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Evening star., 1943-05-26
Planning With q Purpose

1nasmuch as the rationing of gas
oline and the depletion of fireplace
able automobiles are automatically
solving u parking problem now, it
was rather natural that the House
Subcommittee on District Appro-
priations cut from the District bill
the relatively small sum asked for
the Motor Vehicle Parking Agency.
Its work, during the present emer-
gency, is confined to plans and
planning. But to end this work now
would be unfortunate and, in the
end, wasteful. Perhaps if there had
been more discussion of the matter
during the hearings, the usually
sympathetic House committee would
have taken another view of the
matter. 1t is to be hoped that the
Senate committee will restore the
item.
The suggestion for the Motor We
hicle Parking Agency came from a
long continued study of the traffic
and parking problems which con-
cluded, with other things, that large
scale provision of off street parking
facilities in the congested area of
the city was economically infeasible.
The plan recommended was for es-
tablishment of fringe parking lots in
the outskirts of the city. These park
ing lots would be served by public
transportation agencies.
The very fact that the parking
problem now is being temporarily
solved as automobiles go off the
street is really an argument for
carrying on the work of the Motor
Vehicle Parking Agency in prepara-
ton for the time when the problem,
as we knew it In 1941, will return In
aggravated form. After the war we
are going to have better highways
and better and cheaper automobiles.
We should never permit the parking
problem to become as acute, after
the war, as it was before the war
The sensible procedure is to work out
a careful solution now, while there
is opportunity to do so, and be pre-
pared to put it into effect when the
emergency is over. 1t would be mis-
fortune to allow the Motor Vehicle
Parking Agency to pass out Of ex-
iStence at the very time when it can
be performing its most useful service
Evening star., 1943-05-26
The Yankee Flavor

(No matter what their individual
heritage-be they of Greek, German,
French, Chinese, Italian or what
have-you extraction, all United
States soldiers are labeled "Yanks"
when on foreign soil-and each seems
to live up to the nickname ably and
proudly-News Comment.)
A little of the Yankee aDiu alpays
faUor
Americas rich mixture. Come
1Uhdt UiL.
The Pilgrim salt ,oiU neper lose its
saUor;
The Puritan pepper wiH prove
potent still.
Mather and EdDards, Thoreau-
Walden-bounded-
Holmes, Fuller, Alcott, Hawthorne.
EmerSOn-
The mired-sptce that such minds as
these compounded
Will ttnge the bre,o ,oith pungencs
euen 1Dhen done.
Despite exotic ingredients that are
poured there
By ,Dhatever alien hands dlono the
,DGy,
The homely Yankee flavor uill b
stored therS-
Remaining TIL An1ar&ca's JveSUeos
Day.
VIOLET ALEYN STOr-.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Coal Case RuIina

Without yielding any substantial
measure Of ground to John L. Lewis,
the War Labor Board has rather
neatly disposed of the United Mine
Workers wage complaint.
The demand for a $2-a-day wage
increase (Mr. Lewis had said he
would accept neither more nor less")
was fatty rejected as being in viola
ton Of the little steel formula. Cash
concessions amounting to between
18 and Is cents a day were made to
the miners, however, on account of
vacation allowance and working
equipment. The other issues-portal-
to-portal pay and an assured six-day
week-were left to the processes of
collective bargaining or adjustment
by some other Government agency.
Just what the effect of returning
the portal-to-portal pay question
back to collective bargaining will be
Is uncertain. This issue was explored
at length in discussions between the
miners and operators before the case
was sent to WLB, and no agreement
could be reached. The operators
claimed that the travel time involved
IN the portal-to-portal controversy
had been taken into consideration
in fixing existing wage rates, while
Mr.. Lewis argued that under a Circuit
Court ruling it was obligatory that
The miners be paid for the time re-
quired to get from the face OF mine
to the point where they begin work,
and back again. Perhaps, with other
issues clarified, this dispute can be
settled through collective bargaining.
On the other hand, it may have to
be decided by the courts.
But the important point is that
the WLB has hit upon a procedure
which seems satisfactory to both
parties to the dispute, and which
does not undermine the boards posi-
ton as an arbiter OF future wage
disputes within the framework of
the little steel formula. If future
developments confirm this initial
impression, the members of the board
will be entitled to feel that they
have done an excellent job.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
OPA Under Fire

