davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1942-09-13

WhAl. q:oO-Town Meeting; rs America
AI-0ut for War;"
WWDC, o;00-Railroads in War PRINCIPAL
speaker will be Clyde B. Aitthison, chairman
OF the Interstate Commerce Commission.
WRC, to:00-RudY VaIIee Show: Billie
Burke back.
Friday
WJN, 8;00-kaie Smith Hour: Returning 10
its fans with Ray hiland, oIyn Lsndek and
Ted Collins.
Wpc, S:00-Frank Black Orchestra: seIet,
lions from the n. N. S, Pinafore."
WNAl, S:30-Those Good Old DAYS: Cecilia
LOTUS makes her debUfe on the series
WhAL, 9:O0-6ang Busters: Tracing an
other bloody trail.
VOL, 9;30-DoubIe or Nothing: Walter
Compton will be guest outlet.
Saturday.
WRC, 2;45-The college football season
opens over the radio with the Wistonsin.Noire
Dame battle.
WMAL, 3:t5-Fordham vs.. Purdue in an
other opening clash.
VOL, 8;30-Califomid Melodies: The musi,
Of David Rose and his orchestra.
WRC, l0;00-Sports NewNeeI: Joe Nc
Carthy, manager Of the New York Yankees, i!
with Mr.. Stern.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

Monday.
WJSV, 8;o0-Vok Pop: From Aberdeen Prov.
Ing Grounds, Maryland.
WRc. 800-Cavaltads Of Ameita; Ferry
Command" drama.
WNAL, 8:30-True or False: Lady lawyers
vs. Shriners.
WRC, 900-Greai Artists Soprano Marian
Anderson is guest,
WHV. o;00-Radn Theaier Opening d new
season with Tyrone Power and Barbara Sian,
wytk in This Above All"
WkAL, t0;i5-AIias John Freedom; John
eraditates d representative Of The Gesiapo
tuesday
VOL, 5;05-kmY.NaW K" Award; 10 the
Red Gross for building up The blood banks.
WKV, 8;30-Hobby Lobby A champion
bowler al the age Of seven.
WhhL. 9;00-Famous Jury TriaI5: A tale
Of love and death.
WSV. 9;30-chsep From Camps; Men from
Evening star., 1942-09-13

rareties known to the trade as a
natural" He seldom danced the
same way twice, making up routines
spontaneously and as he went along,
much to the confusion and despair
of his less talented partners. 1t was
the way he had to do and it gave a
quality of unrehearsed gayety to
his dancing that was really very
wonderful.
Hal was a character all by himself.
He didn't have to create one. But
he couldn't say words. He wasn't
an actor at all and now I don't
know where he is playing, not on
Broadway anyway.
Danny Kaye has the same kind of
natural ability. He is powerfully
built and naturally graceful. His
voice is as remarkable as Ethel Mer-
mans, actually a f1aWless musical
instrument, so much on pitch that
it strikes even a tOne-deaf ear and
so supple and SO much under con-
troll that he can do glissandos with
it better than piano and as we'll as
a violin.
Flawless Quality.
But it is exactly this f1awless
quality in him that makes him seem
chilly. His work has the precise
quality of Paul Draper tap dance.
And, although the experts tell me
that Paul Draper is the greatest
tap dancer of our day and the first
Evening star., 1942-09-13

to extend such athletic exercises
into the field of art, I tell the ex-
perts that Paul Draper will never
do what the inferior dancer Bill
Robinson invariably does-ignite an
audience with his personality.
A talent so perfect as to be in
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Wood
Continued From Page Eli

hair, quiet affability and ready
loquaciousness are his most notice
able characteristics.
For Whom the Bell Tolls" will
be his Gath feature since he was
graduated" from the De Mile
school, of which he is probably the
most celebrated alumnus. OF him
the great G. B. laughingly says, He
was the first assistant director who
ever said no to me. So I knew at
once that he'd go far. Hollywood
should really thank me for rescuing
him from fate as a realty broker .
Evening star., 1942-09-13

human is the sign of young man
beginning to go in show business.
Danny Kaye can now go the way
of Hal Leroy or the way of Ray
Bolger, who also started out with
a perfect talent, his being in his
legs.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

