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Evening star., 1941-09-21

Idaho. with the nearest railroad
then 80 miles away.
Pioneer Conditions.
Here, they lived in a slab-sided
frame house. Clumps of dried sage
brush provided them their only fuel
for either cooking or heating. Water
had to be transported from the
nearest irrigation ditch. Then it had
to be filtered before Mrs. Smith
thought it safe for drinking.
This gently born Washington
woman, who had never known any
thing but the available conveniences
of life in Washington, found her.
self dependent upon her own re-
sourcefulness and the initiative she
was able to develop in their sons
as the only means of meeting the
problems of daily living.
SteWed dried fruit and canned
milk with canned vegetables were
their mainstay until their garden
was bearing. Crash towels and can
ton flannel blouses were ways OF
saving ironing. Another was to
spread the sheets and pillow cases
in the hot sun for immediate evapo-
ration. Water hung in thick canvas
bags was magically cooled by the
same natural process. Kettles of
hot water constantly kept in readi-
ness on the back of the stove were
panaceas for faces scanned with al
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said. None of us would need to be
afraid to follow their mounting toll"
The Illustrations accompanying
many of the poems also have a per-
sonal and more or less sentimental
aspect. as we'll as an historical one
in certain instances. out Where the
West Begins" is illustrated by a
photograph of former Representa-
tive Smith with a group of fellow
pioneers, taken during the home
stead days in Idaho. Long Ago" is
typified by another portrait. This
one shows Mrs. Smith, her mother
and the Smiths three children in
an open barouche in front of the
Capitol Smiles Worthwhile" a
picture of their five grandchildren
is used as an Illustration for the
poem, Let Us Smile"
Mrs. Smith was born in Wash
ington, her parents having come to
this city to live shortly after the
Civil War. She was educated in the
Franklin and Thomson public
schools here and at the Friends
Select School and was married here
to Addison Taylor Smith of Cam
bridge, Ohio.
With their three children, Mrs.
Smith subsequently accompanied her
husband to a homestead claim, avail
able from the public domain, near
what is now the city of Twin Falls.
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Poems Collected Over so Years
Of EventfuI Life Published
Mrs. Addison Smith
Complies Book
Of 500 Pages
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

Throughout more than so years Of
married life-it has run the gamut
from her native Washington to the
pioneer conditions of a homestead
er's claim in Idaho and back again
with her husband. Addison Taylor
Smith, as Representative in Con-
gress from this State-Mary Fair
child Smith has made a collection of
the poems that have meant most to
her all along the way of her varied
experiences.
These have just been published in
a 500-page illustrated volume under
the title, "Lifes Pilgrimage in
Poetry" with Shakespeare's Seven
Ages of Man" as the basis of its
classifications. Careful indexes make
its contents readily available either
through the titles of the poems or
their authors.
Interviewed at their apartment,
1852 Columbia road, Mrs Smith said,
In this volume I have really only
been the harvester of the rich yield
of others. We have gathered posies
from other mems flowers. Nothing
but the thread that binds them is
ours"
Publisher Hears CT Collection.
About eight years ago Mrs. Smith
decided to classify her various
scrapbooks of poems into a more
orderly arrangement, with the sole
idea of passing them on to her chill
dren and grandchildren as a little
memento of the enjoyment the whole
family had shared in the rhythmical
form of the ideas they represented.
To her establishment, a publisher
heard of her collection, and after
reviewing it with her insisted upon
her sharing this unusual collection
OF poetry with the public generally.
Among local authors whose poems
have been given place in ''Life's
Pilgrimage in Poetry" are Strickland
Gillian, Bertha l.. Gardner and
Malvina Lindsay. "In Memoria,"
by Miss Gardner, is the tribute of
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MRS. MARY FAIRCHILD SMITH.
former teacher at the Eastern High
School to their son, Benjamin Tay-
lor Smith, whose death occurred
while he was pupil in one of her
classes.
IF we women would follow the
humorous philosophy of Malvina
Lindsay's Birthdays Mrs. Smith
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Assembly Tomorrow
To Open 69th Year at
Wilson College
Glasses 10 Sturt
Thursday; Party To Be
Held Friday Night

