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Evening star., 1941-04-13
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NSulIllluCu FIOlIl rage Dill
Junior said he made the trip fire.
quently and guessed he was more
sorry than anybody else" the train
was making its last run. They let
him blow the whistle on the return
trip.
A brush fire that had eaten its
way to the tracks between Pine
crest and Sunset Hills stations gave
the trip more than usual f1avor-not
to mention smell of smoke. Train
Driver F. r. Ormsbee stopped at the
worst spot of the fire for several
minutes to allow railroad employees
to shovel earth on the burning cross
ties and blazing power pole.
William C. Ayres, travelling auditor
and freight agent, pulled a fire
eXtinguisher from the train and
played the chemical in cracks of the
burning pole to put down the flames
until an emergency crew could be
notified from the next station.
Workers we're putting up new pole
when the train passed on the re-
turn trip. 1t didn't bother to stop
this time.
The strong odor of smoke which
permeated the coaches was offset
somewhat a few hundred yards UP
the track when the train passed
near a distillery.
In all, SO passengers rode the
train from Rosslyn to Purcellville
and "a bought tickets on the way
back. The last train was IS minutes
late pulling into Purcellville, but
only 5 minutes behind time when
it ground to a stop at Rosslyn last
night.
Old Time Patron Aboard.
B. M. Eamich, 6l-year-old florist,
OF Waterford, Va, was among the
outgoing passengers. He had been
riding the road off and on since
"the old steam days" The line was
electrified" in 1912 shortly after
Senator Stephen Elkins of West
Virginia and John r. Mclean, news
paper publisher, took it over from
the Southern Railway.
Conductor John w. Kelly. who
has worked" the line for % years.
will continue to shout ''howdy" to
his friends along the way when
he takes over a mail and express
run this week. For that matter.
none of the IS employees of the line
will lose their jobs.
We've found places for all of
them on the freight and express
schedules" Mr.. Ayers explained.
Among other company representa-
tives on the train were w. z. King,
engineer in charge of maintenance
of right-ofway; Walter r. Mahoney,
ticket-seller, who had lone of his
best days" at Rosslyn, and w. H.
T. Pence, mail clerk
The old train acted up a bit on the
return trip. One of the wheels ''hot-
boxed and the trolley jumped the
wire within a few hundred yards
of the Rosslyn station. That came
in the nature of farewell. because,
though the trolley was quickly ad-
justed, the train driver let her
coast in home.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Vireinions to Return Royal Gift
From England 200 Years Ago

An announcement today by the
Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation,
Inc, said it was hoped to raise the
sum from voluntary donations of
visitors to Stratford during garden
week, April 28-May 8. To be known
as the Queen Caroline Fund" the
gifts will be collected by the direc-
tors of the foundation, which has
preserved and restored the Strait
ford mansion and estate. 1t will be
in addition to the Garden Club of
Virginia's plan to give proceeds Of
garden week to British war relief
Matholic, the birthplace of Thomas
E. Lee in Westmoreland, was de-
stroyed in 1923 by blaze attributed
to the desire for revenge of some
criminals against whom Thomas Lee
has issued warrants In his ofilcial
n1agisterial capacity.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Suffrage
Continued From Page B-1.)

tionate number of presidential elec-
toral votes and such degree of To-
cal f-government as Congress
might approve.
Failure of the House to act on
the report before the Seventy sixth
Congress ended in January put
the question back in committee
again. Because of the internation-
al situation, this Congress is likely
to remain In session for a long
time, and if the hearings about to
start result in bringing the subject
before the Senate, there should be
ample opportunity for its consider
alton by both houses this year.
Text of Resolution.
As introduced in this Congress by
Senator CapRer, the suffrage reso-
luton reads:
Resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled (two- thirds of each
House concurring therein), that the
following amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States be pro-
posed for ratification by the Legis-
latures of the several States, which,
when ratified by the Legislatures of
three-fourths of the States, shall be
valid as a part of said Constitution:
Article
Sec. l. The Congress shall have
power to provide for the people of
the District constituting the seat of
the Government of the United
States representation in the Con-
gress and among the electors of
President and Vice President no
greater than that of the people of
the States, and to delegate to such
government as Congress may estab-
nsh therein all or any of its power
over said District, and the judicial
power of the United States shall
extend to controversies to which
citizens of said District shall be
parties the same as to controversies
to which citizens of a State shall
be parties.
Sec. 2. All legislation hereunder
shall be subject to amendment and
repeal, provided, that no amend
rent or repeal shall affect the office
OF Senator or Representative dur
ing the time for which he was
elected.
Sec. 3. This article shall be in
operative unless it shall have been
ratlf1ed as an amendment to the
Constitution by the Legislatures of
the several States, as provided in
the Constitution, within seven years
from the date of the submission
hereof to the States by the
Congress"
Evening star., 1941-04-13

