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Evening star., 1943-01-22

genlauy 10 the
rainbow h u e s
and the reveal
ing pattern. The
conflict is be-
tween John Hall
and Left Erick-
son, two brothers
who fight for the
vor of the
caliphate. Maria
M o n t e z is a
member of a
carnival troupe
with aspirations
for high mar
riage.
Evening star., 1943-01-22

zade, latter played by Maria Montez,
who, 1t must be confessed, takes con-
Evening star., 1943-01-22

bias Boy From Stalingrad.' which
Sidney Salkow is directing for Pro-
ducer Colbert Clark Stone has al
ready written two original songs
which will be featured in the screen
play.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Nix, Mr.. President

William Allen White, in the Emporia Gazette.
President Roosevelt has again tried to
persuade the American people that
warmed up coffee is palatable drink.
There is nothing to it. His idea is to prt
milk in it. Milk in warmed up coffee is
just too bad
II you want to chloroform your coffee
and this aftlant does-put in about one
fourth to one-third of the cup of fairly
good, strong, fresh coffee and the rest
hot milk.
The French have name for it-cafe
au lait-and 1t is pretty good. During the
war, when the writer hereof, with Henry
Allen, was in Europe, saving it the first
time for democracy, we found that the
French used chicory in their coffee-or
probably better-a little coffee in their
chicory. 1t was bitter mess. But even
the chicory could be chloroformed by
using hot milk. Since which blessed time.
for Is years, deponent has made cafe
au lait breakfast dish. But it won't
work so well with warmed-over coffee.
And among other things wherein we
differ fundamentally with our beloved
President even in principle is in this
warmed-over coffee proposal, with or
without milk. It is terrible! He should
be ashamed Of It'll
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Bombproof' Jobs

1t is always interesting to note the
repetitions of history in war on the
home front. The present interest by
Congress in the number of Govern
ment employees deferred from the
draft is case in point. 1t was in
August of 1918, when the United
States had been fighting that war
about as long as we have been in
this one, that heated criticism of
draft dodging" by Federal en-
ployes made the welkin ring. The
Senate was then considering extern
sion of the draft age from 21-31 to
18-45 when it was asserted-even as
it is being asserted now-that "hun-
dreds of thousands" Of additional
men could be obtained for military
service if improper deferment in in
dustry were Cancelled and draft
dodgers" were driven out of "bomb-
proof" jobs in the Government.
But in 1918, when President Wilson
furnished Congress with the number
of men between 81 and 81 for whom
deferments had been asked, the
total was less than 100. Twenty
deferments had been requested by
Herbert Hoover's agency, the Food
Administration, but Mr.. Hoover said
no more would be sought except
for the physically disabled. Bernard
Baruch, chairman of the War Indus
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the House with considerable enthu-
siasm, is even now resting peacefully
in another Senate committee. These
repeated Senate burials of House
labor legislation have been neither
forgotten nor forgiven.
The provisions of the dead Smith
bill, now attached to the Connally
anti-strike bill, do not OUTLAW"
strikes as the term is usually under
stood. But they put an effective
damper on any lawful strike by re-
quiring a thirty-day notice to the
Secretary of Labor and employer of
intent to strike, and provides for a
secret strike ballot by the employees,
to be refereed by the Department of
Labor conciliation service. The
much-discussed proposal for an an
pual financial statement from every
union, to be filed with the National
Labor Relations Board, is also tackled
on.
The "no-strike" agreement by
the union leaders at the outset of
the war put an effective damper on
all anti-strike legislation. The ques-
ton now is not whether Mr.. Lewis
was a party to the agreement. 1t is
the threatened failure of the agree
ment to prevent a catastrophe strike
which, for the first time in this ad-
ministration, makes anti-strike leg
islation a real possibility.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
The Hills of Home

