Evening star. [volume], April 08, 1938, Page B-9, Image 29

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REAL GAINS SEEN
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Connecticut Avenue Group
Told Representation Has
Distinct Value.
Ouilford S. Jameson, former com
missioner of the Court of Claims, last
night pictured the campaign for na
tional representation for the District
as “not only a fight for some intangible
principles of American freedom and
democracy, but a fight for some very
real and tangible assets,"
Speaking before the meeting of the
Connecticut Avenue Citizens' Associa
tion, Mr. Jameson declared that in the
last analysis the people of the District
have no real say as to whether they
want prohibition, income tax, sales tax
or anything else, but that they get
what some Congressman thinks they,
ought to have or what he chooses to
give them as a result of political trad
ing. Even one Representative in Con
gress would give the District a real
voice in local as well as rational and
International affairs, he declared.
Sees Effective Voice.
By having national representation.
Mr. Jameson said, the District would
get the legislation it wanted to govern
local municipal affairs because other
members of Congress would let the
District representatives have what
they wanted, because these representa
tives would in turn have the power to
vote on affairs affecting other sections
of the country.
Tlte association voted opposition last
night to the proposed construction of
r memorial to Thomas Jefferson on
the Tidal Basin, and asked that plans
for this be reconsidered and that the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commis
sion incorporate in its membership
represents lives of the Park and Plan
ning Commission and the Pine Arts
Commission.
Sees Detraction in Beauty.
Thomas B. Weigel, sponsor of the
resolution, declared that the basin
needs no further beautification because
it already has adequate landscaping
and the cherry trees, and that the
proposed memorial would detract from
the type of natural beauty already
there.
Also voted at the meeting was a re
quest that the date of automobile reg
istration be changed from January 1
to April 1, and that registration fees
be made payable on a quarterly or
half yearly basis. Opposition was
voted to limiting the protests to liquor
licenses* applications to a 600-foot
radius of the proposed license location.
The association donated $10 to the
Metropolitan Police Boys’ Club.
Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON \V. BURGESS.
For all that seemeth strange or queer
Exists some reason twould appear.
—Peter Rabbit.
"'JPHERE is a reason for everything,**
declared Mrs. Quack the Mallard
Duck to Peter Rabbit, who was sitting
on the bank of the Smiling Pool.
"I suppose that that is true, but
what reason there can be for some
thing without reason," said Mrs.
replied Peter.
"Old Mother Nature never does any
thinig without reason," said Mrs.
Quack, "but a lot of people seem not
to understand this. For whatever
she may give one of her children, or
whatever she may have one of her
children do there is a reason."
"I know all that, but what about
that story?" Peter broke in impa
tiently.
"What story?" asked Mrs. Quark, as
if this were the first she had heard
of a story.
“You know what one. the one you
said you heard about why Old Mother
Nature gave pelicans their fish bags,”
replied Peter.
"Oh, that,” replied Mrs. Quack. "Of
course it is only a story. I’ve for
gotten where I heard it.”
"Never mind where you heard it. Just
tell me the story,” begged Peter.
"Well, let me see,” said Mrs. Quack,
"as I remember it it goes something
like this. When Old Mother Nature
made the first of all the pelicans she
was in something of a hurry. She
wanted him to look different from any
other feathered folks, but she hadn’t
time just then to try to make him
handsome. She gave him a big body,
big wings, lather short legs with big
webbed feet, and a long neck, all of
which didn't make him so very differ
ent from the Geese and the Swans. So
to make sure that he was different
she gave a great big bill, the biggest
bill she ever had given any one. Then,
being in a hurry, she went about other
business, leaving Mr. Pelican sitting on
the water. She was in such a hurry
that she didn’t even stop to tell him
where to look for his place in the
Great World. She didn't even tell
him what kind of food he should eat.
She left him to find out these things
for himself.
"Mr. Pelican soon found out what
those webbed feet were for. He swam
around until he grew tired of doing
this. Then he began flapping his
big w'ings and after a while discov
ered what they were for. When he
flapped them in a certain way they
lifted him into the air. He found that
i by flapping them a number of times
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and then holding them spread out he
could sail along on them for quite a
distance. It was fun and it was rest
ful. When he found that he was
dropping toward the water he would
flap his wings again, then sail once
more. Pelicans have flown that way
ever since. Grandpa Pelican way
down in (he Sunny South where I
spent the winter flies just that way
today.
“Flapping and sailing, flapping and
sailing*, Mr. Pelican by and by came
to land and here found a lot of bird
folk. Some were land birds and some
were water birds. As soon as Mr. Peli
can landed among them they crowded
around him and stared at him in the
most impolite manner. They wanted
to know wno he was, where he had
come from, where he was going and
what he ate and a lot more about his
personal affairs. When he didn't
know the answers they laughed at him
and made fun of him. Finally they
left him alone.
“Mr. Pelican was so new to the
Great World that he didn't even know
that he had to eat. He had an all gone
feeling down inside. It was most un
pleasant. Of course it was his stom
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ach trying to tell him that It was
empty. He just didn’t understand.
Presently he noticed some of his
neighbors on the land picking up seeds
and grubs and insects and swallowing
them with great satisfaction. He tried
to do the same thing and found that
he couldn’t because of a little hook
on the end of his bill. It was in the
way when he tried to pick up any
thing. Poor Mr. Pelican felt lonely,
discouraged and all gone inside.”
Mrs. Quack suddenly stood up in
the water and flapped her w'ings. "I
declare, there are our cousins the Black
Ducks!” she exclaimed. "Excuse me,
Peter. I’ll finish the story tomorrow,”
and oft she and Mr. Quack swam to
join their cousins.
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