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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07
BY Thornton W. BURGESS

terer hoped for. He growled and
he snarled and he told Chatterer
that he would eat him alive. He
even climbed up and stuck his head
out Of his door. al the time grinding
his teeth In the fiercest and most
unpleasant way. Chatterer fairly
shrieked with glee, and threw bits
OF bark at Bobby. All the time his
tongue was going fast as 1t could.
He called Bobby bad names. He
dared him to come out and try to
catch him. He made such a racket
that it could be heard for q long
way through the Green Forest.
Suddenly, while he was pausing
to get his breath, Chatterer heard
a rustic Of leaves. just the faintest
kind Of rustic on the ground. He
peered down and in a minute his
sharp eyes saw something that made
his heart jump with fright. He
forgot all about Bobby Coon. He
didn't have the least desire to scold
In fact he held his tongue and his
breath, and his eyes fairly popped
out Of his head. What he saw was
Shadow the Weasel coming straight
to the big hollow chestnut tree.
Shadows claws ratified on the bark
Of the tree. Chatterer waited to
see no more. Without . sound he
ran out on . branch Of the tree he
was In and leaped TO the next tree.
And then - fast rs . frightened
squirrel could 30 hs raced away
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07

West opened the ten Of hearts,
South winning with the ace. De-
clarer led the low diamond and East
captured dummys queen with the
diamond ace East then led hearts,
South rufing the third round of the
suit.
At this point South knew that East
had started with i've hearts, headed
by king-queen-jack. with the dia-
mond ace as side strength. Since
East had passed originally, 1t was
clear that he didn't hold the ace OF
spades also. South thought it very
unlikely that East held the queen
Of clubs, for with even that card
to tip the balance he probably
would have opened the bidding.
Since there was no point to a
spade lead from dummy, South led
the king Of spades from his own
hand. West took the ace and re-
turned his remaining trump, fear
ing that = minor suit return would
sacrifice . trick. South led two
more rounds Of trumps, discarding
low club from dummy. Next he
cashed the diamond king and ruf1ed
a diamond.
Then he led . club to dummy's
king and returned 4 low club from
dummy. Since West had been
obliged to discard two clubs in order
to keep all his diamonds, South
could play to drop the club queen.
The finesse still was available, but
South already had decided that the
club queen was In the West hand.
Hence. he put up the club ace and
made his contract.
Saturday you were Theodore
Lightner's partner and, with neither
side vulnerable, you held:
AQs3
y AQ94
8 10
4 J752
The bidding:
Lightner. Jacoby. You. schenken
10 Pass "a Pass
81 Pass 80 Pass
- Pass 60
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07
LITTLE STORIES FOR BEDTIME

Chatterer the Red Squirrel sat in
the top of a pine tree scolding. Who
was he scolding? Why no one in
particular. In fact he was scolding
because there was no one about to
scold. He was scolding just to hear
his own voice. You see, Chatterer
is never really happy unless there
is a fuss of some kind going on. He
dearly loves fuss and when he
cannot find any one else to quarrel
with he tries to quarrel with him.
self. At least that is the way it
seems to the other little people Of
the Green Forest.
Now that 50 many Of the little
feathered people had gone away for
the winter. and so many Of the
little people who wear fur had gone
to sheep for the winter, there was
so much less mischief for him to
get into that Chatterer was feeling
rather dull. You know he loves ex-
element. Yes, sir, Chatterer the
Red Squirrel loves excitement, and
this bright morning there wasn't
any. So he sat in the pine tree and
scolded just to keep his spirits up.
1t was very stil there in the Green
Forest, very still. indeed. except for
his own voice. He hadn't seen .
soul to torment that whole blessed
morning. and he hadn't . blessed
thing to do. He had harvested all
the nuts and corn and pine seeds
that be needed for the winter and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07

now he just didn't know what to do
with himself. Suddenly . thought
popped into his head. Chatterer
stopped scolding and grinned.
II believe I'll run over to the
hollow chestnut tree and wake up
Bobby Coon" said he. Bobby Is
sure to be asleep and to wake him
now is sure to make him cross.
That will be fun"
He scampered through the tree
tops and over to the big hollow
chestnut tree which is the home OF
Bobby Coon and listened at Bobby S
door. Yes, Bobby was there and he
was asleep. Chatterer stuck his
head inside.
Wake up! wake up; you ;lespy-head;
He shouted in hts shrillest voice.
Bobby stirred uneasily, for he was
not yet in that sound sleep with
which he passes the coolest part of
the winter.
Go way" he murmured.
Sleepy headi Sleepy head"
tainted Chatterer, dancing around
the doorway. Then he whiske6
down to the ground and in 4 minute
was back up In the tree with big
pine cone which he dropped In on
Bobby Coon. It Just happened to
hit Bobby on the end Of his nose,
for he had uncurled enough to look
up to zee what Ill the fuss was
about. Right away he lost hil
temper, which va jugt what Chat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07

