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Evening star., 1941-04-06
New Airport Soon Ready
To Greet Travellers

smaller fields be built for private
flying in the residential suburbs.
President Roosevelt promptly ap-
proved the report and ordered i'm
mediate commencement of the Gra-
velley Point project Work began
November 10, 1888, only two days
after the Public Works Administra-
ton had made available $8,747,5 500
of Federal funds for the work and
the Works Progress Administration
had allocated initial funds which
have reached a total of 81 100000.
Thousands of W. P. A. workers
have been given employment on the
project, the total at various times
rising to 4,500 men, or more than
one-third of those in the District of
Columbia. w. P. A. workers have
rebuilt mil1s of the Mount Vernon
Highway, built ~ miles Of levees
and revetments around the fill,
moved 1,250,000 cubic yards of dry
earth, graded the entire field, in
cluding runways and taxi strips for
proper drainage, laid 31a miles Of
drainage pipes, StablllZed the bases
of S miles of runways, laid concrete
for aprons around the hangers and
installed gas, water, sewer and tele-
phone lines.
Some II Federal agencies, in all,
have participated in the Gravelly
Point project. The Public Buildings
Administration has designed and
supervised construction of the air.
port buildings. The Army Corps Of
Engineers made the 100000
cubic-yard hydraulic fill in record
time.
Washington National Airport is a
civil air terminal and in event of
war would serve no military purpose
beyond that of communications. Air
ports from which possible attack on
the Capital would have to be re-
pulsed would lie many miles away
and there would be no important
concentration of combat aircraft
here. For this reason, the manage
ment Of the airport is civil and is
vested in the administrator Of Civil
Aeronautics.
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Virginia Town Is Booming
Under Defense Building

be needed later for q new addition
to the water filtration plant. Lii
censes on pin ball machines are
bringing in no small sum.
The w. P. A. went on the rocks al
most the first day work at the plant
began. Three projects, embracing
sewer facilities, street and sidewalk
paving, were only so per cent COM
pleted when discontinued indefinite
ly. Including a sewing project for
women, also put out of commission
the program was to have cost
$4,000.
Many Money Orders.
H. H. Howard, postmaster, reported
that $4,000 worth of money orders
were sold in March, compared with
$4,000 the same month last year.
The jail population increase has
been put to work repairing the city's
streets torn up by the thousands of
automobiles Law violation, how
ever, is confined mostly to drunken
ness. A week or so ago, the police
department raided 81 places alleged
ly selling whisky unlawfully. The
town permits only 80 per cent beer
and the workmen have to 60 to near
by Christiansburg to an A. B. G.
store for legal whisky.
A new billiard parlor and new
eight-lane bowling alley help keep
the visitors out of mischief. -Four
small roadhouses with nickelodeons,
on the outskirts of town, provide
dancing facilities.
Rush hour in the town, when a
shift is changing at the plant, was
compared by taxi driver who halls
from New Jersey to Times Square.
The Smile road to the camp is lined
solidly with automobiles and an hour
is required to cover it. One-hour
parking has failed to solve one of
the towns most pressing problems
and now they're talking about park
ing meters.
Deposits at the First & Merchants
Bank have jumped more than ST.
100000 and in excess of 500 new ac-
counts have been opened.
A. c. Hankla, cashier, said the
books are fun and Mayor Jones, a
teller in the Institution, is as busy
as a counting machine.
The people are making money
and, as the Mayor says, there's a
new spirit about the place" but with
it all, many long for old days. Tall,
lean John Hopkins, leading drug
gist and bus agent, peered over his
glasses at the questioner and al
lowed:
"I don't want any more business.
I wish I could sell the place. I'm
ready to 60 back to my rocking
chair" ,
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Continued From Page CAY

