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Evening star., 1942-04-16
HELP MEN O. WOMEN.

ENGLISH. SPANISH stenosrapher, for
zalez, NO. 0746. 10 to 6.
Evening star., 1942-04-16

Bakers helper, colored night work; good
pay. rapid advancement Apply Barker
Bakery l40S N. Y. ave NV, 2-5 pm
Evening star., 1942-04-16

YOUNG LADY, age 20 to 35,
pleasant appearing, hig h
school education. some typ
ing experience helpful. but
not necessary for leading
w a hington Hotel. Box
149-V, Star.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
NATIONAL, GROCERY co
SPOTTERS,

Can use a married man, 30 to As for
sales delivery service; S25 and bonus to
start. Box 116-Y Star, Is"
Evening star., 1942-04-16
TROPICAL SUIT Statesmen

Americas fneSt line IN low-priced field;
strictly cut ana made 70 inaiVIdusi meas
ure, 65 patterns with four price ranges,
starting at Sis, write only.
w II BELL. HOTEL ANNAPOLIS a2s
Evening star., 1942-04-16
SITUATIONS MEN.

ACCOUNTANT : BooKKKEPKR mature,
expert wants part-time work during day;
tax reports statements. Box l3O-Y, star.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
NIGHT WORK.

Experienced on dark and gray work APP
Reeal Cleaners, Bl2 M st. sw.
Evening star., 1942-04-16

COMPTOMETER OPERA
TORS, no experience required.
Steady position for those who
qualify. Apply Palais Royal
Employment Office. 9th floor.
Evening star., 1942-04-16
HELP DoMssTic.
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WOMAN. care Of baby; live in or out. good
salary kensingtor 1881,
WOMAN whits. iirh, housswork and ears
et child; ret and health card REQUIRED.
Pr $3.50. Rr aAe
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FlN BUYS,
Experience not necessary. good wages.
I ApDlV n1S q ST
Evening star., 1942-09-09
Preliminary Estimates

Preliminary estimates of need
submitted by the District department
heads to the Commissioners indicate
in rough outline the pattern of next
years District budget. 1t will be a
budget containing practically no new
construction, for new construction
will be confined to that directly con-
nected with the war effort. Mainte-
nance items will account for most of
the proposed expenditures, and while
the growing population needs may
make some increases necessary, the
budget as a whole should be below
the current years appropriations.
The greatest single decrease shown
in any of the estimates is in the
Highway Department, which is ask
ing for 52i2 per cent less. This dras
tic cut merely reflects the rapidly
dwindling revenues from automo-
bile and gasoline taxes which account
for the greater part of Highway De-
partment expenditures. These reve-
nues, already shrinking from the
effects OF gasoline rationing, will
diminish still further as worn out
tires take more automobiles off the
street.
While the gasoline tax rsvsnnsi
Evening star., 1942-09-09

constitute separate fund, the gen.
eral fund-made up of general and
real estate taxation-is apt to show
another shrinkage. The load it is
asked to bear should be proportion
ately reduced. Many lines of busi-
ness will cease to produce tax reve-
nues in this fiscal year and the
drain on real estate taxpayers will
become more burdensome because of
unprecedented Federal taxes. While
there will be an increase in incomes
earned in the District the anomalous
condition in which the District in
come tax has been left by court de-
cisions regarding residents will
reduce the proceeds from this tax
which otherwise might be expected.
AS in all past wars, Capital devel-
opment will suffer seriously while
this war lasts. The District is even
borrowing money from the Treasury
now-with interest-to pay extraor-
dinary maintenance costs resulting
from war demands. In more ways
than one, the budget this coming
year will have to be trimmed to fit a
smaller purse.
Evening star., 1942-09-09
Losing the War

