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Evening star., 1941-12-08
Health Needs

III was only natural IIldC hedlIu
Officer Rutland should seize with
alacrity the golden opportunity af-
forded him by the Commissioners
and members of the House District
Committee to press for early COM
pletion of his health program for
the District OF Columbia. Advised
at a recent committee hearing to
"get tough" in seeking what his
department needs to improve Wash
ington's unsatisfactory health record,
and promised the full support Of the
Commissioners, DR.. Rutland prop
erly has placed responsibility for
tagging program where 1t largely
belongs-on insufficient appropria-
tions.
Without attempting to apportion
blame for the fund deficiency among
the District Building, the Budget
Bureau or the Capitol, the health
officer has determined to reiterate
his previous requests for additional
money with which to expand health
center work, public nursing, inspec-
ton activities, disqualification and
other essential services which have
been circumscribed by financial
limitations. In eliminating budget
items for certain Of these services
in the past, the Commissioners and
Congress were actuated by desire
to effect economies. Regardless Of
whether there was any justification
heretofore for some of the cuts made
in DR.. Ruhlands estimates, emer-
gency conditions resulting from the
sudden growth of defense activities
in the Capital have lent an urgent
aspect to such needs as a health
center and augmented hospital IA
cilities in the Southeast part of the
city.
DR.. Rutland proposes a health
center in the Anacostia area, of the
type Of the one in Southwest Wash
ington and the projected center in
Vic CClltl dl -RNOA VllWCSG SCSUlOII. 4AC
also seeks 20O-bed maternity annex
to Gallinger Hospital. 1t is i'm
portant to note that the immediate
need for both of these buildings
arises chiefly because of the extraor-
binary expansion Of population in
connection with defense develop
ments at the Navy Yard and at
Army and Navy reservations across
the Anacostia River. The Gallinger
Hospital annex was included in the
original list Of emergency projects
to be financed under the Lanham
Act, but the Federal Works Agency
ruled that the undertaking was in
eligible, according to its interpreta-
ton of the acts ambiguous language.
1t is now up to Congress to see to it
that all ambiguity is removed from
the law and that the F. w. A. is
given a clear mandate to allocate
whatever funds are necessary to pro-
vide for Washington's defense-con-
nected needs, including those related
to DR.. Ruhlands vital task Of pro-
tecting the health of this nationally
important community.
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Cowbell

Grandsir lifted from its dusty bed
The bell that had knoUn Uhere sleek
herds fed,
And the rusted tongue in the oval
throat
Held magic ,oithin its nenaoried note:
There 1oas April mater in 1cakened
streams,
And fddlehead ferns uncurled from,
dreams,
Summertime daisies, leaves autumn
gold
All this and more the note retold:
And Grandsir, s,Dtngtno the dusty
bell,
Was young Nth the years he heard
It tell.
JESSIE M. DOWLIN.
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Defends Finland's War
On Soviet Russia.

