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Evening star., 1942-04-12
It's the Marines!
By Frank I. Weller.
Wide World News.

WASHINGTON. April IL United
States Marines are getting ready to
uncork some might fierce surprises for
diligent little Mr.. Moto.
They gave him q sample at Wake
Island. Now, they prepare for the day
Uncle Sam points toward Toxic and
says, Get me some sea bases out there
for what I'm about to do in big way!"
No Jap can doubt that recent United
States Navy attacks on the Gilbert and
Marshall Islands cast shadow OF COM
inr eyents-American ships and soldiers
headed for his homeland. Mr.. Moto Will
know It's the business when United
States Marines start taking over island
bases en- route.
This is no blueprint of high command
strategy. 1t Is no military secret. IL
Is the task to which every marine con-
fidently feels some days reveille Will
summon him. 1t is his hope when taps
signal the days end of drill in strange
new maneuvers. :,
These innovations In military manual
and the "how, when, and where" OF an
expeditionary force are the real sur
prises and secrets of the Marine corps.
Some folks say that marines the
worlds most versatile and elaborately
trained soldiers-are improving privately
upon tactics just evolved by Englands
night-raiding Commands. Maybe so.
They won't tell you. 1t would be odd II
they were not, however. since LOT lo'
years this oldest professional military
unit in America either has introduced
or perfected nearly every new trade OF
the fighting man.
Traditionally, marines are "sea SOL
diers" attached to the Navy, but they
fight with the land forces, too, and
on occasion have been mounted-"the
horse.marines." They are adept at every
form Of military activity.
Modern marines go ashore as small,
compact but fully equipped army. They
have airplanes, tanks, artillery, anti
aircraft guns, anti-tank guns, howitzers,
trench mortars, hand grenades, auto
matte rifles and machine guns. They
are called the best bayonet fighters
afioat.
John Craige, retired United States Ma
rine Corps captain, says the "overwhelm-
ing probability" is that marines are
going to be used in this war as the
Thanksgiving arm of ship-air-shore
team for overseas action"
According to his theory 1t is possible
that naval and air forces will blast Jap
way stations to Toxic, and the Marines
will seize and hold them for use by great
conveys of combat troops and supplies
moving to the attack.
And there is where the Marines would
pull their surprises, whatever they be
Certainly something extraordinary Is In
the works. The corps comedies that fol
months 1t has practiced secretly with
every type of amphibian tank it coulo
find. Only the Marines know whether
these seagoing land monsters will work
They have what is believed to be 9
fairly effective amphibian ship-to-short
tractor, and the worlds best motol
barges for landing troops, tanks. gum
and supplies under enemy fire. They
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are expert parachute soldiers They
have improved on every trick OF aerial
attack the Germans employed on Crete.
They have stepped up landing speed and
mobility.
Asked If the Marines learned anything
from the the Commands, 1t. Gen.
Thomas Holcomb, commandant, stifiy
SAYS "the Marines have been Commands
since the days Of John Paul Jones!"
This is subject to some debate, mas
much as Marines normally land, attack,
seize and hold enemy posts until sailors
and soldiers take over. Commands
simply attack, destroy and retreat.
However, both operate under supreme
command Of the commandant"
the term, commando" The latter dress
in black, darken their faces, fight ST.
lently, use every guerrilla method and
strike only at night.
The marine is a long-term professional
soldier. War is his job. He works at
1t all the time. Marines have fought
somewhere, sometime during u Of the
last 140 years They have made 200
hostile landings on every continent save
Australia.
Marine history started on November
10, ITS, when, in reply to George Wash
ington's request handful Of merchant
seamen were recruited at the old Tun
Tavern on the Philadelphia waterfront
to form continental Marine Corps"
They were to be ship soldiers" in the
tradition Of the British navy-all expert
swordsmen, marksmen and cannoneers.
All had to be ''of dependable and re-
ligious nature combined with robustness
of body
John Paul Jones stationed them in
the Bon Homme Richards fighting tops
fore, main and mizzen-with orders to
pick off British ship officers and gun
captains. >
Here, marines worked the first OF
their long list of surprises. "I have not
begun to fight!" Jones replied when the
vastly superior Scraps grappled the
Richard and riddled 1t with cannon shot.
His sword flashed a signal and marines
let loose with their muskets and hand
grenades.
Thus began the legend Of the marine
and his rife. Since that day marines
have made a fetish of rifle shooting.
Take away his rifle" says an old legend.
land you have only half marine left"
His rifle is the marines personal weapon
from the day he enlists He keeps it at
his side always-not in any ordinary
gunrack where any one can use it
lavishes on 1t his affectionate attention
and care, knows its shooting idiosyncra-
cies. Marine Corps marksmen have won
Is Of the last 26 national rife team
matches.
Squirrel hunters" they called them
in the last war when at Belleau Wood
they popped of Germans with prowess
that dumbfounded and turned back the
enemy. There" said Gen. Pershing.
was the Gettysburg of the World War"
Wood of the Marine Brigade" sur
prised French renamed the place, al
though marines were only one of 81
units to fight there. They waded waist
high in wheat against hidden German
machine guns at Chateau Thierry-
merely looking for mark to shoot at.
Retreat HE'LL" They told the French
officers, I'VE Just got here"
Evening star., 1942-04-12
No Man Ever Loved America More Than Walt Whitman