tablish health center in the north
west section. It also went on rec
ord as opposing the Municipal As
semblv Of the District. At the same
time it voted to continue its pres
ent method of representation in the
Federation of Citizens Associations.
Dr.. Herrold told of the work of
the Bureau of Animal Industry in
inspecting meats in all places where
animals are slaughtered for inter-
state shipment or for foreign COM
merce Some 78,000,000 animals
were inspected. he said. during the
fisca, year ending June 30, 1910.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
By the Associated Press.

RICHMOND. Va, April 1.-Two
centuries ago Queen Caroline Of
England sent 300 pounds as royal
gift to help Thomas Lee build a
new home in Westmoreland County
to replace the house burned by
felons seeking revenge.
This spring the 300 pounds will
return to England-to another
Queen, Elizabeth-to help somebody
In England, perhaps, rebuild home
burned down or blasted into ruins
by enemy bombers.
The funds will be raised from do
nations by visitors to Stratford, the
home that Queen Caroline's 300
pounds helped Thomas Lee to build.
the birthplace of Gen. Robert E.
Lee and other distinguished men,
bers of the Lee family.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Ecuodoreon Navy Chiefs
To Pay Visit to u. S.

QUITO, Ecuador, April IL Up.-
Comdr. Cesar Mogollon, head of the
navy department of the Ministry
OF Defense, and Comdr. Francisco
Fernandez Madrid, chief of the
Ecuadorean navy, will 60 to the
United States, accepting the invi-
tation of the United States Navy
for visits by Latin American naval
officers.
The announcement was made to-
day.
Evening star., 1941-04-13

He warned against the dangers Of
trichinosis in pork which Is not
well cooked.
RI aries F. Consaul, past presi-
dent Of the association, presided.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Gotten Heads PIT. A.

J. A. Gotten was elected president
of the Bancroft Parent-Teacher AS
ISOLATION at its annual meeting in
the Arlington County VaD school.
Other officers named are Mrs. Will
liam M. Haussman, vice president;
Mrs. D. r. Dundon. secretary, and
Mrs. Allen Lemmond, treasurer.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Purty Planned Tuesdoy

The Women's Auxiliary Of the
United Cafeteria Workers, Local No.
All, C. I. o., will give a game party
at pm. Tuesday at the home of
Mrs r. Champ, 1436 w street NV,
it was announced yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-04-13
Maryland Income Tax
Returns Are Due
Tuesday Midnight

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 12.-
State income tax officials sue-
gested an Easter week end &C
tivity today:
Fill out Maryland income tax
returns.
The deadline for the 1941
payments-or at least for the
first installment-is Tuesday
midnight. The week end, ON
cials said, might be "a con-
venient time" to work on the
tax.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
MY. HOW Helen Hayes has
4V1 grown I'M

