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Evening star., 1942-10-25
War Advice From a Radio Chief

and in South America. has just returned
from trip to Britain
He spent month there. He talked
to the higher ups and the lower downs.
He toured the army camps. talked to
both American and British soldiers.
Here's what I'm trying to get at.
Somebody goes over there, talks to
couple Of persons one afternoon, and
comes home to circulate tales of British
and American soldiers not getting on
together.
"Ofdcially and unofhcially, that's lot
of junk. Armies are cooperating closely.
The British are bending backward to CO.
operate, and the Americans are doing
their part, too."
He leaned back in his chair and
propped his feet on his desk. On the
surface, he's the usual New York execu-
tive. He lives on Park avenue. His
16-year-old daughter, Schatzie, goes to
Stephens College. His 20-year-old son,
Teddy, would be in college, too, but
there's war going on and so he's in
the Army. Royal plays a good game of
handball and would go anywhere to see
big sports event. He likes exotic food,
and you might see him in any little hole
Evening star., 1942-10-25

arrangement of the committee necessary.
There was, for instance, Miss Marjorie
Lincoln, Library OF Congress employe.
She joined the WAVES early In October,
but arranged for complete box before
leaving. Then, an ensign called up less
than "a hours before he was to leave for
sea duty to say that he would be unable
to carry on, but that he had found some
one who would. Ten days later the Sec
ond man was drafted and a third man
took over the committee of 20. The third
man may 60 into service soon, too, but
there will be another to fill his place.
The symphony forum has caught on.
To provide the forum with meeting
place, Duncan Phillips donated the Phil
lips Memorial Gallery for the 10 meet
ings, which will be held the Thursdays
before the Sunday concerts.
At the opening meeting Thursday
night the forum, which now numbers over
200, will meet DR.. Hans Kinder, con-
ductor Of the National Symphony Or
chestra: Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe, chair
man of the symphony's Women's Com
mittee, and j. P. Hayes, orchestra man.
ager.
Artists who will appear at the Sunday
concerts and who will all be invited to
speak to their coming audience include
Percy Granger, Frances Nash, Carroll
Glenn, James Melton Evelyn Swarthout
and Raya Garbousova. Miss Swarthout
will be accompanied to the forum ses-
sion by Uric Cole, composer Of one of
the selections on the Swarthout program.
1t is hard to tell whether the new forum
members are more excited about the
Thursday meetings or the Sunday after
Moons Without breath Of publicity,
word Of the forum has gone the rounds
until now the Forum Committee is faced
with such problems as the young married
couple who like to come on Thursdays
but always spend Sunday afternoons
with their youngsters.
Some arrangement, probably nominal
admission charge, will be made for the
would-be forum members who cannot
get to the Sunday concerts, because the
orchestra's heads don't want to discourage
the interest Of any one In music.
Through the forum undoubtedly young
people who have never been inside
concert hall will be given an intimate
introduction to music They will feel, as
Patricia Lynch wanted to feel again, that
they are almost part OF the orchestra
and certainly part Of its most faithful
audience.
Evening star., 1942-10-25
By Miriam Gutenberg.

Because a Government girl had an
Idea and did something about it, more
than 200 other young people from
score of Government agencies will hear
the National Symphony Orchestra's Sum-
day concerts from fashionable box seats.
And they will understand the music
they are hearing. In many cases they
will have met the soloist, the composer or
the conductor. That was all part OF Pa
tricia Lynchs idea.
Miss Lynch, who becomes Pat" almost
as soon as you meet her. came to Wash
ington to work in the Bureau Of Labor
Statistics almost year ago. Although
she plays no instrument, she has always
loved music. 1t was natural that she
started spending her Sunday afternoons
at symphony concerts.
Coming from San Francisco, where
every seat was filled at every concert, the
almost seemed to make difference in
the sound Of the music.
There must be lots OF people who
would like to go to the concerts, she
unused. OF course, they can't afford box
seats. She found out later that some
times they didn't go because they didn't
understand" what was being played or
because they hated to 60 alone.
In San Francisco, students at Mills
College, Stanford and the University of
California two years before had formed
a forum Well over 200 of them met each
week before the concert to hear the music
discussed by the conductor or possibly
one Of the artists.
Music Forum Idea.
II forum could be successful in San
Francisco, Miss Lynch asked herself
why not here where there are 50 many
young people without friends and with
lonely Sundays stretching out before
them.
Before she took her idea to the orches-
ira management, however, Miss Lynch
did some spade work Volunteering as a
solicitor for the symphony campaign
last spring she asked questions as she
sought pledges. BY the time she was
through with the fund campaign she had
a list of young people who were all for
the idea Of forum. Then she went to
the orchestra.
AS it happens, every symphony
orchestra in the United States which
presents two or more series OF concerts
has one known as "the fashionable
SERIES and, for obvious reasons, the
boxes are usually sold out.
Evening star., 1942-10-25

