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to remain in Washington, he snapped, Certainly, why shouldn't I? They don't own this town." DEFENSE PRICE POLICEMEN
 With the OPM pushing produc- ton and the 11-man mediation board handling labor problems, Roosevelt Is quitely planning still another agency to roun dout his defense machine.
 This third unit will ride herd on prices.
 Head of the new agency will be Leon Henderson, New Deal vet- eran, whose expereiilce as a hard- boiled price policeman goes back to NRA days.
 Also, a price controller of the old Defense Commission, Tender son knows the defense picture thoroughly, already has several big scalps to his credit. It was his forceful crack-doWning that tumbled the soaring prices of lum- Der and scrap; also put Q lid on second -hand machinery price flur- riese
 Roosevelt will work out de. tails for the price control unit during his vacation cruise, and this was one reason why Atty. General Bob Jackson was in- cluded in the party. He will advise on the legal angles.
 Tn addition to absorbing Hem derson's crack staff on the old Defense Commission, the new set- up also will take over the Defense Commission Consumer Division headed by Miss Harriet Elliott.
 This is a massively manned out fit with @ payroll totalling more than $280,000 q year, but with few accomplishments - except for a flood of press handouts. Chief difficulty is that 1t has no real authority. Miss Elliott, sincere, well-intentioned. lacks the punch to be an effective administrator.
 How much of her top-heavy staff masterminds will be rec tained remains to be seen. But 1t Is sure to go under the prhn- ing-knife.
 Roosevelt said nothing about it publicly; but privately he did Q lot of talking about the new price control unit before he departed. The gradual upward price trend, as a resulto the expanding pri- ority list, has worried him consid- erably, and the last thing he wants Is a high-cost-of living problem.
 Retailers particularly have been concerned about the up- ward price movement and through their Advisory Commit tee, have urged regulatory ac- ton before things get out of hand. The Advisory Commit tee has quietly kept Miss Elliott informed of price boosts, but nothing has come of it.
 World War executives, among them Bernard Baruch, have
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were riding the crest Of the wave but were successful more because of their superhtlman bravery and the weakness of the Italians than because of their real military strength. Against @ strong, well- equipped foe, such as the Ger mans, 1t would be a different story.
 The Turkish army. Donovan also reported, is poorly equipped when 1t comes 10 modern weapons of war and Is worried over Rus sia.
 In North Africa he found that General Weygand was not dis- posed to act independently of Vichy, and the French in gen. eral seemed Respondent, flour1- dering In their policy and almost completely lacking in leadership.
 NOTE -- Colonel Donovan got his name "Wold Bill' in the fa- nous Rainbow Division where he was wounded three times, was awarded all three U. s. medals for bravery. He later served as as- sistant attorney general under Coolidge.
 HOPELESS COURT FIGHT
 The retirement of salty Justice James 0. McReynolds was a big surprise even to his associates on the Supreme Court. An an irreconcilable New Deal foe, he had repeatedly indicated his de- termination to fightt he Roosevelt regime to the bitter end.
 Therefore, his sudden resigna- ton was Q considerable mystery and 1t was generally believed that recurring illness and advanced age (79) finally combined to break McRenlods' resolution. But this was not the reason.
 Actually McReynolds threw up the sponge because of the third term victory.
 "Tt was a hopeless fight" he
 explained to an old friend. "1
 was all alone and who could
 Onne man do there. couldnt get anywhere, so I stepped out"
 NOTE - When another friend asked McReynolds If he intended
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Current Comment

There are those who believe that we ought to bow our heads meekly to the Scourge of Nazism, accepting 1t as something inevitable as those of the Middle Ages accepted the Black Death.
 Secretary of the Interior Ickes
 That's just like my old man. Naval Flying Cadet George Earle
 W, on hearing of the battle of
 the bottles in the Balkans.
 National defense-like most of the important things in life-begins at home.
 Paul V. McNutt. federal security administrator.
 Only a fool would say that any course Is sure to bring peace.
 William Allen White, editor
 We cannot preserve the American way unless we preserve also the British way. the Chinese way, the Norwegian way. and the way oi other free peoples.
 Wendell Willkie, recent G. O. P presidential candidate.
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Views Of The Press

