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Evening star., 1942-02-09
Readers Have Their Angers,
And Theaters Their Regrets
Delay in Picture Bookings, Holdovers
And Choice of Saturday Films
Arouse Customers Wrath
BY JAY CARMODY.


nothing pleasant than letting readers write
for So starting with Mrs. Elise s. Hindman:
such pictures Bahama
louisiana Purchase Night" sulvans
Travels haven't shown Washington? This must be the only
shame for the Nations Capital to be far behind the times
incidentally
favor by getting the movie houses to change prices at instead
make deadne
and for that far too few pictures?
Hindmans question: partial
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-22

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Automobiles Wanted

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Wanted Miscellaneous
Gold, yeUetry Wanted

HIGHEST PRICES. diamonds. 3evelry. old
gold Original Detroit Gold Refiners
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CONSULT the ENLARGED Real Estate list
ines IN the biz Sunday Times Want IA
Section
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the enlarged Real Estate list
ines in the big sunday Times Want Al
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Motorcycles and Bicycles

WANT motorcycles or equities. Cash wait,
ing. Edw. Kehoe Co.. 1894 Grand River
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pETRoIT EVENING TIMES (PHONE CHERRY SOD
Wanted

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1885 Livernois.
Evening star., 1942-07-26
Thomas Believes News
Optimist;eoIIy SIonted
BY r. H. THOMAS,

One Of the first casualties Of the
Hitler war has been the legend built
up in previous years as to the over
whelming power OF wartime propa-
ganda.
The Nazi-Soviet pact Of 1899, the
instant partitioning of Poland, the
swallowing up of the Baltic States
by Stain with Hitler acquiescing,
the Soviet attack on Finland-all
this complex of swift surprises was
not merely surprising in itself: It
belonged to the general pre-war
category of things which definitely
could not happen.
The general structure OF beliefs
built up at home and abroad by the
long propaganda effort OF the to-
talitarian States collapsed under
this first blow. -.
The omcial propaganda agencies
assembled in Washington during the
summer Of 194l were based chiefly
on the pre-war conceptions The
immense mushrooming Of these new
services, plus the personnel gath
cred by the Government bureaus in
recent years. has now built up a
total manpower dedicated to pub
licity and propaganda estimated at
about 10000. =.
Press Turns Allerxic.
Yet the effect of all this was to
make the press sharply allergic to
the Wsamins offered by these official
services. The press correspondents
ut Washington turned first to scorn.
and then to open hostility 80.
Our press from the first has held
out pious warnings against the mere
thought Of q Government seeking
Evening star., 1942-07-26
Walter 5. Davis Heads
Silver Spring Legion

Walter s. Davis has been elected
commander Of Cissel-Saxon Post
No. Al, American Legion, Of Silver
Spring, succeeding Capt. Mark Pat
terson.
Other officers are: Adjutant, John
?. Collier; finance officer. william
Mc0. Harlow; first vice commander
L. 3. Ray; second, Chester F. Nau-
mowicz; third, Einar Christensen;
chaplain, Charles J. Clifford; ser
geant-at-arms, Walter B. Jett; his
torian, Clarence KRISTEN.
Members Of the executive COM
mittee include the above officers
and Capt. Patterson. Marcel Zim-
norman, william Mckinney and L.
T. Faulconer. Delegates to the State
Legion convention in Cumberland
next month are Capt. Patterson,
Mr.. Davis, Mr.. Naumowicz, 1t. Col
e. Brooke Lee and Mr.. Zimmerman
and alternates are Mr.. Faulconer,
Mr.. Collier, Mr.. Harlow, 1t. Harry
6tetngrebe, and Francis Leizear.
Delegates to the Montgomery
County Council of the Legion. are
Mr. Davis, Mr.. Naumowicz, Mr.. Har-
low. Mr.. Patterson and Mr.. Collier.
Alternates are Mr.. Faulconer, Mr..
Jet, Tom Foster, Capt. George A.
Hood and DR.. Ralph Gather.
Mr.. Davis, Mr.. Collier, and 1t.
eteingrebe were chosen delegates to
the Southern Maryland Council and
Mr.. Faulconer. Mr.. Zimmerman and
Mr.. Harlow alternates.
Evening star., 1942-07-26