Wilson Teachers College will oper
with an assembly for freshmen anc
other new students.
A picnic, an all-college party anc
conferences with faculty members
and officers of student organizations
will be among the activities during
the coming week.
The faculty and student confer
ences will be held on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday. The picnic
will be Wednesday afternoon
Glasses will start Thursday morning
The activities of the week will culmi-
nate Friday evening in the all
college party to be held in the COL
lege building.
DR.. Walter E. Hager. new preSi-
dent of the college, will open the
assembly tomorrow morning with a
brief address Of welcome. DR.. c. NJ
Huber, registrar, will then explain
the registration procedures and start
the students in the process of enroll
ing AT noon freshmen and other
new students will be guests at a
luncheon sponsored by the Student
Council. Immediately after lunch
con all of the men will be inducted
into the college Mems Club and all
of the women in the Women's Club.
Raymond HOLDEN, president of the
Mems Club, and Miss Betty Edwards,
president Of the Women's Club will
tell the respective groups about the
activities of these organizations.
Special Conferences Slated.
Registration will continue Monday
afternoon and the series of special
conferences will begin. The first
of these will be in the library. where
Mrs. Dorothy Watson and Miss
Mary Curran, librarians, will intro
duce the students to the library and
explain how to get full benefit from
its services.
New students will attend two as
semblies Tuesday. At 10 am. the
officers of the student organizations
will explain the colleges traditions
and describe the activities of the
clubs and societies. In the after
noon Prof. Anna D. Halberg will
explain the professional purposes
and aspects of the college program.
DR.. Albert V. House will discuss the
guidance phases of the general social
program
To Outline Athletics.
DR.. G. Harris White will meet
Wednesday morning with the men
to explain the physical education
and athletic program. At the same
time Miss Augusta Kriener will talk
to the girls about the physical educa-
ton activities and sports available
for them.
Sophomores and upper clsssmen
will meet with the advisers and ar
range their registration on Tuesday
and Wednesday,.
The picnic and wiener roast on
Wednesday afternoon will be held at
Rock Greek Park. The Wilson Wom-
ems Athletic Association will be in
charge. Miss Gladys Reed and Miss
Doris Foote are co-chairmen of the
Committee on Arrangements.
The all-college party and dance
Friday evening is sponsored by the
Student Council. Miss Eleanor Burns
is chairman of the committee.
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ton there was the intellectual and
physical stimulus which they de-
rived from conquering obstacles by
individual resourcefulnss and con-
certed teamwork.
Then, as other pioneers came to
share the advantages and hazards,
there was the challenge and the
satisfaction of leadership in knitting
the best elements in their frontier
environment with those they had
left behind them.
In Mrs. Smiths case, her imme-
diate reward was having the State
of Idaho elect her husband as its
Representative in Congress from
1918 to 1898. There followed a pc
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riod of extensive travel, Hawaii,
Alaska, Canada, Mexico. Panama
and Puerto Rico and most of the
Indian reservations and national
parks.
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kali dust after long rides in the
sun or feet cut and bruised by cac-
tus Spines.
Schooled in Experience.
In the absence of a Sunday school
there was the Bible for her family
with its great lessons of the Old and
New Testaments and the incompa-
rable beauty of the poetry in such
passages as the Songs of Solomon
and the Psalms of King David. Their
immediate schooling was the privi-
lege of learning that the happiness
and comfort were accelerated by
unity of efforts and unselfish CO.
operation with each other. In addi-
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Third of a SerieS.)
BY JOHN T. whitaker,