playwright and get to the point more
quickly, so now a dramatist really
has to write in something like a
spoken shorthand"
Audiences, however, are still
something of a problem to Maui
CHAM. For instance, he is still
puzzled by the fact that his THE
Sacred Flame" was a success in
London, but was a failure when it
was produced on Broadway in 1923.
Now as a holidaying Broadway
theatergoer he can look back hap
PLY at his impressive list of stage
hits. including the season of 1908
when he had four original plays
running at the same time in London
AS for American playwrights he
admires mostly Eugene ONeill and
Robert E. Sherwood, and says he
has "a curiosity" about William
Saroyan. He also enjoyed very
much his glimpse of Olsen and
johnson in "Hellzapoppin' on a
previous visit to Broadway, and says
he is going to see them again in
their current Sons OFun" on this
trip.
New Play Opens.
A refreshing and always amusing
comedy of the younger generation
arrived when Brock Pemberton pre-
sented jamie" story by Josephine
Bentham and Herschel Williams,
wherein a group of high school
pretties attempt to grow up over
night and, at the same time, achieve
that maturity with a patriotic ges-
ture by entertaining young soldiers
on a house party.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
WoIfert
Continued From Page f.

Continued From Page E-1)
boy out of Cincinnati, was-some
still thlnk-the greatest dancer
broadway ever saw. Ziegfeld put
him into follies at the age of 16
and for two or three years after that
he reigned over the town, delight
ing audiences and causing them to
wonder at the rubberband snap of
his legs. Hal was one of those
Evening star., 1942-09-13
DANCING.

Andrews Sisters and
Dick Foran in
Private Buckaroo."
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Evening Stur Features

Star FIashes-Laiest news, fwite daily, Mon.
day through Friday. WNAL at lao pm. and
AS pm. Analysis Of the weeks news by
Lothrop Stodddrd, Sunday at 10 am.
National Radio Forum; Discussions Of nation.
al problems by public officials: WhAL, Wednes.
days al 1915 p.m.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

Barron

Continued From Page E-o)
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Flawless Quality.
DANCING.

For Commissions--let us prepare you for
your Physical Exams. Body building.
Miller's Gym. 822 18th st. MA. S29S.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01

(See ROSS, Page B-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01

In his first and last letter to his s.
year-old boy, printed posthumously fol-
lowing announcement of the loss of the
Wasp, Comdr. John J. Shea urged his
only son to get all the education you
can"
All would agree that this advice is as
as thoughtful as it is, in retrospect, re-
plete with pathos. But those who are in
q position to know the facts about the
mounting difficulties of our universities
and colleges will further realize that
future educational opportunities for
Jackie Shea and his contemporaries are
being curtailed. Institutions of higher
learning in this country are now in very
real and increasing jeopardy.
The underlying issue, brought to
showdown by extension of the draft to
boys OF 10 and 10, should at least have
public consideration before decisions as
to the outcome is made by force of cir
cumstance alone.
Fundamentally, the issue is whether
or not any special consideration should
as q matter of national policy, be shown
to that minority of our youth who have
both the basic training, the ambition and
the opportunity necessary to acquire
reputable college degree. The opportu-
nifty, at least, was even before the war
unfairly restricted.
Undergraduates themselves, by and
large, resent vigorously any suggestion
of favoritism in their behalf. The col
leges, fearing criticism, are not request
Ing any privileges for their students.
And the average citizen UNDERSTANDABLE
repudiates suggestion that non-collegiate
youth should march to battle while those
envisaged as pampered sybarites relax in
clustered security of Gothic halls.
Education Not Mere Luxury.
The problem, however, is not quite as
simple as the offhand reactions indicate.
If it were, we should of course eliminate
our system of liberal education at least
as promptly as we curtail any of those
material luxuries to which, as a people,
We seem disposed to cling. II the colleges
are now merely handicap they had
better be converted into tank or bomb
factories. without concern as to whether
or not they will be reconverted when the
war Is over. .
But u the necessarily slow and pa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01

tses MORLEY. Pass B-3)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01
By Feir Morley.

