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making ends meet with current in
come. 1t will require the participa-
tion of large section of the popula-
ton which, under existing laws,
escapes direct Federal taxation and
which makes no direct financial con-
tribution to the war
The Government is offering citi-
zens the opportunity to respond VOL
unfairly to an appeal which must
be answered If there is widespread
failure of the voluntary method,
compulsory savings are inevitable.
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Antique Versus Modern

A new light on the controversy
between lovers of the antique and
the modern was shed the other day
at Agawam, Mass At the dedica-
ton of its brand-new 100000 town
hall, much civic pride was shown.
SpeechmakerS, while admitting that
in a perfect world there would have
been no use for a certain part of
the building, the jail, nevertheless
praised highly that necessary ad-
junct of municipal rule. 1t was the
very latest in calabooses, they said.
In fact, so loud was their praise
that it disturbed the jails first and
only inmate. He had not come there
to listen to lot of noisy hullabaloo;
he had been brought in to sleep off
Jag In peace. He considered it a
cruel, unusual and unconstitutional
punishment to have to listen to a
string OF political speeches. Politely
he asked to be released, but his re-
quest was denied-perhaps because
the Jaller was too busy with the cere-
monies. He became more and more
restless, until finally, along about the
time when the orators were referring
proudly to the marvellous modern
construction of the jail, its annoyed
inmate could stand it no longer.
With his bare hands he bent two iron
bars in the window, squeezed
through and escaped Picked up
later, he was transferred to Ye Olde
Brownstone Jugge at Springfield,
hopelessly antique structure equipped
with no such modern accessories as
speechmaking politicians and fexi-
BILE iron bars. Can any one think of
a three-letter word for the color of
the Agawam municipal governments
collective faces2
Evening star., 1942-05-03
Fifty Years Ago
in The Star

Fifty years ago the most prominent
political news was Of the coming Repub-
lican convention at Mime
Political apolis. Although it was
Shadows expected by most that
President Harrison would
be renominated, there was some oppo-
sition, and The Star of May 4, 1892,
carried evidence OF this in a dispatch
from Columbus. Ohio: "Ohio's Anti
Harrison Deleeates-Three Ohio con-
gressionAl districts elected dele
gates to the Minneapolis convention
yesterday - An attempt to secure
the adoption of resolutions indorsing the
Presidents administration and declaring
that President Harrison ought to be re-
nominated brought out q storm of oppo-
sition. and in the excitement that fol-
lowed motion to adjourn was made, put
and declared carried" Just the same,
the President was renominated, although
defeated later In November by Grover
Cleveland, the Democratic nominee.
y +
A tragedy marked the week with the
wrecking of Santa Fe train. The ac-
count in The Star OF
R. R. Wreck May S, 1892. read
in Missouri "Meager details have
been received by the
Atchison, Topeka g. Santa Fe Railroad
officials Of a horrible wreck at Medill.
Mo. The Chicago Limited Express, di-
rect from the coast and San Francisco,
was thrown through bridge near that
point at o'clock this morning. So
far as known, all the cars Of the mag
nificent train, loaded as they were with
transcontinental passengers eastward
bound. were buried in the waters Of a
flooded ravine -. The best informa-
ton so far obtained is that passengers
were killed outright and 13 injured"
In the light of Pearl Harbor a state
ment by Henry Waterhouse Of Honolulu,
Concerning Annexation The Star of
OF Howoii May 3, 1892,
Is Of interest:
Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to
the United States is inevitable II a
miracle should. however, lead the United
States to decline its opportunity, the
Islands will become the property of
some one else. 1t is impossible for them
to continue forever as an independent
nation. The vast body OF American resi-
dents are anxious for annexation, no
matter what opponents say. The United
States is nearer to us than any other
country. and her interest in the islands
Is greater than that of any other; but
If she refuses us merely because annex
alton would necessitate expenditures for
fortiflcations when in reality these for
tiflcations on the Pacific are just what
she needs. why we must look to England,
France or Germany" There was no
mention of looking to Japan!
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First things, indispensable things
these are priorities. To conserve them
in time of crisis is imperative. hence a
restricted economy. We are just begin
ming to know what this means. Literally
and practically. 1t implies that We cannot
have things essential to war demands.
and that we must not use certain things
of which there is limited supply.
All this means reasonable self -disci-
pline. greater economy, less of luxuries,
and possibly what We had come to re-
gard as necessities. 1t Is not an easy
task to regiment a whole nation and to
make it amenable to conditions that are
wholly unfamiliar to it. Before We are
through with the stern business of war
we may find ourselves, by reason Of the
limitations 1t imposes. stronger, stabler
and better people. We are not accus-
toned to being governed and directed as
to what we can buy and what we can use.
We know more about what We can do
with, than what we can do without
1t is here that we feel the pinch. When
we settle down to these new conditions we
shall doubtless find ourselves physically
and mentally the better for accepted
priorities. Even when we have accepted
the new order, we shall be doing modi-
cum of what men in the armed service
are doing
There is one priority that we have
much neglected and that forms an essen
tial part of efficient living. priority
prescribed by Jesus Christ. 1t is little
understood, despite its deep significance.
Speaking to His followers. He said: Seek
ye first the kingdom Of God. and His
righteousness, and all these things shall
be added unto YOU" OF what things was
He speaking? OF things that concern
lifes well-being. He had said: Your
Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have
need of all these things" He contendeo
that righteous, wholesome. satisfying
living was the condition that merited
Gods favor. Gods kingdom was con-
cerned with equity, justice, clean living
and right human relations. His king
dom was to be established here, and it
was to be reflected in form of govern
ment that put moral and spiritual values
above material values. 1t was to be
kingdom In which human personality
and all that concerned it was to be the
major interest. Rightly recognized, it
would abolish the evils that destroy
human happiness that create selhshness
and hate, the things that lead inevitably
to strife and war. To seek first the
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Entered as second class matter post once,
Washinston. D. c.
War Memorial Rites

