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La gaceta., 1943-07-09
Y Joaquin Barcena.

to Y Joaquin Barcena.
Ell acompanamiento al piano es-
tara a cargo del maestro Maxine
Echegaray Y la direction artist
ca Sc ha confiado a la Sra. Car
men Ramirez.
Ruegase a los miembros de am
bas logias, asf como a los invita-
dos, que Sc presenter temprano en-
ell edificio de los Caballeros del
Aguila de Orc, en- la Novena ave-
nida y Gale Is, pues ell acto empe-
zara a las 8 de la noche.
Existe ell prop6sito de que la
fiesta Sc termine en- bora apropia-
da para todos.
Haga su parte: Compre
BONOS DE GUERRA,
La gaceta., 1943-07-09
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Programs que por la RAJ
dio Sc transmitiran entire las
6 de la tarde de hoy y las IL
de la noche:
WTSP-News
6:05-WFLA-Twilite Favorites
6;10-WFLA-Modern Puritan
6:15-WDAE-Golden Gate
Quartet
6:20-WFLA-Baseball Scores
6:25-WFLA-News
6:3O-WFLA-Nan Merriman
Band
WDAE-MacDill Glee
Club
6:45-WDAE-World Today
WFLA-WLAK-Low-
ell Thomas
Waring
WDAEI Love a Mys-
terry
WTSP-Fulton Lewis, jr.
7:O5-WSUN-Safudos Amigos
Weapon
WTSP-Johnson Family
7:SO-WFLA-Shipyard Inter
view
WDAE-News, Music
7~:35-WFLA-Ted Steele
7:4O-WFLA-Name You'll
Remember
tenborn
WDAE-Treasury Star
Parade
Manners
WDAE-Corliss Archer
WTSP-Cal Tinney
Observation-Disclosures Family
WTSP-Dance Music
Time Hit Parade
WSUN-Meet Your Navy
S:55-WDAE-Cecil Brown
9:0O-WFLA-MacDill Band
WDAE-P. M. Playhouse
WTSP-News
Are Funny
WDAE-That Brewster
Boy
WSUN-SpOtlight Bands
WTSP-Double or Moth
9:55-WSUN-Harry Wismer
10
my Riggs
WDAE-Thanks To The
Yanks
WTSP-JOhn B. Hughes,
News
10
Stern
WDAE-Three Sisters
WSUN-Alec Templeton
Time
10:35-WSUN-Korn Kobblers
10:45-WFLA-WLAK- WDAE
Elmer Davis
Band
IL :00-WFLA-WLAK- WDAE
-WTSP-WSUN-
News
II 10-WFLA-Local, State
News
11:15-WFLA-Richard Hark-
ness, News
WDAE-Joan Brooks,
Songs
WSUS-Jan Savitt Band
WTSP-Ina Hutton Band
II
to Danger
WDAE-Band Box
WSUN-Lou Breeze
Band
Evening star., 1943-08-20
Famine in Europe

Prom the London Daily Mail
The spectre of famine begins to haunt
nearly the whole of Europe. The Ger
man authorities are warning their own
people that they cannot expect a record
harvest If We know anything of Ger
man propaganda methods, this means
that the harvest is going to be wretch
edly poor. A similar prospect faces the
occupied countries. All over the conti-
nent there will be partial crop failure,
and for the same reasons-a shortage
of agricultural workers and a scarcity of
machinery. Hunger has been stalking
Europe for three years in varying de-
grees of menace. Some countries have
not suffered as much as others, but con-
dltions everywhere have worsened with
the prolonging of the war. Today no
belligerent nation in Europe Is being
adequately fed with the exception of the
Danes and the Germans. The Danes are
lucky enough to live on dairy farm"
with large exportable surplus of highly
nutritious food. The Germans are in a
position to rob everybody else, and they
are doing it with their customary ruth
leSSneSs.
Evening star., 1943-08-20
calculations as to enemy losses must
be accepted with reservation.

calculations as to enemy losses must
be accepted with reservation.
Whatever the final total may prove
to be, however, it is clear that our
victory was impressive. Allied cas-
ualties Of all kinds were only about
$4,000. Allied plane losses for the
campaign were 274, as against Axis
plane losses of 1891 And in addi-
ton the enemy, still exclusive of the
final week, lost about 260 tanks, 500
guns and "a ships of various kinds.
Not without some reason, the Ger
mans have been boasting of their
success in evacuating men and equip
ment across the bomb -streWn Mes
sina Strait, and, considering the
heavy margin of Allied air superiority
it is disappointing and somewhat
surprising that the enemy was able
to salvage as much as he did from
the wreckage of Sicily. But this can
be put down to the valiant resistance
which was made by German forces.
We have no need to quibble about
this for our victory, by any standard
of measurement, was impressive
enough to let the enemy boast Of
saving at least the tail OF his shirt.
Evening star., 1943-08-20
August Afternoon