Foreign Correspondent of The Star and
Chicago Daily News.
SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE
Hitler has always known how to
pick his moment and the time is
near at hand when he can attempt
swift action against France to in
tegrate that defeated but geograph-
ically important country into his
general war plans for Africa and
the Iberian peninsula. The diff
culties that stayed his hand in
France through the winter no
longer obtain and Hitler is in a po-
sition to regain the initiative when
ever he is ready to face America.
Admiral Darian's political prefer
ment as the head of tine Vichy gov
ernment under Marshal Petain has
removed much of the risk that the
French fleet might 60 over to the
British. Admiral Darlan has ex-
plotted the anti-British sentiments
inspired by Oran and Dakar. More
important still, he has taught the
fleet to cooperate. even If clandes-
timely, with the Germans against
their British Allies.
Admiral Darlan's hatred of the
British is real. He said to a friend
of mine, the British have ruined
seven generations of my family"
My friend asked him if he would
be precise and explain just how the
British had ruined seven genera
tions OF Darlans. The admiral
turned on his heel and walked off
in a huff.
Darlan a political" Admiral.
This vague but profound senti-
ment is matched with great personal
ambition. Admiral, Darlan' once.
commanded gunboat on the
Rhine. but most of his success as a
French naval officer has been po-
litical. The Ministry of Marine has
stood for years in the Place de la
Concorde and it is notorious that
more politics than salt water reach
that beautiful old palace. When
Pierre Laval's intrigues and Pierre
Etienne Flandin's incompetence left
the way open to Admiral Darlan,
the admiral was delighted. He
knew that M. Laval's policy of COL
laboration had sickened most
Frenchmen. AS one French gen.
eral remarked. Laval wallows in
defeatism like a dog in its onw
vomit'
But Admiral Darlan believes in
collaboration" with Germany, He
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Court Upho|ds Crew Strike
When Ship Is Safe in Port
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 7.-Con-
trary to the ancient code of the sea
that the master of a ship is always
in supreme command OF his crew,
the Third United States Circuit
Court of Appeals holds that mer-
chant seamen may strike when their
vessel is safely tied up in a domestic
port. :,
BY a four -to-one decision handed
down yesterday, the court upheld a
National Labor Relations Board rul-
ing that the Southern Steamship
co. recognize the C. I. o. National
Maritime Union of America as the
sole bargaining agent for the corp-
panys deck, engine and steward
personnel.
The court also upheld the N. L.
r. BIS order that the company re-
instate five men who vent on strike
July II. 1893, aboard the City Of
Fort Worth in Houston, Tex. The
company had petitioned for annul-
ment OF the boards order.
The majority opinion asserted that
the right Of seamen TO strike does
not apply when their ships are At
sea or in a position Of peril.
Evening star., 1941-05-07

President Roosevelt today APP
pointed Sherman Minton, former
Democratic Senator from Indiana
and now an administrative assistant
to the President, to be a judge OF
the United States Circuit Court OF
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Mr. Minton will succeed the late
Judge Walter E. Treanor in the
circuit covering parts of Illinois,
Indiana and Wisconsin.
Mr.. Minton was elected to the
Senate in 1884, but lost his seat
in 1910 to Senator Willis, Republican.
Mr.. Minton has been a faithful
New Dealer during his Senate term
and last year was appointed TO one
OF the posts of administrative as
sistant to the President. He re-
ceived his law degrees from the
University of Indiana and Yale Uni
versity and had practiced law be-
fore entering the Senate.
Among other appointments today
was that of Associate Justice Sam
uel B. Kemp to be chief justice OF
the Supreme Court of the Territory
of Hawaii.
Alfred H. Thomas, jr, was ap-
pointed a chief pay clerk in the
Coast Guard:
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D. {. Signs Up Today
To Permit Federal
Use Of City Hall
War Department Unit
To Occupy About Half
Of New Building

District Commissioners John Rus
sell Young and David McCoach were
scheduled today to sign formal
agreement with the United States
covering temporary use by War De-
partment workers of roughly half
the office space in the new Mu-
nicipal Center Building.
John M. Carmody, Federal works
administrator, yesterday signed the
agreement which provides that about
1,4OO Federal workers, from the Of
flee of the quartermaster general OF
the Army, will vacate the City
Hall" structure as soon as contem-
plated temporary buildings are
erected, or at least by next No
vember !.
The United States will pay por-
ton of the operation and main
tenance costs of the building, equal
to the portion of the office space
used by Federal workers, this be-
ing calculated to run to about $40
900 for the period to November 1.
Incidental expense resulting from
Federal use of the building, which
otherwise would not have occurred,
also are to be paid by the United
States.
Federal as well as District agencies
yesterday began moving equipment
into the $5,5O0,000 building. Per-
sonnel is expected to be transferred
there by May 10. File cases and rec
ords of the Fire Department, the
Department of Vehicles and Traffic
and the City Refuse Division are
being moved, and within a day or
two the Police Department and the
laboratories of the Health Depart
ment will start moving their equip
ment.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Latin American Navy
Chiefs Arrive Today
To Inspect D. {. Area
Roosevelt, Wallace
And Other Officials
To Receive Visitors

