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Evening star., 1941-01-09
Recalls Portions Of 1885 Speech
BY President Roosevelt.

TO the Editor OF The Star:
Less clamor for war would be Q
distinct public service. It undoubtedly
would help speed up armament produc-
ton here both for ourselves and
Britain.
Other practical benefits are suggested
In the following extracts from President
Roosevelt's address at Chatauqua August
IA, 1886: I'VE are not isolationists ex.
cept in 50 far as we seek to isolate our.
selves completely from war.
Nevertheless, If war should break
out again in another continent, let US
not blink the fact that we would ind
In this country thousands Of Americans
who, seeking immediate nches-fools'
sold-would attempt to break down or
evade our neutrality.
ut would be hard to resist that clamor;
1t would be hard for many Americans,
I fear, to look beyond-to realize the
inevitable penalties, the inevitable day
Of reckoning that comes from q false
prosperity. To resist the clamor Of that
greed, If war should come, would require
the answering support of all Americans
who love peace.
1--WE can keep out Of war if those who
watch and decide have a sufficiently
detailed understanding Of international
affairs to make certain that the small
decisions Of each day do not lead to-
ward war and If, at the same time, they
possess the courage to say NO to those
who selnshly or unwisely would let u
70 10 war" J. =. KANE.
KSR YoRt,
Evening star., 1941-01-09
The Faith and Fate Of
Nations, 1914-1941

(These lines Uere Uritten shortly
after the rtoldtton OF Beloiums neu.
traltty By Germany In 1914 They
apply wtth added force todayJ
o Thou Who since the world began
Hath taught the brotherhood Of mani
Though reeks the earth with human
blood
Though ruins smoke where cities stood;
Though warning races strive and strain
To take each others lives for gain:
We thank Thee for the hope that springs,
In this dark hour, of nobler things!
For that response which Belgium's stand
Awakened throughout every land
Hath prove it true that men still hold
Unsullied honor more than gold,
Or slavish peace. That suffering right
Is better far than erring might.
That men will still lay down their lives
In patriotic sacrifice.
That howe'er great a nations fame,
Who breaks her pledge shall sink In
shame.
That doubt, distrust, defeats In store
For those who hold their bonds no more
Than scraps Of paper.
These precepts we may wisely learn,
Ere from that fateful scene we turn:
That culture still is rude and blind
Which casts fair-dealing to the wind.
That nations greatness none dare trust,
Who grinds her neighbor in the dust.
To lasting fame none shall achieve,
Who pledge their word but to deceive.
Long-vanished kingdoms mark the hour
OF states whose highest aim is power.
No race can wear yoke with ease;
No sway subject people please.
This should a nations purpose be:
To use its strength to set men free.
States, to endure, these truths must fnd,
And WELD their powers for all mankind.
4 WILLIAM r. HARR. n
Evening star., 1941-01-09
Chief Scout

Lord Robert Baden-Powell, dying
at eighty-th three, could close his eyes
upon this world, whicn he greatly
enjoyed, with the sure knowledge
that he had justified his existence
in it to the full. The eight decades
of his active career were crowded
with work in many different fields.
He attained distinction in every en-
terprise in which he engaged his
undoubted genius. At an age when
most men might consider themselves
ready to retire he set himself. quite
accidentally at it happened, to the
task Of organizing the most notably
popular and useful movement among
young people known to modern
times.
He who had been successfully
scholar, soldier, naturalist, intel
ligence officer, sculptor and author
became at fifty the founder of first
the Boy Scouts and then the Girl
Scouts, whose members, past and
present, are numbered in millions.
The date was 1908. time propitious
because for the moment there was
peace in the earth. "B.-P." applied
to his new enterprise in fellowship
the training and experience he had
had in India, in Afghanistan and
particularly in South Africa. His
strategy was similar to that which
had won for him the title Of Hero
Of Mafeking" It's secret was the de-
velopment of sta.wart morale.
Scouting, as its sponsor saw it, was
something more than camping and
hiking and cultivating an acquaint-
ance with nature unspoiled. 1t was
a crusade of sort-a universal CAM
paign for peace and brotherhood
among nations and classes, as we'll as
among men and women.
AS Chief Scout of the World, Lord
Baden-Powell was an educational
force perhaps without equal for his
achievement since the preachers OF
the great Crusades Of the Middle
Ages. Much the same zeal inspired
Peter the Hermit. To meet "B.-P."
on a single OCCASION was to fall under
the spell Of b1smasnetc personality;
Evening star., 1941-01-09
Discusses Changes in Democracy
During Recent Years.