The hills of home are not like other
hills
Upon 1Dhose CURING contours sum-
ner spills
The silUer opulence OF sudden rain.
These gentle slopes. gro1Dn quick 1oith
S1Uelling grain,
Sustain the heart 1Dhen it must traDel
through
The trodden bailey aDhere no morning
de1o
Scintillates on paDements-bare OF
grass
And foaoered fragrance. Tip the
hourglass
And let its sands reverse II they p:H
bring
Us to the hills of home again ,ohere
spring.,
Returning, courses through mans
sluggish blood
Like sugared sap uprising to the bud
Through trunk and branch. O high
lands OF the heart,
Upon your heights man finds his
counterpart!
HARRY ELMORE HURD.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Avebury

The people of England have taken
time out from the greatest of wars to
acquire for the nation by means OF
the National Trust some $50 acres of
land at Avebury in Wiltshire, includ-
ing practically all that remains OF the
prehistoric stone circles for which the
site is famous. Americans who have
visited Stonehenge, a few miles from
beautiful Salisbury, will understand
the significance OF the announce
ment. 1t means that larger, older
and very much more important
monument of remote antiquity is to
be protected against further demo-
lition.
Just why men three thousand five
hundred years ago should have
wished to set up vast circles of stones
Is riddle which no archeologist as
yet has had the wit to read. Trav-
elers, however, know that such phe-
nomena are not limited to England.
There are circles and lines of rocks
arranged by human hands in North
Africa, Spain, France, Norway,
Sweden and Russia. Some OF the
stones weigh twenty tons, and were
brought long distances to be erected.
They bear rough resemblance to the
obelisks of Egypt and the grotesque
"caricatures" of Easter Island in the
far Pacific. Artificial hills, long
barrows, dolmens, earthworks whose
construction cost years of labor on
the part Of thousands of laborers are
associated with them everywhere.
Probably it was natural for those
who first wrote about these relics of
the dawn of civilization to suppose
that they were temples Of sort, but
not a scintilla of evidence has been
found to prove that they served any
religious purpose. Neither Avebury
nor Stonehenge was a church. Much
more likely it is that they were
assembly centers of a civic connota-
ton. H. J. Massingham fatty de-
clares: "Avebury was the capital Of
England" It seems good guess that
it was the meeting place of witan
or parliament. With its outer ring
OF massive stones inclosing over
twenty-eight acres, and its bank,
three-quarterS of a mile in circum-
ference, rising originally fifty feet
above the bottom of the ditch, it is
the largest and most impressive work
of It's kind in all Europe. Here pre-
historic man put forth his
mightiest effort"
Only community peaceful, pros
porous, cooperative, socially minded
could have visioned or wished to
create such witness of it's character,
and only people grateful for the
past as we'll as for the present and
the future could have desired to
preserve It.
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tries Board, had requested five for
his agency and the War Trade Board
had asked for forty four, but it listed
thirteen OF them as no longer "in-
dispensable." The alien property
custodian had requested eight de-
ferments.
Elmer Davis, testifying a few days
ago, indignantly denied that the owl
was a haven for draft dodgers, say
ing there were only f1fty-eight, out
OF a total of about a thousand en-
ployes of draft age, for whom the
Government had requested defer
ment, and an additional fifty three
had been given occupational defer
ments without such request. Like
George Creel's Committee on Public
Information in the last war, Owl has
been a special target for attack. But
Mr.. Creel was able to show that in
the domestic branch of his Office no
deferments had been asked and
there were mo male employees be-
tween 81 and 81" even working for
him. In the foreign section there
were three.
In this war the Bellamy committee
found that the Government "is not
a draft evaders' paradise, as has
been loosely charged" Perhaps a
comparison Of the ratios between re-
quested deferments and total en-
rloyes in the First World War and in
the present war would be more
Illuminating than mere totals. We
seem to need many more people to
do now the things that were being
done in 1Q17-12
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Resurrection in the Senate

Unanimous report by the House
Military Affairs Committee of the
Connally anti-strike bill, with amend
ments, and the prompt action of the
Rules Committee in giving it the
right-of-way for early House con-
sideration are prompted, no doubt, by
the uncertain ending of the truce"
in the coal fields and the possibility
of resumption of the strike. But it
Is also likely that the impulse behind
this speed springs from the fact that
measures dealing with labor and
strikes in the past, though approved
by the House, never lived to see the
light Of day in the Senate. They
were buried in Senate committees
and the Connally bill promises a
resurrection.
To the provisions Of the Connally
anti-strike measure, the House COM
mittee has added provisions lifted
bodily from the Smith bill, which
passed the House by a substantial
majority four days before Pearl Har-
bor, in 1941. That bill, reaching the
Senate, was referred to the Commit
tee on Labor and Education and was
heard from no more. The anti-strike
bill had followed to its resting place
an earlier bill by Representative
Smith, amending the National Labor
Relations Act. And the Hobbs bill,
which makes highway robbery un-
lawful as . union practice, passed by
Evening star., 1943-05-14
"GALLATIN STREET.

