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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-11
BY WESTBROOK PEGLEE


ing so fast now that il ]
impossible TO see anything dis
tinctly and an issue is no sooner
raised than it vanishes from
view and other shapeless, fuzzy
objects fly past.
Questions are not settled. but
forgotten.
There is no time 10 bother
with an honest. clean decision
whether unions have a right to
iaSSo men and then call them
out on strike against factories
engaged in national defense
work.
There is no time TO decide
honestly whether unions have a
right TO exact license fees from
workmen. We are willing to set
tie for vague promise that they
will not eXtort too much. and let
1t go at that.
THE President himself adopts
i the term "appeaser' TO an
swer honest. patriotic men who
resist his course, and none of us
has time TO argue or to listen
TO an argument that they have
a Fi6fTtt6 their beffefs.
Are they all honest. patriotic
men who oppose the President?
OF course not. because Hitler's
agents. Mussolini's dwindling
groups and Communists all are
what might be called appeasers.
But many good Americans OPP
pose intervention. and we are
too busy and hurried TO be fair
to them.
The same propagandlsts and
statesmen who angrily resented
the general classification of Ness
Deal radicals as Reds. whether
they were StallnlstS or not. nOy
call all men 'aPReaSers a void
which suggests disloyafty AMI
covert Observation-Disclosures
with the governments var pro
gram
TIVE President promises. IN J.
bury way, That The mate
rial aid which will be sent TO IN,
enemies of our enemies viii b.
returned In the same form OF u
the form of goods.
Does any one believe that
Probably not. but we haven
time TO stop and tax il out.
1t didn't even sound well whel
he said II, but something had t.
be said on the subject. and n
was impossible to say that this
time the debtor nations would
pay back their loans in money
We know they will never pay
for this war equipment in
money. marbles or chalk, but
we have TO be told that they viii
until, eventually. we come 10 the
point OF conceding that they
can't pay and that we shouldn't
ask them 10.
When this war is over there
won't be any money in which
they could pay Us. and if they
should try 10 pay US in manu-
featured stuff our navy would
sink their cargo boats a thou
sand miles out to protect our
standard Of living from the COM
petition of cheap European
labor.
RY THAT time we won't he
- needing their rubber. We
will be making rubber out Of
wind, will power and seaweed.
And there is no use looking
now, we are going so fast. but
do you remember what the
President said about his de-
termination that nobody would
get rich out Of this war?
You can't see much more
than the outlines now. but wal,
until the merry-go-round slows
down and your vision clears.
+ You'll see millionaires all right.
! am afraid TO think what else
we will see when the merry-go-
round slows down.
copyrighted BY United Features evnt II.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-11

AaNNfsR VI I'M sARNthh y -
NA Automotive Engineers
rarely display much Of that
quality of annual bingc that
gives so many American buSi-
-nrSS conventions the appearance
of a1Thlinkit PotfdCh. and lgorot
Canyow or the yearly picnic OF
Inc Brotherhood OF Bnng Start
CTS
They are about half way be-
tween learned society and
union of hard-boiled executives.
This year il Was all thai way in
its gatherings. Life is real life
is earnest" and. so far as they
are concerned. there is blood on
the moon
All the large companies are
Joined up with the big airplane
companies, to produce parts or
engines for airplane assemblies
on a scale that is dizzy in its
MAGNITUDE
There may once have been
some mutual rivalry, some fear
among the aircraft manufacture
ers that the automobile people
would like TO take over their
business. or some apprehension
among the motor folk that air
plane work would hamper car
production There is no evidence
of anything of that kind now.
The Detroit people are actually
taking The LEAD in combined
production and. 50 far as I can
see. holding back nothing 1t
isn't confined 10 aircraft produc-
ton either.
These great manufacturing
establishments are Straininq
every effort 10 do whatever the
office of production manage
ment wants them TO do on
tanks. shells. guns. cartridge
cases. armored cars or whatever
else they can fit into their pro-
duction lines.
THEY are not hagglng about
Il profits or commercial con-
ditions. This confirms at the
manufacturing end what | heard
at the overhead management
end in Washington before l
came to Detroit.
In many ways. the extent 10
which this has gone is astonish-
ing. In our competitive system
where combination and joint ac-
ton by manufacturing concerns
is forbidden under heavy penalty
by the law, il requires at least
some government leadership, If
not outright government sane
ton, for competitors TO act to-
gether.
Up to a few days ago there
wasn't even any authorized
leadership. There is Is no forth
right government sanction In
the meantime. without warning.
even without prior planning, the
biggest formleSs mass Of billions
in war orders was belched in
the face Of a leaderleSs and I'M
organized induStry-the bulk Of
it within the last few months.
do not mean TO say that
vast production is going to be-
gin to flow tomorrow but. after
at least a glance at what is CO.
ing on here. I think some of the
estimates have been too pessi-
mistic.
Perhaps not in the necessary
balance and coordination. but
to very important results, l
think we shall have a tremend-
Gus outflow early in 1912.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-11
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-11
lies BEEN doing some leg
IL work and here's his story:

