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Evening star., 1942-03-08

again. Everybody all right?" she
rallied the kids
And they went on-toward Smiths
Mills. I've thought since that when
she saw the man with the red flag.
he must have seemed to her like a
flaming angel outside Paradise. But
it was just Sammy Steers. Little Joan
Steers began Jumping up and shout
ing. Here I am. Daddy. Here l am.
Daddyr'
''Hullo. Miss Anne. " Sammy Steers
said. He smiled at his kid. "You stop
with Miss Anne. Joanie." he said.
She'll look after you all right.
Where's Timothy Lutz?" he asked.
and Anne told him. He nodded: then
shook his head. bad business, this
wind shiftin'." he told her. Its no
use tryin' to go on from here"
Ahead we're men and trucks, and
one rumbled into life. Where was that
going?
Smiths Mills" Sammy said. But
not with a cargo of kids"
She told him how it was behind.
He whistled. Look. he wanted to
know. was this fire the other side of
the Route Road?
Then you 60 back double quick"
Sammy advised, "and take that. 1t
amt much of a road. but it'll detour
you round to Shaw's Settlement"
Once there. he said. they could stop
safely till the worst was over. and he
would himself send word to Smiths
Mills by the truck to save folk from
worrying.
Then Sammy took look at her
face and he saw how it was. He told
me afterwards of the queer little smile
she gave him and how it hurt him to
see. Gould you help me - turn -
this tank?" she asked.
LITTLE he knew to what he was send
ing her. He watched until the smoke
swallowed them up. 1t was coming
thicker all the time. Billy Hall. sitting
in front with Anne, said: Gee, it
makes you-almost scared-doesn't
it?' And Anne said, That's when a
person has to begin to be brave.
Billy
1t was better on the Route Road -
at first. 1t was a road Anne knew.
Could you wonder that Anne thought
of DR.. jim when they'd come here
together to pick hepaticas in the
spring, when it was here he'd told
her he was going to rob the teaching
profession to provide doctor with
wife"
And he had added, That's grand
larceny. all right. l only help bring
Evening star., 1942-03-08

Whcn your country IS up against
i danger, you get to thinking of the
things and the people you can count
on. That led to our speaking of Anne
Warren.
Iremember I stopped at the school
house that morning on the way down
to help fight the fire. l remember how
the kids arrived talking and laughing
a bit too loudly to show they weren't
scared. The smoke was getting thick
even then. When Timothy Lutz drove
in with the school bus. he was short
quite a few of his usual passengers.
Their parents wouldn't let them come.
Afraid the wind might change. Every
body said it would be bad if the wind
changed. He'd picked up the teacher.
of course. at Smiths Mills, as usual.
When saw her face knew what it
meant for her to keep school today.
well, Anne" I said. ANY
news?' And she shook her head.
Keep smiling" told her. What can
you say, anyhow? I guess she hadn't
slept a wink since the Doc was miss
ing. Everybody said it was madness
for him to try and get through, but
there was baby coming up at Rom
sells, five miles through the bush.
and he'd promised Eva Ronsell :.
well. you know how it is. They figured
from the way they found his car.
blackened and ruined. that he'd had
to abandon it and head back for
Smiths Mills. Can you blame Anne
for wanting to be down there every
minute? tried to tell her the young
sters would be out of mischief up here
Shed be doing real service.
"Yes," she said, dry-lipped.
Ifthe wind shifted, told her, she'd
better shut up shop and get the kids
right home.
guess it's kind of tough teaching
history when nothing matters but
what's happening to the man you
love; or geography when the only
place on the map for you is bit of
smoking forest. The kids we're rest
less, too. At recess time. the sun was
a queer red ball. BY noon the wind had
dropped and it was still as death.
Through the smoke they could just
see old Mrs. Chandler's house -
where Timothy Lutz went to do chores
until it was time to take the kids home.
Then, suddenly. the weather vane
on the schoolhouse veered, and gust
caught up the grit in the yard and
spun it into a cone.
Anne took look. and can pretty
we'll guess what her first quick thought
was - That now she had an excuse
to let school out. She told the young
sters who lived nearby to get started
right home, and report to their par
ents, and she sent Charlie Duckett
running to fetch Timothy Lutz.
mis- Chandler says" Charlie re-
ported. that he's gone down to fight
the fire. Didn't think he'd be needed
until this afternoon"
Anne looked at the bus parked
there. guess it looked big as an ele-
phant to her, and about as clumsy.
She knew she wasn't any great shucks
of driver. but she told everybody to
get in.
QUIErLY. No pushing. No shouting.
please! She got the bus safely out on
the highway. The smoke was drifting
heavier all the time now. Hard to see.
Evening star., 1942-03-08
Victory Is Inside You