capes and trimmings. Prosperous
times are, OF course. conducive to
increased fur buying. The supply
of wild minks must have legal pro-
lection 50 that they may have their
right to live.
In its natural habitat, the mink Is
an animal living by its wits, as most
Of its neighbors are doing. 1t Is q
weasel-like creature with long
body and short legs. In general, it
has q uniform umber-brown glossy
coat, the color deepening on the tail
to almost black. The chin Il usually
white. and there may be spots OF
white on the throat, breast and
underneath the body.
At one time, this animal was an
inhahitant Of all the forested parts
Of North America where there was
an abundance Of fresh water. The
home range or locality Of each mink
is quite large for 50 small an ami
NAL, for this creature Is 4 wide
ranger. It is 4 thorough hunter
and moves only when 1t has killed
al the game It can: then 1t moves
. few miles more. north or south
1t is also known that the mink
makes long trips in search Of food
These journeys usually are at night
Minks have been given keen sight
and hearing. They are alert, ever
watchful. The least step sends them
to eover-under q root. into the
stream q SONS known hiding spot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES

David Bruce 1urnstone. oswaA Jaco-
b., Howard schenken and Theodore
four, inventors Of the Ustom that
has beaten every other system in
exiStenee)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07
BY LiIIion Cox Athey

Often, they are watching you from
some well-selected retreat.
The mink seems tireless and his
tenacity Of life Is well known. 1t
can stand more real punishment
than any Of its nei9hbors and has
the spirit to fight until the last
breath. The best speed Of a mink on
the ground is about miles an hour
In ordinary travelling. their bounds
are from 10 to Is inches clear.
The mink seeks his mate from the
last week in February to the first
two weeks in March. Rivals are
desperate and valiant warriors, and
they do not stop until one Of them
is beyond all hope of recovery.
Hollow trees are the favorite loca-
tions for dens. but holes in banks or
under logs, stumps or roots, and
crevices In rocks. drains and hooks
under stones and bridges have been
used. Sometimes. the home of .
muskrat will be occupied, after the
rightful owners have been dispos-
sessed and eaten. The male has a
den of his own: rather, he has sew
eral of them into which he may dart
At any moment.
Baby minks are tiny when born,
not much larger than your little
finger. Not a bit of covering on,
blind and helpless. There are usual
ly five or six of them. When weeks
old, they have on a handsome fur
coat ~ soft as silk and they look
like small editions of their parents.
At this age. they are introduced to
4 bit Of solid food. The mother at
this time Is very fierce and ready to
spring at any creature even so much
rs looking at her babies. The
youngsters remain with their mother
until August; by then, they have
become well instructed in the ways
Of making { living and it is time
they were on their own. This fact
b made known to them. and they
60 their way.
There Is practically nothing in the
food line that q mink does not en-
Joy. True, young birds, domestic
chickens, II they are nearby, are
his weakness. but the mink can live
well where other animals starve.
He faces the world without fear; he
has something within himself that
gives him the confidence that the
world owes him . good living. and
1t y Whiting Tor him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07
Ireland Furnishes Half
Of British Suqur Supply

Half Of the sugar now being con-
sumed in Great Britain is from
sugar beet grown In Northern Ire
land. according to statistics COM
piled at Belfast.
The 100000 to 3.O00,000 allot-
ments Of Northern Ireland are esti.
mated to have an annual yield of
vegetables worth $40, DOC, 900 to $780,.
100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07
HELEN TRAubEL
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07

Akiswer-Bid I'VE clubs. The solid
ftyy0f the black suits Is much too
questionable to warrant 4 slam bid.
II your partner had really fine club
support, together with one Of the
top spades. he would have gone to
five clubs. especially since your
three-heart bid showed that you
had good hand. His failure to
encourage slam in this way
should act as warning.
Score 100 per cent for five clubs
so per cent for six clubs.
Question No. 1,24S.
Today you are Howard Schenken's
partner and, with neither side vul-
nerable, you hold:
AQ73
as
oJ94
4 @ 1067
The bidding:
Schenken. Jacoby. You. Lightner
- Pass co
What do you bid? (Ansver to-
morrow
released b. the Bell Syndicate 1ne)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07
How Did 1t Start?