and outside of his grazing land, he
used to plant the rest in corn, fod-
der and food for his wife and three
children.
Amt got time to plant crops
now," he said, waving his hand to
the rear of his new filling station.
Back there is his new business-he's
got a tourist camp, and he admits
anything from tents on up. He's
getting $5 a month from each car
or trailer, besides all the gasoline
and groceries he's selling them.
Farmer Garden is not the only
one making money OF the plants
erection. Hundreds of them have
steady jobs at such good pay that
mortgages on their farms are
melting away. Just before the work
began last September, survey of
available workers in the section was
taken.
"They went up to the head of
these hollows around here and blew
a horn" said one observer. We'll,
sir, workers came tumbling out of
the ground, from behind fences,
trees, barns and everywhere else"
Result of Speed.
The housing problem would not
have been so acute if speed in plant
construction had not been so vital.
For the appropriation for the plant
carried $550000 for homes. but the
tool sheds for building them had
not been constructed before work
was ordered ceased and the car
penters transferred to the plant.
However, at least $50 houses are to
be built by various Federal agencies
and private concerns and work Is
beginning now.
Garages, filling stations, restau-
rants, the one laundry, the telephone
company and every other concern
has a business chart as steep as the
Washington Monument. Robert
Boyd, shoe repairman, said he does
more business in a day than he used
to in a week. There are six barber
shops where there were three and
literally bushels of hair are being
clipped. The mattress and bedding
business increased 300 per cent and
the three picture shows are crowded
to capacity.
The town has never been able to
support hospital, but seven days
after a 26-bed one was opened, it
had Is patients.
The municipal government, as well
as the people, is cashing in on the
boom, and is looping of the bonded
Indebtedness almost by ciphers.
Public utilities revenue increased so
per cent, although big outlay will
Evening star., 1941-04-06

The following month. on Tues
day, June is, 1891, the Chautau-
qua was officially opened for the
first time. The large stone ampi-
theater had just been completed
and electric lights, a new feature
at that time, were used. An out
standing feature was the magnifi-
cent organ, said to be the finest
in America, which was ready for
the dedication services. 1t was op-
Grated by water power, being sup
Evening star., 1941-04-06
Opening Glen Echo Park Recalls Early Canal Great Fs
Cabin John Bridge Gained
Worldwide Fame
AS Engineering Feat
The Washington Rhine
Developed AS Mecca
For Pleasure Seekers
By John CIapeff Proctor.

Forty when bicycling at its peak and earlier
Washington
where least
leading
asphalt
Evening star., 1941-07-14

freedom by sparing us mllltarlsm.
But the oceans protect us only
if we observe the rule Of oceanic
defense, which is to protect the
ocean itself at its entrance. In
landers, who think in terms OF
land, want us to protect ourselves
in our harbors and on our
beaches. An oceanic power that
ever lets the enemy get to the
harbors and beaches has lost
its foresight.
Iceland is exactly as important
to us as the Philippines and
Hawaii, and for the same reasons.
The outposts in the Atlantic
do not need to be in our hands
or under our protection, but they
do need to be in the hands OF
friendly nations able to defend
them. and with no aggressive
intentions toward the United
States.
Those outposts are Iceland,
Dakar, the Cape Verdes, the
Azores, and, above all, the British
Isles themselves.
Traditional Policy.
No amount of arguing for and
against war will change the de-
fense position of America.
What Franklin Roosevelt is
doing. any American President
with intimate knowledge OF naval
defense would do. and Secretary
Knox is only following the tradi-
tional policy of the American
Navy.
The growth and development
of air power but makes the tradl-
ton more compelling. Naval
bases are now air bases as we'll.
No nations with aVoWed lnten-
tions to overturn the power sltua-
ton of the world by force must
be in a position to threaten us
more effectively than we can
threaten them.
Were the NaZis in Iceland or
on the British Isles or IN the
Azores. this country would have
lost what it has maintained for
over a hundred years-its ocean
position.
Any government that would
permit that to happen would de-
serve impeachment.
This Government will not allow
it, and deserves confidence and
applause.
Surprise Aids Security.
To govern is to foresee,'
The War Departments request
that Congress empower the
President to prolong the period
of service of selectees and en-
ploy them where necessary
should be granted
We live in a world in which
Evening star., 1941-07-14
The Great Game of Politics
President Urged to Curb Radicals
Who Use Defense Crisis as Screen

