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Evening star., 1941-11-09
A Sensible Course

The Treasury and Justice Depart
ments are adopting sensible course
in deciding to contract with CONNER
cial firms for two jobs Of a statistical
nature which otherwise would have
been performed by the agencies
themselves, with a consequent in
crease in personnel and at greater
expense. The move will result in
saving estimated at more than
$500000, while at the same time
facilitating the work by making 1t
unnecessary to recruit large staff
of temporary employees, for whom the
finding of office space would have
been a problem of no mean pro-
portions.
The Treasury contract involves the
compilation and distribution to in
ternal revenue collectors of motor
vehicle lists to be employed in col
lecting the ive-dollar use tax being
assessed against the 100000 We
hicle and boat owners in the country
in February as part of the defense
revenue program. The contractor
also will send out the application
forms which potential taxpayers
must use Congress appropriated
100000 to cover this expense, but in
getting authority from Controller
General Warren to have the work
performed on the outside, Secretary
Morgenthau said it could be done for
less than half that figure, and that
the Treasury would avoid the neces-
sity of hiring $500 temporary
employees.
The Department Of Justice is
faced with the task of compiling
punch-card data from the registra-
ton cards of 100000 aliens listed
under the Alien Registration Act, and
the monetary saving will be $4,000
on a contract for S57 900.
The saving in these two instances
seems infinitesimal in comparison
with the outlay the Government
otherwise is making, but 1t is salts
fying to note that in some quarters
at least thought is being given to
economies, however small.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
thus producing even more widespread

thus producing even more widespread
discussion of the report.
The report itself and the meetings
to discuss 1t, have been criticized by
county Democratic spokesmen who
claim, with other things, that Re-
publican leaders, seeking personal
gain, are attending the meetings. 1t
is difficult to believe, however, that
the county could get full value from
the report if some such meetings were
not held.
In an effort to keep pace with the
problems presented by the county's
rapid growth, Montgomery officials
have changed the form Of govern
ment in many respects in recent
years. The effort has been successful
to the extent of winning for the
county the reputation of being one
of the best governed in the State. In
many instances it has been necessary
to create new agencies or to change
the administration of old ones. The
Brookings Institution report recon-
mends further changes. some rather
basic and radical; some, perhaps, un-
precedented. The fact that they are
being discussed does not mean that
they will be adopted. But it does
mean that the citizens are giving
thought to their local government
the foundation of democracy. 1t is
evidence of a determination to ex-
anime local government critically, to
improve it if possible Even If no
improvements are made, the discus
sions themselves will have served a
useful purpose.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
ARMISTICE DAY, 1941
BIZ the Rt Rev James E. Freeman D. d. IL. D.. D. c. L.,
Bishop of Washington

est wit and the greatest skill in bargain
ing and barter! The only creditable dis
tinctions are those that accrue to those
who have registered success in a given
calling! These have been the recognized
standards by which We have registered
progress. In our domestic and social life
there has been little to give 1t high moral
distinction when compared with other
periods. The Victorian Age we have out
lived, and for it we retain little OF re-
spect. What were once inculcated in the
youth as the indispensable standards Of
conduct have largely ceased to be.
This short survey of the ways and
practices of these late years cannot be
regarded as the lamentations of some
modern jeremiah, the harsh judgments
of some narrow and disappointed pessi-
of the trends and tendencies Of our life
to be denied. The strange rise Of eccen-
trio, criminal and cruel despots, the re-
currence Of more terrible and brutal
world conflict, with all the ordered and
designed ways of peaceful living inter-
rupted, do not happen without cause or
causes 1t is eternally true that what
soeyer a man soWeth, that shall he also
reap" We may now have to insure our
tranquility by resort to arms, but is there
not something more needed? Have these
fateful years since the first Armistice Day
taught us no lessons? Can We cure our
own maladies and do something for the
maladies OF other peoples simply by re-
sorting to the remedies that have ef-
fected superficial cures in other periods?
There is unrest and much distrust
abroad in the land. The plea for unity
OF purpose and unity of action, much as
they are needed, Is largely unheeded
Many of us believe that God has designed
us for some great and noble purpose
some great cause. If We are to rise to
meet it, We must be in a better mind
and have higher, more selfless resolves
than we have disclosed since Armistice
Day, 1918. 1t was prophesied Of an an
cient nation: They that shall be Of thee
shall build the old waste places, thou
shalt raise up the foundations of many
generations; thou shall be called the
repairer of the breach, the restorer Of
paths to dwell in To such call only
a righteous nation can give answer May
God solemnize us and make us ready
for our greatest task.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
AnqIo-French Relations