To the Editor Of The Star.
A well-known writer recently has
called Finland to account on several
points, namely: For signing the anti
Comintern pact, for recognizing Man.
chukuo, for being fairly well prepared
for this second war; and because Hitler
spoke Of Finland as mis- ally at the out
break Of the Russian Finnish war.
In signing the -Comintern pact
Finland has only been consistent while
the rest of the world has done a merry
nation battered by the broken pledges
Of Russia, she declares herself anti
Comintern. She has not signed the Axis
treaty nor given any proof Of being tied
to that dogs tail ideologically or other
wise.
In questioning her recognition of Man
chukuo, the inference is that Finland
y admitting the rightness Of aggression
and throwing democracy overheard.
Such an Interpretation would lack a
sense Of proportion. We know beyond
doubt that the Firms have built up as
fine an example of working democracy
as can be found today and her CO. opera
tives. established by popular demand,
are Of the order Russia has starved and
exiled her people into accepting.
Small thanks to the United States or
Britain that Finland had arms in l941.
The loans she had to beg from us be-
tween 1889 and 1941 were all restricted
to civilian commodities to be purchased
here. While we wept crocodile tears over
the sturdy morality of Finland and over
her defenselessness, Sweden has loaned
and given her 100000, 900 unrestricted.
The Firms reconditioned captured Rus
sian material; and Germany, opportunist
and realist, sent arms to be used against
her erstwhile ally and refused permis-
sion to Molotov to Nquidate Finland al
together.
Hitler did not call Finland his ally in
his declaration concerning the war
against Russia. He said that in the
north Finnish and German comrades
stood together defending Finnish soil.
Had the Films been ready for war they
would hardly have been, as we know
they were. two weeks late getting into
action after Russia attacked them.
Mr.. Hull requests that Finland cease
fighting, return to her 1899 borders or
forfeit our friendship. In the first war,
had the Firms chased the Russians to
the Volga. they would have been cheered
to the echo. Today, for obvious reasons,
We do not want to see the Russian
strength wasted. We give Finland orders
and are powerless to give her any guar
antees of safety. She found 80 air bases
in Karelia, six new railroads and many
highways pointed at her heart. Pardon
us, she says. if these facts make us
unduly apprehensive aand we keep con-
troll of this territory until general peace
comes again.
The value of Karelia for Russia is the
Murmansk supply route. Germany has
already cut the railroad near Leningrad,
far south of where the Films have cut it.
German troops are in Norwegian and
Finnish Lapland threatening Murmansk
The route has become too dangerous for
Russian supplies. II the Finns' line Is
threatened by drawing it across Karelia
to the White Sea, 50 Is Russia's. The
Firms have no reason, ethnologically or
strategically. to 90 further. The Ger
mans know there q N end even to
Fnn1ah endurance. They could hardly
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Explains How Japan Has Offended
Against Whole Society Of Nations.
To the Editor Of The Star


BY a-sublimation Of racial pretensions
with an accompaniment Of insults and
threats, a war in the Pacific suddenly
has been precipitated that by common
obedience to sovereign reason. which
serves the supreme interests Of each ma
ton, should have been averted.
The unimpeachable position Of the
United States recommends no resort by
officials who are charged with the pro-
lection OF our interests, and those of each
treaty nation, to undignihed epithets.
America is better prepared for war
than Japan; however, a conflict with
that nation cannot be 50 desirable as the
cooperation of the land Of Meiji with
the peoples of the West whose civiliza-
tlon, threatened by Germany. is invinci-
BILE end whose enemies inevitably must
submit Internationally or perish.
vital factor that the Japanese expan-
sionists-by-force seem to ignore is the
certainty that, were such q scheme
realizable, the establishment by them of
an Eastern Asiatic hegemony would turn
against them the remainder of that conti-
nent, the totality of Europe and the
Americas. The project is impossible and
such an assertion requires no argument.
No nation on the earth, not Germany
and not Italy, who desire in self-interest
to sacrifice Japan, sympathize with the
extravagant presumptions of those who
profess to express that nations purpose,
which cannot be asserted to represent the
peoples will. The Emperor could not
volitionally assent to an unsheathing Of
the nations soul in an unholy war.
The supreme imminent danger in the
Pacific situation is in the military control
OF Japan. Hostilities have begun with no
declaration Of war, this being permissi-
BILE IN practice and law. Several decades
ago japanese prize court justified the
opening of war with Russia with no
declaration by asserting that during the
negotiations Russia, instead OF replying
to Japan, assembled war vessels and
troops "and thus showed her determine
tion to fight"
The belief prevails that Japan never
responded to Americas fundamental
representations and that the United
States cannot admit of a contradictory
basis Of negotiation which would con-
stitute resignation of American treaty
rights and submission of friendly peo-
Piles to virtual japanese Jurisdiction.
Arbitrament by arms Of the Japanese
American dispute, besides being COM
pletely irrational, would be extremely
prejudicial to Eastern Asia for an age,
The Supreme Court of the United States
pronounced that the laws Of war, as
established among the nations, derive
from reason; and so do the laws Of peace.
The disagreement with Japan might best
be resolved by these nations, for them
selves, by turning to that memorable
dictum of Japanese court which SOL
emnly asserted that, as international re-
lations are presently conducted, wars
are inevitable" In respect Of the United
States, war became unavoidable only
when American OR universal interests
and rights were invaded. America did
not desire to injure Japan but will suffer
no injury from Japan nor acquiesce in an
injury to the community of nations by
Japan. EDWARD CONN.
Evening star., 1941-12-08

