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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10


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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10

TIME Fourth division of the
regular army was organ
lied at the direction OF
the war department, Nov, ~,
1917. The division included
not only units of the regular
army but also completed It's
organization from the first
drafted men to enter the
ranks.
The Fourth, nicknamed the
wv division, trained at Camp
Greene, North Carolina. before
embarking for France in May.
1918.
From July 10 to 21. the
division operated with the
Sixth French army in the Of
fensives near Marcy and
Hautevesnes. 1t later was
active in the Vesle and Toul
sectors. the Meuse-Argonne
and the march on Coblenz.
The division advanced "a y
kilometers against enemy re-
sistance. 1t captured 2,756
prisoners O~ncluding 4S offl-
cers), A pieces Of artillery
and 81 machine guns.
The insignia of the ivy
division is four green leaves
Of ivy super,mposed on a dla-
mond Of olive drab. The tour
leaves symbolic the NUMBER
of the division.
The Fourth division is now
located at Fort Bennlng,
Georgia,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10

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Continued From rage One)
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Van Ness Street CLOSING

The Commissioners are clearly in
accord with the weight of expressed
public opinion in announcing they
will oppose the closing of Van Ness
street between Connecticut avenue
and Reno road NV. as requested by
the Bureau of Standards. Nor were
they unmindful of the fact that Con-
gress, in authorizing certain land
purchases by the bureau in 1880,
specifically forbade the closing of
this thoroughfare.
The bureaus case, as presented by
Director Lyman j. Briggs, is based
on the need for safeguarding scienti-
flc research essential to national de-
Tense. The bureau now owns the
property on both sides of Van Ness
street in the block in question. DR..
Briggs says that by closing the street
and putting fence around the entire
property, the necessary protection
would be afforded.
There is no question but that the
bureau should have all the privacy
1t requires in its important national
defense work. But it has not been
shown that the closing of Van Ness
street is the only possible solution of
the problem.
1t has been suggested, for example,
that both sides Of Van Ness street
Evening star., 1941-02-20

House that Americas defense policy
with respect to Guam should not be
dictated by any foreign power" and
that any protest by Japan (Which he
regarded as inconceivable) would be
"unwarranted, unmerited and should,
in my opinion, be totally diSregarded."
The Samoa project was an entirely
new one and, because of the great
distance from Japan of this South
Pacific island, was not subject to
some Of the objections voiced in the
past against harbor Improvements at
Guam, often referred to as situated
on Japan's doorstep" Actually
Guam Is about 1900 miles from Toxic.
Neither island is to be fortified, but
the Navy plans to prepare both for
use as aerial outposts and as refugees
for American ships If war should
come to the Pacific. The Senate
should follow the example of the
House and give prompt approval to
this prudent program-eSpecially in
the light Of Japanese Ambassador
Nomura's frank assertion yesterday
that his country is determined to
expand southwark and that he could
not promise that force would not be
resorted to If necessary.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Pacific Outposts

In approving plans of the Navy
for development of passive defenseS"
at Guam and Samoa, our remote is
land outpoStS in the Pacific, the
House at last has rejected the pre-
posterous theory that America should
refrain from undertaking any defense
projects in the Guam area that might
give offenSe to Japan. Proponents
of this untenable and dangerous doc
trine had succeeded on several oc-
casions in the past in blocking pro-
poSals for such obviously inoffensive
measures as the construction of a
sea wall and removal of coral obstruc-
tionS in the harbor at Guam. While
we were thus leaning over backwards
in our desire to avoid trouble with
Japan, the war lords at Toxic had no
qualms about proceeding with mys-
teriouS improvements" in nearby
inundated islands, which Japan
under the mandate was obliged to
leave unfortifled. A dispatch from
E1uoOA ana Al yCoOSI UehJ . oldL Ny Val
roll Binder, foreign editor of the
Chicago Daily News, is Illuminating
as to the nature of the improve
ments." Mr.. Binder wrote: 1T must
be remembered that Japan has
heavily fortified and established i'm
portant naval and air bases in the
Marshall and Caroline Islands, which
she acquired under class C mandate
at the Versailles Peace Conference
Under the terms of the man
date, Japan should not have acted
thus, but the fact remains that she
has done so and that, short of war,
no outside power is in a position to
do anything about il"
Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of
naval operations, reflected the senti-
ments of the overwhelming majority
Of American citizens when he told the
Evening star., 1941-02-20

