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Evening star., 1941-11-27

sends the American gospel abroad
acqualntlng the listeners. many of
Whom are IN captive countries. with
the American plan, the American
strength and news that is not
Uttered by German censors. South
America is the Rockefeller short
wave province
Task number two Of Col Donovan
Is TO gather for the President in
formation that will bear on the
formulation of high policy and the
influencing OF public opinion. For
this work the colonel has gathered
group of professors from manv
colleges, at work in the Library of
congress. The 0. c. l. calls their
pedagogical agency its Research
DIVISION. Others call it the Faculty
CLUB. 1t is dim and mysterious.
What work it does is not for the
public TO know about. Suffice to
say 1t delves in old tones in the
Library, seeking knowledge of value
for today.
Col. Donovan has petitioned the
President for more space in a nicer
building. He works now near the
gas works on the fringes of Foegy
Bottom. The visitor leaving the
0. c. I. building can continue
further west, enter Rock Creek Park.
turn north and amble to the Buffalo
Bridge at @ street. Across the
bridge. just inside Georgetown. is
flne new red brick apartment
house, every bedroom with a bath.
Before a tenant moved in, the
Economic Defense Board took it
over for its own.
The Economic Defense Board
view. 1t has sent south a book of
the Presidents speeches, trans
lated into Spanish and Portuguese
1t subsidies monthly picture
magazine, En- Guardia, published
headed nominally by Vice President
wallace, is baby. set up July 80,
194l. But already 1t employs 725
persons and 1t proposes to expand.
Its business is to shut to the bellig-
erent Axis all economic intercourse
with the countries outside Europe
In Europe, of course, all countries
but Russia are. from a necessity
born OF unfortunate juxtaposition
under the Axis thumb.
E. D. B. manages the economic
campaign against Japan. 1t has
taken over the export control func-
tlons formerly exercised by the Army
and the State Department. The
Army regarded international eco
nomlcs from strictly military view
point. The State Department was
giving civilian export clearances so
slowly that South America was grow
ing bitter. E. D. B. aims at speed
and at conducting the economic war
from the viewpoint of grand policy
rather than simply military needs.
But, using experience Of men who
have dealt with the problems, E. d.
b. is stated by many Army officers.
The Economic Defense Board and
the Donovan Office are both vet so
young that they have not been fitted
into the scheme of the o. E. M.
But the Lease-Lend Administration
and the Rockefeller Office are part
OF that super-Government agency.
VIE corral of initisldom.
Evening star., 1941-11-27
New Terrorist Raids
In Occupied France
Are Disclosed
Train Near AbbeviIIe
Deroiled, Property in
Poris Dynomited
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
V1CHY, Unoccupied France, Nov.
77.-German-controlled Paris news
papers reported today a new series
of terrorist attacks in occupied ter
ritory, including derailment of a
train near Abbeville and dynamite
attacks in the capital.
The disclosure was made in a
statement by Col. Gen. Ernst Won
Schaumberg, German commander of
the Paris region, who yesterday an
nounced the city had been fined
100000 francs (officially 100000
for the bombing of a Nazi-requisi-
toned restaurant.
He did not give details of the
latest dynamite raids except that
they were directed against property
or installations belonging to the
German Army"
Newspapers reported one of the
places damaged by dynamite was
the Left Bank Bookshop" on the
Boulevard St. Germain, in the STU
dents quarter. The shop had been
taken over from the Communist
party and turned into collabora-
ZIONIST propaganda center.
Derailment of the train at Able
vile, in Normandy, was the second
such incident in few weeks. In
vestigators found a jammed switch
and derailing plates on the tracks,
indicating the work of technicians
with special railway tools.
Won Schaumberg expressed him
self in Paris newspapers as par
ticularly annoyed at the failure of
the civilian population to help Ger
man police find the persons respon-
sible for the dynamitings. They
are still at large, he disclosed.
The German commandant likewise
warned that he would recommend
death before firing squad for
anybody found with dynamite in
his possession.
(Several Frenchmen in the oc-
cupied zone already have been
shot for possession of explosives,
which is illegal under German
military law
Evening star., 1941-11-27
Lockjow Kills Hunter
After Freak Accident

