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Evening star., 1942-08-26
Noon Hour Rest in Dispute

Chile has dispute as to whether
the half-hour noon rest prescribed
in its new labor law is to be counted
in the total working time.
Evening star., 1942-08-26

Martha Raby, and Q sister, Mrs. Z.
w. Brown.
Interment will be In Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1942-08-26

post office. Twenty three persons
were arrested
Evening star., 1942-08-26

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Mahogany with infinite carving
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Evening star., 1942-08-26

WEBB, ARTHUR. On Tuesday. August
25. I942 ARTHUR WEBB, brother of
william. Robert and Oliver Webb and
Bessie Gray.
Remains resting at the Malvan & Schey
funeral home, N. j. ave. and r st. NV.
where funeral services will be held Thurs
day, August 81, at 3 pm.
Evening star., 1942-08-26

JACKSON. CARRIE. On Tuesday. Au-
gust 25, 1912, at the Home for the Aged
and In1rm, CARRIE JACKSON. She
isayes hus9and. no.. two nieces, is one hepneW
Notice of funeral later. Arrsngements
by W. Ernest Jarvis.
Evening star., 1942-03-22

of a vice than virtue. Equaninity is es-
sentially individual. rather than ma
tional. because 1t postulates the superior
rather than the average character. 1t is
the state of mind that submits itself will
ingly to the judgment Of time in the
consciousness of righteous effort and in
the humble admission that the finite
mind cannot be infallible.
This means in terms less abstract that
Lee believed in the invincibihty of char
acter, believed that the man who had
done the best of which he had knowledge
could leave the rest to God. Americans
safely may do this today if, but only if,
all the while, from mine to watchtower,
from submarine to pulpit, they do their
best in labor and in fortitude-and no
less than their best. National effort un-
equal to national danger never can pro-
duce the equal mind
Equanimity such a-s Lees has no place
for despair. Its dynamic is hope. Para
doxical as seems that quality In the
exemplar of what men call lost cause"
hope fired Lee even in the hour OF the
destruction of the government for which
he unsparingly had fought.
After Gen. Lees death in October,
1870. his heirs opened military valise
he had carried with him through his
campaigns. 1t contained a few papers
only. Among them were several sheets,
large and small, on which were ref1ec-
tions from books Lee had read in winter
quarters; others may have come from his
Evening star., 1942-03-22
Defensive Not the Road to Victory, Said Gen. Lee

pen in hours when he was alone IN his
tent and had wrestled trumphantly with
his own spirit. The spirit of most Of
the papers was that of favorite motto
Of his from Marcus Misfortune
nobly borne Is good fortune"
Most cherished Of all the paragraphs
written in the generals handwriting and
found among the papers in his vallse
was one which Col Charles Marshall
quoted in the address at the laying Of
the cornerstone of the Lee Monument
in Richmond, October 81, 1887. Whether
this was written by Lee or was copied
by him from some book, investigation
has not yet determined. Regardless OF
authorship, it is an epitome of the faith
of Robert E. Lee and is, of all his re-
fections, the one that most fully en-
braces his message to his Nation today:
MY experience of men has neither dis
posed me to think worse Of them, nor
indisposed me to serve them; nor, in
spite of failure, which lament, Of errors.
which now see and acknowledge, or.
of the present aspect Of affairs do I
despair of the future. The truth Is this:
The march of Providence is so slow, and
our desires so impatient, the work OF
progress is so immense, and our means
of aiding it so feeble. the life Of humanity
is so long. and that of the individual
so brief that we often see only the ebb
of the advancing wave. and are thus dis
couraged. 1t is history that teaches us
to hope"
Evening star., 1942-03-22

COCHRAN FIELD, Macon, Ga. March
21.-It is time to present the facts on
the casualty rate at Army Air Corps
training fields, and in doing so I am
acting with the full approval OF the
officers in charge of the aviation cadet
program.
Recurrent reports. unoficial and un-
supported, have been circulated now and
then that the incidence Of fatal accidents
has spiraled upward with the vast ex-
pansion of the program designed to
produce more than 1000 pilots a year.
The fact is that in most cases the rate
has remained static. In few instances
1t actually has dropped.
More crashes are occurring. true. but
not in relation to the number Of hours
flown.
With my visit to Cochran Field, one
Of the basic-or intermediate stage
training schools, have completed .
tour Of six posts under supervision Of
the Southeast Air Corps Training Center.
with headquarters at Maxwell Field, Ala.
Evening star., 1942-03-22
Cutting Air Training Accidents

