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Evening star., 1941-08-09
Letters to the Editor
Explains Paradox Of Relations
With Power Now an Enemy.

Explains Paradox OF Relations
With Power Now an Enemy.
To the Editor Of The Star:
The amazing paradox Of our inter-
national situation is unequaled in po-
litical history.
Our maintenance of relations with
Germany bulwarks the fiction that the
government which would demolish the
foundations of law is legitimate and is
conducting legal war.
The most respectable pretension of
right now remaining to the German
government is Americas recognition. BY
our procrastination we temporize with
justice and daily with fate.
Germany claims to exercise the rights
of war created by the society that Ger
man arms would abolish and enSlave.
Thus Germany forfeits the legal right to
wage war.
Delay by the United States in an
nouncing the legal justification of our
acts intended to defeat Germany by
assisting with arms any nation resisting
aggression inevitably increases universal
uncertainty and promotes international
chaos.
The American and the German gov
ernments cannot be neighbors; the
German scheme and concert OF inde-
pendent nations with equal legal rights
are absolutely incommensurate.
A lawful society of nations can be
revived only when Germany is sup
pressed.
irresponsible government and arbi-
trary force are complementary; they
cannot be separated, and they can be
limited only by the degree of violence
they can command. Their noxious ma
ture is such that they cannot be con-
tent with any restricted jurisdiction and
increasingly must strive to create by con-
quest a universal domain. They cannot
tolerate the survival of forms of govern
ment and political notions contrary to
their purpose and are the inveterate ad-
yersarieS of such a covenant as the
United States Constitution. The earth
is too narrow to permit of the peace
full neighboring of such irreconcilable
ideals as the American and the German.
EDWARD CONN.
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Describes q Minor Incident
In Contemporary History.

To the Editor of The Star:
An official German communique said:
During the hours of daylight. units Of
the Luftwaffe attacked military OBJ
iectives in London. Damage was caused
and a number of fires were observed"
Suddenly there came spatter of gun
fire from the local anti-aircraft bat
teries and the characteristic whine Of
an airplane engine somewhere above the
clouds. 1t was followed by a whistle
that changed quickly to a roar like an
express train, ending in three almost
simultaneous crashes In the adjoining
streets.
During these few seconds whole host
of last-war memories rushed pell-mell
out of my unconscious and I found that
I was lying fat on my face on my
drawing room carpet and saying irritably
to my wife: Get down, can't you?" We
picked ourselves up, grabbed our tin hats,
gas masks and f1rst-aid satchels and went
out into the road. There we met the
middle-aged woman doctor from the
fats opposite, and the usual wardens'
discussion started 'Where did 1t fall?"
Back Of the nats, I think" Further
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Discusses Psychological Reactions
To Gas Service Plans.

To the Editor Of The Star:
The to curfew idea seems to have
backfred. The strange fact Is not that
it did but that any one would have ex-
pected it to do otherwise. I remember
a couple of months ago, the last Sunday
in May to be exact, the newspapers came
out with big headlines on the threatened
gas shortage and credited Mr. Ickes
with the idea of creating gasless Sum-
days. The curfew idea and the gasless
Sunday scheme work upon the same
principle and would fail for the same
reason.
Any one who knows anything about
psychological reactions should know what
the reaction to a full tank of gas is.
The minute the gas gauge registers full
the fever to go some place and use it
up is already started. I think it is safe
to say that most people don't get more
than a dollars worth of gas at a time
and that they wait until they know the
tank is just about empty before they
get more. This has tendency to make
them somewhat gas conscious. In
many, if not most cases to limit the
sale of gas to two gallons to any one
person would have much greater tend
ency to limit the use of gas than the
curfew idea. But even that would have
the opposite effect in many instances
because people would drive from sta
ton to station just to get gas till they
had a tankful.
The gasless Sunday idea would be
even a worse waster of gasoline than
the curfew idea, especially if we had
the two together. Every one would
fill up on Saturday. Most cars will go
about 200 miles on a tankful of gas and
an extra can of gas in the garage at
home would add another 100 for Sat-
urday night. The very fact that peo-
pie had to fill up on gas on Saturday
would start them thinking about going
some place. Nothing would arouse the
wanderlust like buying thankful of gas
on Saturday. BY Sunday morning he
would he so burning with the desire to
go somewhere that nothing short of
barricades across all the roads would
stop him.
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Member of the Associated Press.
Sensible Site