From time to time the American
people have been warned by official
SpokeSmen that we can" lose this
war. But warnings of this sort have
not been very convincing; they have
seemed too vague and the actual
prospect of defeat too remote.
Apparently concerned by the lack
OF response to these earlier admoni-
tions, Donald Nelson, war production
chief, has put the matter another
way. IF we fall below our absolute
maximum on production" he told a
Cleveland Labor Day rally, I'VE will
lose the war. I'm not just saying
that we can lose this war. I'm saying
that we are going to lose it unless we
very quickly develop and use the
overwhelming strength that free
men have when they are completely
united and completely in earnest"
Mr.. Nelson made this statement,
which he said was his measured
conviction" in appealing for an end
to "quickie" strikes and needless alb
sences from work, which, in the
aggregate, interfere seriously with
war production.
II it be assumed that Mr.. Nelson
was not talking through his hat,
then it follows that those persons
who have been contending that the
strike problem is nothing to worry
about because only a small percent
age OF production has been affected
by strikes have been preaching a
very dangerous doctrine. If the
absolute maximum" of production
really is necessary to avoid losing
the war, it seems clear enough that
the loss of any percentage of pro-
duction to strikes, or to any other
cause, is an extremely serious matter.
1t is to be hoped that the picture
Is not quite as dark as Mr.. Nelson
paints 1t, but If he Is 'right-and he
may bet behooves all of us, not
only those in the ranks Of labor but
every American, to take his warning
to heart. %
Evening star., 1942-09-09
Cool and Collected

For years, as symbol of calmness
the oyster has been supreme. Physi-
cally, this fish, built like nut, is as
well prepared, defensively, as 1t is
possible for any isolationist to be.
Predatory have-not neighbors on the
ocean floor, as they watch it stand
pat and mind it's own business, eye it
longingly, but get no further. The
oyster apparently has mind enough
to realize this, but no more, and this,
too, helps make it calm, on the prin-
ciple of the less brain, the less strain.
With literally nothing on its minus
zero mind it goes unscathed from
May through August, safe from it's
principal enemy, mankind, not
through any effort of its own, but
protected by the letter OF the law, the
exact letter being the letter r. But
now the oyster, like the school child
faces a hideous fate. Ahead of the
mollusc lie seven long months, each
equipped with deadly R, and one
short one, February, which, though
brief, is even more fatal, having two
Rs. These r-ful months will take a
dread toll of the bivalve. 1t will not
lose its head, for the simple reason
that it has none, and will continue tc
be calm-but it will also be collected
which is not so good.
So much for any species which re-
lies solely on defense, of the Maginot
variety, and fails to develop a good
attack to accompany it.
Evening star., 1942-09-09
Discusses Official Listing
OF Federal Attorneys and Marshals.


To the Editor Of The Star:
The official register of the United
States lists United States attorneys and
United STATES marshals under the De-
partment of Justice, part of the execu-
tive branch of the Government, and the
Congressional Record of late has been
listing newly nominated and confirmed
United States attorneys and marshals
in the Senate executive sessions as un-
der "the Judiciary"
I feel the style followed by the official
register is entirely correct and the style
followed by the Congressional Record
entirely wrong and misleading. We
Americans pride ourselves on our inde-
pendent judiciary-where inter ALA
prosecution Is divorced from the judicial
processes.
I haven't yet heard any Republicans
pointing to this style followed by the
Congressional Record as evidence of
their party's oft-repeated dictum that
this administration does not truly be-
lieve in an independent judiciary, but
I expect to hear 1T any day now and not
without much reason!
HENRY STONER.
Evening star., 1942-09-09
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. TrGcetueH.

resources, when 1t comes to telling
what the weather Is going to be.
Using common sense in weather prog
nostication is often just little better
than the Weather Bureaus scientific
instruments.
Indeed, the person really interested IN
weather, as a subject, may wonder at
times why the Weather Man, as he Is
called, does not seem to use common
sense deductions more.
Often it is possible to tell. from the
rain. But the official prediction says
fair" In its calmest professional manner.
Now 1t is easy enough for an idiot to
see that 1t is going to rain, but still the
official prediction says fair" One Won
ders If the bureau is trying to fool the
Japs.
We heard longtime resident Of
Washington one recent hot Monday tell
friend that it would rain before night
IT'S got to-" he explained. You see
after you have lived here for many
years, you get the feel of the weather
''The heat wave goes on, day after day,
building up to a thunderstorm. You do
not even have to be good to predict the
very hour, almost of the downpour."
We understood what he was talking
about, and we believe that most of his
| hearers understood him.
1t was not so much the look of the sky,
as the very fact that the inevitable day
had come.
| So many days Of intense heat, so many
| sleepless nights, and somehow, on the
| following morning, it is easy enough to
see that the day has come for the late
afternoon Thunderstorm
There is not cloud in the sky.
The sun is bright and fierce.
It seems precisely the same sort Of day
as the day just gone, but one fells that
this day is going to be different. And
it is.
| Making ones own representations Is
helpful in planting grass seed at this
time of year.
| Autumn, without doubt, is the best
time of the year to renew the lawn.
| All the authorities have come around
to this and we believe the average house
owner will, If he gives it fair trial.
| 1t means, however, plenty Of water on
the lawn, whether 1t comes from rains or
from the hose
| Keeping up home morale is best done
by being as natural as possible. We
have no sympathy with these persons
who would have the home folks exist In
perpetual dither. 1t is neither neces-
sary nor helpful.
Make your own weather predictions
and enjoy seeing how they turn out
Perhaps you won't be any farther "off
than the weatherman sometimes is.
The fortunate thing is that, whether
you "hit" it or miss" it, the weather
goes on just the same, unmindful o.
man and his wars and his likes and dis
likes.
When man, some day, learns to con-
troll the weather, will he SO woefully mis-.
use 1t as he has done some other In
ventions?
Evening star., 1942-09-09
Work Horse in Posture

