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Evening star., 1941-01-19
ThuiIund Incident

lhe TOXIC Nlchl Nlchl, always an
influential newspaper, presumably
reflects the official mind, now that
the japanese press is so closely con-
trolled under the present authori-
tartan regime. A recent editorial on
French Indo-China therefore merits
some attention.
The editorial calls for japanese
action to rescue the natives of
1ndo-China" from French rule, and
voices growing japanese impatience
over the slow progress of negotia-
tionS for an economic pact which
would bring that rich French colony
more fully within the japanese eco
nomic sphere. "Inseparable relations
exist between the Greater East Asia
sphere of co-prosperity and the re-
lease from oppression of races living
in Southern Asia" asserts Nichi
Nichi This principle applies to
1ndo-China, where 23,O0000O natives
are ruled by 10000 Frenchmen." The
editorial concludes by stating that
Japan must carry out measures to
rescue the natives of Indo- China
and enable them to enjoy their
Heaven ordained happiness"
Whether or not this editorial de-
mand foreshadoWS increased Japa-
neSe pressure upon the harassed
French authorities at Saigon. GER
tain it is that elf-constituted
rescue party already is at work in
the shape of the modernized army
of Thailand. formerly Siam. For
several weeks fighting has been 60
ing on in the Steaming iungleS of
Cambodia, Indo-China's rich south
ern province, between the invading
That's and French colonial forces,
Stiffened by detachmentS of the re-
doubtable Foreign Legion. This
border fighting on the ground has
extended to the air and to the sea
as we'll with a spirited clash between
French and Thai light craft off the
Cambodian coast. In short. full
f1edged war seems to be in progress
which normally would make 'front.'
page headlines. But neither side
calls it war, any more than Japan
and China have given their titanic
struggle that ugly name. So the
Franco -Thailand tiff may be clas-
sified as just another Far Eastern
incident"
This technical informality, how
ever, does not lessen the Importance
of what is going on. Thailand.
small country with limited military
resources, would not have flung itself
upon Frances Far Eastern empire
unless assured of japanese backing.
And Thailand is so strategically sit
uated that it is a valuable ally in
Japan's aggressive campaign of
penetration in Southern Asia Thai
lands western borders march with
British Burma. while its southern
tip stretches far down the Malay
Peninsula within hailing distance of
Singapore, Britain's Gibraltar of the
Far East AS an undeclared ally of
Japan, this formerly unimportant
Oriental buffer state becomes triple
threat to all who oppose the south
ward sweep of Japan'S grandiose
designs.
Evening star., 1941-01-19
A NEEDED REMEMBRANCE
BIZ the Rt. Rep James E. Freeman D. D., ILL., D., D. C. L.,
Bishop OF Washington.

Writing to an ancient people the
great apostle said: Il thank my God
always, upon every remembrance of
you" He must have felt that the fell
lowship he had enjoyed with them was
profitable. It is true that the kind
of friendships We form occupy a large
place in the making of a happy, self
satisfying life 1t is in demonstration
of the statement of one who said: Il am
a part of all that I have met
Life is composite OF many influences,
impressions and personalities. AS the
years multiply and life natures We
come to recognize more fully the large
place that certain personalities occupy
in shaping our judgments and deter
mining our course. Books influence
us, personalities more so, Few grow
to any degree of usefulness without
the stimulating companionship of VAL
ued friends hence the supreme impor-
tance of discrimination in the making
of close and intimate ties. When the
wise man would speak of the highest
form of friendship, he referred to the
ideal friend as one that "sticketh closer
than brother"
When We come to trace the influences
that have bound us to certain men and
women We discover that it is in the
commonness of the tie that grows out
of the spiritual or religious impulse
Luther and Melancthon found it here.
Talking one day with the late DR. Weir
Mitchell found that the close intimacy
he had with Phillips Brooks was born
of their recognition of the Sayiorhood
of Christ. The brilliant physician and
the great preacher found here tie
that bound them indissolubly together
Widely different in temperament and
profession here in the glowing person.
ality of the Man of Nazareth they found
the inspira ton of their devotion and the
genesis of lifelong friendship
Amplifying this and making it inter-
racial and international, it becomes the
strong amalgam that binds together
diverse peoples and reconciles their
differences and contentious. Its ulti-
mate purpose is universal brother
hood. 1t was this the Master of men
had in mind when He said: Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
Evening star., 1941-01-19
Welcome