Noon and a silence of gold and the
summer sky
Cloudless and pale on the far blue
mountains rim,
And a 1Deight OF impalpable gold
10here the SunbeamS lie
On the corn's bright leaUes and its
tasSels lifted and slim.
There is no measure for time and its
ruthless fo,1ing
ODer the shining bailey. The hour
moUeS on
With a 1Udne of radiance only to
mark its going,
And sense OF tDonder and loss at
the light 1oithdraWn.
With sense OF t0onder that comes
1phen a dream is oDer,
The leaueS are stirred and the
shadows OF corn gro1D long;
The bee tolls late In the dusty tpay-
side cloDer,
And the cricket Is tuning his flute
for his t,Dilght song,
But lovely presence is passing
stealing a,Day
Into the quiet Kingdoms of yesterday.
INEz BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1943-08-20
PestiIentiuI Plot
Grow ragweed in peach orcha

Grow ragWeed in peach orchards" ;"
urges a Blacksburg (Va.) entomolo-
gist. ut controls pests. 1t gives
nourishment and cover to a certain
insect that feeds on the Oriental
moth, chief destroyer of peaches"
Encouraging words, these, for peach
growers, but fighting words to the
National Association of Hay Fever
ties. Their president, K. Chew, speaks
feverishly on the subject. "Ragweed,
indeed" he snorts. "Whoosh! The
very name sets me going. Does not
this misguided entomologist realize
that one mans weed is another
mans poison? He says he has a
peachy idea, and SO he has, from the
narrow standpoint of special privi-
lege, and the assumption that one
class can be penalized at the expense
of another. If he gets away with his
foul plot, we will retaliate, as long as
there is breath in us, until the whole
country rocks under the impulse of
our mighty blows, and justice pre-
walls. What we need is some one to
control pests who would advocate
growing ragweed. Gesundheit!"
Evening star., 1943-08-20
Job Well Done

The President had ample reason to
be unstinting in his praise of the
Allied armies for their conquest of
Sicily, and especially so if he was
correct in placing the total strength
of enemy forces on the island at
405 900 men.
This is figure which indicates
that German and Italian losses ran
about $4,000 higher than previously
estimated. 1t was announced on
Wednesday that Axis losses, not in
cluding the last week of fighting and
the evacuation of the island, were
approximately $4,000 captured and
$4,000 killed or wounded. The Berlin
radio has claimed that $4,000 men,
presumably both German and Italian,
escaped across the Strait of Messina
Thus, assuming all of these figures
to be roughly accurate, it appears by
a process of addition and subtraction
that the Axis lost an additional 49,
300 men in the last week of fighting
and in the evacuation, bringing their
total losses on Sicily to $4,000 men.
1t should be noted, however, that
Allied estimates emanating from
Sicily previously had placed the total
Axis strength at about 100000, and
until this discrepancy is cleared up
Evening star., 1943-08-20
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trace1oen.

