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Evening star., 1940-05-05
Navy Memorial

Favorable action by the Senate on
a 100000 appropriation for compile
ton of the Navy and Marine Memo
rial on Columbia Island comes as
welcome news to thousands of Amer
leans who for years have deplored
the fact that this unique and beau
tiful monument, the only national
memorial in honor of American he
roes of the sea, still stands in a state
of unsightly incompletion. 1t is to be
hoped, of course, that the House, by
following the Senate lead, will make
funds available speedily for the work
of building around the rough con-
crete pedestal Of the memorial the
proposed base which is so necessary
to carry out the concept of the de-
signer.
It is regrettable that the artist,
Begni del Plata, could not have lived
to see the completion Of his greatest
work. His death, in New York last
December, probably was hastened by
disappointment and anxiety over the
memorial. He had worked long and
hard during recent years to bring
about its completion, even going to
the extent of waving claim to sub
stantial part of his promised fee so
that the money might be applied to
the project. The contributions Of
hundreds of thousands Of Americans
in all walks of life have gone toward
the Navy and Marine Memorial.
School children in most of the States
contributed pennies, and sailors in
the Navy, Coast Guard and mer-
chant marine gave donations in
memory of comrades lost at sea.
The memorial base, now lacking, is
to be in the form of curving steps of
green stone, so arranged as to sug-
gest swelling sea wave, rising to the
foaming crest and soaring sea gulls
of the memorial proper. Completion
Of this tribute to our gallant sea-
dead Of war and peace has been far
too long delayed. Prompt congress
sional action is greatly to be desired.
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Recreation Controversy

Inc senate subcommittee nan.
ding the 1941 District appropriation
bill will be called upon within the
next few days to pass upon a con-
troversy relating to the future setup
OF local recreational facilities. This
matter is one of great Importance to
the District, and all arguments, both
pro and con, should be weighed care
fully before final decision is taken.
These conflicting viewpoints, dis
cussed in detail elsewhere in today's
Star, may be summarized as follows:
Parks and park and planning
officials, led by Secretary of the
Interior 1ckes and Frederic A. De-
lano, chairman of the Park and
Planning Commission, contend that
best results could be obtained If
recreation were to be considered as
one big public project. They believe
that parks and schools should pool
their resources and facilities under
the administration of one executive,
while retaining joint control over
him. If this were done, they
say, Washington would have one in
tegrated system providing public
recreational facilities for all age
groups and for every activity sup
ported through the schools with pub
lie funds.
On the other side of this issue are
District and school officials led by
Engineer Commissioner McCoach,
Superintendent of Schools Ballou
and Corporation Counsel Seal. They
assert that recreation, if best results
are to be had, should be treated as
being composed of two distinct
phaSes-supervised or neighborhood
recreation in the units of the So
called recreation system, and unsu-
pervised city-wide or broad scale
park recreation. The former is based
on the school system, the latter on the
park system. Even though the for
mer relies heavily on land developed
and administered by the park serv-
ice, it is contended that the recrea-
tional aspects should be under the
sole control of the Board of Educa-
ton, this being all the more true
because the land was bought with
District tax funds.
When one considers the character
and the abilities of the men repre-
sented on both sides of this issue it
becomes apparent that their opin-
ions are not to be lightly dismissed,
and it is to be hoped that the Over
ton subcommittee will explore the
matter fully before arriving at its
final decision.
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British Cabinet

