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Evening star., 1941-08-01
Druft Director

Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey
well deserves the promotion to direc-
tor of selective service for which
President Roosevelt has nominated
him. Actually, the appointment will
not add to the responsibilities which
already rest upon the veteran Off
GERS shoulders, for he has been serv-
ing in the capacity of acting director
of Selective service since the resig-
nation several months ago of Dr..
Clarence A. Dykstra, president of
Wisconsin University Nor has there
ever been the slightest question as
to General Hershey's qualification
for this important post. As a matter
of fact, few men-perhaps none
can match the fund of expert knowl-
edge which this officer has acquired
through years of study of selective
service plans.
Having entered Regular Army serv-
ice in 1911 through the Civilian SOL
dier" ranks of the Indiana National
Guard, General Hershey always
has manifested sympathetic under
standing of civilian problems arising
from CONSUMPTION. He has demon
strated an ability to appraise these
problems from the standpoint of the
average citizen, yet without losing
sight of military necessities. Perhaps
his background of farm life, varied
by teaching in country schools, had
something to do with this. He saw
service with his National Guard
outfit in the Mexican border cam
paign and in the World War, and
decided to remain in the Army after
the Armistice. About five years ago,
as lieutenant colonel, he was made
executive officer of the Joint Army
and Navy Selective Service Commit
tee. He worked assiduously at the
task of bringing up to date the War
Departments general plans for an
M-day draft of man power, basing
his recommendation on World War
observations. 1t has been said that
the smooth functioning of the 1910
registration and selection machinery
can be attributed largely to General
Hershey's researches and sugges-
tions. The assignment of General
Hershey to be permanent director
of selective service is an assurance
that efficient and impartial admin
istration of this vital branch of the
defense program will continue.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Former Tenant Relates
Dupont Apartments History.
To the Editor Of The Stt


In an article headed Charges Of
Tenants Denied at Hearing on Dupont
Circle" Harry Newman is represented
as giving testimony which creates false
impression of the actual situation.
I lived at the Dupont Circle for nine
years. This is what happened to me
and it happened to all the others in
greater or less degree: paid my July
l to August l rent on July and l
was assured by the manager that there
was nothing to the moving scare and
that the deal was off. The evening OF
July 5 the eviction notices were in our
boxes. Mr.. Newman went to some length
to explain that they were not eviction
notices. The first letter was a polite
invitation to get out and the second one,
less polite but more honest and to the
point, and therefore more admirable,
asked us to signify the exact date when
your space will be available" All Of
us who were not lawyers took these
letters for eviction notices and found
other quarters as soon as possible.
1 naO TO sign lease III HcW pideo,
pay q months rent in advance, the Sec
ond months rent in advance I had paid
for the month of July. The moving
cost $2025.
I got out as soon as possibly could,
leaving July 16 at am. Out of the
July rent OF $50 I got a refund of $27.75.
I was even charged for the phone calls
that had made in regard to the moving.
The tenants did not leave in the an
gelic mood suggested by Mr.. Newmans
testimony. We were not such nincom-
poops. We were all as mad as hornets
and still anil LAURA x. POLLOCK.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Writer Complains of
False" Patriotism.

To the Editor OF The Star:
If there is anything that makes me
angry it is false" patriotism. BY that
I mean those people who are naturalized
citizens or one-generation citizens, but
who still maintain the customs and
habits of their former homes, who con-
tinue to speak their former language
and who worship the leaders of their
former countries.
I will admit that there have been
many things brought by these people
that have added to the culture of our
country. But those things have been
brought here by the people who have
honestly wanted to add to the good
things of this land for themselves and
their children.
What are we to do with such people?
Something should be done now before
innocent people are made to suffer!
MARGARET E. CAST.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Greenville, N. C..
Deplores "Appeasement'
OF Japan.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Your editorial Campaign Statements"
was much needed to keep the record
straight. For the opponents of the ad-
ministration to charge that our Com
mander in Chief and his military and
naval aides are warmongers, to impugn
the sincerity of their motives, to de-
mand an adherence to pledge which,
If followed. would destroy that which
the pledge was given to protect, not
only smacks of dishonesty, but is a scam
dalous misuse of free speech.
Largely due to distortions about the
last war, we have become Nation OF
conscientious objectors," unwilling to
fight against anything except local pro-
hibitions forbidding us to do what We
please. The President, with his intense
hatred for war, unwittingly has aided
in this f1abby Interpretation of life by
his assurances that "our boys" wouldn't
have to fight. And he has just treated
us to another exposition of that idea.
Our State Department, he tells us, for
two years has been appeastng Japan. 20
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Welfare Revision

