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Evening star., 1941-04-20

Of marked theoretical differences In
privileges between the orders of
society and even the degrees of
education. The most distinctive
characteristics of the nation are It's
laws, which were accepted as superior
to the authority OF the King in the
Magma Charta and have been su-
preme for all ever since with constant
growth through adaptation to the
changing ideals of the people. About
this develops the sacredness of the
person and of the home of the COM
mon citizens and an ideal of civil
liberty that is equaled in few other
countries"
Perhaps these words constitute as
fair statement of Britain's heredi-
tary endowment as could be found
anywhere. DR.. Pillsbury closes his
analysis with the remark: England
has never been conquered since 1t
was England" Certainly, there have
been threats from abroad. The pres
ent danger repeats those Of Napoleon
and william II. Granted, however,
a continuance Of prevailing re-
sistance-with generous American
help in terms OF machines and
materiel-and Britain's cause will
not fail. Let it be added again that
the fate Of civilization everywhere
Is involved in the outcome.
Evening star., 1941-04-20

mentality. The war has thus far
cost Germany surprisingly little in
blood, and a few thousand extra
lives would not matter to the ruth
less Nazi gamblers if the German
people were thereby given something
spectacular to celebrate.
1t comes almost as a shock to
realize that the strange personality
which molds and guides the destinies
OF all Germans and of many subject
peoples is only flfty-two years old.
Adolf Hitler therefore stands on the
threshold of middle age. From all
accounts he carries his years we'll. A
few gray streaks in his hair and
mustache and a slight deepening of
facial lines are the sole outward
evidences of the passing years under
strains and stresses such as few men
have to endure. Frugal-living, aloof
and imperSonal, the Fuehrer con-
tinues to be less a man than the
symbol Of system which challenges
a world to mortal combat.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Mount Olympus

No small part Of the glory that was
Greece derived from the fact that at
its height Greece was not only the
center of civilization but also the
only democracy, a state Of affairs
practically incomprehensible to the
down-trodden of other nations. Yet,
by a strange twist, during all that
interval Of triumphant democracy
the country voluntarily submitted to
the control of an outside dictator
ship-the clique Of gods on Mount
Olympus.
It might be said that, inasmuch as
these gods were in reality nom
existent, so was their rule: but 1t did
not work out that way. Blind faith
and superstition called on imagina-
ton to give them reality, and imagi-
nation, with the help of racketeering
priests, did it's part so we'll that zeus,
Hephaistos and Hermes (better
known under their Latin names Of
Jupiter, Vulcan and Mercury we're
nearly as objective as modern dicta-
tors, and, in truth, seen by their
subjects not much less often than
is the Emperor of Japan today. To
the Grecians of that era, the tyranny
of the gods was absolute, but of q
capricious sort, as is luck today.
Their rule was not all bad, and 50
there was no organized revolution
against it, which might have taken
the form of an exploration of sacred
and forbidden Mount Olympus, with
the ultimate discovery Of the hollow
sham and more practical working
of a democracy freed from super
stition.
Now on Mount Olympus are being
hurled thunderbolts more deadly
than those supposedly forged by
Hephaistos and hurled by zeus. But
awe-inspiring as they are, they do
not cause modern Greeks to shrink
from their tasks.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
A Free Press

The assurance given by President
Roosevelt to the American Society Of
Newspaper Editors that there will be
no governmental control of news, ex
cept in the case of vital military in
formation, serves to direct attention
In fortnight and timely fashion to
the role that free press should play
In democracy.
Mr. Roosevelt, asserting that free
speech is in undiSputed possession Of
newspapers and other mediums of
expression, added: 1T is important
that 1t should remain there, for sup
preston of opinion and censorship
of news are among the mortal weap-
ons that relationships direct against
their own peoples and against the
world" The evidence in support of
the correctness of that observation is
too overwhelming to permit of any
dispute. When freedom of expression
goes, democracy goes with it, and Mr..
Roosevelt's candid recognition of this
fact is an effective answer to exag-
gerated reports which have been cir
culated concerning the supposed
plans of the administration to invoke
some drastic form of censorship.
1t should not be forgotten, how
ever, that with this American free
dom of expression go certain respon-
sibilities, and news reporting under
present-day conditions is case in
point. For some time there has been
a noticeable trend toward a curtail-
ment of news sources" in the Capt.
tai. and reporters often are obliged
to rely on formal news releases which
may but often do not give all of the
salient facts. In these circumstances
there is obvious need for the exercise
OF more than ordinary care in the
gathering and the writing of the
news.
A similar self discipline should be
imposed in exercising the right to
express critical opinion. 1t is of
prime Importance that full freedom
to criticize be maintained, but, at
the same time, it is even more i'm
portant now than in normal periods
that this right be exercised in good
faith and with restraint, particularly
In cases where opinions necessarily
are formed on the basis of incom-
plete factual information.
There is no occasion to fear that
the sacred rights of free speech and
free press will be abridged so long
as reasonableness attends their exer-
else, but abuse of these freedoms will
tend of itself to rob them of their
substance, even though the form be
maintained.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Safety in Defense Plants