that in Dallas, at least, those girls who
sit on the back seats at PTA meetings
hadn't yet got the urge or courage to
work for pay.
A Dallas girl moves from a job as a $50
stenographer with bottling company
to one Of s170 with railroad; the New
York Central hires IA women as ticket
sellers; women man filling stations, drive
taxis and trucks.
The American Transit Association
hears Otto S Boyer, director of the Office
OF Defense Transportation's division of
transport personnel, say he sees no rea-
son why women can't be streetcar motor
men and conductors, and suspects there
are women capable of driving a heavy
bus. A few women already are being
used on streetcars and buses in San
Diego, he says.
Communications companies, such as
Western Union and the telephone COM
pany, are taking scads of women.
Have look at some of the ads In
Cleveland there is excellent oppor-
tunity for several women" in drafting
rooms; they're wanted for drill press
and milling machine operators, drug
clerks, fountain clerks, hostesses and
housekeepers, kitchen women, counter
girls, laundry girls, order clerks, payroll
clerks, practical nurses, salesladies.
Take some more papers. st. Louis,
Cincinnati, Kansas City, Dallas, Fort
Worth, Houston, Baltimore, Tulsa, New
Orleans, Memphis. Add that home
town. Look at the want ads yell.
bus line wants two young ladies to
be ticket agents, tire concern will
train mature women as retail store man.
ayers. A concern from New Orleans ad-
vertises in Memphis for woman IA
miliar with all phases of traffic work.
The hefty drug store proprietor puts on
an apron and serves breakfast when the
fountain girl doesn't show up. Sure, he
has help problem, he says.
And they start wanting a raise when
they've been here a week."
Evening star., 1942-10-25

in-the-wall restaurant that features an
especially tasty foreign dish.
Real American.
But despite his upper bracket position
in life, he's typical man-in- -the-street
American. Just before he left on this
latest trip abroad, he married Leonora
Corbett, the British actress his first
wife is dead, and they spent one-day
honeymoon-at Niagara Falls.
THE more I travel, the more like
America" he explained, "and spending
your honeymoon at Niagara Falls is
real old American custom. did it. but
too many people are getting away from
that part of American life More couples
ought to honeymoon at Niagara"
Feet still on his desk, he came back
to this "prattle" about trouble between
British and American soldiers.
"I'll tell you a little story to illustrate
what I mean" he said. "Brendan
Bracken, the British minister of in
formation, was on his way to his coun-
try home when he saw two American
soldiers standing in front OF a pub in
the village.
"'How do you like the English
weather. he asked them. Fine they
replied 1t had been raining steadily
for four days. Bracken took them to his
home and gave them a couple Of drinks.
That's pretty good cooperation, isn't it?
1t shows how friendly the British feel
toward Americans, doesn't it?
well, after they'd had drink or two,
Bracken repeated his question, asked
the lads what they really thought Of
the English weather We think it's
lousy the boys answered, this time
truthfully. but we never criticize any
thing in England That's pretty good
cooperation, too, I think"
Now Royal is no soft-soaper trying to
spread the word that all Is milk and
honey over there. He's a blunt spoken
American. A native Of Cambridge,
Mass, he was reporter for the Boston
Post at II. and city editor Of that paper
at 23. Later he tackled the publicity
game and eventually got into radio.
NO." he went on. don't get me wrong.
There's some dissension between the
British and American soldiers, all right.
There's the money problem, for in
stance. Our boys $50 q month becomes
7o-odd dollars at the present exchange
rate. (About three times what the aver
Evening star., 1942-10-25

responsibility for filling the boxes if they
could be brought down within range of
a modest purse. The Anal arrangement
was slightly more than most of the
orchestra seats, but definitely less than
the usual price for boxes
Actually, the financial discussion was
the least Of it. The National Symphony
Orchestra has always fostered the inter-
est of young people in music There are
its annual children's concerts. Young
talent has found place in the orchestra.
After Christmas, new series of concerts
is being planned, youth concerts to reach
those who have out-grown the childrens
series and aren't quite ready yet for the
adult musical world
Evening star., 1942-10-25

