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Evening star., 1940-07-07
Milk for Needy

The District government, in COM
bination with the Federal Agricul-
ture Department. has taken a long
step toward improving the health of
the unfortunateS in Washington
whose low income compels them to
oek public assistance and prevents
Jnelr obtaining the foods needed for
proper diet. This forward march is
accomplished in the announcement
that milk will be sold at the rate of
five cents a quart to the II 400 needy
who receive social security aid, direct
relief or w. P. A. wages. The District
has been waiting six months for the
announcement. Only the receipt of
bids from Washington milk handlers
stands now between the announce
ment and the actual arrival of the
low-price milk.
Absence of milk from the diet is
a contributor to the incidence of
tuberculosis and other maladies
which particularly aff1ict the poor.
The five-cent program insures a
wider use of milk in Washington
than ever before. But even this
program seems to fall short of what
is desirable. For instance, there are
probably many hundreds of persons
besides the 11,40O eligibles who have
managed to make their own way
without public aid but who could
benefit from an expanded diet.
Again, the needy probably could use
more than the pint of milk a day
which is the limit presently fixed
for any one person.
The Washington program, it is
admitted, is in it's experimental
stage. It's life and the life of the
contracts which the Federal Gov
ernment will sign with the partici-
pating milk handlers expires next
June 80. BY then we will know bet
ter how much the program costs the
District in manning the milk depots
and how much the program costs the
Federal Government in paying, the
handlers the subsidy to meet the
difference between their contract
price and the five-cent sale price.
We will know to what extent the
program enriches the dairy farmers,
who first urged this sort of arrange
ment in the District because they
saw that it would broaden their sales
of fluid milk, which brings the dairy
farmer the highest price. Knowing
these things, the authorities might
be justified in revising and extending
the program, lifting the one-pint
limit and admitting all the loW-in-
come consumers to its benefits.
Evening star., 1940-07-07
Why Must They Die?

In the first half Of 1910 thirty-six
persons have died in Washinpton's
traffic. More than half of these
fatalities were in May and June
and thirty of them were pedestrians.
In the same six months of last year
forty-one' were killed. Elsewhere in
today's Star is a summarization of
official facts in each case and an
analysis Of current conditions.
Despite the fact that Washington's
safety campaign so far this year has
saved only five lives, certain truths
stand out in. the picture presented.
Fewer pedestrians were killed cross
ing streets in the middle of blocks
and fewer were struck down while
walking against signals. Jaywalking
In one form or another still is prev
alent, but apparently is declining. No
one has been killed this year while
crossing street on a proper signal,
and it is obvious that better observ-
ance OF safety rules is a growing
habit with those afoot, since larger
proportion of fatal accidents ap-
peared due to faults of driving rather
than to faults of walking.
Fortunately, the number of child
fatalities is much lower this year.
only three having been recorded.
One OF these was purely accidental,
IN another the victim was obeying
the best dictates of safety, and only
IN one case was child's chance
taking an important factor. Efforts
which have been made by schools.
Fairgrounds and safety groups to
conserve child life through juvenile
cooperation are getting results. Not
single bicyclist. for instance, has
been killed. Continued efforts to
teach basic safety to children are
being made.
A series of Safety Towns" drama
tizing traffic dangers and the meth
ods of safety, will begin in the play
grounds Monday. This is one system
which appeals to the juvenile imag-
lnatlon and which has obtained
results in other communities. En-
oodylng the theory of Learning by
doing" it combines. fun with valu-
able lessons. Cooperation of parents
IN enabling their children to partici-
pate in Safety Town" when it comes
to their nearest playground will be
OF great value.
Evening star., 1940-07-07
The French Canadians

Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and the people of the British Isles
must be deeply gratified by the re-
action of the large French Canadian
population to the decision of the
Royal Navy to attack French fleet
units to prevent their possible use in
the war by the Germans and Italians.
The French Canadians, if their at
titude can be gagged by the French
language newspapers in Quebec and
elsewhere, are taking the rational
viewpoint that Britain had no other
choice, that the stark necessities of
her military situation made it i'm
perative that the French fighting
ships be destroyed to insure that
they should not be converted to the
use of the common foe.
LIE Canada, of Montreal, summed
up the reaction of the French Ian
guage press when it said editorially:
"The British Government, in the
presence of an extremely difficult
situation, acted resolutely. What was
done was what ought to have been
done and it was done quickly and
well. World opinion and history will
approve It,"
Had the Nazi propaganda agents
been able to persuade the French
speaking Canadians to accept their
Interpretation of the battle of Oran
as a cold-blooded and indefensible
attack on a former ally, the British
and the Canadian governments
might have had a serious problem
on their hands. But that, happily, is
not the case. The French Canadians,
enabled to formulate their judgment
on the basis of facts, not propa-
ganda, have come to the only con-
clusion that reason permits, and
their continued loyalty to the Brit
ish cause is thereby assured.
Evening star., 1940-07-07
There COME.TIMES!
By the Right Rev. James Freeman D. d. ILL., d. d. C. L.
Bishop of Washington.

There come times in the life of men
and of nations when rigid self-ap-
praisal Is indispensable. Such time Is
the present. If more than half the
world has abandoned the Christian way
Of life, all the more reason that we should
take unto ourselves the whole armor of
God that we may be able to stand in
the evil day. God has repeatedly saved
His cause through minorities. Ten
cities of the plain. There is something
magnificent in the heroism of the few
who will, at all costs, dare to hold a posi-
ton that Is beset with perils on every
side. Neutrality, colorless and cautious
there cannot be where moral issues are
at stake. We may ground our arms;
we cannot seal our lips or speak softly
where cruel assault is made upon prin-
ciples and ideals that we hold as basic
and fundamental
We OF this fair land may regard with
pride and satisfaction our strong and
seemingly impregnable position, but in
a world whose contacts and relations
have grown close and intimate we must
play our whole and consistent part in
every crisis and emergency. 1t is eco
nomic distress both here and abroad
that is at the. root of these cataclysmic
upheavals. Greed, selhshness, aban-
doned ideals, these are manifestations
Of the presence of a new anti-Christ in
our modern world. Has the church, has
our Christian faith to do with these
things? It certainly has, and II it fails
God will remove its candlestick and ex-
tinguish the fires on its altar. Edith
Cavell declared that patriotism is not
enough; it takes men and women whose
hearts are aflame with love, whose hands
are clean, whose convictions are strong,
whose purpose is unchanged and un-
changing, to meet conditions that are
exigent and threatening. 1t is with this
kind Of faith, faith militant and un-
afraid, that we can face every evil
force. every conspiracy that is malign,
every enemy of Him who dethroned
principalities and powers on the cross
and gave to the world It's charter of
liberty. To press our party passwords
in the face of threatening conditions in
our modern world is to be disloyal to
Christ and His cause. st. Paul prayed
Evening star., 1940-07-07

specific points are not covered by
Federal statute, the common law of
the individual States applies. The
result has been a total lack of uni
formity-forms of indictment are a
case in point-that serves to delay
the progress of trials through the
courts.
The new law will permit the Sd
preme Court to follow the same
course that was adopted recently for
simplifying the rules Of Federal civil
procedure. An eminent committee
from bench and bar will prepare a
draft for Nationwide discussion and
study in legal circles, and the COM
pleted product, when approved and
promulgated by the Supreme Court,
will represent the best thought in
the country on the subject.
Several Attorneys General, the
American Bar Association and other
groups and individuals have support
ed this project, and the success that
has accompanied the application of
the new civil rules offers every as
surance that criminal practice like
wise will be improved.
Importantly, too, these benefits
are not confined to Federal courts,
but extend also to State tribunals,
which have been quick to adapt the
new civil processes to their own
needs and are expected to do the
same with the criminal rules.
Evening star., 1940-07-07
Speeding Justice