Chiefs of II Latin American navies
were to arrive today by chartered
planes at Washington Airport for a
five-day inspection of naval facil-
tiles in the Washington area. Dur
ing their stay here they will be re-
ceived by President Roosevelt, Vice
President Wallace and ranking Gov
ernment officials.
They were to be greeted at the air
port by Admiral Harold r. Stark,
chief of naval operations; Maj. Gt.l.
Thomas Holcomb, commandant of
the Marine Corps, and naval at
taches of the various Latin American
countries represented.
The group will be taken to An
napolis Friday for an inspection of
the Naval Academy. Saturday they
will view operations in the Wash
ington Navy Yard and naval gun
factory Later they will go to the
David w. Taylor Model Basin at
Carderock, Md, to watch model ship
testing experiments.
Officials on Three Week Trip.
The three-Week trip will give the
Latin American naval officials a
general view of shore activities con-
Quoted by the United States Navy
and an insight on operations of the
Naval Reserve.
Brazil is represented in the dele
cation due here by Vice Admiral
Jose Machado de Castro Silva,
chief of staff of the Navy. Vice Ad-
miral Julio Allard P, commander in
chief and director general of the
navy, represents Chile. Their aides
are 1t. FREDERICK G.. Huet de Oliveira
Sampaio and It. Comdr. Herman H
Cubillos, respectively.
Vice Admiral Jose Guisasola. chief
of the navy general staff, and Comdr.
Teodoro Hartung are from Argen-
tina, while Uruguay is represented by
Rear Admiral Gustavo A. Schroeder
inspector general of the navy, and
his aide, 1t. Gabriel Retamoso-
IrastorZa.
Others in Party.
The Peruvian visitors are Rear
Admiral Carlos Rotalde G. del ",
chief of staff, and Comdr. Ernesto
Rodriguez. Commodore David Coello
Ochoa, director general of the fleet,
and Comdr. Manuel Zermeno Arauco
represent Mexico
Capt. Julio Diez Arguelles V
Fernandez Castro. chief of staff of
the Constitutional Navy, and 1t.
G.gO Felipe Cadenas Y Aguilera are
from Cuba, while Colombia is rep
resented by 1t. Col. Francisco
Tomayo Cortes, director general Of
the navy, and 1t Antonio J. TANGO.
Comdr. Cesar A. Mogollon Cardenas,
commandant general of the navy,
and Comdr. Francisco Fernandez
Madrid are from Ecuador. Comdr.
Antonio Picardi. director of the
navy, represents Venezuela, and
Comdr Ramon Diaz Benza, director
general of the navy, and 1t. Adofo
Roig-Franco are from Paraguay.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Labor Is NOT Prepared
To Accept Anti-Strike
Law, Green Asserts
G. !. o. Members Form
92.5 Pct. of Defense
WoIkouts, He Charges

William Green, American Fedora
ton of Labor president, told Con-
gress today that organized labor
was not prepared to accept COM
pulsory anti-strike legislation and
accused the rival C. I. o. union Of
responsibility for 80 per cent of the
strikes in defense industries.
Testifying before the House Ju-
dietary Committee, the veteran la
Dor leader denounced compulsory
waiting, or "cooling-off before
strikes would be permitted as
founded on the principle that
American workers can be forced TO
work against their will
He said records showed compul-
sorry waiting laws of Michigan and
Minnesota ARE ineffective" at al
most the same time that a Senate
Labor Subcommittee heard Gov.
StaSsen of Minnesota praise that
States statute.
The Vinson bill, to require a Is
day cooling off period before a strike
in defense industry and to freeze
closed shop agreements during the
present emergency, is on the House
calendar.
Tacit Pact May Delay Action.
1t appeared likely that a tacit
understanding among congressional
leaders to give the Defense Media
ton Board more time for working
out labor disputes would delay con-
gresslonal action on any legislation
to curb strikes for at least a month.
Gov. Stassen said that a legal
cooling of" period before strikes
would be very important means
of combating subversive influences"
in defense industries.
Urging enactment of the Ball bill
providing for waiting period of
10 to 40 days before walkouts. the
Governor said similar act had re-
duced strikes materially in his State.
while Strengthening the position of
organized labor He said collective
bargaining contracts had increased
during operation of the law.
Mr.. Green said that from July,
1910, through April %, 194l. there
were only SO strikes in any way in
volving national defense production.
He said the o. P M classed only
81 in SIS establishments as impor-
tant.
Puts Onus on c. o.
"Of the 81 defense strikes" Mr..
Green said, "47 involved c. I. o.
unions, involved A. F. L. unions
and 5 involved both C. I. o. and
A. F. L. unions OF the number of
workers involved in the strikes, 92.5
per cent were c. I. O., GA per cent
were A. F. L. members, while lot
per cent represented workers in
strikes in which both the C. I. o.
and A. F. L. were involved"
Viewing the labor situation gen.
orally, he said the total number of
defense strikes was unusually
small" especially if the large num-
ber of men being re-employed was
considered.
He described as utterly untrue"
charges that jurisdictional strikes
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Legion TO Buy Mansion
On Fifteenth Street