Despair was in her heart but laughter was on her
lips and in the end il was laughter that won
by Leslie Gordon Barnard
Illustrated BY O. :: Schmidt
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Shc.waded through tho water
toward that ledge of rock
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Playground Contest
Hos Record Entry LIST

Interest in the Backyard Play
ground Contest" which is spon-
sored by numerous District organi-
cations, is reflected in the largest
entry list in the events history.
Two identical groups of prizes are
offered, one for commercial and
one for homemade equipment.
At 7:30 o'clock tonight over
Station WWDC, the possibilities in
homemade play equipment will be.
discussed by Godfrey Creyke, jr.,
president of the Junior Board Of
Commerce; James A. Wiley, second
vice president and member Of the
Child Traffic Safety Council. and
Duane M. Paul, chairman of the
boards Traffic Committee. Entry
blanks as we'll as booklets giving
directions for making homemade
equipment may be secured from the
District Recreation Department,
Sixteenth and Lamont street NV,
or from any of the playground
directors.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
City Presents Claim
Of $4,000 Held Due
From Freedmen's
Adjustment Provided
By Law on Funds D. G.
Contributes to Hospital

The District Commissioners have
presented to the Treasury Depart
ment a claim for the return of
1000 from Freedmen's Hospital
uneer a plan provided by statute
for adjustment of District funds
contributed to the support of the
institution, it was learned today.
BY law, the District Government
Is required to contribute 65 per
cent of the cost of operating the
hospital, but this percentage is
subject to reduction under q Statu-
tory formula.
The formula provides that the
contribution shall be scaled down
so that it bears the same ratio to
the total hospital appropriation as
the number of hospital-days de-
voted to District residents bears to
the total number of hospital days
for all patients.
District Auditor A. R. Pilkerton
computed the ratio to require a
contribution by the District of but
81 per cent of the hospitals cost for
the first half of the 1912 fiscal
year. This percentage is subject
to dispute, however, Mr.. Pilkerton
said.
If, among the District residents
treated, pay patients-as distin-
guiShed from INDECENT patients
should be included, the District
contribution would be raised to Sc
per cent and the refund sought
would be correspondingly reduced.
The District Health Department
is conducting an investigation, Mr..
Pilkerton said, to determine
whether persons listed as resident
patients actually have lived in the
District for the required one-year
period.
The request for refund is based
on hospital operations from July l.,
1941, to December 81, 1941. For the
second half of the fiscal year end
ing next July l, Mr.. Pilkerton said
he expects the refund to be even
greater, provided the ratio OF
patients is the same This, he said,
is because most of the financial
commitments of the institution are
paid off in the latter half of the
fiscal year.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
U. D. {. 10 Commemorate
Birth Of Jefferson Davis

The 134th anniversary Of the
birth of Jefferson Davis, President
of the Confederacy, will be COM
memorated by the Daughters of the
Confederacy at pm. tomorrow
in Statuary Hall of the Capitol.
Representative Bryson of South
Carolina will be the speaker and
Mrs. Elizabeth Fred, division his
torian, will give a reading. Mrs.
Harold Walbridge Robbins, division
president, will preside. Mrs. Berna-
dotte Hillyard. president of the
District U. D. c. Chapter, will place
a wreath on the Davis statue. The
Children of the Confederacy will be
present for the ceremonies.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Conservatory to Open
PopuIor Music School

b the Associated Press.
BOSTON.-Popular music Is on
the upbeat in Boston.
The New England Conservatory of
Music, one Of the Oldest Independent
conservatories In the United States,
has announced that 1t will open q
school Of popular music in Septem-
Der.
Only recently Deep In the Heart
Of Texas" was played in a Boston
Symphony Hall pops" concert.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Chinatown S Sidewalk Artisans
Still Fushion Trinkets of Gold