Discusses Changes In Democracy
During Recent Years.
TO the Editor Of The Star:
1t is too bad that during the present
emergency there should be 50 much con-
fusion. Many of us who served in the
Army during the first World War are
in favor of every aid to England, in
cluding q declaration Of war. Yet We
all see reasons for hesitancy. And some
Of these reasons grow out OF the way
the President has handled the war issue.
In the beginning, even before England
and Germany were at war, the Pres1-
dent recalled our Ambassador from Ger
many because of certain policies Of Hitler
which he disliked We, too, disliked those
policies, but few of us regarded them as
any part of our business. In the early
stages the President said much about
our duty to preserve religion. Most OF
us also favor preservation OF religion,
but in q land where we insist that there
shall be a separation OF church and
state and a freedom Of conscience, few
Of US could understand why our Govern
IuCI1b blIOu1o tdAC ooAAAo ASSRSSAAo
the preservation Of any religion. =
Much likewise has been said about the
totalitarian and democratic ideologies,
that we must preserve the democratic
way Of life. None of us knows exactly
what is meant by the democratic way
Of life. Democracy in this country is
not the democracy that once prevailed
here. And, as q matter Of fact, there
can be no democracy unless there Is
degree Of nke-mindedness among the
people. But the democratic period in
our history is gone: We have permitted
50 many people Of so many different
races and of 80 many ideologies to come
here that the population no longer can
be expected to be united. Our leaders
are beginning to sense this and now are
trying to tell US to be tolerant, but their
idea Of tolerance Is that we must not
disapprove Of any idea that any OF
these immigrants has. It has been i'm
possible for US to stop. immigration, be-
cause there are too many alien sympa-
thizers here with voice in making laws.
immigration enforcement was shifted
from Frances Perkins, Secretary Of La
Dor, to Robert Jackson, Attorney General,
but Mr.. jackson is doing no better than
Miss Perkins did.
1t is believed that with the diversity
Of races we must in . measure give up
all thought Of democracy. And the trend
has certainly been away from democracy.
Domestic policies during the past eight
years were certainly not democratic and
the third term is certainly not in accord
with the democratic doctrine. Perhaps
this Is Ill - 1t should b and perhaps
~ dnouA siset ~ Dx>kdsnt for nfs
Evening star., 1941-01-09
A New Hot Spot?

Attention has been attracted re-
Gently to stupendous scheme origi-
mated by the late Professor Charles
Steinmetz, the electrical wizard. The
Steinmetz project calls for the re-
moval of the Seward Peninsula Of
Alaska, where Nome is located, to-
gether with st. Lawrence Island in
the Bering Sea, to permit the warm
japanese current to flow more readily
through Bering Strait. The strait is
too narrow to allow much Of the cur
rent to get through, hence Alaska is
cold. With the plug pulled out, q hot
water heating system will get under
way to such an extent that he antici-
pated that the Alaskan climate might
be comparable with that Of Cali
fornia.
These are ominous words. Two
large areas in the climate business,
Florida and California, already exist,
each aided and abetted by vigorous
publicity machine with a capacity of
millions of words a year for use on
the forty-six other States. It is too
late to do anything about Florida or
California, but let US hesitate bit,
and then some, before spending bill
lions Of dollars to blow up Nome and
vicinity merely to replace snow,
glaciers and icicles with grapefruit.
coconuts, hitch-hikers and especially
bathing beauties. Let the Eskimo
maiden remain in the frozen security
Of her igloo, and do not bore us with
her appearance on the screen in a
one-piece bathing suit as Miss Ug
Cub Blug of 1850.
Evening star., 1941-01-09
Quotes Buckles Judgment
OF Conquerors of the Past.