The recent British seizure OF nVe
French merchantmen off the South
African coast, and the diplomatic
controversy this action has provoked
between Vichy and London, empha-
size once again the extraordinary
relations existing between the Brit
ish government and the regime head
ed by Marshal Petain.
The facts themselves are curious
enough. This squadron OF French
freighters laden with colonial prod
ucts from Vichy-controlled NADIA
gascar and possibly from Indo-China,
was escorted not by a regular war
ship but by a lightly armed special
service craft corresponding to one
of our Coast Guard cutters. When
the merchantmen were halted by
British warships and taken into
custody, the conveying cutter sailed
off, unmolested by the British. How
ever, the Vichy government has filed
a protest with London-indirectly,
since no regular diplomatic relations
exist between them. In advance OF
the receipt of this protest. official
spokesmen In London have an
nounced that the seizure was en-
tirely legal, that such protests by
Vichy are nonsense, and that the
same sort OF thing has happened
often before and would happen again.
British interference with Vichy
commerce certainly has been ex-
tenSive. London admits that over
100000 tons of French shipping has
been taken over during the present
year, while Vichy claims that no
less than 100000 tons has been seized
or sunk since the armistice with
Germany in June, 1910. Yet this
British naval blockade, while severe,
| has not been absolute. Considerable
French shipping between France and
its colonies does get through un-
hindered, especially the short routes
across the Mediterranean. The Brit
ish claim that much, II not most, OF
the colonial products imported into
Vichy, France, aid Germany, either
by direct delivery or by fabrication
into finished goods in French fac
| tories geared to the German econ
omy. Nevertheless, the British, uSu-
| ally so severe in their blockade OF
Axis-controlled Europe, have not
entirely put a stop to this leak In
the dyke. And, on the other hand
vichy does not offer armed resist
| ance to British seizures or make
Evening star., 1941-11-09

as an executive who is willing to let 60
Of any power, even when he is not In
position to exercise that power effec-
lively. Right now, Mr.. Roosevelt IL in
volved in the details Of diplomacy and
of military and naval strategy. He has
many political problems and many prob
lens of adjustment in Congress with
which to deal.
1t is impossible for the President to
keep tab on the multitude of problems
that grow out of administration of q
defense program that already involves
the spending of $50 0,OO0, 900 900 and that
is being lacked up, in the plans, to .
program of more than 500 1000, 900 ,000
The labor problems and financial prob
lens and industrial problems that 60
along with q program Of that size call
for co-ordinated attention If there is to
be any solution Of them.
However, Mr.. Roosevelt continues to
be inclined to deal with each situation
as it arises. His technique In meeting
problems is to create . new board. Then
the old board ID left to continue its
functioning while the new board is
guper.imposed.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Once again We stand at the threshold
OF recurring anniversary OF November
IL, 1918. 1t brings back to memory the
stirred emotions of the peoples of the
world when the news was flashed, The
war Is over!" Twenty-three years later
We are face-to-face with a worldwide
conflagration that in its terrible conse-
quences outdistances the first Great War.
What plans were made through the years
of peace to avert another catastrophe?
What bitter controversies were waged as
to the methods that might be employed
to guarantee right and amicable rela-
tions between nation and nation Plans
for disarmament were effected, restric-
tions as to the building of battle fleets
were made. the Kellogg BRAND Pact to
outlaw war was signed by over so SOW
ereign nations; a World Court to adju-
dicate differences was set up and there
were signs that mutual confidence was
to mark new and lasting age of peace.
At no time in world history had such
progressive steps been taken to avert
disastrous conflicts.
This is the record in brief, and what
a record it is! All the proud ventures.
all the high hopes have been wrecked,
and once again diplomacy and states
manship have been compelled to admit
failure and defeat. What fine and dis
eliminating analyst Of history, apprais-
ing this period. will be able to make
evident the futility of all this designing?
One thing surely Is conspicuously true,
namely, that there can be no security
through pacts and agreements unless
they are sustained by deep and unchang-
ing moral and religious convictions. The
only adequate curb upon sel1shness.
greed and criminal designs is in the
moral integrity and character OF those
who solemnly and consistently sustain
their pledged word by their deeds.
Something has been terribly lacking In
these eventful and momentous years, and
any fair diagnosis discovers 1t in the
lowered moral tone. the abdicated re-
ligious convictions that have been COM
mon to nations and peoples the world
over. The old maxim that. Man shall
not live by bread alone" has been set
aside, and for it efficiency clever bargain
ing, astute commercial planning, mass
production, selfish nationalism have been
substituted. Prosperity is the reward
that comes to those who have the quick
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Brookinqs Study

