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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11
Red Cross, Industry
And Labor 10 Take Pari
In Army Day Parade
To Sturt From Capitol
Plozo at las P.M.,
Saturday, April 5

The colorful Army Day parade,
sponsored annually by the Military
Order of the World War, will be
held April beginning at LAS pm,
1t. Col. Edwin S. Bethlehem, jr.,
local chairman, announced today.
Decision to stage the parade on
Saturday rather than the Gus
tomary Monday was reached in
order to interfere less with business
and Government traffic and also
because the April date falls within
Holy Week.
In addition to naval, military and
veteran units expected to participate,
industry and labor will enter groups
to indicate their cooperation with
the national defense drive, Col.
Bethlehem said.
The American Red Cross has an
nounced it will place whole division
in the parade, IMPLYING its war
service activities. R. o. T. c. units
of Washington and nearby colleges,
as we'll as cadets of District, Alex
andria and Arlington schools, also
are expected to participate.
Col. Bethlehem said the order
was receiving entries at its head
quarters, TOO I street NV.
The parade will form at the
Capitol Plaza and begin to march
at las pm. 1t will move up Consti-
tuition avenue, passing the Presi-
dents reviewing stand at Sixteenth
street and Constitution avenue NV.
at 2:15 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11
BY THOMAS n. HENRY.

There will be a strange moon
setting at sunrise Thursday morn
ing-a partial eclipse of the moon
visible over the entire United States.
The gigantic shadow of the earth,
sweeping nearly a quarter-million
miles into space, will wrap the north
pole of the full moon in a gray veil.
1t will look like a bite taken out of
The edge of the satellite by some
cosmic monster-a common concept
of primitive peoples The earth will
be directly between the moon and
the sun, now 92,360,000 miles away
and rapidly approaching the posi-
ton of astronomical spring.
At the middle of the eclipse 32.a
per cent. or 708 miles, of the moons
diameter will be in the shadow. Fol-
jewellers on the Atlantic seaboard
it will be brief spectacle. The
first contact of the shadow with the
edge of the lunar disk will be at
5:55 am, the maximum phase at
SIS am. and the last contact at
7:55 am. In the East, in the longi-
tude of New York and Washington,
the moon sets at about 6:10, so that
the shadow will have made only a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11
EarIyCosmosC
History Reeounted TO
Members by Proctor
Gives Accounts of
Persons Identified With
Era Of Founding

The early days of the Cosmos
Club, one Of the city's landmarks
doomed for demolition by the space
hungry Government, were recounted
for members of the club last night
In an illustrated lecture by John
Clagett Proctor, local historian.
Mr.. Proctor traced the club from
its very beginning in 1878, recalled
how the original quarters were es-
tablished in the Corcoran Building
which once stood at Fifteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV, and
reminded how the club purchased
the Dolly Madison House for its
home in 1896.
For illustrations he used slides pic
turing some of the clubs founders
and officers, along with prominent
figures of the day whose careers
were studded with incidents which
occurred in the section where the
Cosmos Club stands.
Mr.. Proctor pointed out that a
number of homes in the nelghbor-
hood of Lafayette Square were con-
structed for naval officers OF that
period, and from that he drew the
conclusion that the ability of COM
modores to build such imposing res
licences evidently meant that seafar-
ing was profitable.
He called attention to the fact
that the Cosmos Club was sur
rounded by buildings that figured
prominently in Washington's early
history, homes that were the scenes
of gatherings of political luminaries
and social greats.
He also emphasized the nearness
of the Belasco Theater and made
reference to some of the famed
actors and actresses who played
there when the house first opened.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11

=
inefficient. The very word "democ-
racy" is under fire. Today, our
form of government faces chal-
lenge as serious as it did when the
Is colonies united.
Well, not quite. We are forty
eight strong and well-united states
now. We have a large share of all
the worlds wealth. We have dis
covered and developed an astound-
ing number of resources. We have
scientists, thinkers, doors to spare.
We have skills and arts and tradi-
tons and experiences now.
We have used up the wilderness,
but we've replaced it with a thou
sand new frontiers. Four or five
years ago a Yale professor, c. c.
Furnas, wrote a book called "The
Next Hundred Years." In that
book he pointed out the pitiful
little strip of knowledge we have
mapped and the vast areas of will
derness and ignorance ahead of US.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11
100000 Federal
Payment TO District
Demanded byCitizens
KuIorumu Association
Opposes Free Education
OF Non-Residents