The recommendation by repre-
sentatives of the Fine Arts Commits
sion that the huge revised new build
ing for the War Department be
erected on the site originally set
aside for a new home for the depart
ment-in the long-planned north
west rectangle areas a sensible
one Why Army officials suddenly
decided to abandon the once-ap-
proved rectangle site, right in the
midst of construction of a spacious
War Department building there, in
favor of land in front of Arlington
National Cemetery which military
and planning authorities years ago
reserved for memorial purposes, is
mystery that remains to be explained.
True enough, the War Department
is handicapped by growing space
shortage in the present emergency,
but arrangements already had been
made to meet this eXigency by erect
ing a number of temporary office
buildings of them on the
Arlington Farm site The latter
project, incidentally, is going for
ward as planned. The worlds larg-
est office structure, of reinforced
concrete and designed to stand a
century, would be substituted for
the temporary buildings under the
program presented by the War De-
partment and approved by the House
recently.
Gilmore D. Clarke, chairman Of
the Fine Arts Commission, is re-
ported to have told the Senate Ap-
propriations Subcommittee yesterday
that the commission is unalterably
opposed to erection of any perma-
nent buildings between Arlington
Cemetery and the Potomac River.
The commission previously had
termed the proposed concrete struc-
ture, with its thirty-five acres of fiat
roofs and stacks, as blot on the
Arlington vista. In his personal
capacity Mr. Clarke told reporters
yesterday he would not object to
erection of a permanent building on
ground recently purchased by the
Army along Columbia pike, south of
the Arlington Cantonment, but that
he was convinced that the best pos
sible site is the one originally pro-
posed in the rectangle, between
Twenty first and Twenty third
streets. The Columbia pike site,
which was acquired for warehouse
construction, would present the
same transportation and utility
service complications as the location
at the front entrance of the ceme-
terry.
Fine Arts Commission officials
point out that the first unit of the
new War Department building in
the rectangle is ready for occupancy
and that the remainder of the edi-
fee, designed to be about three times
as large as the first unit, probably
could be revised to meet the needs
of the department, both as to add1-
tional space and greater speed in
construction. For example, instead
of the limestone exterior original
ly planned, it could be built
with concrete exterior now and
faced with limestone some time in
the future Until the War Depart
ment can show in convincing man.
ner why its ambitious project could
not be carried out successfully in the
northwest rectangle, Congress would
be making a grave mistake in for
saking the considered program for
orderly development of Washing
ton in the important section west
of the White House and north of
Constitution avenue.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the 10riter, although the use of
q pSeudonynl for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters 1Uith
q Die1D to condensation.
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Two Editorials Oppose
War Building Site
Adherence to Orderly Plan
Urged by New York Times
And Boston Globe