An outstanding instance Of pro-
sressive civic enterprise is to be
found in the weekly meetings at
Rockville OF representative citizens Of
Montgomery County to study the
Brookings Institution report on the
county government. Various sections
Of the report, covering such functions
As schools, welfare, civil service and
financial administration, are dis
cussed at these sessions, sponsored by
several civic groups. Many OF those
attending the weekly meetings report
y the organizations they represent,
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Capital Side|ights
Bu Will p. Kennedy.

Two brand-new Senators were called
upon to vote on the repeal Of the Neu-
trality Act among their first duties IN
the Senate-former Representative Wall
Doxey of Mississippi and former Gov.
Burnet R. Maybank Of South Carolina.
Both were sworn in during the past Few
days. Senator Doxey succeeds the late
Senator Pat Harrison. Senator Maybank
was Mayor of his home town, Charles
ton then Governor. and now succeeds
Robert Peace. weu-known Greenville
publisher. who had been holding the seat
vacated by former Senator James F.
Byrnes when he left to take place on
the Supreme Court bench. The unusual
spectacle of a Supreme Court justice
walking onto the floor Of the Senate
was q feature Of the ceremony OF admin
istering the oath to Senator Maybank.
Mr.. Justice Byrnes was one of four South
Carolina Senators participating in the
ceremony. Besides himself and Senator
Maybank, there were Senator Ellison D.
Smith, the senior Senator, and the re-
tiring Senator Peace.
-
Henry Hill Collins, jr., co-ordinator
of field hearings for committee investi-
eating interstate migration OF destitute
citizens for work in national defense, has
used the data thus gathered in text
book on Americas Own Refugees"
which is being published by the Prince
ton University Press. At present he is
with the Senate Committee Inyestigat
ing the Problems of American Small
Business Mr.. Collins emphasizes that
there are 100000 American refugees
from technology, erosion, blghting
economy, and all the one hundred and
one ills of a prodigal society. They are
not only the much -publicized Okies and
Arkies They hail from every State in
the Union. They follow the crops. in
dustrial expansion or defense orders
He points out that these American refu-
gees still retain the spunk to get up
and git and not take disaster lying down"
i
Chairman Doughton of the House Ways
and Means Committee celebrated his
18th birthday anniversary on Friday with
the announcement that his committee
has postponed hearings on proposals to
raise additional revenues for Govern
ment expenditures until next year. No
matter how sincerely and strongly some
Of his colleagues may differ with Bob"
Doughton in party politics and his offi-
cial duties. they one and all made him
very happy by fluctuations on his birth
day anniversary. His offices were banked
with flowers from Washington friends
and North Carolina organizations, and
he received hundreds of letters. tele-
grams and greeting cards. Mr.. Dough-
ton Is in his 32d year of consecutive
service In Congress. and has held public
ONCE since he went with the State Board
of Agriculture in 1908. He also served
in the State Senate and as director of
State prisons.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Senator Bilbo Of Mississippi rec
ommends two more military and two
more naval academies for this coun-
try. Boy, o boy! Three Army-Navy
games every autumn and perhaps
playoff after that.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

A nutritional expert declares that
the United States is not the best fed
country in the world. He may pos
sibly be right, but, offhand, cansyou
think Of one whose national diet you
would trade for ours?
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Add American fables: Once there
was q photographer who snapped
halfback standing quietly with the
ball held In his hand, and no sign of
horrible grimace on his face.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