Once again the Nations Capital
plays host to throngs of people
f1ocklng to the Inauguration Of a
Chief Magistrate. Many make it the
habit of their lives to attend the
ceremonies incident to President S
induction. Others, perhaps a more
numerous company, may come on
only a single occasion Both groups
of pilgrims are heartily welcome.
Their fellow citizens who are donl-
ciled exclusively in the District Of
Columbia are happy to show hospi-
tality to the assembled guests.
1t is the tradition OF American
democracy that the whole national
public elects its chosen leaders, but
sometimes it is forgotten that it is
very largely the business of the resi-
dental community OF Washington
to arrange the Inauguration pro-
grams. The Nation long since be-
came accustomed to leaving to the
Capital the duty Of providing for
the inveStiture of presidential dignl-
taries. That certain paradox in
evitably is involved III the circum-
stances is forgotten more often than
not, Relatively few of those who
come to the District of Columbia for
inaugural rites and festivities are
mindful Of the fact that permanent
inhabitants of the Federal City are
diSfranchlsed because of their dwell
ing place within an area entirely
controlled by Congress.
The beginning of the third term
of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
is an especially propltiouS moment,
it may be hoped, for mentioning the
political and fiscal disabilities of the
people of Washington Possibly be-
fore another Inauguration Day has
daWned the arbitrary handicap of
the men and the women whose
homes are within the District of
Columbia may be removed. A COM
munity qualified to pay taxes, to
contribute toward the maintenance
of Federal institutions both directly
and indirectly, to furnish soldiers for
the national defense, is justified in
desiring to share the freedom COM
monty accorded other neighborhoods
not more devotedly American in
spirit.
Meanwhile, Washingtonians one
and all extend to visitors to the
Capital a cordial and friendly greet
ing with best wishes for their en-
joyment of their stay in what the
founding fathers called the Federal
Town on the bank of the Potomac"
Evening star., 1941-01-19

Impossible" the cyniC and the So
called realist says, hence a world of
enemies instead of a world of friends
Sooner or later change must come
else chaos lies ahead. Some men have
been saying this for 19 centuries, but
the world has not listened TO them
but We live today in different kind
of a world Total war" is the new
formula, marked by hate and Sayagery
The friendship of a Man who died
on Cross. saying with His latest
breath: Father, forgive them: they
know not what they do," is the kind of
friendship that must come to dominate
the hearts and minds of men the world
over
1t seems a long way off today, but
1t must prevail. What Will bring it
about? Nothing less than the Christian
ideal of friendship, the kind that can
say as it looks out upon the world:
Il thank my God always, upon every
remembrance of YOU" It will mean a
new kind of Christian practice. more
demonstrative more real than we have
"NN4i AISO5llIE4tiS tIltot Id u ytdIG- tlI2llJ
here in America We can begin We
can take the way of life Christ pre-
scrlbed more seriously. We can make
what We have called christian civiIi-
zatlon' a workable plan rather than a
system that finds its expression largely
in the clustered atmosphere of the
church
Ideally conceived, the Christian
church is a house of friendship, if it
is not it fails of its true purpose. Ex-
pand this thought and it breaks down
the barriers that divide the church
into sects and competitive organiza-
tlons. After all the centuries we have
reason to expect something better.
Standing today facing q different
kind Of world, world where there
Is little Of thankfUlness for the remem-
brance Of the friendships Of other years.
we must make up our minds what kind
OF world We expect in the future.
The spirit of the greatest of friends
must find new expression, else We
shall have to abandon a civilization
that has been Christian only in name.
Chesterton was right: "Christianitv has
not been tried and found wanting: it
has been found difficult and not tried -
Difficult or not, it must be tried today,
and when It is tried it Will change the
face of the world itself.
Evening star., 1941-01-19
Mexico Co-operotes