Deficiencies in the Districts public
assistance program, as gauged by
Federal standards, recently caused
the Social Security Board to adopt
the harsh expedient of holding up
Federal grants in aid as means of
forcing active" cooperation by
municipal authorities.
This issue was solved, for the
present, when the Commissioners
and members of the District Board
of Public Welfare went to see Federal
Security spokesmen, promising to
press efforts for congressional ap-
proval of several remedial bills now
on the congressional docket and to
foster other changes. This action
came after what Federal officers
called ineffective, protracted negotia-
tions with District welfare officials.
Perhaps Federal officials had rea-
son to believe that city officials were
dilatory or somewhat unconcerned
about meeting stated requirements
in the Social Security Act. 1t is to
be remembered the District has been
receiving very Sizable sums of match
ing money each month. But it
seems unreasonable that grants to
the most helpless of those getting
relief-the aged, the blind and de-
pendent children-Should be with
held as means of forcing municipal
action, and it is gratifying that such
action, temporarily at least, has been
held in allegiance.
Official records of the District
Welfare Board show that long ago
the board was aware of the issues,
that a number of measures were
proposed, that some were ignored
on Capitol Hill and that some lately
have passed the House and await
Senate action.
Federal requirements include:
Protection of the confidential nature
of relief records, Capitalization of
control in a single" State agency
and selection of case workers on a
merit basis. Federal officials also
insist on removal of present District
regulations requiring bonds for case
workers, on removal of limits on
amounts that may be paid specified
relief classes and on repeal of the
Districts Home Care Act and con-
solidation of this service with the
aid-to- dependent children program.
Relief families with dependent
children now are given aid either
under the Home Care Act or the
other dependent children programs,
under different laws and different
standards, with the result that
amounts of relief vary and uniform
ity is lacking in use of Federal and,
District funds.
Bills sponsored by the Welfare
Board to consolidate home care and
dependent children aid, to preserve
the confidential nature of relief
records and to increase Welfare
Board powers in child ward cases,
have been approved by the House.
Senate action now is awaited.
In the past year and a half many
notes on these questions have been
exchanged by District and Federal
officials. Perhaps good would be
achieved by few more face to face
talks, with the public fully and
frankly advised as to what the shoot
ing Is all ahnut
Evening star., 1941-08-01

we wouldn't have to fight in the Pacific.
He didn't mention China nor the prom
ises he has made to its government.
Apparently, our State Department has
been quite willing to help the japanese
kill our Chinese friends by the thou
sands, as long as these japanese didn't
do anything to hurt us. And the Presi-
dent and the State Department seem
nightly pleased with themselves by this
contribution to a delineation of Amer
lean character.
Was it really an American who said:
millions for defense but not one drop
of oil for tribute?" ANN ELLIOTT.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
The Tuxpoyers Lose