=
II work and here's his story:
What l been doing makes me
wish l lived in Watcher, la.
Then Z could have. a good time
at "A ball game. You 20 To the
Polo Grounds and yell for the
Giants and if you amt lot
smarter than l was all these
years you don't know that these
ballplayers come mostly from
tank towns.
"Of course, we got sandlots
here, and maybe we get IA
frankie Frisch or Heinie Zim-
norman or Lou Gehrig, but
that's about like rolling fours
and making six straight passes.
THE guys that can belt "a
baseball around come from the
sticks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-11
Questions
Forgotten in
u. S. Furry
Honest Americans Nov
Branded as ''Appeasers

The opinions expressed b.
Wesfbrook Pegier are not neee,
soriIy those of The Detro.
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Laugh and the world laughs
with you.
Weep. and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must
borrow its mirth.
But has trouble enough of its
own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
To know. 10 esteem, TO love,
and then TO part.
Makes up LIES tale to many a
feeling heart
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-11
Hymie Augen
Complies
Some Facts
Learns Baseball Greats
Hail From the Sticks
BY EDWIN {. HILL

WE TOLD our friend, Mr..
W Hymie Augen that if he
wanted to continue 10 sound off
in this corner he would have TO
dig up some facts. We admon-
ishal Mr.. Augen that he runs
TOO much 20 philosophy.
Philosophy Is all right in its
place. we told him, but you
couldn't keep on pulling it out
of your hat. lie would have TO
shake leg and find out what's
doing around town. instead of
gust Squirrellng up clippings
and trying to make a book on
them. or figure them this way
OF thai.
He started an argument in
-Slsting that five had more
-SaAA-A about facts We al
ready have we would be better
off But. OH the "fofc, Mr..
Augcn strives to please.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-11

MEETINGS Of the Society of
Az Automotlve Engine ers
rarely display much Of that
quality of annual bingc that
gives so many American buSi-
rryS conventions the appearance
of a Thlinkit Potidch. and Igorot
Canyow or the yearly picnic OF
tho Brotherhood OF Bung Start
Evening star., 1941-08-23

careened into a truck while pro-
ceeding east on / street after the
accident, witnesses said. The i'm
pact knocked the child's body a
considerable distance and jolted
both his shoes off. The boy was
pronounced dead at the scene and
his body was taken to the District
Morgue, pending an Inquest.
Buddy, second grade pupil at
st. Mary's School, is survived by his
father, Stanley Armitage, boiler
repairman; his mother, Mrs. Eliza
beth Armitage, and three sisters,
Helen, IL; Dorothy, Is, and Eliza
beth, 16.
Another child, Ruth Staples, COL
ored, 5, of the 1900 block of Virginia
avenue NV, was seriously injured
yesterday when she was struck by
car while crossing the street at
Twenty third and F streets NV.
She was treated at Emergency Hos
pital and removed to Children's
HOSPITAL with a brain conclusion,
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Protest by Rumanians
On Wars Extent Reported