strategically located between the
United States and the Panama Canal,
Mexico's wholehearted cooperation
in plans for hemisphere defense is
essential to the success of the whole
er-American security program. Be
cause of this strategic position Mexi-
co long has claimed the interest OF
alien plotters of one nationality or
another. Prior to the first World
War Germany found it convenient to
use territory south of the border as
a base for espionage and sabotage
opera atio4ns against the United States.
Timely exposure of German plans for
a campaign to turn Mexico against
the United States frustrated a gran
diose scheme and served to hasten
Americas entry into the other war.
There have been occasional reports
of japanese espionage operations on
the Pacific coast of Mexico. and with
In the past year or so there has been
evidence of Communistlc and Nazl
activities.
Unfortunately, relations between
the United States and Mexico have
not always been of the best. Differ
ences of language, racial origin, tenn
permanent have resulted in all too
frequent misunderstanding and sus-
picions. The appropriation of Amerl-
can farmlands and oil properties has
aggravated the difficulties. But the
picture is beginning to change for
the better. The good neighbor policy
is bearing fruit, thanks to intelligent
and tactful diplomacy, especially
since the outbreak of the European
war. Mexico has awakened to the
perils of rampant aggression that
threaten the Western Hemisphere.
The recent visit to Mexico City of
Vice President-elect Wallace, who
represented President Roosevelt at
the Inauguration of President CANA
cho, helped to pave the way for closer
cooperation between the two repub-
lies. Now comes word that Mexican
Ambassador Francisco Castillo Ma
tera and Undersecretary of State
Sumner Welles are about to begin
comprehensive negotiations designed
to ioin Mexico and the United States
with economic and military bonds OF
historic Importance. Objectives OF
the discussions, it is said, will include
not only settlement of the long
disputed agrarian and oil claims, but
United States collaboration in vital
Evening star., 1941-01-19
Forty-ninth Stur?

Sometime Congress must decide
an important queStion-to admit, or
not to admit. Hawaii as State of
the Union. Hawaii has voted for
admission, insisting that its citizens,
being not insane, criminal, nor resi-
dents of the District of Columbia,
are entitled to proper representa-
ton. If they get their wish, there
will be other problems to solve be-
sides that of where to locate the
forty-ninth star in the flag, which
is easily done by shifting the pres
ent six by eight arrangement into
seven by seven, not a radical change.
Far less easily disposable are the
names of it's future Senators and
Representatives.
There is, for instance, resident
of the islands all tangled up with
the name of David Kekoalauliiona-
palihauliuliokekoolau Keepuawaoka-
mehameha. He has a sister whose
first name is Kapualehuaonapalila-
hilahiokaala. Suppose the voters
passed up Charlie Chan and his
number one son and elected one of
these instead? Room might be found
for them in person, but what could
be done with their names in the
already y-overcrowded City of Wash
ington? And imagine the despair of
typesetters on the Congressional
Record, especially if either of this
pair ever introduced a bill to dredge
Kapuahailianamauipo Greek or to
declare closed season on the rapid
ly disappearing Kehuanakaolake-
kuana bird?
Evening star., 1941-01-19
Control of the Sea

Statistics submitted to the House
Foreign Affairs Committee by Secre-
tary Of the Navy Knox, showing the
relative naval strengths of the United
States and the axis powers, should
serve to destroy once and for all the
last vestiges of complacency with
which some Americans continue to
view the prospect of a British defeat
by the Germans and the Italians.
According to the tables submitted
by the Secretary of the Navy. con-
troll of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, upon the defeat of Britain,
would pass at once to our enemies.
Nor would it be easy for us to make
up this deficiency. for the combined
naval strength of Germany, Italy and
Japan, as compared with ours, will
be proportionately much greater in
1943 than it is today.
AS of January !, 1941. We had 322
battleShipS, aircraft carriers, cruisers,
deStroyerS and submarines, or total
tonnage of l250,000. In the same
categorieS. the axis powers had 658
vessels aggregating 1885 900 tons. BY
1943 this disparity in strength will
be more pronounced, for at that time
the axis will have 962 combat vessels
to our 422. These totals do not take
into account the 1913 French warships
which might well fall into axis hands
if Britain should go down.
In the face of this ominouS out
look, many persons in this country
have been drawing some comfort
from the hope that the British navy
would continue the fight even if the
mother country is overrun by her
enemies. and it is true that Prime
Minister Churchill has given assur-
ance to that effect. But Secretary
Knox, whose opinion is not to be
lightly dismissed. thinks differently,
for it is his belief that I'VE can
safely assume that the British navy
will share the fate of the courageous
nation that supports it" In other
words. it is his considered judgment
that the British navy will fight to the
end before yielding England to an
invader, and with the gallant exploits
of Rawalpindi and Jervis Bay fresh
in mind it is easy to believe that
he Is correct.
But, however that may be, it is
certain that We cannot rely on the
hope that Britain's navy would con-
tlnue the fight after a successful
invasion. We must face the grim
prospect that the defeat of Britain
would leave us alone against a COM
bination of enemies whose navies
even next year would number 803
ships to our 342-cold statistics which
serve to challenge those hardy isola-
tloniStS who assert that it is fantastic
even to think of a successful attack
being made on this hemisphere.
The harsh truth is that. in event of
a British defeat we will not enjoy
anything approaching control of the
seas until our tWoocean Navy is COM
pleted some six years hence, and not
. then if the axis powers make use of
the vastly greater naval building ia
cilities that would be at their dis
posal. In this situation there is but
one sensible course for us. and that is
to do everything in our power to make
certain that Britain is not defeated
This is no time to place our destiny
in the hands of short-sighted states
men who can see no disadvantage to
us in the transfer of naval control
of the Atlantic from British to total
itarian hands.
Evening star., 1941-01-19
New North Pole
Survey Planned
By Frederic J. HnSktn.