likes squirrels bankers after trying an
experiment, let him be well advised to
put out no more than half teaspoonful.
Peanut butter is so very rich that
little Will go long way win creatures not
used to such concentration.
1t must be remembered that the
animals, including the squirrels, do not
tamper with their foods as human beings
do They take them whole and are not
used to concentrated foods, either In
the handling or utilization.
Perhaps the best way to serve I'D q
bit Of peanut butter to the squirrels is to
make small book" by folding a square
OF cardboard and then buttering 1t lightly
on the inside leaves
1t this way the squirrel must do some
work to get at it. This satisfies his in
stincts and amuses the human watcher
no end.
Very carefully, and as If reading, the
bushy-tailed one holds the book up be-
fore his eyes, intent on getting at its
content. sure enough.
The tail of the squirrel is its main
feature. as is the tail of its cousins, the
flying squirrels, the chipmunks, the mar
mots and the prairie dogs.
AL Of these animals may be seen In
interesting displays at the National Zoo
logical Park
The tail Is an important feature in all
of them.
Certainly nothing spoils the appear
ance of squirrel more than a scrawny
TAIL
We believe that this is not always due
to faulty diet. as most persons believe.
1t will not do to Jump at the con-
clusion that the squirrel with thin, rat
like tail has not been able to find any
thing to eat
This sort Of tail Is often seen in sum-
mer when the food supply is at its height.
Nor Is such a tail always found on an
old squirrel, which Is no longer able to
handle nuts.
When q squirrels teeth give out, 1t is
gone, in nature.
And what marvellous teeth it takes to
saw the tough shell of nut in two!
Recently the squirrels out our way have
been gnawing away at walnuts until the
entire neighborhood rings with the
sound.
Grits, or CRATES, with the sound-that
would be better, because it is not q
ringing noise in any sense, but a saving
noise.
Sometimes the sound comes from all
the walnut trees at once Now and then
an empty shell, whole, will drop through
the leaves and land with a crash.
Sidewalks under them are Uttered with
broken shells, which must be swept up
at least twice day.
Some observers doubt the ability of
squirrels to ever find the nuts they have
buried. Their scent is so keen, however.
that 1t would seem no problem at all
If you were squirrel.
Evening star., 1943-08-20

and civilians have discovered the
advantages Of airmail, special de-
livery and registered mail. They put
the word free" in the upper right
hand corner Of their envelopes, but
they stick airpost stamps on the
covers-to rush" their messages.
Not less than two hundred million
dollars is judged to have come into
Post Office Department Golfers from
military mail" of one sort or another.
When postal officials are asked to
suggest their view of the consequences
of this expansion, they smile: I'VE
Americans have learned the fun of
writing to those we love and now
that we have learned 1T, we won't
forget it."
Evening star., 1943-08-20
Postal Increase

Something has been added to the
habit and custom of the average
American family. In years gone by
the people of Austria were credited
with being "the most consistent let
ter-writers in the world" Now, how
ever, it is to the population of the
United States that such a comment
should be applied. The war, of course,
is responsible.
When Postmaster General Frank C.
Walker announced that the postal
deficiency for the fiscal year 1943 was
q mere $3,543,122, he limited at a
social fact of tremendous implica-
tions. The deficit is the smallest in
nearly quarter of a century. Reve-
nues for the year were $961 ,059, 800,
an increase of $101 1,242, ,19s over the
previous twelve-month span. The
sale of stamps rose 15.1 per cent,
money orders 1925, postal savings
z2.02. An estimate of the number of
pieces Of mail handled is "more than
thirty three billion" Approximately
two billion letters from soldiers and
sailors were transmitted free.
The explanation is that Americans
are moving about. Millions of them
are fighting overseas; still larger
multitudes are producing materiel
for the battlefronts in cities and
towns far from their regular" homes.
And these people write to each other.
Five billion pieces Of mail during
fiscal 1913 went to or came from men
and women in the armed services 1t
happens. too. that soldiers, sailors
Evening star., 1943-08-20
SIXTEENTH STREET.

0CdI oil
MY husband and I think you know
just about everything there is to know
about birds and squirrels, but we're Won
dering if the following observation which
we made the other afternoon while sit
ting on our front porch is part of your
store of knowledge.
Completely unmindful of our presence,
gray squirrel ran along the iron rail
of the porch and out on the adjacent
shrubbery, devouring all the cocoons or
basket worms hanging from the ever
greens.
IF we are adding something new to
your nature lore we will feel elated, for
we consider you wise old OWL (you see
we are putting you in your own bird cate
gory).
However If this little bit of informa-
tion is already part of your fund of
knowledge, we think it is something that
you might pass on to your readers who
are wondering what use squirrels are
and what mission other than a destruc-
tive one they have In natures pattern.
With best wishes, and 4 thank YOU
for your interesting column, we remain
Very truly yours,
MR.. AND MRS F. E. p"
Squirrels will eat almost anything-as
our correspondents prove.
The chances are that in eating bag
worms the animals are seeking minerals
or some supplement to the regular diet.
AL animals do this
Cats often eat cowwebs or lick con-
crete.
Dogs have some very odd tastes.
All animals now and then like to lick
salt.
No doubt the cocoons and contents
supply the squirrels with supplementary
food elements.
Vitamins, perhaps, who knows?
Every living creature has eaten vita
minis since life began, but it has only
been within the last so years, or even
less, that mankind has known anything
about them.
1t has only been since 1914 that they
had a name. And it has taken until 1943
to find number Of them, name them all,
and definitely put them into the food
map.
Squirrels and other animals often eat
things which quite evidently do not give
them much nourishment.
Then it is easy to suppose that nature
leads them tn Sl1pnlv some def f1ciepcv in
their diet in unorthodox ways.
We have seen squirrels feast on raisins
put out for the songsters.
They sometimes will eat bread in va
rious forms. although 1t Is not favorite
foodstuff with them.
Peanut butter is an item they like,
naturally enough, but provided in too
large quantities it makes them Ill.
1t is too concentrated. So If one who
Evening star., 1943-08-20
Shaping q Compromise

