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Evening star., 1942-07-05

ure up to military standards" There
may be at present a backlog of two or
three months between aviation enlist
ments and completion of training facili-
ties. But these predicaments are of an
interim nature, and will be more than
gram of quality and standardized COM
bat pilot instruction swings into all-out
operation early in 1943.
Standards for entrance into CPT
courses are criticized as having been
far from rigorous. According to one
informant, it has been CAA policy to
accept all comers as Students of what
ever age, including women and men
with one eye, bad teeth and chronic
disabilities" The motive for opposition
TO the Army's plans is declared to be
hunger for appropriations and pripri-
ties on materials needed for the mill
tary effort"
Advocates of the civilian pilot train
ing program, replying to these charges,
present a case which may be thus con-
densed:
The question is not whether a combat
pilot knows how to salute and do squads
right but how well he can fly. CAA's
despised puddle Jumpers and hedge
hoppers' may be slow and weakly pow
cred, but beginner can learn in them,
with complete safety, how to handle him.
self In the air The Army's student IA
tality rate is due to it's policy of rush.
ing novices through courses and intro
ducing them prematurely to fast and
tricky planes.
Women Auxiliary Pilots.
However liberal the procedure may
have been in the past, CAA entrance
requirements today are those of the
Army and Navy 1t is true that about
per cent of CPT students have been girls.
What of it? Russia is making extern
sive use of women for service aviation,
and Miss Jacqueline Cochran has as
sembled group of American girls to do
auxiliary flying for the Royal Air Force
1t would not be impossible to find pilots
with one eye and bad teeth who can fly
as well as most Army officers.
Both Senate and House have voted
appropriations as requested by the Civil
Aeronautics Authority for 1942-1943-
namely, $35 900 900 for Army pilot train
ing and sl99 100000 for maintenance
and expansion of CPT airports. A sup
Elementary appropriation of S36680,000
for the naval training program is Ger
tain of favorable action
The essential point is that the Army
change of position is resulting in disuse
of large existing facilities, and is vast
ing months of time in combat pilot in
struction during the critical year 1912,
when fighting airmen are desperately
needed at once, in the greatest possible
numbers, in North Africa, China, Brit
ain, Alaska and the Pacific area"
For the present, students entering CPT
courses must abandon all hope, so far as
the Army is concerned, Of riding with
Doolittle over Toxic and blasting Jap
anese armadas in the Coral Sea or off
Midway Island. But many are applying
in the belief that the War Department
will be compelled to reverse itself sec
ond time, and ono of these days will be
grasping eagerly after every pilot COM
petent to whip a crate into the air
whether 1t is woman or a man half
blind. crippled 1,nd middleaged.
Evening star., 1942-07-05

(See MORLEY, Page B-3.)
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MISCELLANY:

Washington: The government took
over control of the entire national
stock of quinine. Huge amounts are
needed for soldiers in the tropics.
San Francisco: Survivors of the
Langley told odd stories of what
they saved. One officer said he
showed two oranges in his pockets.
He said he saw Filipino messboy
swimming along with a ouija board
on his head.
Washington: Prices on A types
of electrical household appliances
had been ordered frozen over the en-
tire country.
Brawley, Calf: Four Southern
Pacific railroad trestles had been
burned by saboteurs. Two suspects
were under arrest.
Lafayette, Ind: A schoolteacher,
reprimanding pupil, had tapped
him over the head with a book. The
child's mother and father came to
the school, and the mother logged
the teacher with belt while the IA
Their stood guard at the door. They
were each given 80 days.
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CORRECIDOR:
Nipping off Japs

Despite the widely increased pres
sure on the Bataan lines of General
Wainwright and the almost constant
attacks by Jap planes on Corregidor,
American fighters continued to take
their toll of Jap planes.
Just as the British on Malta had
held out through the entire war
against hundreds of attacks from the
air, the anti-aircraft gunners on Cor
regidor were getting from two to
four enemy planes a day with
machine-like precision.
They were only counting those
they dropped. Many more were re-
ported badly damaged and probably
disabled.
A sharp land counterattack had
turned Jap thrust into a trap on
the land.
General Wainwright was continu-
ing the tradition set up by Mac
Arthur.
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INDIA:
Hindus Debate
Homeland Defense

