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Evening star., 1941-05-16
Water Chestnut Potomac Menace Dees Effort to Eradicate
Fore AND AFT

Pointing the way to closer friend
ship between two supposedly oppos-
ing camps in yachting-sail and
power-Capital Yacht Club motor
boat membership this week received
an invitation from the Potomac
River Sailing Association to join
with the latter group IN its annual
regatta and rendezvous at Gunston
Cove over Memorial Day week end.
The invitation was extended at
the clubs monthly meeting by
Charles Trammell, jr,, vice COM
modore of P. r. S. A., who told the
yachtsmen of plans for the three
day event off Alexandria, Va, OPEN
ing May 80.
On that day WaShington's sailing
racing fraternity will assemble off
Old Dominion Boat Club for start
Of their traditional race to the cove.
Winner on corrected time will be
awarded the Commodore's Cup, do
mated this year by Commodore Paul
Tomalin.
Anchoring overnight on the
cove's south shore, the fleet will re-
sumo competition Saturday. That
night supper and campfire will be
| staged on the beach.
The fleet returns to Alexandria on
| Sunday, racing back from the cove
for trophy donated by DR.. Ralph
BARNARD, who has been selected re-
gatta chairman.
/ Snno 20
Annual dinner of Potomac River
Power Squadron during which GER
tlncates will be awarded to new
members who have passed examina-
lions In plotting and seamanship
will be held May % at the Harring-
ton Hotel. Ralph C. Smith, COM
mander of the squadron, will pre-
side, and prominent yachtsmen and
Government officials will attend.
Capt. Bill Wales is handling din
ner arrangements.
The largest snipe class fleet on
the Potomac now is assured with
enrolment here of three new snipe
owners, according to Fleet Capt
George Wilcox who reports the
group will continue racing through
the summer-long after the spring
series of P. r. S. A. has come to a
close.
Newcomers include Mr.. and Mrs
Grant Morris, owners of Bobby-Dot;
Charles Dills, skipper of Zephyr
and Charles Ruff, who will sail the
Pirate. The latter two are members
of Columbia Yacht Club. A fourth
snipe, veteran here, is AL Greever'.
Alvern, now owned by Miss Tommy
Osborne.
Capt. Wilcox said the fleet would
race through June and July for the
snipe class international high point
scores. Organized racing under P
r. S. A. sponsorship is scheduled t.
close this month. That group, in
cidentally, will hold the third anc
final doubleheader this Sunday ir
Georgetown Channel just above
Hains Point.
A triangular dinghy match amone
sailing groups at the University OF
Evening star., 1941-05-16
Deer So Plentiful
They Scatter EN-
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
WENATCHEE, Wash.-There
are so many deer in the scenic
Lake Chelan country near here
that they have to be trapped and
hauled away.
Despite a heavier kill on bucks
each fall by hunters, the deer
continue to multiply in the area
and farmers complained of dam
age to their crops.
So the State game department
baited box traps with alfalfa and
apples and transported the cap
tured deer to other sections of
the State where the animals were
not so plentiful.
The program has been pro-
nounced success, with deer be-
ing shipped as far as 300 miles
without loss or injury.
Evening star., 1941-05-16

Maryland, George Washington and
Georgetown will be held in Wash
ington Channel tomorrow beginning
at 2 pm. Five races in all are
planned. Each school will be rep
resented with two teams.
Ten Named to Capitol Y. C.
Ten boatmen were elected to
membership in Capital Yacht Club
this week. They are William G.
Vaughan, owner Of a moth boat;
George B. Reeves, latest owner Of
the fast little sailing dinghy Flighty;
Adolph L. More, a 30-foot cruiser;
Kathryn L. Ewing, 20-foot sloop;
Frank L. Teuton, 27-foot cruiser:
Robert L. Swope, 30-foot cruiser;
Richard McHenry and John Markle,
owners of comet sloopS, and Ken
meth w. Kierst and Maj. D. P.
Gaillard.
Three of the four officers of the
20-Foot Glass Yacht Racing Asso-
citation recently elected by mail vote
are Washingtonians. They are Carl
ton Skinner, president; Judge Prem
tice Edrington, second vice presl-
dent, and Charles Trammel, jr..
secretary treasurer. Earl Harder OF
Annapolis, Md, is first vice presi-
dent.-M. L., jr.
Evening star., 1941-05-16
Making of Fish Hooks Is Intricate Task
Manufacturers Feel Their Problems Are Greater Than Anglers
Wide World Photo.