A long overdue judicial reform is
made possible by bill just signed
by President Roosevelt which will
permit the Supreme Court to pre-
scribe uniform rules for criminal
procedure in Federal district courts,
simplifying these processes by elm
mating archaic technicalities and to
a corresponding degree speeding the
administration of justice.
AS the situation now stands, pre-
verdict procedure in district courts
which has been the sole field of
judicial procedure not subject to the
rule-making power of the Supreme
Court-varies from place to place.
To add to the complications, when
Evening star., 1940-07-07
Worlds Fair BOMBING

The fatal bomb explosion at the
New York Worlds Fair presents a
problem in detection which will
challenge the best minds of the New
York Police Department and of such
cooperating agencies as the Federal
Bureau of investigation A bombing
not only is particularly cruel way
OF wreaking vengeance, but is par
ticularly difficult type of crime to
solve. A gun or dagger can be direct
ed at specific victim, but bomb
does its work of death and destruc-
ton indiscriminately, often-as in
the New York case-missing it's in
tended mark altogether. Planted to
explode in the British pavilion at
the fair, the bomb killed two detec-
ltives and injured several other off,
GERS VINO had removed it from the
building. And its explosion destroyed
all but a few possible clues to the
.perpetrator of the outrage.
Investigators have only a handful
OF fragments of the machine for
tangible evidence-a wire spring,
sppme pieces of aluminium and steel,
sAeveral nuts and bolts and other de-
Aris. They have meager information
Mbout tall, dark man who robbed
sxonstruction shed of some dynamite
Ncently and they know about tele-
Thoned warning that the pavilion
you'd be blown up. Those seem to
BE rather slim clues-but other
bombing mysteries have been cleared
up with as little initial information,
or less. Experience has shown that
such cases are not apt to be solved
Evening star., 1940-07-07

same footing and that the authority in
respect to all municipal concerns may be
viewed as in the board collectively. The
board should as a body determine the
distribution of work among its members.
The engineering ability of the military
Commissioner will naturally suggest that
in subordination to the board collectively
he should handle among his special as
signments matters necessarily involving
engineering skill. But no opportunity
for . clash Of authority between the
Engineer Commissioner and the board
collectively should be permitted to re.
main"
Evening star., 1940-07-07

that he might speak boldly as he ought
to speak," and this in the certainty Of
impending martyrdom. Boldness to
speak and live for Christ may lay upon
us great and severe hardships.
We face a hostile world. Growing
secularism and indifference to the Chris
tian way Of hfe are conspicuouSly evident.
We are summoned to examine ourselves,
to appraise our strength and our weak
ness and to make ready for any situa-
ton or emergency that may arise.
If the moral and spiritual tone Of the
Nation is low, it must be raised. 1t will
imperil our very security If it drops lower.
This lowered tone is evident in every
phase of our life; it is the basic cause
of impaired confidence, loss of initiative,
increasing divorce, insecurity in business,
supineness in assuming consistent obli-
cations, widespread feeling of uncer-
tainty and the as yet unsolved problems
of the depression.
Has the church no strong leadership
to give in a situation as gravely critical
as the one that faces the world? If it
has not, it should be prepared to fold its
tents and abandon its assumed proud
position. We cannot answer the urgent
needs of our time by pressing our artistic
wares upon reluctant and deeply con-
cerned world. No amount of elaborate
ceremonial, however appealing it may
be; no amount of dogmatic, impressive
preaching can arrest the multitude that
today is rushing heedlessly past our open
and hospital church doors. We sit in
our exclusive circles, our conferences and
our conventions, our clerical gatherings,
and make our oracular pronouncements,
and who listens to us? No one outside
our own carefully shepherded company.
Must we not realize that the time has
come when the ministry of both clergy
and laity must be more demonstrative
and militant? Must we not make our
Christian profession more real force
in arresting evil and preverse influences?
Must we not take it out of its clustered
exclusiveness and bring 1t to market place
and forum, yes, to every place where
men live and toll and struggle, and by
the immediate application of its prin-
ciples make it vital factor in easing
the strain and solving the problems of
life
Evening star., 1940-07-07
End of the Entente?