could be unhesitatingly critical. His
Democratic Vistas" Q87D contains
some of the most penetrating structures
ever passed upon American morals and
manners. He could speak thus because
he had no doubt of his basic principle,
and because he was that most valuable
kind of democrat, the kind who insists
at all times upon speaking the truth.
Democracy is never served by those who
fiatter it. It's best lovers know its faults
and ask in firm voice that they be
corrected.
So with Whitman. whose later poems
are far different from his first ones.
They are mellower and wiser, and put
less stress upon the uniqueneSs OF Amer
lea. not to say its isolation. The future
of the country includes for him now an
intellectual and spiritual free trade with
the rest of the world, both past and
present; with the ripest ancient cul-
lures, which once he had repudiated, and
with the best that was being thought
and said in contemporary Europe. Walt
Whitman's love Of America had become
mature.
Early or late, however, his poems have
a wonderful power to brighten as with
dew the features Of our land. Whether
he is cataloguing facts or revealing their
import, whether he is shouting loudly or
singing well, he is seldom without this
power, which no one has had in like
degree. Might of south winds! Night
of the large few stars!" Il am he that
walks with the tender and growing
night" II loaf and invite my soul" y
am large-I contain multitudes." "Give
me the splendid silent SUM-" Affection
shall solve the problems of freedom yet;
those who love each other shall become
invincible."
He could make such phrases as those
and they signify another power, another
genius. Nor does the word America ap.
pear anywhere among them. For tht
final truth about Whitman is that ~
loved mankind even more than he lovee
America, the world even more than hi
continent This is why his feeling To-
home can be so sure and strong. Tit
world begins at home and comes aroun'
to it again. So with Walt Whitman
whose muse returned to her first love
America, without illusion and withou
loss.
Evening star., 1942-04-12

Walt Whitman, from d. :,
guerreotype, about 1850, co1lr-
teSy of David Mckay, Phila-
delphid.
-oopyight Yale University Press.
The awakening Of the general will, the
prosecution Of huge social task, and
then the peaceful surrender Of animosi-
ties once they could serve no further
purpose: These things moved him not
only to his best poems, eliminating In
1865 with his hymn for Lincoln. When
Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd," !"
but to his best efforts as q man.
Served as Nurse.
Whitman's part in the Civil War was
not as q soldier but as nurse. Hearing
In 1852 that his brother George had been
wounded In virginia, he hastened there
from Brooklyn and found him ut tsl-
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q newspaperman in Brooklyn and New
York. nor was he particularly successful
at his trade. But his calling was wider.
1t was the breathing and beautiful earth.
whose manifold realities he slowly fash
ioned into an original kind Of poetry to
celebrate. Leaves Of Grass" in Its vari-
GUS editions, from the first in 1855 to
the last which he saw through the press
in 1892, is the testament OF his love:
and it is a book through which Ameri-
cans have continued to feel, hear. see.
touch and smell their country, and to
find 1t good.
Enriched Our Landscape.
Leaves of Grass" enriches our land
scape and deepens its tone. In a sense
it has created the world in which Ameri-
cans are aware of being alive. And this
world is primarily human. Sensitive as
Whitman was to the genius Of place, ne
was still more sensitive to the species
man. The bodies of young men bathing,
the runner leaning forward, the miner
with his sooty cap, the OK tanner, the
tiller of tobacco fields, the bookkeeper,
the oarsman, the statesman-all these
and more he must keep with him as the
companions of his thought 1t is almost
= as If he were jealous Of their absence,
as if he felt a fierce determination to
hold them here.
They literally intoxicate him, as the
land does, with their nearness and yet
their strangeness. For the things and
persons Whitman describes are fabulous
at the same time that they are familiar.
This is America. 1t is, however, an
extraordinary America, land OF super
dimensions, q place Leaves of Grass"
brings us back to after an ideal journey
elsewhere. 1t is the same, but better.
It is our own, and more. It is perfectly
itself.
But the Civil War came to Whitman's
America, and it was his mighty privi-
lege" to live through that terrible time.
Terrible as the experience was to him.
he did not miss its grandeur.
I'm my judgment" he wrote after 1t
was over, in the photographed work
called Specimen Days." it will remain
as the most encouraging spectacle In any
age, old or new, to political progress and
democracy. .. It is the best lesson OF
the century,"
Evening star., 1942-04-12
Bv Mark Van Doren.