1t may be doubted whether the
Office Of Price Administration, In its
stormiest days under Leon Hender-
son, ever faced more severe crisis
than that which presently confronts
this ill-starred agency.
If such a thing is possible, OPA
now has greater variety of critics,
and more vehement critics, than was
the case during the Henderson re-
gme. The complaints are coming
from all sides-from Congress, from
labor, from business, from the gen.
eral public and, in some instances.
from within OPA itself. Certainly,
in these circumstances. it is no ex-
aggeration to say that Administrator
Prentiss Brown is going to be hard
put to keep his organization from
going to pieces.
Undoubtedly there are many rea-
sons for the tough Shedding which
OPA has had from the dav it was
set up. Under the most favorable
conditions its job would be a hard
one, for it involves. regulation of
the lives of individuals which is
bound to be distasteful. But this is
by no means the whole story. In the
case of certain foods, OPA has at
tempted to impose price ceilings
which do not permit distributors to
operate at a profit. The experience
of slaughterers is a case in point.
The price which they may charge for
beef and veal is fixed at an arbitrary
level. But there is no ceiling on
livestock, and these prices have ad-
vanced materially since the ceilings
were placed on dressed meat. 1t
seems obvious that such system
cannot be made to work. and, bar
ring resort to the generally undesir-
able device of subsidies, a choice
must be made between permitting
higher prices to consumers or cutting
back the prices paid the producers.
Yet 1t is foregone conclusion that
resort to either expedient would
spell more trouble for OPA.
Something of this sort may have
been In the mind of Richard B. Gia
bert, economic adviser to Mr.. Brown,
when he told the War Management
Conference that the Government
has not made good on its stabiliza-
ton commitments. The present
high price levels, he said, which have
been the subject of so much COM
plant, are the result sof the War
Labor Boards failure to hold down
wages and OPA's lack of control
over farm prices.
No doubt this tells a large part Of
Me story of OPA's failure, but, with
wages still rising and lacking any
effective check on farm prices, it
seems futile to seek a solution by
squeezing wholesalers and retailers
or by employing subsidies here and
there to roll back prices. To produce
Evening star., 1943-05-26
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. TrdceUeH.

hence the confusion with the cardinal,
crest, which the scarlet tanager does
not possess.
Other popular names OF the tanager
are flrebird, Canada tanager, scarlet
sparrow and pocket bird.
This bird roams the skies from Nova
Scotia to Mexico, Bolivia and Peru.
Its nest is placed on limb, which
may be low or high, sometimes as far
up as 40 feet.
Any one who has watched these birds
In the tree tops will not be surprised at
anything 1t does
The nest is fiat, made out Of stems,
pieces of bark and bits of grasses. Root
lets and pulverized bark are used for
the lining.
The eggs range from three to five in
number, with the accent on four. They
are greenish-blue, and are speckled with
chestnut.
1t is said that the word "tanager"
comes from the Latin ''tanagra"
Sometimes slightly larger tanager is
seen, the summer tanager, which is all
red, without crest, and with slight haze
of gray-brown on the wings.
Sometimes this one Is called the bee
bird. because of its fondness for that
insect.
Scarlet tanagers seldom sing, but
when they do the song is something like
that of the robin.
Its call note has been various, set
down as "chic-bur," "chip-chur" and
"chip-bang," so take your choice. 1t is
hard, indeed, to put any bird note into
written syllables. The best any one can
do is to try to put down something re-
sembling the way it sounds to the list
ener. 1t may not sound that way to
another
Ornithologists brand the scarlet tan
ager as stupid bird, but in this we
think they err, because this tanager is
bright enough when it comes to catch
ing insects.
Perhaps the idea Of stupidity comes
from the habit of the bird in twisting
its head from one side to the other.
This is an action quite common among
all species, but 1t does not attract so
much attention from plain bird, or a
striped bird, such as the various SPAR
rows
In the Far West they have a tanager
which has combination Of yellow, scar
let and black, making it quite tropical
In appearance. At migration time they
swarm into fruit orchards and eat up the
growers crop, so they are not welcomed
by him, despite their beauty Fortunate
ly this ''sWarming" does not take place
every year, although the birds migrate
every year. of course.
Small wild cherries, rather than the
cultivated sorts, are liked best by both
robins and tanagers, because they are
smaller, allowing the birds to swallow
them whole. It is believed that this is
the real solution of the problem to
plant wild cherries abundantly. Thus
growers could have their crops. and
multitudes of fine birds, as we'll
Evening star., 1943-05-26