The end OF summer brings a uelcone
luH
In plowing. Turned ont Tn rest
and craze,
The york horse noses at the cloper,s
hull
And meditates through idle tauny
days.
A quiet pool OF shade is all he uishes
White cloDer and the slender lush
green spear
OF grass. He stamps at sapnrmino
gnats and sDishes
A languid tail as -,oinged flies
buzz near.
Shifting ripe apples, sweet upon the
mind,
He 'ohinnies to his sleepy eyed team.
mate
The neaus the farmer has his nnn,es
binned,
And pindfalls utll be at the posture
gate.
CHRISTIE JEFFRHs.
Evening star., 1942-09-09
The Wronq Note

Thousands of tons Of scrap metal
are in Washington homes, alleys.
garages and on the farms in the
adjacent counties. 1t is available for
collection as soon as suitable plan
can be devised for picking it up and
transporting it to dumps, or depots,
now being established. The citizens
are more than anxious to do their
part, and the hundreds of telephone
calls and letters received by The
Star are evidence of their fine spirit
OF cooperation.
It is unfortunate, therefore, that
the executive officer of the District
Salvage Committee chooses this
time to begin talking about confisca-
tion by the Government of scrap
metal In the hands of unnamed
owners alleged to be holding 1t of
the market. There may be few
cases OF the sort. Certainly they are
not important. And certainly it is
unnecessary to begin warning the
public OF the results OF non-compli-
ance, when all the people are asking
is that they be told what to do with
the scrap they want to give away.
There seems to be an irresistible
tendency on the part OF some author
tiles to try to scare people into
doing what they are only too glad
to do.
The War Production Board has
emphasized the urgency OF need for
scrap metal to keep the furnaces
for the steel mills operating all win
ter at full capacity. The important
thing Is to collect 1t before bad
weather sets in. The sorting of the
scrap, which requires some skill and
inanpower and takes more time can
then proceed at full capacity. The
District Salvage Committee has
obtained the Commissioners ap-.
proval Of a scrap-collecting plan.
Its workability is now under study.
II 1t Is the best plan. citizens will be
asked to support 1t and The Star
will describe 1t in detail. II not, it
will be abandoned and something
else substituted.
The scrap is there. The only prob
lem is to flnd the most efficient way
OF making 1t available.
Evening star., 1942-09-09

the age-old problem may be found
in conception put forward by Louis
Pasteur in speech delivered at the
opening of his celebrated institute in
Paris in 1888. 1.-TWO contrary laws"
he said, seem to be wrestling with
each other -; the one, law of
blood and Of death, ever imagining
new means of destruction and fore
Ing nations to be constantly ready
for the battlefield-the other a law of
peace, work and health, ever evolving
new means of delivering man from
the scourges which beset him"
The United Nations are pledged to
the second Of the great Frenchman's
propositions.
Evening star., 1942-09-09
Comments With GIee
On Changes waiting for U.s."

To the Editor of The Star:
While Mark Twain Is better known
for his "Huckleberry Finn" stories, he
never wrote anything more appealing
than "a Yankee in King Arthur's
Court" the tale of modern American
who was knocked back to the medieval
ages by blow on the head
And, boy, oh boy, are we headed the
same way-back to the horse and buggy
days, only there will be no horses and
buggies waiting for us-they are in the
Army now.
What wonderful thing it will be
for us, too!
gas, SO when I want pack of cigarettes
from the little shop on the corner I'll
have to depend on "shanks mare" to
take me there and bring me back-three
streets away Wonder if I've forgotten
how to walk
And, heh, heh, heh, they are going to
lay an embargo on radios so the folks
next door who come home about mid
night and tune in will have to find some
other way of disturbing the neighbor-
hood
You know that guy down at the Office
they call "the boss? What do you
think? They are going to take his
rubber heels away from him!
I was telling the wife this morning,
we won't have to keep up with the
Joneses any more because by the time
they pay their income tax their $1,000
. year viii look like my little $4,000.
ROBERT NkTOWA
Evening star., 1942-09-09
Traditional Conflict