Harry Childs, 81, of Park Lane,
Md. died last night in Providence
Hospital of complication resulting
from a freak hunting accident, po-
lice reported. He contracted lock-
jaw, according to the report.
Mr.. Childs was said to have fallen
on a sharp stick while hunting in
Maryland November II. He did not
think the wound serious, but went
to a private physician a week later
and subsequently was admitted to
the hospital.
Evening star., 1941-11-27
M. !. T. Head to Speak

DR.. Karl T. Compton. president
Of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. will address the Wash
ington Society of the institute at
its monthly dinner at the Y. w.
c. A., Seventeenth and K streets
NV, at S pm. tomorrow. His topic
will be Some Things M. I. T. Is
Doing for National Defense"
Evening star., 1941-11-27
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

Senate:
Routine business.
Labor Committee begins study of
legislation providing waiting Pc
riod" before defense workers can
strike.
House:
In recess.
Labor Committee studies plan for
compulsory arbitration of defense
strikes.
Evening star., 1941-11-27
Clergy to Hear ToIks

Juvenile Delinquency" will be
discussed by Judge Ben M. Hedrick,
School Supt. Fletcher Kemp and
Welfare Director French M. Clev-
niger at the luncheon meeting of
the Arlington (Va) Ministerial As
sociation at noon tomorrow at tho
Washington Golf and Country Club.
Evening star., 1941-11-27
-Four Official Agencies Wage
Credit and Propaganda War
They Spread the American Gospel,
Backing 1t With Funds or Commercial Curbs
(Fitth OF a Series.)
By BLAIR BOLLES.
A C-mile uya

Emile walk part of along the grassy hisideS Of Rock
Creek Park will bring the explorer of the Washington
attened Government to the doors of four official agencies which
help America England the English Allies the against
Germany without firing intending to fire They
of the inadom, Government
the first bomb fell Poland.
The Lend-Leae Administration the Oice Of Coordi
Informaton the Coordnaor
Evening star., 1941-11-27
,epoft for Last "a Hours,

Record for Last "a Hours.
Highest, 81, At noon today. Year
ago. 40.
Lowest, 80. at 7:1o today. Year aso, 2s.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 100, on July %.
Lowest, is, on March Is.
Humidity for Last "A Hours.
Nrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 6s per cent. at an. today.
Lowest. % per cent, at pm. yesterday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
At Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear At Great
Falls today.
Evening star., 1941-11-27
Weather Report
FURNISHED BY the United States We,

Weather Bureau
District OF Coumbia-Continued
ABOUT degrees tonight; moderate westerly winds
and west Vrgnia-Continued
atures tonight and r
VrgnlaFa tonight
and freezing temperatures portion TONIGHT
Evening star., 1941-11-27

"eaher Cohoisions Last "a Hours.
Fair weather continues over all sections
OF the United States under the influence
OF TWO hlgh-pressure systems. one Of which
mas remained stationary over the western
plateau region and the other overlies the
pressure trough system extends from New
England westward along the northern
Border States to Montana, but this system
has been characterized by its lack of
activity. Temperatures have risen some
what over most Of the eastern portion of
but the weather continues cold for the
season over the Southeastern States.
Evening star., 1941-04-19
Wants Something" Done
To Stop Unreasonable" Strikes.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
I wish to commend and comment on
David Lawrences column appearing in
Wednesdays Star.
The hope that official Washington
would at last do something about strikes
has expired. The strikers we're told that
they were naughty boys and must not
play so rough, the "isms" apparently were
told nothing. Would taxpayers strike
be rewarded with lowered taxes and a
mild reprimand? Of what use for the
Dies Committee to spend the taxpayers
money to unearth ism" evidence, If
nothing is done about it?
The Constitution of the United States,
Article III, section 3, defines treason
thus: 81. Treason against the United
States, shall consist only in levying war
against them, or in adhering to their
enemies, giving them aid and comfort" d"
If the enemies in our midst are not levy
ing war against us I don't know what
you would call it.
Wars used to be declared, now they're
undeclared but they still are wars never
theless. However, if no existing law can
be used against these enemies there still
is no law against making new law, Is
there? MRS. NJ. S. SNOW.
Evening star., 1941-04-19

