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Evening star., 1941-07-22
Complains Against "Acts" Which
Alter Forms of Government.

To the Editor of The Star:
Discussing the substitution of deem"
for find" (and what greater leverage
could be provided personal rule than to
substitute deem for find" In every
lawD in measure before Congress for
enactment" the Saturday Evening
Post quotes Representative Hatton w.
Summers as follows:
This Government has not had the
benefit, except in a very modified sense,
of an independent legislative body for a
good many years. We all know where
the important bills have come from.
We know, speaking generally, that mat
tiers of policy of major Importance are
not fashioned by the policy-fixing agency
OF the Government. Speaking generally
and the exceptions are rare, important
legislation cannot be put through which
the President does not want ="
In brief, parliament has surrendered
to sovereign and the officer styled an
executive has become a ruler.
Legislation which arises in the manner
described by Representative Hatton is
not new experience to the American
people.
In the Declaration of independence it
is styled "acts of pretended legislation" :"
He whom that document specifies as
intent upon becoming a personal ruler
is therein specifically charged with
having fostered such acts" among them
being acts for altering fundamentally
the forms of our governments.
1t is an old story-the undoing of
institutions for which brave men strug-
gled, and which they thought they had
securely established
HARRISON TILGHMAN.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Hoskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. HdSkfn

o4 EICuCfb LINoh"s
A reader can get the unstDer to any
question OF fact by ,Dritfno The Eue-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Hdskin, director, Washington,
d. C. Please tnclose stamp for reply.
Q. Why are there no very tall build
ings in Washington, D. CA. T.
A. BY a law of 1910, as amended, Con-
gress has set an extreme maximum
height Of 160 feet for any building in
the District of Columbia, and this maxi
mum applies only on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. between First and Fifteenth streets;
otherwise the limit is 130 feet.
@. How much does the average person
use his eyes?-M. T. E.
A. The average adult uses his eyes
continuously for Is hours q day.
@. What material Is barred from the
air by the Federal Communications
Commission?-R. G. H.
A. The Communications Act forbids
lotteries and kindred enterprises, and
obscene, indecent or profane language.
G. Who is responsible for the menus
in the ArnN?--L. S. z.
A. The commanding general in each
corps area decides who shall be re-
sponsible for the menus in his area. This
is usually the commandant Of the
Bakers and Cooks School, under the
Quartermaster Corps. Menus are made
ahead for 80 days, together with the list
Of components and amounts needed for
units of 100 men.
G. When was the Statue Of Liberty
made a national monumental. B.
A. 1t was established as q national
monument in 1924
@. On what articles do department
stores make the most money?-H. P. c..
A. According TO survey by the Ma
tional Retail Dry Goods Association,
stores make more money on corsets and
iewelry than on any other items.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Expresses Appreciation
OF Article on the Ukraine.

Permit me to express my appreci-
alton and sincere thanks to Lothrop
Stoddard for his excellent account of the
Ukraine's history and her independence
movement, appearing in The Star Of July
13, under the title "Russias Ukrainians
Are Proud People"
His sincere presentation of the Ukrain-
ian problem is an encouraging indication
that there still are thoughtful and we'll
informed American writer's who paint a
true picture Of European conditions,
EUGENE SKOTZKO.
Evening star., 1941-07-22