SAN FRANCISCO, June 90
Chinatown Is still q foremost Ameri-
can center where expert artisans
create cleaning charms and brace
lets Of gold, and rings and pendants
of cool jade.
An art that began in -, when the
first Chinese came to this country,
continues on busy jackson street,
where goldsmiths bend over wooden
workbenches, working skillfully with
short metal tools on soft gold.
The Chinese jewelers. use 100
instruments-all of their own de-
Sgn-for fashioning trinkets.
Wooden blocks, tiny steel and
bronze instruments, salt-shakers OF
borax, a foot-pedaled bellows at
tached to a blow torch and minia-
ture scales are all part of their
equipment.
The jewelers. along Jackson street
will tell you that 24-carat gold is
hard to get. So is jade, because
of the prolonged war in China.
"It takes four years of apprentice
ship before a man qualities as a
metal worker explains Jack Tong,
front man" in his fathers store.
workers are paid by the month and
they're not tied down to working
hours. They come and go as they
please so long as they get their
work done on time"
Just before the Chinese New
Evening star., 1942-06-21

ments. For 800 years their bells
have rung out silvery notes, calling
the faithful, while within the re-
cesses Of their chapels have waited
the humble followers Of the Cross" :"
One Built in 1921.
With few exceptions these old
missions and mission ruins are 10
Gated round old Santa Fe and in
recent years have become the mecca
Of thousands Of travellers to the
Southwest.
Foremost of these ancient New
Mexican structures is the Mission
Of San Miguel at Santa Fe, built in
1921 and considered the oldest in
the United States.
Despite its modern facade, the
remodeling of its towers and the
addition of stone buttresses to
strengthen its ancient walls, this
historic mission Is still eloquent
eloquent with three centuries of
tradition. eloquent with memories of
the colorful. romantic and often
tragic events that centered about
it.
Clustered south of Santa Fe and
around Albuquerque are other mis-
sions. Included In this group are
Santa Domingo, San Felipe, Zia,
Santa Ana, Isleta, Laguna and
Acema. In this same region are
found the mission ruins of Gran
Quivira. Abo, Quarai, Jemez and San
Geronimo De Taos.
The mission of Santa Ana, among
the former. is set down in the midst
Of sand dunes on the side of the
Rio Jemez. Sun-baked and wind
swept for centuries but still un-
daunted, the chUrch serves faith
fully the remaining Indians who
compose the fast declining village.
-Zia One Of Finest.
Zia Pueblo is considered one OF
the finest remaining examples of
the Franciscan missions. This
church was established early In the
18th century by Fray Bernardo
De Marta. 1t is built of adobe
and with the exception of the facade
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Monks Leove Monastery
To Join War on Axis

With a record of 80 German
planes brought down in World
War I. French pilot, who went to
England and became a monk, has
been released from his vow of silence
and has joined the Free French
forces.
He entered the Carthusian Mon
astery near Brighton, and took the
new name Of Father Gabriel. The
Carthusian Order requires its men,
bers never to speak to the outside
world or look at women.
When France collapsed. Father
Gabriel went to the prior and asked
release from his vow so that he
could join the Free French. With
him went six other monks of various
nationalities to serve the Allied
cause.
All will return to the monastery
when the war ends.
Evening star., 1942-06-21

which Is succeed, the building is
barren OF even vestige Of plaster.
OF New Mexico's ruined missions,
the most beautiful Is that of San
Diego de Jemez Mission at Jemez
Springs. This mission was estab-
lished In 1917 and exists today In an
excellent state OF preservation. Many
Of the walls, constructed Of red
sandstone, are still intact.
In addition to the missions and
mission ruins, New Mexico also has
its famous old churches. Although
some Of them do not possess great
antiquity and historical value, they
are interesting from an architectural
standpoint and add to the many at
fractions which lure the traveller to
New Mexico.
Evening star., 1942-06-21

Year, in February. is the busiest
time for the jewels. It is the time
for celebration, and people order
rings, charms. pendants, bracelets
and chains. Most intricate Of all
objects is the tiny gold necklace
with links so fine you can't see
where they've been soldered to-
gether. The gold is drawn wire
thin and coiled. The coils are then
shipped apart and the ends soldered
over each other.
Despite the war, Chinatown In
San Francisco Is still colorful,
exciting section. These days 1t is
the mecca for thousands Of men Of
our armed forces, who stroll through
the district, pausing before rare
displays in store windows, and visit
ing the temples, theaters, night
clubs and restaurants.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Recorders SoIory Bill
Endorsed by Bor Group