From the New York Times:
Short of room for its great and grow
ing personnel, the War Department
wants to build "the largest Office build
ing in the world" just at the chief en-
trance to Arlington Cemetery and on the
35-acre plot of land set aside 20 years
ago as part of the national cemetery.
The Federal Commission of Fine Arts
views with distress" a proposal that
would result in the introduction of IS
acres of ugly, fiat roofs into the very
foreground of the most majestic view Of
the National Capital that obtains either
from point near the tomb of Maj.
L LEnfant. the architect of Washington,
or from the situation In front of the his
toric Arlington Mansion. And from the
majestic terraces which surround the
Lincoln Memorial, the visitor to the most
beautiful Capital City in the world will
look down upon these same fiat roofs
covered with many ugly but necessary
vents and pipes.
Defense is a necessity, but it is not
necessary that structures erected for any
of its purposes should be an offense
against esthetics, the orderly, matured
and logical plan for the composition and
development of Washington and the
pleasure of every visitor to it. In 1921
the Quartermaster General of the Army
agreed with the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission and the Fine
Arts Commission in the designation of
the site in question as a burial park for
the Army and Navy. Doubtless haste,
excusable in such multiplicity of labor,
suggested to somebody in the War De-
partment a design which it will gladly
give up in the light of fuller information
and its own stipulation of 20 years ago.
From the Boston Globe
The United States is large tract of
real estate. There ought to be plenty of
elbow-room for most purposes, and yet,
a singular fatality seems to pursue the
War and Navy Departments in their
choice of traditional beauty spots for
military uses. The latest proposal is to
erect $35 900 900 group of Office build
ings in Arlington, Va, for 10000 workers,
this in disregard of plan dating back to
1901 of keeping that area free from perm
anent buildings because of its proximity
to the National Cemetery. The Fine Arts
Commission, which is protesting against
"the introduction Of IS acres of ugly, fiat
roofs in the very foreground of the most
majestic view of the National Capital"
asserts that this reservation of ground
was acceded to by the Quartermaster
General of the Army in 1921.
Residents of bingham, Mass, woke up
one morning last week to discover that
one-third of their town had been ac-
quired by the military for an ammuni-
ton dump, and few days later resi-
dents of Nahant had the similar expert
ence of finding that one of the finest
shore sites on the headland,, indeed,
one of the finest on the Massachusetts,
coast, had been likewise acquired. The
esthetc tastes of Army and Navy en-
gineers are limited by considerations Of
utility. But this world war will not last
forever, and citizens OF the United
States will have to live with our land
scapes for long while. "Woodman,
spare that tree!"
Evening star., 1941-08-09
CLARENCE ARMSTRONG.

Comments on the Fault of Congress
In District Government.
To the Editor Of The Star:
1t is to be regretted that the investi-
CATION into the alleged inefficiencies Of
the Police Department should have been
in the hands of what has been termed
the greatest single contributor to its
delinquencies-the Congress Of the
United States.
Uniquely susceptible as it is to all the
various phases of patronage, the Police
Department of the Capital has been-for
Washingtonians at least-a long suffer-
ing reminder of the ills of the body polite
itself. 1t presents grotesque spectacle.
ELLIOTT r. SMITH.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

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Evening star., 1941-08-09

@. Are there many cattle in Brazil?
II. J. w.
A. There are 4O,S64,OOO head of cattle
in all Brazil
Q. When was the University of Mexi-
co established?-A j. r.
A. 1t was founded in 1858 by the
Roman Catholic Church.
Q. By what authority is it possible to
drop a hotel key in mail box to be
returned?-G. L.
A. The Post Office Department saws
that the act of July 8, 1926, gave hotels
permission to have keys returned by the
key check method, by simply dropping
them in a mail box
@. How long did it take Magellan to
go around the world?-R. P.
A. His journey started in 1919 and
took 1903 days.
@. Who said: "I never did care for the
upholstery of oftice"?-M IF.
A. James A. Garfield
O. What is the highest point on the
Pulaski Skyway?-H. F. M
A. The span across the Hackensack
River on the Pulaski Skyway is the
highest point on this structure. The
top of the roadway on this span across
the Hackensack River is 147275 feet
above mean high water in the river.
The top of the steel structure, that is
to say, the extreme top of the steel work
of the bridge, is 2069 feet above mean
high water
@. Who originated the slogan, Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion" which was
used in the presidential campaign Of
James G. Blaine?-K. l..
A. The phrase was used by the Rev.
Samuel D. Burchard in a speech made
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York
City, in Blaines presence.
@. How fast does bamboo grow7-
r. M. B.
A. 1t has been known to increase as
much as 16 inches in day and to at
tain height of 120 feet.
Q. What kinds of metrical feet are
most commonly used in versihcation?
&C. w. H.
A. The four kinds of metrical feet
most frequently used in English are the
iambus, the trochee, the anapest and
the dactyl.
@. Please give the origin Of the ex-
preston French leave.-C. D. S.
A. Many authorities believe that the
term French leave" originated in the
French custom in the 18th century of
Withdrawing from crowded assemblies
without taking leave of either host or
hostess; others maintain that the word
French" is merely corruption of the
WJrd frank" meaning "free."
Evening star., 1941-08-09

@. What are the four freedoms men,
toned by President Roosevelt?-E. L. T.
A. Freedom of specialization OF
worship-freedom from want-freedom
from fear"
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Compliments
MIR. Kent.