MY! HOW Helen Hayes has
A'l grown up
Grown up. but not changed.
for she is today as Viola in
Shakespeares Twelfth Night"
the same Immortality childish be-
ing whose voice l first heard
some years ago in Barrie'S
Dear Brutus."
There are still that ecstasy of
being alive, that tender melan-
choly, that silver-radiant voice
and that Queen Titania step
that first enchanted me-in
Dear Brutus' and later in
"Coquette."
A grown-up fairy-soul-but a
matured one, for as Viola, the
girl who plays the part of boy
at the court of Duke Orsino of
Illyria, Helen Hayes has come
to the top of her TALENT
l have never heard the lines
of Shakespeare read so word
for-word intelligently. so plain
lively, so stunningly as Miss
Hayes does.
When left the -tf1edter I felt
that / had had in Miss Hayes
Viola a tryst with the spirit of
eternal youth, love and romance.
And that she is our greatest
actress was brought home to me
forcibly by trying to imagine
that Viola was. only the other
day, Queen Victoria in the lat
ter,s last years. l just eouldn't.
nOES art make political his
~ tory? Do music, books,
painting. and even the dance,
influence momentous events?
Pr Theodore Spencer OF
Harvard University says that it
does in very interesting article
in the American Weekly"
He points out the tremendous
influence of Wagner's operas on
Hitler hitler imagines he is
another Siegfried). The Wag-
merriam hero slew everything
that stood in his path. He was
invulnerable--except for a spot
on his back where a leaf rested
when he took the spear-proof
massage.
That books and music. and
even the dance. have made his
tory there is no doubt.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The
Social Contract" is credited
with the French Revolution.
Thomas Paine's polite a !
pamphlets powerfully influenced
the American Revolution.
Salome's dance before Herod
was the end of John the Bap-l
fist.
"Uncle Toms Cabin" (which
is not art helped nightly TO
bring on the Civil War.
of course we know how the
paintings of the crucifixion have
influenced religious history
and also organ music.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
ANNA SIMMONS.
$500 Philadelphia avenue.

his stewardship and submit him
self TO questioning by the repre-
sentatives of the people.
Surely we should preserve
equal rights for our people func-
tioning through their representa-
tives in Congress.
Can we not learn the lesson
being demonstrated daily in
Europe, that unbridled power in
the hands of one man is highly
dangerous to the nation ?
This is particularly true in our
case since Mr.. Roosevelt has
demonstrated again and again
that he has the power to hypno-
tie and swa%the masses, make
them believe that black is white,
that debts are assets and swal-
low whole all the rest of the
New Deal economic nonsense.
His record is strewn with
broken promises and economic
failures, Yet he has the uncanny
ability 10 talk his way out of
them and KID The majority of
our people into believing that he
combines within himself the
ethics of the Ten Command
ments. the Sermon on the Mount
and Wisdom of Solomon.
l believe our great, great
grandchildren 100 years from
now will still be cursing this
generation if Bill No. f776 is
passed without drastically cur
failing the proposed grant of
power to the President.
MARK WELLS.
1870 COllingwOod avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
Against

PREDICTIONS by the Presidents cabinet
i members are as reliable as our weather.
mans reports. In regard to Britain's fall,
here is their record:
Secretary Knox, August, 1910: within
the next 60 days"
Secretary Stimson. July, 1910: Within
the next 80 days"
England hasn't gone yet. and six months
have elapsed. The latest report comes that
England's fall is expected in 60 to 90 days.
If Congress does vote yes" to give her
material help, what good would it do? 1t will
take nearly nine months to build and send
these supplies.
The only logical reason l can see in this
promiscuous fortune-telling. is to scare Con-
gress into a quick decision. without much
thought and elaboration. Like the enactment
of our peace-time conscription that material
lied hurriedly when Congress warned of
Britain's fall in 80 days last July
Fright causes a quick decision often
times. resulting in an error that regretfully
cannot be corrected.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
FELIX c. REZNICK,
7749 Lambert street,

WE WERE dragged into the last war-by
w whom by people who thought more of
their investments than they did of country,
flag or human life. What did we get out of
it? Well, we got depression with re-
sultant crime wave, which has never ended.
We got a lot of crippled men-the hospitals
are still full of them after 20 years. We got
a lot of broken hearts and broken minds and
suicides. Wonderful dividends,
We need 100 per cent Americanism. Let's
build up our own defense. Let's make our
country impregnable so that no one in the
world can touch U.S. Let's sacrifice FOR our
nation instead of SACRIFICING our nation
for land across the sea-
ANNA SIMMONS,
$500 PHILADELPHIA avenue
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TO THE EDITOR.