To the Editor Of The Star:
In his book, Civilization in England"
Henry Thomas Buckle writes the follow
ing passage which is worthy of our atten-
ton: "T'he gigantic crimes of Alexander
or Napoleon become after a time void of
effect and the affairs of the world return
to their former level. This is the ebb and
flow of history, the perpetual f1ux to
which by the laws of our nature we are
subject. Above all this, there is a far
higher movement; and as the tide rolls
on. now advancing, now receding, there
Is, amid its endless fluctuation, one thing,
and one alone, which endures forever.
The actions Of bad men produce tenn
porary evil, the actions of good men only
temporary good; and eventually the good
and the evil altogether subside, are neu-
tralized by subsequent generations, alb
sorbed by the incessant movement of
future ages. But the discoveries of great
men never leave us; they are immortal,
they contain those eternal truths which
survive the shock of empires, outlive the
struggle of rival creeds and witness the
decay Of successive religions. All these
have their different measures and their
different standards; one set of opinions
for one age, another set for another.
They pass away like dream; they are
as the fabric Of vision, which leaves
not Q rack behind. The discoveries of
genius alone remain; 1t is to them we
owe all that we have now; they are for
all ages and all times; never young, and
never old, they bear the seeds Of their
own life; they flow on in a perennial
and undying stream; they are essentially
cumulative, and giving birth to the ad-
ditions which they subsequently receive,
they thus influence the most distant pos
terity, and after the lapse Of centuries
produce more effect than they were able
to do even at the moment of their
PRONUNCIATION"
In these lines is to be found sound
common sense. Wisdom, it is said, judges
the future by the past; for the present
1t Is temporarily suspended.
LOUIS F. DILGER.
AyatasvifAflld.
Evening star., 1941-01-09

ing for this purpose receipts from
certain specified taxes.
The 1912 budget message gives a
clear picture of the financial sacri-
fees which the American people must
make to secure the armament needed
to preserve their democracy, now
threatened by the dictator nations.
Whatever the cost, they have already
made plain their determination to
build a total defense for the United
States.
Evening star., 1941-01-09
Letters to the Editor
why Must They Die:"
Feature Commended.


Feature Commended.
10 the Editor Of The Star:
At the start Of this new year I should
like to congratulate you and your stan
on your excellent coverage Of all phases
Of the trafic and trafnc accident prob
lem here In Washington.
I especially commend the series Of
"Why Must They Die7" and the sum-
maries of accident causes and results
which you make from the data gathered
in that series. The monthly analysis OF
traffic arrests is also very good.
You have splendid idea here and I
know it is doing much good in keeping
the people Of Washington traf1c-con-
scious. Keep up the good work!
Ply. X. HOWAT,
Chairman, Trafic Committee,
Washington Board Of Trade.
Evening star., 1941-01-09
District Estimates

The District of Columbia's $751;
765,236 budget for 1912 goes to Con-
gress without major revision by the
Budget Bureau, in accordance with
the recent arrangement vesting pri-
mary budgetary control-aS far as
estimates are concerned-in the
Commissioners. This makes for CEN
tralization OF authority over budget
items at the District Building, in lieu
of dividing responsibility between
local and Federal officials in such a
way as to encourage buck passing"
from one to the other The Commits
sioners, in the formulation Of the new
estimates, have evidenced a keen
appreciation of their enlarged re-
sponsibilities by submitting a budget
properly balanced as to anticipated
revenues and expenditures. To bring
about this balance, they were re-
quired to forego many recommended
tions which, had they wished to
dodge responsibility, might well have
been included in the report. Ma
turally, not all of the suggestions of
citizens or the requests of municipal
subordinates could be incorporated
in the budget; and it is only to be
expected that opinions will vary as
to the wisdom of some of the eAmina-
tions and additions made by the
Commissioners.
AS a whole, the budget represents
an increase of $2,785,611 over cur
rent appropriations without requiring
another series of tax increases. The
Commissioners will ask, however,
for a broadening of the District
income tax law to tap sources now
exempt by reason of technicalities
of "domicile" and official status.
The Federal lump-sum payment of
S6000,000 was used in the estimates
in accordance with the policy of
recommending the figure last appro-
priated by Congress. Attempts will
be renewed, meanwhile, to obtain
congressional approval of tha equit-
able Overton formula for apportion-
ing Federal and District fiscal shares
according to percentages of land use.
The Commissioners are to be COM
mended for finding room in the
budget for such important items as a
new Receiving Home for Children,
three new school buildings, the Maine
Avenue grade separation project, a
site in Maryland or Virginia for a
District welfare center and provi-
sion for improved police and fire pro-
lection facilities, including twenty
five additional metropolitan police
men. In connection with the police
item, it is gratifying to note that the
Interior Department has included in
It's own budget recommendation for
thirteen additional park policemen.
Conspicuously absent from the Dis
trict document was any mention Of
funds for health center site in the
congested central northwest section,
but the Commissioners have indicated
they will make separate recon-
mendation for a start on this greatly
needed project. They will have
strong public support in such a move.
In the final analysis, the budget
emerges as the considered estimate
of the Commissioners as to the more
urgent requirements of the city dur
ing the next fiscal year, after con-
sultation with municipal heads, civic
groups and individual citizens. The
Commissioners will have an oppor-
tunity to explain-and to defend, II
need be-their conclusions when
hearings are held before the ap-
preparation committees at the Capt.
tol.
Evening star., 1941-01-09
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. HdSktn.