BY the Associated Press.
ISTANBUL, Turkey. Aug. %
British quarters here said today the
Rumanian peasant leader, Juliu
MANU-. had protested strongly to
Gen. Ion Antonescu against Ru-
manian participation in the war
against Russia beyond the boun-
daries of the provinces of Bessarabia
and Bucovina, which Russia annexed
from Rumania in 1910
The text of ManIu's protest, as
displayed here, objects TO ANY act
Of aggression on the part of Rumania
not confined to reconquest of the
lost provinces and the sacrifice of
single Rumanian life in a struggle
not specifically Rumanian.'
1t recalls that the Axis and
Hungary, at whose sides Rumania
is fighting, heartlessly mutilated this
nation by Hungarian annexation OF
Transylvania" and warns that Eng
land. Russia's ally, probably will win"
the war.
Evening star., 1941-08-23

sin, long time advocate of lower tax
exemptions. Senator La Toilette said
that while he approved the principle
of base-broadening he believed it
should be undertaken in connection
with q scientific revision of the
whole tax structure. He said he did
not believe in hiking personal in
come taxes unless there was to be a
real effort to increase revenue all
along the line.
Senator Vandenberg, Republican,
OF Michigan, member of the
Finance Committee, announced last
night that he would offer an amend
ment to incorporate some form of
general sales tax in the pending bill.
The levy would exempt food, cloth
Ing and medicine, and would impose
rate designed to raise approx
mately $500 100000 annually. Sen
ator Vandenberg's colleague, Senator
Brown, Democrat, of Michigan, will
propose "selective sales tax" under
which various luxury items would be
added to the present list of so-called
nuisance" levies.
Highly placed committee mem
bers said there was little chance
that either Senator Vandenberg's or
Senator Browns proposals would be
approved.
Approval Seen in Week.
The Finance Committee will begin
alteration OF the House measure ir
executive sessions starting Monday
Senator George said he expected II
bring the bill to the Senate f1ool
September and Majority Leader
Barkley expressed confidence that il
would be approved within a week.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
GoIIinger
Continued From First Page.)

the cost of their meals instead of
having TO eat meals provided by
the hospital. District officials so far
have rejected this request, saying
that Congress had determined that
these workers should be provided
meals instead of a wage increase.
Asked what the Commissioners
would do if union activities went be-
yond the line drawn by the city
heads, Commissioner Mason said
the individual could be fired"
The new policy was announced as
a reply to the Gallinger superin-
tendent, Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, and
Deputy Health Officer DR.. Daniel L.
Seckinger. The Commissioners is
sued this statement:
Referring to your memorandum
of August II and to the accompany
ing memorandum from the superin-
tendent of Gallinger Hospital, dated
August /, it has been the policy OF
the Commissioners, in dealing with
organized groups of its employees tc
permit such organizations to choose
their own representatives to speak
for them at conferences with the
superintendent of the institution OF
agency under whom they are di-
rectly employed as to working con-
ditions. This embraces the right tc
select as their representatives one
who is not actually employed by the
District of Columbia.
1T has also been the policy OF
the Commissioners to permit an ap-
peal to the Commissioners if the
finding of the superintendent as to
the alleged grievances is inequitable
or unjust.
I'm confirming these policies il
should be borne in mind that the
Commissioners, as stewards of the
public's interests, cannot and will
not tolerate interference in any way
by any others than lawfully consti-
tuted authorities in the operation
maintenance and management OF
such strictly governmental instru-
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Arrested Alien Called
Typical Nozi Agent

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23-The New
York Office of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation asserted today that
Luke H. Dierken, a counterman
arrested on a charge of failing to
register as an agent of a foreign
government. lis typical of the more
or less obscure individual whose
services are availed of by Germany
in an effort to obtain and transmit
information"
B. Edwin Sackett, special agent in
charge of the F. B. ]. here, said that
Dierken, who was held in default of
$4,000 bail, had been used as a
collector of data for Germany and
that he associated with Felix Jahnke
and AXel Wheeler Hill, two of the
defendants recently arrested by the
F. B. l. in connection with an al
legged espionage conspiracy ring.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
By THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star staff Correspondert