TO THE EDITOR:
I SUPPOSE protest is useless,
4 but one cannot help but
wonder why we are so excited
about dictatorship in Europe if
we are going to create one here.
as is proposed in Bill No. 1776,
now before Congress.
Incidentally. note the strange
coincidence of the number of
this bill. If passed without
drastic revision, II will end our
democracy which began in the
year 1776
=Mhetfef--aid- to= Britain is
Americas best defense is a ques-
ton best decided by experts.
Relatively few people have the
necessary knowledge of military
and naval strategy on which to
base sound judgment But. any
high school boy, with a men,
tally above an imbecile, must
know HAT t this bill i4feans dc
tatorship, and nothing but!
Grant that we should aid
Britain, why should we create a
dictatorship and why should
Congress virtually abdicate in
order TO do it, The United States
fought a great war under Lin
coin and another under Wilson
without granting such absolute
power to the president. as is now
proposed, even though we are
not at war.
The Canadians are in the war
up 10 their neckS, yet their
-ParIiamen1- continues -flnc.
ton. Englishmen. with their
backs to the wall and fighting
for their very existence. call
Churchill before Parliament fire.
quently TO give an account of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
Helen Hayes Viola Shows
Ecstasy Of Being Alive
BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

DOCTOR SPENCER speaks of
~ the powerful effect of La
Marseillaise' on French history.
But it seem to have lost its
power in 1889.
He also warns US that If our
democracy is to survive we
Should find among the arts a
symbol of force that suits our
purpose as Wagnerian music
suits the NaziS."
-1-caRnet subscribe 10 that
believe that the will 10 remain
free at any cost. backed up by
the greatest air force and navy
in the world. is worth any art
symbol in these days.
If we Americans ever lose
faith in our traditions no song
or book can save us. Siegfried
Washington and St. George
Jefferson are good enough for
me.
IF THERE is one thing as
evident 10 me as The nose on
Jimmy Durante's face it is this:
There is certain powerful
ll-too-powerful-element in this
country that does not want TO
see the country recover natur-
ally.
This left wing group is out to
destroy the capitalistic system
p IN America and substitute for il
a sort of socialistic fascist state
modelled on the Hitler-Stalin
slave states.
A natural industrial recovery
would mean a restoration of the
American way of doing things.
But the American way is horse
and-buggy' stuff nowadays.
1t seems almost brutal TO say
so. but this left wing elements
would like to see the country
sink industrially and economi-
cally TO the level of revolution
and then execute. coup d'etat
using the greatest crisis" ex-
cuSe
This war" and defense"
prosperity is not genuine re-
covery But it plays right into
the hands of the subversive ele-
ment, for they wait for a post
war collapse-like their friend,
Joe Stain.
WHENEVER fed up with
w war news, tax questions,
gangster pictures and the rawlings
of dictators, / rush away to the
Empire State tower and its
phiiosophic chatelaine, Mrs. Julia
Chandler. From the one hun
\ dred and second story. nearly
1,200 feet above the earth, l am
washed clean of all my fret and
fury and the worries that ruleth
our days. Nothing seems i'm
portant from that height. l have
the prospective of the stars, Of
eternity.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
Connolly Answers

l. (a) Prince Albert; (b) Charles
IL: (c) Henry VIII.
2. (a) easily read, fit; (b) con-
forming to a type. not conforms
ing to a type; c) of great worth.
priceless or of no worth.
3. The Forty Days of Musa
Dagh," Werfel; Three Cities"
Asch; THE Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse" Ibenez; IF I
Had Four Apples, Laurence.
4. ta) red; (b) blue; tc) blue.
5. (aD Break, Break. Break"
Tennyson; tb) S h kespeare,
Sonnet XXX; tc) "On His
Blindness. Milton. ~
S. ta1 Several notes (played in
rapid succession); tb) 480
sheets; (c) older (26 years
older.
z. (a) Sinecure, easy job: fb)
pylon. tower. So lurid. ghastly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
Quiz Answers

