was this state of affairs which
prompted Chairman Summers of the
House Judiciary Committee, to de-
scribe the McNabb decision and the
results which have flown from it as
absurd" This is an accurate COM
ment because the decision, without
adding to the safeguards surround
ing any of the real or substantial
rights Of prisoners, merely provides
another technical loophole through
which dangerous criminals may
escape trial and punishment for
their crimes. And it does this
through a process of judicial law
making which the court, in other in
stances, has said was not proper
exercise of the judicial authority.
If the McNabb decision, for in
stance, added to the protection
which prisoners now have against
third-degree methods, trickery or
improper inducements by police it
would be meritorious. But this is
not the purpose of the decision. It
merely provides-by judicial de-
cree-that confessions cannot be
used as evidence in cases in which
there is failure to arraign sus-
poets promptly. In the District this
means immediately No matter
how dangerous the criminal, how
voluntary the confession or how
lacking in prejudice the delay in
arraignment may have been, his
own admissions cannot be used
against him if the police were a
few hours late in taking him into
court.
This unquestionably is an alb
surd doctrine for any court to lay
down. And to the considerable ex-
tent that it deprives the public of
protection against the criminal ele-
ment, it is harmful as we'll as absurd.
Evening star., 1943-11-27

sovereignty for the simple reason that
1t is not sovereign. Only a Nazi or Fas-
cist state is sovereign. A democratic
state is sovereign only to the degree
IN which it Is granted sovereignty by
those in whom, under the democratic
concept. sovereignty is vested-the
people. EMERY REEVES
New York City.
Evening star., 1943-11-27

John Bracken, progressive con-
servative" leader in Canada, insists:
There must be an acceptance of in
dividual responsibilities as we'll as
individual rights and privileges" I"
But that's not the way the pressure
groups see it.
Evening star., 1943-11-27

A famous British physician has
announced that: Lying iH.ssAed is
dangerous" He might haveideSlared
with equal logic that Lying any,
where is dangerous" It is so easy to
get caught-and so conclusive! Hit
Ter. for instance.
Evening star., 1943-11-27

Among the persons who do not
damn the climate of Washington are
those citizens just returned from the
blizzard belt of Northern New York
State
Evening star., 1943-11-27
Romantic Idea
From the PHILADELPHIA Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Nazis hint at boring tunnel under
Channel to blow up England. They've
been reading too many underground
thrillers.
Evening star., 1943-11-27
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
Dear the name and address of
the 1Dr1ter, although the use of
a pseudonym for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters ,Uith
a uie1U to condensation.
Evening star., 1943-11-27

Q. How large are the largest bears?
s.. P. E.
A. The Alaska brown bears are the
largest of all bears and attain the
enormous weight of 1900 pounds.
Evening star., 1943-11-27

c. How long have modern hotels been
In eXistence?-B. o. F.
A. Though the modern American ho-
tel dates from 1874, even by the middle
of the 10Th century somewhat primitive
conditions still existed. Guest rooms
were unheated and bowl. a pitcher,
one towel and cake Of yellow soap
completed the furnishings. Guests were
requested not to wear their boots in bed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-25
SAYSB0xING
 SPORTS
Merchant M Mariners Tell
 Why Milf Men Can Be ' Depended Upon

NEW YORK-Boxing should be the last sport to be eliminated if it becomes necessary to halt ath- | letic activities for the duration That is the opinion of men station ed at the U s. Maritime Training Station, located near here on Hoff- man Island.
 The latest of the sports polls be- ing conducted by AP Features among service men all over the United States, found 1,134 members of the Merchant Marine stationed on the small island in New York Harbor, taking part.
 Next to boxing, the seamen thought basketball should be the last to be curtailed, right after baseball.
 ] Here is the order in which the men of Hoffman Island think sports should be eliminated-if it becomes necessary:
 | Bowling, ice hockey, golf, horse racing, wrestling, tennis, football basketball and boxing
 In the same poll the Hoffman Island men voted on sports as to the general interest and morale value and boxing again came out tops. Basketball was second and baseball third
 The others rated in this order tennis, football, wrestling, ice hook ey, horse racing, golf and bowling
 It. Benny Leonard, the former world lightweight boxing cham pion, is director of welfare and athletics at Hoffman Island. In ad- dition to tutoring, Leonard often boxes with the men.
 Sports, especially group athlet- ics, are major factor in develop ing quick thinking, coordination of mind and music, and they teach men to keep cool under fire" Leon- ard says.
 My thought is that if a ship gets hit, the athletic type of man will not go haywire. He will man his post, keep his eyes open and his head high. For he has been hit in the nose before and has the cour- age and stamina to take it and carry on,' he says That is why ] think the men at Hoffman Island will make great seamen."
 Leonard tries to get every man at the base to compete either in varsity or inter-barracks athletics His assistants are Jack March and Alex Arnick March, who won the tennis title at Hoffman, was a ten- his professional before entering the service and taught at various resort spots. Arnick, boxing, football and basketball standout, was we'll known in Pennsylvania as bas- ketball official
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-25

establishments, and they are only too glad to correct them when such matters are brought to their attention" Commissioner of Health W. w. Council stated.
 At both showings copies of a terse little card bearing Hints for Food Handlers" will be distribut- ed. A telescoped sanitation course itself, the information begins Wash your hands. The custo- mers watch your hands-do you? Keep your fingers out of glasses and dishes. That's where the food belongs. The bowls of spoons. tines of forks and blades of knives are for food. Take them by the han dles. Fingers in the food make guests eat elsewhere. Wash your hands thoroughly after each trip to the toilet Tests show unwashed hands spread disease. Keep your nails trimmed and your hands clean with soap and water"
 Other items dealt with equally important, include admonitions re- garding care against the spread of communicable diseases, recommen-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-05-25
AUX BAY FL0TILLA OF COAST GUARDS
 AUXILIARY PLANNED

Alaska small boat owners are privileged to be able to enlist in the small but nightly effective auxiliary organization of the U. s Coast Guard, popularly known as the Mosquito Fleet"
 Units already organized in the Juneau areas are beginning to function and tomorrow, Wednes- day evening, boat owners of the Glacier Highway area are to or ganize. The meeting is set for g o'clock in the Aux Lake road camp building, and all inboard boat own- CTS of the district are requested tc attend
 Organization of the flotilla by Coast Guard officers will take place at the meeting, and officers will be elected, Don Skuse, captain of AL iaska Division No. 2, announces.
 The little-publicised Mosquito Fleet" since it's inception fol- lowing Pearl Harbor, already has established an enviable record.
 Newer on the Pacific Coast, it has here likewise sighted and re- ported the location of enemy sub marines, located mines and ever prevented major destruction of vita waterfront property planned by saboteurs.