Thirteen years after the termina-
tion of the First World War the
beautiful white marble Doric me-
mortal to the fallen heroes OF the
District of Columbia was dedicated.
Few who were present at the cere-
monies of November II, 1881, will
forget the solemnity with which the
assembled throng of Washingtonians
paid tribute to their relatives, friends
and neighbors who had made the
ultimate sacrifice. The occasion was
distinctive for its compelling power
Of inspiration. Not the least impress
Sive moment was that when Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover declared: How
ever great our desire for peace, we
must not assume that the peace for
which these men died has become
assured = . or that the obligations
which they left to us, the living, have
been discharged"
Some recollection of the words
Just quoted will return to the minds
of scores who attend the annual
rites OF commemoration to be held
at the District War Memorial this
afternoon. The renewal of the
struggle between tyranny and free
dom at which Mr.. Hoover limited now
IS a matter of history. Once more
the people Of the Capital OF the
United States find the very existence
of their country threatened by for
eign foes. Again soldiers and sailors
who were born in Washington and
grew to manhood here are dying that
liberty may endure. Hence, it should
be a privilege to attend the services
today. The whole community is in
vited to share in the first such pro-
gram arranged since the beginning
Of the prevailing conflict.
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to this point in the war with his world
position and his position at home
stronger than evers Efforts of the Presi-
dents opponents to blame him for the
defeat at Pearl Harbor or for other
American defeats seem not to have sue
ceeded. The American people remember
their own isolationist sentiment and
their ewn resistance, as reflected by
Congress, to the building of American
defenses on the scale recommended by
the President in pre-war years. They
apparently refuse to hold Mr.. Roosevelt
responsible for their own shortcomings
Then, too, the public responds to evi-
dence that President Roosevelt Is pre-
pared to make an all-out war effort and
is interested in getting this war ended
as quickly as possible. They are aware
that the White House has tended to
avoid petty political squabbles and has
refused to take actions that would stir
up internal differences.
The result Of all OF this Is that Presi-
dent Roosevelt Is leading . Nation that
probably Is more united than it has
been ut any time since the First world
War.
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Lights Out