The agricultural bloc in Congress
has struck another blow for the
farmers at the expense of taxpayers
in general. This latest bit of class
legislation came out of the Senate
Agriculture Committee in the form
of a rider setting up special benefits
for cotton growers. And the rider
was attached to a House approved
bill which seeks to set up heads
win, tails you lose" arrangement for
wheat farmers who violate their
quota agreements.
Wheat farmers, under their mar
keting agreements with the Depart
ment of Agriculture, are pledged to
plant only specified number of
acres. For any wheat grown on
acreage in excess of the agreement
there is provided penalty of
forty-nine cents a bushel. A num-
Der of farmers this year exceeded
their acreage quotas, but for
various reasons, including unfavor-
able weather, their total crop did
not exceed the anticipated number
of bushels. These farmers, of course,
received cash benefits for subscrib-
ing to the quota agreement, and
under its terms they are subject to
the penalty for wheat grown on the
excess acreage, regardless of the
overall size of their crop. But Con-
gress, agreement or no agreement,
now proposes to lift the penalty on
all wheat up to the normal produc-
ton limit which is used on the farm
for livestock feeding and other pur-
poses. In other words, the farmer
Is told that he can subscribe to the
agreement, accept the benefits, and
then violate his quota to this extent
with impunity. In effect, he is in
vited to gamble on planting ex-
cess acreage, but the farmers who
respected their agreements and who
are now disadvantaged, must feel
anything but gratifed at the turn
things have taken.
The cotton proposal, as set forth in
the Senate committee rider, is even
more reprehenSible. AS result of
its cotton loan program-a program
which has tended to bolster the open
market cotton price-the Govern
ment over a period of years has be-
come the owner of some 100000
bales of stored cotton. The tax
payers money tied up in this cotton
will be a total loss unless some way
of marketing it can be found. And
this would seem to be favorable
time, for cotton prices are near par
!ty and wartime demands might well
provide an outlet for some of this
warehouse cotton without breaking
the price of current cotton.
But Congress evidently thinks
otherwise, and has approved a rider
which would freeze the loan cotton
by prohibiting its release during the
current European war. Cotton prices
may soar-there may even be a
Shortage-but the congressional farm
bloc takes the view that the Gov
ernment should not be permitted to
salvage any of the public funds that
1t has invested-for the benefit of
the farmers-in 100000 bales of
cotton.
This, obviously, is class legislation
of a most fragrant kind. But it is an
inevitable consequence of the evil
forces that are set in motion when
Congress once begins to yield to the
Evening star., 1941-08-01

A small boat has been constructed
entirely of a transparent plastic, so
that it is almost as invisible as a
jellyfish. 1t is hoped that the Reich's
submarine builders never get around
to this style of nautical construction.
Evening star., 1941-08-01

@. Did John Howard Payne, who wrote
Home, Sweet Home" ever live with the
Indians?-A. D. r.
A. He became interested in the Chero-
kee Indians, with whom he lived for
time in the home of John Ross, their
famous chief During this period he
espoused their cause in magazine articles
and collected their myths and traditions.
@. When was the term Eastern Shore
first used with reference to Virginia,
MARYLAND and Delaware?-C. H. Y.
A. The term was first applied TO what
is now known as the Eastern Shore OF
Virginia by Capt. John Smith during his
voyage up Chesapeake Bay and explora-
ton of the peninsula in June. 1903 After
this voyage he constructed map OF the
region, which appeared in book printed
In London in 1924, in which he refers to
the peninsula as Eastern Shore.
@. Is the temperature Of ice affected
by its surroundings?-H. S.
A. Ice in time assumes the tempera-
ture of its surroundings and If 1t is
stored in place where the temperature
is for instance, 60 degrees below zero, the
ice will assume temperature Of SO.
@. How many people in the United
States have lost a leg or an arm?-
C. J. D.
A. There are over 100000 persons who
lack hand, arm, foot or leg.
@. Is there a watermelon with yellow
meat?-T. j. S.
A. Honey cream, introduced from
Japan, is variety with creamy yellow
flesh. The melon is early, round and
attractively striped. The flesh is firm
and very sweet and juicy. Because the
rind is brittle the fruit is not suited for
distant marketing.
@. How many teeth do COWS have?-
r. P. C.
A. They have incisors in the lower
law and "a molars, making 80 teeth in all.
@. When did Joseph Jefferson make
his first stage appearance?-L. T. H.
A. He appeared in blackface as a
partner of Daddy Rice at the Bowery
Theater, Washington, D. c., in 1882.
Jefferson, a child of three at the time,
was carried on by Rice in valise,
emerging as miniature Jim Crow.
@. Who wrote the poem beginning
"My candle burns at both ends; 1t will
not last the night?"-F. G. z.
A. 1t is by Edna st. Vincent Millay
and is found in her volume called Figs
From Thistles."
@. What is an inquiline? j. D.
A. 1t is an animal that lives habitually
in the nest or home of some other
species.
Evening star., 1941-08-01

selfish legislative demands of pres
sure groups set up to promote the
interests Of their particular con-
stituents regardless of the injury
worked to the general public.
Evening star., 1941-08-01