colossal aerial drama unfolds itself
before our eyes. The stakes are 80
incalculably vast as to be literally
breath-taking Should the European
end Of the Axis break under the sus-
tanned impact of air warfare, Japan
could hardly hope long to escape
similar fate, once massed Allied air
power could be concentrated against
her in conjunction with superior
naval might. Yet, to avoid bitter
disillusionment, we should keep our
hopes within bounds until they are
justified by the actual course of
events. The crucial test appears to
be under way. But the outcome is
still to be determined.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
SILVER SPRING, Md.

Dear Sir:
Last Wednesday morning about 7
o'clock, after the all-night rain, my hus-
band and I looked out of the kitchen
window and saw beautiful bird.
"It was bright red without any trace
OF orange or purple with black wings
and tail. 1t was small bird little
larger than bluebird but not as slender,
in fact it was quite chunky.
"A little later we saw another perched
on the wire fence about 10 feet from the
window Still later we saw a third
perchSd In an old pear tree.
Then they flew to the adjoining new
.ly-plowed field and were busy eating
something. They flew away about 7:3O
o'clock
"The next morning they were back
again at 7 o'clock and left at exactly
7:30. This time they did not come in
the yard, but stayed in the field
1--WE have never seen a bird like this
before and thought it may be a redbird
One was more brilliant red than the
two others.
1--WE live on a farm and very few
birds stay around the house except SPAR
rows and catbirds and a few robins.
Most of them prefer the meadows and
stream about Y mile from the house
Can you please tell me what kind OF
birds they are and what kind of food
they eat? Yours truly, H. j. H."
The birds are scarlet tanagers
They are among the most beautiful
songsters which come to the Washington
region In migration.
Their intense flame scarlet is unlike
anything else to be seen hereabouts.
Set off by black wings and tail, these
tanagers instantly attract the attention
of bird lovers.
Mostly they are to be seen high in
trees. Almost every summer we see
one or more of the males--the bright
ones-at the very tip top of some tall
locusts.
We cannot recall ever seeing them
for more than few hours, and never
down on the ground
LIE Hldle tanager is the COlOrful one.
Its mate is greenish bird. Young males
in their first autumn resemble their
mothers more than their fathers.
This tanager Is inches long.
His summer red is replaced in winter
by yelloWish-gree and yellow.
The intense quality of the summer
coloration is made all the more striking
by background of leaves.
Few birds excel the tanager in eating
insects and worms inimical to crops
Ants, grubs of various sorts. beetles
and all sorts of caterpillars fall to his
industry.
After attending to the plowed fields,
he takes to the trees, and there eats
many damaging insects
This is one of natures ways of keep
Ing good sanitation
In some parts of the country the bird
Is known as the black-winged redbird
Evening star., 1943-05-26