Tne br1gnteSt spot on earth is
to be darkened for the duration of
the war. Times Square, the blazing
heart Of New York's theatrical dis
trict, was totally and most dramat-
ically blacked. out for twenty min
utes on Thursday evening and will
be subject to orders issued by Army
authorities for a continuing dim
out" of the coastal area in which it
is located. Owners and operators Of
colorful electrical displays In the
neighborhood of Broadway and
Forty-second street were slow to
conform when first notified of the
military restriction, but they now
are in step" with official require
ments. Night hereafter until peace
is restored will come to the cross
roads of the world" as it does to the
intersections of much humber arter-
les of travel in the sticks" far from
Manhattan.
But Times Square has been a dis
tinctively American phenomenon,
and 1t must not be permitted to pass
into obscurity without a word OF
regret for the necessity Of its eclipse.
The significance of the Great White
Way" was established as long ago as
1911, when Hildegarde Hawthorne,
granddaughter of Nathaniel, wrote:
THE variety of the electric signs and
lights displayed here strikes visitor
dumb with surprise. 1t is a river of
light-light of many colors, light in
constant motion. Signs representing
all manner of things and advertising
everything blaze and dance
before you on the housefronts or
higher up, supported by immense
frames. Here a girl with fluttering
skirts, holding an umbrella over her
head as protection against a fiery
rainstorm, is dazzlingly outlined
against the black sky There re-
volving wheel is making intricate
patterns of changing form and color.
Over the theaterS the names Of plays
and players fame in glittering let
ters; in another place a circus is
advertised by a fiery horse that
appears to gallop, while fiery lady
on his back leaps through hoop of
silver lights. Sentences write them
selves in the air in white or green
or scarlet, and vanish again; colored
serpents writhe up long poles, to
disappear in a shower of stars and
start once more. All the shop WIN
dows and the restaurants are bril-
liant, and the street itself is crowded
with vehicles, each with its lamps
The great white globes Of the Brush
lights and the odd glow Of the arti-
ficial sunshine also in use mingle,
and cast amazing shadows Of the
moving throngs Far up toward the
sky, most OF its windows alight,
climbs the beautiful tower of the
Times Building, and near it the lovely
illuminations OF the Astor and the
Knickerbocker Hotels shed a soft
glow"
The picture remained much the
same for three decades after Miss
Hawthorne painted it in the poetic
language here quoted. Such changes
as occurred generally were in the
line OF improvement In artistry
rimeS Square probably never was
more notably beautiful than It is at
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the moment Of its dimming. There
is no American so unimaginative as
to be immune to a sense of sadness
over the Smothering which must be
applied to it. But the lights, it GER
tainly may be hoped, will be lit again,
and when they are it will be for
we'll deserved and well-merited vic
tory over forces of darkness blacker
than the darkest natural night.
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LEGISLATION Needed

