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Cites Training Facilities
OF Marine Reserves.

To the Editor of The Star:
With an expansion of military train
Ing for American youth the subject of
current public discussion, attention is
invited to the opportunity offered for
such training in the 5th Battalion,
United States Marine Corps Reserve.
There are few vacancies in this bat
talon for Americans between the ages
of II and 35. Applicants under q years
of age require their parents consent
Should there be major expansion of
reserve military forces it is reasonable
to suppose that the promotions of indi-
viduals incident to such expansion will
go to men who have made it a point to
study and apply themselves to mastering
military subjects
This organization began in 1929. Its
training is based on regular Marine
Corps standards. Drills on a pay status
are held one evening of each week. Fiji
teen days of field training, under canvas,
takes place in August of each year.
There are vacancies in several of the
Washington line companies and in the
oeAio' 1PPliCdtiOllS llldy Ue lildQe OH any
Tuesday evening at 458 Indiana avenue
NV, or in Rockville, Md, for the COM
pany there. The Alexandria company re-
ceives applications on Thursday evenings
at the city armory.
Complete summer and winter uniforms
are furnished.
The training, in general is along Ma
rine Corps lines, the relationship be-
tween officers and men being, as required
by Marine Corps regulations, those of
father and son or teacher and scholar.
Most of our officers are former enlist
ed men, some of our enlisted men have
won commissions in the regular estab-
lishment and, in this years graduating
class at Annapolis, five newly commits
stoned officers were appointed to the
Naval Academy from the enlisted ranks
of this battalion
HARVEY L. MILLER,
Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. M. C. r.
(O), Commanding 5th Battalion,
U. s. M. @. r.
June II.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1Dell.

Only he who loves printed matter as
thing in itself, as we'll as for some
thing to read, will understand the loving
care with which print of all kinds can
be cherished.
This leads to the household of such a
person being "all cluttered up" as the
old-fashioned phrase had it.
Scores, hundreds of small bits of
printed matter, are kept in drawers, on
tables, in closets, piled on the tops of
books on shelves, simply because the
print-loving person does not have the
heart to throw them away
Everything is full.
Especially every fiat surface is covered.
There is not table in the house which
does not hold its quota, first, of books,
second, of leaflets.
The latter range from dodgers thrown
around at the door through the ramifi-
cations of magazine, patent medicine all
manacs, monthly phonograph record
lists and personal letters.
This treasuring gets to be sort of
disease.
The victim often wishes he could get
free, but does not know how.
Probably a psychiatrist could tell him
what is the matter, but he rather fears
to consult one on such a subject
The scientist probably is a victim him
self.
1t Is, OF course, precisely the brainy
person who is afflicted this way. At
least, the victim likes to think he is
intelligent. Sometimes. as he looks at
his stacks of material, he wonders!
Here are the monthly phonograph
lists.
Not things of beauty, most of them,
but immensely interesting, if you hap
pen to be record fan"
New works by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel
and host of others, ranging backward
and forward in the archives of music.
Surely no music-loving person in the
past ever had such feast spread before
him as the modern disc enthusiast, pro-
vided. of course, that he has the money
to indulge.
Smoking, that habit formerly deplored
by women folks, is cheap, in comparison
with the purchase of good recordings
Only a beginning has been made on rec
ord lending libraries. If you want to
enjoy the treasures. you must have your
own, and that is expensive
There not only is a practical side to
these monthly lists, in keeping the ad-
dict up to date on the new issues.
In addition, these lists, as put out to-
day, are real historical reading in
music, since they rescue from oblivion
such men as Stamitz, and a host of
others, whose work has been all but for
gotten in the fame of greater musicians.
The great Bach, himself, owes a great
deal today to the record companies. If
1t had not been for their steady issu-
ance of works by Bach, this master
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would not be as we'll known today as he
Is, at least not to the great masses of the
people.
If you touch a serious disc follower,
you invariably find one who loves and
understands Bach as we'll as Mozart
Newcomers to the modern recordings
and machines invariably are surprised,
if they have not followed this matter, to
find that there are perhaps more records
of the works IF these two in the cata-
logues than Of any other two composers.
This means something, both on the
side of the manufacturers and the pur-
chasers
Leaflets from toilet preparation car
tons and medicines have a surprising
way of piling up on the tables of the
enthusiast of printed matter
Much has been done, in recent days,
In the raising of the standards of such
printing
Even the boxes and tubes and jars and
bottles have been put through a stream
lining process. They have been worked
upon, with good effect, by artists Only
here and there an old fashioned manu-
facturer sticks to his labels of yesteryear
The repeat purchaser of some article,
you might think, would be willing to
throw away, without reading, the same
old leaflet which he read a month ago.
But not so. If he is true follower of
PC, 10 in, Era, oly1i La
throw away even an old leaf1et.
He reads 1t through, although he has
read it many times before More than
that, he puts it aside, promising himself
that he will throw it away tomorrow.
But tomorrow never comes, in this re-
spect as in many others. The pile on
the table grows higher and higher, and
the inner perception of neatness and
order suffers chronic setback.
There comes a great day, however,
when some one item, in particular, is
demanded
Where is it? Has anybody seen it?
1t was right here Why isn't it right
here now? Who took it? Why was it
thrown away? Oh, it wasn't thrown
away-it is right there in the pile, some
where.
Down. down. to the bottom of the
pile, with leaflets flying in all directions,
and personal letters and pencils and 9TH
er small fry cropping up from time to
time Here is that small pair of scis-
sors which was lost several months ago.
The time of whirlwind cleaning is at
hand. Something must be done to save
the victim from himself, and he, alas,
must do it himself.
Sadly he faces the task.
To be thrown away. or to be kept
such is the question asked as each item
comes in view.
The pile to be thrown away grows, but
not as fast as the heap to be kept.
At the end of the session there is a
small pile on the floor and a large heap
on the table We might say, still on
the table
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Justified Skepticism