the power of the Germans to damage
an undefended residential center. It
is admitted that the r. A. F. can
and does spread havoc in those
portions of the Reich which it is
able to reach. The threat to strike
at Rome if Athens is hurt is not an
empty gesture. Mussolini has ample
reason to believe that the British
could make good such a pledge.
But the devastation of cities alone
will not terminate the war in victory
for either side. Meanwhile, it is
remarkable that Hitler seems to be
incapable of realizing that he is
educating America to hate him and
to resist him. Thousands of citizens
of the United States have known
and loved London. 1t stirs their
wrath to hear of the willful destruc-
ton of churches, hospitals, schools,
historic monuments and whole rows
of workmen's tenements uselessly.
Evening star., 1941-04-19
Tells How Food in France
Is Commandeered by Germans.
To the Editor of The Star:

As you probably know, the French are
strictly rationed. For one thing, over
80 per cent of foodstuffs brought to them
from their colonies is at once shipped
through in bond to Germany And in
Nice, which is one of the garden spots
of the world, even potatoes are rationed
to one pound week per capita The
rest of the crop is sent to German
occupied territory. In the case of po-
tatoes, not only are they nutritious but
they can also be used to make alcohol,
which, in turn, releases gasoline to fuel
raiding bombers.
Seemingly, German experts have fig
ured out just how much the people need
to keep them alive. Therefore, when
they hear of shipload of food arriving
from the United States, they immediate
ly commander not that shipload but it's
equivalent from the French people They
are only too glad to have the French
receive our food. 1t looks humane in
the eyes of the world and it also enables
the Germans themselves to obtain more
supplies. AS the Germans have already
an adequate store of food from all the
countries in Europe. they are not the
ones who are starving.
The idea of sending help to Free
France is a great one, but it is being
abused.
ANN INGALLS, WARBURTON.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Evening star., 1941-04-19
"WARRENTON, Va.

Dear Sir:
Reading your department, as I do
every day with much pleasure, I often
see M favorite, the mockingbird,
booked as the villain of the piece.
Il am glad do not run feeding sta
ton if 1t gives such an ugly view OF
bird nature. My sister puts out food
for the birds in snowy weather, and
have watched mockingbirds at all sea-
sons all my life, and have never seen
them fight except In defense of home
and family.
However, it would take good many
pecks on starlings to lower my admira-
ton and love for the mockingbird, the
finest of all American singers and said
by some who have heard both to sur
pass the nightingale.
II have never heard attention called
to the fact that it is also the most
constant of singers. Most birds sing
in the morning, some morning and eve
ming; many sing only in the spring or
early summer, but this bird sings all
around the calendar and all around the
clock.
Il think I once heard it in January,
but have certainly heard it freely and
persistently in all the other months.
IF the weather is at all mild it sings
up to Christmas, though in a soft and
subdued tone.
Its spring opening is usually in early
February, later this year. Perhaps that
was because his lady love delayed her
return from the South, and who could
blame her? But after beginning, Mr..
Mocker stops for no weather, no matter
how wintry.
They call him greedy, but I have
often wondered how he gets time to sus-
tain life at the height of the singing
season, for he scarcely breaks his tune
day or night. I have heard him strike
up at moonrise, near midnight, even In
cool weather.
His greatest singing season, strange
to say, Is not spring but midsummer,
late June and July. For this song fest
our special mocking bird at my old
country home had circuit of three tall
trees, the house forming the center of
the triangle.
AT intervals, he would fly from one
to the next, singing all the way
Then from his perch at the very top
OF the tree he would dash upward 10 to
20 feet in the air, and drop down in a
whirl and f1utter of white-barred wings
and perfect ecstasy of song. This has
been described by writer's as the drop
ping song
Il agree with most things in your
column, the beauty of the dove, for
instance, though you do not mention the
exquisite curves of It's head and neck,
and your friendly attitude toward SPAR
rows ano starlings
The startling, by the way, is a very
good mockingbird itself. But while the
mockingbird, like Shakespeare, improves
everything he borrows the starting spoils
good notes by an ugly, hoarse voice.
Three notes the starting is very fond
Of all badly adapted to its throat, the
cav of the crow. the 'pot-rack' of the
Evening star., 1941-04-19
Civil Service Order