Mrs. Eleanor wilson McAdoo,
daughter of President woodrow Will
son, has ample justification for her
belief that: "The war today is mere
ly the continuation of the World War
of 1914" A majority of her country
men certainly agree with her. The
inevitability of the resumption Of
hostilities was forecast by many COM
mentators at the conference at Ver-
sailles in 1919. Whether or not un-
qualified American adherence to the
League of Nations would have had
the effect Of preventing the present
phase of the traditional conflict Is a
question which now possesses only
academic interest.
What has been established beyond
debate is the relation between the
prevailing struggle and the historic
contest for the control of Europe.
Hitler undoubtedly follows Kaiser
Wilhelm. Both have been motivated
by the same ambition to make Ger
many the dominant power on the
continent If not actually in the world
at large But neither is original.
They are indebted to Napoleon Bona
parte for their principal ideas, and
the Corsican In his turn was obli-
gated to Louis XIV, who involved
France in immense wars in behalf of
schemes Of hegemony never COM
pletely achieved. Still earlier, Charles
Vhad dreamed of himself as lord and
master OF realm extending from
Antwerp to Constantinople, 1t is
possible that. he was inspired by
Charlemagne, who initiated Julius
Caesar.
Obviously, it seems unscientific to
seek the sources Of the prevailing
contest in the deeds of the architect
OF the Roman Empire of remote an
tiquity, yet the chain of events
stretches back in unbroken sequence
to his Gallo campaign of So BIC
Even before that date, it reasonably
is supposed, whole tribes if not whole
nations fought for the exclusive right
to exploit the properties and the labor
of their neighbors. The stone circle
at Stonehenge in England is one Of
a series of monuments dotting the
coasts of lands as distant as Russia
and Morocco and indicating the con-
troll of the entire European area ano
large parts of Africa and Asia by &
single people. Evidence unearthee
by archeologists working in the ruin!
OF Troy and OF Knossos suggests tina
there were empires and catastrophe
clashes between them before writer
annals frst were kept.
Perhaps q clue to the solution o
Evening star., 1942-09-09
One weather prediction which won't
help the enemy is the one the gardener

One weather prediction which won't
help the enemy is the one the gardener
makes for his own use.
None of his friends would admit his
ability, anyway, so it does no good to
tell it.
The interest comes in making it..
Whether the prediction is good or not
is distinctly another matter. and one
which, fortunately. makes little differ
ence, either.
The prize of amateur weather prog
nostication is simply the going it, the
feeling that one is taking part in nature.
How many persons there are who stand
apart from nature, or try to, at any rate,
is easily seen in any crowded place.
1t Is plain to see that they look upon
the weather as nuisance only.
The man with a genuine interest in
nature is different.
He always has weather In the back
of his mind.
He knows how much depends upon it.
In his own case, the crop may be
small, but it is important because the
subject is important.
This is Just another way of saying,
perhaps, that such person does most
Is fact
For all the average home gardener S
digging and planting and raking he has
very little to show for it.
Others, seeing his efforts, often wonder
what he is doing, since his place looks
about the same year in and year out.
X
The gardener knows what he is doing,
with the aid of soil and weather.
An old rose vine may give him as
much satisfaction as thousands of acres
of wheat DO another.
We do not say that this is right.
Many things in the world are not right
They may be important to those in
volved, however, and this is the case
with the home gardener. Whether he
grows a victory garden" or sticks to his
flowers, grass and shrubs, as Of old
what he is doing is important.
Conservation of our natural resources
is important. Every one who enjoys the
study of nature is at heart conserva-
ZIONIST, whether he realizes 1t or not. He
is helping Mother Nature keep what
she has created. II we stop. now and
then, to look around carefully, we see
how many forces of destruction there
are
The. weather often Is one of these
too, but its inimical side Is usually
tempered by a good side, except in the
case Of unusual catastrophes.
Somehow, civilization seems to have
tempered the weather Except when II
does not, now and them. Weather tc
the suburban dweller is just something
to be interested in, whereas to the city
dweller 1t usually doesn't exist at all.
Making home weather predictions Il
safe sport, because nobody would be-
| lieve you, at the best.
No two persons agree on the low tenn.
perature Of the day.
No two thermometers show 1t the same
So every one Is put back on his owr
Evening star., 1942-09-09
Questions Administration Policy
OF War Financing.