Dear Sir:
II am endeavoring to identify the fol-
lowing bird which was found dead in my
back yard day or two ago.
1T was between bluebird and a robin
in size. The rather full breast was a
golden or canary yellow. The rest of the
underpart of the body was pure white.
"The back and wings were sort Of
slate color, tending toward a tan, with
a sort of haze or tinge of yellow. The
back feathers when disturbed appeared
to be mouse-colored.
"The beak was OF medium length,
rather broad at the base terminating in
sharp point-apparently strong beak.
"Over each eye there was a narrow
streak of white, perhaps a quarter of an
inch long and about one thirty-second
inch wide.
Below the eye there was shorter
streak of white. AS stated, this bird was
found dead on our lawn with apparently
no marks of injury. The most prominent
feature of the bird was the full, yellow
breast.
1T will be appreciated If you can give
me the name of this bird.
very truly yours, A. H. H."
X X X
The bird was the yellow W-breasted chat
1t is one of the few birds which sings
at night.
Usually it arrives in Washington dur
ing the last Is days of April.
Our correspondents specimen probably
was exhausted from its long flight from
the South. This species winters from
Veracruz and Yucatan to Costa Rica.
Experts tell us that many birds die as
the result of migration, especially at the
end of the southwark journey.
The writer here can recall the wood
thrush which he saw fly onto neigh
bor's porch several years ago and fall
dead.
beautiful bird
1t looked bit thin, but aside from that
appeared in very good condition.
The time, as we recall, was early for a
wood thrush, being about two weeks
ahead of their usual arrival day here
abouts, which is April %, more or less tc
the day.
The yellow breasted chat is the largest
OF the warblers, and is generally regarded
as the most unwarblerlike of all the
family.
1t is not only large for a warbler, but
has real sense of humor, uncommon
among birds.
The blue jay is probably the only other
species which is willing to make fun OF
itself
This ability to poke fun at ones sell
Is generally regarded by mankind as the
very peak Of humorous ability.
And that is where the chat shines.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TraceUeH,

The blue Jay also can make fun Of
himself, at times, but he is not so likely
to do it as the chat. More often the jay
makes fun of other birds, of cats and
dogs and even men.
John Burroughs, whose nature writings
today are sometimes disregarded, but
whose observations are filled, neverthe-
less, with truth and distinction, gave
very good picture of the antics of the
yellow breasted chat, in his book, wake
Robin"
The chat puts on show for human
onlookers.
The very sight of a human being stirs
him up to do his best.
He chatters and whistles and makes
all sorts of odd noises, all the time twist
ing his head this way and that, to see if
the onlooker is watching him.
Often he will f1utter his wings, then
down on his breast.
The final act is very good. He flies
away as if he could scarcely go, with his
legs hanging straight down, and his head
down as far as possible.
Peculiar" Is the word most often ap-
piled to the chat.
1t is word which applies to all it does,
including the so-called flight song"
which the bird makes when rising high
into the air, but this time with its head
held high, although its legs still dangle.
He usually ascends higher than, the
trees, when he stops, remains still for a
moment, and stops singing as he comes
down almost in straight line to the
perch from which he took off.
Another popularity of the chat is it's
way of handling the eggs which cow
bird may have placed in its nest.
All other species tolerate these larger
and strange eggs.
The chat will have nothing to do with
such eggs.
She not only destroys the cowbird eggs,
but as if her sense of things were entirely
outraged, pecks to pieces her own eggs as
we'll
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| various sections of the country it is called
| the chat, yellow chat, common chat, yel-
| low mockingbird and the polyglot chat
| The nest is built in tangled briers or
| thickets, between three and five feet from
| the ground. While the number of eggs
| is usually four, they may be either three
| or five
The eggs are pure white, tinged pink
when freshly laid, with even spots of
| chestnut and lavender Occasionally
these spots form a sort of wreath around
| the larger end.
The long tailed chat Of the West has
a deeper yellow breast, whereas the yel-
low breasted chat has a breast of pure
| lemon yellow.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Impressions of Three Blessings
And q Duty LAS Americans"