All the world has had sufficient
evidence of the faithlessness Of
dlctators to be sure that Premier
Mussolini's peace assurances to
Egypt, Turkey and the states of the
Balkans are not to be relied upon.
But no more skeptical states are to
be found in this region than Egypt
and Turkey. The former promptly
severed diplomatic relations with
1taly-the first step toward a decla-
ration of war-and the latter, al
though refraining from an outright
declaration of war against Italy,
severed commercial relations with
the Fascist state and is making vast
increases in her defenses.
Both of these Mediterranean coun-
tries have special treaty relations
with the Allies-Egypt in the form of
an outright treaty Of alliance with
Britain; Turkey in the form of
mutual assistance pact with Britain
and France.
The fact that neither Egypt nor
Turkey has declared war on Italy
is In no way to be regarded as re-
pudiation of their treaty OBLIGATIONS.
Egypt appears to favor such
declaration, and British naval and
air bases on Egyptian soil are almost
daily being used to attack Italian
possessions in Africa. Egypt, there
fore, is meeting to the full her duties
under her treaty with Britain.
turkey may be considered as in
stage OF transition from peace to
war, transition which will reach it's
endpolnt when the war in the Medi-
terranean directly affects Turkeys
interests and when the Ankara gov
ernment is certain it will not find
herself at war with Russia by coming
in on the Allied side.
The Turkish German trade agree
ment need not be anxiously regarded.
1t is not Germany, but Italy, against
which the Turkish-Allied pact is
directed, and even if Turkey should
enter the war with the Allies it would
not ipso facto involve war with
Germany
Two truths, obviously, should not
be lost from sight: First, Egypt and
Turkey have not been misled by II
Duce's peace promises, and are
taking every measure not only for
their own defense, but to implement
their assistance obligations to the
Allies when that assistance is needed;
second, both of these countries can
and will quickly enter the war If the
Allied cause suffers in the Mediter-
ranean. So far Italy has achieved no
successes which require their pres
ence in the conflict.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Research for Defense