With her original list for a nucleus
Miss Lynch and an orchestra aide
started making the rounds of the Gov
ernment departments. Sometimes they
found young people they knew. Other
times they discovered quickly the COM
mon bond Of music.
On August 81, an organization meeting
was held, followed by a second one a
month later The final meeting of the
young music lovers took place october IL.
BY that time, the committee of 20 from
as many Government departments was
ready to ,eport "all boxes full" Each
member Of the committee was respon-
sible for filling two fve-seat boxes.
Sometimes call to war made q re-
Evening star., 1942-10-25
Rumor Monsers.

that there's too much talk about It.
THE very ones that are always talk
ing second front probably don't even
know what a second front is. The
bombing of German cities itself may
be a second front. They know in
England that few more weeks Of
such intensified bombing as that done
by the Germans earlier In the war
would have wrought plenty of damage.
They know what damage, both physi.
cally and psychologically, their own
bombers-and ours-are doing in Ger
many now" ID
An Invisible Front.
Radio, he said, especially short-wavs
radio for propaganda purposes, is itself
kind Of invisible 'front.'" becoming
more and more important In this war.
The British. although slow to start,
are now as good as the Germans In
the effective use of short-wave radio
for propaganda, he added. He put the
United States at a poor third, but he
told Of plans now under way for this
Government and American radio indus
try to cooperate even further in short
wave propaganda broadcasts.
'But you can be sure" he asserted.
that when our short-wave reaches out
across the enemy borders in full force
it won't be carrying any OF this we
are losing the war talk. Some people
may think that this type Of fear ad.
vertising' steps up production, but what
Americans don't realize is that every
Allied nation is looking to US for spir.
itual as well as economic and social de-
hverance. It's not the positive effect
OF such talk here that's important, but
Its negative effect in our Allied coun-
tries. where they don't understand the
purpose OF such remarks"
Free speech is great thing,"-hers
Royals feet came down OF his desk
with . bang-"but that doesn't mean
license or the abuse Of it. say let's
stop this we're losing the war talk
and get down to producing bombs and
bullets instead Of lot Of empty words"
Evening star., 1942-10-25
Forum Opens Symphony Boxes to Federal Workers

But the other series, which is given
here on Sunday afternoons might be
considered the popular series or the
music lovers concerts And for that
group of concerts, the boxes are always
a problem. The people who go to them
just want to hear the music. They don't
care where they sit. The management
boxes, not only for financial reasons, but
because of audience morale.
1t looked as though Constitution Halls
elegant row would be empty again this
season when Miss Lynch turned up with
her idea
She suggested that the forum, which
she would help organize, would take the
Evening star., 1942-10-25

Well, a lot of women already have gone
and are going to work for the same rea-
sons. So girl who wants to work can
do as the more successful others have
done, use some sense about it.
Remember, war plant job takes train
ing. That shorthand and tipping special
1st the businessman couldn't hire had
training plus experience; so have the
women moving into managerial positions.
The ones who fit in quickest take stock;
then go to the United States Employ
ment Agency, to personnel directors or
good private employment agencies and
ask what to do.
Care of Children.
Some women (and they take training)
are finding a field of service in caring
for the children of other women.
Those with very small children have
no business working" says the earnest,
competent, young lady at the Dallas in
formation center for working mothers
But they are going to-" chimes in her
companion.
so we try to help them" says the first.
The answer, she believes is competent
nurseries or foster homes (they must be
licensed in Texas. "One woman caring
for number of children during the time
the mother works"
1T wouldn't be very much help in the
war effort if there had to be house
keeper for each working mother, would
it?" she asks.
Child care executives in ST. Louis found
that the first evidence of wartime prob
lens was need for daytime care Of
children whose parents worked; planned
nurseries for them.
Kansas City (Mo) agencies tackled the
same problem with a house house
survey tabulating foster homes for chill
dren, weeded bad from good in COM
mercial nurseries; advised mothers seek
ing to use WPA nursery schools or day
nurseries of the community fund
Among the women going to work for
the first time or getting back into the
swing are those whose husbands have
Evening star., 1942-10-25