A reader can oct the dnstDer to any
question of fact By tDrtttng The EDe.
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred.
eric J. HdSkin. director, Washington,
D. c.. Please incloSe stamp for reply.
Q. How many people in the United
States Travelled by air in 194o?-J. A.. 9.
A. Over 100000 passengers few more
than billion passenger miles In ths
past year.
@. Are there many Indian schools in
Canada?-T. SH.
A. There are 367 in operation. En-.
rollment in Indian schools in the Do
minion totals almost 10000.
@. Was there a comet in 1882
F.CM
A. An unusually brilliant comet made
1t appearance In the year 1881 II was
first observed quite near the sun on June
% and remained visible for several
months with a gradual decrease in
brightness, the last recorded observation
being on January 18, 1882.
@. Please give the full name Of the
Duke of Windsor-TA AW.
A. The full name of the Duke Of
Windsor is Edward Albert Christian
George Andrew Patrick David Windsor.
Q. What are letters of marque and
reprisal?-L.Z.
A. Letters of marque and reprisal are
licenses granted by government to q
private person to fit out and arm Q
vessel to cruise as a privateer at sea
and make prize of the enemy's ships
and merchandise.
@. Who is Governor of louisiana
D.B.
A. The Hon. Sam Houston Jones is
Governor of that State.
O. For whom is the Sam Browne belt
named?-W. HIT.
A. The belt is named after its origi-
nator, Gen. Sir Samuel Joseph Browne,
gallant English officer prominent In
the early Indian campaign and the In
dian mutiny. Gen. Browne served in
India throughout the great Indian
mutiny and Sepoy war and lost an arm
lost him his life. 1t was the loss Of
the arm which caused him to devise a
new sort of saber belt which was later
generally adopted by the British Army
and also by other military forces.
@. How many w. P. A. employees are
| aliens?-P NJ M.
A. w. P. A. employees are required to
take the oath that they are American
| citizens.
@. Who sent the famous Who's loony
now?" message?-P. R.D.
A. John Armstrong Chaloner In his
message to his brother. Robert Chaloner,
In December, 1911, asked, who's loony
| now?"
@. Where was THE Thief Of Bag
dad" filmed?-L. KB.
A. The motion picture was filmed
| mainly in England. Final scenes were
| planned to be taken in Africa, but out
break of the war forced the company to
| return to the United States, where the
Grand Canyon was used for the wonder
backgrounds.
@. Who wrote the parody on Maud
Muller" in which she marries the Judge
and has twins?-C. TIL.
A. The parody, entitled Mrs Judge
| Jenkins" is by Bret Harte.
Evening star., 1941-01-09
Have You Ordered Uncle
SONS Almanac, 1o41?

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presidential election, also the usual alma
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copy inclose 10 cents in coin. wrapped in
this clipping, and mail to The Star Infor-
nation Bureau.
Evening star., 1941-01-09

Decade by decade, Dame Fashion
has fixed the following lode stars for
the masculine eye: 1900, the feminine
ankle; 1920, the knee, and 1910, the
lnidrif.
Evening star., 1941-01-09

The great trouble with those
teach yourself the latest dance"
schemes Is that too often you have
TO dunhyourself. @
Evening star., 1941-01-09

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the ,Driter, although the use OF
d pseudonynt for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters Uith
d pie,D to condensation.
Evening star., 1941-01-09