Several occurrences had contrib
uted to the continuance of CONVEX
sations among Indian leaders with
Sir Stafford Grips, General Wavell
and American representatives as to
the question of the Hindus' part in
the defense of their homeland.
Among these events had been the
perhaps fortunate mistake of a Chi
nese spokesman, who had given out
incorrect information about the
japanese occupation of the port of
Akyab. This port, so close to Cal
cutta, had actually not been taken,
but the mere thought of it for sew
eral days had made the Indians
realize the war was at their door.
This alone gave Cripps big adj
vantage. Also the timely interven-
ton Of Chang Kai-shek, and the
arrival in India and on the Burma
front of stable force of American
planes and fighting pilots were tell
ing circumstances, and played big
part in the keeping open of negotia-
tions.
Indians, with the exception of the
Mahatma Gandhi and some others
among his immediate followers and
disciples, were beginning to realize
that they were faced with bullets
and bayonets, and that if they were
going to get ready to fight, they
had better be getting on with it.
The Mahatma was counseling mo
violence" and was continuing his
lifelong policy of a passive resist
ance to the invader. The Moslems,
10000, 900 of them out of 800, 900, 900
total population, were perfectly will
ing to fight, but were demanding
their right to separate government
of their own.
Nehru, past president of the In
dian congress, had seemed to be
the toughest nut to crack. He had
seemed to be holding out for the
right of the Indians to do their own
drafting of manpower, their own
training, while conceding the right of
Britain to do the leading.
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1T ISN'T FAIR

Divorce is bad enough ,Vhen
there are no children to be con-
sidered. But it simply isn't fair,
says Kathleen Norris, to deprive
a child of the normal home life
he needs just because things may
not be running as smoothly at
the moment as you tUant them
to. Successful marriage has al
,oays been based on willing COM
promise and adjustment, and
parents must think of their chill
dren as ,UeH as themselves ,Uhen
they consider divorce. A chilfs
happiness is too big q price to
pay for a little seIf-indulgence.
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War Production board and the Of
fee of Price Administration were at
odds on the sugar situation, and the
whole thing might be called off
that there really was plenty of
sugar.
This was holly and instantly de-
MED by Donald Nelson, who said not
only was there no friction, but that
the sugar rationing was necessary
and would be carried out.
There also was terrific argument
In progress over the time and half
overtime paid war workers for the
48-hour week, under the law that
the work week at straight time
should not exceed 40 hours.
The President had maintained his
position as squarely behind the 40
hour week, and while some sena-
tors and congressman fought against
excess profits by employers, others
were busy going after labor's over
time.
Senator George of Georgia was a
leader in the battle, suggesting that
the 48-hour week be adopted and the
sixth day of work be called ''vic-
tory day." the workers passing up
their overtime, but to be paid it if the
seventh day were worked.
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TOLL:
OF U. Slap Var

News, some good, some bad, con-
tinued from the various battlefronts
on which American troops and sail
ors were meeting the might of Nip
pom.
The navy had admitted the loss
Of three warships, the aircraft tend
er and former carrier Langley, the
navy tanker Pecos and the destroy
er Peary, with the loss of some 700
lives.
This had been a bitter tragedy of
the waters off Java, adding to the
awful toll of the Battle of Java Sea.
First the Langley, spotted by Jap
planes, had been "smothered in
bombs"
Her crew, all but about dozen
men, got safely off, swan about,
clinging to debris, until picked up by
destroyers, later transferred to the
Pecos. The latter, trying to escape
to Australia, was caught by flights
of Jap dive bombers, evaded the
first run but was smashed in the sec
ond. With two crews aboard one
boat, the loss of life was heavy.
The Peary was done to death in
the Aussies' port of Darwin, but
went to the bottom with all guns
blazing, her commander dying at
his post.
Not all was to be defeat, how
ever, for our naval forces. Ameri-
can submarines had taken a heavy
toll of Japanese shipping in the
neighborhood of Bali and south of
Java, and in the Christmas island
region.
Following these disclosures, the
navy reported that since the start
of the war AZ Japanese ships of war
had certainly been sent to the bot
tom against "a for the American
navy.
More than 200 ships of all types
had been sunk, many of them by
plane action, many by submarines,
many by army planes and shore
guns.
This rate of loss was deemed GER
tain to be more than the Japs could
stand, while America was increasing
her production average of more than
two ships of war daily going into
the water, and more than this num-
Der of merchant vessels.
With the attack on Australia def
initely turned back, at least for the
time being, military leaders were
taking a more optimistic tone as to
the chances for 1912 offensive in
the South Pacific.
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, ASK Me q
, ANOTHER I
A General Quiz
The Questions
A General Quiz