The services of the United States
Weather Bureau cost citizens of the
Nation an average of only five cents
q year, or Just the price OF one wrong
telephone number.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address OF
the 1priter, although the use OF
q pSeudonym for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters NTH
UtelU to condensation.
Evening star., 1941-08-01

Map Of Asia-Asia is certain to
play an important part in future
world affairs. 1t may start another
war. 1t is the cradle Of the human
race and of civilization. 1t is the
birthplace of all the great re-
ligions. Age-old custom prevails
side by side with modern culture.
Study this fascinating continent.
The Map of Asia is produced in
artistic colors and clear, readable
type. 1t shows the newest bound
aries and gives the accepted
spellings. To secure your copy OF
this map inclose 10 cents in coin,
wrapped in this clipping. and mail
to The Star Information Bureau.
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Evening star., 1941-08-01

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited TO 1t not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication OF special dispatches
herein also reserved.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. Huskin.

BIZ Frederic J. HdSkin.
A reader can get the dnstDer to any
question OF fact By lCriting The Ere
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric j. HaSkin, director, Washington.
d. c. Please incloSe stamp for reply.
@. Please give Hans Wagners all-time,
all-American baseball team.-E. B. T.
A. Pitcher, Christy Mathewson;
catcher, Johnny Killing; first base, Hal
Chase; second base, Larry Lajoie;
shortstop, Joe Tinker; third base. Jimmy
Collins; left field, Fred Clarke; center
field, Ty Cobb; right field, Babe Ruth:
manager. John McGraw; umpires, Bob
Emslie and Bill KLEIN.
@. What color test is made on Army
fabrics?-E. E.
A. Human perspiration is simulated
by chemical mixtures, and clothing
soaked in these liquids shows how dyed
materials will hold their colors under
continual perspiration.
@. What is the origin of the term blua
blood?-T. L. S.
A. The expression originated In Spain,
where fair-skinned persons whose veins
have blue appearance claimed pure
descent from the Spanish stock, without
Moorish or Jewish admixture.
@. Is there any bird that can fly
backward?-G. H. G.
A. Hummingbirds not only fly back
ward, but are capable of remaining pra-
tically motionless in the air.
@. How long has soap been used COM
mercially?-C. B. D.
A. The use of soap is of great antiquity.
The remains of a well-equipped soap
factory were found in the ruins Of
p Pompeii
Evening star., 1941-08-01

@. Who wrote the poem beginning
"My candle burns at both ends; 1t will
not last the night?"-F. G. z.
A. 1t is by Edna st. Vincent Millay
and is found in her volume called Figs
From Thistles."
Evening star., 1941-08-01

@. What is an inquiline? ]. D.
A. 1t is an animal that lives habitually
in the nest or home of some other
species.
Evening star., 1941-08-01
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
Senators Prepare
Crackdown as New
Strike Hits Coast
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Hillman appointed Sosepn keenan,
head of the OPM's AFL labor unit
TO confer from Chieaso with union
representative in San Francisco
in an effort to avert the Walkout
scheduled for Monday. keenan, Is
eonferring by telepn0ne and may
so TO San Francisco, if necessary,
the OPM said
It also disclosed Assistant Secre-
tary of Labor Daniel w. Tracy and
John P Frey head OF the AFL S
metal trades department, are con-
tacting their representatives in San
Francisco.
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox
and Chairman Emory Land of the
maritime commission had urged las
night that the strike action be
withheld.
Commenting on the dispute, Tru-
man said his committee does not
propose to substitute itself for the
ordinary machinery for settling
strikes.
But he added, the senate COM
mittee does intend t3 insist that
where work important to the ma
tional defsnse program is stopped.
for the resumption OF
work should be speeded. There is
no time IN this emergency for en-
ployers and employees to engage IL
pickering"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
ANA Rides Agar,
As Moderns Trek
Over Famed Trai!