of instructions to learn before they 60
aloft.
Instructors pull no punches. II man
can't fly, they say so.
Here is a Cochran Field report on one
student:
This student has been weak in all
phases of his work. He has made no
progress whatsoever since he soloed. His
technique is very unsatisfactory in that
he restalls continually on stall recoveries
and he has become mechanical. He DEM
onstrates very poor and dangerous air
judgment, especially while making ap-
proaches to field and while making
landings.
He has no sense Of speed or distance.
This student exhibits traits which are a
source Of danger to his own life as well
as to the lives Of others. recommend
that he be eliminated"
Other appraisals, in a day-to-day rec
ord on each student include such COM
ments as:
Rough on controls and throttle"
Evening star., 1942-03-22
Wide World Photo.

When he gets lonesome, he usually
calls in subordinates for . game Of
rummy or penny y-ante poker. His bridge
is touted to be Of expert caliber.
He was born 81 years ago in Milton
junction, Wis, and was reared and edu-
Gated in Madison. Beginning at the age
Of 81, he owned at various times whole
sale paper concern, a wholesale grocery
house, an oil distributing company.
chain of grocery stores and q bank. His
brothers still run most OF them.
He has never run for office, but has
been active in both State and national
politics. He is reported to have declined
the Craftsmanship of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee in 1910.
He came from the Craftsmanship Of the
Wisconsin Banking Review Board to
Craftsmanship of the few-months-o
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. IN 1884.
and took on the extra job OF the utility
presidency in 1899. incidentally, he will
continue to draw salary only from the
utility. taking nothing for either Gov
ernment job.
has resigned directorships of Pan-Amer-
lean Always and Lehman Corp, bank
ing concern.
His Irish descent creeps out when
Crowley talks. Il want for you to do so
and So is sample.
He has pet words. too. One Of them
used to be "irregardless" until he used 1t
in radio speech, and listener called
him up in the studio to heckle.
Crowley is known about Washington
for his ability to keep out of factional
fights. Recently Morgenthau fought
bitterly to keep control of alien property
and even claimed publicly that he had
won the fight. Crowley, instead Of fol-
lowing the usual Washington custom Of
issuing blast to the press, told reporters
he could not dispute the Secretarys word
But Crowley got the job.
Evening star., 1942-03-22
BY Devon Francis,
Wide World News.

ignominy is punishment enough for his
mistake.
At Cochran Field I was privileged to
see the accident chart. Over period OF
months the curve had risen, but not
nearly as sharply as the number OF
student hours flown had risen.
To recite the number of fatal accidents
and the number of training hours flown
might cue the enemy on the progress OF
the program. but in terms Of miles can
say that the fatality rate at Cochran
Field is less than one for every seven-odd
round trips to the moon.
I told that to major on the staff Of
Cochran's commanding officer. Col D. D.
Fitz Gerald.
That's too many fatalities" he re-
marked. zone would be too many"
Cochran has had an excellent but not
an extraordinary safety record among
the more than 40 fields constituting the
training center. one of three such centers
in the United States. None has done
Evening star., 1942-03-22

better. A few have not done quite so
we'll
How Col. Fitz Gerald. native Of
Washington, D. c. and veteran of 4500
flying hours, and his staff have prevented
q scourge of bad accidents Is no story
OF miraculous cure-alls. The nub Of 1t
is hard work.
1t. Col Casper P. West, director OF
training, described the process to me.
He pointed to a drawing on the wall.
Things like that help" he said. 1t de-
picted two planes, one pursuit, the
other a basic trainer.
"A P-39 (pursuit." it was captioned.
will climb like a homesick angel. But
q Bib won't"
Vigorously close checking is done on
the students. They are given seven pages
Evening star., 1942-03-22
Washington Has a New
Champion Omceholder
BY Irving Perlmeter,
Wide World News.

