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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12

one knows things best. But still
the surprise.
So it was here. And now the
President was walking into Con-
greSS, and the calm radio voice
was describing his entrance -.
the applause {. . the President
addressing the Joint session.
The President.
My President. Senator Pep
per's President. Senator Van
denburg's President. Hamilton
Fish'S President. Our President.
THE President of the United
States"
of the. United States.
America,
WHY did one cry like any
w BOBBY Just at those words:
"Of the United States"
Now it had come and it was
gong to be godaw1ul.
Not the way some Of the radio
commentators had said and the
editorials.
Not the SILLY little Japs' and
WED wipe up the oceans with
them"
'Infamy"
Yes, infamy. But so we'll
planned, so we'll calculated. so
efficient. so almost admirable
the infamies one after an
other the great success
story.
Not easy. Hard. Terribly
hard death death and
wounds; 'heartbreaks and suffer-
ing; all the gruelling, wearing,
firing. haggard anxieties, the
irritating privations all the
unbearable little things too
what Rebecca West called "the
minor horrors Of war"
Life had been so beautiful
once. -. When was that? Oh.
so long ago. But now! Now it
would be unbearable.
What is unbearable
That's the final test of who
wins. Not the first success
the endurance.
THE PreSi d EN- { spoke out
L strong the way you do when
there is a lump in your throat
to overcome.
He hated il. Some had said
he wanted because he saw it.
Now the tremble in his voice.
so wonderfully controlled. The
President.
Not too many words. That
was good. There have been so
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12

many words already. Now 1t is
deeds. mo matter how long it
may take. :" That was good.
1t won't be over tomorrow, or
tomorrow.
I'VE will gain the inevitable
triumph ..
$50 help us God"
Yes, God help us.
"God bless us every one" said
Tiny Tim.
Says great America.
4 MERICA! Thinking of every
"A thing one loves such
crazy, silly things. Flash back
10 the time we ran away 10 the
Indian reservation near Co
wanda.
The sixth reader.
Lincoln's second inaugural adj
dress:
"For still the judgments of
the Lord are true, and righteous
altogether"
Il love thy rocks and rills."
The creek by the house
where / nearly drowned at
10 :. Thy woods and tempted
hills. :. Going 10 college con-
ference at Lake George . oh,
how long ago and the white
farm in Vermont. Home.
ut was all the little books
that had gone to school with
me-"
Who wrote that? Edna Millay
o.. way back and she wrote
these funny articles called u
Like Americans.
Funny why she liked them.
Because they didn't wear sus-
penders and didn't put dead
man in the top of the bed"
DoughnutS and coffee, hot dog
stands, terrapin and steamed
CLANS the first time you saw
New York 81. the first time you
saw San Francisco the
church at old Bennington e.
Monticello Amos and Andy.
America!
All the things one hated, too.
That passion TO change what one
hates. Yes. fight for that. too!
For our own damned right TO
change things in our own
damned way.
7 listen how they were APP
~ plauding; how they were
cheering! Not that deadly mo-
notonous roar: Sieg he'll! Sieg
he'll,
Another rhythm. Americas!
He stod there: the President.
And some OF them had hated
him; and many Of them had
fought him; and all Of us had
elected them: Gene Talmadge
and Carter Glass; Senator
Wheeler and Senator Austin;
Senator La Toilette and Sol
Bloom, Ham Fish and George
AIKEN.
All the states the North,
the South. the Middle West, the
Southwest. the Far West -. so
near the Far East the
United =. :. States of
America.
Our side. Our team. Our fight.
Our victory.
Their voices commingled in the
great cry of the free!
Protect us by thy might,
Great God our king"
That's telling EN- who our
king is.
"Americanos. Conquerors. For
thee for thee, oh, demOc-
racy.
"For thee I am singing these
songs" Walt Whitman.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12
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Is YEARS AGO TODAY
Dec. ~, 1916

Germany offers TO negotiate
peace: submits notes TO the
Allies through the United States,
Spain and Switzerland.
Germans capture two towns,
Mill and Urziecheni. as they
push farther into Rumania.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Dec. ~. 1910

Lord Lothian. British ambas-
sador TO the United States. dies
at Washington only few hours
after he asks for war aid for
his country.
British forces in Africa pur-
sue retreating Italian forces
along the Egyptian coast 10 the
Libyan border; take 10000
prisoners.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-12