~ lne Lultol OF Inc star.
Sometimes we Americans are slow in
seeing the beautiful things we have
in this country-many we already have
received in the past and many we still
are receiving. But we seem to take
them as matter of course We do not
realize that in this great country of
ours, we are free people, allowed to
govern our own lives, worship as we
see fit and have a voice in the way the
affairs of the Government are con-
Quoted.
The most beautiful schools and finest
educators in this world can be found
here in every community, ready to
give to our children the very best edu-
cation one can realize, for 1t is these
children of today who will be our leaders
tomorrow and, with Gods blessing. they
will not make the same mistakes we
in this generation have made.
An example of the blessing of being
an American was brought home to me
on Mothers Day. It was while I was
attending church with my family. The
church was receiving many new men,
bers as is the custom around this sea-
son of year. Then came the moment
for the christening of babies This scene
will forever stand out in my memory
not that anything different was happen
ing, but it was the first time had ever
had the feeling of what it was like to
live in this great country Of ours.
A baby boy was brought to the altar
IN his mothers arms, and they stood
before minister of God ready to
receive the very greatest blessing man
can ever hope to have bestowed upon
him on earth, the blessing of God. This
baby was an American child, smiling,
a picture Of health; and to make the
scene more beautiful and impressive,
there was the American flag, that SYM
Dol OF liberty and justice, displayed
proudly just few feet away, seemingly
looking down on the child.
I had never realized or felt so proud
of being an American as at that mo-
ment, seeing this baby boy, who already
had two OF the greatest blessings on
earth, his mother and the protection that
the flag offers, and now was about to
receive mans greatest gift, the blessing
Of God.
He never may be wealthy or a great
man in the eyes of many, but little does
that matter, for he already has received
the three great things that count most:
God, mother and free country.
So, if all Americans resolved to give
more thought to God and His teach
ing, honor their mothers as they never
have done before and thank God we
are Americans-then that would be a
good start In making the whole world
a better place to live in. But we as
Americans must first show the way.
r. F.. PERKINS.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
For Health and Victorv

The Uline Arena at Third and M
streets northeast tonight will be the
scene of an inspiring exhibition of
some of the fruits of the program
of physical education in the public
schools inaugurated last autumn. It
also, particularly, is intended to re-
fleet the Negro's contribution to the
war program of the Nation. Under
the joint sponsorship of divisions
X-XIII of the public schools of Wash
ington and the District of Columbia
Association for Health, Physical Edu-
cation and Recreation, program of
seventeen events is to be offered. The
whole demonstration has been de-
signed to show what can be accom-
plished by numbers of individuals
working together for common pur-
pose in the field of health.
To illustrate the need for such an
effort on the part of colored citizens,
it will suffice merely to mention the
fact that the average duration of life
for a Negro in the United States has
been ten years below the standard
Appreciation of the implications of a
deficiency in survival capacity" has
stirred the leaders of the colored
community to preach a valiant en-
deavor in behalf Of increased physical
well-being. The results are apparent,
and all Americans, without regard to
racial differences, rejoice in them.
But the exhibition this evening will
have other connotations than those
of physical fitness exclusively. It
happens that the Negro is possessed
of natural endowment of rhythm
which finds expression not only in
music but to an equally compelling
degree in harmony of movement.
The massed drills and marches to be
staged at the Uline Arena will con-
stitute a magnificent spectacle which
no observer Is likely to forget.
Evening star., 1943-05-14