many citizens that Connecticut should have a law forbidding res taurants and cafes offering women as entertainers to employ such women later than 10 o'clock in the evening.
 Work of this class seems hardly to fall in the same category as fac- tory or store employment.
 It had been assumed that there would be very little objection to changing the law to permit women singers, dancers and similar enter- tainers to work in restaurants and similar places until any reaonable closing hour. yet opposition de- veloped at the hearing. partly from organized labor. The plea of women that the restrictions should be frightened to enable them to earn living was described as hokum
 Whether women should be em- ployed as entertainers in such es- tablishments later than 10 D. m would seem to be question oi public policy rather than one in- volving the labor laws. The first thing to be decided is whether res taurants and cafes should be per- mitted to employ women entertain-
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CTS at all. Once that has been set- tied, 8 sit apparently has been, the question of hours would seem to be of very minor importance, especially as it is not proposed to employ the entertainers later than 1 o'clock in the morning.
 Women who appear in stage pro. auctions in the theaters. or in con; certs in places like the Bushnell Memorial are not required to drop their work at 10 p. m. If they were Hartford would see no theatrica. productions and no grand opera.
 It is difficult to cite any sound reason why a different law should apply to entertainers in other fields. Unless Connecticut wants to decide that the employment of female en- tertainers in restaurants and cafes at all is bad business, 1t does not seem sensible to say that such women may not work later than ten o'clock at night.
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Questions and Answers

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED The Waterbury Democrat servica Bureau will answer for you free any question of fact or informa- tion, not involving extensive rec search. Write your question clear ly, sign name and address, enc close Q three cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannot Dc given. Address The Waterbury Democrats Washington Service Bureau, 1913 18th Street. Wash. ingtOn, ID. o.
 e. To whom should I report threatening letters received from my divorced husband?
 A. Send them to The Chief In. spector, Post Office Department. Washington, D. O., ana state when you divorced him.
 o. If @ hen-and-a-half can lay an -and-a-half in Q cay-and-s half, how many eggs can ten hens lay in ten days?
 A. The rate is an egg Q day laid by one-and a-half hens. There- fore each hen is laying at the rate of two- thirds of an egg per day, and ten hens lay 66 2-3 eggs (2-3 10 X 10-66 2-3) in ten days. The problem may be varied by changing the number of hens and days. If the first statement, "1f a hen-and-a- half lay an egg-and-a-half remains the same, the problem can always be solved by multiplying 2-3 x the number of hens the number of days.
 c. How did the photoplay, "Arise My Love- get its title?
 A. From the Biblical Song of Solomon, chapter 2, verse B; Arise my love, my fair one and come away"
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The Soil Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture is doing lot of good work these days trying to prevent soil erosion around municipal water SUD- plies. It has recently finished six-year Survey and it's findings are now being made available to public and private water company owners. With tremend- ous amounts of money invested in water supplies every effort should be made to protect the investment at all times.
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warned Roosevelt that he can't daily with the price problem and that delay may lead to imitation. They have urged the imposition of blanket price controls on the ground that the price problem cannot be dealt with effectively by piecemeal action.
 Roosevelt, however, has been leery of taking such a drastic step. He proposes tackling the matter via the more cautious route of setting Up 8 price control agency headed by Henderson. ADMIRAL sTARK's ECONOMY
 One Roosevelt policy which has the 90 per cent support of the American people is his Good Neighbor program with Latin America. Yet even today, some high officials are not willing to exert themselves to make that policy anything more than lip ser- vice.
 For instance, Admiral Harold Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, has been urged by the State Department for four months to vite the chiefs of all Latin American navies to visit the United States. And after argu- ing that he hadn't the staff to entertain them, the Admiral fin- ally has agreed to issue the invi- tations.
 However, he is now opposed to letting the Latin American admirals see anything of the U. s. Navy except the East Coast. He is planning to take them to Washington, Norfolk and Philadelphia. He does not even propose to take them to New York, mecca of every Latin American.
 Furthermore, he does not plan to take tho Good Neighbor ad- mirals to the Pacific Coast where they can really see the Fleet. All of which is definite setback to the State Department, which wanted to win real friends among the Latin naval leaders.
 Reason for Admiral Stark's lack of hospitality seems to be chiefly budgetary. He says the Navy has only so much money to spend for entertainment. He has no objection to the Latin Americans viewing the fleet on Pacific coast, or even flying to Hawaii, as is proposed. But he says 1t would cost too much money to take them there.
 And when 1t was proposed that each of the Latin American ad- mirals be given a gold cigarette case as a memento of his trip a type of gift usual when dis tinguished U. s. officials visit in Latin America-Admiral Stark threw up his hands in horror.
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these things he had determined upon constituted the most basic rules of literary excellence. In an age when writers loved to use long words and involved sentences, Bunyan wrote simply and with the clarity of the best modern journalists. The result was that having lost his life, he found it-having cast aside all desire to achieve literary excellence, he became one of the most gifted stylists of all ages.
 The strangest part of all the para doxes of our faith Is that the more we forget ourselves, the more does everybody, and our Lord also. re- member us. We cast away our de- sires only to have their fulfilment later seek us out and cover us with pleasantness. We forget self and find achievement. We lose life, and be- hold. we find 1t.
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1. Which musical instrument was invented by Benjamin Franklin?
 2. Which state is nicknamed Keystone State"?
 8. Was John Adams, Thomas Jef- ferson, or Aaron Burr and the first vice president of the United States2
 4. Name the capital of the British Grown Colony of Hong Kong
 5. The Aurora Borealis or North ern Lights are seen in the North polar regions. What is the name for @ similar display in the south polar regions?
 6. Which canal was the subject of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty?
 2. What does the surname Cooper mean?
 8. Who wrote the lines "Sail on, Sail on, O Ship of State Sail on, O Union, strong and great"
 g. Tn what conveyance does one travel when one goes by a strato- liner?
 10. Name the leaders of the Nor mans and the English who fought the Battle of Hastings.
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LORD HALIFAX'S SALARY
Boston Post)