indulging In. and his statements
have always been In the direction Of
fact and common sense and moder-
alton. Yet he made not the slightest
headway.
This long record Of false perspec-
tives and mistaken enthusiasms is
the result Of the press making itself
the guide and support of public
opinion. OF taking over the RESPONSE
bility for keeping up morale and
providing always a hopeful and en-
couraging turn to the news that
comes in.
What kind Of people do they
think We Are?" Churchill cried out
in regard to the Japanese. To the
press and the radio the American
public may well address the same
question.
(Copyrieht 1a42 By the Atlantic Monthly
Co., Boston. Mass.)
Evening star., 1942-07-26
Editor White Praises War News Coveruqe;
Historian Thomas Sees Headlines 'SIonted

(Hoto good Is the press treat
nent OF Wdr ,ae,Ds? The noted
editor OF the Emportd (Kdns.)
Gazette compares the copernpe OF
today NTH the ne,pspdpering OF
World War and the treaty OF
Versailles and finds the 1912 per-
formance q great improvement.
IT. H. Thomas, military his
torian ,0ho serped on the general
headquarters stat in the First
World War, on the other hand,
finds the credtbfltty OF Udr 7,eUs
and Interpretation to be suffer-
ing from too consistently opti-
niStic slant.)
Evening star., 1942-07-26

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1942-07-26

Council on Education. The agency
was recommended to the trustees
by Mr.. Barrett.
The vote on the investigation was
six members for, one against and
two Republican members not voting.
The single dissenting vote was
cast by John FornofY Of Streator,
who contended the inquiry would be
"a waste OF money" and that the
Board Of Trustees should accept the
responsibility of operating the uni
versity.
The investigation was recon-
mended by Arthur Cults willard,
university president. who said It
was necessary for the institution to
protect itself against the charges
raised by the attorney general.
Evening star., 1942-07-26
V.M.I. Group Seeks o. K
Of Sunday Film Shows
- the Associated Press.

II tne ASSOclAUe0 PreSS.
LEXINGTON, Va, July 25.-A
committee Of officers and faculty
members from Virginia Military In
stitute and Washington and Lee
University has asked the Lexington
Town Council to allow movies to be
shown at local theater on Sunday.
The committee, which was said
here to be an unofficial one, pointed
out that gas and tire rationing
would require many students to re-
main In Lexington over week ends
and said that Sunday movies would
be q matter Of recreation and mo-
rale.
The councilmen, by resolution,
asked an expression from Lexing-
ton citizens Of their sentiments.
Evening star., 1942-07-26

eand their writing. It is not, as the
public presumes, that the advertisers
control the press. Rather the men
who own the stock and/or bonds Of
stores or industrial concerns which
advertise, and their bankers and
their elderly chairmen of the many
industrial boards, form pool of
local public opinion in which the
publisher moves, breathes, and dis
ports himself with the other upper
middle-class porpoises.
And despite even in that atmos-
phere, American newspaper readers
one way or another. through their
newspapers, do finally get the truth
even about controversial industrial
matters-strikes for instance, labor
/ arbitration, and other affairs of cur
rent interest along the front of our
national economic battle line.
Truth Given In Doses.
My contention in this article is
that, despite the handicap which our
press has in printing and comment
ing freely upon controversial domes-
tic matters, in the foreign field dur
ing the last 10 years the people have
had as much of the truth as much of
the time as they could take. For,
after all, truth is a medicine which
must be administered In broken
doses-homeopathic doses.
So feel justified in venturing a
guess that. when 1t comes to dis
cussing the peace treaty, American
newspapers will not be without influ-
ence. The precious thing is that this
time they will not be without knowl-
edge, without some sense of the fun
damental verities in the world situ-
alton.
The best proof that we are going
straight as we follow the path of
our international opportunity is
that the American newspapers to-
day, their editors in chief, the edi-
torial writer's, the managing editors,
the Washington reporters, their for
eign correspondents. the columnists,
all big ones and little ones, as a
whole understand the world situa-
ton. They have had a quarter of
century Of education.
Evening star., 1942-07-26
0Ho Pledges Austria
To Fight Until Nazi
Tyranny Is Dead
Pepper and Eberhorter
Toke Port in Observance
Of DoIIfus Death Dote