@. Is the count in a knock-dovn in
fighting one second or two seconds per
count?-J. s.
A. 1t is one second per count.
@. Please give the date Of the Aneri-
can Hobby Shove. K. H.
A. The American Hobby Show is nov
being held at Hearns Auditorium. New
York City. 1t began on July IA and will
continue through July 26.
@. Where is Col. Lindberghs father
buried?-R. G. H.
A. His remains were cremated and
the ashes deposited in the columbariunl
at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis,
MINI.
@. What President served the shortest
length OF time7-C. H. A.
A. william Henry Harrison. who died
In ONCE served only from March I to
April 4. ls41.
@. Who wrote The Old Flag Never
Touched the Ground?"-K. K. w.
A. The song was composed by the dis
tinguished Negro musician Rosamond
Johnson. The words are by his late
brother James Weldon johnson and Bob
Cole
@. Why is gin so called?-A. L. r.
A. The French term for the juniper
berry is genevre, which became the name
of the beverage favored with the juniper
-; -, ~.
latter name was shortened to gin.
@. How long has King Carol OF Ru-
mania known Nine. Lupescu7-C. G. r.
A. They met in 1928. At that time she
was the wife of an army officer whom she
! subsequently divorced.
O. Who used the expression. II am
man who has given you more provinces
than your ancestors left you cities"'
S ". 8.
A. These words were used by Cortes
In addressing Charles of Spain.
@. What is the origin of the term "red
cap applied to station porters?-s H. r.
A. The use of the term dates from
LdUOT Lay, 1o5O, WHcil OOIIil WilIdLls,
coiored porter in the New York Central
Station, tied a piece of red flannel on
his cap so that his patrons could identify
him in the crowd.
Q. Is it true that large part Of the
vitamin and mineral content OF vege-
tables is lost in cooking?-L. M. c.
A. Experiments indicate that as much
as so per cent of the minerals and
large portion of the vitamins in vege-
tables may be lost In the cooking water.
@. Why did Voltaire change his name?
&C. w. S.
A. The writer was named Francois
Marie Arouet. Accused OF rejecting on
the government in some of his poems,
he was imprisoned in the Bastille. While
there he took the name of Voltaire.
saying that he hoped to have better luck
with his new one than with the old one.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
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Dear the name and address of
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a pSeudonym for publication Is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters ,Dith
a Uie1C to condensation.
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Evening star., 1941-07-22

@. How much does the average person
use his eyes?-M. T. E.
A. The average adult uses his eyes
continuously for Is hours q day.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-26

THIE MAGIC LANTERNS The hckers nothing sem
satonal, but the better side.
Lydia" shows you Merle Oberon Juggling life
time for a lad who didn't her phone number.
Lady Be Good retains OF Gershwin
musical but the rest epan job Sothern and Robert
Young always pleasant but the Eleanor Powell hoofng
Red Shelton pranking sliced too thin.
Our Wife is of the slcker fickers
Ann Sheridan is peeled down TO her Hays code in Navy
Blues Jack Oakie, Jack Haley Raye funny
enough and the music good but looking Un
States destroyers the thrill of the piece -
The Smiling Chest aims shHdAet1,
Doctor Kldares Wedding tragic Day
killed by The truck probably something else
Elder wasn't allowed to her about.
TNE FRONT PAGES: Frank Sullivan urged the
probe the American fighting song. which
propaganda. Namely The Spanged Jack Moff
It's though Lexington pnched
for circulating malicious
Typewriter Ribbons Congressman lay eggs stop laying
cornersones.
Abe Martin; Bein optimistic after you've got eNerytAiH
want don't
Jerome Wedman His suddenly sharp 1t
could almost have been used for shaving.
Libbie Block: Indifferent a cloud
New York Herald Tribune. kill
they certainly stop killing
Edna f. Wood She swallowed her pride il left a lump
in her throat
Rebecca memory uaciou busy opening deers
he believed he had locked
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-26
EXTRACTS LETTERS

From a drawer he took the
letters containing my repudi-
alton of communism and my
application for Mein Xampf.
What" he inquired softly.
induced YOU to write this
declaration ."
l feigned embarrassment.
THE causes for il 20 back
years" / said. ut Is n long
story. fear"
That's clear - How long
have YOU been imprisoned
now ."
'"Thirty-seven months. Since
November, 1888"
THAT was An unpleasant
day. Your story goes back TO
that day?"
Further" I said.
Inspector kraus III a cigaret.
lie had the expression of a
very passionate smoker.
Nun" he said, ego ahead.
Get IT of your chest. I am
an excellent listener"
/ talked, haltingly, at first,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-26
Pig+ails Return to Campus
And Elsie Shouts 'Hooray!'
By Elsie Robinson