Cleveland: What Is the origin OF
the expression seven years bad
luck" the result Of breaking q mir
ror?-A. v.
Answer-the ancient superstition
arose from the belief that ones re-
Election was the image Of the soul.
Any surface that would produce a
reflection was carefully guarded lest
it be broken and injure the soul.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07
Take Ny Word for 1t
BY FRANK COLBY.
Aooin Lidice

Leavenworth: In the October Is
issue Of Life, the pronunciation OF
Lidice travaged Czech village was
given as "Li-dyi-tzeh." But in the
accompanying poem by Edna st
Vincent Millay, another pronuncia-
ton was suggested, thus:
I have heard him howl for many
day
But tonight he lopes through Lidice
Would this not indicate the pro-
nunciation "h-di-SAY"?-E. r.
Answer-The proper way to say
the tragic name Lidice CThe Little
village Of the People') was given in
this column on September IS, thus
THE name is easy to pronounce
correctly and the pronunciation that
follows has been attested as correct
by the Czechoslovak Legation at
Washington. The first syllable re-
oeives the accent and rhymes with
see, the second syllable rhymes with
sit, the third syllable is like the sc
Of set. Say: LEE-dit-seh."
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NATURES CHILDREN
fMNStIld UiSonj

Raising minks In captivity for
their fur In the United States began
In 1856. Much study has gone into
the industry, until today the average
quality OF skin produced on mink
farms is superior to that Of skin.
taken in the wild. Mink skins today
are quality fur used for coats
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-07
BY Fronk Willard
BY Herb and Dole UIrey
BY Will Eisner
BY Art Huhto
Paul Foeorty

through the tree tops, and he didn't
have to look back to know that
Shadow the Weasel was following
Evening star., 1942-10-22
Super Agencies" Feared
Eliot Says ToIon Committee Proposal
Would Act as Block to Efficiency

Der, Is probably inside the limit
within which efficient direct ad-
ministration is possible.
Overburdening Bad.
1t goes without saying, Of
course, that each department
should be so organized that its
head is not overburdened with
administrative detail, so that he
has time to give not only to the
direction of the department but
to his grave responsibilities as a
member of the war cabinet and
as an adviser to the Commander
In Chief.
The principle on which the war
cabinet should operate may be
stated thus: 1t is the duty Of
the war cabinet, as a body, to in
form and advise the President.
1t is the duty and responsibility
of the President to make deci-
sions after considering this in
formation and advice. It is then
the duty of the members Of the
war cabinet, in their capacity as
heads of departments. to execute
the Presidents decisions.
Thus each member of the war
cabinet participates in the joint
responsibility, with his colleagues,
of advising the President on the
conduct of the war. and has also
the individual responsibility of
carrying out that part of the war
effort committed to his charge
in accordance with the Presi-
dents instructions and in har-
mony with the efforts of the
other departments. This is
teamwork, and there is all the
difference in the world between
an organized war cabinet of this
sort and the present system, un-
der which no fewer than 80 ex-
ecutive and administrative de-
partments and agencies are di-
rectly responsible to the COM
mander in chief, and under
which subordinate officers in
many agencies have access to
him.
Need for Limited Responsibility.
The responsibility for each
department head must be con-
fined to his own particular task.
If ne has too much to do, as would
be the case under the super
agency" plan, his troubles be-
come in miniature those by which
the President now is beset. He
does not have time to think
things through, and he cannot
acquire sufficient facility for deal
ing with wide variety of sub
jects, some of which must be out
side the experience of any one in
dividual. The need is for finding
the happy medium by which the
President may be kept in direct
contact with all essential ele-
ments of the war effort, while
keeping to a minimum the num-
ber of individuals with whom he
has to deal in the process, and
then to organize those indlv1d-
uals into smooth-working and
harmonious team, replacing the
uncertainties of individual and
separate contacts with the fount
of authority by the teamwork
which is the essential element OF
sound administration.
iCopvrieht, 1912 New York Tribune. Inc
Evening star., 1942-10-22
I'D Rather Be Right
A Look at Statistics Shows We Could Save
Tin and Copper by Little Thrift and Sacrifice