The thousands of Government
workers who stand to benefit will
welcome the announcement that
President Roosevelt soon will issue
an order making the Ramspeck
Civil Service Extension Act effective
by bringing into the classified service
positions now excepted by law. Ac-
cording to the best estimate avail
able, approximately one hundred and
fifty thousand employees will have
the opportunity to qualify for civil
service status under the order, which
will mark another milestone in the
drive of merit system advocates to
rid the Federal service of the incu-
bus of patronage, and build toward
careers in Government. To the ex-
tent that this is accomplished, the
order will be cause for qualification
not only to the benefciaries but to
all those who are interested in the
cause of good government.
The order is due to take effect
January l, next, thus allowing for a
sufficient lapse of time in which to
lay the groundwork for its applica-
tion. This will be long enough to
permit all employees who seek to
qualify for civil service under the
terms of the act to have the six
months satisfactory service that is a
prerequisite. 1t will also give the
various establishments the opportu-
nifty to designate those positions
which they believe should continue
to remain outside of the competitive
service. Policy-making offices and
those subject to Senate confirmation
are exempt by the law itself. Others
of confidential nature, and some for
which it is not feasible to hold ex-
aminationS likewise stay out.
The only fly in the ointment is the
seemingly with some founda-
tion-that legal posts generally are
likely to continue to be exempt from
civil service, with the appointive
power vested in a quaSi-govern-
mental committee of lawyers drawn
from official and civil life. This is
the program formulated by four
members of the committee headed by
Supreme Court Justice Stanley F.
Reed, which recently drafted a re-
port for the President on personnel
procedure-a program that was
sharply criticized by the other half
of the committee. Supporters argue
that in this day the Government
needs the best legal talent available,
and that such a selective system
would insure it. That is the sort of
contention invariably raised by those
who seek to avoid the regulatory
processes of civil service, and for the
good of the merit system, it is to be
hoped that the President rejects it.
Evening star., 1941-04-19

ploye would be entitled to receive
back pay from the United States
Treasury. This provision is unwise,
at least in its present form, for it
opens the door to grave abuses which
could be rectified only at public ex-
penSe.
There is no reason, however, why
undesirable provisions of the bill
cannot be eliminated in the House
and Senate, and, if this is done, there
are compelling reasons why the basic
purpose of the measure should be
given approval without delay.
Evening star., 1941-04-19

the present Soviet Ukrainian Republic. ."
then in order to reach the Eastern
Ukraine, i. e. the so-called Dneiper Uk-
raine, they will first have to traverse the
Western Ukraine
Thus the threat of invasion endangers
territory not of 10000 square miles.
but approximately 25O,OO0 square miles.
A conservative estimate of Ukrainians
on ethnographic Ukrainian territories.
which also includes Carpatho-Ukraine,
now under Hungarian domination, is
100000. This number represents about
IS per cent of the total population of all
these territories, the remaining 25 per
cent being composed Of various national
minoritieS. In density of population, the
Ukraine approaches the proportions of
France. Whereas the Eastern Ukraine
is famous for its black soil, wheat and
other agricultural products and the
Donetz coal mines, the Nazis also coyet
in the Western Ukraine the oil wells of
Eastern Galicia, the corn fields of Bess-
arabia and Northern Bukovina.
The political leaders and the public
IN the Western World frequently neglect
to study the problems of Eastern Europe.
but knowledge of these problems is in
dispensable for the future reconstruction
of Europe.
Evening star., 1941-04-19
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. Trdce1DeH.