Compliments
MIR. Kent.
To the Editor of The Star:
The fighting spirit displayed by Frank
Kent In his articles rebounds to the
great credit Of The Star. r. ]. BURT.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

@. Is the Kremlin in Moscow used for
an Office building?-K. H. N.
A. While originally built as fortress,
it now contains apartments and Offices
of high-ranking officials.
Evening star., 1941-08-09
Hoskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. HdSktn.

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Evening star., 1941-08-09

@. How many men met their death in
the first World War?-H L. M.
A. Military casualties were estimated
at approximately $3.50, 900.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

@. How long did it take Magellan to
go around the world?-R. P.
A. His journey started in 1919 and
took 1903 days.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

@. Which is brighter-a male or female
f1ref1y?-C. R. S.
A. The female has a much brighter
glow than the male.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

@. Who said: "I never did care for the
upholstery of office"?-M. L. F.
A. James A. Garfield.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

TA' 1llC 4tllld4c lldo d llUCII D1lSIItCI
glow than the male.
c. What is Attic salt?-T. J. M. a
A. 1t is poignant, delicate wit. n
O. Is there any estimate of the num-
Der of patents granted throughout the
world in a year?-C. w. J.
A. In 1899, latest year for which sta
tistics are available, the number of pat
ents in the world amounted to 147,396.
@. In what motion picture did John
Barrymore first play?-C. NJ. j.
A. His first screen role was "Raffles, the
Amateur Cracksman."
@. What is the title of the biography
of President Wilson that won a Pulitzer
prize?-E. G. B.
A. woodrow Wilson: Life and Let.
ters," by Ray Stannard Baker.
Evening star., 1941-08-09

@. What is Attic salt?-T. J. M. a
A. 1t is poignant, delicate wit. "A
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-12-28

In that message he said that for
themselves to industrial production
of war implements. 1t was expected,
he added, that in 1943 the weapons
would be available for a general Of
until the Axis nations are crushed.
Meanwhile, a time OF bad news
and temporary losses was to be eX-
pected, and he Limited that these
telling of how war supplies had been
withheld from Singapore so that
the British army might use them
effectively against German and
Italian troops in Libya. Had the
available supply been distributed be-
tween the two zones of war, he
said, there would have been an in
sufficiency on both fronts.
The clear intimation of his speech
was that until arms and equipment
are available in sufficient quantities
to fight an offensive war on all
fronts, the emphasis will be placed
upon holding the Nazi armies in
check, preventing any new Nazi
foray into Africa, and arming Eng
land against any renewed invasion
attempt. When the arms, ships and
planes are available, islands and out
posts in the Pacific and Far East
can be recaptured.
This, moreover. seemed to tie in
with the lack of word of any re.
Inducements reaching the Philip.
pines where General Douglas Mac
Arthur's vastly outnumbered fight
ing men have been waging a desper-
ate battle, and where the japanese
today evidenced again their disre-
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-12-28
MARTIN INTENDS
TO ENTER NAVY
Says Draft Complaint Charg-
ing Him With Failure To
Report Is Mistake =.

CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-- Up Tony
Martin, movie actor and singer, to-
night said that he was going to
enlist in the Navy January 2 and
that a complaint issued in Los An
geles charging him with failure to
report for a selectve service physi-
cal examination wa; all a mistake.
The complaint was issued by AS
sistant u: S. Attorney Russell K.
Lambeau, who said that Martin left
for Chicago without notifying his
draft board or obtaining permission
to make the trip. Martin said he
had been advised that the draft
board was ">going to send the pa
pers here and let me take my
examination at some Chicago board" "
At a party of 18 Naval cadets and
their girl friends this afternoon,
Martin was billed as the guest OF
honor, in celebration of his previous.
1y announced plans to enlist. Mar
tin, was tardy arrival, however,
and explained that he had been out
with a couple of ''fellows that I
played football with. -
Federal Bureau of Investigation
officials here said they had no plans
to detain Martin on the Los An.
geles complaint. When asked about
Martins disappearance, as he was
readying himself for the party, Al
bert Johnson, agent in charge o1
the FBI office, said he had hearc
that the singer was out for ride
with couple of old friends.
When Martin arrived at the party
he told reporters that the complaint
had been rescinded.
'I'd be glad to serve in either
the Navy or Army-wherever they
want me- the former husband o1
Actress Alice Faye insisted. "But
I've felt that 1 could be of more
service in the Navy and that's where
I'd rather be. I'm all set to &C
in at San Francisco"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-12-28
.0NSL0W ORGANIZES
AIR RAID SYSTEM
Jacksonville Completes Or
ganization; Other Commu-
mites To Study Plan