A great poet once loved America with
such passion that the whole OF it was
constantly before his eyes. And what
he could not see of it he heard. and what
he could not hear of it he touched.
Walt Whitmans delight in his country
was so enormous and so simple that ne
could not bear the thought of its alb
sence from him. This is why his poems
are so full of the names of things: OF
rivers, OF States, of cities and tools and
occupations. He is always itemizing his
love. calling it by its myriad titles, bring
ing 1t home to his senses SO that 1t snail
not escape him and grow cool. No man
ever loved his land at closer range, or
ever said so more eloquently.
All of 1t was about him all the
time. He possessed in supreme degree
the power of pausing and listening to-
the great life beyond oneself. At this
moment, now, his poems seem to say.
while I, Walt Whitman, sit in my Brook
lyn boarding house or stand at the prov
of a ferry which is putting toward Man.
haitian, a woodsman in Michigan is lift
ing his ak; an engineer along the Mo-
hawk Is peering at his gauges; slave IN
the rice fields is bending over his sack;
clerks are hurrying to their offices IN
st. Louis; an officer is barking COM
mands at his soldiers on the Indian
frontier; Indians are slipping their fish
ing canoes into the Northwestern waters;
q man is bringing meat home in brown
LaI &c fo clooy1 in itS
mothers arms; lovers are strolling; an
old woman is dying in an Allegheny
cabin; factories are smoking, whistles
are getting ready to blow, the rivers
are rushing through their valleys, the
fish are quiet in their pools, an eagle
Is measuring the Rocky Mountains with
its wing, and the philosopher Is frown.
ing at his desk.
Walt Whitman himself was by trade
Evening star., 1942-04-12

John Greenleaf Whittier, as
sociate editor of the National
Era, Dho Drote the poem
"Barbara Frietchie" at Mrs.
SouthUorth's suggestion.
alternative but to 60 for them at once.
Mr.. Southworth seated himself by the
driver Of the team who had brought out
their household goods, promising to re-
turn as soon as possible. which at the
best time he could make must be over
an hour, as he would have to walk back.
The men having driven away, Mrs.
Southworth brought out chair and sat
down to enjoy the closing sights and
sounds Of that beautiful spring day. All
at once a sense of the appalling stiffness
abroad startled her, when a long, low
murmur like the winds in the tree tops.
so filled her with dread that she rushed
into the house and barred the door. Pull
ing the cotton curtain carefully aside, she
looked out and saw the scintillating, hun
cry eyes Of pack Of wolves.
Realizing that 1t was the scent Of the
freshly slaughtered beef hanging against
the logs between the door and front win
dow she tugged at it In the darkness
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mouth, where for the first time he saw
quantities of manned men in the field.
He had written newspaper articles about
. New York hospital, but this was differ
ent and it was worse. The sight de-
termined the rest of his life.
He went as soon as he could to WASH
ington and began the hospital rounds
which kept him busy until 1865 and
which, he believed, cost him his health;
for he attributed his later paralysis to
infection from the fever and gangrene
he was never far away from through
three years.
His Memoranda" dealing with these
days spare the reader no ghastly detail
Of pain and death, nor did Whitman
ever minimize the horrors he witnessed.
But the story is chiefly of one who went
among the hurt and the dying with a
cheerful voice and friendly hand; who
brought comfort also in the form Of
oranges, jelies, sweet cookies, books and
magazines to read. pipes and tobacco,
and above all paper on which letters
could be written home. When the soldier
was too weak to write, Whitman did it
for him; or from q collection he had
raised in the cities of New England he
gave small sums Of money to men whose
dignity this would restore.
During those three years in hospital,
camp, or field" he writes, II made over
800 visits or tours, and went, as esti-
mate, counting all, among from 10000 to
100000 of the wounded and sick, These
visits varied from an hour or two to all
day or night; for with dear or critical
cases generally watched all night.
Those three years consider the greatest
privilege and satisfaction, and, OF course
the most profound lesson, OF my life
The Civil War, in other words, was no,
lost on the author Of Leaves OF Grass
If his bodily strength declined thereafter
his art gained in purity and strength
and though he continued to make Amer.
lea the subject of his poems the EN-
phasis changed. He described less ane
interpreted more. He ceased to accept
everything at its present value; indeed
both in prose and in verse he under
lined the limitations of postwar Amer
lea. For 1t was now the ideal Of futur'
America which occupied his imagination
And since he was vigorously ideal h
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Thornton records in her diary that her
husband had paid for Gen. Washington's
houses.
George Blagden and John Lenthal.
both employed In the construction OF the
Capitol, were the builders Of the two
North Capitol street houses, and the let
ter Of Washington. of March 81 seems to
have stirred them up little. for in early
June they we're calling for a part pay
ment of 81 900, which shows that con-
struction work at that time was progress
ing.
AS every one knows, or should know.
Evening star., 1942-04-12
THERE WERE GIANTS IN
THOSE DAYS."