The latitude is 90 degrees north.
All degrees of longitude pass
through the North Pole.
The Rhine of the Ancient
Mariner" by Samuel Taylor
Coleridge.
China. The name Cathay was
applied TO China in days of old.
The Grapes of Wrath"
Secretary of the Treasury.
"Unalienable Rights"
A mortgage made with the con-
ditional transfer OF movable
property as security.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
A RECENT letter in YOU
"A paper stresses the fact that
there will be no production on
defense programs unless the
close tolerance of manufactur-
ing requirements of ordnance
work, together with close federal
inspection. be reduced.
This section of the country
can be educated to the high
standards required by ordnance
work, but it requires real tool
designers and tool engineers,
and not guess men, to do the
work.
Production will be. way behind
the dates set by the boys who
planned ii so; but federal inspec-
tors, if taken from established
ordnance armories in the East.
will gradually knock some sense
into the engineering brains out
here and lot of nonsense out of
them TO the future benefit of the
auto industry.
Close tolerances are necessary,
well designed tools are neces-
sary; we have them in the
ordnance factories in the East
and will have them here some
day.
As ex-assistant chief engineer
OF COTS Fire Arms Company on
the Browning gun al the Meri-
den, Conn. plant, l know.
WILLIAM W. HAWKINS,
4S6 Randolph street.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
DAVID WEISBERGER,
2474 w. Philadelphia avenue

/ BELIEVE in our Presidents policy of aid
i short of war to the fighting democracies,
but / do not believe this country should or
will 60 to war.
Let us not be intolerant of the other
mans opinion. He is probably as sincere in
his opinions as you are in yours Expression
of an idea that is radically different from
your own should not be greeted with cat calls
of appeaser, fifth columnist, or war monger.
IRVING BOLOTNIKOFF,
ZIG Visger road
River Rouge, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
For Aid

I'VE CANNOT live alone. We cannot refuse
w aid TO Great Britain on the grounds that
she does not deserve it, that this is her battle
and not ours, that whatever the outcome it
makes no difference to US.
True, England has repudiated her obliga-
tons TO us, and to virtually every other ma
ton to which she ever made a pledge.
Yet with all her faings there exists in
England some pattern of liberal and demo-
cratic thought, an -undeniable bond of COM
mon understanding which we must not let
perish.
The survival of Britain is the only hope
Of salvation left for France and every other
nation which has been subjugated by the ruth
less cruelty of Hitler and his cohorts
If we refuse aid to England we all must
realize that her defeat is merely matter of
a short period of time. And what then? No
power on earth, save America, would dare
stand in the way of this avalanche of
despotism.
Aid to Britain does not necessarily mean
involving ourselves in this terrible war.
Rather, it means our one hope of staying out
of it, for l do not believe that the combina-
ton of English determination, and our ma
terial aid, can be beaten.
DAVID WEISBERGER
IA min
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-25
Union Now
Proponents
Criticized
And First Among Them,
Miss Thompson

CThe opinions expressed by
General Johnson are not neces-
sariiy those of The Detroit
Times.)
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BAERlNG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
To the Shelters. Llez.
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Distributed
We're practicng blackouts and our until
expert shave with my head
That sort Of brings closer Than teamwork H-ant
village.
I'm not trying to you. But why you
and shouldn't even. e4--
know for a fact that young American flew bomber
from this continent to England hours That makes
three thousand miles of fold up like beach chair
wouldn't be surprised a raid anything becauses
every time wash windows something else.
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PAGE
A Forum on Americas
Position i'm the War

invites readers the following three quOns
I-Shoud America Enter the European War?
Twill Our Present Course if Persisted n Inevitably
Involve Us in War;
5-Should merca Concentrate Her Own Defense and
Her Own independence Ally Herself With England
the Recent WorldWar?
opinion the Editor Detroit TmesWe solicit
and
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A short while before the old
general died, the Washington
police found a demented old
man. groveling on the ground.
stuffing his pockets with gar
bage. and screaming. Cold! E..
gold, gold!'
Copyright. 1891. King Features synd.. Ina
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