In declining to authorize Assistant
Attorney General Thurman Arnold
to testify before a House Judiciary
Subcommittee considering certain
alleged labor abuses, Attorney Gen.
eral Biddle has directed national at
tention to highly important matter
which might otherwise have escaped
general public notice.
The request for testimony from
Mr.. Arnold was made to the Attor-
ney General by Representative
Hobbs, chairman of the subcommit-
tee, which is considering legislation
to outlaw interference with inter
state commerce through threats of
violence or coercion. The denial of
this request was unusual, but it can
not be said to have handicapped the
subcommittee in its legislative in
quiry. On past occasions Mr.. Arnold
has set forth his views on the subject
matter of the committees hearing
at considerable length and with COM
plete candor. They are readily
available if the committee members
desire them
Furthermore, the committee has
received competent and significant
testimony on the subject from JOS
eph B. Eastman, head Of the Office
of Defense Transportation. Mr..
Eastman, long a member of the In
terstate Commerce Commission, said
that the need for prompt congress
Sional action is apparent as a result
of recent Supreme Court decisions
holding that labor unions, generally
speaking, were beyond the scope of
the antitrust laws and the Federal
anti-racketeering statute. The In
terstate Commerce Commission, he
told the committee, has received
literally hundreds of complaints
relative to racketeering practices on
the part of certain unions.
In New York, Mr.. Eastman said,
teamsters who seem to be inter-
ested only in collecting the money,
whether or not they actually do any
work." have demanded $1735 per
truck before they would let war ma
terials be unloaded In New England
last week, he added, more than 100
truck loads of war materials were
held up as result of jurisdictional
dispute in which competing unions
demanded that the truck owners pay
duplicate crews from both unions.
Another activity, which he described
as "reprehensible in wartime" con-
sists> of the refusal of union truck
drivers to handle cargo interchanged
with a non-union line.
These abuses, Mr.. Eastman added,
are interfering with the war effort
But that hardly comes within the
category of news. The existence of
these abuses is not recent devel-
opnent. Congress has known about
them for a long time and so has the
administration, but the responsible
ity for taking corrective action rests
primarily with the legislators.
Nothing that the Supreme Court has
said puts these union activities be-
yond the reach of congressional
action. On the contrary, recent
opinions have almost seemed to in
vite Congress to deal specifically with
these matters. If the members of
the subcommittee want to eliminate
this type of interference with essen
tial wartime commerce, it is difficult
to see why they should not proceed
at once to report legislation favor
ably. Certainly the ban on Mr.. Ar
nold's testimony is not a deterrent,
for if that has done anything it has
helped to publicize the facts of
the case.
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laboratories. At the same time w. P. A.
money enabled hundreds Of Southern
teachers to give their full time to- teach
ing illiterates in the more remote sec
tions.
There can be no question that in num-
erous cultural spheres the South Is ad-
vancing rapidly There are art museums
in Dallas. Tex, and Richmond, Va,
which would do credit to cities many
times their size. The same two Southern
cities have their Little Theaters of spe-
cial dignity and caliber, as have New
Orleans, La, and Wilmington and Char.
lotte, N. c. s-.-..
The South also is producing litera-
ture worthy of the name. The old school
Of writers with their nourishes and adj
jectives, their mellowness and sentiment
has given way to realists. The Library
Of Southern Literature" published some
years ago In Is volumes, Is considered
one Of the masterpieces Of its kind.
Histories and other textbooks have been
produced by the score. many widely used
in all parts Of the country, while the
novels Of William Faulkner, Thomas
Wolfe, Caroline Gordon, Margaret
Mitchell and others have gone unscathed
by literary critics and made the stage.
But while advancement in education
has been notable in recent years, the
outlook for even greater things Ii
brighter than ever. History shows that
advance In the things of the spirit usu.
ally goes hand in hand with material
and, despite certain obstacles
and handicaps which must be overcome.
this pattern IL being reproduced In tho
South.
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tnoSe gains Tor many years to come On
the other hand, there was Hitler in Eu-
rope, within bombing range of England
His armies had been badly hurt bv
Russia and might be even more badly
hurt If Russia could be given a real
helping hand.
The result is that this country. after
getting over the first shock of initial
defeat by Japan, concentrated its effort
upon getting material to Russia and on
building up the supply lines to Great
Britain for support of an air offensive
against the industries and TRANSPORT
facilities of Europe. Once Hitler had
been dealt with Japan would be easy.
President Roosevelt has succeeded In
recent weeks in shifting American at
tention to the problem of Hitler He has
bulwarked Australia with American
troops. He has American bases in the
Pacific and American supply lines in
that ocean greatly strengthened The
japanese in that part of the world now
face a steady attrition of their forces
from air and submarine attack. At the
same time, the way is opened to con-
centrate American strength against
Hitler
There is no assurance that this
strength can be transported and brought
to bear during 1912 In volume that
will assure Hitler's defeat. However, If
American aid helps the Russians to pre-
vent Hitler from breaking out to Oil and
to the Indian Ocean in the present year
his dOOm ran he Sna lad That ie th> u -
that is uppermost In onicial thinking
right now.
President Roosevelt has come throa,sh
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India Government Asks
For Fighting Spirit
By TIE Associated Press.

by thC ABSOClaLed treSS.
NEW DELHI, May THE gov
ernment of India launched q vigor-
Gus campaign today to create a
fighting spirit in this country whose
major political group - the Con-
gress party-decided week ago that
the only way to oppose a threat
ened Japanese invasion would be
by "non-violent non-co-operation. /"
Morning newspapers carried full
page advertisements warning the
public that work, not words, would
stop the Japanese.
The same theme will be featured
in broadcasts, posters and addi-
tional advertisements, a govern
ment spokesman said.
The advertisements showed a
bayonet rammed through a sheaf
of papers beneath the heading:
Words will not stop the Japa-
nese."
If 40 crores Of people 400 ,OOO,- :
000 decide that the Japanese are
to be stopped, they will be stopped" :"
the advertisement said.
we must give up things we need
because our gallant soldiers need
them more We must pack into
every single day several hours of
war work"
People were then urged to grow
more food Ito make good our Bur-
ma rice losses" to beware OF ru-
mors, assist civil defense agencies.
travel less. leave trains free for
the army, work harder. lend rather
than spend and to save electricity
and paper.
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Former Burma Official
BIomes British Apothy
" the Associated Press