Congress, and particularly the
Senate, has been fearful that the
President will seek to bypass the
national legislature and commit this
country to international agreements,
having to do with postwar conditions,
without direct sanction of the Sen
ate, or of both Senate and House
acting together. The Executive, on
the other hand, has considered with
some apprehension the history of
international agreements, negotiated
by President Wilson, after the First
World War.
1t is a matter OF great import,
therefore, when Secretary of State
Hull on the one hand, and a sub
committee OF the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on the other,
approach a compromise looking to
ratification of these agreements by
majority vote of both the House and
the Senate. Senator Vandenberg of
Michigan, Republican, a member of
the Foreign Relations Committee,
has been particularly active. The
Michigan Senator, however, holds to
at least one reservation-that the
final treaty of peace must be ratified
by two-thirds vote of the Senate.
The present conferences have had
to do particularly with the proposed
United Nations Relief and Rehabili-
tation Convention. If this conven-
ton can be approved by majority
votes OF both houses of Congress,
many other such agreements. deal
ing with other postwar problems may
be dealt with in similar manner.
Important international agree
ments in the past have been ratified
by Joint action of the two houses of
Congress, each acting by majority
vote. This was the case when Texas
was annexed to the United States,
and when Hawaii was annexed.
There are other precedents, but these
are two of the most important
The Constitution, in Section 2 of
Article 2, dealing with the powers of
the President, says: "He shall have
power, by and with the advice and
consent OF the Senate, to make
treaties, provided two-thirds of the
Senators concur" However, in Sec
ton 7 of Article / of the Constitution
the power is given Congress to make
all laws which shall be necessary and
proper for carrying into execution
the foregoing powers enumerated in
the Constitution, and all other pow-
ers vested by this Constitution in the
Government of the United States. or
in any department or officer thereof"
Proposals to amend the Constitu-
ton so that treaties shall be ratified
by majority vote of the Senate, or
by majority vote of both Senate
and House, have been proposed.
Nothing so far has yet been done
with these proposals. There Is a
large question whether one-third of
the membership of the Senate, plus
a single Senator, should be continued
In the power to block an interna-
tional treaty or agreement which has
the support OF majority of the
people and a majority of the Con-
gress.
On the other hand, it is unwise to
have the Chief Executive, through
his action alone, bind the United
States morally or actually in agree
ments with foreign nations. And
this, it seems, Is what some of the
officials of the administration have
had In mind
D.
Evening star., 1943-08-20
Tribute to Malta
From the Montreal Star

Malta came into its own when 1000
Allied ships descended on the Sicilian
coast. For nearly four years Malta stood
the brunt of the Mediterranean battle
Air raid after air raid failed to shake
the courage Of its people Unfaltering,
they stood alone as our Mediterranean
bastion, constant barrier to Axis hopes,
. tower of strength to ours.
Evening star., 1943-08-20
Pentuqon Bus Fares