Secretary Perkins, in addressing
the All-Ohio Safety Congress this
week, has directed attention to the
damage to defense production caused
by the recent increase in industrial
accidents. According to Department
of Labor statistics, labor wastage
through work injuries was ten per
cent greater in 1910 than in the pre-
ceding year. In many industrial
operations, the accident frequency
rate, during the past few months,
has been more than twice the per-
centage increase In employment.
Work injuries in 1910 resulted in
the loss of a billion and half man
hours of labor-suffcient to build
forty-five battleships. fifteen thou
sand bombers, or 100000 training
planes. Translated in terms OF the
output OF war implements, last years
accident toll therefore represents 4
vast loss of production.
-Four factors are held chiefly re-
sponsible for the recent increase in
accidents. These are the expansion
in employment and industrial out
put; the entrance OF a large num-
Der of new workers into industry,
less familiar with safety practices
than their more experienced COL
leagues; the congested conditions
which prevail in many plants, due
to the sudden expansion of work.
ing forces, and insufficient instruc-
tions in safe work methods, and the
lack of systematic accident preven-
tion programs, particularly in smaller
plants.
In appointing few months ago a
National Committee for the Conser-
vation of Manpower in Defense In
dustries, Secretary Perkins took an
important step toward reducing the
industrial accident toll. This COM
mittee has organized a corps OF
three hundred volunteer agents, ex-
perts in safety technique. Though
not invested with enforcement
duties, these agents regularly visit
all plants to which Government con-
tracts have been awarded, to give
technical advice on safety problems,
and recommend methods for the re-
moval of machine or structural
hazards.
In the light of the figures pre-
Sented by Secretary Perkins, there
is plainly need for even more in
tensive safety efforts, both to con-
serve human lives, and prevent an
unnecessary wastage of labor. With
industrial employment and produc-
ton continuing to expand under
the rearmament program, accident
prevention campaigns should be
widened, and safety programs should
be maintained in every industry,
both big and small.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
COMPELLED TO THINK
By the Rt Reu James E. Freeman D. D. Ii. D., D. c. L.,
Bishop of Washington

from MIN his only son who was drafted
to serve his country. He began his
statement by saying: IF there was one
man in the United States who could
have claimed to De thoroughly well
fixed, I believe I was that man." He
then went on to describe home and
business condition that any one might
envy. He had everything, everything
but a strong and sustaining religious
conviction. Under favoring conditions.
with health and prosperity this did not
matter II was only when the restric-
tions of stern necessity were laid upon
him that he found himself compelled to
think. What, after all, was the true
meaning OF life? What of its interrupted
ways and habits? After today, what of
tomorrow? Out of such reflection he
resolved to try to think his problems
through, and he tells in his admirable
confession that he turned with fresh
ened zeal to the great but long ng-neglected
words of Jesus Christ
His case is typical one. Perhaps
I needed this war to jog me out of my
comfortable, unquestioning rut and to
make me think why I am here, and
where I am going, and what it is all
about" he writes.
One OF the fine passages quoted at
Easter Is st. Paul's word: If ye then be
risen with Christ, seek those things
which are above" 1t may entail much
of mental effort to get this vision of
life. 1t may be disarranging some of
the long-recognized ways and practices
we have followed Yes. it may involve
inconvenience and the reordering of
many of its widely observed customs
and usages; but if, to use a common
place, we are to have what it takes"
if We are to be made strong and resolute
TO meet diff1cult and trying conditions
We must begin to get out of all our
thinking and reading a reasonable and
satisfying and sustaining philosophy of
life.
The story of Easter is the story of
triumph over fear and defeat. 1t Is sur
vival at its best and highest 1t is the
dissipation of the shadows and the be-
ginnings Of new kind of life. There
must come new and different kind of
world, a better, more real, more satisfy
ing world; it will come when we make
1t possible, when we rise on stepping
stones Of our dead selves, to higher
things"
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Capital SideIights
BIZ Will P. Kennedy.