adoption of a provision compelling
husband and wife to make Joint
rather than separate returns, which
change again lands heaviest upon
the groups which, for the obvious
reason that their voting strength is
not great, have been singled out as
the chief victims.
Twice since the New Deal began
this joint-return scheme has been
passed by the House, killed in the
Senate. Now, utilizing the national
emergency, more serious effort is
being made to put through what
is really an indefensible proposal.
The fact that it penalties matri-
mony, encourages celibacy, promotes
divorce and denies to women that
equality in property rights for which
they have been fighting so long
none of these things appear to weigh
against the opportunity of putting
the pincers on the class to which the
New Deal is inherently hostile.
N. Y. A. Case Cited.
1t is not surprising that Mr.. Will
kie refers to the proposal as out of
the dark ages" 1t is not surpris-
ing that he should call upon the
President, for the sake of national
unity. to supply a leadership that
will protect citizens from this kind
of injustice and dispel the notion
that the crisis is being used to pro-
mote ends not remotely connected
with the defeat of Hitler but cher
ished very dearly by the radical
young theorists. with their pear
shaped heads, who for eight years
have been trying to make over the
American system to conform with
their warped ideas
A shining illustration is to be
found in the National Youth Ad-
ministration. Logically, the selec-
tive draft. coupled to the ease with
which youths from II to "a can now
get jobs, compared 10 the difficult
ties in previous years. would seem
to indicate sharp curtailment in N
Y. A. activities and expenditures.
The reverse has happened. In
stead of curtailing. the N. Y. A. is
expanding. Instead of less money,
it is spending more.
Maryland Increase Boosted.
In one State bonuses in the shape
of credits. amounting to 50 are
paid N. Y A enrollees for every
recruit they turn in.
In Maryland the local adminis-
traitors boast that employment on
youth projects has increased from
2905 to 4906 in four months.
New schemes have been inaugu-
rated which conflict with the vo-
catlonal training programs of the
State public education system. New
ways of spending money are being
devised. Publicity promoting these
flows out in an increasing stream.
1t is all being done under the
guiSe of aiding in the defense pro-
gram. Actually, it is an effort to
so deeply entrench the N. Y. A. that
hereafter its permanence will not
be in doubt, the size of its appro-
priations be unquestioned and the
extremely radical individuals who
dominate and direct it be in posi-
ton TO enter fully the new fields into
which they are beginning to push.
Attention badly needs TO be called
TO these things and the lack of
leadership which makes them pos
sible. Burdened as he is, the Presi-
dent ought to find the time, as Mr..
Willkie suggests, to impose restraint
upon the more eager and ambitious
of these social gamers least
while the unlimited emergency"
lasts.
tCopyright, 1a41)
Evening star., 1941-07-14

body of the Russian armies. IL
also figures, according to the
same reports, on losing between
1000 and 5000 planes and about
a similar number of tanks and
armored cars.
Victory Worth Cost.
If with this loss, which We con-
slider enormous, the Nazl can
attain their objective OF putting
the Russian forces out of COM
mission, the price paid for the
campaign is small.
At the end of the campaign
against the U. S. S. R. they would
still have so divisions intact.
These would be more than suf-
ficient to perform the mopplng-
up operations. the establishment
of new governments and the
policing of the country.
In military quarters 1t IS
believed that the German high
command-regardless OF what
the diplomats and political
leaders may have in minds
planning a strong drive against
the British in the Mediterranean
soon after the Russian campaign
is considered ended from the
military point of view.
AS far as we know the dis
position of the German armies
is as follows: There are between
48 and so divisions in Western
Europe between Bergen and the
Spanish border.
25 Divisions in Balkans.
Some 25 divisions are still
located in the Balkans, between
the Danube and the Balkan
Mountains, ready for a march
into or through Turkey; it is be-
lieved that a few divisions Of
that group of Gen. Won List
have been recently moved to
strengthen the Rumanian Army
on the DnieSter.
A force of between 7 and 10
divisions Of special" troops is
now located in North Africa,
where it maintains a defensive
position in conjunction with the
remnants of the Italian African
forces. Not more than 10 divi-
sons are in Greece and in Serbia.
The number of mechanized di-
visions has been greatly increased
Evening star., 1941-07-14
Pershing 10 Greet Elks
In Philadelphia by Radio

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. July 1.-THE
Elks took over Philadelphia today.
Delegates to the Elks' 77th an
nual convention-50.0 900 are ex-
pected-continued to register at
midcity headquarters as officials
made last-minute preparations for
opening ceremonies tonight at his
toric Independence Hall.
Three high school pupils will be
awarded Defense bonds for their
essays on What Uncle Sam Means
to Me" during the ceremonies.
Gen. John J. Pershing will be
honored during a network broadcast
of the National Broadcasting Co. at
$50 o'clock Gen Pershing. to be
presented with plaque, will speak
from Walter Reed Hospital in
Washington.
With the convention dedicated to
national defense, Senator James j.
Davis is scheduled for broadcast
on the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn at 1890 o'clock.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