Indeed, although The StT does not agree
with Senator Wheeleri position, the
managing editor not onE invited him to
present his views on the Radio Forum
over a network of statiois but also paid
him a courteous personal tribute that
thrilled millions of people who regard
Mr.. Wheeler as a great American.
Therefore, what is tn explanation of
Jay Franklin's hysteri? Why cannot
he desist from his nam-calling?
The answer. believ', is simple: Mr..
Franklin has not lived much of his adult
life in the United State. He is not truly
acclmated to our sense of fair play.
From 1918 to 1928-acording to Who's
Who in America-he ived abroad. He
lived in London, Colstantinople and
Rome during all that ime He has the
European point of view At one time he
was Rome correspondent of an English
paper, the London Dahl Chronicle.
Europe, and Europes quarrels mean
q great deal to him. He gets very ex-
cited about them.
In short, he has cone to look at the
world through English and continental
eyes. And who can bl.me him? For al
most half his adult life he has lived
there. OTIS J. BOUMA.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Stone Lion on New Bridge

Here are 1Uide streets Where there
UaS UoodIand only
When I lDuS young, and not too
long ago.
Cheap little houses, speeding cars,
oil stations,
Where there 1Uere Judas trees and
doglOood srlol0.
Cured like steel rIinbotOS lift the
flying arches
Beneath this bridge that spans a
WeII-knoWn stream,
Since Mans imagination gathered
forces
To urge the Wtdening city, and
his dream
Included you, proud Leo! Dun1bly
crouching
You stare me dolDn-and yet ]
stDear kneU
This UalIey as the uery home Of
summer.
1t Was all ours. We had no need
OF you.
There was a boy, a girl, and all those
others
Who IoUed this place. Some sleep
their endless sleep.
We wandered here Dhen 1t 1cds
Gods and our glen
Oh, I could rest my head on these
cold stones and ,Deep.
EDNA L. s. BARKER.
Evening star., 1941-02-20

could be fenced to isolate the bureau
from the public. DR.. Briggs opposes
this plan on the ground that it would
entail the expense Of additional
guards. Such an expenditure would
seem to be small price to pay for
the preservation Of Van Ness street
as one Of the vital connecting links
between Wisconsin and Connecticut
avenues. Closing of the street would
leave no through street westward
from Connecticut avenue between
Tilden and Albemarle streets-a
stretch of perhaps half mile.
Final decision as to the closing of
Van Ness street must come from
Congress. But action should be
taken only after hearings at which
full consideration may be given to
possible substitutes for the bureaus
proposal.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. Trdcet1eI.

male types are as odd as anything well
can be. Fortunately, most men and
women possess characteristics of both
sexes, when 1t comes to likes and dis
likes.
One of the most rip-roaring males in
official circles likes bit of perfume on
his handkerchief.
Dainty women like to smoke.
~ ~
We hope that this minging Of the
virtues of both sexes, with an end OF
silly and sometimes fanatical divisions,
extends as far as house plants.
Certainly nothing but good can be
said for properly growing and blooming
house plants 1t may be that some Of
the masculine dislike for them is due to
the fact that there usually are too
many OF them, cluttering up window
sills and the like.
Many plants give a messy appear
ance. 1t may be that all hobbies belong
in some separate place, not the living
room or dining room. We don't know.
Sometimes we tend to believe that
the dislike Of many men for house
plants depends upon their belief that
somehow plants belong outdoors, and
that a growing flower has no more right
indoors than woman over 40 in shorts
outside.
Our correspondent should not have
transplanted her African violet to a
larger pot
That was where she made her big
mistake.
These plants do better when they are
pot-bound, planted in pot or con-
tainer which Is too small for them, 10
all appearances.
Our advice to all ladies growing
plants indoors Is to weed them out
That is, reduce the number of con.
tainers, getting rid of the extra ones
We know, from an examination Of TIE
feminine heart extending over mary
years, that this is striking at the vey
root Of the matter, however.
They dearly love TO potter around o,er
these little plants, to make two plants
grow where one grew before. But in
OOAlS 81 LlIcy GCIlu W OllC
rooms, and thereby strike real blow
at the male members of the Household.
Maybe 1t Is a secret, or maybe 1t
isn't, that men who throw the papr all
over the floor, and scatter their bdong-
ings helter-skelter, nevertheless have
secret and overwhelming admiration for
order and neatness.
Many a man who keeps his desk at
the Office as if a whirlwind hal struck
it (but not quite hard enough to clean
1t all Off would be only too aad for a
firm and helping hand.
When he gets home, he wants to find
everything in order, as neat as pin,
and this despite the fact that he may
be an untidy old bear himsf.
This same universal idiot who finds
nothing better to do after 1000 years of
Christianity and Civilization than to
fight and destroy what he has created,
still carries in his heart lis dream Of
perfection and order. 1t is difficult to
tell whether one should laugh or cry
over him, and we suspect that his wife
does both.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Thinks Jay Franklin
Has European Point of View"