A pledge that Austria will fight
for freedom "as long as one Aus
trian is left on the ancestral soil"
was made by Archduke Otto of Aus
tria In radio program broadcast
from Washington yesterday as exer-
cises In honor Of Austrian Day were
held throughout America.
The ceremony was in commemora- =
ton Of the eighth anniversary Of
resistance to the first Nazi aggres-
sion against Austria and the murder
Of Chancellor Dollfus.
Sharing the radio program with
Archduke Otto, pretender to the
Austrian throne, were Senator Pep
per, Democrat of Florida, and Rep
resentative Eberharter, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania.
Pledged to Victory.
'"The Austrian people," Archduke
Otto said, ARE solemnly pledged not
to rest until the nation is free-until
Nazi tyranny is wiped from the face
Of the earth. We all fight because
we believe in divine justice and in
the justice Of our cause. AS sure as
there is God in Heaven we know
that victory will be ours"
Senator Pepper said the great
and growing strength Of the United
Nations should be augmented by the
might and inspiration Of those
Austrians who are anxious to band
themselves together under their old
nag with their friends Of the United
Nations. I am sure that once this
privilege was extended to Austrians
in exile, those who have fed or been
forced away from their homeland,
they would come to meeting place
from all over the earth where free
dom yet lives and make a mighty
band worthy Of their cause and their
comrades. Let US Of the United
Nations remember that we have no
risht to deny q place In this heroic
fisht to any warrior who loves our
cause"
Called America in Europe
Representative Eberharter, recall
ing that Hitler gangsters assassi-
mated Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss
on July IS, 1894, asserted that I'VE
can think Of Austria as a little
America in Europe. where all races
and creeds have been living con-
tented and peacefully together"
Hitler's propaganda machine has
Hied to convince the world, DR..
Eberharter said, that Austria is a
German country, but Austria still
iishts on, like the Dutch, Belgians,
Norwegians, Poles and Greeks.
"A sad and wiser world" Senator
Pepper remarked. now knows that
the gallant Dolfuss and the brave
Austrians who stopped for a time
the onward march of Hitler's con-
quest served not only Austria, but
preserved for time freedom In the
world"
Evening star., 1942-07-26
Illinois u. Trustees Vote
Probe Of Politics CHARGES
Fy tie Associated Press.

Ry tie Associated Press.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, July as
With only one dissenting vote, Uni
versity Of Illinois trustees today au-
thorized an investigation Of At
torney General George F. Barrett 8
charges that the university has
been ION the downgrade since 1884
and that its administration Is shot
through with politics"
An appropriation Of $4,000 was
voted to finance the investigate
which will be made by the American
Evening star., 1942-07-26