EDITORS note: The Washington Chap
ter OF Alcoholics Anonymous has club
room headquarters at l4ol Fourteenth
street NV, on the third floor. Meetings
are held each Tuesday and Thursday
night ct . O'Clock. the Tuesday meeting
being open to the public and the Thurs
day session for alcoholics onlyJ
Evening star., 1941-11-09


terested his name is given to the nearest
local group. If he needs visit he gets
it at once, but the A. AS will not pursue
him. No charge Of any kind is made for
their help.
Some Of the country's best-known men
and women have become vitally inter.
ested in the movement. AS an example,
John D. Rockefeller. jr., gave dinner
to so members of the New York Chapter
and listened to some of them tell Of
their reformation.
Many efforts have been made by physi-
clans, sociologists. psychiatrists and 9TH
ers to find a permanent remedy to relieve
the individual of his acquired desire for
alcohol. Benefits to some degree usually
result from such efforts, but permanency
has been found to be largely in the
patients will to desist from partaking.
Strengthening of the individuals will
power appears to be the strong point in
the work of Alcoholics Anonymous. The
organizations record of more than 1000
recoveries year is noteworthy and
makes it deserving of respect and con-
sideration by those who need its guiding
influence.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Hostess Receives
Music Guild Group

Mrs Stanley Woodward was hos
tess at tea in her Georgetown home
yesterday afternoon for a large
number of women interested in the
Chamber Music Guild.
Mrs. Woodward had assisting her
at the tea table, which was orna-
mented with yellow roses and tapers
in silver candlesticks, Mrs. Edwin
M. Watson, Mrs. Foster Adams and
Mrs. Marcel Anchor, whose husband
was founder of the organization.
During the afternoon Mrs. The
odore w. Cook discussed the guild s
plans for the year. The first of
three concerts will be held January
IA; thereafter on successive Wednes-
day evenings.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
ssts esfs"'s Quiz

Q. Why does a great part of the
responsibility for success Of the De-
fense savings program belong to the
women of the Nation?
A. Women are estimated to control
about 10 per cent of the total ma
tional wealth; about two-thirds of
the savings accounts are in womens
names; women receive billion dol
lars a year as insurance benefic-
iaries; more often than not wives
handle the family finances. Women
have the money to buy Defense saw
ings bonds and stamps.
@. How can a union support the
Defense savings program?
A. Through purchase by the ma
tional and local offices of Series F
and G Defense savings bonds with
union funds; and through encour-
agement of Defense savings bond
and stamp buying by individual
members.
Note-To buy Defense bonds and
stamps, go to the nearest post Office,
bank or savings and loan associa-
ton; or write to the Treasurer of
the United States in Washington
Also stamps are now on sale at re-
tail stores.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Second Trial ConVicts
SIideN Man Of Murder
In larman' S Death
Lee Thomas WiIes Faces
Up to l8 Years; Woman
Found Guilty Of Bieumy

By Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. Dec. 10.-Lee
Thomas Wiles, 33, of Slidell today
faced up to 18 years in prison fol-
lowing his conviction yesterday in
Circuit Court here on charge Of
second-degree murder. Sentence
will be imposed later this week.
Wiles was tried for the second time
on a charge of beating to death with
a shotgun butt Joseph Edward Lar
man, 80, also of Slidell, at the latter's
home September g. A previous trial
resulted in hung jury. The jury
yesterday returned its verdict after
celebrating a little more than four
hours.
Mrs. Pearl Dove, principal State
witness, testified that she saw Wiles
beat Larman with the gun butt. AL
though this contradicted her testi-
mony in the first trial, Mrs. Dove told
the court she had been afraid to say
she saw the beating because Wiles
had threatened to kill her if she
told.
States Attorney Ben G. Wilkinson
and Assistant States Attorney Alger
Y. Barbee prosecuted the case. At
torneys Donald Bowie, jr., and
Charles Prettyman represented the
defendant. The case was tried be-
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Mrs. Myers Gives
Tea in Honor of
Nine. GrOuitch