This Is the sixth Of . series OF articles
about men and women who worked, fought
and died that America might live; men and
women who made America great BY contrib
uting their own greatness to q country which
was founded and has endured on the prin-
ciples Of life, liberty and the pursuit OF hap
piness as the right of every man. The sew
enth article in the series will appear next
Sunday.
Evening star., 1942-04-12

shaw began teaching here in 1885 and
continued to do so until he resigned in
184s. when he became deputy marshal.
He was assisted here in his teaching by
his wife and daughter, Miss Frances
Henshaw, who is said to have given her
services gratis.
Incidentally, it is quite evident that
the marriage OF Mrs. Southworths
widowed mother to Schoolmaster Hen
shaw had much to do with laying the
mental foundation for her success as
writer, though she tried teaching first
in the Southwest section Of the city,
where in 1848 she received s14672 for
work performed in 1847. However, her
work could not have been entirely salts
factory, Judging by the school report for
1849, which says:
This school primary School No. X)
Is located on Thirteenth street, in the
seventh ward, and was opened January
8, 1849; Mrs. Southworth. teacher. There
are 81 names on the roll, Of which only
27 were present on the day Of examina-
ton. Most Of these were very small chill
dren, and their attainments were limited.
The studies all seemed to be imperfect.
Two causes may possibly be assigned
for the defects which were prominently
exhibited in this school. The most OF
the children present had enjoyed but
limited advantages previous to their en-
trance into this school, and their at
tendance is frequently interrupted by un.
avoidable domestic arrangements at
their respective homes; and in addition
to this, the health of the lady who has
charge of it has been extremely delicate,
and she may not have been able to urge
on the progress Of her pupils as she might
have done under other circumstances"
Travelled to Wisconsin.
Previous to her experience as teacher
and shortly after her marriage, Mrs.
Southworth and her husband went to
Wisconsin, the discovery of lead mines
there having attracted many settlers. 1t
was winter when they arrived, and they
temporarily stopped with brother-in-
law of Mr.. Southworth, and as every
house and shanty in the village of Platts-
burg was occupied, the young people were
obliged to move in the spring to rude
log structure, mile from the settlement,
that had been occupied as a church.
There was but one room," we are told,
"a clunsily constructed fireplace was on
one side, and If there ever had been any
sash and glass to the two apertures that
answered for windows they had been
taken away when the place was aban-
doned as house Of worship. Over them
Mrs. Southworth nailed some stout un-
bleached cotton. When the furniture had
been arranged and the fuel placed in
the fireplace the young housekeepers
discovered that they had neither matches
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George Washington died at Mount Yer
non December IA, 1899. before these
buildings were completed. However, on
August IA of that year we find him writ
ing to John Francis, who it would appear
was considering renting the houses for
hotel or boarding house purposes. and
so far as known he may have been the
first tenant after they were completed.
though a statement that makes this
seem doubtful is the one that says that
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to start the fire with nor salt to cure
large quarter OF beef that their brother
in-law had given them on leaving his
house in the morning.
1.-THE shadows of the trees about their
sylvan-set cabin told them the day was
nearly done, and. as those much-needed
articles were a mile away. there was no
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-05-14