(Boston Post)
 - The $70,OOO salary of Lord Hali- fax, British ambassador to the United States, comes as a surprise to & great many Americans, who believed that top-flight British statesmen were in the same cate gory as our own skilled $l-a-year men.
 Lord Halifax is independently wealthy, and many Americans as- sumed that his services to his coun- try were being given in much the same way that William L. Knudsen contributes his service to this coun- try.
 President Roosevelt is paid only $75 900 Q year for carrying the ad- mittedly heavy burdens of Chief Executive, so Lord Halifax's salary seems rather excessive. particularly at a time when his country is so desperately in need of cash.
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Selected Poem
PENNY BLACK SHEEP

PENNY BLACK SHEEP
 (Holger Lundbergh in the New York Sun) All people who acquire stamps Acquire traits of willy scamps; They tear adhesives off your mail, While you protest to no availa, Their talk is full of ''perforation" well centered" "errors," cancellation" Their eyes light up. like eyes of lovers When some one mentions first day covers" From sunup until after dark They speak of grid" and 'watermark," And when they cary. What say? Let's swap!" It's must the best to call cop. A tribe, in short, beyond correction -. And may show you my collection?
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TODAY'S COMMON ERROR "This" should not be used as an adverb. Do not say, "This much is certain; Having come this far"; substitute "thus" for "this."

o. Do submarines carry flasks of pure oxygen?
 A. They carry several flasks of compressed oxygen for emergencies when the vessel has to remain sub- merged more than "A hours, and the air becomes vitiated.
 o. Of what racial descent is As sociate Justice William O. Douglasi
 A. He comes of Scottish stock His father was Presbyterian mis- sionary who went from Nova Scotia to Maine, Minn. Q. What is the longest stretch of straight railway track in the United States? A. It is 78.86 miles on the Sea. board Railway between Wilmington and Hamlet, North Carolina. There is no curve in the. entire distance.
 Q. Does the island of Trinidad have an equable climate?
 A. Though warm and moist, it is healthful and hurricanes are ut1- known. The mean temperature Is 78.6 F., and the average rainfall Is 66.26 inches.
 e. If the President is found guilty on Impeachment charges, can his case be appealed to the United States Supreme Court? A. The action of the Senate, sitting at a Court of Impeachment, Is final, and there Is no appeal.
 e. Which five private industries in the United States employ the most persons? A. According to the 1940 census, they are, in order: manufacturing, trade, finance, service and miscellan- eous; transportation and public util- | ities: construction. Agriculture, if included, ranks second to manufac- turing. @. How much is the federal ex- else tax on domestic distilled spirits?
 A. Three dollars a gallon.
 o. Which Vice President of the United States resigned from his office?
 A. John c. Calhoun. If you want a copy Of the latest Historical Atlas, send to The
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Of the great sacrifices steel workers, steve- dores, store keepers a n d h o u s CIV 1 v es might like to see Is the sacri- flee in Wash ington of one of the primary bottlenecks in- terfering wit h defense produc- ton - the bot- tleneck of poli- tics.
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with worldly Vanl- ties. He decided that he would write in the sim plest way pos sible, using short un d erstandable words and writ ing nothing for effect but every thing with sin cerity
 Bunyan did not know that
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A Thought for Today

But verify God hath heard me; He hath at tended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.-Psalms :6619, 20.
  Prayer is not overcoming Gods reluctance; 1t is laying hold of His highest willingness Trench,
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Daily Almanac

Moon rises 5:09 a. m.
 Sun rises 5:47 a. m; sets 6:lO p. m.
 All vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 March will probably end on dismal note. but there1l be promise Of a warmer and pIeasanter April. The coming month ought to be open and fairly dry underfoot.
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National Spotlight
They're In Again
 Peanut Politicians
 Are Throwing Shells In Defense Machinery
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COrresuOndent

Washington, March % - Tn the great task of this day - the deep duty of moving products from the assembly lines of the factories to the battle lines of democracy-one
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STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL l.. DOUGLASS. D. D.
A STRANGE PARADOX

John Bunyan was a great, un- conscious genius. He set to work to write Pilgrims Progress with the avowed intention that he would have absolutely nothing to do with literary art. He classed all such
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Washington Merry Co., Round By RS' 'sAzsss
Brings Back Gloomy Report of Conditions Bokons
 Tells Stson Chances Are Anything But Rosy

semofca East decidedly gloomy report back wash
 
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Whats Your I. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
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IS ENTERTAINMENT WORK?