The allied reversal in Norway has
shocked the English public and con-
fronts the Chamberlain government
with something of a POLITICAL crisis,
although its extent is not yet clear.
The whole question hinges upon
the extent to which the defeat in
Norway is attributable to the gov
ernment's methods of prosecuting
the war and on the strength of Con-
servative party backing for Prime
Minister Chamberlain.
It is unlikely that the present
cabinet will be able to escape at least
a challenge to its continuance in
Office, and if defections from Mr..
Chamberlain within the Conserva-
tive party itself grow to sizable pro-
portions the downfall of the govern
ment and its replacement with new
cabinet is not beyond possibility.
Mr.. Chamberlain is bearing the
brunt of criticism, both in the press
and in public declarations of politi-
cal leaders. But Herbert Morrison,
one of the most outspoken Of Labor
party leaders, calls not only for his
resignation, but for those of Sir
Samuel Hoare, the Air Minister, and
Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the
Exchequer, as we'll.
Sharing responsibility as he does
for direction now of British armed
services, Winston Churchill will have
a story to tell Tuesday, when the
whole matter comes up in full-dress
debate in Commons, and much Of the
defense of British strategy in Nor
way will rest on his shoulders.
He may provide much of the an
swer to the first question-whether
officials in Whitehall blundered
Already there are rumblings of
dissatisfaction among Mr.. Chamber
lain's supporters. Richard K. Law,
son of Bonar Law, former Conserva-
tive leader, and Clement Davies, Ma
tional Liberal member of Parliament,
have given evidence of this discon-
tent, the former criticizing the gen.
eral attitude of the government
toward the war problem, the latter
speaking for group of Commons
members who, he says, will oppose
any vote of confidence for the gov
ernment.
1t probably will be the extent Of
this detection, then, which will de-
termine whether Mr.. Chamberlain
succeeds in beating off the attack
which is certain to come, for Mr..
Chamberlain's hold on the British
government up to this point, in the
face of frequent criticism, has been
due to the -functioning Con-
servative machine, with its large
parliamentary majority. If anything
happens to destroy that majority
the cabinet assuredly will be i'm
periled-
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The Oil Dispute

This Government cannot afford to
accept Mexico's rejection of our re-
quest for impartial arbitration Of the
oil appropriation controversy and her
contention that 1t is purely domes-
tic matter to be settled between Mex
ican authorities and the oil COM
panies involved. There is sharp dis
pute over the methods Of valuation
Of the properties taken from Ameri-
can oil companies on March 1S, 1898,
and over what is meant by prompt"
compensation. These matters can be
decided fairly only by impartial ar
bitration.
There is much more at stake than
the oil properties directly involved.
If Mexico is allowed to get away with
confiscation Of American property
and Secretary of State Hull has told
Mexico that taking property without
adequate, effective and prompt
compensation Is not appropriation
but u condscation"-a dangerous
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precedent would be set. II Mexico
could do It. why not Japan or any
other power?
The Mexican note rejecting Sec
retary Hull's suggestion Of arbitra-
ton concurs in his views that force
should be eliminated as an instru-
ment for settling conflicts between
nations and that "only the pacific
methods adopted by our continent"
should be employed. What better
peaceful methods than impartial ar
bitration is there? The Mexican note
evades this fundamental question.
Mexico also points to a private ar
rangement for settlement of Sinclair
OIL Co. claims, representing a frac-
ton OF the whole, as an example Of
how she feels the entire dispute
might be settled. The Sinclair agree
ment may complicate the picture,
since other companies feel that claim
could be paid only with oil taken
from properties for which they have
not been compensated The reason
able installment" method of pay
ment, involved in the Sinclair ar
rangement, does not provide the
prompt" compensation which the
other companies have a right to de-
mand. Certainly any direct arrange
ment for settlement of a relatively
small claim does not lessen this
Governments obligation to insist
upon fair adjustment Of the entire
dispute in accordance with principles
NJ intern atiOnal iI1Stica
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fatal not only to the advancement Of
knowledge and the enrichment Of the
race; 1t Is likewise fatal to the aims and
purposes Of institutions designed for the
enrichment Of moral character The
Gospel Of Christ is not. static, but dy-
manic. It resists those dogmatic molds
In which men too often have sought to
restrict and limit its influence. The
great upheavals (men call them revolu-
tions) that have occurred and recurred
In the course Of human history have
forced upon the world the recasting Of
many Of its long-held conceits and preju-
dices, and started 1t on the road toward
the attainment Of better human rela-
tions and finer understanding Of the
meaning Of "brotherhood." One Of the
strong characteristics Of age Is its indis-
position to yield to the pressure Of new
ideas and new ideals. It would put its
new wine into old wineskins even at the
cost of ultimate and total loss. Presi-
dent Wilson spoke Of "forward-looking
men," and by 1t he meant to imply men
who were facing up to and preparing
to meet new and changed conditions as
they arose.
A reappraisal and readjustment OF
many Of our time-honored agencies and
mechanisms. and this includes the
Christian Church, may have to recog-
nize in such critical times as these the
urgent need Of adapting themselves to
changing world order. One Of the
most urgent things that the church
itself must recognize is the need of the
consolidation Of its forces to meet and
resist pressures that cannot be met un-
der present conditions of disunity. Some
Of the old wineskins that we have treas
ured must be abandoned, the new wine
of a vital and vitalizing Gospel, a Gospel
adapted to meet the needs of every age
and every condition, must find its secu.
rity in new receptacles.
In every department of our life there
Is an increasing demand for an open
and receptive mind, and Jesus Christ
still holds His supreme place as the
worlds greatest progressive.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
A Sensible Vote