To the Editor of The Star:
Your columnist, Jay Franklin, likes to
call people names-that is, people who
don't agree with him.
If you don't believe this is our war,
every few days or so he calls you an
appeaSer. Then, if you don't believe
the good old U. S. A. has any mission to
police the world, you are-according to
Mr.. Franklin-a little American!
Recently he wrote column consisting
of ridicule of Senator Wheeler He wound
up by calling him coward.
Now imagine that! Wheeler, whose
courage has been tested in hotter fires
than your columnist has ever, or prob
ably will ever, knows, if Mr.. Franklin
is to be believed, a coward!
There is something disgraceful about
a columnist resorting to ame-calling
day after day. 1t indicates not merely
that he is hysterical, but that an expla-
nation Of his violent prejudices on the
subject of intervention in the present
war is in order. "A
The Star, for example, does not cal
people appeasers and little American
when It sets forth its views edstorialf.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Discusses "Chiselers" in Traffic
And Wants Them Corrected.

To the Editor OF The Star:
In your issue of February 7 there ap-
peared a letter from George D. Watrous.
jr., commenting on the shortcomings of
man in general and on his traffic man
ners in particular.
I think Mr.. Watrous has put his finger
right smack on the trouble, namely. the
lack of courtesy and consideration for
others, the don't care" or take a
chance" attitude of many motorists and
pedestrians alike. The fact that traffic
and safety regulations are for their pro-
lection and for the good of society as a
whole is no doubt beyond the compre-
henSion of some folks. They just can't
catch on and probably never will But
the great majority of violators belong
to the "chiseler" type who hopes to get
by without being caught and who will
abide by the rules only when he thinks
he is being watched An amber light
Cor even red one) seems not so much a
warning to stop as challenge to make
1t if you can" The spirit of fair play and
consideration for the other fellow is en-
tirely lacking in his makeup, and he
considers it smart to beat the game so
long as he is not caught. A policeman
in plain sight will slow him down and
make him most considerate of the rights
of others for the time being. However,
we don't have enough policemen and
this being the case I believe a citizens
committee of observers to report on driv-
ing violations might help.
A "chiseler," it seems, can only be
taught to play the game fairly by being
hurt-either physically, through his
purse, or his pride. Therefore, I suggest
that really substantial fines or more Jail
sentences are the best methods of edu-
cation. While recognize the fact that
"chiSelers" are found both driving and
walking, the breakdown should be di-
rected mainly at the motorist, for, after
all, he has the deadly weapon that does
the damage, whereas the pedestrian is
unarmed and, in mixup, usually goes
to the hospital. He pays, regardless of
who is at fault.
GREEN LIGHT WALKER.
Evening star., 1941-02-20

Dear Sir:
"A friend rooted an African violet
for me one and half years ago. 1t
grew like little weed until I trans
planted 1t to a larger pot. Since that
time it has done but very little growing
IT used woods dirt with bone meal
TO transplant my violet In. l also feed
1t fertilizer and vitamin B-1 solution.
NV plant has a healthy dark green
satin leaf. The bottom leaves are quite
large, but for some unknown reason
they curl up, making almost V-shape
out of themselves.
There is not any sign of an insect
on plant leaves. Have you had any
experience with the leaves curling up?
This past October tiny buds appeared
around the stem, TO my joy, but for
some unknown reason they have not
developed They are still there, only
about one-quarter of an inch long. The
leaves themselves are growing, though
slowly.
81 have an African violet plant that
I purchased from a and 10 cent store
this past fall.
After attending the plant about a
week or so noticed small rather trans
parent objects occasionally jumping
around in the saucer of water the plant
was sitting in.
after watching them closely found
they could run up sides of pot as well as
jump and that they were burying them
selves into plant leaves and eating the
leaves themselves.
Just recently I looked the leaves
over carefully, washed all the dirt of
the roots and replanted plant in fresh
return of the pest.
"I have been told by friend that you
published IN your column of The Eve
ming Star paper either in the spring Of
1910 or early summer quite a detailed
article on the care of the African
violet.
Il had the privilege Of reading your
two articles appearing January % and
February s Thank you for them. am
keenly interested in any article pertain
ing to the care of the African violet.
Sincerely, B. P"
II Mrs P. has read our articles OF
January % and February 6, she knows
about all we know about the African
violet, that house plant which wins the
admiration of male members of family,
most Of whom have hearty disrespect
for all plants grown indoors.
We have never been able to figure
out exactly why men dislike house plants.
Often they pretend to admire them,
when down in their secret heart they
curse them heartily. Perhaps all they
do to show their disrespect is TO drop
cigar ashes into the pot, claiming that
this helps keep insects away"
1t may be that the masculine dislike
of this typically feminine occupation
goes back to deep wells of psychology.
But today there is a much better under
standing of the human mind Most per-
sons know that all human beings possess
both masculine and feminine character
istics
The all-out male and the all-out fe-
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Member OF the Associated Press.
Overton-Hunter Bill