President Roosevelt tapped a bachelor,
Leo T. Crowley, to face the $7,0oo,-
OOo,0 900 temptation Of alien property
custodianship-a Job which was q ticket
to prison for another man a generation
ago:
Crowley's appointment, announced Of
ficialy last week, makes him the new
champion oficeholder in Washington.
He will continue as chairman Of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and as
chairman and president Of the $l,000,-
100000 STANDARD Gas q Electric Co..
which has headquarters In Chicago.
Jesse Jones used to hold the record for
titles, until most Of his activities as Fed
eral loan administrator were consolidated
recently with his position as Secretary Of
Commerce.
Even Crowley doesn't know what all
he'll control in his new job. Alien prop
critics include hundreds of businesses,
especially some large pharmaceutical,
chemical and Photographic concerns.
There are a large number of Japanese
farms and fishing boats, and thousands
Of bank accounts.
If you want mountainous pile Of gold
bars, Texas ranch, a Washington apart
ment house, a rubber patent, pile Of
scrap iron, q fistful of diamonds, bale
Of stocks and bonds-Crowley has it. At
least, he has authority over it. He has
authority to manage these properties or
Evening star., 1942-03-22

dispose Of them In the name Of the
Government
Some people think Of Crowley's new
job as q swell plum.
Its nasty job. didn't ask for It,"
is Crowley's only comment.
He's already had to install a special
subordinate outside his door to handle
a deluge of jobhunters, favor seekers,
and lawyers and businessmen wanting to
know what to do about some foreign
owned property, process or business.
The money he'll handle will be all
foreign money, regarded by many people
as "fair game" Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau recently described the
problem In these words:
"Where there's honey, there1l be nies."
The first thing Crowley did was to ar
range for the Federal Bureau Of Investi-
cation to look after the flies" Both
the Justice and Treasury Departments
will work with him on the project.
When pestering problems Get too weari-
some, the new 81, 600 000,0 900 boss" figures
on running off-as he always has-to his
many relatives and friends in Madison.
Wis. He still maintains his only regular
home there, although he has been in
Washington for eight years.
Curious Pullman porters recently dis
covered that the reason Crowley took
two compartments on the train for Wis
consin is that one compartment was full
Of toys, clothing and other gifts for his
II nieces and nephews whom he adores.
He left college and went into business to
father" his four brothers and four
sisters when their father died.
Five feet TO- weighing about 100
pounds, with white hair surmounting
pink cheeks. Crowley is one OF the most
Evening star., 1942-03-22

Notwithstanding day and night inten-
sive flying, fatal accidents at most OF
them were conspicuous by their absence.
Minor accidents are not infrequent.
With scores of airplanes aloft at main
training field and its satellite fields at
one time, the wonder is that more do
not occur. Students, only learning how
to take OF, land, maneuver and ny by
instrument, break wheels, bend propellers
and shred wing tips.
They were doing that when the air
corps was turning out only few
hundred commissioned reservists year.
They still are doing it with the wartime
objective more than 10000 pilots an
nually.
For the most part the planes are
mended on the spot, and q student s
Evening star., 1942-03-22

that he knew the Northern people we'll.
and knew they would never yield in that
contest except at the conclusion OF
long and desperate struggle" Change
Northern" to German and this re-
mark is as sound and monitory now as
in the spring of 1861.
Gen. Lee never thought the defensive
was the road to victory. The offensive
and that alone would purchase freedom.
He believed that the offensive should not
be undertaken till the means OF sus-
tanning it we're at hand, but once an
army was ready to strike, 1t must strike
with all it had. Illusion must not be
cherished. Nothing was certain in war
but uncertainty. An adversary always
must be expected to do what strategically
he ought to do. In effort, as In the
matching of wits, he must be outdone.
Early in the war, Lee protested against
the unwillingness of the Southern soldier
to do military labor. Said Lee: why
should we leave to (the enemy the
whole advantage of labor? Combined
with valor, fortitude and boldness, OF
which we have our fair proportion, 1t
should lead us to success. What carried
the Roman soldiers into all countries,
but this happy combination?. The evil
dences of their labor last to this day.
There is nothing so military as labor,
and nothing so important to an army
as to have the lives of its soldiers"
Feeling of People Vital
Toward the end of the war; Lee per-
ceived that the outcome depended not
on what his valiant army was to do.
but on what the people were willing to
do to support the men in the field. He
wrote: Everything, in my opinion, has
depended and still depends upon the
disposition and feelings OF the people
Their representatives can best decide
how they will bear the difficulties and
sufferings of their condition and how
they will respond to the demands which
the public safety requires"
If those two quoted sentences were in
type on the stone" of a newspaper COM
posing room, any man who picked UP
the lines would think they had been
dropped from current presidential mes
sage. Now as surely as in the days Of
Gen. Lee, the outcome of the war Will
be decided less by the valor Of the army
or the wisdom of the administration
than by the exertion of the whole Nation
That exertion in the aggregate cannot
be above the sum of individual contr1bu'
tons, which will have a determinable
average, high or low.
Least known Of all Gen. Lees achieve
ments was that of utilizing wide range
of abilities. He knew that interest ane
hard work improved every performance
whether that performance was routine
or original. For that reason, among
score, Lee always respected personality
and usually got for the public service th'
best that every man had to Offers Con
sistently, Lees appeal was to character
American armies traditionally are rid
died with jealousies and sometimes ar
beset With cabals, but the Army o
Northern frsinia under Leo was neve
Evening star., 1942-03-22