machine. We also have licked
that problem"
Scores of machines are turning
out hooks, ranging from tiny No.
14s for artificial flies that catch
trout, to giant 14/0 shark and
salmon hooks for deep sea fish
ing.
An order for a special hook in
wolves the making of an entire
new layout of special machinery.
I'VE even try to visit the 10
cality where the hook is to be
used so that we become familiar,
at first hand, with the fisher
mems problem" says Wright.
I'VE intend to keep this business
after the war ends, when strong
European competition will be
back"
Evening star., 1941-05-16
Returns After Army
Engineers, WiIdIife
Service Attack
Submarine Cutter Seen
As Possible Solution
To Serious Problem
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.

A return of what has become a
real menace to navigation along a
40-mile stretch of the Potomac River
beginning at Alexandria-the water
caltrop or water chestnut-again has
forced the hands of Army engineers
and the Fish and Wildlife Service,
with the return of warm weather.
While the Interior Department an
nounced yesterday that the two
agencies apparently are gaining
control of the plant" in the Potomac,
local yachtsmen who have made
early cruises down the river report
the Towering pest shows signs of
returning in all its vigor.
Water chestnut seeds sprouted
early last month and petals now are
appearing on the surface in large
numbers, according to these observ-
ers. Following its usual cycle, the
plant will blossom into flowers next
month and by July new seeds will
begin to mature.
Stems Long as IA Feet.
Forming a dense vegetation of
large mats of floating roseates, the
chestnuts are held to the bottom of
the river by stems, some as long as
IA feet. Practically all submerged
vegetation, including food plants for
water fowl and fish, virtually Is
wiped out by the growth.
To many boatman-zbe he canoe
ist, sailor or motorboat operator
the plant presents major problem
in navigation. In water less than
feet it is almost impossible to
move and currents frequently sweep
miniature Sargasso Seas into the
main channel ways.
Many are the yacht propellors
and rudders that have become
snarled in the stuff since it became
a major pest in 1888.
That year, Army engineers and
plant experts began cooperative
efforts to remove the plant. Chemi-
cal spraying and the more drastic
and effective underwater moving
were attempted. Since control opera
tions began, smile stretch along
the Potomac between Washington
and Alexandria has been cleared up.
Large Area Remains.
There still remains, however. a
large area used almost daily by rec
reation seekers which cannot be
called free. Fortunately for Chesa-
peake Bay yachtsmen, the plant has
not spread to that area. Apparently
it is unable to grow in salt water.
Thus far, chemical methods of ex-
terminating the water caltrop have
not proved successful, the Wildlife
Service admits. Underwater cutting
machines of various types have been
tried with varying success" the
service reports. Army engineers now
are working on plans to construct an
underwater mower that may meet
all known obstacles.
Meanwhile, a local yachting event
of major Importance, the annual
Memorial Day weekend regatta of
Potomac River Sailing Association,
will find Washington shippers re-
signed to battling not only tides and
perhaps adverse winds but the water
chestnut pest.
Veterans of the annual 15-mile
race to Gunston Cove on the Vir-
ginia shore know that sailing any
where but in the main channel is
sheer folly. Many skipper ignorant
of the menace has found his position
hopeless when he took short cut
across shoal water.
The water chestnut plays no IA
vorites. That is why all interested in
the aquatic future of the Potomac
would like to see it wiped out for
keeps.
Evening star., 1941-05-16

They had to find a way to tenn
per'hooks so they didn't break, at
the same time producing them by
machine instead of by hand labor.
THE tempering problem was 6
tough one" says Wright. "Ex-
perts told us there was no known
process in this country for tenn
pering fish hooks in quantities
because the extremely fine point
had to be as finely tempered as
the other portions of the hook,
where the metal was as much as
hundreds of times as thick as
the point.
I'VE had to start from scratch
and build machines to do the job,
but we finally succeeded.
Likewise we devised a way Of
hollow grinding the points by
Evening star., 1941-05-16
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, May 16-Take 1t
from Drew McGill and Stan
Wright, the problem of having
fish take hold of it isn't the only
one connected with your fishing
hook.
McGill and Wright, a couple
of fellows whose love for fishing
finally developed into a flourish
ing hook and fly manufacturing
business, say there are hundreds
of problems that must be solved
before the fisherman ever gets
his hand on the equipment.
When they first started their
buSiness-which has grown to a
three story building filled with
200 employees turning out millions
of hooks-they had two major
puzzles to solve.
Evening star., 1941-05-16
Boot Thut Set Record
Burned in STORAGE