/. How many men hold the rank
of commodore of the U. S. navy?
2. How long must a senator have
been a U. S. citizen to be eligible
to that office?
8. Who wrote the words "All
mankind loves a lover?
4. How many known elements
are there?
S. Who was the first vice presi-
dent of the United States to be-
come President as a result of the
death of his predecessor?
6. What statue has a theater
within it?
z. In the song Yankee Doodle, "
to what does the word "macaroni"
refer?
8. What does the letter "R"
after Queen Mary's signature sig
nifty?
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DE GAULLE:
important RECOGNITION

The formal recognition by the
United States of the DeGaullist gov
eminent control over French Equa-
torial West Africa, and the French
Cameroons, strategic territory along
the supply route to the Middle East
had been considered highly impor-
tant.
1t brought, for one thing, closer
ties between the United States and
the Free French and put Petain, de-
spite his refusal to allow Laval a
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place in the government of Vichy
France, very much on the spot re-
garding his future conduct.
1t was the second official approval
of DeGaulle and his followers. Rec
ognition of his control over New
Caledonia had come first. But
French West Africa was a terrific
territory with population of mill
lions and close to a million square
miles
Oddly, on the same day, the Vichy
government reported that Germany
had given it permission" to rebuild
its air force, and to this was add
ed the information that Vicny now
had more than 1000 warplanes. or
actually more than all France had
at the outset of the war.
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THAW:
Russian for Slush

Just what the great Russian thaw
had meant was wildly described in
dispatches from Kuibyshev. They
called it more formidable than a
moated citadel"
One writer said: Imagine all the
swamps you ever saw. Imagine all
the muddy bitches your automobile
had whizzed past. Imagine millions
and millions of mudbaths. Into
all this dump billions of tons of
grayish snow and stir thoroughly. I"
That's thaw in Russia. The Rus
sian mud clings to feet and to tanks.
One correspondent said he saw a
trackwalker on the railroad jump off
the track to let train pass. The
man was buried to his waist in mud
dy slush. His comrades had to pull
him out with a rope.
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UNREST:
In Norway, Denmark