Brazil, is, perhaps, to issue tin can
ration coupons; you need one for
every purchase of a canned comesti-
BILE.
The mint has been. looking at
statistics and drooling, too. .
1t says 1000 tons of copper could
be saved If each family would dig
up 10 idle old copper pennies and
turn them into War stamp.
But nobody rings the door bell
and says: Hello, family, how about
your 10 pennies?
We love statistics based on a lot
OF families, but we don't like to
break through the statistics back to
the families again.
Motorist Who Doesn't Exist.
In fact, the statistical approach
is our curse. 1t enable us to govern
averages. avoiding the hard work
of governing people This does
away with the grossness of direct
contact between Government and
people. such contact always having
been dreaded in our country, where
Government is considered a kind of
scarlet woman.
So we take the average motorist.
who does not exist, and cut him
down to an average "A" card for
gasoline, and avoid having to look a
real motorist in the eye, and say:
Hello, driver, sure you need car
at all?
Before I put by papers away Call
this, on the Broadway Limited to
Chicago I enjoyed reading about
our new bombing techniques over
Europe. 1t was a splendid thing,
that raid of "a big Lancasters over
the Schneider Creusot works in
France; and SO came home. Almost
as I switched the light out, 1 came
to the item about how virtually no
fighters rose from enemy fields to
combat the Lancasters; German
fighters seem to be busy somewhere
else.
And in flash one could see how
important second front is; sec
onds front at place called Stalin-
grad.
The newspapers have never been
quite so interesting before.
Evening star., 1942-10-22

termined to use 1t recklessly
when the moment comes for final
assault. Our planes and subma-
rines are inflicting heavy casual
ties on the japanese air arm and
on the enemy task fleets. But
we seem to be at a disadvantage
not only in the number of ships
and planes but also in the fuel
supply which keeps the ships and
the planes going.
There are no oil sources of any
consequence either in Australia
or in New Zealand. Hence, the
vast quantities needed for our
ships and planes must come from
the West Coast by whatever
means we can employ. The guam
titles consumed by feet and
an air force of the size we have
in the Solomons area requires
a very large fuel supply. So far
we have not had much trouble
supplying the forces of Gen.
Douglas Macarthur and Admiral
Robert Lee Ghormley because our
lines of communications with the
South Pacific have been rela-
lively free of any Jap interfer-
ence.
Fighting "a Hours a Day.
The quantities available and
replenlshed continuously were
sufficient for our operations until
the second battle of the Solo
mons. Now, however, our planes
and ships must be in action all
the time and the quantities of
fuel consumed are far larger
than a few weeks ago. While no
actual shortage exists yet and
the needed fuel Is still coming
through satisfactorily, we must
act with caution so that we are
not caught short.
The air force and the feet
must be in action "a hours q day
Evening star., 1942-10-22

up an Office of War Mobilization
to control all matters affecting
manpower and production prob
ably would result only in piling a
fresh bureaucracy on top Of the
existing bureaucracy. Much the
same may be said of the frequent
ly heard suggestions for DEPART
ment of National Defense, to have
supervision over both the Army
and the Navy. What this boils
down to was stated pithily by a
high-ranking officer: Just one
more layer of bureaucrats for me
to plow through in order to get a
decision from the commander in
chief"
Presidents Central Role.
We must fix our minds on the
fact thai under our Constitution
the President is the commander
in chief and uponshim rests the
responsibility for directing the
war effort. The object is not to
divide his powers or to delegate
them to others, but to make his
exercise of them as efficient ana
direct as possible.
This requires an organization
which will permit the President
to deal directly with the top
man in each of the several de-
partments of the war organiza-
ton. AS stated in yesterdays
article. there are about 10 major
groupings into which the war
effort must be organized. The
head man in each such activity
should have daily direct contact
with the Commander in Chief.
None of his subordinates should
have such direct contact. save in
exceptional circumstances. In no
other way can the necessary
chain of responsibility and au-
thorltV be preserved ana the
Presidents time saved.
When once the essential group
ings have been determined, to
regroup them under, say, two or
three or four super-chiefs would
tend to slow down and compli-
cate rather than to speed up the
translation of the orders and
policies of the Commander in
chief into effective accomplish
ment. This remains true as long
as there are not too many de-
partment heads with whom the
President must deal directly. and
10, though considerable num-