The mansion at 2437 Fifteenth
street NV. will be bought by the
District Department of the Amer
lean Legion. it was announced to-
day by w. H. Hargrave, department
commander.
A price of $4,000 was approved
last night by the Legion Executive
Committee, he said, for the building
completed in 1929 at a cost OF
100000 by the late Mrs. John B.
Henderson. 1t was at one time the
Brazilian Embassy, and stands over
looking Meridian Park.
The Legion committee decided to
accept title to the building, but vest
control in an American Legion Club
of the District, operating under a
trusteeship of past department COM
manders-of whom IA now live in
Washington-Comd Hargrave said.
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shares M. LaVafs views, but believes
that as member of the armed serv-
ices he can carry through that policy
with national support. 1t is an hon.
est position. conditioned by personal
ambition, and it Is based on two
things-a great ignorance of the
world beyond France and absolute
confidence in the inevitability Of
German victory while America re-
mains out of the war.
AS often happens with an honest
but not very experienced, Admiral
Darlan's very honesty of purpose
sometimes takes him too far. At q
recent press conference in Vichy,
Admiral Darlan was enthusiastic
about the results of his policy of
collaboration AS a proof that it
could be worked to the benefit of
France ne wanted to make an i'm
portant announcement. Admiral
Darlan said Germany was sending
down wheat from occupied to Vichy,
France. The admiral put it on too
thick. Marshall Petain intervened.
Statement Ruff1es Petain.
II think it ought to be clear" said
the old marshal, that this wheat
which is being sent down by the
Germans is French wheat. grown in
French soil by French peasants. 1t
is part of wheat seized by the Ger
mans. I think we ought to make
that clear"
Needless to say the journalists did
not make this clear. The Vichy
press Is entirely controlled by the
Germans who even write the head
lines for the principal articles.
What Admiral Darlan says about
the generosity" Of the Germans
he used that words less important
than what he does about the French
feet. Charging that the British were
preventing the arrival OF, ships. with
food for France-despite the fact
that many come through regularly,
though their cargoes are carried di-
rectly to Germany-Admiral Darlan
made a proposal at which even M.
Laval would have baked. The ad-
miral threatened to use French war
ships to convoy French merchant
vessels. Such a move has long been
sought by the Germans. 1t would
make a clash between British and
French ships inevitable. The clash
would enable the Germans to get
complete control Of the French
Navy.
Nazis COvet French Fleet.
The French feet is now spread in
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Pressure is relatively high on the At
lantic Coast, Hatteras. N. c., 1016 milli-
bars (3003 inches). Pressure Is low from
Lake Superior southwark over the Central
Valleys and the Southern States with
disturbance over Northern Minnesota mov-
ing rapidly east-southeastward, 1ntsTna, a,
tional Falls. Mimi, 9S9.5 millibars t2s:ZZ
eastward over Texas. Abilene, 1006.1 milli-
bars t29.71 inches). Pressure is rising
over the middle Plains and it continues
states, Eugene, Greg. 1O2O.3 millibars
t3O13 inches) During the last "a hours
from the Lake region southwark over the
Central Valleys and the Middle and East
Gulf States. Scattered showers occurred
the Dakotas Temperatures have fallen
in the Central Valleys and the Middle and
Northern Plains
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had delayed defense construction
and asserted there had been a great
deal Of exaggeration and misrep-
resentation concerning high initia-
tion fees levied by unions on ap-
plication for defense jobs.
Mr.. Greek declared the Federation
was committed by solemn pledge
to refrain from work stoppages on
all production vital to defense"
Chairman Robert w. Bruere of
the Maritime Labor Board opposed
a provision of the Ball bill which
would abolish the board, and said
its value was shown by the fact
no boat was now tied up due to
labor disputes.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Vote expected on airmail subsidy
dispute.
Commerce Committee opens pub
lie hearings on foreign ships bill
Special Defense Investigation
Committee probes costs of Camp
Leonard Wood in Missouri.
Gov. Stassen of Minnesota testi-
fies on cooling off, legislation for
defense strikes before Labor Sub
committee.
Military Affairs Committee con-
siders routine legislation.
House:
Votes on bill providing for requisi-
tioning Of foreign ships.
Ways and Means Committee hears
high Government officials on taxes.
Judiciary Committee considers de-
lays in national defense.