Bill Cantrell's Why Worry, the
T25-class speed boat which set a
record of 98.368 miles per hour last
fall, was burned recently at Louis
vile, KY, when fire destroyed the
storage building.
Evening star., 1941-05-16
Motorbout Show
January 9 to II

The 1912 National Motorboat
Show will be held in Grand Gen.
trail Palace in New York January
GIT, Henry R. Sutphen, presi-
dent of the National Association
of Engine and Boat Manufac-
turers, has announced. He also
disclosed the appointment of
George w. Codrington of Cleve-
land as chairman of the Show
Committee. Codrington succeeds
Charles A. Criqui of Buffalo, who
retired after many years in that
post.
Evening star., 1941-05-16
Annapolis Squudrons
Receive Charters

Charters for two new local squad
rons at Annapolis, Md, and Geneva,
N. Y, have been issued. by the gov
erning board of the United States
Power Squadrons.
This brings the number of U. S
p. s. units to IL.
Evening star., 1941-05-16

A triangular dinghy match among
sailing groups at the University of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19
Revenue From Gambling

This evening, two legalizing
gambling will be considered general orders in the lower
house of the Montana legislature These bills would egaze
practically every of the gambling racket and the
selling argument for them that egazng the rackets and
fixing license fees for conducting them will bring in sufficient
to for the aged with adequate pensions.
Whether not these bills will be enacted into law remains
be they will reflect credit this leg
satve assembly and their the of
ate benevoence going justify letting down the bars
for the horde of racketeers which will invade the state
We have instances where the family wage ured
by the illusion that he might his earnings
sitting in gambling lose all that he had in little while
leaving nothing for food and other of himself and his
family This will happen frequently if gambling egazed
It happens often enough though gambling is illegal
There u.s. OF valid for the existence of
places of gambling with against gambling
However, because of the existence of these laws the family
of the who loses his money quite often
does collect the lost from the gamblers They know that
they have standing in the courts and offer defense
They publicity and generally quite willing
and "hush it up
Gambling carried of larger cities because
of the failure of public opinion demand the
laws Law enforcement officers police officers
for failing to enforce the laws of the state Charges
been made at times that fail in their obligations
the people of the state that the influence of the gambling
racketees reach into the haowed precincts the halls
of justice
Would legalzing gambling remedy conditions materially
We believe not We understand that local option provisions
Incorporated the bills probable very few of
the counties would permit gambling under those
And the possible and probable take of the law enforcement
officers would be greatly reduced The "ocal option
provisions, counties and municipalities where they would
refuse to egaze the rackeeerng would change cond
tons in the least from what they at the time
There still another angle this entire proposal It final
~ advocated by the interests preventive meas
ure insurance policy against taxation of their
from the working people and the
of the state They know only too WE'LL that there tremen
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19
The Gravy Boat