Increase of the Federal payment
to the District from $4,000, 900 to So
100000 was demanded last night by
the Kalorama Citizens Association
Miss Eta Taggart, who intro
duced the motion, pointed out that
the influx of national defense work.
ers makes the burden on the Dis
trict taxpayer all the heavier and
out of proportion to the amount
of real estate owned in the city by
the Federal Government. The
Overton plan was discussed at the
meeting, but the group decided tc
omit any reference to it in the
motion.
The association resolved that
children of District non-reSidents
who pay no District taxes should
not be educated free in District
schools Mrs. Harvey Wiley de-
clared the cost of schooling these
children should be borne by their
parents, and not by bona fide resi-
dents of the District.
The Public Utilities Commission
and the Capital Transit Co. will be
asked to remove stop restrictions
on the LIZ bus line between the
Calvert Street Bridge and S street
NV.
Contributions of SO and IS to
the Metropolitan Police Boys Club
and the National Symphony Orches-
ira Association were voted.
Rear Admiral D. F. Sellers, vice
president, presided in the absence
of the president. Comdr. Frank
Slingluff, who is i'll.
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Of Fourteenth and Decatur streets
NV, facing southbound traffic, will
also be asked by the association, 1t
was decided.
A District regulation requiring
taxicabs and school buses to put
chains on their wheels in slippery
weather was suggested by Joseph
D. Gatti. On the recommendation
of E. c. Guy, vice president, who
presided, members asked that a
legislative committee be appointed
by Mr.. Seal to take up the question
of compulsory chains.
A transportation committee to ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11
Final Decree Is Entered
In Roosevelt Divorce
h the Assc ciated Press

h the Assc ciated Press.
fLOS ANGELES, March IA
final decree of divorce has been en-
tered in behalf of James Roosevelt,
son of the President, from Betsey
Cushing Roosevelt.
In taking the Superior Court &C
ton here yesterday, his attorneys
pointed out it was considered more
convenient for Mr.. Roosevelt to
enter the decree because Mrs. Roose-
welt is in the East.
Mr.. Roosevelt, a motion picture
producer, now is serving years
duty at San Diego as captain of
marines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11

When he wrote that book we had
not yet discovered sulfanilimide
and its chemical relatives. Probably
that drug has already saved more
human lives than the War of the
Revolution cost!
Atomic energy, with thousands
of times the energy of gasoline, was
a dream five years ago. 1t is only
a possibility today, but it is already
newspaper news-a step nearer;
perhaps very close.
1t is up to us in America today
to create our own style, develop our
own art, try out our own tastes.
Are we efficient enough! Can we
do it? We can if we keep free our
means of communication and ex-
preston.
If progress-and failure-can be
reported without hindrance, if the
things men do-in politics and
sociology and science and business
can be discussed, compared and
weighed, we shall have great era
of progress greater than all the
progress that has gone before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11

And all we need, to guarantee that
freedom to grow, is a strong and
fearless press. Nesd2 We do not
need to create such a press. We
need only to keep it. You are read
ing a sample of it at this moment.
We need only to appreciate it,
conserve it, defend it, keep it free.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11
Authorities at Gibraltar
Limit Isthmus Traffic
By the Associated Press.

ALGECIRAS, Spain. March IL
Authorities at the British fortress
of Gibraltar yesterday limited to a
specified route all traffic over the
isthmus that links Gibraltar with the
Spanish mainland. Fines were or
dered for any persons approaching
forbidden areas where defense works
are in progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11
Mexico Plans Campaign
To Check on FOREIGNERS
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, March 1.-THE
Mexican Ministry of the Interior
today announced a campaign to
locate all foreigners residing illegal
ly in the republic.
In addition to tightening the
watch on border points and ports
of entry, the ministry said Mexico
governors and mayors would check
immigration credentials of all for
eigners in their Jurisdictions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11
HurIequins PIon New Play

The Friendship House Harle-
quins are preparing a new produce
ton, THE Tramp Tells the Tale"
written by a member of the group
Joe Stanley. They recently put on
an original musical comedy, Num-
Der 158," at the house, SIG D
street Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11
Shunohui to Advance Clocks

SHANGHAI, March II O9.-The
Shanghai Municipal Council an
nounced today the city's clocks
would be advanced one hour at
midnight March Is. Shanghai thus
will be IA hours ahead of Eastern
standard time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11

press the need Of better bus service
in the Piney Branch area also will
be appointed.
James F. Duhamel, member of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11

association and the Society of Ma.
tives, spoke on the Confederate
Army's approach to the Capital in
1864.
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Look at
America
By NORMAN CHANDLER
choir,on, Newspaper Publishers Committee

VX1E'RE ON OUR OWN.
w Well sink or swim,
here in America, depend
ing on whether we are
competent, able to solve
our own problems.
The dictators say de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11

NOTE: The Newspaper Publishers COMMITTEES, conn
posed of oyef $50 leading American Newspapers'
publishes these MESSAGES simultaneously each week.
The force which unites these newspapers their rees
osnissou sf Their responsibility 30 ysH the rsadsF.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11