the community, soon met her Two or
three times the beautiful stranger said
to my mother: Il want to tell you some
thing that will interest you-well, not
now; perhaps some other time (But
the secret was still untold when she
and her husband left)
When the Bishop of Albany made his
annual visit for confirmation, the two
outsiders still were paying guests in
the home of the leading physician of
the town. The doctor gave a dinner
in honor Of the visiting churchman and
among those invited were my mother
and father and these two members of
his household. My mother said the
glamorous outsider dominated the din
ner table. She spoke of visiting England.
The bishop knew England we'll and was
delighted to discuss it with her. Poor
lady, she soon was hopelessly confused.
Her trip had probably been the one
mentioned in your editorial, just a brief
one The guests thought she had never
been there, that she was a woman of
mystery.
1t was not until a number of years
later in newspaper account of Belle
Boyd's career, in which was given the
name of the husband she had when
she was in the small New York State
city. that my mother realized the faci-
mating woman she had known for a
few months was the same one who had
been beloved of many malaria victims for
the quinine she successfully had SNUG
gled across the lines during the Civil
war. A. G. G..
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Longer Voting Hours

the power to do so, Congress has
never up to this time undertaken to
fix the time of voting in elections of
President, Vice-President and mem
bers of Congress. 1t has by law fixed
the day on which presidential elec-
tors are to be chosen, and the day on
which members of the Senate and
House are elected. The day is iden-
tical-the Tuesday after the first
Monday in November. Only the
State of Maine is out of line, and
even it varies only in the day for the
Senators and Representative who are
elected in September. 1t chooses it's
presidential electors in November
along with the rest of the States.
Senator Lucas of Illinois has intro
duced a bill which provides specif-
cally that the polls in all the States
shall be open from 6 am. until 9
pm. on election day. The purpose of
the bill is to give greater opportunity
to the voters to go to the polls. In
his own State of Illinois, the polls
open at am. but close at 5 pm. Mr..
Lucas points out that this early clos
ing hour makes it impossible for
many of the men and women work.
Ing long hours in war plants, and
travelling long distances to and from
their work, to cast their ballots. 1t
becomes necessary for them to take
time off from their work if they are
to vote. This means lessening pro-
ductlon. 1t also may mean reduction
In the earnings of the voters.
In many of the States the closing
hour for voting in these elections
runs from 6 pm. to 7 pm, and even
to 8 pm. All of these hours have
been fixed by State law, and they
vary with the customs and habits of
the people. The enactment of q Fed
eral law for uniformity of hours of
voting for Federal officers would nee
essarily conflict with these State laws,
However, the Constitution has given
Congress authority to alter by law
the regulations adopted by the indi-
vidual States.
For years emphasis has been laid
upon the duty of the people to vote
In national and State elections. Only
by the fullest exercise of the fran
chise can the people give direction to
their government and protect them
selves In their rights. In the last
presidential election approximately
5OOOO,O00 ballots were cast. But in
1912 only 100000 persons voted for
Senators and Representatives and
State officers. Several causes have
been given for this shrinkage of the
vote. There is always greater in
terest and more strenuous cam
palgnlng in presidential elec-
ton. But the principal factors con-
trlbuting to the small vote in 1912
were the absence of many men in the
armed forces and the employment of
many more men and women in war
plants for long hours. Senator
Lucas bill seeks to remedy the sit
ulatlon created in many States by
long working hours, which prevent
the workers from going to the polls.
The Lucas bill deserves serious
consideration. The election of 1914
promises to be of very great impor-
tance, at a critical time in the his
tory of the Republic. Every man and
woman eligible to vote should cast
a ballot-after gaining as thorough
knowledge of the issues involved
as possible.
Evening star., 1943-05-14
Belle Boyd Anecdote
Prompted by Editorial.
To the kditor Of The Star:

Your editorial on Belle Boyd In last
Saturdays Star very much interested me.
She was one Of the "story" subjects of
the tales my mother told me. It was
not so much as Southern spy that my
mother spoke of her, but as the bearer Of
much needed quinine for the malaria
patients Of Virginia.
Even more thrilling than the spying
and the smuggling of quinine, however,
was the account Of Miss Boyds sojourn in
my home town. In the late 1870s, a man
arrived on business in our small city.
His charming wife accompanied him. My
mother, the only Southern woman in
Evening star., 1943-05-14
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