O. What Is the number OF colors that
can be distinguished with the eye?-L w.
A. A trained eye can recognize 100000
hues and colors.
O. Is the bullet which killed Abraham
Lincoln still in existence?-W. r.
A. President Lincoln was shot with
one-shot brass Derringer pistol, little
eight-ounce vest-pocket weapon with a
lead ball somewhat less than one-half of
an inch in diameter. 1t is now in the
custody of the Judge Advocate General
of the War Department.
O. Where is the grave OF the Known
Soldier?-E. L. H.
A. 1t is in Myrtle Hill Cemetery in
Rome, Ga The body of Charles w.
Graves was the last to be returned from
France after the First World War and
burial at Arlington was planned. The
soldiers mother, however, requested that
her son be inferred in Rome, and this was
done
@. In how many libraries In this coun-
try are there distributing centers for tho
Talking Book?-J. B. R.
A. Twenty seven.
@. BY whom are the Army parachutes
tested?-M. D.
A. The Army Air Corps says that the
testing of parachutes used in the Army
is done by enlisted and commissioned
personnel.
G. What causes blushing?-S. N. D.
A. Blushing is caused by dilation of the
blood vessels of the face due to excite
ment or nervousness. The blood vessels
expand and the blood rushes to the face.
G. Is it ever considered correct to point
spoon toward the mouth in eating?-
K. F.. P.
A. Regardless OF the kind Of food
which is being eaten. the spoon should
always be used with its side parallel to
the lips.
O. What is meant by first-water dia-
mond?-R. B. l..
A. The term Is used In reference 10
diamonds that are SO pure and colorless
that they can scarcely be distinguished
from water when immersed.
G. Where is the Floating Sunday
School?-N B. E..
A. At Tacoma, Wash, on Commence
ment Bay in settlement of houseboats.
The Sunday school, known as THE Ark"
went into service in 1880.
@. For whom is the boysenberry
named?-A. M.
A. For Rudolph Boysen superintend-
ent of parks at Anaheim, Calf.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Mon-Power
From the London Sunday Dispatch.

from the London Sunday Dispatch.
The question OF protecting the people
now dominated by the Germans is not
one merely of sentiment. Germany is
desperately using every man and woman
she can coerce. The defenses which are
being built against us are the work of
unwilling but effective hands If we
can strengthen their powers of resis-
tance, il we care to match terror with
sternness we can hope to save those
marked for victimization in the future
and at the same time slow down the
snsmy's military preparations.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. HdSkin.

By Frederic J. Haskin.
A reader can get the ans1Der to any
question OF fact by ,uriting The EDe-
nina Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Hdslcin, director, Washington,
d. C. Please inclose stamp for return
postage.
@. Is an American soldier In Alaska on
foreign duty?-M. M.
A. The War Department says that a
soldier Of the United States Army who is
serving in Alaska is considered on foreign
duty.
@. In what section Of the country do
people smoke the most cigarettes?-L. B.
A. In the New England States, with
Connecticut leading.
@. Who is President OF Switzerland?-
L. L. S.
A. Dr. Enrico Cello was elected Presi-
dent for the year 1943 by the two Houses
of the Swiss Parliament.
@. What is the amount Of the Pulitzer
Prize?-C. F. Y.
A. The amount is now $500, whereas
formerly 1t was $1,000 This is the first
year since 1910 that all five awards in
journalism and letters have been made
In 1941 there was no award for novel
and in 1912 none was given for drama
O. Has a memorial been erected to
mark the place where Knute Rockne was
killed?-N. G..
A. A marble shaft commentaries the
place where the noted coach and seven
companions died in an airplane crash
on March 30, 1881. 1t stands about 18
miles from Chase County Courthouse,
Kans.
Evening star., 1943-05-26

the desired result, any stabilization
program must be based on effective
control of wages and effective con-
troll Of all prices. The root OF our
trouble is to be found in the fact
that we have had neither.
Evening star., 1943-05-26

Afraid wardens are hopefully
trying to explain to the public the
various meanings OF alarm signals
but all the talk in the world will
never convince any one that a siren
blast can be red or blue.
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Hand Letter Writer - Everybody

Hand Letter Writer - Everybody
writes letters and yet countless num-
bers Of people do not even know
how to address an envelope cor
rectly. Much of this is due to care
lessness, but most of it is due to a
lack of knowledge on the subject.
The Handy Letter Writer is full of
compact information, indexed, and
handy for reference. The correct
form for any kind of correspondence
can be found in this publication
which covers the general rules of die
ton, punctuation, grammar, correct
styles of address, proper salutations
and closings. Includes more than 80
sample letter forms. To secure your
copy inclose Is cents in coin wrapped
in this clipping and mail to The Star
Information Bureau.
Name
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 1rriter, although the use of
a pSeudonynl for publication is
permissible. The Star reserUes
the right to edit all letters Nth
a Die1D to condensation,
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Instructing Soldiers About War
Held More Important.