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has made his first report
l to the nation on the war with Japan, and it of
necessity unpleasant report.
In fact when the President said he compelled to
make his report under circumstances in which 1.-The news
has all been bad" he knew somewhat less than the half
of it.
He had in mind the damaging defeat at Pearl Harbor
and the still continuing assault on the Philippines.
But almost at the moment he speaking the
British navy was sustaining the crushing blows attendant
upon the loss of the Repuse and the Prince of Wales
Our commitments in this make these OUR
LOSSES.
Undoubtedly the President would have included them
in his recital of bad news they had been known to
him.
THIS disposition on the part of Mr. Roosevelt to tell
1 the people the TRUTH is to his great credit.
He is right in asserting that this government will
put its trust in the stamina of the American people
He is right in saying
1T will not only be long war, it will be a hard
war"
He is right in acknowledging:
"Our enemies have performed brilliant feat Of
deception, perfectly timed and executed with great
skill"
THE President has finally and completely turned his
back upon the clustering, stupid super-man sort of
reasoning which foresaw quick end to this and an
easy victory
could defeat Japan in three weeks
Gone is the false theory-and shallow trust IN
it-that all had to do TO the was to send rev
planes Japan drop few bombs and thus dispose OF
the japanese by burning their Undertook cities and homes
There is not EASY WAY to win this war.
Our first necessity, in undertaking the desperate
struggle dsabuse minds of the long prevalent
belief that Japanese inferior fighting men and
strategists
They are wholly dishonorable in planning
They are crafty conducting
And as the President said, they are completely
capable of "a brilliant feat of deception perfectly timed
and executed with great skill"
THE President has accomplished great service
i indeed an essential and vital scrvice-n getting our
feet back the ground and minds on the solid and
sombre realities of the task we face.
He does exceedingly well TO acknowledge the dark
hours Of the brief but shocking days of tragedy already
written into the record Of the
He does we'll also, to remind and us of the
dark days that may be yet TO come
Of course the American people would prefer good
news to bad
And Of course the President would prefer and be
most happy to report wednesday, victories and cheap
victories.
But he knows our knowledge Of truth and our
capacity for standing up under shocking truth must be
complete If the conditions Of victory to be fulfilled
THE President has performed essential duties excep
tionaly we'll, in the delivery az this report
And the American people may depend upon this:
There WILL De- good news eventually, and an abund-
ance of it,
There WILL BE AN AMERICAN VICTORY.
Mr. Roosevelt has helped to Danish false hopes
and foolish illusions. And now he has helped us to
approach our grim tasks without fear and without despair
which is the spirit IN which our American cause will
prevail and triumph
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Evening star., 1941-11-23
Plans for Aid Raid
Operators Mapped
In Prince Georges
Women Will Be Named
To Make Reports on
Any Emergencies

Prince Georges County Md
civilian defense officials yesterday
pushed plans to select air raid
operators throughout the county
following a meeting OF civic ana
professional women leaders with
Mrs. Daisy La Coppidan, chairman
of the county defense council, at
the county service building IN
Hyattsville.
Mrs. La Coppidan explained that
deputy air raid wardens will be
appointed for reach of the 81 cleo
ton districts in the county. These
districts then will be broken down
into square blocks with an oper-
ator in each block. The operators
will be women.
Each operator will have phone
and will report any emergency in
her block to the central control
Office in Hyattsville.
The new setup, Mrs. La Copploan
emphasized. will not interfere with
work of the women's division Of the
Defense Council, headed by Mrs.
John Keane. 1t will function under
the supervision of 1t. Col. Henry
Barrett. air raid warden Tor the
State. she added.
Those Present at Meeting.
Those present at the meeting were
Mrs. Marguerite R. Miller, Mrs.
Arthur Hepburn. Mrs. Annette
Fisher. Mrs. Mary Herndon, Mrs
S. V. Young, Mrs. M. T. Starr, Mrs.
Charlotte Shelter. Mrs. H. B. May
hew, Mrs. Betty Tayman. Mrs.
Harold Benjamin. Mrs. Ray Bol.
linger. Mrs. Allan Bacon. Mrs. Paul
Jackson. Mrs. John Schroeder ana
Mrs. Alexander Secor.
Meanwhile in Baltimore Executive
Director Isaac S. George OF the
MARYLAND Council of Defense an
nounced the appointment YESTERDAY
of Donald D. Holbrook of Waldorf
to the District Council OF Defense
for Southern Maryland.
Yesterday local civilian defense
directors throughout Maryland were
instructed to spread knowledge OF
first aid fundamentals through their
communities, map their localities for
hospitals and sites for casualty sta
tions and to establish adequate am
bulance services for casualties.
Selection Of Chiefs Urged.
Mr.. George asked immediate ap-
pointment of local chiefs OF emer-
gency medical services, the Associ-
ated Press reported.
These chiefs. with the aid OF an
advisory council. should determine
at once. Mr.. George said. the scope
of activities of all official and volun-
teer organizations to participate in
the program; to integrate them into
a comprehensive group and to as
sist them in expanding activities
ito the limit of their resources in
personnel and equipment"
The chiefs are also to aid local
hospitals in organizing, equipping
and training emergency field units
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Defense Nutrition
Co-Chairman Named
In Montgomery
Mrs. Gertrude Bowie and
Miss Edythe N. Turnek
Are Appointed
snecial Dispatch to The Star.