@. How much air does the average per-
son breathe daily?-M. D. H.
A. Nearly 400 cubic feet Of air pass
through the lungs Of an adult each day,
but this quantity can be double by pro-
longed muscular exertion.
@. Where is the famous panoramic
painting, THE Pantheon de la Guerre?"
M M G.
A. 1t Is at present in storage at Balti-
more.
O. What organization in Canada is
similar to our Federal Bureau Of Investi-
gation?-R. L. H.
A. There is no agency or organization
corresponding exactly with the Federal
Bureau Of Investigation. However, the
government agency that most closely
resembles the F. B. I. is the Royal Cana
dian Mounted Police. They do detective
work and at the present time are giving
a great deal Of attention to espionage
investigations.
@. Who was the first white man to visit
Arizona?-E L. K
A. The first white man to. visit Arizona
was Fray Marcos de Mia who Travelled
from Mexico City in 1889 in search Of
mineral wealth.
@. What percentage Of light is lost
with a frosted electric light bulb?-
r. j. NJ
A. The National Bureau Of Standards
says that the loss caused by the inside
frosting OF an electric bulb is only to
2 per cent.
@. How large is the Woodlawn Gene
terry in New York City?-B. F. H.
A. The cemetery comprises 400 acres
O. What is the theme song Of the
Blonde" program?-P. K. S.
A. 1t is composition entitled "Blon-
die" by Billy Artz.
@. When galloping does a horse ever
have all four feet off the ground at the
same time?-C. w. H.
A. There is one phase in the gallop
when the animal is entirely of the
ground with the four legs flexed under
the body.
@. How can poison ivy be eradicated
from lawns?-E D. E.
A. A solution of 3 pounds of COM
mon salt in a gallon of soapy water
sprayed on the leaves is effective. An
other remedy is old lubricating oil
thinned with kerosene.
O. What became of Emmett Dalton Of
the robber gang?-J. c. r.
A. Emmett Dalton. the only surviving
member Of the gang, died in 1887. He
had served prison term. reformed, and
after release worked for improved prison
conditions.
O. How many records Of the Andrews
Sisters songs have been sold?-L. j. H.
A. Eight million OF their recordings
have been sold.
Evening star., 1941-12-08

expect her to storm Leningrad or march
to Archangel, nor will Finnish troops
be Of any value with Hitlers bayonets
at their backs. Hitler seems clever
enough to know It,
Since our object, and we presume,
Russias. is peace with Finland, and we
can neither guarantee nor threaten her
effectively, let Mr.. Hull use his good
offices to persuade Russia to accept
fait accompli, Finnish control of Karelia
until the world war is ended, and begin
an era of honesty and understanding
with Finland which can protect them
both.
Neither Maginot nor Mannerheim lines
hold today-Canadian fortress boun-
daries do hold.
MRS. s. l.. M. BARLOW.
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Discusses Causes
OF Hitler Hatred.

To the Editor Of The Star:
What makes Hitler possible? Three
evils: Intolerance, selfshness and cow
ardice are responsible. Let us try to
analyze Hitler from his own words.
First he was thwarted in school. His
parents wanted him to be civil worker.
He wanted to be an architect Then his
parents died leaving him stranded in
Vienna. There he nearly perished of
pulmonary disease.
Begging charity and working at odd
jobs, he tasted the bitter dregs of life.
He saw the fate of the slum family where
alcohol and poverty makes existence
hell for many families.
Then Hitler began to hate. He assailed
ardice, for unwillingness to sacrifice some
comfort in order to remedy some of the
ills of the masses. He called legislators
and parliamentarian fools, grafters and
do-nothings who talked and talked for
self-interest and for the benefit of few
who put them in Office. He condemned
the masses as stupid fools.
Ihen this man VINO survived the mael-
strom of revolution set himself up as
the champion of superior race. His
vigor and dynamic personality won him
fanatic followers.
If. he wins over Russia, he again will
try to appeal to the imperialistic ex-
ploiters of England and the race phobiacs
Of America to come over to his side.
No warfare In human history has been
more of a threat to Christian civiliza-
ton. Can Americans and Christians
afford to let Hitler win?
E.B. HENDERSON.
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. Hdsktn.