quit kicking about it. Some OF them
still get red in the face and make noises
at the suggestion. But statements from
selective service headquarters that men
with dependents will eventually be
drafted are having some effect on that.
The middle-aged lady who took job
as checker In a chain grocery (all the
boys had gone to the colors) stopped
work Is years ago while she and her
husband operated their own grocery and
market. He is a butcher She says
proudly that her 14-year-old daughter is
running the house while she is working
now.
A woman who devoted her time after
college to her husband and two children
got job in a paint shop. The manager
told her. I'm just treading water, just
training help and seeing it CO." The
15-year-old7 daughter in that house
pitched in to help.
Organized recognition Of the new de-
mand may appear, as in Dallas, where
a number OF department stores, found
lists of extra help were exhausted, and
pPPhSo"oiLo 4Ad4 oVOPpCu COllIlS III.
Older Women Needed.
ms 49,
The retail merchants association cam
paigned for older women to attend
classes in sales fundamentals for re-
placement help, got an initial registra-
tion OF 500. Personnel people were
tickled
Ages ranged from late 30s to the Sos,
and in more than one instance older
women, strong physically, alert mentally,
were accepted.
The applications showed those who
had done no work before usually had
engaged in church or club activities; a
number were teachers who had quit when
they married; some had had business ex-
perience but no selling experience A
number had once ceen typists, and to
those The co-ordinator of the program
attempted to sell the idea OF brushing
up for secretarial work
The applications were an indication
Evening star., 1942-10-25

age British soldier gets and naturally
the Americans have more to spend for
entertainment. They steal the English
girls and this causes some trouble. But
on the whole, both armies get on exceed
ingly we'll"
Rumor Monsers.
The rumor- -mongers might do we'll to
take a trip to Northern England. Royal
said, and watch some Of the American
soldiers helping with the harvest.
"On one big farm I visited" he ex-
planned, "the owner was short-handed
and the American Army camp had sent
three fellows originally from Iowa over
to lend hand. The Iowans had those
big harvesting machines doing tricks.
all right In a few hours the harvest
was in. Our camps often send boys
to help get in the crops. It's little
things like that that make for unity"
On the question of the second front,
Royal declared the consensus in Britain
among people who ought to know is
Evening star., 1942-10-25
BY James T. Carter,
Wide World.

NEW YORK.-Signals on! The husky
linesmen hunch over. The center snaps
the ball. It's to be quarterback through
right tackle with right tackle and right
guard opening the hole in the opposing
line. The quarterback plunges into the
line Of scrimmage-but there's no hole;
he's stopped cold.
The men who were to have cleared
his way-his teammates-were standing
there arguing with each other and he
ran into his own men. Because they
were hurting insults at each other instead
of concentrating on taking out" the rival
players, the football game was lost.
ITS happened like that plenty of times
on the gridiron," the big, grayhaired
man was saying. "Of course, history
wasn't made by the Winning or losing
of football game, but
ut can happen again on the bigger
gridiron, the one which the United Ma
tions are playing against the AXIS And
unless the Americans and the British
stop arguing and talking about each
other, this particular game called war
instead of football might make history in
way we won't like.
Into Coebbels' Hands.
We're playing right into Goebbels'
hands, talking about each other. It's
got to stop. Why, reading some of this
stuff about the differences between
American and British war policies, you'd
think we were fighting each other, not
the Axis"
The speaker was gruff. rugged John F..
Royal, who at 56 looks as though he
could still play a mighty good game of
football. More to the point here. ne is
vice president Of the National Broad
casting Co. in charge of international
relations.
Royal, whose 10 years as sort of
radio ambassador" to foreign countries
have taken him into the sanctums of men
who guide nations destinies in Europe
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-19
Only Decisive Victory
Will Terminate War,
Says Harvard Presiden1