Observers, still writing frankly
and against the Nazis in the Stock
holm press, saw the spring season
bringing even more anti-German
unity to the Danes and the Nor
wegians.
Both nations were finally realiz-
ing that all German promises of
postwar freedom were obviously
false, and that occupation and pup
pet government meant simply con-
quest.
The Danes were united behind two
national heroes, the king and the
minister to the United States. Hen
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coin, Susan is protecting her.
know that if ! suggested to Susan
that by quietly moving to her IA
theirs home and bidding her mother
an affectionate farewell she would
be doing the fairest thing possible,
she wouldn't pay the slightest at
tention.
Her mother has hurt her in every
way; robbed her of her father and
her home; put strange young man
in that fathers place, refused to let
Susan's own father offer any solution
to the school problem, and neglected
Susan for days at time.
What do suggest, therefore, is a
compromise. / suggest that Susan
have talk with her father and ask
him to pay her expenses as board
er at the extravagant school for
the next half-term. From school let
her spend as many holidays as she
can with her father, and after the
haf-term quietly move to his house.
A Common Tragedy.
But how can mothers so complete
ly overlook the welfare of their chill
dren, and sacrifice their lives so
cheerfully? It is going on all the
time, everywhere, this disruption OF
homes and Decentralization of girls
and boys. If marriages are child
less, that is one thing, and divorce,
however regrettable, is not quite
the same sort of tragedy. But when
there are children to love and build
for and establish in normal attitudes
toward the serious business of living,
then it is simply extraordinary that
so many good women can con-
vince themselves that it is really
better for all concerned" to break
up the right and natural relation
ship.
Some years ago was passing the
doorway of hospital room when an
extremely pretty woman, married
exactly II months, called to me to
come in and see her. While con-
graduating her upon the arrival of a
fine baby boy spoke of the fathers
pride in the new arrival.
ooh, George" she said, smiling
and flushing, ST don't believe he'll
come to see him. You see, we're get
ting divorce, and he said he was
afraid he'd grow fond of him. He
loves children"
And seeing my CONSERVATION she
added pleasantly, ''No one could
live with George, of course! He's
actually out of his head most of
the time"
She married again in a few
months; the new husband, it seems,
is so rigid disciplinarian that be-
fore the first child of this second
marriage was born, the wife was
obliged to see her small son dis
graced and punished in a way
that would have done credit to Mr..
Murdstone himself. Her new mate
was angry when his own child
turned out to be daughter, and
presently the little stepson was sent
to boarding school, was taken i'll,
went to his adoring grandmother
and so got back into his fathers
hands. And the much criticized
George has proved to be an excel
lent father.
Even person who feels as def
initely as I do about divorce can't
claim that it is always a mistake.
But ! honestly believe that in the
thousands of cases that have come
to my notice in the years in which
! have been writing these articles,
nine out of every ten divorces have
proved to be greater failures than
even the first marriages were. Nine
out of ten women, given a second
chance, would live their lives out
with the first partner.
Something to think about, you
young mothers who are contemplate
ing divorce.
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HARMONIC:
And Discord

All had not been too harmonious
in this country, though in general
the nation was moving swiftly
enough along the path of production
for the war to meet the goals and
schedules set by President Roose-
welt.
But there were manifold bicker-
ings along the pathway. News sto-
ries said that there was to be a
sugar rationing beginning in May.
Then other dispatches cited that the
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I1ACt0 "AA1 100000
v her stop knocking my
dad?" asks Susan, who lives IN
ST. Paul. Mother and Dad
were divorced six years ago,
when I was 10. When she first
told me that she was leaving my
father and going to marry a
man I will call Sam, Mother
said that she still loved Dad,
that we were often going to see
him; it was only that she loved
Sam more.
However, complications arose.
For a few months ! was left with
my father and his sister, my Aunt
Ann. Aunt Ann has two children
about my age and was very happy
there. Then Mother and Sam came
home, and great was my excitement
because they were going to take
me to Mexico with them. We stayed
a year, and during that time my
mother became so angry when l
spoke of Aunt Ann, or of my cousins,
that I stopped mentioning them.
"About that time it seems Aunt
Ann and my father sold some furnl-
ture and some books that Mother
thought were rightfully hers, and
that began it. After that she enter
tanned all her friends with long &C
counts of my fathers and my aunt's
peculiarities. No Smith was ever
honest. That's the Smith temper COM
ing out in her. Nobody knows how
cruel John Smith can be. Nobody
knows what went through. My doc
tor told me it was divorce or in
sanity. I think John wasn't quite
right in his head
Faced Unpleasantness.
'T was lonesome in Mexico and
glad to come home, but when we
did get home it was to face great
unpleasantness between my father
and mother. Father was paying
500 a month for me, but the school
in which Mother wanted to place me
cost almost twice that, excluding
extras, and she tried to get court
order for a larger allowance.
"My fathers home is ten miles out
of town and quite near the school,
so could live with him, but Mother
won't hear of it. She told my dear
est friend that my father was so
close with money that nobody could
get along with him, and that cost
me scene with my mother and
crying spell.
Don't you think that when a man
and a woman decide on divorce
the least they can do is to spare
their children from taking sides?
Incidentally my mother and her hus-
band now quarrel great deal; he
is "a and she is 81; they go out al
most every evening and often for
week-ends, and leave me to home
work and the radio. That is why
Mother wants me to go away to
school. I know I will never be di-
vorced, for no matter what my hus-
band did I would forgive him, but
if ever I did you may be sure that
lily S1ll101 Gil Will 11CNCA AACoA AAA~ ooJ
ing anything of their father that is
not kind and generous.
Susan Protects Mother.
The injustice of case like
Susan's is this: she is reluctant to
hurt her mother, to leave her moth
er's house and perhaps expose her
to criticism or blame among her
friends. Susan doesn't want to give
any one chance to say that she
was unhappy with her mother. 9th
erwise she could go to her father, at
tend the desirable school, build
new life for herself as his closest
companion and housekeeper.
Susan, in other words, is treating
with generosity and kindness the
mother who has never shown her
the slightest consideration. Instead
of repaying that mother in her own
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The AnsUers