Efforts by various members of the
House to write amendments into the
wage-hour law had plunged that
branch of the Congress into such
extraordinary depths of confusion
that the vote to drop the whole mat
ter for this session must be regarded
as a reasonable solution of an almost
impossible parliamentary situation.
1t is regrettable that in the fight
to secure enactment of an indiscrim-
mate assortment of unwise amend
ments certain wholly desirable
changes have been lost. One of these
would have exempted from the law
white collar" employees earning 5000
a month or more. The purpose of
the wage-hour law is to help those
individuals who must work extremely
long hours for what often has
amounted to little better than star
vation wage. 1t was not intended
to apply to relatively high-salaried
employees, and they should be spe-
officially exempted by Congress as
soon as it is possible to do so.
But most of the recently proposed
amendments had nothing to recon-
mend them for favorable considera-
ton. In the main, the fight centered
around efforts to exempt workers
engaged in the processing of agricul-
tural products by repeating the So
called "area of production" ruling.
Had this maneuver been successful,
1t was estimated, from 100000 to
100000 persons-those working the
longest hours and receiving the poor
est pay-would have been exempted
from the act.
It may be that some better defini-
ton of the "area of production" pro-
vision is desirable, but if so it is a
matter that should be approached
dispassionately and from a non
political viewpoint. With an election
in the off1ng, it is a reasonable as
sumption that the basically sound
purposes of this legislation would
have been perverted by opening the
doors to amendments which would
have denied its benefits to a large
body of workers who are most in
need of legislative help. The vote
to recommit, under all the circum-
stances, was a sensible one.
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THE LAW OF ADAPTATION
By the Right Reu. james freeman D. D. IL. d. l..
Bishop OF Wdshtngton.

In just Interpretation Of His minis
try, the Man Of Nazareth must be re-
garded as in very real sense progress
sive and nodernist. In one Of the re-
peated arguments He had with the men
Of His time and country, He contended
against their rigid adherence to customs
and usages that no longer had a place
Of commanding influence, customs and
usages that were untitled to . new and
later age.
In one Of the most striking passages,
sustaining His argument, He said: mo
man putteth new wine into old wine-
skins; new wine must be put into new
wineskins." The receptacles in which
the wine was placed were skins, and
the Masters contention was that the
new and unfermented wine would de-
stroy the skins and the wine would be
lost. In the same argument He said:
"No man useth q new piece Of cloth on
an old garment, else the new piece TAX
eth away from the old" It was against
the stern conservatism Of His people
that He inveighed. Not to destroy vital
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give them newer and finer interpreta-
tion-it was for this He pleaded He
would adapt old and fundamental truths
to new and changing conditions.
On another occasion where the ruling
party claimed that they had Abraham as
their father, He incurred their wrath by
declaring: Before Abraham was, I am"
Ever and always the greatest and most
persistent conflict has been between old
concepts, ideas and traditions, and newer
and later revelations Of truth. Many, II
not most Of the martyrdoms that have
stained and sullied the pages Of history,
have been the result of the conflict be-
tween old and tenaciously held ideas and
practices and the bold and daring decla-
rations Of those who, through a finer
and later revelation Of truth, have
sought to advance the larger interests
of the race.
There Is kind of conservatism that
Is always the enemy of progress The
dictum. What has been, must be-" is
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1otoI War