CHICAGO Feb. 18.-RHJames
Bryant Conant, president of Har-
ward University, advised Ameri-
cans today that only decisive
military victory could terminate
the war.
Those who hope for an uprising
of conquered peoples or a revolt
of the better elements in Germany
he said, are Giving in an unreal
world" Conant addressed the Chi
cago association of commerce.
1.-THE average citizen of the Unit
ed States has led such happy
free and secure life that he has
been incapable of imagining either
the true nature of the Nazi party
or the life of those who live and
suffer under the rule of Hitler S
agents." he said.
ITO my mind there can be no
escape from the conclusion that
only decisive military victory
can terminate this war;"
Conant said a negotiated peace
would be futile ''as long as the
German army is intact and Japan S
Nvy and air force remain effec-
tive."
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-19
War Is Against Nazi
individual Gathering
At Chapel Hill Told

CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 18.-lR-
This is not war against Adolf
Schnicklegruber but against the in
dividual German, declared DR..
Alexander Loudon, Netherlands
minister to the United States, in
an address here this afternoon,
when he traced German aggres.
sion from the time Of tribal con.
fabs in the Black forest to the
plans for domination made in the
Wilhelrnstrasse.
''This is nothing newt is age
old aggression" he asserted. ''The
Germans have always struck for
political domination and the pleas
ures of life down through history.
They always strike where they
see something they want.
''Maybe one German is nice
but two Germans spell aggression;
three make a regiment, and four
-blitz!" AS for that small mi
nority of Germany who said they
did not approve of the Hitler ag-
gression, he said-''Why in Gods
name didn't they have CUTS enough
to protest?" !
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-19
DEATHS ON STATE
ROADS DECLINE
Fatalities Held To 73 Dur
ing January, Re-
port Reveals

RALEIGH, Feb. 18.-tRADeaths
on North Carolina highways last
month dropped to 73 from the low
recorded during January of 1871,
the highway safety division report.
ed today.
The decline in fatalities was gen:
eral throughout the state. Meek.
lenburg county's toll dropped from
eight in 1941 to two last month,
and declines were reported also
in Alamance, Buncombe, Chatham,
Columbus, Durham, Guilford,
Johnston and New Hanover.
More deaths occurred in ALE.
ghany, Cleveland, Currituck, Edge
combe, Henderson, Lenoir, Moore,
Sampson and Stanly.
Cumberland county showed the
greatest increase with IL deaths
reported last month in contrast to
four in January a year ago.
Of the larger cities, Charlotte,
Durham, Raleigh and Wilmington
had no traffic deaths, whereas
each had at least one last Janu-
ary. Charlotte had seven fatalities
in January of 1941.
Roanoke Rapids, with two deaths
and Salisbury and Shelby, with
one each, were the only towns of
10000 to- $4,000 population with
January traffic deaths.
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-19
Army Paratroops Tried
Out In Mountain Area

SOMEWHERE IN UTAH, Feb.
18.-tR-An Army transport roared
over this broad Utah valley today,
disgorging a detachment of Uncle
Sans para-skiers in the first of
series Of training jumps as part
of a test to determine the value
of parachute troops in high noun.
tain country.
The test, in the opinion of the
officer who led the group, was
complete success.
Nothing to it." yelled Capt. A.
F. Gorham as he struggled through
the deep snow from his landing to-
ward heap of equipment previ-
ously cast off from the plane.
The troopers have been training
for several weeks near Alta, Utah,
a short distance from Salt Lake
City. Their parachute training was
taken elsewhere. In Utah's deep
SHOWS they have learned to ski. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1942-02-19
Mississippi May Bar
Collegiate Athletic
Activity For Duration

JACKSON, Miss, Feb. 18.-RH
The Mississippi college board today
revealed action which may result
in the withdrawal from intercol-
legiate athletic competition of all
state-operated institutions of higher
learning.
State Senator means Johnston OF
Greenwood, member of the board,
said he had submitted resolu.
ton to discontinue athletic com.
petition for the duration and pre-.
dicted the plan would be approved
after preliminary Investigations.
The action, if taken, would affect
five institutions, including the Uni
versity of Mississippi and Missis.
sppi State, both members of the
southeastern conference.