tent training of vigorous youthful minds
merely a luxury, like cosmetics, for even
a streamlined, wartime democracy?
If we ask ourselves why the Nazis so
readily rose to power in Germany, and
why democratic leadership collapsed SO
tragically in France, at least part of
the answer will be found in the punish
ment which the universities of those
countries experienced during and after
the last war.
First of all they were denuded of both
students and faculty by the claims of
the military services. Then their finan-
cial reserves were swept away, COM
pletely in Germany and nearly so in
France by postwar imitation. AS a re-
suit, in both countries, all the normal
vitality of institutions of higher learn
ing was completely lost. They could do
little or nothing to resist the rise of the
Nazi gunner in Germany, or the decay
in the virility of the liberal tradition
which was apparent to every observer
in France prior to the outbreak of the
present war.
In neither Great Britain nor the
United States did the last war bring a
similar disruption of higher education.
Here the strain was virtually confined
to the single academic year of 1917-18.
In Great Britain. while student mortality
was high, governmental policy was di-
rected to maintaining the universities
as going concerns, with the result that
Immediately after the armistice they be-
came more vigorous, and also more dem
ocratic, than ever before.
Enrolment Already Curtailed.
The policy of safeguarding institutions
of higher learning is even more pro-
nounced in Great Britain during the
present war. Although that country Is
now entering its fourth successive win
ter of hostilities, university enrolment
is only about Is per cent less than was
the case in 1938-39 In many of our
universities and colleges enrolment Is
down that much already, even before
the draft has begun to operate on those
Of 10 and 10 years Of age.
In Canada the safeguarding OF liberal
education is more pronounced than in
Great Britain. Some Of the Dominion
colleges and universities show higher
enrolment than IN the years imme.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01
By Paul K. Lee,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

man report that regular reconnaissance
disclosed the Scheer had been in Ger
man port for more than two months past
and was still there.
Quotation Technique.
The technique of merely quoting the
Axis own declarations is deemed highly
effective by the British, and was used In
connection with the Dieppe raid. Lord
Haw Haw said the British forces were
such tiny handful that they were
hardly noticed; Goebbels and others
called the attack full-scale invasion
that failed. The British carried both
German versions with dry comment to
the general effect: "You boys ought to
get together"
Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels
has proved highly quotable on other &C.
casions-such as the time when he said
many Germans were asking why, after
all the victories in Russia, there were so
many Russians left to fight.
Goebbels went on to an involved ex-
PLANTATION, calling the Russians fanatics
and at the same time saying they fought
on because they were hopeless and had
only Bolshevism to face at home. The
British had only to quote him with the
proper infection, and 1t wasn't German
propaganda broadcast any longer. Quite
the contrary.
Exaggerate Own Losses.
OF late the Germans are known to
have exaggerated deliberately their own
plane losses in raids on Britain, to try to
convince the folks at. home, under Brit
ish bombs. that the British also were
taking big-scale battering.
Another German stunt is to reverse
the figures OF plane losses. II they lost
10 and the British lost 8, they make it
. and 10. apparently hoping that surrep-
titious listeners in the occupied countries
and In. Germany - with their ears
jammed to whispering radio set. would
think the British and German broad
casts were identical.
These tactics are met by keeping the
British announcements - clear and
unambiguous as b possible.
Al for the Italians, they usually make
The sfror of trying TO 30 the Germans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01
NAZIS SWITCH FROM BIG TO LITTLE LIES
British Believe Honesty News Is Best counterpropogondo