CREArER SAFETY is just one of many reasons
" why thousands are switching to the beautiful
new Plymouth! Take ride-see why out of 10
new Plymouth buyers are trading in other makes.
Plymouth's III" wheelbase is the longest of Gall
3"low-prced cars..gives you greater roominess and
riding smoothness. And new High Torque Perform
ance with new power gearing makes this Plymouth
"powerhouse''to drive. You shift gears less.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-03-11

You'll be delighted with the luxury of the Fashion
Tone Interior. and you'll be thankful for Plym-
outh's long-lif engineering and upkeep economy.
See the 1e41 Quality Chart at your Plymouth
dealers. 1t compares "All Three" low priced cars
with high-priced cars on % important features.
Plymouth has 81. car 80" has Gear SO" has 7.
Plymouth Division of Chryser Corporation.
~ SEE PLYMoUTEs Low-PRIcED COMMERCIAL cARsi
Evening star., 1941-06-07
Traffic Load

A report on the first full month
of operation of staggered hours for
Government workers, just revealed
by the traffic director, is encouraging.
The results show that an average
decrease in the number of automo-
biles passing a given point in the
morning was 15.5 per cent and in
the evening 11.3 per cent. Counts
were made weekly at nine places
where in months past rush-hour
congestion had approached satura-
ton point and where numerous de-
lays were encountered. While such
decreases may be only slightly no
ticeable to the individual driver at
any given time, the change has
brought about more even flow of
traffic in the central portion of the
city and has simplified for thousands
of persons the task of getting to and
from work.
These benefits may be only tempo
rary in view of increasing Govern
ment personnel, but this increase
under the old schedules would have
brought about much graver conges-
ton problem. Permanent solution, Of
course, cannot result from spreading
Evening star., 1941-06-07
Buy q Bond

The announcement by Secretary
Morgenthau, in his radio address on
Thursday, that S438,230 900 in defense
bonds were sold in May-enough to
pay for four new battleships, or 1000
long-range bombers-prOvideS graft
flying evidence of the desire of the
American people to help finance the
preparedness program by making
part of their savings available to the
Government. Sales during the first
month were greater than the Treas
ury expected, and Mr.. Morgenthau
has good reason, therefore, for salts
faction with the results of the cam
paign so far.
Defense savings bonds and stamps
offer Federal employees in Washing
ton fine opportunity to contribute
to the Nations defense. In all parts
of the country employers and Or
carnations of workers are co-operat-
ing with the Government by invest
ing their savings lin American
freedom" Another purpose of the
present campaign is to build a safe
guard against imitation by mobilizing
the thrift of the people to help meet
the cost of armament expansion.
Government workers, like millions of
other Americans, would suffer many
hardships if the country enters a
period of runaway initiation and
soaring prices.
Because of the grave crisis facing
the United States in the threat of
totalitarian aggression, there can be
no time limit to the savings cam
paign. The effort must necessarily
be a continuing one. Success of the
campaign will depend on the extent
to which the American people, in the
critical months ahead, form the
habit of systematic saving. 1t is to
be hoped that Federal employees will
set an example to the country by
giving unstinted support to the de-
fense savings program through regu-
lar investment in the new securities.
Evening star., 1941-06-07

Berlin in March, 1899, marked the
opening of his authentic career. BY
1901 he had attained the highest
position possible among virtuosi of
the strings. Those qualified to judge
declared that he surpassed NicColo
Paganini, the famous Italian master
who died in 184O Less skilled appre-
ciators were content to respond to
his harmonies without attempting to
analyze their technical perfection.
The personality of Mr.. Kreisler
undoubtedly has been one of the
most important factors in his sue
cess. Sensitive, modest, generous to
a fault, he has worn his laurels with
a grace which has been widely
recognized. Hence the unqualified
pleasure which a multitude feels in
the tidings that he will be completely
we'll, playing again "as he always
has played"
Evening star., 1941-06-07
Good News

No other artist of his time has
been more deeply loved than Fritz
kreisler. A legion of his friends will
rejoice in the news that he is making
a complete recovery from the in
juries he suffered in a traffic acci-
dent in April. The worlds most
notably talented violinist, it conf
IDENTIFY is asserted, will play again
as of old.
Meanwhile, it is a privilege to pay
to Mr.. Kreisler tribute of gratitude
we'll earned by half century of
service to music. Born in Vienna,
February 2, 1875, he achieved the
first prize of the conservatory of
that once happy city at ten. His
premier American tour was arranged
in company with the pianist Moritz
Rosenthal in 1888. There followed
an interlude when he studied medi-
cine and wore the uniform of an
officer in a Uhlan regiment of the
Austrian Army. But he could not
abandon his fiddle. A recital In
Evening star., 1941-06-07
Enforcement. Needed