OF War Financing.
To the Editor Of The Star:
Viscount Bryce, in his classic "Ameri-
can Commonwealth" quotes Hare's Lee
lures on Constitutional Law: '"The
English legislature is free to follow any
course that will promote the welfare of
the state, and the inquiry is not Has
Parliament power to pass the act?' but,
rs 1t consistent with principle, and such
as the circumstances demand?''' In
the United States, on the other hand,
the question primarily is one of power,
and in the refined and subtle discussion
which ensues, right is too often lost
sight of or treated as If 1t were syn
onymous with might"
Constitutional Interpretation" says
Lord Bryce, has been a pretext rather
than a cause, matter of form rather
than of substance"
The conditions of war tend to abrogate
the form but not the substance of con-
stitutional government There still are
things that are not Caesars. Despite
the er-simplification born of wishful
thinking which is exhibited in the fire
side" idea that mere formal executive
power" is synonymous with might, there
can be no constitutional power either
to defeat our enemies or to control inf1a-
ton by autocratic pricing in the very
face Of Treasury, bank financed deficit
that will force net addition to the
Nations purchasing power of over 20
billion dollars In just this one fiscal
year.
The Nazi government, with unlimited
power" extending even to the death
penalty, in the attempt to control the
ly to check the black market" that even
the controlled German press openly is
stating that the official price index is
fiction. Does the President imagine
he car do better than Hitler as a price
dictator and fix farm prices arbitrarily
without creating food scarcity and sinis-
ter black market conditions? If by Oc-
(willfully?) neglected to heed Gov.
Eccles' assertion that "the logic Of the
situation calls for Government policy de-
signed to draw back into the Treasury
out Of expanding national income
an amount equal to what the Govern
ment is spending" how does he propose
to raise the rs billion dollars which is
to be spent In this current fiscal year?
The Treasury has not proposed, let alone
presented, any plan to implement the
Eccles idea, but, on the contrary, is de-
liberately planning to finance only half
OF billion dollar monthly expenditure
with taxes and War bonds. The other
billion dollars is to be raised, not each
year but each month, by wholly inf1a-
tionary bank financing under the pro-
visions of Public Law No. 656, recently
enacted at the behest of Mr.. Eccles him
self and completely reversing the policy
which the Federal Reserve Board an
nounced only last year for combating
imitation. This deliberate implementa-
tion of imitation simply authorizes the
lowering Of reserve requirements for the
great New York and Chicago banks so
they can purchase" these huge bond
iAsues with entirely new money.
| Dos Nh. Roosevelt suppose that .
Evening star., 1942-09-09

mere demand from him can produce an
Aladdin's lamp in the Senate Finance
Committee which will solve these prob
lens? Would Congress or any one else
stand out even one day against feasible
plan to raise by taxation the astronom-
ical sums that Congress has appro-
priated for spending this year? What
possible good can it do to freeze farm
prices and wages If this fiscal dilemma
be not solved? If Mr.. Roosevelt has
solved it. why did the administration
sponsor the enactment of Public Law No.
656, strictly administration measure
passed without opposition, for the par
ticular purpose of providing against the
failure of the administration to solve it?
A. A. P.
Evening star., 1942-09-09
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. Hdskin,


reader can get the dnsDer to any
question OF fact by Drittno The Epe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Hdskfn, director, Washington,
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postage.
@. Has any member of Congress been
disqualified because of not being a
citizen2-W. r. A.
A. Albert Gallatin Of Pennsylvania,
elected in 1923, and James Shields OF
Illinois, elected in 1849, we're disqualified
because of insufficient citizenship.
@. When were diamonds first dis
covered?--R. T. F.
A. Diamonds have been known from
very early times-probably first in India.
From references In Exodus it appears
that the diamond was considered pre-
cious In Egypt at very early time.
@. Which was held first, an nterna"
tional airplane or an international auto
mobile race?-S. H. c.
A. The first international air race was
held at Rheims, France, in 1909. The
first international automobile race TOOK
place in 1911 at Indianapolis, Ind.