1. None. The rank was abolished
in 1899.
2. At least nine years.
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
4. Ninety-two.
5. John Tyler.
6. The Statue of Liberty. A
small theater was installed where
in illustrated lectures were given.
z. The handles of the Eighteenth
century were called Macaronies
because of their snowy dress.
8. Regina, or queen.
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Not Worth the Hunt

Life would be a perpetual flea
hunt if a man were obliged to run
down all the innuendoes, inveraci-
ties, insinuations and misrepresen-
itations which are uttered against
him.-Henry Ward Beecher.
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Play Clothes.

MYTH this one pattern you can
w outfit your youngster with as
fine a set of play clothes as the
most pampered child in the world
could own! The pattern includes a
smock-full cut, fitted through the
shoulders, topped with a round col
lar and appliqued with two bright
red apples which turn out to be
pockets-overalls of sturdy pro-
portions and very brief rompers-
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PROFITS:

Agreement by senate committee
on the principle of limitation of war
profits by industry had brought to
light reported profits running as high
as 1000 per cent on invested capital.
While, with the government pour
ing capital into essential industry,
such profits always would be great,
the senators felt that a sliding scale
of maximum permissible profits
might be the answer.
Some companies had returned ex-
cess profits, one check to the gov
eminent amounting to $40, 000, 600.
The house already had approved
a limitation of 6 per cent on con-
tract amounts, but the senate felt a
sliding scale might be better.
Nelson had offered 10 per cent
when the administration had baked
at the houses limitation of six.
The senate committee then had
agreed on a scale which would be
10 per cent on contracts of 500, 900
or less, then downward on a sliding
scale until at $50, $1,000 the profits
would be only 2 per cent.
Senators Mcclellan and Thomas
were extremely active in behalf of
this proposal.
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rik de Kaufman, the latter, one Ger
man had been angrily quoted, was
the No. 1 Danish Hero in the eyes
of the people.
AS to the Norwegians, their re-
sistance to the Quisling government
had solidifed until no risk was too
great for the people to impede the
puppet leaders. Evidence was that
Germany plans on giving Quisling
enough rope to hang himself.
Sweden was not inclined to view
these developments with joy, but
rather with fear, seeing the day not
far distant when she, too, would be
drawn into the war.
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
BY Edward C. Wayne
Anti Maj Unity in Norway, Denmark
Brings New War Threat to Sweden;
Advent of Spring Weather Heralded
By Increased Battlefront Activity

EDITORS NoTE-when opinions expressed these columns they
western Newspaper
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PRODUCTIONS:

Donald NJ. Nelson, WPB chieftain,
had placed his official OK on the
war effort of American industry,
saying "the war plant of this coun-
try is now really beginning to roll"
As to airplanes, he said "sched-
ules for January, February and
March had been met or exceeded.
1t was recalled that the President
was shooting for 1875, 1000 planes.
Tanks were ahead of schedule.
Merchant shipping, he added, was
"rising rapidly, and this years
schedule should be met"