With hundred million dollars having be-
nothing but small change in the defense is
inevitable that the possible leaks of funds in the form of what
may be termed favorable concessions to various industries
should become somewhat torrentia Among the prime la
ders of the boat probably be listed the SNIP
building corporations
percent profit limitation naval vessel
struction has been lifted and the skys the limit Last
fall the Navy department let contracts toang
build the ships authorized make the twoocean
Only fourth of this business went to yards
The handed private shpbuiders S76ooOO0O to expand
their facilities rather than to expand the government yards
The navy complains that the minimum wages which must be
workers orders dlscourages private
tractors from bidding on navy work
say that the private shpbuilding con-
going suffer privaons Since 1885,
the materials has advanced "a but
the to the of the three main groups of vessels
advanced follows Cruisers 80 percen desroyers 80
percent; aircraft carriers 80 percent
Just example of how 'payrotc the private ship
building firms The 350OOton North Carolina being
constructed the governments New York Navy Yard and
completed will $75,000000 It's sister ship, the
South Dakota exact duplicate is being built by the New
Shipbudng Company and priced to Uncle Sam at
$88,OO0ooO And in the common mans language, $ls-
100000 profit isn't hay
Another instance Of profteeng attempt which somehow
escaped the of the newshawks of
resignation of Francis F. Murphy OF New Hampshire who
long replaced Frank M Folsom take charge of
the job of outfng the with shoes Folsom who seemed
seriously and tried only decent
footwear for the boys but also seemed to have regard
for the taxpayer the matter of for shoes contracted
for frowned by the New England Shoe Manufac
Association As result, he relieved of his job
his place filled by the appointment of Murphy who
member of the shoe manufacturers organization and
heavy stakeholder and director of the j. F. Nc
Elwain Shoe Company in New England.
When Folsom buyer of shoes for Uncle SAM he had
placed order with the McEwan Shoe Company for shoes
price of $265 but when Murphy took the business
the company ebed and the price pair of shoes
jumped to $40
Under Murphys shrewd buying Uncle 84O pairs
for of 1881 per
pair Folsom had managed to buy at price of
2.83
However some nosey correspondents
Job Murphy doing-for himsef-and the smell of his
wasn't liberal got hold of the story
result that Murphy suddenly discovered that his
personal affairs required all of his attention and he just had
Uncle Sam the hole far his great services
concerned
And nobody to feel it's great loss unless it is the
New England Shoe Manufacturers Association
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19


ployes of a concern 60 out on
strike. Some government official
comes along and says to the
strikers: Either you 60 back to
work or we will draft you into
the army
OF course, it's all supposed to
be for the defense of Democ-
racy. But what kind of "defWse
of Democracy" is that? This
kind of attack on unions is ex-
actly what Hitler did in Ger
many. This kind of attack on
unions is exactly what went on
in France in the name of defend
ing French democracy. And you
know what happened in France.
But even more than that. it
implies something that |, and
/ will guess most other Amer
leans. do not like. 1t implies that
going into the Army is some
kind of punishment. 1t implies
that the Army is going to be
used as a nationwide concentra-
ton camp for those who defend
their wages, their jobs, and the
American standard of living
against assault.
Our Army was created to de
fend American Democracy. If it
is going to be used as a strike
breaking agency, its purpose will
have been subverted. That will
be using it to destroy our De-
mocracy, not defend it. And
Americans don't want to destroy
their Democracy. Democracy pro-
tects America and Americans.
We want to defend it.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19

reprinted from FRIDAY azasazins
NIX

never has been-an exact science, and
the social and economic outlook of
the learned judges has always been
the determining factor in close de-
cisions on controversial questions.
Liberal judges are no different today
than they have ever been; neither
are conservative, or reactionary,
judges.
While the daily press and the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturer
henchmen are tuning about the re-
cent decisions of the supreme court,
it might be well for them to remem-
Der that John Marshall (the Great
John MarshalP') was appointed chief
justice after the American people
people had elected the radical"
Thomas Jefferson, president, for the
specific purpose of interpreting the
Constitution in accordance with con-
sentative lights. They wanted to
keep the country safe by keeping the
courts SAFE" Now the shoe is on the
other foot and they do not like it.
Here are a few supreme court de-
cisions in which the social and eco
nomic viewpoints of the judges were
the determining factors, as can be
seen by the divided court votes which
lined up the conservative and liberal
judges on opposite sides:
The most famous was the child
labor case, when the court, by
five to four vote, deprived the chill
dren of America of the protection
of that humanitarian act In the
so-called minimum wage case, a
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19
Leadership