JACKSONVILLE, Dec. CIV. T.
Jessup was named chief air raid
warden of the city at a meeting last
night as prominent citizens met to
organize permanent air raid warn
ing system for Jacksonville and Ons-
low county.
1t was also decided that a meeting
would be held Sunday afternoon at
2 O'Clock at which time instructions
on the air raid practice test to be
held Monday would be issued and
pamphlets explaining the blackout
Also a meeting of the mayors of
Richlands, Swannsboro, Holly Ridge
and Jacksonville will be held at 8
o'clock for the purpose of discuss
ing the organization of an air raid
protection system in the outlying
communities of the county.
Gautier Jackson was named as
sistant chief air raid warden at the
meeting Saturday night and the fol-
lowing district air raid wardens were
chosen:
District one, Warden J. C. Thomp-
son, assistant, George Phillips; dis
trict two, City Police, assistant
Chief Of Police Hurst; district
three, Jim Collins. assistant, Kater
Bryan; district four, j. j. Cole, as
j. M. Morton; district five,
Tabert Jones, assistant. Mrs. Mary
Lille Blake; district six, w. L..
Ketchum, assistant, M. L. Fergu-
son; district seven, John Hemby.
assistant, Clifton Chadwick; district
eight, Jim Sabiston, assistant, Mr..
Cook, Mfr. Sanderson, and Kirby
district nine, Perry
King. assistants, Mr.. Haithcock.
Sam Perry, negro, and Levi STAN
ford, negro; district ten. Frank
Pierce, assistant, Richard Tallman.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-12-28
THREE

gard for the pledged word by bomb
ing Manila after it had been de.
clared an open city, and its defenses
removed.
Washington was outraged at the
Japanese action. Secretary of State
Hull said it showed Japan was using
the same barbaric methods, the
same methods of cruelty and inhu.
manity as Hitler practices. And
from Senator Wheeler, leader OF
the pre-war opposition to the Roose.
welt foreign policies, came a state.
ment that the time will come when
we can bomb the Japanese and I'VE
will retaliate by making a shambles
of their cities" and SHOW them no
mercy"
OF the fighting on the Luzon
fronts, meanwhile, the War depart.
ment said during the day that 'com.
bat operations in the southeast, in
the general vicinity of Lanon bay,
are very heavy" The enemy, it add.
ed, "is being continually reinforced
from fleets of troop ships in Lin.
gayen gulf and off Antimonan,"
while "enemy air activity continues
heavy over all fronts" Fighting was
"desultory" in the Lingayen bay
area, where the first large scale
Japanese invasion attempt was be.
gun.
1t was expected that Churchill
would soon leave the American capi-
tai. 1t has been announced that. he
is expected next week in Ottawa
where arrangements were being
made to give him a reception that
would rival that given King George
and Queen Elizabeth when they Wis.
itnl tho fnl
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-12-28
F. r., CHURCHILL
CONTINUE TALKS
Continued from Page One)

lister and the Netherlands minister,
Mr.. Roosevelt said in his statement
"As a result of all these meetings,
I know tonight that the position of
the United States and of all the
nations aligned with us has been
strengthened il measureably.
4 vance
I'VE have advanced far along
the road toward achievement of the
ultimate objective the crushing de-
feat of those forces that have at.
tackled and made war upon US"
He went on to say the conferences
would continue for an indefinite pc.
riod and added his promise that as
soon as possible, he would make an
accounting to the people of the
country. -
"The present overall objective, II
he said, "is the marshalling of all
resources, military and economic,
of the worldwide front, opposing the
Axis, excellent progress along these
lines is being made" ..r
What Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.
Churchill told the diplomatic dee
cations remained of course, the deep.
est of war secrets. But, it seemed
plain that the grand strategy of the
war had been worked out in general
terms, at least. AS to what these
were there had been a few hints.
Industrial Production
: These came notably in Mr.. Church
ills speech to Congress yesterday