Just as Germany has harnessed
science for war, the United States
now proposes to mobilize it for ma
tlonal defense. Much of the founda-
tlon for the victories which Hitler's
military machine has won on the
battlefieldS of France and elsewhere
was laid in laboratories in Berlin
and in other Nazi centers of scientific
research. There the physicists and
chemists and military experts of
Germany pooled their brains for the
sake of the Fatherland and the
Fuehrer, producing Nazi versions of
the magnetic mine, the self-Sealing
gasoline tank for airplanes, new
types OF artillery. tanks and demoli-
ton bombs and whatever secret
weapons" the Germans may have de-
veloped along the line of "paralyzing
gases" super-explosives or the like.
Many of these devices were not
unknown to scientists in other coun-
trles-but only Germany appears to
have regimented its technical ex-
perts and inventors on a grand scale
and to have made good use of their
services. The result was that when
the Nazi blitzkrieg was launched,
Allled planes were already obSoles-
cent and many other types of Allied
equipment were out of date or other
wise inferior to that of Hitler's
armies.
America, too has Jagged in scien-
tlflc research for defense, despite
the lessons taught by the first World
War, Back in 1915 the Government
called Thomas A. Edison to head a
Naval Consulting Board, composed
OF technicians and other experts, and
put the group to work on the prob
lem of combating submarines and
conducting other researches. The
board gave the Navy the submarine
listening devices which proved so
effective in 1918. Many other war
inventions were studied and i'm
proved. When America entered the
war, the board was absorbed by the
Council of National Defense. The
National Research Council. organ
lzed In 1916 by the National Academy
of Sciences for general research pur-
poses, also served in an advisory ca
pacity in connection with defense
nr1na infoc
researches in military science began
to suffer for lack of interest and
lack of appropriations.
Now President Roosevelt. remem-
bering the achievements of Ameri-
can scientists in the other World
War and recognizing the Importance
OF research in any national defense
program, has created a new National
Defense Research Committee, with an
eminent scholar, DR.. Vannevar Bush.
president of the Carnegie Institu-
ton, as chairman. Seven other men
prominent in the world of science
will be named to the committee, and
representatives of the Army and the
Navy will be advisory members.
Existence of such group a few
weeks ago would have spared non-
scientific legislators two useless-if
not embarrassing trips to watch
liquid oxygen bomb demonstrations
that proved nothing. Such tests
should be left to experts, not law
makers.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Approves Prompt Adoption
OF Pepper Proposal.

To the Editor of The Star:
BY all means adopt the proposal of
Senator Pepper-and do not stop there
If this war represents an attack upon
the way of life which Americans hold
dear and wish to see preserved, it is little
enough to supply those who are now de-
Tending it with the arms and materials
which they require.
Little can be said for those who saw
they favor principle" and leave to
others its defense.
Voltaire summarized it in the Henri
ade,' an epic poem presenting a picture
OF war and written to inspire hatred of
intolerance and persecution, as follows:
Go hang yourself, brave Crtllon:
We fought at Argues and you were not
there"
June S. HARRISON TILGHMAN.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Italia

Who see coming toward me down the
corridors of time?
A wanderer, gaunt, sad of face, deep
eyed and proud
Behold the man who has been in hell"
Was whispered as he passed his fellow
men.
Dante, the poet, soldier, statesman, lover
sublime,
Who, "by the grace of God, studied until
he wrote of Beatrice
What had never been written of woman"
"The goal Of man is universal peace!"
This was his dictum six centuries agone.
Italy united! this was his vision
That accompanied the glorious tongue he
breathed his life into,
An idiom pulsing with the immortality of
Christ,
Noble with Latin deep sorority,
But beautiful with love and tenderness.
Italia! turn to the martyr-soul who holds
aloft
God, Woman, Country, Truth,
In one clear light of universal form.
The Living Ray, on which his eyes were
fixed,
Gave him that Infinite Valour that drove
him into exile
Rather than bow his head to tyranny.
This Is the Leader for brave souls!
Italia! Pause! Cast from your brow the
crown of Iron!
Place in its stead the wreath of laurel!
Let not the bays of immortality suffer
oblivion in blood,
For manhood far exceeds brute force
He who by steel destroys shall surely
perish by the sword, It's written.
I beg you pause, and lift your arms In
peacel
GAZMLA A. PI.ARINOS.
Evening star., 1940-06-15

and preoccupied, and his position was
too prejudiced, for him to conceive of
any road remaining open to Italy except
that of war against the two nations in
Europe that were most friendly to Italv,
and as the co-outlaw of the only power
in Europe whose manifest design in
cludes the permanent subordination of
Italy to its military, political and eco
nomic polity.
These hypothesis are so logical that
they possess the similitude of history
and probably do suggest an explanation
of Italy's fateful action that better con-
tents the reason than any previously pro-
posed. EDWARD CONN
June IA
Evening star., 1940-06-15

the half of Lorton's population for
which work is not now available.
Hence the necessity for providing a
definite substitute before eliminating
the present available facilities for
keeping the prisoners busy along pro-
ductive lines.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Urges Repeal
OF Neutrality Act.