q II, as now seems Indicated the
Entente Cordiale is ended, an event
OF the very highest Importance has
occurred. Not many Americans may
know how the "series of working
agreements" between France and
Great Britain came to exist; but the
same may be said for Europeans in
: general to whom the subject still is
wrapped in mystery.
The author of the arrangement
was Theophile Delcasse, an obscure
follower of Gambetta who, beginning
as a tutor to the children of minor
official in the ministry of foreign
affairs, raised himself, almost liter
ally by his own bootstraps, until at
the apex of his career he could claim
that he dominated the diplomatic
scene in the Old World. From the
start, he knew what he wanted. and
the fact that his work endured for
thlrty-slx years suggests that his
ambitions were substantial. A Rad
ical government headed by Eugene
Henri Brisson, elevated to power
during the excitement of the Dreyfus
scandal in 1898, gave him the chance
he craved. The cornerstone of his
policy was the conviction, based on
admittedly personal grounds, that
"the only nation France need be
afraid of and guard against was
Germany, and that, therefore, alli-
ance must be sought with Britain
as well as with Russia and that the
way must be paved Incredibly para
doxical as it seemed them for
Russo-British understanding"
M. Delcasse was quite frank about
his objective. Under five successive
Prenaiers he argued that "if the
friendship of England were not
secured by French diplomacy, Berlin
and London sooner or later would
get together" To prevent that de-
velopment, he was willing to go to
any length, He was an imperialist,
ardently believing that "his country's
fate was bound up with the consoli-
dation and extension of its North
African empire" Lord Lansdowne
Joseph Chamberlain and King Ed
ward VII fell in line with his pro-
posals for united front against the
Prusslans as well as for the division
OF the south shores of the Mediter-
raneah. The first convention was
signed on April 8, 1904. 1t gave
Morocco to France, Egypt to Britain.
Publicly, it was announced that no
change In the political status" of
these territories was contemplated
Secret clauses in the treaty, however,
provided for their absorption"
Other agreements followed in
natural sequence Finally, on July
80, 1914, Paul Cambon reminded Sir
Edward Grey that "a binding
alliance" required British help for
France when the German attack
seemed imminent"
The Entente survived the ensuing
struggle. But it gradually wore thin,
r especially after 1919 when France
proposed taking the United States
into the partnership in succession
to Russia, and the United States de-
clined the honor. M. Delcasse died
IN 1924, still motivated by "a very
. deep feeling of Frances greatness
and an unshakable confidence in
, her destiny" but helpless to win for
4. her the efficient allies she was to
require when the vanquished Reich
again challenged the democracies.
Evening star., 1940-07-07

instantly becomes hindrance to him.
More than q hindrance, an outright
danger for sudden gust Of wind might
well drag him off his feet and perhaps
put him out Of commission completely.
At least it would lengthen the period
in which he is unable to defend himself.
X
The training, of course, includes the
handling of the equipment which he has
or which, as with machine guns, is
dropped separately. The German tech.
nique has been to drop two men and
then third parachute carrying
machine gun and its ammunition. In
training under favorable circumstances,
these men have their machine gun as
sembled and set up in two minutes from
the instant they hit the earth.
No attempt Is made to salvage the
parachute as most Of these men have
little expectation Of getting over their
adventure without suffering death or at
least captivity. And, in case their own
arms are lost or damaged in the descent,
the German parachutist, 1t has been
found, are instructed In how to use the
types Of arms likely to be found In the
particular country to which they are sent.
After this ground training is over,
the men are taken aloft in transport or
other planes and made to leap. They
must do this over and over again until
they are perfect In the trick and then
they 60 to the front and, at the COM
mand Of Nazi officer, leap into space to
encounter they know not what fate.
One thing which the army ofYicers
have especially noted is that, II there
is any regular patrol waiting parachute
attack. the descending soldier makes .
remarkably easy target.
Evening star., 1940-07-07