Legislation pending In Congress to
fix the salary of the District re-
corder of deeds by statute was in
dorsed by the Washington Bar As
ISOLATION in a resolution made pub
lie yesterday.
The association pointed out that
there is an "unjustifiable difieren-
tial" in the salary Of the recorder in
comparison with positions Of similar
or less importance in the District.
1t also called attention to the fact
that except for the register of wills,
the recorder is the only oficial ap-
pointed by the President and con-
f1rmed by the Senate whose salary
is not fixed by statute.
Evening star., 1942-06-21

. The WHOLE NATION is driving
ahead-to win a war. Everywhere
men and women are buster. This
year-of all years-make the most
of vacation. Refresh your body.
Improve your spirit. Build your
own morale!
Maine is the heart of vacation
land. Here you can play or rest.
Fill spirited days with sport. Hike.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
5000 District Children
To Go TO Summer Comps

The Community Chest announced
Yesterday that about 5000 children
will enjoy vacations at IA camps
sponsored by Chest and other nom
profit organizat tions near Washing
ton this summer.
The facilities are described in the
1912 Camp Index" issued by the
Council of Social Agencies.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Pitch Sent 400 Miles

Having left his tuning fork at
home, DR.. j. G. Wood, one Of Aus
tralia's flying doctors, who tunes
pianos for patients in isolated dis
tricts. called his home and had the
tuning fork struck into the receiver
Of the telephone. thus getting the
pitch sounded 400 miles away.
Evening star., 1942-06-21
Missions Antedating
California S Stand
In New Mexico
Picturesque Structures
Of Adobe Attract
Appreciutive Tourists

SANTA FE, June 20.-Mellowed
with history, their venerable walls
standing monuments to the un-
daunted faith and missionary zeal
of the Franciscan priests, are the
mission of churches of New Mexico.
In many cases antedating the CAL
ifornia missions by a century and
half. the New Mexican missions are
acknowledged to be a most interest
ing series Of religious structures in
the New World.
For more than three centuries the
bright New Mexico sun has shone
on their walls of sun-baked adobe
and native plaster. smoothed to
their flowing lines by time and ele-
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Defense Bond Lottery Plan
Backed by U. 5. Urged
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. 4.-Government
issuance of bonus bonds" of 500
denomination that would pay up
to $50, 900 to lucky holders was sug-
gested by q Northwestern University
professor Of economics today as a
means of attracting "the large mass
Of population"
Under the billion-do subscrip-
ton plan Of DR.. Paul Haensel, the
bonds would pay compound inter-
est rate of only per cent, compared
with the 90 per cent for the present
series "E" Defense bonds, but would
provide for $40,000,00O in prize
money.
DR.. Haensel would have the Gov
eminent retire a portion of the
bonds each three months over a 90
year period. The bonds would bring
their owners $120 and If they held a
lucky number determined by q
Government supervised drawing,
would entitle them to share in these
bonuses:
One hundred prizes Of $50 1000:
200 prizes of $4,000; 800 prizes of
5000; 400 prizes OF $2,500; 1000
prizes Of 81 900: 10000 prizes Of $500,
and 100, 900 prizes Of $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04

Gent. Some air reinforcements
have already reached the South
Pacific, but they are only a drop
in the bucket compared to the
Japanese air force. They are no
where near sufficient to enable
the Allies to take the offensive,
but the arrival Of planes of all
types heartens the defenders and
makes far more difficult the task
Of the Japanese, who heretofore
have had pretty clear sailing.
The United States Navy, sup
ported by Dutch auxiliaries, is
not yet prepared for real often
sive, 1t is safe to say that it will
be some time before important
naval action can be taken. But
present activities in unexpected
regions of the Pacific are begin
ming to worry the japanese.
AS new light naval units are
added to the forces Of Admiral
Chester Nimitz there will be
more raids like that Of last Sum-
day in more vital parts of the
Pacific. For the time being all
such operations have a single OBJ
jective: To delay japanese action
until planes and ships can reach
their Far Eastern destinations to
participate in the drive to stem
Japan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04
Night Hours Ordered
For Auto Inspections