Nine. Grouitch, widow of the
former Yugoslav Minister to this
country, was the guest in whose
honor Mrs. French Myers enter
tanned at tea yesterday afternoon
in her apartment at 2101 Con-
necticut avenue.
Miss Emily French Myers as
sisted her mother, and pouring
tea were Mrs. George TAFT and
Mrs. Lee Murphy.
Nine. Grouitch will leave
Washington tomorrow for New
York, where she will spend a
short time before going to New
Mexico to visit friends. Later
Nine. Grouitch will start on a
lecture tour in this country.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Alabama Pitts SLAYER
Given 10 10 IS Years
Rx the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, N. c., Dec. 10
Newland Lefevers, 24-year-old Nor
gantown hosiery mill worker, is ur-
der sentence of 10 to Is years
imprisonment for the fatal slashing
OF Edwin (Alabama) Pitts, one
time Sing Sing Prison athlete.
A Burke Superior Court jury con-
victed Lefevers of manslaughter
yesterday. He fled notice of ap-
peal.
Pitts entered professional baseball
after his release from Sing Sing.
Commissioner Kenesaw M Lands
overruled other baseball officials in
allowing the former convict to par
ticipate in organized baseball.
Pitts played for time in the In
ternational League, but gradually
dropped into the lower class leagues.
He later became a textile mill worker
near here.
Evening star., 1941-12-10

War has caused revival of village
handicraft industries in England.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Clubwomen Report
On PhilanthropieS

Reports on philanthropic activi-
ties of the Park View Women's Club
were made at the monthly meeting
held last night with Mrs. Warner
H. Wagner.
Mrs. w. o. Hancock, Philanthropic
Committee chairman, said Is gar
ments had been made by her Red
Cross unit, gift shower held for
a needy convalescent, Christmas
needs supplied to four children
under 5 years of age, and coal and
food sent to a needy family.
A silver offering for Christmas
giving was taken last night.
During the program Mrs. Thomas
M. Cahill read a dramatic version
Of Van Dykes THE Other Wise
Man." by Bess Davis Schreiner, and
Miss Schreiner told of her expert
ences in writing and producing
the drama.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Defense Council Branch
Names Mrs. WhuIen

Mrs. B. Peyton Whalen, chairman
of the womens division, Montgomery
County Md Council of Defense,
announced yesterday the appoint
ment of Mrs. Donald F. Roberts of
Potomac as vice chairman: Mrs.
Thomas Creighton, jr., of Kenwood,
conservation chairman, and MI.
John Faircloth of Bethesda, public
relations chairman.
Mrs. Whalen stressed the i'm
portance of the conservation pro-
gram and asked that all residents of
the county save the following waste
materials: Paper of all kinds, in
cluding books and magazines; scrap
metal, rags, rubber and cardboard
containers to be sold through regu-
lar channels and turned back to in
dustry for manufacture into defense
materials.
Evening star., 1941-12-10

736 Jackson place NV. Mrs. C. D.
Lowe, chairman, will preside.
Honor guest at club tea Sunday
will be Mrs. Katherine Hungerford
Combs, whose water colors are on
exhibition at the club house. Mrs
L. L. Anderson, chairman of the
Library Committee, will be hostess.
A music program will be presented
by Inez Payne, pianist.
Evening star., 1941-12-10

fore Judges Charles w. Woodward
and Stedman Prescott.
The closing argument by Mr.. Will
kinson was interrupted by an air
raid alarm, which called Judge
woodward from the bench. He is
a deputy air raid warden.
In another case, Judge Prescott
found Mrs. Betty Marf1ack, 25, of
Uniontown, Pa, guilty of bigamy.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Herman to Speak

Thomas Herman, author of
France on Berlin Time" will ad-
dress the luncheon to be held in
honor of Miss Anne Morgan by the
Washington Chapter of the Co.
ordinating Council of French Relief
Societies at l pm. tomorrow at the
Sulgrave Club.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Faculty Women
TOHear Mrs. Glenn

Mrs. c. Leslie Glenn, national
vice president of the Girl Scouts.
will address the Faculty Women's
Club of George Washington Uni
versity at 2 pm. Friday at the
home of Mrs. George Rowland
Cox, 1921 Chain Bridge road.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Naval Officer Returns
Decoration to japan

Attack by Japan on United States
possessions in the Pacific yesterday
moved Capt. Clark D. Stearns, U.
S. NJ. retired, to send back to Japan
the decoration of the japanese Red
Cross he received for directing Ma
val emergency relief work at Toxic
and Yokohama during the earth
quake in 1923.
Capt. Stearns telegraphed Secre-
tary Knox from his home in Cocoa
nut Grove, Fla, saying he was re-
turning by registered mail the dec
grafton. highest reward of the Japa-
nese Red Cross.
Evening star., 1941-12-10
Women's City Club
To Hear Camalier

Renah F. Camalier, counsel to
the Senate District Committee, will
address a civics section luncheon of
the Women's City Club at LIS pm.
Saturday at the club headquarters,