dates with local Iasses, some Of whom are
wearing ~. S." and other lapel insignia
wangled from soldiers.
Camp movie programs are being in
augurated and the soldiers soon will
start fashioning bits of America here.
American soldiers can't be one place
very long without remaking part of it.
Evening star., 1942-03-22
Wide World Photo.

SLOW on signals"
"Corrects too violently and quickly"
"Co-ordination perfect and airmanship
thoroughly satisfactory"
Keeping the training planes in good
condition what the Air Corps knows
as maintenance-is another factor bear
ing heavily on safety. Every plane and
its engine is in top-fight shape before
it is allowed to go aloft. Portable re-
pairing units frequently are trundled to
the parking line to make instant repairs.
Because flying is young mans game.
and the best of young men get careless.
Col. West periodically makes sure that
the instructors themselves are up to
snuff. They have to demonstrate that
their flying technique Is good enough to
teach with.
Evening star., 1942-03-22
Warned of Long War

From the date, April 23 1861, until the
first major battle, July 81, the infiexible
counsel of Lee to Virginia could be put
in single sentence: Press the prepara-
tions for war to the absolute limit of the
peoples capacity and resources, as long
as practicable, even though this requires
a strict defensive. That policy was en-
joined on all the outpost commanders.
Lee, moreover. warned those around
him." contemporary of 1861 has writ
ten that they we're just on the threshold
of long and bloody war, and he advised
them if they had any idea that the con-
test in which they were about to engage
was to be q slight one, to dismiss all
such thoughts frdm their minds. saying
Evening star., 1942-03-22
Pine for Hamburgers

But the soldier still pines for the days
of jaunts to hotdog, hamburger or steak
joints and when ham and eggs were
obtainable at most every roadside stand
or main street restaurant.
You can get meals here if you get to
the restaurants before the days rationS
are sold out But the fare is the same
most every day, the milk weak and scarce,
cream unobtainable and the desserts few
and tart. !
The American soldier not only is the
best fed in the world; his fare sur
Evening star., 1942-03-22
A. E. F. Is Getting Its Irish Up

through blacked-out streets loudly sing
ing American and Irish tunes.
At home Sunday was the soldiers big
day, but the communities near the
Northern Ireland bases are closed tightly
on the Sabbath.
Out-of camp passes on weekdays bring
Evening star., 1942-03-22
BY Rice Yahner,
Wide World News.

Elsewhere there are huts of the same
design but American built They are
more comfortable than most of the
soldier quarters in the United States.
At home the barracks of many north
ern camps were built of green lumber
and the wind came in as the sideboards
dried out. However. the new metal
hutS here are dry and warm. They
are heated by kerosene stoves and have
insulated wooden floors and walls, elec-
trio lights and comfortable cots.
In this most modern camp there are
American cooking accessories and labor
savers worthy of the most modern hotel.
There are electric dough mixers and
even an ice cream machine. That Amer
lean favorite is almost as scarce as the
highly priced oranges and onions.
Through machinery the soldiers can
even forego washing their own mess
kits in this camp. The metal pans and
cups are run through a sterilizing ma
chine.
The cooking ranges are fired by
high-pressure oil system, as are the
bread and pastry ovens. Now that
American provisions have arrived there
are pies and cakes and bread like the
everyday fare of soldiers at home.
Fine old English mansions that have
been taken over for Army field head
quarters and officers messes now are
filled with the aromas of onion favored
stews, home fried potatoes and other
familiar American dishes.
Never before has the mess sergeants'
cooking been so appreciated. For out
side Army circles a round yellow egg
beside your few strips of bacon is the
equivalent of the proprietor giving you
the house.
Evening star., 1942-03-22
By Douglas Southall Freeman.