An article elsewhere in today's
Star reveals that there has been
little or no appreciable increase in
arrests for illegal noise making
since Police Superintendent Brown
launched an anti-noiSe drive on May
90 last This strange state of affairs
is indicative of one of two things
that violators of Washington's sew
eral anti-noiSe ordinances suddenly
have reformed, or that Major
Browns men have failed to take
seriously his general order to all
precincts to crack down on violatorS.
Any person with unimpaired hear
ing can vouch for the fact that there
has been no city-Wide cessation of
illegal horn blowing, comfortable
motor racket, radio blasting or other
diStracting din in the opening week
of the commendable campaign. 1t
is perfectly obvious that there has
been no sweeping reformation of
chronic offenders. The trouble,
then, must lie with the police, who
are charged with enforcement of
certain regulations governing motor
horns, mufflers and other sources of
noise.
Major Brown, in ordering that the
noise bans be strictly enforced, de-
clared that fifty per cent of the horn
blowing in Washington is needless.
A harassed public shares Major
Browns belief. But evidently the
rank and file of the police force do
not agree with their chief, or else
prefer to close their ears to the
violations that are occurring con-
stantly in every section of the city.
The flood of commendatory messages
which greeted Major Brown and The
Star upon announcement of the
anti-noise drive shows that the
public generally Fundamentally ap-
proves of the program and desires
that the regulations be strictly en-
forced. It is to be hoped that Major
Brown will see to it that his men
follow his instructions to the limit
without further delay
Evening star., 1941-06-07
Sample Census

Since the taking of the decennial
census in April, 1910, the armament
program has caused large increase
in the population of the District and
nearby areas, an expansion that has
brought in its train housing and
other problems. In view of the de-
sire of defense and other Govern
ment agencies for figures on popu-
lation growth during the past four
teen months, the announcement of
the Census Bureau that it is plan
ming to take a sample census of
Washington and its environs at the
end of June will be welcomed
Though the Census Bureau will not
make a complete house toulouse
count, it hopes through a ten per
cent sample to show with a high
degree of accuracy the growth of
the metropolitan district, and the
regional pattern and direction of this
growth. In recent years sampling
technique has been perfected. In pre-
pairing their plans for a special count
of Washington and its neighboring
communities, census experts have
taken particular care to devise
sampling methods that will give an
accurate picture of the population
growth, both in the District and the
nearby areas
In addition to counting population,
enumeratorS will obtain data on
housing facilities, changes in rents
and employment. Such data will be
of value both to defense agencies
and the business community. The
canvass will be completed in a week,
and its results, therefore, should be
available early in the summer.
BY providing authentic figures,
now lacking on the growth of Metro
politan Washington since April, 1910,
and by assembling up to- date data
on housing conditions and employ
ment status, the proposed canvass
will fill real need. 1t is to be hoped,
therefore, that the plans of the
Census Bureau, announced yester-
day, will receive final approval
Evening star., 1941-06-07
Protests Shipment of Oil
To "Aggressor" Japan.
To the Editor of The Star:

10 the Edltor OF Inc Star:
Earl Goodwin tells us over the radio
that this country has authorized a large
shipment of gasoline and oil to Japan.
He said he could not stomach that.
Neither can anybody else.
England must think we are a shabby
ally if we ship gasoline to one of her
worst enemies, If England did such an
idiotic thing, no one outside of an asylum
would want to be her ally.
1t would be no more of a surprise to
hear that we were shipping gasoline, oil,
tanks and guns to Hitler.
We are opposed to the aggressor
nations. What do we call Japan?
We say we want to help the democ-
racieS. Are we to do it BY furnishing
their enemies with the means of war?
Our drafted boys no doubt will have
great courage in fighting Germany, or
later, Japan, when they know their Gov
eminent has supplied the enemy with
gasoline and oil to be used against them.
Mrs. John M. Robey writes to The Star.
June 5, saying that our civil liberties
should be denied in times Of national
emergency.
So we are to fight for democracy and
at the same time deprive ourselves of
what democracy means-freedom of
speech and of the press
Can we save our democracy by deny
ing our citizens the liberties for which
democracy stands? H. B. BRADFORD.
Evening star., 1941-06-07
Spring, lo41

Sat0 one spring in England long Goo
When 1ods sir, and / remember weH
Those brief, enchanted months, and
from them knotU
Far more than / could find the words
to tell.
For Herrick, Bro,pntng, Brooke hare
sung it all,
And / can only add the memory
OF bluebells grotUtno By a garden Dau,
And Strawberries and Scones laid out
for tea.
But no1D all England breads those
months OF spring.
This spring is Hitler'S spring, the
papers say,
And Who OF all springs loneliness
t0ould sing
When England for each hour NTH
death must pay.
If this is Hitler'S spring OF hate and
fear,
May spring to England neDer come
this year. JANET HART.