A reader can get the answer to any
question OF fact by priting The Epe-
mag Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington,
D. C. Please tnclose stamp for reply.
@. How much does 1t cost daily to feed
q sOldier?-G. r. M.
A. The Quartermaster Generals ONCE
says that 1t costs between A and 43 cents
per man per day to feed soldiers in the
United States Army.
O.. What was the message left by the
late Marion Zioncheck, Representative
from Washington?-D. r. 8.
A. He left these words written on a
piece of stationery in his room: MY only
hope in life was to improve the condi-
ton of an unfair economic system"
@. Does President Roosevelt speak any
foreign language?-L. v.
A. The President speaks French dv
emily. He also speaks German and reads
Spanish.
@. How many persons have syphilis7
&C. j. H.
A. There are 100000 syphilitics In the
United States, less than 800,0 Of whom
are under medical care.
Q. What became Of the children Of
Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton?-
G. B. j.
A. Horatia, the daughter Of Lady
Hamilton and Lord Nelson, was born on
January %, 1901. She married the Rev.
Philip Ward and from them is descended
the present family Of Nelson Ward. She
lived to be 81 years old. Their second
child, born in February, 1904, died In
July Of that year.
Q. Was the noted French actor, Co.
quelin, ever in this country?-H M.
A. In 10000 he toured America with
Sarah Bernhardt playing Flambeau to
her Due de Reichstadt in Rostands
"L'Aiglon."
Q. What is the salary Of railroad pas
senger conductor?-W. P. P.
A. 1t is $3,322 a year.
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Calls for Super-Plan
To Relieve Traffic Congestion.

To the Editor of The Star:
Now that Mr.. Hankin Is member OF
the District Public Utilities Commission,
perhaps the commission can get down
to business and try to solve some of the
transportation problems affecting mu-
nicipal government.
Perhaps all parties concerned with
furnishing transportation services to the
people who work In the District will have
to get together with the Public Utilities
Commission and city officials on super
trafnc plan that will insure complete and
convenient accommodations for all.
FREDERIC dERHARDT FROST.
Evening star., 1941-12-08

Those persons who should be con-
tritely modest include the optimists
who were so sure that war never
could come to America "bulwarked
BY two mighty oceans"
Evening star., 1941-12-08
Both Muy Be Useful

From the Alma (Kans) Enterprise:
In the shoot on sight" system Of war.
fare. It u more important who sisnts
thAa who shoots.
Evening star., 1941-12-08

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Evening star., 1941-12-08
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 1Urite,c: although the use OF
q pseudonym for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters 1Uith
q Uie10 to condensation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

an employer To refresh Mr.. Colts memory,
Beth says in her affidavit:
AS early the Summer of 1924 and
shortly after our said marriage. l met defen-
dants daughter Ethel IN New York and later
in London also his sons Samuel and John y.
Colt In 1929 defendant his daughter Ethel
and I were together in London b"
Never heard Of her says Ethel Jr.
Il have dined with father once a week
regularly which has been my custom for over
20 years" says her affidavit. 1T is abso-
lutely untrue that I have ever met plaintiff
| have known my father to be. in the COM
pany of a great many women at different
times. have never known my father to be
married to anyone other than his present wife
who was formerly Gwendolyn Mary Gray, or
his former wife my mother"
Her brothers John and Samuel put in
similar affidavts of 1000 ignorance.
Russell maintains that he was paying Beth
$3.50 a month butshe- says-she- dad -HetkHepF
that it was supposed to be her salary as
housekeeper and secretary. She explains that
she always thought it was handed to her as
wife 10 pay the servants and running expenses
of the apartment and she used 1t for that,
Russell for 10 years never suspected that
this was what it went for. Nor does he seem
to know as Beth declares. that all this time
she was charging up everything including fur
b..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