lead the world than 1t will be if we
attempt to isolate ourselves and ig-
more the world. There is the cud
for our national nominations. But
the hopeful thing about the whole
business Is the broader intelligence
the citizens Of our Republic have
about European affairs than they
had in 1919. The American press
with all its faults-such obvious
shortcomings-is still q free press.
OF course, in the debate that will
follow this armistice, American
newspapers will take leading part
They have lost none Of their real
power and dignity as leaders, how
ever citizens may differ with the
press at election time. An election
is only one Of the many weapons of
democracy. An election is only one
OF large number of ways in which
public sentiment registers itself. The
newspapers were not able to defeat
Franklin Roosevelt for q third term
Yet In matters Of domestic policy he
has not always had his way with his
countrymen. In the home field
newspaper opposition has curbed Mr.
Roosevelt time and again.
Popular Oplnien Rallied.
Newspaper leadership has rallied
popular opinion in the recent IL
months, influencing the Congress
rather definitely away from the
course in domestic affairs laid down
by their elected leaders. Moreover
newspaper opinion has been, on the
whole, with the President in the
realm Of his foreign policy.
must not close this article
leaving the reader with the impress
sion that because I believe that in
this particular phase of American
journalism the newspaper editorial
writer's have been fair and wise,
therefore believe American jour-
nalism is flawless. It has many
weaknesses. Indeed I think it may
fairly be said that the faults OF
journalism in the United States are
the faults Of the citizens thereof.
We the newspapers and we the
people, the middle-class vocal Sec
tion Of our Republic, the leaders,
are too keenly sensitive about the
rights Of an invested dollar The
public and journalism In this coun-
try follow too blindly what might
be called country club and Chamber
Of Commerce leadership, which is
good at times and in spots, but not
sacrosanct because 1t is not In
fallible.
Property Minded Man.
The average American owner and
publisher Is q property minded man
So those in charge of the
editorial page have much more
freedom In discussing foreign policy
or have had-than they have in
matters Of domestic concern.
It is much easier for an editorial
writer, for instance, to denounce
Hitler or the Japanese than it is for
the editorial writer to denounce the
policy of the CIO or the attitude of
the National Manufacturers Asso-
citation.
So the editorial writers on a con-
siderable proportion, If not a major
ity, of the daily newspapers in the
United States are often, though not
always, channeled in their thinking
Evening star., 1942-07-26

About the middle Of November
It was explained to the press (by
the highest authority that with
modern aircraft 1t was possible ia
defend the Philippines; and that
the Army had sent out strong
forces of new planes for this ex-
press purpose.
Three weeks after Pearl Harbor
ION December 2S) = press dispatch
from Manila explained that most OF
these planes and practically all the
airflelds in Luzon had been de-
stroyed by the surprise attacks with
which the Japanese bombers opened
the war. -.
The effect Of this prompt destruc-
ton OF our air power was to wreck
at the start the whole plan OF
strategic defense In eastern waters
Had our planes kept control Of the
air around Manila. no Japanese
transport could even have ap-
preached that region. -.
Clear Even to Layman.
The press dispatch Of December
2S was not quashed by the censor
-. even to a layman 1t explained
clearly what had happened in the
Philippines up to that date; and it
revealed in advance. so to speak,
the bewilderng contrast between the
headlines and the actual course OF
events during the next two months.
Roughly speaking, not single paper
took note Of it, or profited by it in
tho subsequent handling current
news from the Far East. ..
Instead, the whole chorus of head
lines and comment maintained for
weeks on end the appealing fiction
that the defenders on Bataan were
carrying out the strategic mission
previously assigned them. For long
1t was even pretended that this re-
sistance was diverting Japanese
strength from Malaga; and when
this fallacy collapsed, most Of the
press turned in resentment upon
the War Department for leaving
Gen. Macarthur In the lurch.
Where are the planes the troops
are calling for at Bataan?"
The answer had been obvious since
December %: The planes were lying
burned and bombed, on the wrecked
Luzon airfields. Every correspond
ent in Washington knew the answer
to the rhetorical questions the press
was raising. All joined in the game
OF ignoring that answer and of
keeping from the public q secret
already disclosed in print-but ig-
nored and forgotten. >.
Buoyant Tone Not Imposed
1t is out Of the question to assume
that this buoyant tone Of the press
was imposed on the country by the
censorship or any other official con-
troll OF the news. The military and
naval communicates have not struck
any such note, and by and large an
outside reader has little fault to
find with what they have said, or
omitted to say, even since Decem-
ber 7.
The Secretary Of War more than
once tried to tone down the more
highly colored visions the press was
Evening star., 1942-07-26