BY Douglas Southall Freeman.
In the old town where I live, the VAL
entine Museum preserves in a special
room the original cast of the marble re-
cumbent statue of Lee at Lexington.
Around the cast, not long ago, a group
of awed school children stood for the
first time. Hes dead" one of them
whispered. He isn't" another insisted,
"he's asleep" Then the boy touched the
plaster and said, Wake up, Gen. Lee;
we need you"
That we do! We need Lee! Equally
We need Lincoln. We need Andrew
jackson; we need Grant; we need WASH
ington. If they were here in this
supreme hour of our national danger,
each would have his counsel, each his
contribution 1t is not possible to say
what the advice of each might be, be-
cause, as l have had occasion to warn
those who delight in military compare
Instead of processing TO know what
Lee would do now, may recall few OF
the things he did in 1876? His be-
loved Virginia and the Southland then
passed through an ordeal similar in
many respects to that which the coun-
try now faces, but with the all-embracing
difference that the Confederacy lost in
evitably whereas the Nation today can
win if it will. That states the case
simply The question is not whether we
can, but whether we will win. Our will
is to be measured by our effort. by our
sacrifice, by what we put into the war
chest of the Nation.
All our long road, Robert E. Lee trav-
ersed. Before 1861, Gen. Winfield Scott
had said that the United States would
be wise to insure the life of Lee for
S1,0o0000 because of the value of Lees
future service to the Nation. Lee de-
cided to stand by his own State, his own
people He was born to make the deci-
sion he did. When he had made it, he
assumed Immediately the direction of
the military and naval defense OF Vir-
ginia.
Evening star., 1942-03-22
THERE WERE GIANTS IN
THOSE DAYS"

This is the third Of a series OF articles
about men and women who worked. fought
and died that America might live: men and
who made America great by contrib
utlng their own greatness TO country which
founded ana has endured on the prln-
ciples Of life, liberty and the pursuit OF hap
article in the series will appear next Sunday.
Evening star., 1942-03-22

WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY
IN NORTHERN IRELAND.-Save for
the blackout, the strange knitting cold and
the inability to stop most any place dur
ing their free time to get what they want
to eat, United States troops in Northern
ireland might be on the maneuvers they
experienced during the last year.
New vistas and new people were an
important part OF the past IL months
for the thousands of soldiers now in
war theater where they might suffer
blows from the German airpower at any
time.
Probably the British Isles seem no
stranger to the American men than
Louisiana appeared to the Middle West
erners arriving there The Cajun coun-
try certainly is not comparable to Ulster,
but the customs and people Of the Bayou
region perhaps offered bigger change
Evening star., 1942-03-22

for the men from Minnesota and Iowa
than their overseas trip.
Without doubt the blackout is the
greatest sensation producer.
Accustomed to rushing through United
States streets and roads afoot or by auto
mobile, they are slowed to cropping walk
or stumble while local residents hurry
Seemingly the latter are oblivious to
what the Americans consider potential
danger.
cats eyes to dart across roads without
heed to traffic, or jump on and of trans
and buses whether they are at an inter-
section or an unloading point.
Pitch.Blackouts
Even toughened soldiers accustomed to
BACKED out driving in military conveys
In maneuver areas were impressed by
the darkness in Northern Ireland COM
munities. A few of the soldiers who have
gone to London on duty or on leave ind
the metropolitan hustle with lights out
q trial that might give pause to Wash
ineton or New York taxi driver.
Rain or even snow makes little differ
ence to the residents and the nightly
dark seems to blanket mind and body
of many OF those unaccustomed to It,
Americans have lot to learn.
You never know how much cheer there
Is even in a candles glow until you've
lived blacked-out night after night.
And only the alarm clock, telephone
bell or the bugler tells you it's time to
get up. There's never the waking light
Of day through the window until it is
uncurtained.
Darkness these days lasts IS or 16
hours and the cold is always noticeable
except when you're in bed. Even muscular
cornhuskers feel the damp chill OF an