ey the Associated Press.
CAPETOWN, Union of South
Africa, May Sir Walter Booth
Gravely, former acting Governor of
Burma, said here yesterday that
apathy on the part of the British
government was to be blamed for
Japanese successes in Burma.
Sir Walter said the regrettable
story was the same as in Singapore
unpreparedness.
"As early as 1888 we tried to de-
eide what we should do in the de-
fense of Burma, but our instructions
were to prepare only for local de-
fense. We were told we could rely
on reinforcements against any ex-
ternal attack. 1t was not until
about year later when we set to
work to do what we should have
done before. But we realized how
impossible it was at that time for
Britain to send us anything"
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Police Hold Man Picked Up
Driving Nelson's S Car

Police today were holding a 27-
year-old colored man picked up
driving the automobile of War Pro-
duction Chairman Donald Nelson
about $3.50 am.
The man was said TO be a car
washer in the garage of the Broad
moor Apartments, where Mr.. Mel
son lives. A loaded 3s-caliber re-
Volver was found In the automobile.
Police quoted the man as saying
that two soldiers had entered the
garage about 8 am. and had ordered
him. at the point of the gun, to
drive them 10 Boiling Field. He said
he complied and that the soldiers
left the gun in the car when they
got out.
The man was seen driving past
No. 2 precinct station on U Street
between Vermont Avenue and Ninth
Street NV. several times before
his arrest, it was said. Police
noticed the low license number and
. squad car arrested the driver.
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New Tales Of Vo|or Revealed as Army Confers
Decorations on II Flyers in Pacific Area

ron commander who lacked expert
enced gunners for his first mission
after arriving in a combat area.
When the formation bombed enemy
shipping off Menado, Netherlands
Indies, it was attacked by Is enemy
pursuit planes.
Sergt. Silva not only manned his
gun cooly. reloading several times
during the 40-minute battle and
destroying at least three of the
enemy pursuit craft, but he took
time out to remove the tail gunner
to the forward part of the bomber
after the latter's leg was broken by
an explosive bullet.
Posthumous Double Award.
Posthumously, the D. S. c. and
the D. r. C. both were awarded to
Maj. Stanley K. Robinson of Nor
gantown, w. Va On January 7,
less than q week after his arrival
in a combat area. Maj. Robinson
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Coptives Taken on Corregidor
Total II ,574, Patterson Says
Nothing Heard From Gen. Wainwright
Since Early Yesterday Morning

The War Department announced
today that approximately 11,574
soldiers, sailors, marines and civil
ians presumably were captured by
the japanese on Corregidor and
the other Manila Bay forts.
The estimate was based on re-
ports received up to April Is, a
communique said, and did not take
into consideration casualties which
might have been suffered in the last
three weeks.
The total included 2,275 naval
personnel 1870 marines, 3,734
American soldiers, 1890 Philippine
Scouts, 1,466 soldiers of the Philip
pine Commonwealth Army and 1863
casuals, including civilians and in
dividuals not otherwise classified.
The communique was issued at a
press conference by Undersecretary
of War Patterson, who said that 1t
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright,
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York, WoodfW
| Return to Army
las Majors
By the Associated Press.


The War Department announced
today that two outstanding heroes
of the first World War-Sergeants
Alvin c. York and Samuel Wood
fill-had been given Army commits
sions as majors.
Undersecretary Patterson said
they would be assigned to the Army
ground forces for infantry work.
He also announced that several
thousand Army Air Force mechanics
would receive postgraduate training
each month IN principal aircraft
plants turning out combat planes.
Sergt. York, Mr.. Patterson noted,
was dubbed the outstanding SOL
dier" of the first World War by
Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France
and the same praise was given
Sergt. Woodflll by Gen. John j.
Pershing of the A. E. F.
Both hold the Congressional
Medal Of Honor.