British forces seriously. For the
time being Admiral Darlan main
tains that the activity displayed
in the French navy yards to put
the fighting ships in commission
is due TO his desire to police the
sea lanes between France and
North Africa. The presence of a
number of Italian naval officers
in the French naval bases to-
gether with the consultations be-
tween the italian naval command
and the French makes the British
Admiralty somewhat suspicious
of Admiral Darlan's plans. The
rumors that the French feet
will be ready to put to sea some
time between August 10 and
Is confirms the suspicion of the
British that the month of August
will witness a revival of war
activities in the Mediterranean
probably with a greater intensity
than in the past.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
100 Stricken al Picnic;
Food Poisoning Blamed

BY the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE, July 14.-Three
city chemists today were to examine
the remainder of food served at an
orphanage picnic yesterday to de-
termine the cause of the illness of
more than 100 persons who had
eaten at the outing.
twenty-five persons remained in
hospitals, two seriously i'll, while
scores of others were released after
being treated by physicians. Police
1t. Eugene O'Gorman said several
others who became i'll were attended
by physicians at their homes.
Leo Hojnacki assistant city attor-
ney, was one of the two reported
seriously i'll. The picnic was Spon-
sored by the Ladies Auxiliary Of st.
Joseph's Orphanage. A separate
supper was served the 1874 orphans
at the institution and none was re-
ported i'll.
Evening star., 1941-07-14

formed public opinion. Last week,
following his White House confer
ence, Mr.. Willkie said, in effect, that
MI. Roosevelt's foreign policy is
sound and good, but that his man.
agement of defense and domestic
affairs is lamentably bad.
That just about rings the bell.
The iSolationists Will dissent and
so will the more radical New Dealers
in Washington. But, in the main,
that represents the view of most of
the reasoning people of the country.
Criticism Called Just.
1t is an entirely just criticism and
Mr.. Wilkes wholehearted and in
valuable support of the Presidents
words and acts in the foreign field
entitle him to make it without the
charge of partisan politics or per-
sonal prejudice
The essence of his view is, first,
that the President at once should
take steps to coordinate the defense
effort under single head; second,
that he should squelch the attempt
of administration aides to promote
radical social and governmental
changes behind the screen of the
defense program. Failure to do the
first has created immense confusion.
waste and futilitv in the defense
work. failure to do the second dis
concerts the citizens and tends to
prevent their unifcation.
These allegations and suggestions,
of course. are not new, but every
time they are made there appears
more concrete evidence to sustain
them. For example. it was clear
that when Mr.. Willkie repeated
them he had in mind-for one
thing-the pending bill by which
three and one-half additional bill
lions in taxes are to be taken from
about 5000 900 persons.
None of these has any reason to
complain about the heavineSs of
this taxation. The taxes are needed
for defense. Big increases are in
evitable, and it is right to impose
them.
Broader Tax Base Urged.
What is not right. however, is that
the bill should be framed along the
old demagogic. political lines: that,
under the guidance of administra-
ton politicians, it should avoid the
obviously fair and clearly desirable
method of broadening the base by
lowering the exemptions, thus bring
ing into the taxpaying group mil
lions who never have paid any di-
rect tax at all-but should.
Instead. they have chosen to i'm
pose practically back-breaking rates
upon the moderate-income groups,
climaxing this injustice by the
Evening star., 1941-07-14
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Despite the severe losses of
the Nazi troops in the new often
sive against Russia-Which the
German high command con-
siders as the final push-sub-
stantial progress is reported as
being made.
The loss of men and war ma
terial apparently does not count
with the Nazi leaders.
According to available reports
the Germans have 80 divisions
concentrated on the Russian
front from Finland to the Black
Sea. The Finnish, Hungarian,
Slovak and Rumanian forces are
not counted in this number.
From the reports of the mill
tary observers, it appears that
the German high command
figures on losing between 20 and
80 divisions to destroy the main
Evening star., 1941-07-14
This Changing World
Nozis Appear to Count Russion Victory
Worth Huge Loss of Men and Material