mer wife he would prefer such a contract
marriage. and allow the same to become
gradually known through his more intimate
friends and acquaintances and thus avoid
further newspaper notoriety
He convinced me that such a marriage
entirely proper and lawful
On or about June Is. 1924 we agreed
between us 10 become husband and wife and
such went to live in an apartment at
~ West 57th Street where we lived con-
tinuously for 10 years
I entered that apartment as Mrs Russell
c. Colt the wife Of the defendant I lived
there for Is years and left there as Mrs Rus
sell G. Colt known TO the servants we
employed and to all persons who were ever
employed in the apartment and building in
any capacity, Mrs Russell G. Colt, the wife
of defendant
During said 16 years defendant and l con-
Quoted ourselves as husband and wife toward
the-world and publicly acknowledged and de-
clared ourselves such to our friends neigh
bors. acquaintance tradespeople and others,
and recognized each other as holding the re-
lationship of man and wife and were so recog-
nized by our employees friends neighbors &C
quaintances and tradespeople"
Never heard Of it, says Mr.. Colt and
in his answering affidavit he asserts:
In 1925 I engaged plaintiff as my house.
keeper and secretary and she continued as
such, with certain exceptions until dispensed
with her services in August 1889. When she
first entered my employment in my duplex
apartment l occupied the front bedroom up
stairs and she slept the cot on the floor
below. and when l not present in the
apartment she would occupy the bedroom"
Beth swears that there was no cot down
stairs. only a couch that could not be made
up a bed and that she always slept in the
bedroom which would mean if both are truth
full that Mr.. Colt never knew that she was
around Husbands have been accused of not
noticing wives new hats and frocks. but this
would be a record for poor powers of observa-
ton in a husband.
However. he says he was not a husband but
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

the same time might have made some persons
suspicious that it meant. as Ethel Barrymore
would say: IT'S all there is, there isn't any
more"
This Is what she signed under seal
BY these presents do for myself and my
heirs. executors and assigns release and for
ever discharge Russell G Colt from all man
ner of actions, causes of actions debts. and
claims whatsoever from the beginning of the
world to the date of these presents"
But when Beth learned that Russell and
Shawn Gray had gone over to Connect
cut and married. she realized that her husband
was not showing due respect to their own
alleged eommon-law marriage. which she
claims dates from far back of 1883 when
these free-and-easy relations became void by
statute in New York State.
The best way to prove a marriage good Is
to get a divorce separation SO Beth has
brought suit for the latter with 81 600 a month
airH1uny and $500 counsel fees
The bride burst into tears Of astonished
dismay al the suit. She SAID she had been
entirely ignorant of all this ignorance
All in all the situation is most unusual
Without doubt of. the ladies is married
to Mr.. Russell Colt. But until the court
passes Judgment on the question the world
will have TO remain in ignorance on that
subject too
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

grounds we're support. rot cruelty All
tins, though terribly important news at the
time was somewhat dmmed in recent years
because brother John Barrymore has occupied
the public eye so persistently that he has
almost put IT out
Bright and early the following year Russell
met Beth Tate who says she at that
time musical comedy star earning $1,000
a week
II so her press agent should be given
life sentence at hard labor or capital punish
ment or both because Mr. Colt svvears that
he never heard of her career until she brought
II up in her suit recently
That staggers the imagination Who ever
beard Of such a modest actress And who
fever heard of wife tand Beth says she
considered herself his wife for 16 years
neelecting To remind her husband all that
time that she had sacrificed all that money
for him?
And # as she says she did Beth logged
his memory often enough. how could he be
so inattentive as not 10 hear it
one Of the afIidavits Of Beth Tate Colt,
Who says she was 26 years old at the time.
states.
In the early Spring of 1924, was intro
duced to defendant in New York City by
Odette MYRTLE now Mrs Stanley Logan. At
that time defendant was about 40 He had
recently been divorced from his former wife.
Ethel Barrymore. which decree he exhibited
to me. Immediately after meeting defendant
he entertained me frequently at dinner and
theatre and became ardent wooer
About the middle of June, 1924, defendant
persuaded me that he loved me very dearly
and 1 confess that l reciprocated his affec-
tons. He asked me to marry him and l
agreed.
AT several meetings prior to our mar
-rfHVe defendant explHned to me that con-
tract marriage. or a common law marriage,
as have since learned it is called. was quite
as effective as a ceremonial marriage and
that because of his prominence, partly due
to his business and the unpleasant publicity
incident to the divorce obtained by his for