Two years ago Senator Overton Of
Louisiana hit upon a fair plan for
permanent measurement of the Fed
eral obligation toward the expenses
of the District, but had to abandon
it because of unrelenting House op-
position after the Senate had almost
unanimously approved it. At that
time it was entirely a Senate pro-
posal.
Yesterday the bill was revived, not
merely as the Overton plan In the
Senate, but as the Overton-Hunter
formula, for it now has a sponsor in
the House as we'll as the Senate. The
willingness of a House member to
join in fathering the plan would in
itself, be step forward in the battle
for fiscal equity. The development
becomes more encouraging in view
of the fact that representative
Hunter of Ohio, who introduced it,
has just become chairman of the
House subcommittee in charge of
local tax revision.
The attention of Congress very
properly is focused on rearming
America to protect this hemisphere,
but the defense program itself pre-
sents the strongest reason why Fed
eral-District fiscal relations should
be settled fairly at this time. For
the defense program, which has its
nerve center in Washington, is work
ing In two directions to magnify the
injustice of the arbitrary lump-sum
payment.
AS Government agencies expand in
this period of emergency they are
taking more property from the tax
producing area. At the same time
these enlarged Federal activities add
to the amount of municipal service
the District government must be pre-
pared to furnish Uncle Sans work
shops - services which are most
readily exemplified by new demands
for expansion placed on the school
system, the Police and Fire Depart
mentS, the highways and the danger
ously overtaXed water supply system.
1t would be not merely unfair but
futile as we'll to expect the increased
revenues for such expansion to be
furnished wholly by the local COM
munity, leaving the Federal pay
ment at the $6,000,000 figure fixed as
compromise two years ago.
The Overton-Hunter legislation
provides an equitable method for
measuring the extent of the payment
that the exclusively controlling Fed
eral Government should make toward
National Capital maintenance and
development.
Getting away from all conflicting
opinions as to the appraised value
of Federal property, the formula
uses the land acreage required for
national purposes-a figure which
can always be determined with
mathematical certainty Two years
ago Uncle Sans acreage was ap-
proximately 20 per cent, and, ap-
piled to the O,0O0,O 900 of general
fund expenses at that time, would
have made the Federal share S.
100000.
Since that time the Federal acre
age has increased only ! per cent,
but the general fund expenses for
the coming year have mounted to
$43,000,000, so that today the formula
would be 81 per cent of $43 100000,
or approximately $4,000, 900. 1t must
not be forgotten, however, that in
addition to 79 per cent of these gen.
eral fund expenses, the District would
also be meeting the entire cost of the
water service and highway system
through water rents and motor
vehicle taxes.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
FREDERIC FROST.
Quotes Scripture In the Defense
OF American Reform"

To thezditor of The Star:
Ma I suggest to Jay Franklin that
befoe We attempt to remove the master
race concept from the mind of people
Of eher nations it might be well for us
to iemove the little Americans" concept
fren the minds of some of the people
ofour own?
Here is an admonition that may be of
SINE value in all these reformational
matters: And why beholdest thou the
note that Is In thy brothers eye, but
considerest not the beam that is in thine
own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy
brother, Let me pull out the mote out of
thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in
thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first
cast out the beam out of thine own eye;
and then shalt thou see clearly to cast
out the mote out Of thy brothers eye"
woodstock, Va. J. J. SPERRY.
Evening star., 1941-02-20
Says Britain Wants
American Help in the Orient.

To the Editor of The Star:
The crisis reports coming from Aus
tralia and ot1er nearby possessions of
Great Britain are understandable. Brit
ain has felt all along that while it may
not be able b persuade another A. E. F.
to come to its aid in Europe, it might
be able to PERSUADE the American Gov
ernment to send q naval fleet into the
Orient, perhaps off Singapore, to protect
its possessDns in that region, while the
British mike an attempt to hold off
the Germlns in Europe. 1t is skillful
strategy, but so far the break that
Britain hld expected between the United
States and Japan or the United States
and Russia or the United States and
Germany has not occurred.
FREDERIC FROST.