SOMEWHERE IN THE ATTAIN
TIC.-This destroyer's guns have
brains.
The blue -barrelled instruments of
destruction are equipped with brass
nerve cells so that, with the touch
of a button, they can do much OF
their own thinking.
Gone are the days of the sweat
ing gunner, stripped to the waist,
tending cannon amidst flying splin-
ters. He is reduced almost to the
status of a below-deck clerk since
the guns themselves have graduated
from college.
With the speed of electrical i'm
pulses they calculate their own fir
ing data. They take their own aim.
About all they need are eyes to spot
ships on the horizon, planes in the
sky. Once human eyes have located
that which is to be destroyed the
gun does nearly everything else.
Speeds Up Firing.
Take the matter of plotting firing
data. 1t used to be done by men
bent over sheets of plotting paper
an operation which, at its simplest,
required appreciable time. 1t still
must be done that way in most
services.
Now, once the object is spotted,
the appropriate data is fed into the
delicate, but absolutely protected,
brass brain far below deck and the
gun swings automatically into po-
sition.
Thus once a hostile plane, for
example, is spotted the response of
the gun is essentially instantaneous
and the aim essentially perfect.
Like that of all brass brains, the
mechanism is extremely complicated
and considered a naval secret. 1t
has been improved step by step to
its present perfection after the adop-
ton of the original idea, largely by
men who actually were practicing
with the guns and in a position to
note defects as they arose.
To load a gun is now a matter
of split seconds and all but min
ute part of the firing operation
is carried out by men below decks,
protected by steel walls. who might
actually go through a furious battle
without being aware, for all they
could see, that anything was going
on outside.
To them the whole process would
be about as prosaic, and not much
Evening star., 1941-08-23

Of the hospitals employees with
growing membership.
1T is foreseen that additional
complaints, unwarranted demands,
interference with hospital functions
and general unrest would directly
follow q change in policy under
which an outside representative
would be recognized to represent the
local union in its negotiations with
the administration"
The Commissioners statement Of
policy, while warning that the Dis
trict government would not tolerate
any interference" with vital serv-
ices, overrode the objection by DIR.
Bocock against dealing with repre-
sentatives of the national union if
they were selected as spokesmen for
Gallinger workers.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Mrs. WiIIiom Stream
Succumbs at Potomac
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
POTOMAC, Md, Aug. 23.-Mrs.
Mary Roberta Stream, II, wife of
William L. Stream, died Thursday
night at her home here after a
short illness.
Besides her husband. she is sur
vived by daughter, Mrs. Lucy B.
Ricketts,, Rockville: two sons, Rob-
ert E. Stream, Washington, and
Raymond w. Stream, Potomac; a
sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Rinker, Mount
Airy, and four grandchildren. The
funeral will take place tomorrow
with burial at Taylorstown, Va.
Mrs. Stream was a native of LOU
doun County, Va. For about rs
years she lived in the upper section
of Montgomery County, where her
husband was a farmer.
Evening star., 1941-08-23

mentalities as the jail, workhouse.
reformatory, Police, Fire and Health
Departments.
Line Must Be Drawn
In his own discussion of the situ-
alton, Commissioner Mason, in
speaking for the board, said: I'VE
favor unions as a broad national
policy. but there are certain activi-
ties in municipal and State struc-
ture of society created wholly and
solely for the protection and polic-
ing of society and for the reforma-
ton of detectives, physically or
morally, and a line must be drawn
somewhere in these services as to
union activities. We will listen to
and consider-any complaints or sug-
gestions from employees, from spokes-
men or representatives of their own
selection, but we cannot, and should
not and will not tolerate any strikes
or other interference with the Or
derly and necessary functioning OF
these vital services"
The Commissioners were advised
by Dr. Seckinger that Miss Eleanor
Nelson, secretary-treasurer of the
u. F. w. A., wrote that the Gallinger
local had asked DR.. Bocock for a
conference at which a representa-
tive of the unions national office
would be present. Miss Nelson con-
tinued:
This request was made in ac-
cordance with good union practice
and generally accepted procedure by
all Government departments. Dr..
Bocock stated, however, that he will
see either the committee of the local
or the national Office representative,
but he will not see them together
Our position is that DR.. Bocock is
denying to his employees the right
to choose their own representative
to present their just grievances.
DIR. Bocock's Position.
DIR. Bocock, in a memorandum to
DR.. Seckinger, which was forwarded
to the Commissioners, said he hac
made a practice of meeting with a
committee of employees to discuss
any subjects of complaints, interest
or improvement in working condi-
tions. He said this privilege had
been granted freely to employees
not primarily because their local
union requested such privilege, but
in order to learn of any matter
that may be disturbing them and
to attempt to rectify such conditions
If possible and in order"
He added:
Since the organization of the 10.
cal union at the hospital there has
been noted increasing difficulty with
the discipline, attitude, conduct anc
management of the domestic en-
ployes.
Without question this unfavor.
able change in attitude has beer
fostered and stimulated by the ex.
istence of this union that, on Ger.
tain occasions, has attempted tt
interfere and meddle with hospita
matters concerning which it had ne
connection. I am confident that II
further recognition is given to thi.
| union by obliging the superinten.
dent to deal with a national Officer
as pleader for the employees, thi,
state of affairs will grow progress.
lively worse.
Called Demonstration"
ITO make the local union sue.
cessful, increased membership L
desirable, and in my opinion the re-
newed activity shown by its ma.
tional headquarters at present i.
largely directed toward a demon.
stration Of power and influence that
will cause increased interest anc
hone of future benefits ON the parl
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Henry
Continued From First Page.)