since last year. according to re-
liable information from the Reich.
When the attack on the western
front started in May the Germans
were reputed to have between IL
and IS mechanical divisions. At
the present time that number IS
estimated at 81 to 29.
In military quarters it is be-
lieved that if the Germans sue
ceed in destroying the Russian
first line fighting force and Stain
is forced to give up European
Russia, the next move of the
Reich will not be an attempt to
invade the British Isles, but to
break the British power in the
Mediterranean.
Communications Disrupted.
That sea has become an almost
closed lake. Communications be-
tween the Atlantic and the
Mediterranean by way OF Gil
braltar have been drastically cur
tailed because the Germans and
Italians have mined the waters
in the neighborhood of the
straits.
The Germans feel that in the
event they can put an end to the
active Russian resistance in the
next few weeks. they will be ready
to give the British a severe head
ache in the Mediterranean. The
italian fleet is getting ready for
action. A few months ago before
the British had sustained such
severe losses in the fight for
Greece and Crete, the prepara-
tions of the Italian Navy would
have been treated as a huge
joke. But the British fleet has
been weakened in the last few
months not only by total losses
but also by damage to ships.
In addition to the Italian feet
the Germans feel that they can
reckon on the French Navy.
Some 10000 sailors have been
liberated by the Germans from
their prison camps and are back
to man the French warships
which are being rapidly over
hauled at Toulon and Brest. The
Marine Nationale has a number
Of cruisers, destroyers and sub
marines which can bother the
Evening star., 1941-07-14
IS Red Tanks Reported
Destroyed by a Nazis
eythe Associated Press.

Ey ire Associated PTeSS.
BERLIN, July 14.-Four German
shock troopers were reported in
military dispatches today to have
destroyed Is Soviet tanks east of
Lake Peipus on the Estonian-Rus-
sian frontier.
The troopers were encircled by
the tanks, but in two hours of bat
ting with gasoline containers and
grenades they succeeded in disabling
the IS tanks, It was said.
Evening star., 1941-07-14
On the Record
Iceland Move Said to Be Example
Of Phrase To Govern Is to Foresee'

aggressors have abandoned inter-
national law, disregard all
treaties, and strike how and
when it pleases them, counting
complete secrecy and total sur
prise as the first essentials OF
success in total war.
Any nation that abandons its
own capacity for surprise moves
gives away its security.
If the President had had to
debate the Iceland matter pub
licly, and for weeks, before the
move, he could not have made it.
To govern is to foresee."
The time to move is when the
enemy is weak.
One must establish ones posi-
tions when the enemy cannot
challenge the move.
Hitler is weak now.
He cannot resist our forces any
where in the Atlantic-neither in
Iceland nor off Africa. He cam
not today invade Spain or Portu-
gal or Britain. We must so act
that he will be very jittery about
trying to do either tomorrow.
Hitler has suffered two major
defeats-the first in the war.
Politically, by the mistake of
Hess: The belief that he could
get a Western truce in exchange
for the Eastern campaign-that
he could buy off the West by an
attack on the Soviet Union.
Neither Britain nor the United
States fell into such a BOBBY trap.
The victory was for Western
morale.
Militarilv. by the underestima-
ton of Russian resistance-a VIC
tory for Eastern morale.
Occupied Countries Resist.
And a third defeat is in the
making: The growing resistance
in the occupied countries.
There is heavy sabotage in Hol-
land, Hungary, Rumania, Yugo-
slavia.
The morale of the Hungarian
and Rumanian troops in Russia
is miserable.
The call for volunteer legions
against Russia from Spain and
France is a dud.
Is Holland or Norway a COM
munistic state?
Nonsense. But they don't think
the Nazis are their protectors.
Or the horizon loom the prows
of American ships.
The air offense is taken by
Britain.
And the resistance of the oc-
cupied countries grows under the
intrepid example of Britain and
magic name of America, that to
all Europe spells freedom and
power.
The last defeat of Hitler will be
the triumph of European morale.
To govern is to foresee'
To foresee requires faith. vi
sion, caution when caution is
wisdom. and audacity when OPP
portunity invites it.
Give our Government what 1t
asks for that it may act with
foresight.
Never fight on a beach, Ameri-
cans. if the wide blue sea is
there.
Be grateful for oceans. Share
them with all, if all are willing to
share. But if there's any doubt
about them. hold them yourselves,
until things are settled the way
you want them to be.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate. 1nc)
Evening star., 1941-07-14

e | e C tion h e
would be lead
ing the Nation
today instead of
supporting its
leader. Because,
certainly, he got
the great bulk
of such voters.
But there is
no point in
bringing that up
now except to
comment u pom
the most recent
d e m o n stration
of this ability
to interpret in