The Republican party, however is on
record as favoring less Government
activity and there is great emphasis
upon bringing the Federal Government
near to balance. Yet the clear fact is
that if the United States is to guard
this hemisphere and to arm for that
purpose there must be vast extension
of governmental activity and a greatly
increased direction of business and
finance by Government. This country
will be humping against totalitarian ma
tions in which government exercises
monopoly of foreign trade and main
tain absolute control over money and
investments, as well as over many prices.
Mr.. Willkie will face the task of recon-
cling Republican doctrine with the task
that lies ahead.
To combat totalitarian methods that
soon will be directed toward Latin
America, the United States may be
forced to resort to some Of the totali-
tartan technique. The foreign trade of
this Nation may need to be handled on
a monopoly basis, and there may have
to be drastic action to deal with any of
unfairness on the part of the Germans
in dealing with Latin American nations.
At home, there may have to be reor-
ganization of agriculture and industry to
meet the problem caused by dwindling
European markets.
President Roosevelt has plans under
way for meeting these budding problems.
/ The attitude OF Mr.. Willkie toward them
and the methods he would use In deal
ing with them remain to be outlined.
It is in field not covered by political
platforms that the real issues Of the
coming campaign will be found.
Evening star., 1940-07-07
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Evening star., 1940-07-16

Co. Others in the cast will be
Mostyn Thomas. Charlotte Brown
ing, James Francis and Myra Man.
ming. The principal dancers in the
ballet are Lydia Arlova and Lucien
Prideaux.
For the opera production, the Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra will
play on a separate barge moored
between the main barge and the
shore. The guest director, Joseph
Bambochek, has been a Metropoli-
tan Opera Co. conductor for many
seasons.
b Tickets for Faust" are on sale at
the symphony box Office in the
Homer l.. Kilt Music Store, 1880
G street NV.
The first rehearsal of the opera
was scheduled for this afternoon on
the barge with the entire cast, as
well as the San Carlo Ballet and
the National Symphony Orchestra,
participating.
Faust" will be the second opera
ever presented during the Sunset
symphonies. Madame Butterfly"
performed under the auspices Of
the National Symphony Orchestra
last summer, drew an audience es-
tlmated at 10000 people.
Evening star., 1940-07-16
Mayor Is Reelected
At Wushinqton Grove
BY stan Correspondent Of The Star.

BY Sta6 Correspondent Of The Star.
WASHINGTON GROVE, Nd, July
16.-Irving L. McCathran, the only
Mayor this town ever had, was re-
elected at the annual town meeting
Saturday night in Assembly Hall by
unanimous vote.
Mr.. McCathran was elected when
the town was incorporated three
years ago and has been elected an
nually since that time. He is q
Washington patent attorney.
Charles Keefer and DR.. John Mi
cuda were elected for three-year
terms as Town Covncilmen. The
town treasury now has balance of
$429, including the gas tax allot-
ment, Mayor McCathran announced.
Evening star., 1940-07-16
Americans Will Sinq
Major Faust Roles
Al Wafer Gate
First Of Four Operas
In Symphony Series
To Be Given Tomorrow

Gounod's Faust" the first of four
operas to be presented on the Sum-
set Symphony series this summer
at the Potomac Water Gate, will
be performed tomorrow night at 8
pm. under the direction of Fortune
Gallo of the San Carlo Opera Co.
Three Americans will sing the
principal roles. They are Helen
Gleason, Metropolitan Opera Co.
and musical comedy star; Sidney
Rayner, formerly with the Metro
politan, and Harold Kravitt, lyric
basso with the San Carlo Opera
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-08-30
Missing Girl Found

While fishing with friends
on Dirty Face creek. six miles
from Java Miss Audrey Overholt
of Minneapolis. Minnesota was
separated from the rest of her
party and was missing from the
party when they returned to camp.
The ranger at Java was immed-
lately notified, and he by phone
put out smoke-chasers and look
out men to search for the miss
ing girl. Deputy game warden
Renshaw had already started in
to that country which he is very
familiar with and she was found
by him and G. G.. Barrett, Smoke
chaser from Spruce park station
about twelve thirty Sunday night.
1t took them seven and half hours
to take her a mile and to the
main Big River trail where she
was put on a horse and brought
out safely. She way very hungry
thirsty and her clothes were bad
ly torn but other wise all right.