(Hartford Times) It has seemed incongruous to
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Evening star., 1941-08-03
Government Building Here Sets New Record

ing or asking construction bids on five
temporary structures to be situated thus:
One on the Mall at Fourth street and
independence avenue SW. (nearly COM
pleted, three behind the new War De-
partment Building on Virginia avenue
NV, and two at Twenty-sixth street
and Constitution avenue NV.
So much for the money already pro-
grammed. The balance of the S61y850,-
900 asked of Congress had yet to be
granted at this writing, but gave prom
ise of early availability 1t is divided
between two items-s6,5O0 900 asked by
the President three weeks ago and pre-
sumed to be intended for additional
buildings at Suitland, and S35 900 900 the
Army wants for a super War DEPART
ment building in Arlington County, Va.
The House approved the Army item a
week ago Friday as part of the S8,000,-
100000 supplementary defense appropri-
alton bill, and it was being heard in the
Senate two days ago.
There are those who feel the Armys
scheme, if carried out, will throw the
entire Federal building program out of
gear. They reason that the program
was undertaken with the sole idea of
meeting the constantly increasing de-
mand for additional Office space for de.
fense workers coming to Washington.
Before revelation of the War DEPART
ment scheme, F. w. A. foresaw a need
during the coming year for roughly
100000 square feet of Office space. To
acquire this, the agency had planned
to construct several buildings with the
S6,500000 asked by the President and
to rent from private owners whatever
additional space was necessary.
F..W. AS Public Buildings Adminis-
tration already leases 100000 square
feet of Office space from private con.
Germs or individuals. Last week, con-
tracts were being drawn for the renting
of another 100000 square feet. This,
added to the space to be available in the
buildings put up with the money asked
by the President, was designed to take
care Of the anticipated increase in Gov
ernment employment during the current
fiscal year.
The giant Army building would con-
tain 100000 square feet of Office space,
considerably more than the 100000
square feet P. B. A. had planned for.
Evening star., 1941-08-03

and accouterments clank, and the en-
tirely unornamental cortege as it trots
toward Lafayette Square arouses no SEN
sation, only some curious stranger stops
and gazes"
1t is said that this cottage was erected
in 1610 that it now contains II rooms,
the same number it contained when Lin
coin occupied it, and that it is identical
with that period no changes having
been made to the building since then.
President Lincolns bedroom is on the
second floor of the cottage and is the
largest room in the house. Two large
front windows open directly over the
porch and a splendid view of the city is
obtained. Immediately beneath the bed
room is President Lincoln's sitting room.
This opens directly upon the front porch
of the cottage. Not only should our own
people be familiar with this historic
building, but visitors to the city should
not go away without seeing it.
The Soldiers Home Cemetery, which is
separated from the home grounds proper
Evening star., 1941-08-03

cornered every penny from then on.
Defense agency appropriations got under
way with a grant of s6400,000 for per-
manent Office buildings in nearby Vir-
ginia and Maryland
The appropriation was halved between
the two States, part going into the vast
No. 2" structure south of Arlington
Cemetery in Virginia and the rest into
No. 8" building near Suitland, Md.
The No. building will be ready for
Navy occupancy next month. Work on
its Maryland counterpart. however, has
been held up by inadequate community
facilities. Although the appropriation
was sufficient only for the purchase OF
a 430-acre site and the erection of one
building, planning officials looked the
place over when the Government said
it intended ultimately to put up a group
of eight buildings and found such facil-
tiles as sewerage and water supply not
up to such a project. Bids have been
asked for construction of a single
building.
The next appropriation was made in
April, $4100,00O earmarked for tenn
porary Office buildings. To save added
expense in the purchase of sites, Con-
gress ruled that structures built with
this money should be put up on Gov
ernment-owned land and confined them
to the District of Columbia.
A hurried search for appropriate 10
cations followed, with the Federal Works
Agency charged with making the selec-
tions. While the hunt was on, F. w. A.
announced there was money enough
for eight of the "tempos." So that
work could start Immediately upon ap-
proval of the sites, craftsmen were put
to work designing the buildings.
When F. w. A. announced Its selec-
ton of sites. however, there was a
hitch. The Army objected to the use
of the War College golf course, where
F. w. A. wanted to put three of the
"tempos." And again, while F. w. A.
was making the necessary revision of
its plans, Congress did an about face
and permitted placing the buildings out
side the District.
Busy with more pressing developments,
however, F. w. A. had not announced
further plans for the "tempos" when
this was written. The agency is build