Operation of the Districts auto
mobile inspection stations until 8
pm, as a means of convenience to
defense workers, was ordered today
by the Commissioners.
The change was made at the sug-
gestion of Chairman Randolph OF
the House District Committee, but
the city heads went further than he
had asked. He suggested that at
least one of the two stations be kept
open at least two evenings a week,
but the Commissioners directed that
both stations be kept open from 8
am. to 8 pm. MONDAYS th-o""h
Fridays and from 8 am. to 4 nm On
Saturdays. The new order gees into
effect February 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-02-04

numbers Of generals have
dropped out Of the picture. The
United States has entered the
war, and 50 has Japan, the one
bringing memories OF 1918. and
the other dashing the Aryan race
theory.
It was under these conditions
that Hitler spoke for / hour and
So minutes to a mass meeting.
OF this time he devoted SO
minutes to his own version of
the history Of the last war. To
prove what?
To prove that there were no
Nazis during the last war and
that therefore 1t is Germany that
Britain and America hate, and
not Naziism; that the Germans
would have had the war even II
he had not been their Fuehrer;
to proverbs old song-that the
last war was not lost by the
German armies, but by treason
and defeatism at home; to prove
that the personalities involved
in this war are the same old
"warmongers" who were re-
sponsible for the last war-ex-
cept on the Axis side. (He
passes over completely Musso-
lini's role In the last wal, as one
of the most articulate and eff
fective champions of Italy's en-
trance into it-that time on the
Allied side)
He then spoke for 40 minutes
on the history Of the Nazi strug-
gle for victory inside Germany.
To prove what? To prove that
the Nazis started with nothing
and attained power only by
bravely disregarding terrible set
backs. He reminds his hearers
that his movement was, at one
time, beaten to the ground, and
he himself thrown into prison;
that time and again it seemed as
though the Nazi cause were lost;
and that even few days before
victory no one would have pre-
dicted that they could succeed.
This part of his speech is an
allegory, and he himself points
the moral: The Nazi struggle Is
only a picture of our national
struggle; fainthearted desert
what they think is sinking
ship; but even as the Nazi party
won in spite Of terrible reverseg.
so will we win the war.
*** -
He then spoke for 20 minutes
On the history Of the present war,
the burden being that he, Hitler.
never wanted the war, and that
Germany is the victim OF agrees
sion, and not the aggressor; that
he, Hitler, only attacked because
he saw that Germany was going
to be attacked. He IS pleading
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proposal clearly IN the national In
terestS.
But when Mr.. Roosevelt at his
press conference last week brought
up the subject of parasites and
talked about his power to drive them
out of Washington he certainly
opened wide the door to inquiry as to
his attitude toward the parasites
within the administration as well as
those without. 1t was inevitable and
natural that many should rush for
ward to point out that the social
parasites whom Mr.. Roosevelt &C
cuses Of crowding Washington are
utterly Insignificant compared to
the political parasites for whom he
is personally responsible. Expanding
the definition of parasites, as he did.
to make it include those who clutter
up the city without performing any
useful function, he indicts his own
administration. Perhaps II he had
realized this he would not have
brought the subject up-even If he
had to miss the qualification Of a
stimulating press conference.
Useless Individuals.
The truth is that never In the
history Of the country has any one
conceived Of so vast an army of USE
less individuals as are now on the
Government pay rolls. This was true
before the defense organization was
set up in 1910. In the eight years
following 1882 the New Deal created
so many new boards, commissions,
agencies and authorities that the
number Of jobholders in the District
had more than doubled. With 1873 ,645
civilian employees in Washington,
this administration exceeded in
peace time by more than 5000 the
pay roll record Of the Wilson ad-
ministration in 1918, when the first
World War was at its peak. Since
June 80, 1910, more than 10000 addi-
tional employees have been added to
the rolls in Washington. They are
now going on at the rate of a thou
sand q week. Before the war has
gone another year the number of
civilian Government employees in the
District will approximate 100000.
This just does not make sense. 1t
has no relation whatever to eff
cheney. Actually, the sheer size Of
the organization makes inef1ciency
inevitable. The truth is that the
machine is so cumbersome, clogged
up and unwieldly that its progress
is painful and its direction uncer-
tain. From the beginning, the
President has imposed no restric-
ton on-and made no effort to
restrict-the size Of the multitude
nous defense agencies established.