SPECIAL DlSpaICH 10 Inc oldI.
ROCKVILLE. Md. Nov. 22.-Ap-
pointment of Mrs. Gertrude Bowie.
supervisor of home economics OF
the public schools of Montgomery
County, and Miss Edythe M. Turner
home demonstration agent as CO.
chairmen of nutrition in the State
defense program for Montgomery
County was announced here today
The Executive Board includes the
co-chairmen and DR.. V. L. Elllcott
county health officer: Miss Elizabeth
Hanson, supervisor of county nurses:
Miss Julia Foley. county school
nurse, and Mrs. Guy Stephenson
chairman of the Nutrition Commit
tee of the County Federation OF
Women's Clubs.
The Advisory Board consists OF
representatives. Of various organlza-
tions. as follows: Mrs. Ward Fulton
Dickersin, Maryland Farm Bureau;
Mrs. Mary E. Kirby. Germantown
MARYLAND Grange, Mrs. A. E. Barch
Kensington, and Mrs. Julia Holley
home economics teacher at Mont
gomery-Blair High School, home
arts; Mrs. Ralph Walker. Gathers
burg, and Mrs. Agnes Weisman and
Mrs. Marshall Lehman, Silver
Spring. churches; Mrs. Mehrle
Haines. Laytonsville, and Mrs. Nor
rison Clark, Chevy Chase, public
health: Mrs. Fannie Orndorff, Glen
Echo, Red Cross; Mrs. Sarah Lech-
lider, Rockville, All clubs; Mrs
Miner Hostetler, Rockville, League
of Women's Voters; Mrs. Emma B
Waldrop, Silver Spring. Maryland
Bar Association and the Rev H. F
Chandler, Bethesda, County Minis
terS' Association.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Alexandra Rezoninq
Hearing Expected
To Draw Hundreds
Property Owners Fight
Proposal to Construct
81, 900, 900 Apartment
By staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY e Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Nov. 22.-
Several hundred property owners
are expected to attend the City
Council meeting Tuesday night
when a public hearing is held on
the request of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. of New York to re-
zone q tract to permit erection OF a
$1,000. 900 cottage-type apartment
project.
The applicant seeks to rezone
from residential A to c about 1877
acres of land adjacent to Beverly
Hills and lying in the area between
that development, Four Mile Run
and Seminary road.
The North Ridge Citizens Asso-
citation is leading the opposition to
any change in classification, con-
tending the property is the last re-
manning large tract of residential A
land within AlexandriaS borders.
Rent Ceiling Cited.
Citing the ceiling of $50 monthly
rental permitted by priorities Off
cials on apartments constructed at
this time. William E. Warne, chair
man of the associations Municipal
Affairs Committee, declared:
1T appears evident that to de-
velop the land, erect the buildings,
furnish the services necessary and
make profit at such rental. the
project could be little better than
ordinary defense housing.
1T is the belief of our aSsocia-
ton that once Alexandria and men,
bers of the council give serious
thought to the matter, they will
realize that vote in favor of this
rezoning is a vote against the fu-
ture welfare of every citizen and
taxpayer throughout the city"
Petition to Be Presented.
A member of the Alexandria
School Board was quoted by the
association as being opposed to the
project because of the additional
burden, estimated at $4,000. that
would be placed on the educational
system.
A delegation of three officers from
the association will act as spokes-
men for the civic body at Tuesday s
hearing. A petition, which has been
circulated by committee headed BY
Mrs. Edward Kelly, and which con-
tains several hundred names OBJ
jecting to the rezoning. will be pre-
sented by the association spokes-
men.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Campaign for Funds
For Prince GEORGES
Boys Club Extended
Workers Have Roised
Only Half Of $4,000
Sought in Drive