O town as Reykjavik looks more
like such a community as Galway
or Ballina, on the west coast of
Ireland. than anything else in the
world-on the outside. On the in
side it is much more Scandinavian.
Reads Like Irish History.
The history of Iceland reads al
most like a repetition of the history
of Ireland staged iE far less con-
genial surroundings. The island
has constantly been torn apart and
its male population decimated by
internal strife. 1t fell under the
dominance of foreign power, Den
mark. Still it retained a stern
spirit of independence and refused
to bow to a foreign ruler even while
recognizing the closest possible cul-
tural kinship with the Danes. A
great deal of blood relationship has
been built up through the years
between the two peoples. But many
Icelanders like to be called Danes
about as much as many 1rlshmen
like to be called British"
Like Ireland, Iceland's proudest
boast is that it is a land of poets.
Very early in it's history the wild
Irish imagination of the mothers
and the Scandinavian legendry OF
the fathers produced the great
sagas. the stirring verses which still
are on everybody's lips. They are
contemporaneous with the epics OF
ancient Fire, and probably the
original ideas, as well as the poetic
fire, came from there.
Given this original Norse-1rlsh
mixture, it was isolated from much
contact with the outside world for
almost thousand years. The dom
inant characters have been stabil-
lied by constant intermarriage.
Everybody on the island is at least
a third or fourth cousin to everybody
else. The total population is only
10000 people, with a third of them
in the capital .city.
Physical defects, such as club
feet, are not infrequent. But it is a
literal miracle of heredity that one
Of the earth's outstanding races has
been produced in this way-a tribute
TO the remarkable qualities of both
the original stocks.
(To be continuedO
Evening star., 1941-08-23

Thirty eighth street NV. an en-
ploye of a District dairy, was killed
instantly yesterday returning from
the races at Upper Marlboro, Md,
when tire blow out caused his
car to overturn. Prince Georges
County police said he was alone in
the car when the accident occurred
on the Ritchie road near Brown Sta
ton road.
A graduate of Eastern High
School, Mr.. Ruedi is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Katherine Ruedi; two
sisters. Mrs. 1. Casassa and Mrs.
T. Hoad, and two brothers. Anthony
and Joseph Ruedi, all of Wash
ington.
The car which struck the Armitage
boy was moving at a high rate of
speed, did not stop and almost
Evening star., 1941-08-23
Alexandra Couple
Hurt in Pennsylvania

by the Associated Press.
OXFORD, Pa, Aug. 23.-Edvsrd
S. Morgan, So, and his wife, Inez,
so, of 1908 Terrett avenue, Alexan-
dria, were injured seriously today
in the collision of their auto and
an ice truck in fog near here. Mrs.
Morgan received critical head in
juries.
Evening star., 1941-08-23
u. S. Navy Guns Controlled by Brass Brains
Secret Firing Device Plots Necessary Doto for Speedy
And Accurate Morksmonship Against Any Toraets

more dangerous for the time being,
than working on the line of mass
production factory.
1t is in the production of these
brass brains of national defense, as
much as in those of the perfectly
proportioned guns themselves, that
exceptional skill, time and exactly
the right proportions of exactly the
right materials are essential. A
single one of them probably is more
difficult to make than several auto
mobiles.
Enlisted in the solution of math-