4 CCORDING to our mark
"A eddy apathetic fashion
authorities, campus f1or1tys
will be wearing plgtails this
year, Also. scuffy shoes, tom
boy sweaters, mackinaWs
swiped from the boy friend
and stevedore appetites
Which news / welcome with
gulps of glee. At last you're
getting somewhere, young
sters.
You may not keep it up,
it's a 1,000-to-l shot you
won't.
But at least you're giving
yourself and your aderinF
audience-the great American
public--a chance to glimpse
the sweetest show on earth.
The American girl, as is
without synthetic scenic and
sound effects.
If there ever has been a
prettier item OF merchandise
on any market than the 1871
lass, I've yet 10 See il. And
this includes all previous
modeis-cfear- back 10 great
great-gramf19. complete with
corsets crinoline six
petticOats g.. Giro st op
panties with starched ruffles
even more violently
starched and ruhled corset
covers three-inch "chok-
ers", buns rats"
switches and other perilous
paraphernalia.
I REALIZE that this state.
Il ment is contrary 10 popu-
lar tradition which hands all
medals for health. beauty,
charm and intelligence to the
Victorian era belle.
But, having been one Of
those Gibson Girls myself,
I'm here 10 state that such
publicity is poisonous hooey--
and nothing else but.
Consider. for instance. this
matter of health. The cuties
of lS50-1900 probably had less
health per square inch Of
female physiology than any
long-suffering female before
or since.
They broke every hygienic
law and raised Cain with
anatomic principles from the
time they first struggled from
their baby buggies.
No member of the human
race ever has logged around
more yards Of useless dry
goods than they did .. . or
manipulated said dry-goocls in
a more death-defying manner.
If Mr.. Hitler has any dead
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-26
BREAKING POINT

The decisive break developed
during the years which fol-
lowed my arrest by the Ges-
tapo, which were years of
painful inner struggle toward
light. / heard what Hitler
was doing for the German
people. / recognized as false
hood everything the jewish
Communist press prin I e d
about the New Germany.
(T6ABe COntinued)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-26

Wilella Waldorf newest of the first
stringers rated it "a merry evening for
the not over fussy." The players, especially
Ed Wynn's tot, keenan,, won personal
caresses.
"Cuckoos on the Hearth, failed to
split the reviewers sides, but they all sang
ditty to the trouping of Percy Kilbride
as Yankee limb of the law The objection
was that the play had two third acts and
no second, and also, that it showed too
many fingerprints of other hit farces.
"Cuckoos," TO read the drama depart
ments merely attracted another bird from
the critics
The premiere of Brother CAIN which
was snubbed the week before inspired this
repartee during the initial intermission.
Frank Parker. the thrush. asked a
newspaperman how he liked il.
1T isn't worth the paper / got in on"
was the ngrate's insult.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-26
Out of the Night

knew of a way 10 tight COM
munlSm, I'D do it,"
"Who wrote this barrage"
The official inquired.
II wish l knew, sir" I said.
I'D wiring his neck"
"Oh, you would"
eyes. sir"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-26

liver Still longer need be
viewed with alarm has invented tasteess cod liver oil
Perhaps soak my palatabe grass oil
and have 100 per cent vitamin product
CIR THOMAS BEEcHAAL British musician Says he talked
years and that Adolf told him his favorite
operetta The Merry Widow
Rex Stout Author Creator Of Nero Wolfe Mr. Stout was
something prodigy having the Bible through
when ne 81 years old.
Zagat Pulp magazine
and earns about $3.50
a period.
Ruth Eng songstress Achieved considerable notice sing
ing that mounfl dty of the life of dance hall hostess Ten
Cents Dance
Things tougher hostesses price
at present being cents dance
fellow whose became dance hall hostess and
he didn't like it,
I'm going o a gigoo" said threateningy
His
go M see
And he did become paid partner. This real life
story would make good film I'll write II out toorroTats
write all novels plays and original stories:
Tomorrow.
"A been invented
AS the early disciples of 100 per Amecanis let
forget Sullivan L. knocked by
Jim Corhett the first he said
f had to be beaten glad American"
When the winner Of contest In which the prize was kiss
from Paue Goddard was enjoying the award his wife standing
by said sadly
He never kissed me like that"
what the said: well, not lately any
Seems the matron who wrote that poem about the
parison o Years his
This Years Kisses" has a fellow sufferer
QUERIES from clients:
Q-Wh the plants of the st Louis and Cincinnati clubs
equipped with lighting why did the have call
games places account darkness?
A-Seems very fair question sir, but I don't know the
Perhaps the umpres should have said Game called
of merry
so-and-so from their
Q-How many persons born in Germany resi-
dents Of the United States? many people?
A-tast figures show I608s14 residents United States
Germany. 4770647 Jewish
people in this country.
by RngF Feat Syndicate Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-26
CHAPTER IOI