The announced intention of a group
of explorers and adventurers to estab-
lish weather station and airplane
base at the top of the vorld-the North
Pole-is the most daring and spectacu-
lar gesture yet made in the slow con-
quest Of the frozen Arctic Ocean While
the project would have been frovned
upon as an impossible task only few
years ago, in these days of more and
greater accomplishments the undertak-
ing may now be possible.
Mention of the undertaking raises
the time-old question repeated IN every
schoolr6om in the land-what is the
North Pole? Millions Of pupils and
others every year give answer to that
query, but even those who are right IN
their response scarcely realize the vast
ness of this mathematical spot on the
earth's surface.
The North Pole is merely drifting
and broken ice field on the sea. place
where one may walk around the word
in few PAGES. The dream OF Landing
fields there. of men living there, Of
airplanes buzzing from continent to
continent above the white, polar wastes,
is worthy Of Jules Verne. The weather
station is hazardous enough; the es-
tablishment of an airline across the
Arctic Sea seems to be far in the future.
But with better planes and engines in
the years to come, scientists and other
experts say there is no reason why It
should not be accomplished The Arctic
is not always the tempestuous and fog
shielded mystery which most people
conceive. There is not much known
about meteorological conditions in the
interior Of the basin, but explorers Go
know that there are long spells Of calm
clear weather. and that storms are not
so frequent over the ice-locked sea as
supposed.
Evening star., 1941-01-19
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Evening star., 1941-01-19

A further cut in the Japanese
standard of living is predicted. If
this can be accomplished it will be
even more remarkable than splitting
the atom.
Evening star., 1941-01-19

:, The Associated Press Is EXCLUSIVELY entitled TO
the use for Iepubllca ton Of all news dlspatcheB
credited to It OF not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rights of puhlica ton of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-09
7O1, ,253 Common Shares Of C.L. .&P. Are Offered
Public Sale Started Today-Drexel Co Heads Under
 writing Group-Stock Priced at $4z.50

holdings of The United Gas Tm- provement company which, through formal application to the Securities and Exchange commission under the Holding Company act, disclosed its intention to dispose of its holdings In the Connecticut property.
 The remaining approximately 39 per cent. of the company's common is widely distributed among inves- tors, principally in Connecticut.
 Beside the outstanding common stock totaling 1,148,126 shares, capi- tai structure of the company con- sists of 68044 shares of $100 par value 1-2 per cent. cumulative preferred and $49,531 ,000 of funded debt as of December 31 ,1940.
 In addition to Drexel & Co., the underwriting group includes Smith, Barney & O., Hartman Ripley G O., Incorporated, The First Bos- ton Corporation, Mellon Securities Corporation, Blythe & O., Inc, Bonbright & Company, Incorporated, Putnam & Co.,, Chas. W. Scranton & Co.,, Estabrook 6 O., Merrill Lynch, E. A. Pierce & Cassatt, Kid- der, Peabody & Co.,, Lehman Broth- CTS, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Lee Higginson Corporation, Stone & Webster and Blodget, Incorporated, Union Securities Corporation and "A other underwriters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-09
PHALEN CRITICIZES
 EQUALIzINC BILL
TorringtOn Registrar Dif- fers With Commission;
 Scores System
(By Democrat Legislative Reporter)