To the Editor of The Star:
The Neutrality Act'is the most loath-
some piece of legislation ever to be passed
by the Congress of the United States.
The Congress must, without delay revoke
the Neutrality Act, passage of which was
Hitler's first great victory over the forces
OF democracy in the United States.
June 3. HARRY DANIELS,
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 1rriter, although the use of
a pSeudonyn1 for publication is
permissible The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters 1rtth
uie1U to condensation.
Evening star., 1940-06-15

Japan must have the jitters if she
really regards the possible landing
of only two thousand British in the
Netherlands Indies as "of extreme
gravity"
Evening star., 1940-06-15

A. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
me Use Tor repuolication of all news dispatches
paper and also the local news published herein
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1940-06-15

@, What is the retirement age for
postmasters and rural mail carriers?
H. M.
A. The retirement age for postmasters
is 10 and that of rural mail carriers Is 65.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Rate by Mail-Payable in Advance,
Member of the Associated Press.

Entered as second-class matter post once,
Washington. D. c,
Evening star., 1940-06-15

@. Who was the first baseball player
to wear gloves?-M. D. H.
A. Charles Waite of New Haven, Conn,
wore gloves in a game in 1875. The
catchers mitt was first used In 1889 by
its inventor. Paul Buckley.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. Hdskin.

A reader can get the ans,Der to any
question OF fact by 10riting The Epe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. HaSktn, director, Washington,
d. c. Please inclOSe stamp for reply
@. Is the Department of Agriculture
often asked to identify plants?-J. C.
A. Botanists in the department iden-
tify annually about $4,000 plant speci-
mems which are received from all over
the United States and many foreign
countries.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-09-23
BRUNSWICK IS
WHIPPED With
ELkS KEELING

Bowling three games at the Elks
and the Brunswick alleys yesterday,
the lodgemCn neatly took the Bruins
wickers into camp three games in
a row with little competition
High bowler for the day was
Claud Carnegie with 562.
Scores were as follows:
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Mrs. CT. Jewell Is
Entertained Prior
To Sailing South

In compliment tc Mrs. c. F. jew
I'll. mother CT Lieut.. Commander T.
c. Jewell Mrs r. c. Jewell enter
tanned with luncheon and movies
Saturday afternoon on board the
Coast Guard cutter Haida
Asked for the occasion were Mes
danes r. E. Robertson. E. l.. Bart
lett, William A. Holzheimer, Cather-
ire Gregory, w. w. Council, c. M.
Hirst, L. p Dawes and Howard
Thompson.
After a two months visit in Ju-
neau, Mrs. Jewell sailed for tn =
States this morning on the Princess
Louise enroute to her home in st.
Louis.
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GAMES SUNDAY
National I.aa one

JAMES SOINDh1
National League
New York 3, 7; Boston 4, 3.
Philadelphia 2, 2; Brooklyn 10, 5.
Cincinnati 2, /; Pittsburgh /. 8.
st. Louis 8, Q. Chicago l, l.
American League
Boston 3; New York G.
Cleveland 10; Detroit 5.
Chicago 10; st. Louis 0.
Washington 5, S: Philadelphia 4, 2.
Pacific Coast Play0ff
Seattle 3; Oakland l. The win
gives Seattle the preliminary play
off series.
Les Angeles l, 8; San Diego 3, 0.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-09-23
HUNTING PARTY
HAS ROUGH run
IN 50UTHEA5TER
Forester Goes THROUGH
Hard BIoW-GIassWare
Is Shattered

Four Juneau couples returned to
own last night after a stormy, sea-
SICK weekend.
The party left here Saturday ev-
ening aboard Capt. Kinky Bayers'
motcrship Forester for Pleasant Bay
near Mole Harbor and ran into a
heavy southeastern.
The trip took IL hours instead of
seven, "all but three" aboard the
ship were sick, and every bit of
glassware and nearly all of the
dishes" were broken in the pitching
and plunging during the storm.
Those who made the trip were
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Danielson, Mr.
and Mrs Thomas Taylor, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Kleweno, and Mr.. and
Mrs. joe Molloy.
Carl Jensen and Hedge Nielsen
went along as crew with Bayers.
Kleweno got the only deer, a big
ITS pound three pointer, and men,
bers of the party reported seeing
/ lots of geese everywhere
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-09-23
GAMES SATURDAY
National League