guinea hen, and the bluebirds lovely
fragment of melody.
when the whippoorWill was COM
mon mere its distinctive call was
much used by the mockingbird, but
now nave not heard it for years either
first nand or initiated.
But last summer I was surprised to
hear a whippoorwill quite plainly in
the daytime and close at hand. looked
and found it was starting. I suppose
in his explorations he had come in
contact with this now rare bird and
brought the song back with him.
Sincerely, M. G."
Few birds have more loyal friends
than the nlockingbird.
Every time this column contains
something inimical to the mocker,
many persons write in about it.
Some of us will have greater admira-.
ton for the wood thrush.
Others proclaim the cardinal their
prime favorite. The bluebird and the
chickadee and even the little wren,
have their advocates.
Bird lite is so varied, and so colorful,
both as tC songs and feathers, that it is
not strange that some one combination
should stop the show, as far as some
individual observer is concerned.
This dCes not mean that others birds
are not liked, but simply that the
favorite iS-the faVorite
Life is that way.
The writer here has always liked dogs.
of all breeds and no breeds, but the
bulldog family remains his favorite, just
why he does not know
Admiring Scotties, and police dogs,
and choWs, and beagles and many others,
he nevertheless rejoices most over the
sight Of a bully, whether in the old
English breed, the Boston, or the Arneri-
can bull terrier.
Not all bird lovers regard the mocking-
bird as the finest of all singers.
Perhaps it is mostly matter of what
sort of song you like
The mocker is an exponent of the
bel canto style of singing, flowing with
a long melodic line.
The wood thrush appeals more to
simple natures who admire most the
folk songs with their solid four" beat
and simple melodic pattern.
Ecstasy in the air-such is the shortest
description Of the morning, or dawn,
serenade now beginning. For those who
love music of symphonic proportions,
this is the best of all natural musics.
in which every bird plays its natural
part.
1t is true what our correspondent saws
about the mockingbird being the worlds
most tireless singer.
Few birds manage to get in so many
phrases snd manage them so well, even
II they have to steal them! But one
day last summer We heard a fine speci-
men making a miserable Job of initiating
wood thrush. 1t was as if the thrush"
had a bad cold and also needed some
oil on his vocal hinges.
We are glad our correspondent spoke
OF the curves of the doves neck. Some
thlng OF the same praise goes to the
ordinary pigeons neck. especially if the
sun Is shining on the bird.
Evening star., 1941-04-19
@. Will a man with fiat feet be ac-
cepted in the Arny?-W. McC.
House in the Wood

Whoever builds his house among the
trees
Puts measured 1UallS around an
airy space,
The righttul pathway OF the summer
breeze;
His floors encroach upon mosSy
place
Where green leat-ShGdoi0s fell,
t0here feettng 10tngs
In passing met no th1Uarting doors
nor bars.
This was the haunt of those shy.
furry things
That creep from hiding by the
light OF stars.
So must this house be filed NTH
gentle words
And gracious nays, and be
humble guest
OF foDer and fern, OF butterflies and
birds,
Those helpless claimants rudely
diSpoSSeSsed;
And let man EtDe in kindly brother
hood
Among the natiUe dwelIers OF the
Dood.
INEZ BARCLAY KIRBY.
Evening star., 1941-04-19
Destroying London

For years prior to the beginning of
the second World War men hoped
that such conflict might be avoided
if only because it would involve the
destruction of great cities. Even
when the compromises agreed upon
at Munich had failed to bring peace
and it became inevitable that Britain
and Germany would have recourse
to arms again, there were many per-
sons who hoped that London and
Berlin would be exempted from
aerial bombardment. That aspiration
seemed reasonably tenable during
the first months of the struggle. In
the summer of 1910, however, each
of the principal belligerents adopted
an "all out" policy.
The Germans, of course, were
possessed of an advantage in their
occupation of air fields in France
and in the Low Countries from which
their bombers easily could cross the
Channel to attack long list of
legitimate military objectives and,
more recently, open towns in which
civilian morale was the only target.
1t was natural that British democ-
racy should demand retaliation on
the Reich. The R. A. F., handicapped
by the distance to be flown, has done
it's best to punish the Nazi capital.
A hundredfold penalty, it was an
nounced in the name of Der Fuehrer,
would be exacted for the blasting of
his opera house. The promise has
been kept, but to what purpose?
Robert P. Post, in special cable
to the New York Times, referred to
Wednesday nights strafing of London
as utterly and completely futile as
far as advancing the war is con-
cerned." The ridiculous, infuriating
part of the whole business" he said,
is that it "does not get anybody any
'forrader'" After an experience of
"sheer hell" the people of the largest
city on earth we're not ready to sur
render. They merely draped Union
Jacks over the ruins and quickened
their work of keeping Britain alive
and free with spirit reinforced by
anger. Hotter defiance" of Hitler
is the answer which England has
given to his demonstration of ruth
lessness. A similar reaction presum-
ably might be expected in Berlin
if British flyers turned the tables.
Certainly, it cannot be argued that
blitzkrieg methods are Ineffective
when employed against unprotected
communities like Rotterdam and
Belgrade. There Is no question about