dered. "Or are they no more
than poor. betrayed wretches,
who seem 10 me like heroes
because my brain Is blind and
drunk and made"
With savage efforts l fought
down the forerunners of de-
SPAR. BY sheer will power /
could make myself hear the
roar Of guns in Spain, and the
shouts of the forward-storm-
ing revolutionary volunteers.
"ShOOt well, comrades" I
would growl, gathering
strength 10 fight my own dark
and inSidiouS battle: Don't
waste ammunition, comrades.
For every slug--a dead Fas-
cist. Roar, you guns I'm
SPAIN 1 am with you! We
are all with you
In my cell 1 diligently
studied Hitler's Mein Kampf.
With contraband pencil 1
copied SeHtef4et-S and
paragraphs on scraps of toilet
paper, added admiring COM
ment TO the quotations, and
left them where they would
be found by the guards dur
ing the next routine search
of my cell.
NOTES OF DUPIICITY
knew that they weaid
seize the notes, and the prison
. director would add them To
my doSSier. Occasionally /
received letters from one of
my brothers; / was permit
ted to have them for two
hours before they were taken
from me, also to be filed with
my dossier. In these two
hours / scrubbed words of
establishment between the
lines:
ut Is true" / wrote. "HitIer
is Germany, and Germany is
Hitler" And: Communism
Is a heinous lie. One cannot
be Communist and not he a
traitor TO the Fatherland."
The letters with such in
SCTfprions, 1 hoped, would find
their way TO the Gestapo.
They would be noticed, per-
haps discuss ed, and the
Gestape would draw its con-
clusions--in one way or an
other. / worked patiently
and cautiously, week after
week. at this game.
A few days before Christ
r1laSr~-1g36, the majority of
Communist prisoners launched
a secret campaign for a
church strike on Christmas
Eve.
Refuse to attend church.
Let the Nazi pastor talk to
empty benches. were the
main slogans of this drive.
Deliberately I launched a
counter-drive under the cry:
Down with the church
boycott. Prisoners, refuse to
be terrorized by the goddess"
ATTACKED IN LETTER
This caused some constrena-
ton in the ranks of the
political convicts. I induced
my cell-neighbor, a reliable
comrade whom i had drawn
into my confidence, TO write q
violent epistle against me,
Condemning me as a renegade.
a counter-revolutionary and
a violator of party discipline.
This he did, under the head
line: Down with the Trotsky-
list. Down with the lackey of
the church. He ended il r
with the eXhortation: READ
AND PASS ON" During
the next exercise hour / drop
ped this broadside against
myself in the yard. A guard
picked it up.
Before / was returned TO
my cell, / could see the guard
striding toward ~the admin
istration offices, the paper in
his hand. A day later / was
called before the prison direc-
tor. He showed me the
paper.
II must say he observed.
your Communist friends have
heaped a goodly load of
maledietiOns on your head"
They are not my friends"
I answered stiffiy. 81 have
broken with communism. III
Bv Jimmy H3fIO
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-26