Ou0 Jay, through LQ6 pTlm6Val WOOu
A calf walked home, as good calves
should,
But made a trail all bent askew,
A crooked trail, as all calves do.
Since then, three hundred years have
sped,
And, infer, the calf is dead,
But still, he left behind his trail,
And thereby hangs my moral tale.
The trail was taken up next day,
By lone dog that passed that way
And then wise bell-wether sheep
Pursued the trail Ger vale and steep
And drew his flock behind him too,
AS good bell-wethers always do.
That forest path became lane
That bent, and turned, and turned
again.
That crooked lane became road
| Where many a poor horse with his
Toiled on beneath the burning sun
And Travelled some three miles in
one.
Thus, men a century and half
Followed the footsteps of that calf
The years passed on, with swiftness,
fleet
That road became village street;
And this, before men were aware,
A city's crowded thoroughfare;
And soon the central street was this
OF renowned metropolis.
And men two centuries and a half
Still, trod the footsteps of that calf
And from that day, DER hill and glade,
Through those old woods, a path
was made,
And many men wound in and out,
And bent, and turned, and crooked
about,
And uttered words of righteous wrath
Because twas such crooked path
But still-they followed-do not laugh,
The first migrations of that calf,
And through that winding woodway
stalked
Because he wobbled when he
walked.
Each day, a hundred thousand rout
Followed that zig-zag calf about,
And DER his crooked journey went
The traffic of continent.
A hundred thousand men were led
By one calf, near three centuries
dead.
They followed still his crooked way,
And lost a hundred years each day
For thus each reverence is lent
To we'll established precedent
A moral lesson this might teach
Were | ordained and called to preach,
For men are prone to go it blind
Along the calf paths of the mind
And work away from sun to sun
To do what other men have done.
They follow-in the beaten track,
In and out, and forth and back,
And still the devious ways pursue
To tread the path that others do.
They keep the path sacred groove,
Along which all their life they move.
But, how the wise old wood-gods laugh |
Who saw that first primeval calf
All! Many things this tale might teach,
But, | am not ordained to teach
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19
THE CALL. OF WAR
By MARTIN P. OWENS

BY MARTIN +. OWENS
800 Lafayette Bldg, Detroit, Mich
Send me your youth, the best of your
youth,
The courageous, clean and strong
From city, hamlet and countryside
Where life is careless song.
Have him forget his house of dreams
With ivy round the door,
For | have task for his eager foot,
Wallowing deep in gore.
Send me your youth, the pick of your
youth,
You may keep the other kind.
I'll tear the song from his careless
The dreams from his boyish mind
I'll drive him out where the cannons
roar,
And rend him limb from limb
And when I'm through you can have
him back,
Or all that is left of him.
In heart that's free from brutality,
| will SOW the seed of hate
Till he goes forth with lust to kill
Like crazed inebriate,
III twist his soul with shameful lies,
AS he carries my banners high
And prate to him of sacred cause,
While he stumbles out to die.
You've sent me your youth, the best
of your youth
A thousand times or more
And I've left their bones in shallow
grave
On some beleaguered shore.
I've plundered the world and laid it
waste
With youth as my helpless tools,
Each time l call, you send them all,
For you are such hopeless fools.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19

supreme court decision upholding the
wage-hour act: "The fact that the
United States supreme court has up
held the law does not, of course, have
any bearing whatever upon the cur
rent debate whether its application
should be suspended in defense indus
tries for the period of the emergency"
/. -. The Norwegians, according to
report, are showing little interest in
the cultural manifestations of the
new (nazD regime" Steps are now
being taken by the nazis ito force
proper understanding" -. Says a
recent National Aeronautical Associa-
ton newsletter: much has been said
of the story that the British received
inside intelligence from Lindbergh as
to the relative conditions of the nazi
and soviet air forces. Too little has
been said of the fact that the Presi-
dent of the United States has had at
his disposal every bit of information
that was available to Lindbergh, and
much more besides"
Given time, 1t is now accepted as a
fact. that American and British air
plane production will reach and sur
pass that of the nazis 4. 1t is diff
ficult to follow the logic of those who
say that it is necessary to suspend
the wage-hour act in the interest of
national defense while there are still
several million able-bodied men seek
ing employment 1t leads to the sus-
picion that it is not national defense
that they are primarily interested in.
Sponsors of the Logan Walter
bill, which seeks to hamstring law in
order to get additional supporters. +. :.
Although everybody talks about Ease
ism, very few people seem to be in
agreement as to what fascism really |
IS. A number Of persons on Capitol |
Hill recently were asked to give their
definitions of fascism, and no two Of |
hese definitions were alike. A |
'gerrymander" is being out in Cali
ornia aimed at making it impossible
or Jerry Voorhis, liberal, to be re-
elected to congress. !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-02-19

dous swell public opinion to provide adequate pension
for the gives them the filters for fear that
movement be made to assess their boaed profits 1t is
for this that sales gambling license provisions and
producers have their ponfca blessing
The question Montana impoverished
that license racket which the weak
of mankind in order to raise should certainly
be carefully considered Do think absolutely
to raise for services to citizens from
which carries probable suffering of innocent and chill
dren in its wake? We do not think