one better, and fall into comic or easily
disproved misstatements.
For example, when the Italians an.
nounced that the cruiser Phoebe had
been sunk in Alexandria Harbor, the
British gravely reported that the italian
high command had credited the Royal
Navy with possessing the worlds fastest
cruiser, the Phoebe, which had arrived
in New York the day before she was
supposed to have been sunk in the
Eastern Mediterranean.
"The Italians ere an absolute gift" said
one Briton who ought to know. Some
times it seems almost a shame to take
advantage Of them.
Britain's Own Efforts.
As for Britain's own efforts not of q
strictly contemporaries nature, they
too are based on factual presentation. AS
a matter of fact, the British do not like
that word propaganda" Almost every
responsible source connected with the
work is inclined to raise an eyebrow and
remark, well. it isn't really propaganda
in the accepted sense; it's news that
we're interested in."
To Americans, the British method
would seem dull as dishwater, but British
sources who handle the programs declare
positively 1t gets results in the long run
where sensational treatment would fail
or boomerang.
IF we could win the war by stirring
up France and others for three weeks,
we'd do it," said one reliable sourse, "but
it's not that kind of war, and having
shot our bolt, then where would we be?"
TITS our national character to tell the
TRUTH" said one high broadcasting
oficial; I'VE make conscientious effort
to discard anything we consider might
be untruthful."
The news goes out in "a different
languages and on . bewildering number
Of wavelengths. Seventy-six per cent Of
the whole British radio effort is listed az
straightaway news.
The head Of every language section IL
. news man. most Of them newspaper
veterans. Their work includes the chore
Of making sure that each news item q
precisely the same In all languages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01
(See PURDUE, Page B-3)

IONDON.-The NaIs aren't telling
such big lies as they used to, and in that
curious fact British sources see proof that
British counterpropaganda is effective.
In the unending battle of propaganda
and news, the British have adopted the
motto Honesty is the best policy"
The Germans, they say, went on Hit
lers "Mein Kampf' injunction that the
bigger the lie the more readily 1t would
be believed.
1t was long, hard pull for the British,
mailing each lie, debating each rumor,
adhering to the often unsensational
truth, but now, say quarters in a position
to know, the work is bearing fruit.
Not that the Germans have given up
lying altogether, but now the Axis prop
agandists Who have had their ears batted
down so often are resorting more and
more to half truths, telling parts OF the
real story while still CLOSING over or
skipping parts too unfavorable to the
Axis.
"TalIest" Axis Stories.
At present the tallest Axis stories are
directed at the Arab world and South
Africa, but this gives even greater weight
to the regular British policy of telling
the truth in dignified manner.
Rarely do the British resort to out
right denials. Indirect treatment IS
considered far better. with facts treated
positively rather than negatively.
Here's how it works:
When the Germans said the King and
Queen had fled to Canada to escape
bombings, the British did not mention
the subject: they merely broadcast what
the King and Queen had done that day,
which happened to have been receiving
the United States Ambassador. Sum-
cient detail was supplied to make the
story stand up beyond challenge.
Somewhat nearer to denial, but still
on. the positive factual basis, was the
case Of the pocket battleship Admiral
Scheer. The Germans announced the
scheer had returned to port after sink
ing thousands Of tons Of Allied shipping
on . raiding cruise. The Britain an-
nosinoed without references b ths oee-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01
u. S. COLLEGES PLACED IN JEOPARDY
Cutoing Education Differs From Reducing Material Luxue

diately preceding the war and in none
has student attendance diminished by
as much as Is per cent. Canada" says
DR.. Charles Dollard, in a recent study
of the war and the Canadian UNIVERSE
ties, sis still operating on the assump-
ton that trained minds are a national
resource and is still conscious of the fact
that war presents problems which cam
not be served with slide rule"
With few, if any, exceptions the uni
versities and colleges of the United
States are making valiant effort to be of
the greatest possible service during the
national emergency.
In order to cut the undergraduate
course from four years to three most Of
the colleges have gone on basis of prac-
tically continuous operation. Teachers
have not merely sacrificed their summer
vacations but have assumed many extra
duties, including much night work, with
little or no additional compensation. The
teaching. profession, with an average re-
Enumeration slightly higher than that of
domestic servants in Washington, is hit
by imitation but is certainly not con-
tributing to it.
The faculties have also responded
promptly to the Governments call for
specialized personnel, not to mention the
enlistments of younger professors. 1t is
difficult to name college in which less
than 10 per cent Of the faculty has not
already been SKINNED of for Goven-
ment service That resulting improvisa-
tons and adjustments have been made
without lowering of standards Is a
tribute to an administration efficiency
indicating that all the executive skill In
the country is not concentrated In BUSH
ness-or in Government.
Will Continue to Function.
The colleges have done so much, with
so little fanfare, that some public recog-
milton of their accomplishment would
seem in order. Far from receiving COM
pliments, however, the general impress
sion seems to be that higher education
will continue to function in the face Of
dwindling enrolment, disintegrating fac
ulties, diminishing revenues and mount
ing COSTS And If this miracle is not ac-
complished, what Of It?
II the institutions Of higher learning
tses MORLEY. Pass B-3)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01
BY Marc Purdue,
Associated Press stan writer.