Washington is a stage where human
interest events frequently can be SEEN"
Representative Foster Stearns Of New
Hampshire reminds his colleagues. For
example: He formerly was librarian Of
Holy Cross College. Wednesday night,
with other New England members, he
was patron for a concert by the music
clubs Of Holy Cross College. At the close
OF the concert Prof. J. Edward Bouvier,
directing the program, called to the dais
Augustus p Commit of Wilkes-Barre.
Pa. to lead the glee club and the as
sembled alumni in singing the alma
mater song. Mr.. Commit was at the
hotel on business trip. On the bulletin
board he saw the concert scheduled, and
as loyal alumnus attended. He was
called to the dais because 40 years ago
he wrote that alma mater song. Also
joining in the singing we're more than
q score who were with Prof. Bouvier
when he led the great jubilation song
fest in the Mall celebrating the Armis-
tice, more than 20 years ago.
There are now in the House 153 mem
bers tmore than A per cent? who are
war veterans, and in the Senate there
are IS (more than rs per cent?. Out of
this total of 178 members of Congress,
five served in the Spanish American
War and 173 in the World War, Repre-
sentative James E. Van Zandt, former
national commander of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, recently told the House
Thirty-one saw service in the Navy-s
commissioned and % enlisted men.
Three were enlisted men in the Marine
Corps. Senator Tom Connally of Texas
is the sole Senator who was in the
Spanish American War, while the four
House members were Representatives
Culkin, New York; Michener, Michigan;
Rogers, Pennsylvania; Wadsworth, New
York, and Woodruff, Michigan. Mr..
Woodruff and Mr.. Culkin served in both
the Spanish American and World Wars.
"On a black Friday, 73 years ago
March l3, 1868-there occurred under
this dome one of the most disgraceful
events in the whole history of the
world" Representative B. Carroll Reece
of Tennessee told his colleagues in urg-
ing support of bill he introduced to do
tardy justice to, and right a great
wrong" done to Andrew Johnson, seven
teenth President, against whom im-
peachment proceedings were brought.
The charge was that he had "conspired
with Booth and Davis to have Lincoln
murdered that he might become Presi-
dent" Mr.. Reece describes johnson as
"this champion defender of the greatest
document in all this world-the Consti-
tuition of the United States" and "our
third greatest citizen" He proposes the
erection of suitable memorial to john
son in Washington.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
East Capitol Street

The Park and Planning Commits
Sion's Co-ordinating Committee has
been requested to make a study of
one of the most far-reaching plans
in the history of Washington for the
development of the National Capital.
This is the DoWner- Clarke proposal
to utilize the four -block-wide area
between the Capitol and the Ana
costa River for permanent, monu-
mental Federal buildings. In many
respects it takes rank with the
Northwest triangle development of
a few years ago as a major unit OF
the modernized LEnfant plan.
With East Capitol street as its axis
and B streets Northeast and South
west reconstructed as combinations
of Constitution and independence
avenues, the Eastern Mall" more
than any other similar area in WASH
ington, possesses the qualities requi-
site for such purpose.
Originally planned by L'Enfant as
the principal avenue of the new city,
providing stately approach to the
front" of the Capitol, East Capitol
street and its environs were left
behind in the development which
swung the growth of the community
northwest. In spite of its topo-
graphical advantages, the section
was largely neglected until, in recent
years, start toward reclamation
was made. This included the Folger
Library and the proposed Superior
Courts Building just east of the Su-
preme Court, as we'll as some private
and religious edifces.
Even though actual construction
may require many years, adoption of
a definite policy and a plan to guar
antee eventual development along
the lines now proposed would be of
great value to the Capital City in
itself and, in addition, it would
rescue from deterioration one of the
city'S richest assets.
Evening star., 1941-04-20