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the use for republication Of all news oispatches
credited to 1t not otherwise credited in this
PAPER and also the local news published herein
All rights Of publication of special DISPATCHES
herein also are reserved
Evening star., 1941-01-09
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@. Who wrote the parody on Maud
Muller" in which she marries the Judge
and has twins?-C. H.
A. The parody. entitled Mrs. Judge
Jenkins" is by Bret Harte.
Evening star., 1941-01-09

@. Who sent the famous Who's loony
now?" message?-P R.D.
A. John Armstrong Chaloner in his
message to his brother. Robert Chaloner,
In December, 1911, asked, who's loony
noW?"
Evening star., 1941-07-22
10000 in Manila Area
Fail 10 Register
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, July 22.-An estimated
10000 foreigners in and around
Manila failed to report for registra-
ton and fingerprinung by the mid
night deadline as required by re-
Gently passed Assembly law. Each
is subject to a s2,500 fine or a years
Imprisonment, officials reported
today.
They estimated that $4,000 per-
sons, including British, had regis
tered at Manila. The officials we're
unable to give an estimate of the
number of foreigners registering
elsewhere in the Archipelago or the
number of persons registered in the
various nationality groups here.
Foreigners failing to register, they
said, included 25 foreign-born wives
of men in the United States Navy.
The wives were principally Rus
slams
Their husbands claimed that be-
cause the women are the wives of
American citizens they should be
exempted from the registration, but
officials said the immigration laws
specify that such wives retain their
own nationalities.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
BY HENRY c. CASSIDY,
Press War Correspondent.

ASSOCIATED fresS war correspondent
MOSCOW, July 22.-The German
air force tried last night to burn out
Moscow as it burned out parts Of
London, but 1t failed
From sunset TO dawn I watched
a squad OF Russian home guards
toss incendiary bombs off the roofs
and put out fires.
The raid over. life surged back
through the city in the early morn
ing as though 1t were noon, when
thousands take their midday stroll
The sirens whined just as the
setting sun cast a glow in the sky
Then an ominous voice came over
the loudspeakers warning every one
to go to their shelters.
I went to the ground-floor apart
ment of my building which is head
quarters of the House Committee.
An 18-year-old boy who had been
watching the roof. soon came into
the room with his bare head soaking
wet, and his red shirt open at the
throat. rubbing his fireproof gloves.
He said an incendiary bomb had
landed on the roof, but that he
threw it into the courtyard. We
were skeptical of his story at first
but found evidence in the burned
out metal tube about a foot long
Another watcher replaced him on
the roof
Small bombs were dropped al
along the street, which is in a quiet
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Clothes Are Sought
For British Women

An appeal for women's underwear
and stockings for England was made
last night by Mrs. Hume Wrong
in a British War Relief Society
broadcast over Station WWDC.
She pointed out that, in addition
to the destruction by bombing, many
factories that used to produce stock
ings in England before the war have
been converted to defense plants.
Describing her own work with the
Womens Auxiliary Services in a
London clothing depot she told OF
/ the JOY of women, who have lost
| everything they possessed, on re-
ceiving new underclothes and q
clean dress and coat.
I'VE need clothes OF all sorts to
send over to England" she declared
Some of our bales may be los
en- route, but that is only the more
reason to redouble our efforts. 1t Il
hard. you know, to keep up YOU
morale without single pair O.
stockings"
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Writer Describes Moscow Raid
AS Comparatively Harmless

residential quarter far from CEN
trail and industrial quarters. But
only one house was burned. The
occupants dragged out their belong
ings into the courtyard.
AS the raid continued through the
night, watchers on the roofs replaced
one another in relays. The con-
stantly changing group of 8 to 81
persons kept filing in and out Of
the first floor apartment. The auto
matte telephone continued to func-
ton throughout the raid, and the
workers kept in constant touch with
other nearby headquarters.
At the start of the raid even the
luminous dial on my wrist watch
caused f1utter among the nervous
watchers until 1t was blacked out
under my sleeve. But by the end
of the alarm light was turned on
in the windowless room. and every
one was excitedly telling of his ex-
periences.
The drone of planes faded gradu-
ally as dawn spread in the sky.
Daylight showed that what had
seemed in darkness to have been
whitening attack. had been, in
| fact, a comparatively harmless raid.