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weird. glacier wrought basin. turn
ing the desert scene into a new
Garden Of the Gods, modern soldiers
OF de Aanza stand to receive a
blessing. Just as the original actors
probably stood on that February
night in 1774 when the explorers
camped nearby.
Back at the camp after the cere-
mony and entertainment the rid
ers sleep in the open for the first
of six nights before swinging
aboard their horses soon after day
break Sunday and heading across
the desert along the same trail that
de ANA followed, toward the foot
hills and Riverside.
Sunday night the cayalcade
camps at Ocotillo, just off the Kane
Springs highway. Chuck wagons,
preceding the main party. will have
dinner ready and there will be rest
and feed for the horses, lini-
mcnt for the riders.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
BY JOHN w. DUNLAP

SACRAMENTO, May 10 tUP) -
Carey McWilliams, II ationally y
known writer and lecturer, today
faced custer from his post as chief
of the state division of immigra-
ton and housing through abolition
of his department because of his
allegedly radical leanings.
The state assembly. bitterly op-
posed to the liberal policies of Nc
Williams and Gov. Culbert Olson
Democrat, voted 48 to II to do
away with the division of lmmi-
grafton and housing and transfer
its duties to the department of
public health. Harvey Hastain, I'm
perial county, voted yes)
The vote temporarily was held
up when Assemblyman Norris Poul-
son of Los Angeles, who supported
the transfer, announced he would
move for reconsideration on the
possibility and appropriation might
be involved and thus inyalidate the
action
McWilliams is the author of
Factories In The Field, a survey
of CALIFORNIA; agricultural prob
lens. He upheld John Steinbeck's
novel, THE Grapes of Wrath, in
national radio debates when that
book was under heavy fire in 1888
McWilliamS is Los Angeles attor-
ney.
The assembly also voted so to 16
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
Carey M'WiIIioms
Custer Approved

to abolish the job of Rose SECURE,
named an immigration inspector by
McWilliams. Miss SECURE previously
had been ousted from the state re-
lief administration for her asserted
commuistic activities.
Earl Desmond, Sacramento, was
the author of bills removing Nc
Williams and Miss SECURE.
c. Don Field, Glendale, read n
lond list of alleged subversive af-
filations of McWilliams. and the
debate was punctuated by accusa-
tions he "is undermining agricul-
ture in California" has a diseased
mind" and that his policies and
philosophy are foreign to this gov
ernment.'
Augustus Hawkins, Los Angeles
Vincent Thomas, San Pedro, and
George Collins, San Francisco, de-
Tended McWilliams.
The criticized abolition of the en-
tire department to eliminate an
individual.
John Cooke, Ventura, charged
you are putting a man on trial
instead of arguing the virtues Of
the BILL
We've got to make things run
as Americans want them to rum
retorted Desmond.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
u. 5. Arms Stem
Axis Advance in
Egyptian Desert
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precious material there and have
been forced back to near their start
ing point where they preached To-
bruk's perimeter defenses, it is
known here. German and Italian
prisoners said the British put up al
impossible curtain of fire while
the Sitting heat and the slaShing
wind blown sand of the desert add
ed to the nightmare of battle. Brit
ish soldiers were interested in cap
tured German equipment. One cap
tured weapon was a 4-inch infan-
try gun the Germans employed with
great success III Greece. 1t is usual
ly operated from a tractor chassis
and is designed to eliminate mach
inc guns and other automatic weap-
onS. Another new German weapon
apparently designed mainly for des-
ert use, is an eight-Wheeled armor-
ed car able to travel at high speeds
and stay in service long periods
without repair. This gives it an ad-
vantage over the tank which re-
quires much maintenance to en-
sure complete efficiency in the
desert.
The British command has reports
from Tobruk showing the efficiency
Of the British mobile tWo-pounder
anti-tank gun. One gun knocked OUT
16 tanks in one attack, these re-
ports say. British tank officers say
that when the German tank crews
close the tank visors their range
of vision is so restricted. the occu-
pants are almost blind folded and
it is simple to trap them.
It is hazardous TO predict what
will happen here in the desert. II
the Germans throw in forces in
the same mass as they did in the
Balkans, they will have to make
hideous sacrifices. Gen. Sir Archi-
bald WaVell, British commander in
chief, is a master of desert tactics
and he has large forces of British,
and South Africans with
which he could spring surprises.
but the tremendous reserves OF
that Hitler can call from
the barracks of Europe, are not to
be forgotten.