Nothing Is more evident than that
severe strains and crises in life compel
men to think soberly and seriously
about its deeper concerns. Under normal
conditions the average man takes life
as 1t comes, spending and being spent"
with little of thought about its deeper
implications. When some trial or stern
experience comes, he is driven away
from his superficial thinking and COM
PEELED TO use new standards by which
to appraise life and its finer purpose.
Recently, a Washington correspondent
Of the press made the observation that
we needed something in our daily news
papers to serve as an antidote for the
tragic stories that occupy so large a
part of the space. People get too much
Of the stern and brutal facts about life,
they read so much about that which is
cruel and terrible that they come at
length to regard Its repeated recital
with complacency and cold indiffer-
ence." I'VE need" ne continued, more
of the reassuring and hopeful truths of
religion; more Of that which restores
confidence in the high purpose of life"
We are advised that there Is an in
creasing demand for books that, in
simple understandable ways, relate deep
religious beliefs to the common con-
Germs Of every day living. There is a
growing undercurrent Of religious feel
ing, quite inarticulate, that is evident
in our world Of today; what it will lead
to Is yet to be disclosed This Easter
season. with its mighty lesson this trying
year, has been regarded with more of
reverent reflection than In other years
when life was undisturbed by the
tragedies of war. What is the answer
to the surging problems that face US?
What of the real purpose and ultimate
destiny OF men and their proud institu-
tions? Are the things of Christian
civilization coming TO some cataclysmic
end? These questions press for an an
swer.
Some time ago we read the frank and
ingenious story of man, one OF the
average, who was driven to deep reflec-
ton by the mounting problems Of life.
He began his recital by telling of his
self satisfied, care-free way of living,
until suddenly he was faced with the
fact that a new kind of world disorder
had interrupted all his plans, materially
affected bis financial status and taken
Evening star., 1941-04-20

another few months of training the
Army will be force of real Importance.
Then there is the Air Corps. The bulk
Of modern fighting planes and bombers
is going to the British. At the same
time the Air Corps has more than 1000
trained pilots and soon will have 10000.
There are available about 1000 planes of
all types. This force, in action, might
tilt the balance in the air fighting that
still has to be done.
American industry is beginning to
produce war goods in important quanti-
ties. A vital bottleneck in powder Is
removed. Production Of rifles and ma
chine guns is approaching the stage of
mass output, Aircraft are being turned
out in larger numbers with an increased
proportion of each months total con-
sisting OF fighting planes. Output of
light tanks is at the rate of more than
five a day and is rising while output
of medium tanks Is about to be stepped
up. Only in the special and larger types
of artillery-anti-airc artillery and
field artillery-is the production problem
still unsolved.
The result is that the United States
no longer is unprepared for war and no
longer needs feel helpless In the moves
that may be ahead.
Evening star., 1941-04-20
Hitler's Birthday

With truly regal honorS, Germany
celebrates the birthday anniversary
Of its Supreme Fuehrer. Adolf Hitler
Throughout the expanded Third
Reich which he has created, public
buildings and private homes fly the
swastika banner-by order of Propa-
ganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. In
Berlin the usual professions of for
eign diplomats and other notables
visit the chancellery to inscribe their
names In the visitors book, while
flood Of congratulatory letters and
gifts pour in from all parts of the
Reich and even from abroad.
However, the customary parades
and other festivities are omitted be-
cause the Fuehrer is away on i'm
portant business. He is at military
headquarters somewhere in South
eastern Europe" poring over maps
and planning with his generals the
delivery of a knockout blow to the
Anglo-Greek armies which so stub
bornly contest the advance of his
legions. Until that resistance Is
broken and Britain is deprived Of
her last foothold on the European
continent, the tremendous costs and
human sacrifices of his latest blitz-
krieg will have been largely in vain.
The battles now raging all along
the war front from Mount Olympus
to Albania are the sternest test to
which the German war machine has
yet been put. Current press accounts
of the fighting describe a pitch of
fury surprising that attained in
France and the Low Countries last
May and June. The Germans OBJ
viously are in a hurry and are driv-
Ing forward regardless of losses. In
part, that is the German military
tradition. The general staff ex-
poets to pay for its victories and
does not hesitate to expend men
and materials with seeming prodt-
gality in order to attain major
objective. However, there may also
be a psychological factor involved
the winning of some notable tri-
umph to coincide with the birthday
anniversary of the Supreme Leader.
The Hitler legend" is carefully cul-
tivated by DR.. Goebbels and his fellow
psychologists, who know so we'll how
to play upon the sentimental and
mystical qualities Of the German