A few days ago group Of Kansas
City chemists reported to the Amer
lean Chemical Society that green
grass, properly prepared, contains
the essential vitamins and mineral
elements to constitute an excellent
human food.
This news item presumably was
not published in the papers Of any
of the nations now at war. It was
military information" and it would
be close to treason to make public
any knowledge which might come
into the hands Of the enemy and give
some hint as to how the most
dreaded of the four horsemen might,
in some measure, be circumvented.
In total war, news of troop
movements and developments of
weapons now constitutes a. small
part Of censorable military informa-
ton. The daily weather in Canada,
the progress of a partial eclipse OF
the sun across North America, are
war secrets. So is the fact, If 1t is q
fact, that spinach is good for babies.
Starvation has. in a sense. been q
weapon in most wars. In the first
World War 1t was a very effective
one. It may have been the factor
that finally brought Germany to her
knees. Then 1t was matter OF pre-
venting the enemy from getting ade-
quate supplies of foods by means OF
blockades. The philosophy of war
has developed since then. Not only
ports and frontiers but minds must
be blockaded.
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Relief for Shipping

One striking aspect of the war
since its principal scene shifted to
Scandinavia is the respite allied and
neutral shipping is enjoying from the
German counter blockade. In the
past three weeks, since the German
invasion of Denmark and Norway,
shipping losses have diminished to
such low point that they have
scarcely merited being reported in
the press.
This phenomenon is symptomatic
OF the major effort Germany is being
forced to make in Norway. Its air
power and what remains of it's sea
strength is being concentrated, al
most to the complete exclusion of
everything else, on thwarting the
allied campaign on the Scandinavian
Peninsula. British transports, not
merchant ships, are now the targets
for German bombs and torpedoes.
The German high command is
confronted with a two-headed task If
1t IS to maintain the positions its
land forces have won in twenty-three
days in Norway: Supremacy in the
air and absolute protection Of the sea
route across the Skagerrak and Kat
tegat to Norway. Without the one
the lightning troops Germany has
thrust into the heart of the country
would have met, and are still in
danger of meeting, stone wall
of British, French and Norwegian
armies. Without the other the REIN
forcement of positions already taken
would be reduced to the trickle, which
. transport planes could carry.
The result has been the centering
Of the finest of German air strength
-bombers as well as fighters-on
retention of supremacy in the skies,
for the loss of that supremacy would
certainly jeopardize everything the
German troops already have gained.
Likewise, German submarine strength
is needed for the defense of the
entrance to the Baltic, now that
Germany's surface fleet has been
seriously depleted by British naval
action.
The weakening of the Reich's effort
at counter blockade has had its ef-
feet in the food supplies reaching the
u English public. Meats In England
q recently have been reported to be
8 flooding the market, with dealers
sbeing forced to take large quantities
I for which they have only an ordinary
demand.
s Although the German occupation
lof Denmark cut OF the vast supplies
eof butter, eggs and bacon England
has always imported from that coun-
try, there will be little difficulty in
importing nearly the same quantities
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from other producing countries, uri-
less the completion Of German con-
quest in Norway permits the Reich to
turns its bombers and submarines
loose once again on British and
allied shipping.
This, then, is one of the best argu-
ments for perseverance in the Nor
wegian campaign; that it diverts
German aerial and naval power from
the counter-blockade, which might,
as 1t did at one time in the World
War, threaten the British Isles with
starvation.
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In 1877 George M. Cohan wrote
"Over There" In 1896 Congress
authorizes a gold medal for him. In
1910 President Roosevelt gives 1t to
him. Snappy work; reminds one of
the late General Greely. who was
honored In 1885 for heroic exploits
In 18s1-188l.
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Relief for Congress