Cincinnati 8, 7; Pittsburgh l, 8
Second game 10 innings.
Brooklyn 4; Philadelphia 2.
Philadelphia 2.
Now York 3, Boston l.
st. Louis 8; Chicago a, IL innings
American League
Cleveland 0; Detroit S.
st. Louis 3; Chicago 2.
Coast League Playoff
Los Angeles 2; San Diego 8.
Oakland O; Seattle 4.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-09-23
FEC PROMOTES
STACY NORMAN
ALASKA Chief
Herbert ArIowe Arrives 10
Succeed juneau Man
as Inspector

Thc Juneau Office of the Federal
Communications commission today
announced the arrival of Herbert
H. .Arlowe, inspector. formerly at
taohed.. to the San Francisco office,
relieving Stacy w. Norman, for
nearly three years in charge of the
Juneau office
Norman will devote his time to
the commissions Alaskan monitor
ing program, which provides for the
establishment of listening stations
at strategic points throughout the
Territory, in connection with the
national defense program.
Arlowe is arranging to bring his
family to live in Juneau within the
next few weeks.
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ments as a new opportunity for
cen business. He said he re-
garded the creation of high STAN
gard CT living and economic pros
peri.y abroad as the only lcng term
hope for the preservation CT democ-
racy at home.
He hammered again at his charge
that the New Deal contributed to
Tic downfall Of democracy in Eu
rcre End must bear a direct share
cf responsibility for the war. His
argument was that the New Deal
embarked On the supreme Court
fight in 1898 instead of achieving
recovery VIII 'ch he believed would
have strengthened world democracy.
The nominee quoted British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill as say
ing in 1887 there is one way above
all others in which the United States
ean aid the European democracies
Let her regain and maintain her
normal prosperity.
HITS PUBLIC UTILITIES
PORTLAND. Ore. Sept %. =
Wendell l.. Willkie told a cheering
crowd at the Bonneville and Grand
Coulee Dams today the people should
determine whether publicly -owneI
power should be distributed through
private or municipal systems He
left at 1920 O'Clock this forenoon
for Seattle where he will make a
speech tonight
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schedule in. a three-game series
starting Friday at Cleveland.
Feller hit one of the homers in
yesterdays game.
Sclkirk Aids Yanks
George Selkirk hit two homers
and double to drive in four runs
Sunday to help the Yankees defeat
Boston.
Pitching, HOmers, Win
Effective pitching by Sid Hudson
and Ken Chase and homers by Gee
Walker and Jimmy Bloodworth gave
the Senators a doubleheader victory
Sunday ovsr the Athletics.
Johnny Wander Meers wildness
marked his comeback campaign as
the Pirates defeated Cincinnati in
The nightcap Sunday after drop
ping the opener.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-09-23
FREE BOWLING FOR
BASEBALL TEAM AT.
ELkS ENTERTAINMENT

Free bowling for the Elks base
ball team and Gastineau Channel
League officials will be one feature
of Wednesdays entertainment the
Elks Lodge is arranging for the
team
The entertainment and feed will
start at o'clock at the Elks Hall,
following the weekly lodge meeting.
Leonard Holmquist is chairman in
charge of the affair.
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DEMOCRACY MUST
BE MAINTAINED,
W!LLKiE DECLARES
Nominee Approves Of Aid
10 Britain Also Com
meree Help

Continued tom Page One)
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DETROIT IN
TIGHT RACE
Indians Take Game Sun.
day-Two Teams Meet
Again Next Friday

The Cleveland Indians Sam
banged back into the thick of the
American League race with a con-
quest Sunday OF the Detroit T'gerT,
aided by five home runs. The tri-
umph was Bobby Fellers 9th on
the 1s4O season and pushed the
tribe to within one game of the
leading Tigers, also paved the way
for a spectacular finish tc the flag
drive when the teams and their
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ELKS ATTENTION
Elks Baseball Tea m entertainment
and feed Sept. IS. All members
urged to attend. adv.
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CIVIL AER0NAUTICS
OFFICIAL DUE HERE

Walter P. Plett, Assistant Super
intendent C Always of the Civil
Aeronautics Board in Alaska, is
scheduled to arrive here by Electra
from Fairbanks today Plett is as
sistant under Marshall c. Hoppin at
Anchorage.