To the Editor Of The Star:
On the editorial page Of Sundays
issue of The Star there is four column
article by Charles G. Ross entitled Army
Seeks to Teach Troops Problems OF War
and Peace" This lengthy article is
woven around these simple but sensible
words expressed to Drew Middleton of
the New York Times by an American
soldier when asked to give his conception
of peace at the end of the war: ITO get
home to his job and bis family and for
get about the rest of the world and the
war"
With this reply, venture the assertion
that most Americans agree, for those who
have been students of the conditions
which provoked the war-conditions with
which the American people had nothing
whatever to do-well know that it was
not caused by anything that the United
States did or failed to do.
Furthermore, Mr.. Middleton expressed
profound amazement, which he ukens
unto ignorance, because only a "few of
our soldiers appeared to have heard of
the Anglo-Russian treaty which Joins
Russia and Britain in European interests
Tor 20 years" Because of lack of famil-
1arity with this treatv-which has no
conceivable relation to our af1airs-he
graclously credits the British soldier as
being better informed.
wonder If Mr.. Middleton thought to
inquire OF British Tommy the reasons
which provoked the war between the
american Colonies and Great Britain in
1775. Had he been sagacious enough tn
nave done SO, who knows but what he
would have received decidedly less COM
prefensive answer than was given bv
Uncle sams doughboy7
Moreover, where human life Is at stake.
1t would appear to pe more practical to
instruct our soldiers in the art Of war
rather than to take up their precious
time with problems Of peace" which
are distinctly political.
COAndONSENSE
Evening star., 1943-05-26
Advocates Conservation
OF Bottles in Wartime,

To the Editor of The Star:
Since about six months ago. I have
been puzzled and annoyed to notice at
least one or two freshly broken milk
bottles or liquor TASKS at the base of
every tree lining the streets around Six
teenth and Harvard streets NV.
Some of this glass no doubt finds its
way into the streets to cut precious and
irreplacable tires. I would like to suggest
that an appeal be made to curb this ruth
less practice, especially in line with the
advertisements to conserve and return
milk bottles appearing in The Star.
Smashing bottles seems utterly un-
necessary at any time. hut under present
conditions is definitely unpatriotic
A. A. BOMBE.
Evening star., 1943-05-26

from whom they were exacted with that
in view? If they are not so rebated, why
are they not "windfall' at the public's
expense? ALBERT A. VOLK.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30

had ordered his men to bail out maps in their pockets.
 q took mine in my arms. he said. "I Jeff the plane with two arms full of groceries, a gun and a searchlight and other things.
 Tt wasn't until l was 500 Ieet down that 1 realized th eproblem ot pulling the rip cord. Ny arms were full so 1t was a choice Of one or the other. l had to let everything go except the flashlight and the gun"
 Brig. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle. iu- formed that the ban on secrecy was lifted. commented. As far as I'm concerned. the Tokyo raid Is an eient history. We are engaged in making history"
 Fifteen of the men who made the Tokyo raid with Doolittle are now with him at this African base.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30

ports which have lust seeped out Of che island kingdom. The Japs killed him for it. but this hero-martyr- 90 far nameless-like Captain Nath= an Hale Of che Continental Army las passed on Co his country a slo- san to spur them in the coming strife
 @Weu bomb 1t again
 The article said it was under stood the trial took place last Sep tember.
 News had been received through neutral sources confirming Tokyo's earlier boast that some Of the Am eriean ayiators captured after the Tokyo raid had been executed. At- tempts by Swiss diplomats to see ether American ayiators whose death sentence was supposedly com muIed have so far failed 4 new propaganda barrage from Tokyo has threatened death 10 any other Americans who bomb Nipponese cities.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-04-30
DAILY B0MBNGS HAVE
 NO EFFECT ON KISKA
 ISLE LAPS. SAYS OFFICER

SANTA ANA, Calif-Daily bomb ings by American planes have no apparent effect on me bee-like act ivity Of the Jap workmen building an airfield on KisKa Island with hand labor. says Lieut.. Col Jack Chennault, just returned here from 14 months service in the Aleutians ,"On our best days We can blast them only 30 minutes out Of 24 hours the officer explained to Army Air Corps cadets here this week, saying weather conditions are responsible.
 He said: "Kiska has no tactical advantage to us, but in the hands Of the Japs it prevents us from go- ing to the westward over that route.
 Our ally bombings have no apparent effect on the work at the base. They seem to be going ahead