From the Dstroit Nsws.
Congress loves to belabor itself with
speeches On economy. It feels 20 GOOD
Whsn Il stops.
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Loans would be made to tenant farm.
ers at basic interest rate Of , per cent
with insurance and service charges add
ed bringing the total up to 4 per cent.
Loans would be made up to 90 per cent
Of appraised value and, should the bor-
rover have livestock or equipment Of
sufficient worth, the loan could run to q
full 100 per cent. Moreover, q long term
Of 40 years is provided for amortization
and, 20. paternal Is the measure, that
should borrower encounter III harvests
or other hard luck he might have q De.
riod Of i've years extra grace.
Also. and this Is regarded - IN sspe-
cially interesting provision, the semi
annual payments called for In the mo-
posed covenant could be made subject
to variations. That Ia, should Q bor.
rover suffer poor harvest for one or
more years, the amount Of his INSTALL
ment could be, at discretion, reduced.
the difference being made up In better
times. Here, too. 1t is claimed, comes In
. political bogey because the final ssv
as to whether borrower should be TINS
favored would rest with an appointee,
direct or indirect, Of the Secretary OF
Agriculture.
A provision Of this tenant mortgage
bill which would be Of much Importance
in some sections Of the country. notably
New England and parts Of the Middle
West. is that no one but an American
citizen. that is to say, voter, could bor-
row. In these regions there are 4 good
many foreign-born persons who hsve
taken over old farms who have only
taken out first papers or none at all
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Member of the Associated Press.

Entered as second-claSs matter post ONCE
WASHINGTON C.
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that after the war, with millions Of men
demobilized, there will be fierce competi-
ton for available world markets. From
this competition will flow demands for
higher and higher barriers against goods
from other nations, as each nation tries
to protect its own market for the home
producers
Essentially. the problem is to work out
a program Of investments at home and
distribution Of income at home that
will permit the American people to alb
sorb the products that American indus
try and American agriculture can turn
out This program, In turn, calls for
planning. planning, in turn, calls for
planners. Somebody has to determine
who is to WELD the power over invest
ment Of savings and prices Of goods and
wages OF labor. Abroad, the tendency
has been to turn this job over to dicta-
tors. In the United States 1t would be
necessary to devise machinery that could
work through democratic processes.
Few informed people doubt the ability
Of the United States to support a COM
paratively high standard of living on
planned basis, If only the highly difncult
problems Of planning can be worked out.
This is true because of the abundance
of every kind of resource within the
United States-ranging from all but a
very few raw materials to a highly
skilled working population and man
agement group far superior to that Of
any other nation.
But isolation would not be easy, either
in its planning phase or its defense
phase. The problem Of defending this
hemisphere Is immense and calls for
much greater effort than this country
= putting forward now.
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lumbia road NV: the First Con-
gregational Church, Tenth and G
streets NV; the Georgetown
Presbyterian Church, and Bnai
Israel Synagogue, Fourteenth and
Emerson streets NV.
Bishop James E. Freeman preach
ed at services this morning in Wash
ington Cathedral.
Needy families were given baskets
yesterday at the Central Union Mis-
sion, and today all comers were
being fed holiday dinners at that
mission and others throughout the
city.
Roast pork was being served to
prisoners at District Jail and al Lor-
ton Reformatory and the Occoouan
Workhouse turkey dinners were on
the menu.
Washington stores yesterday en-
joyed one of the largest business
ruSheS IN history From morning
until night they were damned with
buyers.
Among residents who dined on
turkey today were some 600 Civilian
Conservation Corps enrollees quar-
tered IN Washington. The turkeys
carved for the tree troopers" aver
aged some 25 pounds in weight. and
were accompanied by all the trim
mingS.
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Beans Outmoded, ,
Soldiers Have
Turkey Feast

The shades of old Army cooks
who ladled out Army beans and
beef on holidays and almost every
other day would hang their heads
in shame over the menus for today's
Thanksgiving dinner at the Army
Engineer Center, Fort Belvoir, Va.
-Four sample menus require Q
whole page in the telling. One
OF them starts of with sherry
wine and fruit cocktail, progresses
through roast turkey with sage
dressing, giblet gravy and cranberry
sauce to mashed potatoes. buttered
peas, lettuce and tomato salad,
olives, celery and mixed sweet pickles
to pumpkin pie, apple pie, ice cream
and coffee and winds up with as
sorted fruits. mixed nuts. assorted
candies and cigars and cigarettes.
Another includes oyster stew, both
turkey and baked Virginia ham, four
vegetables. fruit salad, mince and
pumpkin pie, chocolate and coconut
cake, plum pudding, ice cream, fruit,
candy and nuts.