The annual drive of the Prince
Georges County Police Boys Club,
which was to have ended last week,
has been continued indefinitely,
Mayor E. NJ Cover of Hyattsville,
chairman of the Board of Governors,
announced yesterday. Only about
half of the $4,000 goal has been
attained, he said.
The Board of Governors voted
last week to proceed with the clubs
expansion program and to estab-
lish new units at Greenbelt and II
possible at Mount Rainier.
Recreational classes for the young
er bows in Riverdale and Columbia
Park are expected to begin Decem-
ber l after the approval of school
officials has been obtained for use
of the Riverdale School. Bert Hawn
will supervise the Riverdale unit,
assisted by other volunteer workers.
The Hyattsville club is now open
after repairs and the Bladensburg
gym is selecting a boxing team to
enter the Golden Gloves Tourna-
ment next month.
Mayor Cover has asked for a new
and concentrated effort on the part
of team captains in an effort to
reach the $4,000 goal.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
District 10 Receive
.S171,000 by Present
Highway Bill Terms
City Also Likely to Get
Part of Fund Provided
For Defense Roods

The District is expected to get
$171 900 under terms of the highway
authorization bill approved by
President Roosevelt Friday and Will
share to total as yet undetermined
in the 100000 item for access
roads to defense establishments.
Funds must still be appropriated
by Congress and the city would lose
the Sl7l 900 if what the President
called the pork barrel" provisions
of the bill should be unprovided for
But there seems little doubt that
the money will be forthcoming, II
previous congressional action IN
similar situations be taken as a crl-
terion.
Strategic Roads Come First.
The. first item. S25.000000 for
strategic" roads, is to apportloneo
among the States on the Fedora
aid formula of IS per cent Federal
to Is per cent local money. This
would give the District $4,000;
Virginia, s46l 900, and Maryland
100000, as the bill now stands.
The second item, to be appor-
toned on the same basis, is one
of S1O,O00,000 for planning OF fu'
ture projects. 1t would give the
District $4,000; Virginia, $l84,OO
and Maryland, $4,000.
Just how much of the $3.50 ,OOO.-
900 the city will get depends finally
upon the Army and Navy, which
must certify road projects under
this category before the money car
be used. The Public Roads Ad'
ministration, which is to supervise
expenditure of the funds, now Il
conducting a survey of access road!
projects throughout the country.
Certification Expected.
However, it is expected that th'
Secretary of War will certify som'
of the money for the $4,000
bridge approach improvements mad'
essential by erection of the nev
War Department Building in Ar
lington County.
Arlington County appears certain
to share in the item. Some $1,000,
900 or more in highway improve
ments associated with the War De
partment Building are planned there
and during hearings on the bill
providing funds for the structure,
high-ranking officer assured Con
gress of the Army's intent to certif.
these as access roads.
On a similar basis, it is indicated
that the Secretary of the Nav.
would divert some of the money t.
Arlington roads connected with thI
new Navy Building.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Lord Halifax to Be Tapped
By Leadership Fraternity

or. Senators Radcliffe and Tydings
and other members of the Maryland
congressional delegation.
Lord Halifax will arrive on the
campus at II am. and be greeted
with 19-gun salute. The Pershing
Rifles. crack drill unit of the uni
versity R o. T. c. unit. and the
band will escort him to the coliseum.
He will be tapped by Orville Shi-
: rey, Cumberland, president of o.
D. K.
The fraternity also will bestoW an
honorary membership on 1t. Col.
Robert E. Wysor. jr., head of the
university military department.
Eight undergraduate student lead
ers, whose names will be kept secret
until the ceremony, will be tapped
for membership.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
| Baltimore Schools
| BorNon-SoIutinq
| Pupils, Say Kin

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 22.-Members
OF a religious sect said today that
five of their children had been dis
missed from Baltimore County
schools for refusal to salute the
American flag. and claimed the
action raised the issue OF freedom
Of worship"
In signed statement, parents
Of the children said "the School
Board, through Mr.. c. G. Cooper,
superintendent of county schools.
has recently issued an order for
principals of schools tc suspend all
children who do not salute the flag,
despite their conscientious or Chris
tian beliefs"
Mr.. Cooper refused to discuss the
situation. One of the pupils al
legedly dismissed, 14-year-old girl,
said she had written to President
Roosevelt, and received an answer
from the United States Office OF
Education that the matter was out
side Federal authority and strictly
Q State problem.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Montgomery Pushes
Tree-PIuntinq Program