to regiment public opinion It
has remained 4 free and un.
regimented press: Quite spontane-
ously it has volunteered its services
in public-spirited and patriotic
impulse. Yet it has chosen--spon-
taneously. the mission Of present.
ing the news in 4 rousing and
heartening fashion: 1t has dealt
with the news as an instrument for
keeping up national morale
Looking back -. Since the out
break OF our war, 1t is fairly clear
that we have had nothing to COM
plain Ut on the score OF news being
held back by the censorship. The
readers Of the press have suffered
from = wholly different evil -.
Facts Smothered.
A triumphant headline or 4 single
article of rosy optimism will efYec-
lively smother the facts offered in
other columns by carefully written
foreign DISPATCHES, or by any num-
Der Of carefully weighed editorials.
The Russian winter campaign
was developed in such a way as to
leave most readers with = thor
oughly false idea Of the net balance
OF the situation on the Russian
front, and = quite fictitious estimate
OF the prospects for 1912. The same
thing has happened in England. All
IN all, the press In both countries
has helped public opinion to re-
fuse to face the facts OF Allied mill
tary weakness and the actual mill
tary situation which is the conse-
quence -. It has encouraged every
tempting unreality.
In all this matter It seems fair to
say that the better papers have kept
two sets of books. They have Of
fered fact and fancy side by side
and simultaneously the popu-
lar press has been wholly on the
buoyant side and has centered its
efforts upon headlines OF the cheer
leader type. But most readers also
DO not read far enough to counter
act the impression the headlines
give, and the note of triumph sound
ed day after day by stirring cap
tlons remains the dominant note
Misleading Pictures.
AS far as the press Is concerned
these misleading pictures have been
due not to any desire to mislead,
out rather to a mistaken form OF
good intentions. From the very
first, the press and the radio have
volunteered as active participants in
the war. They have assigned them
selves the mission OF arousine the
country's support-almost as If the
press were carrying on the war and
the country were standing aloof as a
spectator.
This conception Of the task III
hand reaches down to the corre-
spondents at the front and in the
nome sectors. Visits to training
camps or overseas bases, tours of in
spection in dockyards or munition
plants and even f1rst-hand accounts
OF actual fighting by land or sea-
IN the reports we got of all these
there is minimum degree of de-
scrlption and facts and an unlimit-
ed outpouring of praise.
Headlines, however, are the most
Important factor in the equation,
and the headlines are the things
We have most to complain Of. i.
Inc Government product does not
include this essential factor Of dis
play and selection. or the frequent
omission Of critical points. or the
write-up which ordinarily gives the
visible color to the items Of news
selected.
Evening star., 1942-07-26
Critical Discussion

Critical Discussion.
Since Pearl Harbor, no less than
before, the press and radio COM
mentators have been free to discuss
critically the news that does pass
the censor, and to point out the real
significance Of what has occurred,
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1942-01-22
Denison Offers
Free Night School
In Radio Training

Denison university, Granville,
is cooperating with the United
States government in training
badly needed radio operators and
technicians for the U. S. armed
forces and defense industry.
Announcement is made of
free night course in radio start
ing early in February at Deni-
son, with Professor r. H. Howe
as the instructor. The course
here is under the general super
vision Of Ohio State university
and will have the same content
as the work being offered in Co.
lumbus.
The course will be so weeks in
length, meeting three nights
each week. Applications are now
being received by Professor
Howe from both men and women.
A high school education with two
years of mathematics and one
year of physics is required.
Ohio colleges and universities
thus are marshaling their re-
sources to help the government
and industry secure these need
ed workers during the next few
months.
While the national demand
runs into the hundreds of thous-
ands and is described as practic-
ally unlimited, Ohio alone has
been asked to train 5000 be-
tween now and September /.
Early applications are advis-
ed, since the number to be ac-
commodated is limited by the
facilities available.
1t is suggested that the free
radio course offers an opportun-
ity particularly for individuals,
such as auto people, who are be-
ing dislocated because of de-