iier instruments in his panzer
divisions than an 1895 corset,
dt1p Russians had better quit
quick, while the outings
good
1t was practically impossible
for Miss Sophronisba Isabella
Imogene Jones 10 snickel>
sigh, swallow, scratch an
truding flea or give even H.
most refined, ladylike belch,
after becoming enclosed in one
of those super dreadnaughtS.
Then, just in case she was
In danger Of getting a real
lungful OF air. she encased her
m a three-inch starched.
male collar and covered the
same with yards and yards Of
ribbon.
THOSE were the. DAYS OF
Il "Galloping Consumption"
-. "PerniciouS. Anemia"
and Sinking Spells" Female
fragility was practically inn
perative. If you didn't swoon
early and often You-Merc- a
drug on the matrimonial
market.
l regret to say-but insist
on saying that the effect OF
such modes on the census
bureau were devastating.
Blessed events were not only
uncomfortable - but rarely
seen after the evening. The
19-inch waists saw 10 that
In a New England ceme-
terry there still exists tiny
tombstone whose epita
speaks volumes for the count
less other victims Of feminine
fashions.
Briefly the tiny ghost walls:
b $50 soon was ] done,
Why was I begun ."
WITH the Twentieth Cen
W fury. som g { h in 2 was
bound 10 husband did. First
Of all, those corset strings.
Yet even equal suffrage CO.
education. Jobs for women
and Sam Browne belts failed
10 put an end 10 such cocISo
eyed carryingS-on.
CorSetS went - but slFS
skirts with harem hips
Slithered in. X me length
heaps of hair were bobbed-
only TO be Supplanted by
blcached. dyed and weirdly
waved arrangements. closely
resembling a hen in a hurri-
cane. -.-
Fingernails and toenails OUT
rosed the sunriSe-with re-
placeable duplicates 10 be had.
nine clue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-26
By JAN VALTIN


ment on earth has accom-
plished that.
THE workers have vaca-
tions with pay. They can
make ocean trips to Norway
and Madeira for very little
money. Employers who pay
less than the decreed mini
mum wage are sent To Jail.
Germany was weak and de-
spised-nOw IL is strong and
respected.
THE roads which Hitler
built - the AutObahnen - are
the best I'm existence. Fellow
prisoners have told me that
the Hamburg slums have been
torn down; new, modern
houses with gardens were
built i'm their place.
Boys and girls who before
were condemned tn grow up i'm
OvercrOwded hells and the
gutter, are now i'm the Hitler
Youth-they learn wOOdcraft,
they go camping, they have
all that children should have
to be happy.
HUNDREDS STARVED
Before 1888 each Winter
hundreds froze and starved to
death; today every one knows
that the Nazi welfare's slogan,
NO one shall he cold or hun
gry,' has been translated into
reality. Well, neither l nor
my comrades expected that
Hitler would do SO much for
the workers.
II came to the conclusion
that ! had been mistaken.
came to the conclusion that
the Hitler movement was
national and socialist I'm the
best sense. came to the con-
clusion that 1 had made a
CHASTITY mistake"
1--WE said that already to
many of the ex-Muscovites
we've had up here" Inspector
X rats observed. what did
you fellows want here? Fight
Hitler. Isn't 1t Hitler who
has fulfilled many OF The Com
munist demands Curbed
capitalism Broken the bour-
geoisie? Cowed the church,
Given security to the work
ers? Refused TO LET Germany
be bled white by the foreign
bank sharks"
Hitler has done that" I
said. 1T was hard to admit,
but 1t Is the truth"
Bitter, eh ."
Eyes. 1t was bitter" I said
Bitter to find that one has
been fighting -nn-the wrong
side"
SIMILAR IDEALS
"When did you begin TO
think that the Comintern was
not so holy:" kraus inquired
suddenly. "Why did you stay
with them so long:"
THE Hitler movement Is
built on the soldier ideal
answered. 1.-THE Comintern Is
built on a military discipline.
Hitlerism has an ideal. Com
.munism rejected ideals-it
recognized only historical ma
terialism. What both had i'm
common was the soldier atti-
tude. 1 was a soldier. The
soldiers highest virtue Is
loyalty"
| went on, for a long time.
uninterruptedly, afraid 10. let
inspector, X listening
brain slip from my grasp: NOf
course. by 1888 i had lost my
Observation-Disclosures illusions;
l recognized the Comintern
as a mere instrument for the
promotion Of the imperialist
aims of the Soviets, and its
chiefs as a band of shyster
lawyers and brigands.
Yet / remained in the Com
munist movement, a serf of
Moscow. because / valued
loyalty TO a once chosen cause
above all; because / despised
the -deserterii beeatise CON-
sidered myself soldier who
fights with his army without
asking whether his side is
right or wrong.