Several hundred trees have been
planted in the Bethesda-C Chevy
Chase area and l80 trees are being
planted in the Silver Spring section
as part of tree-planting program
being launched by Montgomery
County officials.
The program is being carried on
by County Commissioner o. w.
Roby and Deputy Clerk Joseph D..
Buscher In cooperation with Coun-
ty Forester Raymond Van Setback.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
IAImonock Sees
mo Maryland
Drought in 1912
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. Nov. o.
The Hagerstown Almanack, famed
for its long-range weather prog
nostications, foresees no 1912
drought such as that which plagued
Maryland farmers this year.
The 146th issue of the Almanack
predicts plenty of rain for next
year. 1t refrained, however, from
forecasting snow for the Fourth OF
July-a prediction which it. is re-
puted to have made once, with the
amazing result that few flakes of
snow actually fell on the Fourth.
The Almanack was established
in 1897 by John Gruber. printer,
and has been published continuously
since then. 1t is valued for its age
as we'll as for its helpful hints, gen.
eral information and weather
prophecies.
1t is the latter for which the
Almanack is best known. Many
persons put great credence in its
forecasts and farmers read it avidly.
Persons in other cities evince much
curiosity. about the Almanack. but
1t Is not consulted often by Hagers-
town residents.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Lord Halifax, the British Am
bassador. will become an honorary
member of the University of Mary
land Circle of C1nicron Delta Kappa,
national collegiate leadership fra
ternity, at the semi-annual tapping
exercises Thursday in Ritchie Coli
scum.
After the traditional ceremony,
during which the Ambassador will
be tapped on the shoulder by a fra
ternity member and escorted to the
rostrum, Lord Halifax will address
an audience including State officials,
faculty members and students. Sub
ject of his talk has not been an
nounced.
Invited guests include Gov. O'Con-
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Maryland Women
To Discuss Defense

An administrative committee will
meet at 1:30 pm. Tuesday in the
Hillel House, College Park. Md, to
prepare programs for the next Ad-
visory Board meeting of the Wemen's
Division of the Maryland Council
Of Defense.
Mrs. c. w. Kinzer will discuss
women's part in housing; Mrs. Henry
w. Cord, industry; Mrs. Hunter Ede-
lin, social welfare, and Mrs. James
E. Steele, library. Mrs. John S.
White, organization chairman, will
discuss plans to reach the unor-
ganized women of the county.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Registration to Open
For Defense Courses

Registration for national defense
training courses at Mount Rainier
High School will be held tomorrow
and Tuesday from 7 pm. to 9 pm
The courses in sheet metal. lay.
out, blueprint reading and electric
welding are open to inexperienced
youths out of school and IS. years
of age or older. Glasses will tota.
Is hours a week.
Evening star., 1941-11-23

lOUdlS 10 udlc--- VI OF
In November. Beware Of:
l. The hours between 4 and s
pm. Six of the nine traffic vic
tins in November last year were
killed within this tTo-heur pc
riod.
2. Crossing a street at some
point other than a crosswalk.
Three pedestrians lost their
lives in November, 1910, while
doing this.
3. Inclement weather. Three
fatal accidents occurred last
November while 1t was raining
or misty.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Merriam Will Speak

Lewis Merriam, director of the
Brookings Institution survey of gov
ernment of Montgomery County,
Md. will be the guest speaker at
meeting of the Woodside Park Civic
Association at 815 pm. Wednes-
day at the Montgomery Hills Junior
High School.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Citizens Elect Officers

James H. Shannon has been elect
ed president of the Greenwich For
est Citizens Association in Bethesda,
Md. Other officers named were Madi-
son H. Warm, vice president; w. Ell
mer Bacon, treasurer. and Mrs. r.
w. S. Evans, secretary.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Agriculture Board Elects

WINCHESTER, Va. Nov. % (Spe-
ciaN Walker M. Bond has been
elected president of the Frederick
County Board of Agriculture, with
Charles E. Staples. vice president;
M. P. Pease, secretary, and E. II.
Marker, treasurer.
Evening star., 1941-11-23
Oxon Hill Harvest Dance

The senior class of the Oxon Hill
(Md0 High School will sponsor q
harvest moon dance from 8 pm. to
midnight Friday in the school.