dents than the average college does each
year.
This institution, the Armored Force
School, is the baby" of Brig. Gen.
Stephen G. Henry.
Gen. Henry arrived here July Is, 1910,
to be commandment of the school. He had
no officers, no staff, no buildings. Three
months later he was assigned 5 o6cers
and n enlisted men from Fort Benning,
Ca, set up headquarters in an old kitch-
en- which had been used by National
Guard encampments. The Armored
Force School was on its way.
The commandant was colonel then.
He was advanced to his present rank
last year-at the age of At.
Gen. Henry has spent years in the
study of machines and men, trafilc and
transportation.
One summer while he was a captain
in the Army Tank School at Fort Meade,
he got furlough and took job in a
garage just for the experience. He had
worked up to shop foreman before his
employer found out he was an Army Of
ficer.
Even Worked for Circus.
He also took summer jobs in Detroit
automobile plants where he engaged in
such varied occupations as fuel re-
searcher and test driver. Once he even
worked for the Ringing Bros 81 Barnum
& Bailey Circus to learn its efficient
methods of moving men, animals, ma
chinery and equipment.
He regards his work in automobile
plants as logical. There is constant
interchange of ideas between the Army
and industry" he says. 1--WE borrow and
improve on each other"
One day, while riding in taxi, he be-
gan wondering how operators of taxi
fleets handled personnel training and
maintenance. He got job with such an
operator and learned. Then he went to
work for bus line to study the same
subject.
AS the Armored Force School began to
expand, the commandment remembered
that on factory assembly lines produc-
ton on a second unit does not wait for
completion Of the first unit. So the
school, which originally operated on a
conventional class and term basis,
switched to the phase" system.
Under this plan q department Of the
school can start q group Of students
every six days, taking a new group into
the first phase as the old group advances
to the second phase, and can handle
eight times as many students as under
the old system.
Phase System Used.
A second advantage ID that q man
forced to be absent from classes for sew
eral days by illness or can home can
pick up his work where he left on by
joining the new group in his phase.
A psychological advantage Of the
phase system is that the student Is ad-
vanced from mastery Of one simple thing
to study Of another simple aspect Of
his work. He learns quickly and easily
and gains confidence. Hs never = con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01

FORT KNOX, Ky-In a little more
than two years, an area on this post, the
home of the Army's Armored Force,
which was just vast stretch of clay
overgrown with blackberry bushes and
weeds has become one of the worlds,
greatest technical schools.
The school is housed in 500 buildings.
It has staff of more than 1000 instruc-
tors. Each week it graduates more stu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01

fronted by the whole subject-which
would terrify him at the start-until he
has completed his course. Then he dis
covers he has mastered a speciality.
But the Army continued to grow and
production Of armored equipment
mounted and the commandant was faced
once more with need for speed-up In
production of trained men. Again he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-01

(See BROWN, Page B-3.)
Evening star., 1942-04-05

and other sports. The entire pro-
gram clicked like magic. So well
were the sports received he was
able to put on a Christmas party
for the children of Londonderry,
North Ireland, which found both
factions of the auld sod forgetting
their differences for the first time
since anybody could remember, and
contributed an additional s1,150 to
charitable organizations.
His Organization Mushrooms.
From his meager start young Joe
built up an organization that COW
cred five constructions camps,
boasted 10 playing fields, four gym
nasiums, five recreation halls, seven
tennis courts and four libraries. At
least they had that much when his
parents last heard from him and
more may have been added since.
How well the program has gone over
can be seen from the statistics
which show that in 70,70l unit hours
almost 250,0oO participants were
serviced. The two farthest bases
are 273 miles apart and Joe is re-
quired to visit them all, sometimes
handling the work of two men.
His parents have no idea when
he'll be back, of course, and expect
him to remain on the other side of
the big pond for the duration. Mean
while, Papa Joe is conceding the
going -farthest- -shoe-string title
to his son and is proud to do it.