1t has been almost year since The
Star began to urge the creation of a
Transportation Authority for the
Metropolitan Area of Washington,
pointing out that unless this was
done there was certain to be serious
difficulty in providing adequate pub
lie transportation at reasonable rates
TO large Government establishments
outside the city proper. Nothing
effective was done, however, and it
now becomes necessary to cope with
the problem under the pressure of
what War Department officials de-
scribe as serious impairment of the
war effort.
This is condition for which the
Government can blame no one but
itself. For it was the Government
which bought the land and erected
huge office buildings outside the Dis
trict, and recruited many thousands
OF workers to serve in these isolated
establishments, without making any
effort to see to it that they were pro-
vided with sufficient transportation
at reasonably low fares. The attitude
OF those responsible for the location
OF these establishments apparently
was that the transportation problem
could safely be left to take care of
itself. Needless to say, the opposite
has proved to be the case.
Testifying before the Interstate
Commerce Commission yesterday,
Brigadier General John T. Lewis,
commanding general of the Wash
ington Military District, said that
Extremely high and discriminatory"
transportation rates to the Pentagon
Building were causing a degree of
personnel turnover which is imped-
ing the war effort. Another War De-
partment official said that the turn
over OF Pentagon employees is ap-
proximately 36.8 per cent higher
than among similar employees at
accessible locations within the Dis
trict, such as the Munitions Build
Ing. For the most part, this was
attributed by the witnesses to trans
poration conditions.
There is good reason to believe
that this version is substantially cor
rect. Certainly the service is poor
and the fares charged are both dis
criminatory and high. It is most
regrettable, however, that the re-
sponsible authorities have not seen fit
to do something about the matter
until this late hour, for the effect now
Is to throw this complex and contro-
versial problem into the hands of
an Interstate Commerce Commission
which may or may not have author
sty to remedy the bad conditions.
In this connection, it is worthy of
note that the State Corporation
Counsel OF Virginia has challenged
the Jurisdiction OF the ICC and has
moved that the hearing be discon-
tinued. But there is every reason to
hope that the Commission will find
that 1t has jurisdiction and that it
VIII proceed to at least temporary
solution which will bring reasonable
relief to the Government workers
employed at these outlying points. A
permanent solution, however, prob
ably must rest on legislative action,
and the Federal authorities who
have dilly- -dallied over this impor-
tant question should lose no further
time in getting behind a plan for
setting up a competent transporta-
ton authority.
Evening star., 1943-08-20
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the Driter, although the use OF
a pseudonyn for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters 1uith
a Die10 to condensation.
Evening star., 1943-08-20

In recent melee with a small
party Of Japs, four American buglers
came in and insured victory by
knocking out their machine gun
There is some talk of giving them, as
special reward, a chance to blow
reveille for the rest of the war with
out being subjected to any verbal
abuse.
Evening star., 1943-08-20
Is minutes before, but newly formed,

Is minutes before, but newly formed
better guessing crowd half block away
may be lucky enough to beat you to it.
The Transit Co. seems to believe that
those who come first shall be served
last. However, the reason may lie in
the fact that the starters eye has fallen
on a pretty girls face; or maybe a new
hat she wore on that day; or maybe an
equally preposterous reason. You must
watch and experience this for some time
to appreciate it fully.
On many streets, the yellow bus stop
signs seem to be on the wrong side of
the street, so when the red light goes
green bus has to stop on the other side
OF the intersection again to pick up pas
sengers or let them of.
To conclude my grief for the time
being, I have noticed also that on some
OF your streets the traffic lights change
so rapidly that by the time the street.
cars have taken up their passengers,
the light has changed again.
What you need, my good Washing
tonians, is right-minded traffic boss
with right-minded technical assistants
GEORGE F. MARSTELLER.
Evening star., 1943-08-20
Appreciation for Publicity
for War Stamp Dance.


To the Editor of the Star:
The Post Office Department Welfare
and Recreational Association and the
various local organizations of postal
employees at the Washington City Post
Office desire to express their apprecia-
tion for the splendid cooperation re-
ceived from The Star for the War stamp
dance held on Tuesday, August II, at the
Ellipse.
Please thank all of the radio stations
for including the story in numerous
broadcasts; also those who so ably as
sisted in making this dance outstanding
Johnnie ST. Clair and his band, the
American Legion, the Vivian Nicholson
variety troupe and Jacqueline Fedder
for their fine music and entertainment;
the National Capital Parks for use of
the site and providing necessary equip
ment; Robert P. Mcleod, for furnishing
the public address system: the Capital
Park Police and Precinct No. 3, and the
War Department.
DAVID E. KISLIUK,
Chairman Of the Committee.
Evening star., 1943-08-20
Propaganda Drive
On Germans Urged.


Do we believe in democracy? Do we
believe that the vast majority of any
llterate people, if given the essential facts
on vital issues, will be able to reach
sound conclusions? If we so believe. why
not act accordingly? Why not give the
German people the true facts about the
ambitions of their leaders and explain to
them the entirely fair and reasonable
conditions implied in the phrase "un-
conditional surrender?
And should this crucial information be
restricted to small clandestine radio
audiences or carried in over -simplified
leaflets when intended for a people &C
customed to political treatise the size
OF Mein Kampf? With every ton of
bombs, why not a thousand substantial
pamphlets? Effective warfare with
words and ideas might save many Amer
lcan lives. ROBERT S. FIELD.