If tradition Is maintained, Conn
will meet his finish in compare
lively early round. The same is
true (doubly sol of Pastor.
Most Of Joe's trouble has resulted
from meeting unorthodox oppo-
nents, including Pauline Uzcudun,
Godoy and Conn. Their styles baf-
fed him. If there were any young
heavyweights nearing the top, espe-
cially unorthodox brawlers, the
champ might be headed for trouble
without Blackburn to advise him. But
he already has had sufficient expert
ence with his two remaining OPP
ponents.
There were only two times when
Blackburn was extremely dissatis-
Ged with Joe's physical condition
Before his first fight with Schmeling.
Joe took up golf and spent his after
Moons in the hot sun. Blackburn
warned him against it, telling him
the dangers of burning up. Suisse
quent events proved the accuracy
the dusky trainers, predictions. Joe
never forgot that lesson.
The second disagreement came
last summer. Joe insisted on
getting below the 2OO-pound
mark for his bout with Conn, :
against Blackburn's advice. Joe
weighed in at 1891 pounds
and came close to losing the title.
But most Of the time the champ
vas more than willing to 60 along
with his trainers edicts.
The two men made an outstanding
team. Blackburn was unbelievably
quick to pick out a weak spot and
to capitalize on it joe executed his
orders with precision and dispatch.
Blackburn win be missed, there's
no doubt about that-but his abb
sence isn't going to push Joe from
the top rung of the ladder.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-05-14
Worlds Only
Large Circus In
Baltimore Soon
Ringing Barnum & Bailey
Shows To Exhibit In BaIti-
more Five Days, May 10 To
May %, Inclusive

-Four long silver-enameled rail-
road trains, streamlined in red.
white and blue, and carrying 1900
people; so elephants; 1909 menag-
erie animals and hundreds of
horses, are steaming into this ter
ritory. The Ringing Bros. and Bar
mum & Bailey Circus will exhibit
in Baltimore, 5 days starting
on Tuesday, May 10Th, offering
a multitude of stunning novelty
production spectacles, created by
great names of stage, screen and
allied arts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gargantua the
Great, world famous gorillas, will
again receive the public in their
poleless red, white and blue tent.
Alfred Court, internationally ac-
claimed trainer, will offer simultan-
eously three new mixed groups of
performing wild animals, featuring
his revolving treadmill tigers.
Among the 800 world famous ar
lists in the performance are: the
Wallendas, high wire champions;
the three troupes of Flying Concel-
los; the Pilades, acrobatic marvels;
the De Ocas, aerial sensational
lists; Roberto de Vasconcellos,
king of horsemen; Truzzi, juggl-
ing wonder; the three Fernandez
aerial troupes; ELY Ardelty, flying
trapeze star; La Louisa, aerial
thriller; the incredible Cristianis,
bareback riding headliners, and
scores upon scores of others.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1942-05-14

Ai"oA"urn to note that Bla ck-
burn met all corners, large and
small. There was a good reason.
Thirty or 40 years ago Negro boxers
had trouble getting bouts and were
forced to go outside their weight
classification. So Blackburn fought
men of such varying weights as Joe
Cans 1872 and Sam Langford's ITS.
Unquestionably Louis owes much
of his success to excellent tutelage
Elackburn's insistence that Joe stay
in shape and his sound advice be-
tween rounds of important fights
played major part in the cham
pion's victories.
But Blackburn's death, although
it's the heaviest blow Louis ever has
received, should not affect him to
the point where present-day compe-
tition will take his measure. And
there's good reason why optimism
has seat in Joe's corner.
Joe never has had a great deal
of trouble when rematched with
an opponent. Max SchmeIing
managed to knock him out in the
18th round Of their 1886 battle.
Joe avenged the defeat by put
ting Max to sleep in the first
round of their 1888 contest.
Bob Pastor has met the champion
twice, having run away from him for
10 rounds in Madison Square Garden
in 1897 and having been knocked out
in II rounds at Briggs Stadium in
1879. Godoy went the 15-round limit
. in their initial bout of 1910. The
South American was knocked out in
the eighth round of their second
fight.
According to present plans. the
champion will have only two more