(By Democrat Legislative RepOrter)
 State Capitol, Hartford, April g. Patrick R. Phalen of Torrington, member of the state election laws commission of which William J. Pape of Waterbury is chairman, told General Assembly committee yes- terday afternoon that the commis- sion should have proposed method of eliminating the rotten borough" system of representation in the House before tackling other appor- tionment problems. MT. Phalen, Democratic registrar of voters in Torrington, declared he possessed "a perfect right to oppose" his own commissions recommendation.
 MT. Phalen was a witness before the committee on congressional and senatorial districts on the commis- sion's bill "equalizing" the states five congressional districts. He de- clared he had not seen the text of the proposal until yesterday.
 The Torrington man asserted that if the commission is aiming at equalization" it should first do something about representation in the House, which is controlled by Republican small towns which have only a fraction of the states popu- lation.
 MT. Pape said that the commits sion realized the unfairness of the representation system in the House but that there had been insufficient time to make a thorough-enough study of the situation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-09
MISS HAYES HEADS
 LOCAL COMMITTEE
National Catholic COmmu- nifty Service to Obtain
 Funds for Servfcemen

Miss Kathryn w. Hayes of Sum- mer street this city has been ap- pointed by Anne Sarachon Hooley, assistant executive director of the National Catholic Community Ser vice, as local representative of that agency which is one of the six affiliated with the United Service Organization for National Defense. Miss Hayes has been prominently identified in Catholic and other organizations for many years and will be active in the work of this service in Waterbury during the launching of a program of service to soldiers, sailors and defense per- sonnel.
 The $10,765 ,000 program for a na- tionwide campaign was announced April by the six national agencies of which the National Catholic Con- munity Service is part. Other agencies included are the Y. w. 0. A., the Salvation Army the Jewish Welfare Board and the National Travellers Aid association.
 The general campaign to raise funds will be officially started on June 3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-09

Common stock of one of the larg- est and oldest public utility op- erating companies in New England is being offered publicly today. The offering consists of 70l,253 no par value common shares of The Con- necticut Light and Power Company and is being made by nationwide underwriting group headed by Drexel & Go. of Philadelphia. Sev- eral hundred investment distribut- ing firms throughout the country are. participating in the offering. The stock is priced at $42.50 per share.
 Connecticut Light and Power serves a highly diversified territory of approximately 3,235 square miles with population of about 703,000, wholly within the State of Connec- ticut. The business of the company consists principally of the produc- ton, purchase, transmission, dis tribution, and sale of electricity and gas for residential, commercial, in- dustrial, and municipal purposes, 1t is stated in the offering prospectus.
 The company's properties include two steam and eight hydro-electric generating stations with an aggre- gate rated installed capacity of 194, ,145 kilowatts, together with elec- trio substations, transmission and distributing systems, and five plants for the manufacture of carburated water gas, with an aggregate rated installed capacity of 16,200,000 cubic feet per day, together with holders, transmission mains, and distribution systems. Total assets of the com- pany and its subsidiaries, as shown in the consolidated balance sheet of December 31, 1940, were carried at $120, ,148,554.
 The company has record of con- sistent earnings covering a number of years, figures presented in the prospectus show. In 1940, net in- come available for common stock amounted to $3,708, ,964, equal to $3,23 per share, in 1889 to $3,793, ,205, equal to $3.30 per share, in 1888 to $3,478,556, equal to $303, and in 1897 to $3,sOS,166, equal to $3.31 per share.
 For the 12-month period ended February 28, 194l, unaudited com- pany figures indicated net of $3,- 852,464 applicable to common, or $3.35 per share.
 Cash dividends at the annual rate of $500 per share have been paid on the common stock for a number of years.
 The stock now being offered does not constitute new capital financing by The Connecticut Light and Pow CT company, which will not receive any of the proceeds. Equaling ap- proximately 6l per cent. of the total outstanding common shares of the company, the stock represents the